The sea-ants (however busily they throng the ports) are seldom remarked; their work is carried on in the shadow of more spectacular and lengthy voyaging.
But would he have made such a statement if Beethoven had been present at the first performance and paid so spectacular a tribute to the singer?
Lichnowsky hears of an opera on "Alfred the Great," said to be very beautiful and full of spectacular pomp.
When sheep hurriedly descend a precipice, the laws of falling bodies are given a most spectacular display, and the possibilities of friction and adhesion are tested to the utmost.
It was a wild, adventurous, dramatic experience, which closed with an avalanche that took me from the heights on a thrilling, spectacular coast down a steep mountain-side.
It was witnessed by the two great armies in the middle of the afternoon of a summer day--a most spectacular tragedy of magnificent courage.
THE Battle of Lookout Mountain is the most spectacular in history.
Rather, sitting aloof in her isolation she had looked upon all the Powers of Europe as actors in a great drama with which she had no other than a spectacular concern.
The campaign of 1915 had been one of the highways, and of spectacular display.
On January 27 in Crescent Temple, Trenton, the Ratification Committee staged the most spectacular suffrage mass meeting ever held in New Jersey.
Other States did more spectacular work and had larger organizations but none finished its tasks with a stronger spirit of loyalty and love for the work and the workers.
The spectacular activities of the campaign caught and held public attention.
Mrs. Trout and she adopted a new plan without spectacular activities of any kind, believing that much publicity was likely to arouse the opponents.
Kansas had often stood in the lime-light, but while the women avoided the humdrum, all spectacular methods were discouraged and they won by keeping their efforts on dignified, conservative lines.
Westland Marston, who considered that in some of the spectacular revivals at the Princess's, unnecessary pageantry was not only introduced but absolutely obtruded.
Morris Shine, the motion picture magnate, the while he laboured amidst the wreckage of the after deck, lamented not the cheerless task but the evil fate that prevented the making of the most spectacular film the world had ever known.
I am sorry to deprive you of the spectacular hit you might have made by throwing me into the sea, a treat which you doubtless led all of these people to expect.
On our side we offer the appeal of the Panamint, the Funeral Range, and spectacular Death Valley.
In six weeks Myers and Tom Murphy made the big strike (1903) and Grandpa became Goldfield--one of the West's most spectacular camps.
The first location of a copper claim was made by Frank McAllister who, with a man named Cooper and Arthur Kunzie, may be credited with one of the West's most spectacular mining booms.
Tex Rickard, a gambler and saloon man, already known in Alaska and San Francisco for spectacular adventures, here began his career as a sports promoter in the ill-advised Jeffries-Johnson fight.
Elinor Glyn, who made the best seller list with "Three Weeks" in the early part of the century, came to Rawhide and Tex Rickard, spectacular gambler undertook to show her a bit of life a la Rawhide.
Chapter III Aaron and Rosie Winters While Bellerin' Teck was selling half interests in the spectacular hills to the unwary, he actually walked over a treasure of more millions than his wildest dreams had conjured.
A winding road with a spectacular view of Death Valley was built, a mill installed on the side of Telephone Canyon and water brought 22 miles from Panamint Canyon.
Illustration: Then Janet did the most spectacular thing done that afternoon] Janet was born high on the shoulders of the delighted girls, a happy, triumphant, but very much bewildered heroine.
The fourth completed the square; then Janet did the most spectacular thing, done that afternoon.
There are few persons in an audience who realize the amount of hard work required of every one behind the scenes in the staging and playing of a spectacular revue.
The spectacular revue following the excellent variety is quite different from the revues of the other cafe concerts; at the Marigny they are poems of color--costumes which are the creation of artists.
Throughout the campaign this consideration was borne in mind, and bands and other spectacular methods of advertising were used to develop among the steel workers a feeling of the greatness and power of the unions.
It was hinted that new and sensational witnesses would take the stand, with revelations as spectacular as the climax of a melodrama.
