SCALE sprue grass, cut it into pieces the bigness of peas as far as the green part extends from the heads, and wash and put them into a stewpan.
SCALE sprue or large asparagus, then cut off the heads as far as they are eatable, boil them till nearly done, strain them, and pour cold water over to preserve them green.
Mrs. Lapham's range was strictly domestic; and when the Colonel got me in the library, he poured mineral paint all over me, till I could have been safely warranted not to crack or scale in any climate.
By placing the highest note and fullest bowl at my right hand and so on until the lowest note is at my extreme left, I can play the scale just as if I was playing on a piano.
Now girls, the bowl holding the clear water, having more in it than the others, will give us the highest note, and so on down the scale until we reach the lowest note which holds least water in the bowl.
It is the promotion that gains us honours but if one fails to do the best he can with anything given to do, how can one hope to go higher in the scale of progress?
In a former communication on the subject, I had the honour of giving a rough estimate of the probable expense of the undertaking, if carried out in accordance to a plan of operations and a scale of party then proposed.
In the far north of Australia, settlement on a fresh scale was once more undertaken; this time under purely colonial auspices.
But, as showing the upheaval of the land to the northward, it points out that naturally the flow of irrigation on a large scale will be from north to south.
On the other hand, take the other line of diagrams, and pass from the horse downwards in the scale to this fish; and still, though the modifications are vastly greater, the essential framework of the organisation remains unchanged.
The weight of Malpighi's observations therefore fell into the scale of that doctrine which Harvey terms metamorphosis, in contradistinction to epigenesis.
Moreover, we could not have developed a propaganda on a large scale like that of our enemies during the war for the very reason that they had no foes in their rear, whereas we were surrounded.
England against Germany--planned on a large scale and applied with audacity and unscrupulousness.
The awful tragedy of the Pequot fort was here renewed upon a scale of still more terrific grandeur.
To scale the window in the face of such an enemy, was, however, impossible, and on trial he found the main entrance barred.
And yet, notwithstanding all her sagacity, there were moments when the good woman had grievous doubts into whichscale she ought to throw the weight of her eloquence, in order to be certain of supporting the cause favored by the peddler.
There is room on the different islands for about seventy-five or eighty more plantations on the scale now common; and there are, I think, still excellent opportunities for making plantations.
But even at the last moment Mr. Gladstone was induced to sanction the advance only by the belief that the scale of the operations would be small, and that only a single brigade would be necessary.
In the present instance the Egyptian Government were poor, and as the British Government did not desire to profit by the opportunity it was determined to have only a small-scale operation.
He showed how, while Great Britain was occupied elsewhere, her brilliant, persevering sons had repeated on a lesser scale in Egypt the marvellous evolution which is working out in India.
When a raid has taken place, the Government may choose the scale of their reprisals.
This manifestation comes in the place on the psychic scalejust between ordinary clairvoyance on the one hand, and astral body projection on the other.
On the contrary, this sense came to living things far back in the scale of evolution.
But the scale of mental and emotional states is far more complex, and far more extended than is the musical scale; there are thousands of different notes, and half-notes, on the mental scale.
The many degrees of agreement and difference in the psychic vibrations of persons constitute a scale of comparative response to any particular form of mental or emotional vibrations.
Mental vibrations are much higher in the scale than are physical vibrations.
Above the ordinary scale of light vibrations are the vibrations of the X-Rays and other fine forces--these are not perceived by the eye, but are caught by delicate instruments and recorded.
Women are more sensitive, as a rule, than are men--on any point on the scale of development.
There was a portion of the scale which differed from the rest in quality, and remained to the last "under a veil," to use the Italian term.
There were the firmness and the neatness that appertain to the piano-forte, while she would go through a scale staccato with the precision of the bow.
In one passage she dropped a double octave, and finally sealed her reputation "by running up and down the chromatic scale for the first time in the recollection of opera-goers.
Farinelli's singing turned the scale in favor of Handel's enemies, who had previously hardly been able to keep the enterprise on its feet, and had run in debt nineteen thousand pounds.
