All the evidence, both of experiment and of opinion, goes to show that the soil, if not the richest in the world, is far too good to be given over to scrubby bushes and luxuriant weeds.
Higher still they shaded off into paler tints, mingled with a copper-like hue that merged in the lighter clouds into gold.
Five or six miles to the west is Blue Point, of oyster fame, in connection with which a curious tradition is extant.
Everything was refined, subdued and shadowy in the tender light, but Percival, gazing, saw no charm in the little twilight picture.
I looked at her in uncertainty as to her mood, but she left me in doubt, and began telling me about society at the Point, her friend Mrs. Woodruff, and the houseful of guests.
At the base of each mound was a heap of chaff and shells of various kinds of seeds.
Not so late as this," she explained; and presently I was talking freely with her, and she was listening without a particle of self-consciousness in her manner.
Of the Caucasian beast-fables the following is a characteristic specimen: The Jackal and the Fox.
These ants all have well-developed teeth, and the shell-like covering enveloping the body is much thinner than that of the harvesting-ant.
This is practically the same view upon which we have imagined the traveller by the old-time stage feasting his eyes at the halting-places along the southern shore.
When he got his money he lost no time in settling Mr. Robinson's little account, and was fortunate enough to intercept another, about which Mr. Brett the tailor was growing seriously uneasy.
With her strong mandibles she could have crushed any number of her small assailants, but in no instance did she show the least disposition to rebel against the indignities to which she was subjected.
When he should have been in front he was behind; when he should have been behind he was in front; and if his wife only lifted the poker he hid himself behind the door.
Lancets (a) Christ, and below, Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac.
A third, weighing 42 pounds, entered the old spire; and a fourth crashed through a section of the western rose window and fell into the choir.
For most men group others in classes but not themselves, or at any rate suppose themselves to be free from the vices of the class to which they belong.
Acco, the leader of the conspiracy, summoned his supporters to the towns.
He sent, therefore, Marshal de Biron to lay siege to the town, and he began operations on the 12th February.
But the fair realm which was one day to be his 'Et par droit de naissance Et par droit de conquête,' was far from being prepared as yet to accept Henri Quatre as its ruler.
Henri took care, of course, that no force should so find its way into the town.
The monkey did not answer, but silently pointed to the puma who was pretending to be asleep.
So he called again to the wax figure to throw him an orange, and as the figure did not move, he hurled another stone, which stuck to the wax as the first had done.
At this moment a breeze shook the tree, and the orange on which the monkey had set his heart dropped from the bough.
True, the use of black troops was made difficult because their schooling had been largely inferior and their work therefore chiefly unskilled.
Because, by a stroke here and a touch there, you have conveyed into their quaint antics the illumination of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil as it is to the spirit and essence of the matter set forth.
W'en you hear me callin' de pigs, honey, you des hop up en onfassen de do'.
En he ain't hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby yer come Brer Fox gallopin' thoo de woods wid his axe on his shoulder.
Brer Fox, he sorter look roun' en feel or de back er his head, whar Brer Tarrypin lit, but he don't see no sine er Brer Rabbit.
Anything approaching the appearance of an active gold camp escaped his eye, and his eye was unwontedly keen.
I sed she knowed the boys hed gone huntin' fer Gill.
Yes, an' I sed the furnace fire was red; but yer got techy an' sed thet wuz hot.
She sed she wuz taller'n yer, Benner; and yer know'd thet.
An' I mind I sed it must be allers, fer her voice wuz allers glad an' sweet, sweeter'n a fiddle when Bill Kellar plays it.
Ged's edition of Sallust, printed at Edinburgh non typis mobilibus, ut vulgo fieri solet, sed tabellis seu laminis fusis, was published in 1739.
Quae tota non in eo quod est esse consistit, sed in eo quod est in comparatione aliquo modo se habere, nec semper ad aliud sed aliquotiens ad idem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
