Behind them are several other groups, including the Rape of Polyxena, Hercules slaying the Centaur, and one supposed to represent Ajax dragging along the body of Patroclus or of Achilles, all in fine powerful action.
With other rooms supposed to be better, the charge would have been 10 francs per day.
The views from the bridges which span them at the mouths of the river or rivers, supposed to run below them, are each different from the other, and are exceedingly picturesque.
Some of the houses appear to be only one storey high, but stairs indicate a second storey, and it is even supposed that in some cases there may have been a third.
This is a scarcely extinct crater, supposed to have a direct communication underground with Vesuvius, twelve miles distant.
At some parts the passage is nearly blocked by loiterers, who may perhaps, by a stretch of charity, be supposedto be actively prosecuting some busy calling, just as may be seen on the street of a country town at home on a market day.
A crowd of pilgrims was marching towards its supposed miraculous shrines.
The same kind of wine is charged at one place, it may be three, even four times as much as at another; and in general the price rises, and rises far out of reason, according to the distance from which the wine is supposed to come.
In consequence, he was detailed to undertake expeditions for observing the transit of Venus and for discovering the southern continent which was supposed to exist in the neighborhood of the Antarctic circle.
The Re d'Italia, which was at first supposed by the Austrians to be Persano's flagship, was a center of attack and had her steering gear disabled.
During the later stages of the war destroyers depended chiefly upon the depth bomb, an invention of the British navy, which by means of the so-called "Y guns" could be dropped in large numbers around the supposed location of the enemy.
The Germans were twelve miles to the west of where they were supposed to be.
Each side had information of the other's strength; but on the afternoon of November 1, the date of the Battle of Coronel, each supposed that only one enemy cruiser was in the immediate vicinity.
We are apt to draw these observations into rule; and when we are no longer willing to act for our country, we plead, in excuse of our own weakness or folly, a supposed fatality in human affairs.
But when the possession, however redundant, falls short of the standard, and a fortune supposed sufficient for marriage is attained with difficulty, population is checked, or begins to decline.
But Sparta, under every supposed error of its form, prospered for ages, by the integrity of its manners, and by the character of its citizens.
Their names have long been celebrated; their supposed plans have been admired; and what were probably the consequences of an early situation, is, in every instance, considered as an effect of design.
It was his supposed interest to reduce them to a state of equal subjection with the people, and to extend his own authority, by rescuing the labourer and the dependent from the oppressions of their immediate superiors.
The artist is supposed to have ascended the celestial regions, to furnish his mind with this perfect idea of beauty.
Nor, whilst I recommend studying the art from artists, can I be supposed to mean that nature is to be neglected?
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art--a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Homer is supposed to be possessed of all the learning of his time.
Morton and Worthington and my comrades, who told me that theysupposed me dead.
I was placed on the road by which it was supposed the enemy might come, and given the countersign.
It must be kept in mind that the private soldier is supposed to be a mere machine, which, if not in working order, may somewhere along the line produce friction.
The quarter guard were supposed to be the special custodians of the quiet and safety of the camp.
It must not be supposed that men were not alarmed, for doubtless many a poor fellow thought his time had come--and pray?
His general was supposed to keep his own counsels, not allowing his left hand to know what he intended to do with his right.
It must not be supposed that because we were wearied, covered with mud and hungry, that we were dispirited and gloomy.
This machine is supposed to know nothing but his duty and obey orders,--the instructions of his superiors.
In truth he thought not of little Gerda, and never supposed she could be standing in the front of the palace.
Well, this is most remarkable; I never supposed it possible that a man's old shadow could become a human being.
But the mate did not see the bottle: indeed, if he had he would not have known it, or supposed it was the one out of which they had drunk to the felicity of the betrothed and to the prospect of a marriage on his own happy return.
The counsellor supposed from this that she did not understand Danish; he therefore repeated his request in German.
Although the prince gave out that he merely intended to pay a visit to the king, it was generally supposed that he really went to see his daughter.
There it comes again, from the other side," said the Snow Man, who supposed the sun was showing himself once more.
An account of certain events which are supposed to have occurred in the month of May 19--, at a quiet inn on Dartmoor, in Devonshire; the events being recorded by the persons most interested in the unfolding of the little international comedy.
