Facing this was a door leading to a smaller dressing and bath room, where the lackey who had carried up my valise was in waiting.
For my own part, I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Honest, humane, mystic, magnificent, the world cannot spare the great mind of the age, whose calling seems to be to set smallerminds in motion.
Brougham, Ricardo, and othersmaller cipherers, applied the pruning knife to the prolific tree of taxation and expenditure.
Saint-Aignan was never very difficult to find; he was like the smaller vessels that always follow in the wake of, and as tenders to, the larger ships.
The large apartment is my own affair, but I wish the price of the smaller room to be moderate, as it is destined for a fellow who is deucedly poor.
And the 'poor devil,' for whom the smaller room is destined, is a trick, in order to better conceal De Guiche or Manicamp.
But the salient was growing smaller as a result of the repeated hammering of the Germans; and that exposed the allied troops to a more deadly fire from three sides.
It was only the prominence of these vessels which gave them notoriety in this regard; the same practice was indulged in by many smaller ships.
It had run upon the reef of a small island, where the smaller sambuk had been able to pass on account of its lighter draft.
First of all, it must be realized that popular sentiment plays a much smaller part in Balkan politics than it does in such countries as England, France and our own country.
This time the British commander had selected a smaller section for his attack.
Where the climate is severe, the country will maintain in comfort a much smaller population than where the climate is as friendly to the human race as we find it in Porto Rico.
As a consequence, the countryman buys a bottle of medicine which has been recommended to him by a friend, or perhaps by the druggist, who often serves as a consulting physician in the smaller towns.
Thus a country which has a relatively small population and a still smaller ability to produce foodstuffs would be more overpopulated than a country of similar size with a larger population and a still greater production of foodstuffs.
For the rest of the morning he stayed below setting the smaller ghost a bad example in the way of language, and threatening his fellows with all sorts of fearful punishments.
The bewildered old seaman made no reply; the smaller spirit sniffed and wiped his nose on his cuff, and the larger one began to whistle softly.
Next a huge junk with bamboo-ribbed sails projecting at impossible angles drifted by, followed by innumerable smaller crafts, the monotonous chant of the boatmen coming faintly over the water to us as they passed.
We were never within shotgun range and indeed it would be difficult to kill the birds with anything smaller than BB or buckshot unless they were very near.
In size it is larger than a goral but smaller than a serow; its long coat and its horns resemble those of a goral but it has the face gland and short tail of a serow.
The smaller child had wept and pleaded to be permitted to kneel beside his older brother further up in the row.
Why don't we fell a smaller tree, brace it against the sycamore, and shinny up to find out?
Just cut one of these smaller trees, brace it against the crotch of the sycamore, and shinny up it," Melinda asserted.
Hunters who would enthusiastically fell smaller trees recoiled before this giant.
He heard the measured blows of an axe followed by the sound of a smallertree toppling.
The snarling current broke the one big piece into four smallercakes and one of them, rising on end, fell to scrape the side of Sue's head.
It was a smaller dog than his former prize, but so tightly packed and heavily muscled that it weighed nearly as much.
The larger component is of the third, the smaller of the sixth magnitude, the former yellow the latter light grey.
But with smaller apertures only three are visible.
A somewhat smaller blue star may be seen in the same field.
It will be a pretty severe test for our observer's telescope, the components being only 2"·4 apart, and the smaller scarcely exceeding the eighth magnitude.
Of course, if this be the case, the stars, whose combined light forms the patch of milky light, must be far smaller than the leading brilliants of Cygnus.
The larger component is azure blue; the smaller is violet, and, being only of the ninth magnitude, is somewhat difficult to catch with apertures under 3 inches.
It seems to me far more probable, on the contrary, that the cluster belongs to our own system, and that its components are very much smaller than the average of separate stars.
It is a wide double, the components of fifth and seventh magnitude, the larger yellowish-white, the smaller ruddy yellow.
It is well seen, however, as a fine multiple star with a smaller aperture.
Both are yellow, the primary being of a paler yellow colour than the smaller star.
A large increase of these three species would probably have a serious result on the smaller winged population of a wood.
There they assemble together in immense flocks, showing all the restlessness and excitement of the smaller birds that leave us in the autumn; suddenly the whole mass rises and departs like a cloud.
Alps, but it is much less common; it is a larger bird, and its bill, which is long and red, is very different from the shorter and stouter yellow beak of the smaller species.
The Buntings form in fact, though apt to be confused with one another owing to their very strong family likeness, perhaps the most clearly-marked and idiosyncratic genus among the whole range of oursmaller birds.
We have another muchsmaller bird in the village which can hold large objects between its mandibles—objects almost as large, and sometimes more bulky, than the egg of the Cuckoo.
It was about the beginning of May, before the leaves had fully come out; a time which is very far the best in the year for observing the smaller and shyer birds.
I began to fear that I had come too late to witness any considerable migration; for even the Black Redstart, the representative bird of these valleys in summer, was in much smaller numbers than usual.
