It accompanied the advent of what is known as atomism or the mechanical conception of the universe, a conception much in vogue about half a century ago, but against which there are already abundant evidences of a strong reaction.
Captain Ricky says the real meaning of scouting for girls like us is service to God and our country; that it helps each one of us to buildstrong characters that anyone can depend upon!
In these khaki clad youngsters strongcharacters were in the building, "that anyone could depend upon" as Sheila had put it!
With her balance supported by Garrett's stronggrasp she skated easily; as they sped along down the length of the lake the wind whipped her breath and sent the blood bounding through her veins!
And above all else--unless you build up for her a strong body that will mean a brave heart and a clear head, what service, I ask you, can she give to her fellowmen and her country?
Garrett knew that, because of its steep banks, its changing depths of water and strong eddies, the ice there was very unsafe.
Goodness knows, you've spent enough money on her to have made a strong woman of her!
Aunt Pen had decided that Renee was notstrong enough as yet for the basketball practice.
Grasping the strongroots of the undergrowth she pulled herself to the top.
He's a brave boy and has a strong will--he'll learn to do his work with his one arm!
Securing her hold on the branch by locking her strong legs about it she gradually swung around until she was astride it.
At the same time France and Flanders threatened invasion with a strong fleet, and "so great an army as had not been seen for many years.
His position in fact was so strong that the forced his enemies to a truce in June 1161.
With the ruddy face and unwieldy frame of the Normans other gifts had come to him; he had their sense of strong government and their wisdom; he was laborious, patient, industrious, politic.
Since the days of his grandfather, Fulk of Anjou, the last strong king of Jerusalem, there had been swift decay.
If the old man noticed this new habit, his old prejudices were too strong to make him prompt in condemning it.
Owen almost mechanically took the bottle, and drank freely, though the contents was strong poteen.
The self-importance suggested by a bold opposition to the law, is a strong agent in arming men against its terrors.
There was a feudalism, too, in this sentiment that gave the reverence a feeling of strong allegiance.
The wet and spongy soil increased the difficulty greatly; and although all strong and powerful men, they were often obliged to halt and rest themselves.
Neither Owen nor his father appeared that day; the mustering of their faction was strong and powerful, but they, whose wrongs were the cause of the gathering, never came forward to head them.
As he spoke, the Joyces rushed forward with a cheer, their party now trebly as strong as the enemy.
Many were there, who, like the weak-minded in all popular commotions, float with the strong tide, whichever way it may run.
It also shows how strong already was his expectations that his letters would hereafter be regarded as interesting and valuable.
Charles had a long face, with very strong lines, and a narrowish brow; Tiberius a very square face, and flat forehead, with features rather delicate in proportion.
As is mentioned in this letter, one powerful fleet was placed under De la Clue, another under Conflans, and a strong squadron under Commodore Thurot.
I confess my own apprehensions are not near so strong as they were; and if we get over this, I shall believe that we never can be hurt; for we never can be more exposed to danger.
The clerical element was very strong in the circle that surrounded her.
In her worn face, the features marked themselves with strong significance; it was beauty of a kind only to be felt by a soul in sympathy with her own.
When she fled from Dunfield she believed that the impulses then so strong would prevail with her to the end of her life, that the motives which were then predominant in her soul would maintain their ruling force for ever.
The pieties of kindred were as strong in her as in any heart that ever beat, but respect for them Could not constrain her to a course which opposed that higher injunction.
For the other features of his character, those which tended to stability, were still strong enough to oppose passions which had not found the occasion for their full development.
Doctrinal religion had a strong hold upon her, and it was her solicitude that Beatrice should walk from the first in the ways of Anglican salvation.
Political economy and all that appertained to it was his speciality, but he was remarkably strongin metaphysics.
Her voice had a touch of masculine quality, even as her shape and features, but it chained attention, and impressed as the utterance of a large and strong nature.
