It is amusing, and provocative of innocent laughter, which, after all, seems to be a sufficient recommendation for words spoken within the walls of a play-house.
Whitaker's Almanack for 1890 seemslarger than usual, and better than ever.
Our native chestnut; let us not think of it in memory only, though the pride of our forests seems to have left us after the scourge of the chestnut blight.
It seems to me that any other policy obscures the issue which, I take it, is to foster the extension of nut culture.
Morris in 1909 seems to be the first on record to observe the injury to the shoots of Juglans regia.
This insect occurs throughout the Eastern United States, but seems to cause more injury in Connecticut than has been noted elsewhere.
They are interested, I think, and it seems to me that an organization for growth must have publicity and a lot of it.
He lives in a state where nut culture is much further advanced than it is here, consequently it has been, it seems to me, a good deal simpler for him to accomplish results there than it is for us here.
It seems to me that one of the most effective nut documents yet issued is that bulletin by George Carver, a colored man at the Tuskegee Institute.
On an extensive lawn it makes a very desirable tree but in close proximity to the house the one objection there may be is that the dead foliage seems to cling to the twigs sometimes the entire winter.
Fifty members have not paid their dues and there seems to be no other course but to drop them, after repeated notice, though some are old friends.
It seems to me that you can do anything you like with figures, except make them clear, yet it was the failure to figure that gave me my first idea of the importance of nut culture.
It seems strange that in the long history of the hickory or shagbark more has not been done in the improvement of the nuts in the growing of large thin-shelled and sweeter nuts.
It is going to take some little time but it seems to me that they are the logical people to carry it out.
Some of them are rapid growing trees and there seems to be good reason why we should not plant out evergreens which produce fruit and are just as attractive and fine as those evergreens which produce shade only.
As she lingers the night-breeze seems to bring a voice from the water: "Can a Dakota woman want courage when she is forced to marry the man she hates?
By lantern-light he reads, carelessly at first, then rapidly and eagerly, and at the close he looks long and earnestly at the dead man, and seems to brush away a tear.
The palace, half-completed, stands in the midst of this desolation, and sometimes it seems to lift into view of those at a distance in the shifting mirage that plays along the horizon.
A spell seems to be laid on him, and, unable to resist it, the buccaneer mounts the animal.
Her eyes are bent on a distorted thing that lies among the embers, and in the dying light of the flames it seems to move.
With an obduracy that seems to be characteristic of fathers, the medicine-man refused his consent to the union, and the hearts of the twain were heavy.
Just before he closes his eyes the child looks about him and says that he hears the horse pawing in the road, and, either for dust or cloud or sun gleam, it seems for an instant as if the horse were there.
As a poor revenge for being thus balked of his prey the pirate has the beautiful white horse flung overboard, the animal shrilling a neigh that seems to reach to the horizon, and is like nothing ever heard before.
His zeal for the public service," she continues, "seems entirely lost in his love and vanity, and they all sit and flatter each other all day long.
The human legacy left by Nelson of Emma Hamilton and their daughter Horatia were not mentioned, though he seems to have implored Heaven and earth in their behalf.
He gave her some education, but she seems to have had natural genius, and her beauty was undisputed.
In dealing with his domestic complications, Nelson's mind seems to have been in a constant whirlwind, dodging from one difficulty into another, never direct, and for ever in conflict with his true self.
This female critic seems to have been overburdened with the weight of Emma's defects, mental and physical!
Nelson seems to have formed an adverse opinion of Mack, who was extolled by the Court as the military genius who was to deliver Europe from the thraldom of the French.
Well may we exclaim that fame seems to be the most wretched of mockeries!
Nelson seems to have been the victim of her dominating spirit, though the evidence in support of him swallowing the whole dose of medicine is quite feeble.
I had, indeed, intended before closing my address, to have traced out a few of the directions in which, as it seems to me, Art may be seriously and practically serviceable to us in the career of civilization.
Mr. Hendrie seems even less familiar with Scriptural than with monkish language, or in this and several other cases he would have recognized the adoption of apostolic formulæ.
Physically, Lord of the Sun; and a mountain Spirit, because the sun seems first to rise and set upon hills.
