Outside the ancient huertas, where since Moorish days the orange, lemon, and citron have been carefully tended and watered, the olive is the only cultivated tree; and well does it repay the minimum of care which it requires.
Then it is carried off followed by an admiring, gesticulating, vociferous crowd, to be elaborately tended and nursed, as befits so gallant a bird.
The knowledge that Kria was at hand to protect her tended to reassure her, but the instinct of her race was strong upon her, and her heart beat violently, like that of some wild bird held in a human hand.
They all tended towards wider range of action, greater mutual benefits or injuries, and increased co-operation, and they came faster and faster.
And even after their young were born they tended to maintain a protective and nutritive association with them.
In the same degree that the denial to slaves of mental development tended to brutalize them the teaching of science and religion elevated the fugitives in Canada.
Schools of this kind tended gradually to abandon the idea of combining labor and learning, leaving such provisions mainly as catalogue fictions.
The educational work of these centers, too, tended not only to produce men capable of ministering to the needs of their environment, but to serve as a training center for those who would later be leaders of their people.
This was taken as a reflection on the standing of the blacks of the city and tended to make them refuse to coöperate with the white board.
This measure tendedonly to prevent the dissemination of information among Negroes by making it impossible for them to assemble.
The concentration of the colored population in cities and towns where they had better educational advantages tended to make colored city schools self-supporting.
Any action, therefore, which tended to restrict to any individual or class the advantages and benefits designed for all, was an illegal use of authority, and an arbitrary act used for pernicious purposes.
The course which the former had pursued for the preceding ten years, had, as we have seen, tended to alienate the people of America from her and nourish sentiments of hostility in their bosoms.
But as to rate making, I have no doubt that the interference of Parliament, the courts, and the Executive has all tended to stereotype and keep rates at an unnecessarily high level.
The American companies further, equally naturally, tended to regard Mexico as an annexe and dépendance of the United States.
Other modifications of the Juniata route have been suggested, and their merits fully considered, but, upon examination, all of them tended to confirm our preference in favor of the river line.
The root that extends into Asgard is carefully tended by the three Norns, goddesses, who are regarded as the dispensers of fate.
A sacred fire, tended by six virgin priestesses called Vestals, flamed in her temple.
After passing Scylla and Charybdis the next land he would make was Thrinakia, an island whereon were pastured the cattle of Hyperion, the Sun, tended by his daughters Lampetia and Phaethusa.
In this social work, so far, the few have set a pattern of aid to individuals, which public agencies have tended to take over without much serious study of whether in any particular case the transfer was necessary or wise.
John Cotton; and the death at this time of their aged Governor, and the troubles with which the Colony met the next year from the King's Commissioners, Hutchinson informs us, tended to confirm the people in their opinion.
Circumstances had all tended to make him a Constitutionalist.
To that end has doubtless tended the progress of Europe during the last four centuries, and more especially the present rapid career of events, whether for ultimate weal or woe must be hereafter seen.
Other matterstended to aggravate the feelings of alarm thus generated.
Many circumstances tended to an extensive establishment of political independence among the small states thus formed in Italy during the Middle Ages.
His mind, however, tended naturally toward mechanical science, and he improved every opportunity of increasing his knowledge in that department of study.
And you do not see, my love, what all this tended to?
Of course this constant increase of saint-worship tended to land men by degrees in a mass of theistic and polytheistic conceptions.
It was thus that every collection of monks naturally tended to crystallize into a distinct organized society with certain definite rules.
With incessant care and infinite precaution she tended him.
And she had stooped there in the darkness, and tended and comforted him.
Body temperatures tended to be slightly higher than soil temperatures in November and December but were slightly lower than soil temperatures in the months of February and March.
The stream bed habitat and the appearance of the tooth punctures tended to incriminate raccoons as predators.
Turtles that came to the ravine tended to move along its bottom or sides.
Nevertheless, in October actual distances traveled on days of activity tended to be longer than in any other month.
Individual box turtles tended to remain in small areas for long periods; these areas were interpreted as home ranges.
Turtles in dens, burrows, and grass forms, tended to burrow if temperatures remained low for more than a few hours.
Here are some items that have come to us in the past few days, and which have tended to relieve the monotony of the work.
All these misfortunes tended to spread among the people a general feeling of sullen discontent.
I had known him pleasantly rather than intimately, and our different callings tended to separate us.
Here a bed was prepared, without loss of time, in which Mr. Brownlow saw his young charge carefully and comfortably laid; and here he was tended with a kindness and solicitude that knew no bounds.
Nell was not a little alarmed to hear this, supposing that the lady might be intimately acquainted with the firm of Short and Codlin; but what followed tended to put her at her ease.
There he slept while his wife nursed and tended the fever-stricken Neville back to life.
The days passed on in the hospital, and always the white nurse from across the seas and the Armenian nurses tended the Turkish and other patients, and healed them through the heats of that summer.
The mist had gradually risen, the sun shone bright, the fields and garden became full of fresh life, and the things Arne had sown and tended grew and sent up odor and gladness to his mother.
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