Her nervousness throughout the day of the concert was terrible, but little less than her life depended on the result, and at the hour of trial she was strong to conquer.
The influence of a great water flowing from darkness into darkness was strong upon him; he was seeking for a hope in the transitoriness of all things earthly.
Had you come to me before offering yourself to this young lady, and done me the honour of asking my advice, I should in all probability have had a rather strong opinion to express; as it is, I don't see that there is anything left to be said.
Disguise is too strong a word; she has merely kept silence.
Either Wilfrid would come or there would be a letter from him; yes, he would come; for, after reading what she had written, the desire to speak with her must be strong in him.
If he had not in reality regarded her at any time with strong feeling, what had made him so bent on gaining her for his wife?
She stood on the peaks above me; her figure presented in strong relief against the dead, neutral tint of the ice-wall behind her.
It makes me, a great strong man, appear as a little sobbing child!
The Judge Cepeda had become a fighting man and a strong partisan of Pizarro.
Francisco de Ampuero was a citizen of Lima, a friend and strong partisan of the Marquis Pizarro.
The treachery of nearly every one in Peru is perfectly astounding, as will be seen in Cieza’s narrative; and strong measures were absolutely inevitable.
This Provincial was the Regent who had gone from Lima to Cuzco, with a strong desire to induce Pizarro to abandon such a mad enterprise.
On the 14th of May the Indians of Bambacona had made a large house on a strong height surrounded by entrenchments.
The Captain Don Alonso answered, that for his part he would die in the service of the Viceroy, and all the captains said the same, showing a strong desire to serve him.
There was haste in getting the arms ready, and providing everything for the march; and it was resolved to send to the city of Guamanga for the artillery, Francisco de Almendras, a strong adherent of Pizarro, undertaking the duty.
On pressed the people from the front—on, on, on, in one strong struggling current of angry faces, with here and there a glaring torch to light them up and show them out in all their wrath and passion.
Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated.
With what a rattling noise the drop went down; and how suddenly they changed from strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes!
When he was rescued by me, then, and lay recovering from sickness in my house, his strong resemblance to this picture I have spoken of struck me with astonishment.
Although the Spaniard was a strong man, he uttered a cry of pain.
It would have gone ill with any one who offered harm to Rosa, for Evangelina was strong and capable; she had the arms and the hands of a man, and she possessed the smoldering black temper of Sebastian, her father.
That sunken garden was all Sebastian's work; he spent all his time there, although he was a big, strong man and capable of any task.
As for Evangelina, the young negress, she grew tall and strong and handsome, until she was the finest slave girl in the neighborhood.
Don Esteban, whom people knew as a grim man, took the blow of his sudden bereavement as became one of his strong fiber.
To his general the boy had explained tearfully that patriotism was a rare and an admirable quality, but that his love of country was not half so strong or so sacred as his affection for Johnnie O'Reilly.
One only needs to pray long enough and strong enough and He will hear.
Her eyes were humorous and intelligent; her teeth, which she seemed always ready to show in a friendly, generous smile, were strong and white and sparkling.
It will buy you food and medicine, it will make you well and strong again.
One day the soldiers seized him and put him to work on the fortifications along with a gang of other men who appeared strong enough to stand hard labor.
She stopped and gathered the sick man into her young, strong arms.
When every Nationalist makes his or her character strong and self-reliant and beautiful, English domination will die from sheer lack of sustenance.
This experience of his exactly coincides with my own, though the six consecutive autopsies described above without my other similar experiences is a fairly strong piece of evidence.
This is, I think, an extremely strong argument in favour of my theory.
If, however, there be debris or mud at the bottom, they may easily be captured with a stout gauze net, mounted on a strong ring and handle.
This is a strong command, that we are not at all to regard the commandments of men.
We are not all equally strongin faith; some of you have a stronger faith than I.
Let us, therefore, feed others also with the milk which we received, until they, too, become strong in the faith.
