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Example sentences for "this description"

  • This description of fever is usually termed typhus or nerve fever.

  • Massage, gymnastics, ablutions, and various kinds of baths and packs constitute the most of the healing measures of this description resorted to.

  • Some of those of this description, so closely resembled in every respect the Narran, that the difference was only to be distinguished by observing the marks of flood on trees, and ascertaining the direction of the current.

  • A zone of country of this description lies on the interior side of the ranges, as far as I have examined them.

  • There is danger of great abuses creeping into the prosecution of claims for Indian depredations, and I recommend that every possible safeguard be provided against the enforcement of unjust and fictitious claims of this description.

  • On all grounds it is exceedingly desirable that the convicts confined in this penitentiary be allowed to resume work of this description.

  • Legislation of this description is sure to establish a precedent which it will be difficult to disclaim, and which if followed can not fail to lead to abuse.

  • In constructing legislation of this description it should not be forgotten that the rights and interests of the Indians are important in every view and should be scrupulously protected.

  • The annual exchanges of this description, set down as due in the Book of Rights, would require the transfer of several hundreds of slaves yearly, from one set of masters to another.

  • We feel that there is ill-nature in this description, for Evelyn was a grumbling Puritan, tainted with republican reveries.

  • The legal term "private" was applied to arrests of this description.

  • This description of seizure was termed sequestration of the person.

  • This is rather a favorite sentiment, and is not unfrequently introduced similarly into love-songs of this description.

  • And I do not despair of seeing the day when but very few of this description as well as private families will be without them.

  • The reader may think there is nothing very remarkable implied in this description.

  • He did not see to the bottom of this description of the Deacon.

  • In taking upon me to become the interpreter of a work of this description to my countrymen, I am aware that I have incurred no slight degree of responsibility.

  • But is it just to exact the severity of the tragical cothurnus in light works of this description?

  • In a subject of this description it is impossible to steer clear of all sorts of low circumstances, abusive language, and blows; Shakspeare has however endeavoured to ennoble it in every possible way.

  • This description is furnished by the same correspondent of the Boston Herald to whom I am already indebted for Henry Boynton's reminiscences contained in the last chapter.

  • I am only repeating the remark made by many when I call attention to the fitness of this description to Garfield himself.

  • But, besides, that this is general in hot countries, this description may be understood of ill-fed slaves.

  • We soon had on board our raft a fresh proof of the impossibility of depending on the permanence of any honorable sentiment in the hearts of beings of this description.

  • There is one of this description, more than eighty years of age, now living with a son of hers in one of the Middle States.

  • I believe that a taste which is not conformed to the nature of things and to the law of God, is a perverted taste; and that the modern taste in regard to dress and ornament, is, to a great extent, of this description.

  • Of this description of persons--I am sorry to say it--our young women furnish a full proportion.

  • Not only is this description of Shepperton Church accurate in every particular, but a subject of neighborhood gossip is made the basis of the story of "Amos Barton.

  • This description of country seemed to extend to the base of Wedge Hill, which I intended to have ascended, but the weather was too cloudy to obtain a view from it.

  • This description of country continued for about six miles, when we again entered a very dense scrub, and continued in it for eight miles, until we struck the coast.

  • It was only in places of this description that we could expect to find anything for our horses.

  • They are, however, both too numerous and too large to give in a work of this description, and will probably be published at some future time by their talented author.

  • Watches break, and compasses cannot be used on horseback without stopping, and therefore a diagram of this description, of which any number of copies can be traced out, may be of use for rough purposes.

  • This description of a saddle, of course, applies to that of the travelling-horse.

  • On an affair of this description, Mr. Andersson, with seven attendants, and two canoes hauled up upon it, descended the river for five days.

  • Captain Palliser says that a couple of days is sufficient for two people to complete an entire punt of this description.

  • High walls can be climbed by help of this description; a weight attached to one end of a rope, being first thrown over the wall, and the climber assisting himself by holding on to the other end.

  • Footnote 29: This description of a village on the Armenian uplands applies itself to many that I visited in the present day.

  • When the general of an army sets the example of outrages of this description, he is soon faithfully imitated by his officers, and surpassed by his still more brutal soldiery.

  • Tournefort, when he was in that country, saw honey of this description.

  • This description of the plague is copied by Ovid from the account which Thucydides, the Greek historian, gives of the plague of Athens.

  • This description is thought to apply to Spain, of which Geryon was king.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rear guard; shall bring; this arrangement; this belief; this castle; this city; this event; this fashion; this first; this great; this group; this opinion; this passage; this picture; this piece; this planet; this prince; this province; this remark; this singular; this state; this trip; this view; this village; this war; this young