He reverts once and again to what he justly called the sham volumes of Curll.
He reverts in the House of Fame to his favourite theme, and the first book is taken up with a description of the temple of Venus.
On October 28, he reverts to the subject, and protests by everything that is holy that he is not acquainted with the cause of the estrangement.
A man may become the chief ruler for a few years, but after leaving the White House he reverts to private citizenship; if he is a lawyer he may practise and appear before a judge, whom he appointed while he was president.
D'Annunzio is inordinately fond of using Christian imagery, and he reverts to it here in the distribution of his little tricolor flags, which has a mystic import.
The same excellent physician reverts to these cases in his Fourth Report (1855), and laments the sad condition of health, and the horrible state of neglect of many patients on their admission.
At the same time it reverts to the compositions of Rubens, complicating them further to satisfy the needs of the modern mind.
Ferguson, the Scotchman, also reverts to the Impressionists but has learned much from Matisse.
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
Once reduced to these terms (and all our philosophies get reduced to them in minds made critical by learning) our commerce with the systems reverts to the informal, to the instinctive human reaction of satisfaction or dislike.
A Jack-pot having been opened, the winner takes the accumulated pool, and the succeeding game reverts to the ordinary conditions, i.
He has to commence each time with the player on the left-hand side of the proper dealer, and when the buyer loses his turn, the deal reverts to the player who would have had the next turn had there been no sale.
However much we read of life in remoter countries the mind, like a rubber ball, ever reverts with persistent force to its original point of view.
I find, as I write, that my mind constantly reverts to the cleanliness of the place.
And when my mind reverts in unwilling retrospection to the innumerable hideous and barren cities large and small of our United States, it seems to me that we are hopelessly lost in the fog of the common-place.
At death the soul reverts to its original state: how then can it possess consciousness?
The ice melts and is water again; man dies and revertsto spirituality.
In the first place, Aristotle reverts to the distinction already laid down at the beginning of the Categoriae.
Some overwhelming passion or crisis may speed him up momentarily but as soon as it fades hereverts to his old slow habits.
The Real "Reversion to Type" ΒΆ Under this urge of his type each reverts gradually but irresistibly to his old habits, doing largely what he prefers to do in the ways that are to his liking.
As the honeymoon fades, each revertsto the kind of recreation congenial to his type.
More than once in his letters to Murray he reverts to this profession of accuracy, and encloses some additional note, in which he points out and rectifies an occasional deviation from the historical record.
Ten days later (February 25) he reverts to these "extracts," and on February 28 he despatches a fair copy of the first act.
Orton, in our climate; that is, it reverts to the ordinary colour of the common fowl in its skin and bones, due care having been taken to prevent any cross.
Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, Bishop of Carthage from the year 248, though a pupil and an admirer of Tertullian, reverts in his own writings at once to orthodoxy and to an easy and copious diction.
Should one leave offspring but either part or all of the other categories of inheritors be nonexistent, two thirds of their sharesreverts to the offspring and one third to the House of Justice.
Should none of the specified beneficiaries exist, two thirds of the inheritance revertsto the nephews and nieces of the deceased.
In cases where there is no issue, the share of the children revertsto the House of Justice (Q and A 7, 41).
If these do not exist, the same share reverts to the aunts and uncles; lacking these, to their sons and daughters.
Should one leave none of the aforementioned heirs, the entire estate reverts to the House of Justice.
Should one leave none of the aforementioned heirs, the entire inheritance reverts to the House of Justice.
In any case the remaining third reverts to the House of Justice.
In cases where there is no issue the share of the childrenreverts to the House of Justice to be expended on orphans and widows and for whatever will profit mankind.
Distinct species present analogous variations; and a variety of one species often assumes some of the characters of an allied species, or reverts to some of the characters of an early progenitor.
He never feels so happy as when he throws off a large part of his civilization and revertsto the life of a semi-savage.
The instrumentation of his purely orchestral works is pointedly restricted to Beethovian procedure and reverts even to that of Mozart in the use of trumpets and kettle-drums.
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