You must rest upon a strong and clear text of Scripture if you would stand the test.
To prove this point we must have a clear, strong text, and although there are many such in the Bible I will not overwhelm you with them, but ask you to note just this one, "We are all the children of wrath.
Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and generous ones shall go down into it.
Whoever has the strong and firm faith that his sins are forgiven, may ignore this confession and confess to God alone.
For such feelings there is no satisfactory expression; they are too deep and too strong and too vague for any word.
Weak people in their mental colloquies, eagerly make use of strong expressions.
And Gerasim is living still, a lonely man in his lonely hut; he is strong and healthy as before, and does the work of four men as before, and as before is serious and steady.
To write a note in French struck her as unsuitable, and Russian spelling was not a strongpoint with my mother herself, and she was aware of it, and did not care to expose herself.
The strong dose of narcotic acted; in a quarter of an hour the old lady was in a sound and peaceful sleep; while Gerasim was lying with a white face on his bed, holding Mumu's mouth tightly shut.
She pressed his hand tightly in her beautiful, white, strong fingers.
She looked on him with favour as a strong and faithful watchman.
Through the clefts of the big brown rocks came strong currents of fresh air.
I have always kept it to myself, though I have no strong reason for doing so; and I would not say any thing about it now if I did not feel the need of a friend.
That is one of the ways a Spanish audience has of expressing their approbation in strong terms,” replied the doctor.
It is a strong aspirate, like h, but is pronounced with a rougher breathing sound.
He must have had a strong reason for doing so,” added the vice–principal of the Tritonia.
I am satisfied that Raimundo had some very strong motive for the step he has taken.
I was active, and full of mischief; but I grew into a strong and healthy boy from a very puny and sickly one.
I don’t know; but he seems to be actuated by very strong motives, for he is coming to Spain if the young man falls into the hands of his legal guardian.
Its enormity had increased in his mind when he reflected that Raimundo, who must have had a very strong motive for his sudden disappearance, had preferred to reveal himself rather than have the beautiful craft destroyed.
He had three sons, and a strong weakness, as our friend O’Hara would express it.
They had captured all the towns and strong fortresses; and there was nothing more to stay their progress.
But the ropes with which he was secured were strong and well knotted.
A strong army capably officered and fully equipped, started northward from Talcahuano to recapture Santiago and reconquer Chile.
He was free from ambition, gentle and modest, and though lacking the iron qualities needed in times of revolution, had strong principles and an undeviating sense of duty.
She made a strong effort of will to take up the quill and write; at first the pen shook so there were mere ink-marks on the paper.
He had a short, strong way of speaking; his manner was stately to coldness.
But the Prince de Vaudemont having now joined the allied forces it was considered that they were strong enough to face Villeroy, and at the same time continue the siege of the castle and hold the town.
The strong light of the bonfire showed a resolute-looking man, dressed in the coarse worn clothes of a common sailor, but unmistakeably a gentleman.
William sprang up with the energy of a strong man.
A strong one," answered the King shortly, and then was silent; it seemed terrible to him that this child should begin where he left off, in utter fatigue and despondency.
He was in buff military attire and carried over his right arm a heavy dark cloak; he wore a black beaver that shaded his brow, but the rich light was full on his face, which expressed a strong emotion sternly contained.
He was more than that; the word isn't strong enough.
Upon a review of the argument," Mr. Parry writes, "there appear to be strong reasons for considering the whole of Dr.
Yet, strong as were his prejudices against it, they ultimately gave way, and, therefore, Calvinism must be the truth.
In the present instance, there exists, in addition to the opposing stream of Scripture testimony, the following strongpresumption against the Calvinistic view of particular texts.
While all was in profound tranquillity in the city, the Chief Alcaid of the court got into a carriage equipped for travelling, and with a strong escort set forth towards the British residence.
They take pleasure in his love of strong men, gallant fights, desperate encounters with human foes, with raging seas, with pestilence, or in haunted forests.