And the jumping class, with its spectacular dash of danger, was held for the last, as the climax is held for the curtain of the act.
Ten minutes later, with a spectacular clanging of gongs, a police patrol clattered up, scattering the crowd and disgorging a wagonload of officers headed by a lieutenant with a drawn pistol.
For a moment he had a wild notion of making a spectacular retreat along the street, crawling through a broken part of the fence beyond the range of parental vision, and resuming his duties of sentinel at another vantage point.
He was not out of the troop, but he was not in any of the patrols, and in spite of all his spectacular missionary work he had not been able to form a patrol.
Each week a naturalist leads a party on a 7-day hike into the spectacular high mountain region of the park, starting from Happy Isles at 7:30 o’clock each Monday morning.
Now several roads and 700 miles of trail make much of the spectacular high-mountain region of the park easily accessible.
During July and August a naturalist leads a party once each week on a 7-day hiking trip through the spectacular high-mountain regions of the park, stopping each night at a High Sierra camp.
Up the east slope of the Sierra Nevadas, through the scenic, spectacular Leevining Canyon, and from east to west across the mountain-top paradise winds the Tioga Road, which has a romantic history.
Protests having no effect I reluctantly went with him, but the scene was merely a repetition of hundreds of previous ones, the grass being no more or less spectacular for NBC than for Watanabe's Nursery and Cut Flower Shop a halfmile away.
She had reiterated there would be nothing worth watching--even at best no spectacular results were expected--but I made myself one of the party just the same.
These were thespectacular happenings; the emphatic events.
Both features were then adjudged imperative for a successful grand opera in Paris, and in proportion as the "Rienzi" book promised spectacular display, so Meyerbeer grew eulogistic and generous in his promises of help.
It had no heart, no living, free-flowing blood, but was a patchwork of false sentiment rendered attractive by its gorgeous spectacular frame.
Mozart and Gluck both composed in the French and Italian style, and Meyerbeer, the then ruler of the German operatic stage, fashioned his popular works on the spectacular style of the grand French opera.
She is the literary godmother of Trollope and Howells, and of all other novelists since who prefer to the most spectacular uses of the imagination the unsensational chronicling of life.
That is the reason Dickens holds his own and is extremely likely to gain in the future, while spectacular reputations based on all the virtues save love, continue to die the death.
Why did he always fail in thosespectacular ventures of his?
In all the years of his traveling to and fro through Europe he divined hardly one of the social tendencies that had so spectacular a denouement within four years of his death.
He delights in the drum and the trumpet, and so willing is he to add to what is spectacular and pleasing in life that he would spend half his time in parading.
The Thousand Islands Hotel, and the Crossman House, where our party found excellent accommodations, were blazing and sparkling like the spectacular palaces in an opera scene.
It attracted great attention, both on account of the circumstances that preceded it and the events which speedily followed, and threw a light upon it that gave it a spectacular importance.
In rare cases, a dozen or more different forms of halo are visible at the same time, producing a mostspectacular display.
There were of course people ready to say that the Americans did not like Henry Irving as an actor, and that they only accepted him as a manager--that he triumphed in New York as he had done in London, through his lavish spectacular effects.
Have you converted her to your spectacular faith, yet?
One of these is the valley of the Yellowstone River with its spectacular waterfalls and its colorful canyon.
The summit crater, Mokuaweoweo, three-quarters of a mile long by a quarter mile wide, is as spectacular in action as that of Kilauea.
The west side, also, with its four spectacular glaciers which pass under the names of Mowich and Tahoma, attains sublimity; it remains also for future occupation.
Hence the series of flaming torches of prehistoric days which, their fires now extinguished and their sides swathed in ice, have become in our day the row of spectacular peaks extending from northern California to Puget Sound.
The spectacular confuses with its brilliant variations.
The very isolation which gives McKinley itsspectacular elevation multiplies the difficulties of ascent by lowering the snow line thousands of feet below the snow line of the Himalayas and Andes with their loftier surrounding valleys.
