She instantly awoke, and apologized to him with gentle dismay for taking so audacious a liberty with that great man, commander of the vessel; the third time she said nothing, a sure sign she was unconscious.
Full a third of the general sum total is destined to foreign countries, either in loans or to work mines, etc.
Mrs. Brown had gone on before to see for thethird time whether all was comfortable.
Lucy looked down, and said demurely, "What a question for a third person to put!
At the third floor, without stopping, he rapped on a closed door with the head of his cane.
It was the lodger who occupied the room on the third floor.
And a third time; and a fourth; and each year for a period of six years, with this difference, that in the fifth and sixth years the sum was doubled.
Arsène was placed in the third cell on the right, and the heavy vehicle started.
On the morning of the third day I arose--feeble yet, but cured.
The first is the period of the Elizabethans and of Milton; the second is from the Restoration to the French Revolution; the third from the Revolution to the present day.
Their third is, how much it abuseth men's wit, training it to wanton sinfulness and lustful love; for indeed that is the principal, if not the only abuse I can hear alleged.
In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard.
In the third place, it makes choice of alternatives possible.
A third undesirable result is the substitution of a conventional average standard of expectation and requirement for a standard which concerns the specific powers of the individual under instruction.
In thethird place, the act of learning is made a direct and conscious end in itself.
Things judged or passed upon have to be estimated in relation to some third thing, some further end.
Two of them stood blinking foolishly while the third drew from a light pack a fox skin which he extended for Brent's inspection.
He drank a second and a third cup, and the Indian offered him some bread.
Another man with his jaw shattered lay on the floor, and a third lay white and still across him with a wide red mark on his forehead where a sack of gold dust had caught him fair.
The third day was a repetition of the second, except that the hills became higher and more numerous, but entirely unlike the ridge formation of the Copper Mountains.
The Indian returned with the provisions, and in the morning of the third day they struck out up the Coppermine, with the Indian breaking trail ahead of the dogs.
It was Brent's custom to trail along for a dozen hands or more, simply calling moderate bets on good hands, or turning down his cards at the second or third card.
The third day he ate some breakfast, and did two stretches on snowshoes during the day that totaled sixteen or eighteen miles, and that night he devoured a hearty meal and slept the sleep of the weary.
The next instant a man sprang onto Brent's back and another dived for his legs, while a thirdstruck at him with a short piece of scantling.
After five or six deals Camillo Bill, who sat directly across the table from Brent tossed in a red chip on his third card which was a queen.
Aware that she had wasted paper and valuable time, Penny recopied the story a third time and turned it in to the editor.
Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire, 30:2.
And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day.
And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert.
Upon this bed place the pieces of chicken and over the whole pour a little more than a quart of dry white wine and veal broth—one third broth and two thirds wine.
Stir into the mixture about one-third of a bottle of beer.
Illustration: One-third size of beets] Roll the dough out into a sheet 1/8 of an inch thick and cut it into 2½ inch squares.
Cook this briskly for twelve minutes, by which time the liquor should be one third evaporated.
If he consents nevertheless to receive her as he would receive his own daughter, the third night following this letter, light a lamp at the top of the tower that overlooks the sea.
This is the third day I have followed him step by step, hiding myself behind the pillars and the walls, for he suffers no one to companion him.
In practice, however, they are one third less than this, which reduces the heating surface from 9 to 6 square feet per actual horse power, and this length even is found to be inconvenient.
An auxiliary screw vessel, therefore, can carry merchandise at one third of the cost of a full-powered paddle vessel.
From the circumstance of the third of the new coefficients being greater than the fourth, it appears that the superior result in the fourth set of experiments arose altogether from a greater excess of the actual over the nominal power.
The enemy took turns at using us for targets; but, sheltered as we were behind the walls, they did no injury, while I am confident we disabled not less than four during the time of our arrival and noon of the third day.