I was pleased with the team, and remembered a remark I had heard as a boy from an itinerant Methodist minister at a time when the itinerant minister was supposed to know all there was to know about horse-flesh.
The publication of the discovery that the supposed suicides were, in reality, murders committed by the same individual, filled London with horror, which was intensified a hundred-fold by the knowledge that the murderer was still at large.
The space between the double doors dividing his room and mine had revealed all the paraphernalia of the supposed murderer, and that it belonged to Pasquale was apparently beyond doubt.
When the second bottle of champagne had been opened at Mr. Oswald’s dinner the host lit a cigar, saying he supposed they were dying to hear his story.
Their engagement had suffered from none of the vicissitudes which are supposedto imperil the course of true love.
Will not the very heathen rise up in judgment, at the last day, and condemn such a gross perversion of the supposed period of the Redeemer's birth; the knowledge of whose name, they have hitherto been unacquainted with.
He then mingled with the party, and we conducted them to the Colony Fort, as is customary when Indians are supposed to visit with peaceable and friendly intentions.
The harpooner killed one to-day, which measured fourteen feet long, and eight in girth, and weighed it was supposed a ton weight.
It has been supposed that in holding up their children, as is sometimes the case, it is for barter, but I should rather conclude that it is for the purpose of exciting commiseration, and to obtain some European article for them.
Leaving the Fort he wrestled with another for his gun which he fired in the air, and went immediately to the other post, where it was supposed they had taken up their quarters for the night.
He is supposed still to have some intercourse with and power over them as well as over the Indians, who pray to him to protect them and keep them alive.
Places had virtues of their own for him; he supposed that he had the quality of divining their secrets; at all events, if they were places to which he could possibly be sensitive.
The longevity of the Oak is supposed to extend beyond that of any other tree.
It may be interesting, however, to some, to continue, by extension, the individual tree under which the unfortunate Queen is supposed to have spent many hours.
It is supposed that the name of Ash has been given to this tree, because the bark of the trunk and branches is of the colour of wood ashes.
It is even supposed by some that the blocks employed by Holbein, for wood engravings, were of this tree.
The Cedar of Lebanon was formerly supposed to grow nowhere but on that mountain; but it was discovered, in 1832, on several mountains of the same group, and the probability is, that it extends over the whole of the Tauri mountains.
Its winged capsules are supposed to be deposited in those places by the wind.
Lochiel and his numerous kindred and clan held it in great veneration for generations, which is supposed to have hastened its destruction; it being burnt to the ground by the brutal soldiery in 1746.
The Black-fruited, or Common Mulberry, is generally supposed to be a native of Persia, where there are still masses of it found in a wild state.
The name Holly is supposed to be a corruption of the word holy, as Dr.
Adolphus had not been as blind as Pauline must have supposed him when she bade him remember what their daughter was a year ago.
Is it not a remarkable coincidence, that both his supposed dramatic counterparts have the same peculiarity?
It is not because they consider us their equals that they are supposedto look with abhorrence upon those who eat our flesh," replied Ja; "it is merely that we are warm-blooded animals.
My first act was to hunt up Perry; whom I found poring as usual over the great tomes that he was supposed to be merely dusting and rearranging upon new shelves.
We are not supposed to visit it," he said; "but the great ones cannot hear and if we keep well out of sight they need never know that we have been there.
The Mahars of Phutra are notsupposed to eat human flesh, yet slaves are brought here by thousands and almost always you will find Mahars on hand to consume them.
The spandrils of the tabernacle work is filled with diaper work and alto relievos which are supposed to represent some legendary history, most probably that of the virgin.
A carved oak door at the foot of the monument appears as an entrance to a chantry, or as by some supposed to have been a confessional.
In the following lines the miser is supposed to have just entered his cave, and to be soliloquizing.
Bob therefore ran off for Tom Titus the blacksmith, who was supposed to care for nothing, and in less than two minutes Tom Titus arrived with about three feet of rod-iron red hot.
He did not retire from his position as suitor, but betook himself to graduate for her love, a matter which he had at first supposed was to be had for the asking.
They are supposed to be the transmigrated souls of deceased human beings.
This was lightning; it is regarded as feminine because it is supposed to come from the earth, which is of the yin, or female, principle.
