This passion with a pimple have I seen Retard a cause, and give a judge the spleen.
Since smallest things can give our sins a twitch, As crossing straws retard a passing witch, Florello, thou my monitor shalt be; I’ll conjure thus some profit out of thee.
Temporarily a great change of climate may seem to retard evolution, but only for a moment as the geologist counts time.
They clearly retard the melting of the snow and thus help the icefield to grow.
Scientific investigation shows the extravagance of conditions which retard speed and multiply unnecessary motions, which do not provide adequate light and air and proper colors to conserve strength, arrest fatigue and support the energies.
Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.
The inhabitants of the United States may retard the calamities which they apprehend, but they cannot now destroy their efficient cause.
My dear Brother,--With no sinister accident to retard or terrify us, we find ourselves at a quarter before one, arrived safe at Kingston.
For my own part, having given myself up to the pursuit of study, I am satisfied that a wife would retard my progress.
Their location, so near the frontier, and almost in constant contact with the Indians of the plains, with whom they have been always more or less at war, has tended to retard their advancement in the arts of civilization.
A good deal depends, however, on the warmth of the atmosphere and the state of the weather either to accelerate or retard it.
Of this, my lords, it is not easy to judge, at a distance from the scene of action, and without a more accurate knowledge of a thousand minute circumstances, which may promote or retard a naval expedition.
It is shown, sir, in this petition, that the prohibition of rice will very little incommode our enemies, or retard their preparations; for they are not accustomed to be supplied with it from our plantations.
The crowns of the bulbs should not be less than four or more than six inches below the surface; the greater depth will slightlyretard the flowering.
Even hard water will retard free growth, oftentimes to the perplexity of the cultivator.
A present declaration even of future independence would retard progress by the dissension and disorder it would arouse.
It would be a mistake further to retard this already slow promotion by throwing back into the line of the Arm a number of high-ranking officers to be absorbed as is provided in the [missing text].
Truth shall arise for the eternal years of God are her's, and nothing can stay or retard the onward march to victory of the grand army of invisible hosts.
We work in harmony together, and nothing occurs to retard our progress in learning.
On the same account, it was impossible to retard the copulation of a queen without keeping her in confinement.
Lastly, it follows, that although cold will retard the laying of a queen impregnated in autumn, she will begin to lay in spring without requiring new copulation.
Aside from this, the extreme insalubrity of the air, occasioned by the vicinity of extensive swamps, stagnant ponds, and lagoons, tends to retard the progress of settlements in this quarter.
Long-continued droughts, which sometimes happen, stop the vegetation of the vines and retard the produce.
They ought not to be too much fostered, as it would in some degree retard their growth.
This confused succession of emotions did not retard the future efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradicate.
Meanwhile the hospital became every day more disagreeable to me, and seeing but one way to get out of it, I endeavored to hasten my abjuration with as much eagerness as I had hitherto sought to retard it.
In artificial experiments, like those upon which Mr. Parton relies, alkaline substances are found to retard digestion by neutralizing a portion of the acid of the gastric juice.
It is not certain, however, that alcoholic drinks, as usually taken, materially retard the waste of tissue.
Yet the alkaline saliva, swallowed with food, does not retard digestion; and Claude Bernard has shown that carbonate of soda actually hastens, to a notable degree, the digestive process.
Does evil so react upon good, as not only to retard its motion, but to change its nature?
Unconsciously they are doing all they can to retard Socialism--short of leaving the movement.
But as long as they consent to go with Socialism when they are unable to make Socialism go with them, their ability to retard the movement is strictly limited.
He acknowledges "that the natural conservatism of the masses of the people might be sufficient to retard some reforms.
The Itchcha (or desire) evoked anew by the vistas they open up will retard or throw back his progress.
A troop of horses may be blocked by a mob and have much difficulty in fighting its way through; but if every one of the mob could be changed suddenly into a ghost, there would be little to retard it.
It is obvious that the many transhipments that coffee coming from Cucuta has to undergo greatly retard its arrival at a foreign port; and a cargo sometimes takes a month or more to reach New York.
This would materially retard the absorption of the caffein by the body, spread the action over a longer period of time, and hence decrease the maximum stimulation attained.
An elaborate investigation of the action of tea and coffee on digestion in the stomach was made by Fraser,[222] in which he found that both retard peptic digestion, the former to a greater degree than the latter.
The fact that tannins retard intestinal peristalsis, whereas coffee promotes this digestive action, lends further proof to the non-existence of tannin in coffee.
It does not retard the flow if the filter is of right dimensions.
Poor and costly means of transportation on the Atlantic slope have operated to retard the development of the industry there, even though conditions of climate are not unfavorable.
Caffein, by exciting the medulla, produces an initial vaso-constriction of the kidneys, which tends at first to retard the flow of urine.
It is certain that damage enough was done to retard English operations in the direction of Oswego sufficiently to give the French time for securing all their posts on Lake Ontario.
I asked for my recall after the glorious affair of the eighth of July; but since the state of the colony is so bad, I must do what I can to help it and retard its fall.
Besides the greater equality in the height of the two surfaces, there may sometimes be other causes that retard the farther sinking of a leaky vessel.
During the territorial period, Illinois gained the long-sought right of preemption; the French claims ceased to retard settlement; some progress was made in the extinction of Indian titles, and the sale of public land was begun.
