It has been said that no great discovery was ever made without imagination, which may be true; but evidence and imagination must be kept rigidly separate.
Bertram was still standing near the door, his eye rigidly fixed upon it.
He also realized perfectly that he ought not notice the audience, but remain rigidly at attention.
Each figure stood rigidly at attention, shoulders back, eyes set straight ahead, three fingers pressed against the forehead in the scout salute, and lips moving in unison over the last words of the scout oath.
Each rank and rating carries its rigidly prescribed duties, as well as its distinctive uniform and pay.
But his smile awoke no response in the Superintendent, who sat rigidly silent.
Rigidly silent they stood, watching him till long after he had lain down again in his place, then once more they began their painful advance, clearing treacherous twigs from every place where their feet should rest.
Rigidly he eliminated from his manner anything beyond a severe professional interest.
All somatic cells possess a certain degree of differentiation, which may be rigidly limited to one single direction, or may take place in one of many directions.
Furthermore, this method of transmission has been rigidly proved in the case of the muscardine disease of the silkworm.
Standing behind her, he devoured her with his eyes, from the golden crown of her rigidly motionless head to the heels of her shoes, the line of her shapely shoulders, the curves of her fine figure swaying a little before the keyboard.
With his finger, he followed a cord running from the grizzled beard across the motionless breast to lose itself in the shelter of the rigidly clasped hands.
Casting him off as he would have spoken further, he turned upon the red-cloaked figure of the Sword-Bearer, standing rigidly erect before the high-seat.
On his long voyages he had studied the movements of the great albatross, which, with wings rigidly distended, outsailed the swiftest ship without any apparent exertion.
The decks of the vessel, that were tipping from side to side, so that loose objects slid from one rail to the other, are now held rigidly at a level, scarcely permitted to deviate to the extent of a violent tremor.
It causes the ship to pitch a trifle fore and aft as it does so; but meantime its axis stands rigidly erect in the lateral plane, though the waves push against the sides of the ship as before.
If Mr. Brennan had merely fixed two wheels rigidly in the frame of his car, they would have had no appreciable effect in balancing it.
She confined herselfrigidly to her home; said that the moan of the sea wearied and worried her, and blocked up every window which looked upon the ocean!
To nothing did they hold so rigidly as to the promise that white troops were always to support Indian.
The order had been rigidly attended to and the Indians had done their fair share of the irregular warfare that terrorized and desolated the border in the late spring of the second year of the war.
Intruders and spirituous liquors were to be rigidly excluded and all payments to Indians were to be carefully safeguarded against fraud and graft.
Thus rigidly following out the rule of the symbolism before given, that Chokmah and Binah are contained in Kether.
The Hebrew, indeed, introduced into Europe the first clear conception of religion, as implied in monotheism, and a rigidly defined moral law, founded upon the will of Jehovah.
For our purposes the genera must be rigidly defined, a separate name being used in case of each definable difference in structure.
Such a list is in use in the fish-market of Havana, where the sale of certain species, elsewhere healthful, or at the most suspected, was rigidly prohibited under the Spanish regime.
Edward differed from Coeur de Lion in this, that he was one of the most abstemious men in his army, and disciplined himself at least as rigidly as he did other people.
True," rigidly spoke the hunter, though there was somewhat of a quivering of the muscles of the cheek discernible amid the curls of his chestnut beard: "robbery is not the wonted service demanded of retainers.
Heavy-hearted and pale-cheeked with his rigidly observed fast, Richard armed himself in early morning, and set forth to the chapel tent, where the previous solemnities had to be observed.
The receiving of presents from the natives wasrigidly prohibited.
But when those rules were rigidly applied to offences committed many years before, at the distance of many thousands of miles, conviction was, of course, out of the question.
Two small pieces of magnetic metal are rigidly mounted on the shaft and the astatic components of the magnetic field, which are perpendicular to the shaft, tend to keep the pieces of magnetic metal in their initial positions.
This device consists of a forked rod L, rigidly attached to the shaft C, and carrying at its lower end a silk fibre fastened to the fork and passing around a pulley M, to which a pointer N is attached.
The segments are assembled in a ring under great pressure and are repeatedly heated and tightened, being finally secured and rigidly locked together.
These consist of a combination of two magnetic needles of equal size and strength, connected rigidly together with their poles pointing in opposite and parallel directions, as shown in fig.
The current winding consists of two flat coils of strap copper, one clamped rigidly on either side of the central mounting frame which supports the armature bearings.
The ladies keptrigidly on arrival to the other side of the loft.
It is the caste that keeps him rigidly to himself, since, as a rule, he can touch no food that others have handled.
Norah, who had kept her word rigidly about not mentioning the dreaded prospect before her.
Yet the tariff of that day was rigidly protective.
Perhaps he was rigidly blocking out the cause of his unrest--that he was more or less dependent upon Rhoda Kane for the luxuries that were involved in seeing her, having a relationship with her.
Senator Crane was the exact opposite of Brent, in that he looked to be exactly what he was; a figure rigidly type-cast to the role of a blustering, tactless servant of the people.
It consists merely of two wheels A and F connected by the link T; A being keyed on the shaft of the engine and F being rigidly secured to the connecting-rod.
These last results have been accounted for in the following manner: The two barrels were rigidly joined for a space of 3 in.
His mother being dead, he had held his own against a rigidlyconventional grandmother, and insisted on delaying the inevitable till his education was complete.
His grip tightened and they stood rigidly still, Roy straining every nerve to locate those stealthy sounds.
Throughout the stormy interlude, he had stood rigidly still: a pained, puzzled frown contracting his brows.
