But he was by no means insensible to the salient fact that he was one among the chosen of Earth to-night, and that it was good to be the hero of such an assembly.
Besides, the Democratic party is the under dog, and that always appeals to me, to say nothing of the fact that it is weak in strong men, that all its salient leaders are what you so elegantly term 'blatherskites.
There was no question that Victoria Gwynne was made on a magnificent plan, as capable of heroism, no doubt, as any of the salient women of history.
Care was taken that Hideyoshi's attention should not be attracted by any salient evidences of what he had called a "diabolical religion," and thus for a time all went well.
The reader's and tourist's attention has been called to the salient artistic points of a Spanish cathedral.
In these days a tie had to last the week, aided by the application of French chalk to the salient folds and corners.
The salient episode of his career was an attempt to establish a republic at Hakodate.
We were thus in a most awkward salient with both flanks exposed.
Further attacks by the enemy on the point of the salient were made during the day, and a more serious one early next morning, but they were readily driven off with loss.
The first attack on the point of the salient was driven off by rifle and machine gun fire.
On April 22nd, we experienced a little of the backwash of the first Hun gas attack against the French and Canadians in the Ypres Salient a few miles North of us.
Indeed, at a time when troops could ill have been spared, it is probable that the Ypres Salient would have been considerably reduced, and the morale of the enemy proportionately increased.
But whatever may have been the Federal plan of the campaign, it is certain that terrible dangers menaced the army of General Bragg, and all the salient points of his department.
Clearness of statement was never one of Mrs. Glen's salient characteristics.
When we consider its salient features, we see that it is just in its right place, closely following, as it does, the stilling of the storm.
And this subjection, rather than the cure of the individual sufferers, is the salient feature of the passage.
The most salient distinction, perhaps, is that of the Scotch being a musical and dancing nation; something from which the New-Englanders are fatally far removed.
With his unique and penetrating touch he marked certain salient and solemn features which had sunk deep into his sensitive imagination, and then filled in the surface with his own profound dramatic emanations.
Thus, singularly enough, the most salient feature of the new American product was its apparent denial of the national trait of practical sagacity.
The expression is always taken en passant, in a state of progress or change, and, as it were, at thesalient point.
A glance over its salient features will suffice for the purpose of these pages.
Retiring from a place where success was hopeless, the storming party moved round the left flank, and escaladed and won the parapet; while another forced the salient angle simultaneously.
In fortification, the salient angle is that which turns from the centre of a place; while the re-entering points directly towards it.
We have merely attempted to seize the more salient feature of a few leading types.
It is the purpose of our present discourse to compare some salient features of the old and new.
This scepticism of Shakespeare which shows itself out of place in Angelo and again most naturally in Claudio's famous speech, is one of the salient traits of his character which is altogether over-emphasized in this play.
Every one will notice that Shakespeare as we know him in Romeo is here depicted again with insistence on a few salient traits; here, too, we have the poet of the Sonnets masquerading as a Duke and the protagonist of yet another play.
We now come to the most salientpeculiarity in this play.
Yet in these pages that I have written I seem to see all the essential and salient features of my character already mirrored and formed.
How hard it is to judge, even at this distance, what are the salient features.
The prettiest artificial features of the landscape are the walls and domes and minarets of Cairo, and the most salient natural features are the sharp contrast of valley and desert.
It is a picturesque fortress dominating the river and covering an escarped hill that shows a double façade pierced with portholes, with a complex arrangement of bastions, salient and reentering angles, casemates, and sheltered barracks.
As examples we may take what are perhaps the two most salient features in the story--the exploit of Miloš and his confederates and the treachery of Vuk Branković.
The salient for the guns was so far advanced that the remaining Gardner guns had been brought up ready to be placed in position.