The spirit of the star Chang is supposed to preside over the kitchen of Heaven and to arrange the banquets given by the gods.
The rainbow is supposed to be the result of a meeting between the impure vapours of the sun and the earth.
These various properties are supposed to indicate the "fossil remnants of primitive worship of many animals.
It is held in great veneration both on account of its antiquity and also because of the "unfathomable wisdom which is supposed to lie concealed under its mysterious symbols.
This inaugurates the kite-flying season, and is supposed to promote longevity.
The process is managed by adding one weight of flowers to three weights of oil in a bottle, which being corked is exposed to the rays of the sun for forty days, when the oil is supposed to be sufliciently impregnated for use.
There are at least twelve trees which are supposed to furnish the barks of commerce, and great obscurity prevails as to the species whence the various kinds of cinchona bark are derived.
In this communication, Mr. Bentz does not describe the process which he adopts, but enumerates some of its supposed advantages.
It is supposed to be the produce of a species of Drimys.
The rich black loam, supposed to be produced by the decomposition of trap, and known by the name of cotton soil, is that prepared for opium.
This tree is less cultivated than would be supposed from its useful properties.
In order to hasten the precipitation, lime water is occasionally added to the fermented liquor in the progress of beating, but it is not indispensable, and has been supposed capable of deteriorating the indigo.
It may easily be supposed that manipulations so numerous, complex, and tedious, as those described, give the most ample opportunities for the adulteration to which the nature of the drug tempts the fraudulent dealer.
It is supposed to be the produce of the tallow tree of Java, called locally "kawan," probably a species of Bassia.
The true spikenard of the ancients is supposed to have been obtained from the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a plant of the Valerian family.
It is supposed to be a distorted image of the visit of the kings and wise men with their presents at the Nativity, as Santa Claus may be of the shepherds, and the Christ-kindchen of Christ himself.
Considering the growth of the spire from the tower-roof, it might naturally be supposed that the earliest forms would be square or round, in plan.
Ivan had supposed he could cut down fifty trees in a day, but he succeeded in chopping but ten before darkness put an end to his labors for a time.
Perhaps all these children, supposed to be mine, are the children of my servants.
No one has counted these murders, just as no one counted the murders of the Inquisition, because it was supposed that they were committed for the benefit of humanity.
On the contrary, from the fact that I did not engage my heart, but paid in cash, I supposed that I was honest.
The skull attracted much attention from its supposed possession of many apelike characteristics; indeed, it was represented by some to be a real intermediate link between man and the anthropoid apes.
Nor, on the other hand, are we certain that the Catskills were not completely enveloped in ice, though most observers, reasoning from negative evidence, have supposed that to be the case.
Some have supposed that there are indubitable evidences of former glaciation in the mountain-ranges of southwestern Africa between latitude 30° and 33°, but the evidence is not as unequivocal as we could wish, and we will not pause upon it.
He fails, however, to explain how this was brought about in a gravel deposit supposed to have been laid down by great floods of water.
It has been supposed that the drift-deposits were marine accumulations; but it is inconceivable that the cave could ever have been subjected to wave-action without the complete scouring out of its contents.
It must not be supposed that the loess is restricted to valleys and depressions in the surface of the ground.
The virtuous Queen of Arragon cultivates and encourages a passion, having all the moral guilt of an incestuous attachment, between her own daughter and her supposed son.
Sir Richard Blackmore had his medical diploma from Padua, in Italy; a learned and eminent University, which, like some in my own country, is supposed not to be over scrupulous in conferring honours of this nature.
Their appearance is supposed to presage the safety of the vessel, and the termination of the storm.
The same custom is alluded to by Congreve, and is supposed to have remained fashionable during Queen Anne's time.
Still less could he be supposed to favour the whigs, whose ranks contained many determined republicans.
The panic was common to both Catholics and Protestants; it was in Catholic countries indeed that the persecution of supposed witches was carried on longest and most ruthlessly.
Five years after the supposed date of his arrival in London he was already famous as a dramatist.
His supposed self-revelation in the Sonnets is so obscure that only a few outlines can be traced even by the boldest conjecture.
As it does not know its own mind five minutes together, they liken it to a woman; and it is supposed to be very charming on that account.
And they are supposed to be connoisseurs of this sort of thing); but in the weather the disadvantages of the system are more apparent.
