ZANJ[=E]'RO, one who superintends the distribution of such water.
The admiral commands the centre, the second in command superintends the vanguard, and the third directs the rear.
The custom-house officer who appoints and superintends the landing-waiters.
A water-bailiff in many northern European ports, who superintends the police for seamen.
What is necessary for the defence and support of the whole empire, and in what proportion each part ought to contribute, can be judged of only by that assembly which inspects and superintends the affairs of the whole empire.
What concerned the whole empire would in this way be determined by the assembly which inspects andsuperintends the affairs of the whole empire; and the provincial affairs of each colony might still be regulated by its own assembly.
It arises principally from the milk and increase of his own herds and flocks, of which he himself superintends the management, and is the principal shepherd or herdsman of his own horde or tribe.
The Archon also superintends the procession at the Thargelia, and that in honour of Zeus the Saviour.
Part 46 The Council also superintends the triremes that are already in existence, with their tackle and sheds, and builds new triremes or quadriremes, whichever the Assembly votes, with tackle and sheds to match.
He also superintends sacred processions, both that in honour of Asclepius, when the initiated keep house, and that of the great Dionysia--the latter in conjunction with the Superintendents of that festival.
Next, he superintends the Lenaean Dionysia, which consists of a procession and a contest.
Each guardian receives the allowance for all the members of his tribe and buys the necessary provisions for the common stock (they mess together by tribes), and generally superintends everything.
As I have said, it in a way superintends administration by the exercise of semi-judicial powers of investigation, whose limitations and insufficiency are manifest.
He devises and arranges them as a general plans a battle, but he never superintends himself--only in the real big things.
Whenever Rudolph superintends in person it is always big.
His natural vigor and strength have been conserved by wholesome outdoor life, and today, at the age of eighty-two years, he superintends all his farm work and is as active as most men twenty-five years his junior.
Yenney, who superintends his operations from his city home.
He has to see the sub-editor, who superintends the technical department of the management, and he has to listen to that gentleman's report.
He superintends their education, and preaches on the Lord's day.
After which, the butchers went to the officer who superintends their affairs, and offered him considerable sums of money as a bribe, but he would pay no attention to them.
It is only in limited monarchies that the law, which prescribes the sphere in which public officers are to act, superintends all their measures.
The deaconess who superintends the house has a school for the native children of the village, which is taught by one of the girls educated at the Beirut orphanage.
A deaconess superintends the willing hands that tie the bunches, each of which is adorned with a brightly colored Scripture text.
He keeps the national archives, and superintends the publication of laws, treaties, and proclamations; and he is the keeper of the great seal of the United States.
He conducts the financial business of the government, superintends the collection of revenue, and gives warrants for the payment of moneys from the treasury.
In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster.
The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
In conclusion permit me to invoke that Power which superintends all governments to infuse into your deliberations at this important crisis of our history a spirit of mutual forbearance and conciliation.
The fluting on children's frocks and the polish on shirts is something wonderful, and the young nun who superintends the concern seemed to be a real enthusiast in the matter.
The elder brother (they are both priests now) superintends the order in Europe: the younger resides at the mother-house at Jerusalem.
We were entertained in the home of a mechanic who superintends the bridge construction along the railroad which passes through the town.
He is a deacon in the First Baptist Church, one of the moving spirits upon the Brazilian Foreign Mission Board and practicallysuperintends the work of the State Mission Board of Bahia.
He superintends his own estate, while the other large estates are generally left in the hands of unprincipled, mercenary men.
He has his mercantile agents in England, English clerks in his employ, a branch establishment in the city, and superintends the concerns of an extensive and complicated business with distinguished ability and success.
The Minister for Agriculture, who grants mining concessions, superintends surveys, and looks after the land revenues.
Struthers, one of the foremost farmers and largest wheat growers of Walla Walla county, makes his home in the city of Walla Walla and from that point superintends his extensive agricultural interests.
Mr. Struthers still personally superintends his extensive farming interests and has become one of the leading and representative agriculturists of this section of the state.
It is only in limited monarchies that the law which prescribes the sphere in which public officers are to act, superintends all their measures.
She superintends the chambermaids and has entire care of the vast stock of linen; in many cases she has most of it washed on the premises, and she helps to iron and repair it.
The busy sister who superintends the housekeeping and the hygienic arrangements seemed to know how much each child had increased already; and she told us what quantities of food were consumed every day.
What a person expects to gain, who superintends the employment of his own capital, is always more, and generally much more, than this.
The man who shovels ashes is not paid wages of ashes, any more than a man who superintends other people’s capital is paid the reward of capital.
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