He avers that he "loves that very strong man, Thomas Atkins"; but his affection has not blinded him to the faults of the beloved.
This jealousy is not mere envy, it is really a strong sense of how things ought to be done, in any art, touched with a natural preference for a man's own way of doing them.
With strong forts, heavy guns, many men, provisions, and ammunition, they quailed before the desperate valour of the pirates.
In a later expedition a strong place was taken by a curious accident.
The gulf is a strong place; the mouth, no wider than a gun-shot, is guarded by two islands.
The barricaded way they could not force, and in a newly cut path they met a strong battery which fired grape.
The entrance of the harbour was protected by two strong castles, judged as "almost impregnable," while Morgan had no artillery of any avail against fortresses.
I could have run away to sea, but for a strong impression that a life on the ocean wave "did not set my genius," as Alan Breck says.
Even from a boy he was strong and passionate, short of temper, quick of stroke, but loyal, brave, and always unlucky.
The reason for making it strong is that there is always an off-chance that you may receive a visit from a tiger.
Finally, I would draw attention to the strong vein of Sympathetic Magic or "make believe" which runs through and leavens the whole system of Malay superstition.
These are in reality not eyes, but inward folds of skin connected by a duct with a scent gland, which secretes an unctuous substance of a dark gray colour, with a strong musky odour.
It is believed that the absence of this ceremony would render the expedition unsuccessful, the deer would prove too strong for the ropes, and the wood demons frustrate their sport by placing insurmountable obstacles in their way.
Main Sesel (or Kachau kueh) bears a strong family resemblance to our own "Hen and chickens.
The method of catching wild pigeon is much more elaborate, and brings the animistic ideas of the Malays into strong relief, the "souls" of the wild pigeon being repeatedly referred to.
This is done "in order to put out the brightness," the reason that it must be put out being that in the case of any one who is not very strong (lemah semangat) it causes fever.
What helmet is strongenough for this strife save the helmet of salvation?
Be strong in the Lord, a hunter of the demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodsman of the faith.
Strong of arm was he, and his neck was like a pillar.
Fair and slight, but straight as a spear and strong as an oaken staff.
Fairer and still more fair is love, that draws us together, mingles our lives in its flow, and bears them along like a river, strong and clear and swift, reflecting the stars in its bosom.
Sheep will we slaughter, Steeds will we sacrifice; Bright blood shall bathe O tree of Thunder, Life-floods shall lave thee, Strong wood of wonder.
I read in a book once that in the ages when men lived like animals an' had no weapons except sticks and stones, their muscles must have been two or three times as strong as they are now--more like the muscles of brutes.
Buck himself did not know what the music meant, but it brought into his mind a thought of strong living and of glorious death.
It was so far off and unlike any whistling he had ever heard before, that he half guessed it to be the movement of a breeze through the willows, but the wind was hardly strong enough to make this sound.
The strong body settled a little closer to the earth as the stride increased.
They made a strong faction, though manifestly in the minority.
He had ridden up on a strong bay horse, a full two hands taller than the average cattle pony, and with legs and shoulders and straight back that unmistakably told of a blooded pedigree.
When he was strong he belonged to his vengeance on Jim Silent; and when she heard Dan whistling softly his own wild, weird music, she knew its meaning as she would have known the wail of a hungry wolf on a winter night.
No jail would bestrong enough to keep them away from you.
If a mass of loose wool be spread out and beaten, or if it be pressed between rollers, the fibres interlock so closely that there results a thick, strong cloth which has been made without either spinning or weaving.
Wild silk, a coarse but strong product, is grown in many of these countries, but mainly in China, where it forms an important export.
Rather singularly its popularity resulted from the strong efforts made to forbid its use.
Australian claret is a strong competitor of California claret for public favor, and the two are similar in character.
The meat of the fish is not strong in flavor, and it is cured with little expense.