If we consult dictionaries we shall learn that cornix is the Crow or Rook, “a smaller bird than corvus.
Rocks, which contain a larger or smalleramount of clay or hydrated silicate of alumina in their composition.
In North America the corresponding series, though also variable, is generally of much smaller thickness, and may be under 1000 feet.
Each of these primary groups is in turn divided into a series of smaller divisions, characterised and distinguished in the same way.
Applied to the smaller pair of antennæ in the Crustacea.
Siliceous Rocks, which are essentially composed of larger or smaller grains of flint or silica.
The head is of relatively small size, with smaller orbits than those of the Ichthyosaur, and with a snout less elongated.
A breccia is a mechanically-formed rock, very similar to a conglomerate, and consisting of larger or smaller fragments of rock embedded in a common matrix.
A large individual, with two smaller ones attached to it.
He was in great request at the smaller political gatherings as a speaker, and with constant practice bade fair to justify his name.
But Willets was not yet forty, he had ambitions, and the wages were much smaller than what he had been getting.
The whole was then to be reviewed by a smaller committee of scholars to give it uniformity and to see it through the press.
Lastly, we have seen the making of smaller clocks—that were made smaller and smaller until they could be carried as watches, in which springs were used instead of weights.
Thus the mainspring when fully wound uncoils the cord first from the smaller end of the fusee; and as it runs down gets the benefit of increased leverage by reason of the greater diameter of the lower part of the fusee.
Accordingly, smallermodels were developed to meet these needs.
The story is too much complicated to be given here in detail, but it seems that Barnum had become heavily interested in a smaller clock company, which was merged with the Jerome concern.
FUSEE CAP—A thin steel plate with a projecting nose on the smaller end of the fusee: a part of the mechanism to stop the fusee when the last coil of the chain is wound thereon.
The skins from Germany and China are smaller and shorter furred.
Smaller projections also form on the bulb, and the fat-glands are gradually developed.
In smaller plants these operations are done by hand, but suitable machines are being employed.
For preparing the mordant solutions much smaller quantities of the metallic compounds are used than in the case of the vegetable dyes.
The Siberian is smaller than the North American, and the Russian still smaller.
These fibres are themselves made up of extremely fine smaller fibres, or fibrils, cemented together by a substance of a somewhat different nature from the fibres, the coriin.
Shells fell around the little vessel like a storm of hail, and many must have hit her but that she remained end on, thus making herself a smaller target.
This saved his boat from the first shell, which fell astern; but a second, from a smaller gun, crashed into her frail hull, and that was the end of her.
Confronted by so formidable an antagonist, the little Kingfisher, with her smaller four-inch guns, could not attempt to engage.
Favoured by the fog, they took to flight, the battleships leading in order to give the smaller cruisers in the rear the opportunity of dropping some hundreds of explosive mines in their wake.
The smaller pictures of the bride and groom are given to all the friends and relatives, especially those in the old country.
Further, Congress had to be constituted in such a manner as to be agreeable to the smaller States which did not wish to enter into a Union in which their influence would be swamped by their more populous neighbours.
Some even specified the number of days necessary, agreeably fixing upon a smaller number than the ninety days for which the militia were called out.
He was now in the lower valley of the Shenandoah, keeping a watch over a much smaller force under Jackson higher up the valley.
Although she was smaller than the "Go-Ahead," it was a case of the swordfish and the whale.
Her enormous dimensions gradually grew smaller to the eye, and the necks of the crowd were almost cricked as they gazed into the air.
It was about 60° of a circle of a smaller periphery than the halo, and well defined.
The hinge fosse in this species is proportionably much more contracted, and smaller in every respect, than any other species of the genus we have seen; that of the specimen above mentioned is less than one-half of an inch.
Blue River is a smaller stream; its course is parallel to that of Boggy River, and its mouth is near the ninety-sixth meridian.
Besides these, there are many other streams of smaller size entering on both sides of the river.
A smaller hole is drilled in the outer end of this dowel to receive a 1-1/2" No.
A similar hole is bored, 3/8" from the other end, with a larger drill so that the nail used at this point will be smaller than the hole, allowing the base piece to move easily upon it.
A hole is bored in the center with a bit a littlesmaller than a 1-3/4" No.
It is best to bore the hole for the screw in the piece of dowel a little smaller than the size of the screw so as to prevent splitting.
A smaller hole is started on the under side of the turret to receive the screw and, when the pieces are assembled, the screw is not screwed up tight, but enough play is left so that the turret will revolve fairly easily.
It is quite necessary to make these holes, using a bit a trifle smaller than the screw to be used, as it is very difficult to force a screw of this size into wood of this hardness.
There should be three screws in each large upright and two in the smaller front support.
Composition board, such as Beaver Board and similar wall board, is very good for the smaller toys but lacks strength and cannot be handled roughly.
The main turret and the two smaller blocks are either turned on a lathe or cut from a cylindrical piece of wood.
Bore a hole in the end of the axle, exactly in the center, using a drill slightly smaller than the screw that is to hold the wheels in position.