Out of which collection, every way valuable, two primarily important pieces, it seems to me, may be recommended for accurate juxtaposition, bringing then for us into briefest compass an extensive story of the Arts of Mankind.
The pestilence again alarms us, and seemsto be on the increase.
If we take into account the relative strength of the parties on both sides, the kingdom of France seems at present to be in great jeopardy.
For he seems born to contradict, and because he is not so very highly esteemed by others as he rates himself, it is after this fashion that he takes his revenge.
The bearer who takes charge of my letter to you seems to me to be pious and upright.
The whole affair, as you may perceive, is hatched in the workshop of Macrin, who seemsto me to be determined, of set purpose, to keep the two towns in a state of perpetual dissension with each other.
Distress and wretchedness during the day seems only to prepare a lodging for the more painful and excruciating thoughts of the night.
The only remedy which almost alone remains, therefore, seemsto be, that we commit their safety to the Lord.
I love it now, too; but it seems the essence of solitude to me.
It seems that he mistook me for Miss Reynier--the lady out there on the lawn talking with Mr. Van Camp.
It seems strange," said Agatha, "to think that I sat out there under that big tree as a little girl.
We shall cruise along the coast and put into harbor at night, if it seems best; and I'll try to make you comfortable.
The statement, like the forest, seems a little thin.
The reporter also seems to have been knocked out of time.
Committee roared with anguished despair; but, since procedure in case of frivolous and vexatious Division seems forgotten by Chair, no help for it.
I'm a having mine at Grinnidge, and had the honner last week of waiting upon the Ministerial Gents from Westminster, and a werry jowial lot of Gents they suttenly seems to be.
New things now are awfully common; And it seems but fair, With New Humour, Art, and Woman, We should have New Air.
Howe'er that be, it seems to me 'Tis all important what one eats.
It seems old Appleby has about made up his mind that you're the right and proper mate for young Appleby.
And the only way to get a line on him, seems to be through Rachel.
It seems so to me, too, but we can't bank on that.
She seems to be shy, and I daresay the sudden publicity shook her nerves.
Seems to me they're doing all they can, and I can't help thinking they may get at the truth.
That most opportune fire in the garage seems to me indicative of a criminal who wanted to create a panic so he could carry out his murderous design with neatness and despatch.
Seems to me the fact that Mrs. Wheeler ran downstairs and back again is enough to indicate some pretty close questioning of her," suggested Hallen.
Suppose, just as a theory, that somebody is ready to take advantage of the peculiar situation, that seems to prove Dan Wheeler was either outside his prescribed territory--or he was the murderer.
Only, it's his habit to shade the truth when it seems to him advisable.
He's of middle stature, Your Majesty, not overly fat though he seems so since he always wears quilted, stiletto-proof doublets.
There seems to be plenty of randy women to go around, in all castes.
He seems to seek the new because it is there, yet perhaps not knowing what he will do with it once it is his.
Then we can send the Imperial army, as reinforcements, if it still seems advisable.
Who would venerate a column of stone, he mused, particularly one which seems almost like a man's organ?
The strumpet luck seems to have switched her men tonight, Captain Hawksworth, like a nautch girl when her karwa's rupees are spent.
There seems evidence that the Portuguese did conspire to assist the forces opposing the succession of Shah Jahan, whom they justifiably feared.
Whether many of this class may join the movement remains to be seen, but it certainly seems highly probable.
The service seems to be pretty nearly the same as in the Protestant German Church, at least as it is now celebrated in the Cathedral of Berlin.
It seems most probable that this defence of toleration may, ere long, make its author personally feel what intolerance is.
Then in Elizabeth's day the house seems to have been practically rebuilt.
For even to the superficial onlooker it seems to differ essentially not only from the great chalk Downs upon which he stands, but from any other part of England known to him.
And from within she seems not less complete, a thing wholly ancient, delightful, with a picturesque and yet homely beauty that is the child of ancientness.
That it was ravaged, burnt and sacked by the Danes is certain and it seems even at the time of the Norman Conquest to have scarcely recovered itself.
And just as the institution seems in itself wonderful to us in our day, so do the buildings, which, if one would really understand how gloriously strange they are, should be carefully compared with the county workhouse.