Now it was Sidney had assistance in his efforts to procure for us a hearing, for the man set about making his neighbor acquainted with the facts, and in a twinkling a third understood that they had been trying to kill their friends.
McGregor, a Scotch Highland member, had announced that at half-past six he would move the closure of the third clause--on which we had now been working for a fortnight.
It was only the Old Man would have had the daring to begin the third stage of the greatest Bill of modern times at an hour so inauspicious--noon on a Wednesday sitting.
But so it was; and there verily stood Mr. Asquith at the box in front of the Speaker's chair introducing the third great Bill of the Government in the same evening.
Chamberlain and his friends sat together on thethird bench below the gangway--a position of 'vantage in some respects--from which they could survey the House.
Every man has his weakness, and the weakness of Mr. Potter is to always occupy the first seat on the third bench above the Gangway.
The third clause is the clause which deals with the questions that are to be excluded from the Irish Parliament.
But he turns up now usually after dinner, and from his seat on the third bench below the gangway, on the Liberal side, watches the progress of battle.
When the first head was held up there was an awful shudder; the shudder was less vivid when the second head was held up; and when the executioner accidentally dropped the third there was a loud and mocking shout of "Butter-fingers.
Nearly three hours of precious public time had been wasted over this wretched business, and at last, for the third or fourth time, the debate was resumed on the second reading of the Employers' Liability Bill.
The incident of Beowulf’s refusal of the crown is amplified and introduced into the story at the opening of the third part.
But in the year 1818 I took it up again, as I was preparing my third edition, and then made that more correct analysis which was inserted in that and the subsequent editions, and which is also exhibited in the present.
In the third edition, of which the author speaks, many improvements were introduced into the digest of the story and some improvements into the text of the translations.
The third and fourth editions are simple reprints, with some additions to the bibliography.
That spirit being dismissed, a third arose in the form of a child crowned, with a tree in his hand.
The king, delighted to hear from her own mouth this assurance of her love, and thinking truly that her heart went with it, in a fit of fatherly fondness bestowed upon her and her husband one-third of his ample kingdom.
The adventurers and soldiers finally relinquished only one-third of their estates;[1189] and only a few hundreds of favoured Irish were restored to their old lands, under burden of compensation to the dispossessed holders.
And it is clearly laid down in the thirdcentury by Tertullian, Ad Scapulam, ii.
It is not easy, at this time of day, to accept as a scientific product the confused theory of constitutionalism which gradually grew up in English politics from William the Third onwards.
It has been said[355] that "at the end of the third century of Rome, when its inhabitants had hardly escaped from the hands of Porsena, Syracuse contained more men of high genius than any other city in the world.
The third German edition by Fraenkel, 1886, typifies the course of scholarship.
It was to some extent a similar restrictive pressure that specially developed the drama in France under the Third Empire.
The second parallel being made, the batteries are moved up to it, and the third parallel is proceeded with in a manner similar to that used for the second.
But when the third aurora bathed the eastern sky in gold, And to our soldiers' anxious gaze the field of death unrolled, Lo!
This was accordingly done, and one man marched off with a table, another with a chair, a third with a desk, a fourth with an inkstand, and so on!
With regard to knave led, the play of the third hand, holding ace, &c.
The Analysis of Leads, undertaken in order to ascertain the cases in which the third hand should unblock his partner's suit, showed that king led originally conveys less information to partner than the lead of any other high card.
The thirdround will probably exhaust the adverse hand, which is numerically weak in the suit.
He counts the hand thus: to save the game Z must hold ace, queen, or ace, knave of spades; his third card is evidently the remaining diamond.
At Trick 6, A, in the face of an adverse trump lead and the command of his suit (clubs) against him, should lead the ace of diamonds to make the third trick and save the game.
It is often right, therefore, when two by honours have been declared against you, to go for the fifth trick by leading off a winning card, or by putting one on second or third hand.
If B has the best and third best trumps, or the second best guarded, and trumps are not led again, nor used for trumping, it is clear that at the eleventh trick Z must obtain the lead, and must lead up to the tenace in trumps.
