It was the opinion of the surgeon, who afterwards examined the body, that the blade had been broken by coming in contact with one of the rib bones; and it was by this that he accounted for the slightness of the last mentioned wound.
Nothing abashed by the slightness of my bow, or the grave stares of my lordly companions, who never forgot the dignity of their birth, in spite of the vulgarity of their tastes, Thornton instantly and familiarly accosted me.
When he came there, he found that it had begun in a sailor's shed, and that by the slightness of the buildings, and the aukwardness of the Chinese, it was getting head apace.
The vast mass of these sketches, and the comparative slightness of many, would but too probably induce a carelessness and generalization in the treatment they might have to undergo still more fatally detrimental to them.
From the slightness of their construction, they would appear to be totally inadequate to contend against the rapids they are continually exposed to.
He seems to consider that the success of any remedy is owing more to the force of nature or to the slightness of the bite than to any other cause.
As to her attendant, he almost fancied, from the slightness of the figure, it must be a female in disguise.
The palaces of the Egyptian sovereigns were worthy of their wealth and power, but the comparative slightness of their materials led to their early disappearance, and no trace of them is left upon the soil of Egypt.
The persistent tendency towards slightness of proportion, which we have already noticed in speaking of the First Theban Empire, is even more conspicuous in the figures of these reliefs than in the royal statues (Figs.
Whereat her escort laughed admiringly, and during the whole subsequent two hours of their promenade scarcely any observer noticed the slightness of their acquaintance.
By extending this alledged equality, or slightness of difference, among men to physical strength, he has more evidently shown its incompatibility with experience.
It is likely that a very slight perversion of the Nexum from its original functions first gave rise to its employment in Contracts, and that the very slightness of the change long prevented its being appreciated or noticed.
The two passages are totally different both in sense and language, and that the use of Acts is deduced from so distant an analogy only serves to show the slightness of the evidence with which apologists have to be content.
It is as easy to know the slightness of earnest haste from the slightness of blunt feeling, indolence, or affectation, as it is to know the dust of a race, from the dust of dissolution.
A slight lip should be given to cutters for use on cast iron, unless, from slightness in the bar or other cause, there is a tendency to jarring, in which case no lip or front rake should be given.
The slightness of the work would cause it to spring or deflect from the pressure or strain due to the cut.
But, on the other hand, this slightness renders it somewhat difficult to measure with great correctness.
The point A should be slightly rounded and the width at B and depth at C must be regulated to suit the depth of cut taken, the rule being thatslightness in either of these directions causes the tool to chatter.
Much of this funerary jewellery was made merely for show on the day of the funeral, and betrays its purpose by the slightness of the workmanship.
The slightness of the foundations did not prevent the builders from boldly running up quite lofty structures.
Are there cases in which presumption and despair are transformed into venial sin, not on account of the imperfect knowledge or consent of the subject, but on account of the slightness of the matter involved?
The slightness of the matter makes such a sin venial, when it is aside from, but not contrary to, the love of God, as when one makes an act of love of God with culpable lukewarmness.
A slightness of spirit in taking this covenant, must needs cause a slightness of spirit in keeping it.
The very slightness of the defence was its chief merit, for no one thought of disturbing a mass of brush, which all of them believed, in that moment of hurry and confusion, had been accidentally raised by the hands of their own party.
He looked considerably older than he was and the slightness of his body was deceptive, disguising a power of sinewy strength.
Even while setting up ninepins of ill-put "infidel" argument to knock down, he elaborates futilities of rebuttal, indicating to every attentive reader the slightness of his rational basis.
Waterland (1731) that serves to show the slightness of its author's faith.
