Of Joseph we hear nothing after the boyhood of Jesus, who followed the same trade, supporting himself and perhaps his mother and younger brothers and sisters.
It occurs even in man, a short-lived relic of the primeval supporting axis of the body.
It thrills the imagination to learn that this is the only supporting axis that the lower orders of the backboned race possess.
The notochord is the supporting axis of the pioneer backboned animals, namely the Lancelets and the Round-mouths (Cyclostomes), such as the Lamprey.
But under the arches, between the supporting columns, the figures are often in startling resemblance to life.
I could not recollect myself for the moment, nor how I had come to be here; but when I lifted my head, I saw him seated where I had seated myself last night, bending over a bright fire, with his arm supporting his head.
Wilderspin was supporting with difficulty my mother's dead weight.
But what attracted me most, I think, was a series of large attics in which was a number of enormous oak beams supporting the antique roof.
Private methods are conferring benefits upon individuals, defending them against the magistrates, supporting them with money, and raising them to undeserved honors; or with public games and entertainments gaining the affection of the populace.
The chief distinction of the Basidiomycetes is that the naked spores are borne on the summits of certain supporting bodies, termed basidia.
She swung herself slowly to and fro, running her hands up and down the supporting ropes and droning through endless prayers.
In many of the cemeteries the traveller will find figures of seated women, their hair lank and dirty, supporting their elbows on their knees and covering their faces with their hands.
The furniture consisted of nothing more than a bamboo bedstead supporting a mattress of cotton wadding.
The good creature was lying behind the bolster, supporting at once both his child and his wife.
For of all the powers exercised by this passion over our minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting hope in the midst of despair.
Nor do I doubt, while I make their interest the great rule of my writings, they will unanimously concur in supporting my dignity, and in rendering me all the honour I shall deserve or desire.
This office was all which the critics of old aspired to; nor did they ever dare to advance a sentence, without supporting it by the authority of the judge from whence it was borrowed.
McCook's Brigade of Davis's Division formed in line of battle facing to the left and supporting our artillery, should it be necessary.
The 11th and 12th Army Corps under General Hooker are across the river from here, which makes a total of three corps within supporting distance of Chattanooga.
The character of the country, very unfavourable to the French mode of supporting their troops at the expense of the districts through which they marched, added to the inveteracy of the struggle.
Five hundred thousand men were to be employed; and Britain, besides affording the assistance of her forces by sea and land, was to pay large subsidies for supporting the armies of the coalition.
Emperor; to your patience in supporting fatigues and privations of every description; and to your singular intrepidity.
If I persist in supporting each fact or reflection by its proper and special evidence, every line would demand a string of testimonies, and every note would swell to a critical dissertation.
A hero on the banks of the Euphrates, a slave in the palace of Constantinople, he accepted with reluctance the painful task of supporting his own reputation, and retrieving the faults of his successors.
Such islands as have effectually resisted this action are found to possess a solid framework of lava, supporting or defending the loose fragmentary materials.
Whilst Arago was propounding these questions, a person not conversant with science, the poet Méry, was collecting facts supporting the view, which he has published in his Paris Futur.
Similar magnets are made by the same person capable of supporting 5 cwt.
The Third and Fourth regiments were supporting a battery, and the balance of the Second was held in reserve.
Hancock had taken up a critical position in front of the line of works, where his brigade was supporting a strong battery.
Thus the army was guarding a great extent of country, at the same time that the different corps were within supporting distance of each other.
On the right of all is the old Thirty-third, withinsupporting distance.
There was first a supporting work called a boulevard, on the south bank of the Loire, on solid land, to be taken before the Tourelles could be assailed.
She herself could not move to lead them, the supporting army was out of range, and the men would not go further without her.
In spite of the efforts of the bearers and their friends to protect the canvas, one of the Fairburn men had got a grip of it, and in a second the thing had been torn from its supporting poles, amid mingled cheers and execrations.
But George, his knees firmly pressed against the low parapet wall that ran along the top in front of the house, had no difficulty in supporting the weight, and not too much in actually hauling up his living burden.
Melvin bound up the wounds of the wounded man, and then driving his eight unwounded prisoners before him, and supporting the wounded one he hustled them out of the trench, marched them in and delivered them over to an officer.
As sniping still continued, he swam the river, supporting the wounded Officer, and gained the other bank.
The Gurkhas moving in echelon on our left escaped this, but to meet it and to dominate the enemy's fire, the Highlanders were compelled to extend to the left, their supporting platoons being used to fill up the gap.
The two companies of the supporting Highland battalion now arrived and were detailed as a reserve to our attacking line.
Wall, sole, and frog, each take their share in supporting weight, but this function is distributed over them in different degrees, and it is fulfilled by each in a varying manner.
The longer the bearing surface is at the heels the more the base for sustaining weight is brought under the leg, and the better the position for supporting the body.
If the sole be so thin that it yields to pressure then its proper action is destroyed, and instead of acting like an arch and supporting weight imposed on it, it yields and injury results.
By the cruel experiment of removing the horny sole and frog of a living horse and then forcing him to stand on the maimed foot on a level surface, it has been shown that the laminæ are capable of alone supporting the weight of the animal.
And it seemed to me that his eyes were strange, not only the expression, but the physical seeming, as though the optic nerves and supporting muscles had suffered strain and slightly twisted the eyeballs.
Harrison stood listlessly at the wheel, half supporting himself by it, as though wearied by the weight of his flesh.
During the entire administration of Adams, there was a majority in Congress supporting his policy.
The cotton-fields were whitening, and the yellow corn's pendant ears hung heavily from their supporting stocks.
They are flat topped, and beams supporting a roof to the bazaar extend across from house to house.
This has a row of pillars in the centre supporting the roof, and is lit on each side by three large windows.
Roger was supporting Cacama, and another prisoner lay dead at their feet.
Madden clutched impotently at the blank iron wall, then flung an arm for one of the supporting ropes and missed.
As for Caradoc, he made no pretense to labor, but propped a broad shoulder against the supporting rope, stuck a cigarette under his white mustache and fell to regarding the waterscape in a serious, preoccupied fashion.
A little later he saw that Malone was with Farnol, and that the two were supporting a third man.
Lady Mildred was reclining on her usual sofa; close to it, and just within easy ear-shot of the cushion supporting her head, was placed a very low and luxurious arm-chair.
