The hunters who had gone forth in chase of the moose, elk, bears, and other animals, had been less successful than usual.
As to provisions, the whites are not like the improvident red-skins, who gorge themselves with food one day and starve for many afterwards.
When the buffalo, in large herds, came northward from the wide prairies in the south, and fish could be caught in the neighbouring lakes and rivers, provisions were abundant.
The foliage which still clung to the deciduous trees exhibited the most gorgeous colours, the brightest red, pink, yellow, and purple tints contrasting with the sombre hues of the pines covering the lower slopes of the hills.
Show the flag you carry, that no one may fire at us as we retire.
Mr. Bacon caught it eagerly, and essayed to speak some tender and encouraging words.
Mr. Grim took an omnibus and rode as far as Canal street.
As she bent over him, his breath came full in her face.
And here began, in earnest, my literary labors, that have since continued with only brief periods of intermission.
Two neat mahogany cases were taken along, one containing a pair of duelling pistols, and the other a set of surgical instruments.
This, in a few minutes, had the desired effect, and he repaired to his office feeling like a new man.
Henry asked no further question, but he felt more than a passing interest in what he had heard.
On going by the door of Mary's chamber, a few minutes before she came down, Mrs. Bacon saw her daughter kneeling at her bedside, with her face deeply buried among the clothes.
In vision exquisitely clear, Herds range along the mountain-side; And glistening antlers are descried; And gilded flocks appear.
A parallel term, however, is needed; and, therefore, I will speak of the general or class ideas which are formed without the aid of language as generic.
These pre-conceptual judgments may be expressed either by gestures, connotative classifications, or by both combined.
But there is one matter of subordinate importance which I may here most conveniently dispose of, although my views with regard to it may not meet with universal assent.
It is a truism of psychology that the terms of a proposition, when closely interrogated, turn out to be nothing but abbreviated judgments.
We may altogether distinguish six different kinds of language:— “1.
I mean the nature of abstraction, and the classification of ideas.
They are the best of them tied up within those narrow bounds, and have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind of abstraction.
For even the most elementary forms of religion and morality depend upon ideas of a much more abstract, or intellectual, nature than are to be met with in any brute.
What I have hitherto been endeavouring to do is to reveal clearly that the question whether or not there is any difference between the brute and the man in respect of abstraction, is nothing more than a question of terminology.
Now, the fact that the parrot ceased to bark when it saw my terrier after it had begun to bark when it saw other dogs, clearly showed that it distinguished between individual dogs, while receptually perceiving their class resemblance.
From which it follows that the great distinction between the brute and the man really lies behind the faculties both of conception and predication: it resides in the conditions to the occurrence of either.
Building material in ancient Egypt and Assyria was adobe.
The peninsula on which it stands somewhat resembles the rock of Gibraltar, and could be rendered as formidable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
