We have had covers for all our saddles made of it, to protect the pig skin from the tremendous thorns of tropical forests, as well as the numerous other sources of injury to which saddles are liable.
No one possessed of even ordinary powers of observation will fail in discovering a host of other fibre sources in travelling through tropical, or even temperate regions.
Nothing tends to weaken a bridle so much, during the exposure consequent on an outdoor life, as the rusting out of buckles and the breaking or pulling through of their tongues--both sources of endless trouble and annoyance.
The stomachs of the camel, like those of other ruminating animals, are constructed so as to admit of a store of both food and water being laid up in them to meet the demand when other sources of supply fail.
Obed Macy’s History of Nantucket, published in 1836, is one of the few important original sources for the history of whaling, and the most readable.
This slender volume first makes a rapid survey of thesources and proceeds from these to a cautious selection of the outstanding documented facts which by “economic interpretation” it presents as a consecutive story.
Although the literature of whaling extends by repeated dilutions from “economic interpretations” to infant books, the classical sources for this extended literature tally less than a score.
Sources While primary sources describing the procedures and presenting theoretical arguments for and against bloodletting are plentiful, descriptions of the instruments and their manufacture are often difficult to find.
The inks (brown and red) may have come from different sources or been applied at different times because of their various compositions and densities.
These sources provide the most detailed descriptions of how the instruments were constructed, how they were used, and why they were invented.
The Consul might have found this out at the Commissioners’ offices, especially in the Stanley Pool and Equator districts, which he passed through; but he neglected as a rule all official sources of information.
He had access to many native sources of information; but unfortunately never cites any in the margin but Sayid Raza's MS.
Both of thesesources of emolument were summarily condemned by General Lake; though he issued a proclamation guaranteeing the landholders in the full possession of their legitimate rights.
I need scarcely say that The Quarterly Review is one of the most profitable periodicals in England, and one of one's best "connections," or sources of income.
The Euphrates and Tigris have theirsources sixty miles apart in hideous mountains which do not look the least like a garden.
Museums and art stores are also sourcesof pleasure and inspiration.
The sheds where the corn was stored, the stable where the horses were kept, and the yard where the cows were milked morning and evening were unfailing sources of interest to Martha and me.
In a composition which I wrote about the old cities of Greece and Italy, I borrowed my glowing descriptions, with variations, from sources I have forgotten.
I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
Tawney, librarian of the Indian Office, for information as to the sources of Indian fiction; Mr. F.
From theSources Themselves Richard Cleasby Thomas Carlyle Samuel Laing Longfellow and Lowell Matthew Arnold George Webbe Dasent Charles Kingsley Edmund Gosse IV.
Through the Medium of Latin Thomas Gray The Sources of Gray's Knowledge Sir William Temple George Hickes Thomas Percy Thomas Warton Drake and Mathias Cottle and Herbert Walter Scott III.
False conclusion are the rule in older ages; and the mythologies of all peoples, their magic and their superstition, their religious cult and their law are the inexhaustible sources of proof of this theory.
In this sense one speaks of the moral feeling, of the religious feeling, as if they were absolute unities: in reality they are streams with a hundred sources and tributaries.
Whole centuries, however, have been lived under the influence of those childlike presuppositions, and out of them have flowed the mightiest sources of human strength.
Here also it is belief in ascertained truth, from which the mightiest sources of strength have flowed.
Plans of churches built close to Abiquiu in time, distance, and orientation could have served as sources for the design of the moradas' west ends (Figure 9).
Despite this evidence, historians of the Spanish Southwest have suggested geographically and culturally remote sources for the penitentes.
I see; it is from the sources of love that you draw the supplies for happiness.
The principal literary sources for the work are listed in the bibliography, though many works not mentioned were also consulted.
Among the sources which proved most useful are the works of Choisy, Enlart, Lasteyrie, Rivoira, Porter and Moore, all of which are especially recommended to the student of vaulting.
In truth, Mary was drawing many sources of happiness around her, as the good can never fail of doing.
But with all these sources of agitation the Mayor was breaking down.
So tremendous and so alarming was the excitement about it that my brushes were instantly put away, and I embarked the next day on the steamer for the sources of the Missouri, and was glad to get underweigh.
His proud and fastidious integrity, indeed, was one of the sources of his growing power.
Perhaps the fact represented one of those deepsources whence the well of Ashe's tenderness was fed.
But in all alike, the indispensable, but always very helpless, sewing-girl appears to be one of the chief sources of profit, and to have small capacity and no opportunity for improving her condition.
The class in which she finally takes rank is seldom recruited from sources that would seem most fruitful.
He received from different sources conflicting accounts as to the objective of the French, but the predominating opinion was that they had gone to the West Indies.
It would be impossible in the brief space at our disposal to recount the various difficulties and sources of error that Jenner encountered.
The ventures of the other officers seemed to prove prolific sources of assessments.
Laura Winn had heard from other and obscurer sources something of the rumors floating over the post that very day.
The Iroquois reckoned these barbarities among their most exquisite enjoyments; and yet they had other sources of pleasure, which made up in frequency and in innocence all that they lacked in intensity.
With the shifting of the sources toward the east and south of Europe the proportion of Catholic and Jewish faith has increased.
The first to draw upon these sources in large numbers were the anthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania.
This change was the rapid shifting of the sources of immigration from Western to Eastern and Southern Europe.
There are only two primitive sources of intellectual representation: identity and causality.
We believe that there may be, and that there really is such a multiplicity, that the sources of our knowledge are various, and of different orders, and that we cannot reduce them to unity without leaving man and ascending to God.
We may analyze if we will the sourcesof truth; but we must not lose sight of their connection when examining them separately.
Philosophers teach that the sources of certainty are the internal sense or consciousness of acts, the external senses, common sense, reason, and authority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sources" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