Moreover, by finessing, you keep the winning trump, and so obtain the lead after the third round.
If thethird hand does not endeavour to win the first trick in his partner's suit, he is instructed to play his lowest card.
The third hand does not win the king, and hence the leader is able to infer that the ace of his strong suit is against him.
You should play the queen, and to the third round the king.
She is now reposing with her maid, in a room adjoining to his, while he sleeps; and this is his third night of undisturbed rest.
All this genial impetus of spirit succeeded very well, until the morning of the third day, when the travellers assembled in the breakfast-room of the inn where they had slept, and prepared to renew their journey.
It was ten o'clock, on the third night after their leaving Harwich, that the harassed party entered on Morpeth-moor, within a stage of Alnwick.
This man, Isabella used as her instrument, and by his connivance, admitted a third person to their private councils, who commanded him with the invincible power of a superior demon.
He took a roll of banknotes from the belt pocket of his leather chaps and counted them for the third time.
Fifi, a glad, mad little actress of eighteen, is the star performer in a third rate Parisian theatre.
A third time she read the letter, stroking her hair incessantly with the long, deliberate strokes.
He, this third part, this Carlo Visconti, had a sister.
Its third night of darkness and starvation saw the passing of that fragile spirit, gentle, innocuous, uncomplaining as it had lived.
There were the purifications by water one, one by fire, and a third by blood, to the last of which His servants yet testify in the spirit of their Redeemer.
This last reason above any other may have accounted for the extraordinary complaisance shown him by Messer Ludovico, the Duke's third younger brother, at present at court, who was otherwise of a rather inward and withdrawing nature.
It takes its date from the morning of the third of September, 1651, when Cromwell gained the battle of Worcester against Charles the Second.
Then thethird captain and fifty were sent; but the captain of the last fifty fell on his knees before-the prophet, and begged for his life, and for the lives of his-men.
At length, on a third appearance, the angel directed Joseph to go to a certain spot and dig in the earth, telling him that he would there find something of vast importance.
Twice she returned to her pursuers, and made them recoil; thethird time she was less fortunate.
After appearing to give Peter unlimited power, he tells him that "the chief priest and scribes will put him to death, and that he should be raised the third day.
The third and last effort being made, which would incline us to think that the patience of Heaven must have been tired out, was enough to make the doorkeeper exclaim, "Here is Monsieur Tonson come again!
The race was to extend from the Black Mountain to the summit of the third pinnacle extending to the eastward.
Just before reaching the summit of the third hill, the deer heard what he supposed to be the same shout, and he gave up the race in despair.
On the third night, they were together in the hold.
On the third day after Paul left, he was sitting drearily on the hearth, with his feet in the ashes, when Tom came in.
She met the softened glances turned toward the place where she sat with tender sympathy, as if they were all deploring the misery of some third person.
Because you was a third or second mate, I forget which, and he was a captain; that was the reason she gave--but you speak as if it were true.
Jube," he said, having left the deck on the third night, when the sea was calm as if it had never known a tempest, and ten thousand stars broke their flickering gold on its waves.
Yes," said a third person, coming up the room with a heavy, rolling gate, such as seafaring men attain in long voyages.
Umritsur is larger than Lahore by a thirdor more of people, and half as much again of space.
The assault was to be made in three columns: the first was to blow open the Cashmere Gate, the second to escalade the Water Bastion, and the third to escalade the Moree Bastion, both of which had been pronounced practicable.
Twice did the enemy repulse us from this strong position, our third attempt was successful, but two guns hardly repaid us for our loss.
The third are little beauties, which we used on the bow of our boat when we had skiff races during high water.
On the Third Avenue he bought two or three little things for his mother, and an orange, some candy, and a bright picture paper for his little sister.
The population in 1875 amounted to nearly twenty-four thousand, about one-third being emancipated negroes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "third" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