It seems to have been destroyed in the Civil war, but even in 1839 much remained of it.
In the neighbourhood of the lens it seems to be continuous as at cl with the tissue a, which appears to be the rudiment of the capsule of the lens and suspensory ligament.
The epibolic gastrula of the Scorpion, of Isopods, and of other Arthropoda, seems also to be a derived gastrula.
It seems probable however (Gegenbaur, Vrolik) that there is no sharp line to be drawn between these two processes; but that the ossification almost always starts from the perichondrium.
It seems probable that the mesoblast in this situation is mainly derived from cells formed around the nuclei of the germinal wall, which are usually specially aggregated close below the epiblast.
It seems probable, mainly it must be admitted on a priori grounds, that vascular and lymphatic systems have originated from the conversion of indefinite spaces, primitively situated in the general connective tissue, into definite channels.
It seems in fact very probable that the Teleostei are in reality derived from a type of Fish with a much larger ovum.
The presence of this blastopore seems to render it clear that the blastopore discovered by Ed.
In the Tenrec (Centetes) the yolk-sack and non-placental part of the chorion are described by Rolleston as being absent, but it seems not impossible that this may have been owing to the bad state of preservation of the specimen.
No similar organ has as yet been found in Amphioxus, but it seems possible perhaps to identify it with the peculiar ciliated sack placed at the opening of the pharynx in the Tunicata, the development of which was described at p.
From the structure of the eye in the Ammocoete it seems probable that Descemet's membrane is continuous with the choroid.
That racket at the church seems to hev upset yer so that yer look downright ill.
It seems higher than my merits, but it shall be the aspiration of my life to live up to it," said the colonel, with a very low bow.
It grieves me to do so, but I must prepare you for what seems inevitable.
It may be premature to judge before all the evidence is in, but it seems as if your late guest is an impostor, if not a criminal.
And she seems to like her quarters so well that I am inclined to think that she will stay just as long as she is permitted to do so.
I am his nearest male relative, and I have no ties to bind me and keep me from doing a man's part in this matter; it seems my duty.
Oh, Le, and there seems no real necessity for you to go!
It seems ungrateful in me to leave them before they are grown up and out of my care.
When joy seems highest Then sorrow is nighest, says the old rhyme.
She seems afraid to love her baby, and the very health which is being restored to her produces irritation of mind.
The author of Five Years' Penal Servitude seems to entertain very decided opinions upon the present system and its faults.
Sometimes my natural understanding seems enlightened about things of that kind, as if I were helped to see the right and useful thing.
It seems that Mrs. Fry succeeded with the women by means of her care for the children.
Altogether it seems certain that a new era for prisoners had dawned, and new ideas prevailed in regard to them.
From some letters given in the Memoirs of Mrs. Fry it seems that the Empress felt a true Womanly compassion for the inmates of the Government Lunatic Asylum, and inaugurated a system of more rational treatment.
However, itseems that the young folks grew up to be useful and God-fearing in the main, so that the Church universal lost nothing by their transference into other communions.
It seems singular that one so extremely conscientious as Elizabeth Fry, should have been considered to fall behindhand in that self-denying plainness of act and speech which characterized others; but so it was.
From her journal it seems that solemn prayer for Divine guidance and blessing occupied the forenoon of the first day in Paris; after that, visits of ceremony were paid to the English Ambassador, and of friendship to other persons.
The chief object of this journey seems to have been the visitation of Friends' Meetings in that part of the kingdom; but the prison enterprise was by no means forgotten.
There seems nothing so little understood as religion.
Looking at the matter all round, it seems utterly impossible to devise a convict system which shall meet fairly and justly all cases.
It seemslike distrust of one's self, and deep lowliness of spirit, to shrink from heavy responsibility; but all we need to inquire is, Has God imposed that responsibility?
Indeed, with many, it seems to be accounted a Christian grace to be in a continual state of doubt and hesitation; and, as a consequence, their hymns are quite in character with their condition.
Moses himself seems to have been brought to a stand, as it appears from the Lord's question--"Wherefore criest thou to Me?