This scalecauses more loss than any other of the tree insects.
The scale at length seemed to turn with the advent on the scene of the Mendicant Orders, full of the irrepressible enthusiasm, the disregard of toil and hardship, and the thirst for martyrdom of which we have already seen so many examples.
More permanent relief, however, was found at the expense of the foreigner by assigning to them revenues on churches abroad on the liberal scale of three hundred marks a year apiece.
Accordingly, in 1488, a crusade on a large scale was organized in both Dauphine and Savoy.
Yet the human scale is not essentially petty; when it does not slip in as a sort of interloper it has nothing to apologize for.
Imagination changes the scale of everything, and makes a thousand patterns of the woof of nature, without disturbing a single thread.
The substance and fine mechanism which I do not doubt underlie this changing apparition are out of scale with my imagined units, and (beyond a certain point) out of sympathy with my interests.
Everything there is on the human scale except the quantity of things, which is oppressive.
So the human scale turned up again irrepressibly, but for the moment without its native dignity, because it had been stretched to compass a lifeless dignity quite other than its own.
Here the human scale is altogether transgressed; nature is cruel, alien, excessive, to be fled from with a veiled face.
Here is the modest human scale reasserting itself in the midst of a titanic structure, but it reasserts itself with an ill grace and in the interests of frailty; the patch it makes seems unintended and ignominious.
This was humanism out of scale and out of place, an attempt to cut not the works of man but the universe to human measure.
They were a gift of the gods, like the sunshine or the fresh air or the memory of the Greeks: they were superior beings, and yet more animal than the rest of us, calmer, with a different scale of consciousness and a slower pace of thought.
It is sweet and necessary that the works of man should respect the human scale when everything in nature so infinitely transcends it.
Thus the various state governments were repetitions on a small scale of what was then supposed to be the triplex government of England, with its King, Lords, and Commons.
And to crown all, the American people were thoroughly familiar with the principle of representation, having practised it on a grand scale for four centuries in England, and for more than a century in America.
The direct use of a thick wood or metal scalemay lead to inaccuracy.
For marking distances of lines, a carefully prepared paper[17] scale or pattern (p.
The scale of the lettering corresponds with that of the ruled lines (these do not show in the figure): the letters and the interlinear spaces are each one line high; the initial word is four lines high.
Letters incised in metal may most nearly approach pen forms, as the fine grain of the metal and the comparatively small scale of the work allow of fine "thin strokes.
So critical indeed was the situation that it seemed to MacVintie that they might well dispense with notice of two factors so inconsiderable in the scale of national importance as the ada-wehi and his captive.
But whatever scale is adopted, every tree, every rock, every pool, every accessory detail must be made exactly to correspond to it.
The effect on the negro himself has been to raise him one grade in the scale of being.
The great influence also of Murchison and Lyell had been thrown into the scale in favor of the iceberg theory, and this fact doubtless had much to do with the slow development of true conceptions.
Nearly all the time that could be said to have been spent in his life in dealing with other men he spent in doing for them on a nobler scale the thing that Frederick Taylor did.
In the meantime, what is there that can honestly be called base in taking human nature as it is and in allowing a slidingscale of motives in people?
I had rather stand forty-five on my scale than ninety-eight on yours!
And the lower in the scale of life we go the more committees it takes to do the work of one man and the more impossible it becomes to find anything but parts of men to do things.
The government will give special liberties on a sliding scale and with shrewd provision for the future.
They are for ever shooting out and bursting and falling back, fireworks on a scale too enormous for us to conceive.
Brace tried, and by exercising a little pressure he cut through the yellow scale almost as easily as if it had been lead.
Now," he said, handing this and the knife to the young man, "try and cut that scale in two.
She is conceived on the grand Aeschylean scale, a scale which makes even Lady Macbeth and Beatrice Cenci seem small; she is more the kinswoman of Brynhild.
A foot-pace carries one too slowly past the units in a decorative scheme that is on a scale with the country round for bigness.
