Is anything more common, or more useful, than to caution wise men in high stations against putting too much trust in undertaking servants, cringing flatterers, or designing friends?
However swiftly Clubfoot might act, it would take him certainly an hour and a half, I reckoned, from the discovery of my flight from Haase's to warn the police at the railway stations to detain me.
The latter--metal cylinders weighing more than a hundred pounds each--were lashed in their stations at the bow and at the stern of the chaser.
We don't know how many alien enemies may be running wireless stationsin the United States.
My knowledge of the unwieldy goods department of the big railway stations is probably matchless.
They have been imported in small lots at a time, and brought here four or five at a time in ox-carts from one or other of the Delhi railway stations by men who are no longer in this part of India--men who have been pensioned off.
Delhi has five railway stations with which to cope with latter-day floods of paradoxical necessity; and nobody knew from which railway station troops might be expected to entrain or whither, although Delhi knew that there was war.
At the roadside stations (I need hardly say that our train stopped at all of them) I saw some fine faces--one poor fellow in a ragged sheepskin cloak quite startled me by his resemblance to Dante Alighieri.
None of the stationsare any better all the way to Signakh, and he who does not bring with him his own food for the journey is likely to have a very good appetite by the time he reaches his destination.
We are told that he only awaits the decree of the court, to ask for a furlough and to go to one of the rural stations of the Pyrenees.
The flower of the legions maintained their stations on the banks of the Bosphorus, and the Imperial standard awed the less powerful camps of Rome and of the provinces.
A crowd of inferior deities attended in various stations the majesty of the god of Emesa; but his court was still imperfect, till a female of distinguished rank was admitted to his bed.
He fixed generals of ability in the several stations of attack, and assumed in person the conduct of the most important province on the Upper Danube.
The general position has been further influenced by the existence of an ever-active sea competition, which is said to affect probably three-fifths of the railway stations in the United Kingdom.
The same general principle, as applied to the various districts, operates, also, in regard to individual towns and the management of the stations therein.
Instruction is given free both to the head office staff and to the staff at the stations within a radius of twelve miles.
The original restrictions in regard to the central area were also modified, such stations as those at Charing Cross, Cannon-Street, Holborn and Liverpool Street being allowed to be set up within the once sacred precincts.
In some instances tramways and motor-omnibuses have, undoubtedly, deprived the railways of considerable traffic, and certain local stations around London have even been closed in consequence.
This type of turbine dynamo set is especially applicable for exciter service in modern, superheated steam generating stations where the steam pressure exceeds 125 pounds.
General Electric =small plant alternating current switchboard=, designed for use in small central stations and isolated plants.
In many stations there is provided throughout the length of the building, a monitor or raised structure on the peak of the roof for ventilation and light.
As a rule, central stations should be so located that the average loss of voltage in overcoming the resistance of the lines is a minimum, and this point is located at the center of gravity of the system.
In large sub-stations containing several rotary converters how are they operated?
Although portable sub-stations usually must be of more or less special design to adapt them to the conditions under which they must operate, there are certain general features that are common to all.
When electric power transmission from central stations first came into commercial use, the distance from the station at which current could be obtained at a reasonable cost was exceedingly limited.
A portable sub-station constitutes a spare equipment for practically any number of permanent sub-stations and renders unnecessary the installation of spare equipment in each.
Morning bashfully overtakes him; and the train dances into stations festooned with branches of olive and palm.
He had loved a great many people in different stations of life, but they did not marry him.
Would I were as certain of all the other stations in India as I am of this.
All that is necessary to say is that you have brought news of troubles at some stations unaffected before, and that I think it best to return at once.
The races served as an excuse for people to come in from all the stations round.
Why, Deennugghur is one of the dullest littlestations on this side of India!
Up till now she had not heard a remark since she had been in Cawnpore that might not have been spoken had the cantonments there been the whole of India, except that persons at other stations were mentioned.
Once through their lines he could pass without exciting the slightest suspicion; he could buy a horse then, and could be at any of the stations in two days.
One of these stations is at the Croix de Marbre, to the great entertainment of the residents in that quarter.
There are several other little stations scattered about in various directions, especially upon the coast.
Sketches of Christian Character; selected from different stations of life.
And day after day came cars from towns and farms and stations within two hundred miles, bringing tuck-box after tuck-box containing the choicest products of the home larders.
Everything had gone like clockwork in port, but, for the first few days at sea, these practical sons of the bush and the sheep-stations were for the moment put out of their stride.
Volunteer Corps of men who meet the soldier arriving in London at the stations do a very good work.
We have free buffets for our fighting men at all of these, and at all our London stations and ports, and these are open night and day.
In men born to stations which are beyond ambition, all aspirations run to seed.
In the allotment of the several stations a dispute arose between the Athenians and the Tegeans.
He whose eyes the Lord hath opened will see the souls of men in the stations they will occupy after their release from the body.
I hope that in this nether world thou shalt attain unto heavenly light, thou wilt free the souls from the gloom of nature, which is the animal kingdom, and cause them to reach lofty stations in the human kingdom.
But if ye ask as to the place, know ye that the world of existence is a single world, although its stations are various and distinct.
And although these beings all co-exist in the contingent world, in each case the difference in their stations precludeth their grasp of the whole; for no lower degree can understand a higher, such comprehension being impossible.
The Canadian Pacific Railway crosses Assiniboia, with stops about five miles apart--some mere stations and some small settlements.
In them they will find the trading stations of old now transformed into general stores.
Marine zoological stations have been established, expeditions have been sent to distant countries, and the methods of investigation have been greatly improved.
They were to take their stations on the two hills respectively--the Palatine and the Aventine, and watch for vultures.
So Romulus and Remus took theirstations on the hills which they had severally chosen, each surrounded by a company of his own adherents and friends, and began to watch the skies.
No sooner was the pipe given than 1300 men forming the crew were rushing to their stations up ladders and hatchways; and, beyond the pit-a-pat of feet, not a sound was to be heard.
The fire bell rang immediately, and we were all at our stations in a few moments.
He meant to indicate how proud he felt that his 1300 men were rushing to their stations in perfect silence.
He carried into all the stations he has filled signal ability and unquestioned rectitude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