Nothing can be more deplorable than the looseness of thought and expression which seems to prevail in reference to this all-important doctrine.
Each question seems but to elicit some new feature of divine grace.
However, these differences are of no serious importance, and indeed this flag seems doomed to misrepresentation, which extends even to its name.
It seems that crosses were borne in some of the flags, but there is no mention of any personal device, though some flags are stated to have been resplendent with purple and precious stones.
This change seems to have taken place about the end of the fifteenth century.
This seems to have been the only occasion on which an English fleet was divided into squadrons distinguished by means of the same flag flown at different mastheads.
The summary of this discussion, recorded by Pepys in the Admiralty "Journal," contains so many points of interest that it seems desirable to reproduce it in full.
There is other evidence that the ground colour was not an essential part of the design, although the prevailing colour at a later date seems to have been blue.
Upon the water, as upon the land, the Standard (taking the word in its earliest meaning) seems to have preceded the Flag by many centuries.
It seems probable that the earliest signals were given by raising the naval standard which, as we have seen, found a place at the stern of the Phoenician ships of war at least as early as 400 B.
Your daughter," said the visitor, "seems to be suffering from the heat.
It seems that the gentle artist in making enemies had not paid his dues and was dunned for them in vain.
It seems as if I always do have to stand when I hear that man Twain lecture.
It seems that in 1853 he left Poker Flat to go to San Francisco, ostensibly to procure a wife.
The rumor that points to a well-known and beautiful poetess whose lucubrations have often graced our columns seems to gain credence from those that are posted.
But because I do believe you--it seemsto me all wrong!
Chu Chu seems to like it, and whether bitten by native tarantula into native barbarism or emulous of the roan, "blood" asserts itself, and in a moment the peaceful servitude of years is beaten out in the music of her clattering hoofs.
And still of all my dreams In turn so swiftly past, Each in its fancy seems A nobler than the last.
Before his eyes the vision seems to stand, Where at its terraced brink the maids appear, Who fill their deep urns at its waters clear, And not refuse the help of lover's hand.
Consider ere thou judge: be first assured All is not good for man thatseems god's will.
Illustration: SEA GULL ROCK] Here we venture to a place that seems accessible in order to procure a photograph.
At a turn in the path, where it seems as if we were about to walk off into space, we get a glimpse through the trees of Mount Tamalpais.
It seems almost sacrilegious to trample these exquisite violet-hooded flowers beneath our feet.
At a certain point the train seems about to jump off into space, but it makes a sharp curve around a jutting cliff on the edge of the cañon, and a broader view bursts upon us, a view unparalleled for its magnificence.
The Faithless Lover I O Life, dear Life, in this fair house Long since did I, it seems to me, In some mysterious doleful way Fall out of love with thee.
He has been lodged with me This thirty year; All the while (it seems absurd!
It seems to me that I have never been young until now.
But it's a strange world, Kathleen, this one; no oneseems to be in their proper place.
In your case Gifford seems to have proved a success.
It seems to be settled, that from the fact of interlineations and erasures appearing upon the face of a will, no such presumption arises, as in the case of deeds and other instruments, that they were made before execution.
It seems the better opinion, that the law of the domicile of the testator will govern as to what shall be regarded as personal estate, and what real.
In New York, the power to dispose of her separate real estate by will seems to be unrestricted, for there is no limitation mentioned.
That he said he saw the devil in the shape of a bull seems to be well established.
This brings us in the history of his life to the year 1798, and perhaps that fact may enable us to give some probable solution of the only circumstance that seems (if we except the will) to cast any shade over the memory of this man.
There seems sufficient evidence to show that he believed in mesmerism, clairvoyance, divining and mineral rods, dreams, and spiritual influences.
The practice, in the American courts, of receiving parol evidence of the contents of a lost will, seems to be universal, and without question, notwithstanding the stringent statutory requirements in regard to the mode of executing wills.
He is next traced on his return to the United States to the cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York; and in all of them he seems to have had business, pecuniary concerns, and friends.
And eke thou hast his heart in hold And in his mind seems passing rare.
Tis like a lamp shining to all, Whilst in itself it doth decay; It seems to free whom it doth thrall, And lead our pathless thoughts astray.
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