Inigo Jones had fine scene-shiftings with the help of his machinists, and Shakespeare with the help of his verses; these last have this advantage, that they have not faded, and can still be seen.
These scene-shiftings are frequent, unexpected, and rapid as in an opera.
A hundred years ofshiftings and changings of dynasties, of rivalry between Laon and Paris, between the Frank and the Frenchman, had still to follow.
Memories took the place of anticipation, and through their moody shiftings he began to feel a distaste for the company of his friends and a shrinking from their lively voices.
He played with unimportant shiftings of fortune until a short while before his train was due, and then, singularly enough, he discovered he was one hundred and fifty dollars behind the game.
The history of the Hwang ho is one of disastrous floods and shiftings of its course, which have occurred many times in the years since before the time of the Great Yu, who perhaps began the works perpetuated today.
Some of theseshiftings of course of the Hwang ho and of the Yangtse kiang are indicated in dotted lines on the sketch map, Fig.
Names of tates not personal, owing to tribal distributions and shiftings of tribal households from tate to tate, 224.
On one side lies the sea, shimmering in bands of blue, purple, and green to the swaying of gentle winds, exhibiting those magical shiftings and changes of color peculiar to these waves.
This circumstance leads to a thousand quarrels and mean artifices; and constant shiftings of positions take place.
It was for you to accept or decline my proposal--not to deceive me by these changes and shiftings of inclination.
Such shiftings about of population became a very distinctive part of the political methods of the Assyrian new empire.
Considerable fluctuations of climate had also been going on in the first and second centuries, producing stresses and shiftings of population, whose force historians have still to appraise.
The real issue of the complex faction fight during James's minority was thus of the most essential importance; but the constant shiftings of parties and persons cannot be dealt with fully in our space.
By one of those shiftings of literary illumination to which we have alluded, Italy, far lower in classical taste than France in the twelfth century, deserved a higher place in the next.
He had all the shiftings of the double-faced Janus, and the revolutionary politics of the ancient Junius.
The story of Warburton and his Welsh Prophet would of itself be sufficient to detect the shiftings and artifices of his genius.
Their shiftings were like the transformations one sees within a kaleidoscope.
Such a theory might account for their disappearance, and reappearance, shiftings of the flows that changed the light producing points of contact.
Her form by its endless shiftings uttered delicate phrases of pleasure, surprise, or love; her hands and fingers were orators, and eloquent were the curlings and tappings of her Arab feet.
Shiftings of the fluctuation type, or of the rivalry type either, are not to be regarded as quite the same sort of thing as the ordinary shiftings of attention.
It has, perchance, been blown away, or buried out of sight in the shiftings constantly going on here.
Notwithstanding these sands are hard and firm as a granite floor, they are subject to shiftings which at first appear almost unaccountable.
But of course they will get you into parliament at the election before Christmas, and these sudden shiftings and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
Little in the ten years of his life since then but a succession of shiftings and troubles!
It misses the point of serious interest, which is not so much the duration as the nature and quality of these shiftings of character to higher levels.
The wisdom of these later times in princes' affairs (says Verulamius) is rather fine deliveries and shiftings of dangers when they be near, than solid and grounded courses to keep them off.
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