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Example sentences for "this practice"

  • This practice is highly dangerous, because part of the sulphate of lead produced, remains dissolved in the liquor, which it thus renders poisonous.

  • To put a stop to this practice, which endangered the very existence of the vessels, we at first fired small shot at the offenders; but they easily got out of our reach by diving under the ship's bottom.

  • This practice is the height of venality and injustice; and the slayer of the slave seems to be under no farther necessity of absconding, than to impose upon the lower class of people, who are the sufferers.

  • This practice should be followed up about once a fortnight until all are eventually planted.

  • Where the soil is at all unfavourable to the growth of clean symmetrical roots the adoption of this practice will be essential to success.

  • This practice is convenient in cases where heavy water-logged ground precludes outdoor sowing in autumn and early spring.

  • In several instances we have advised that biennials and perennials should be treated as annuals, both on the ground of economy and for the excellent results obtained by this practice.

  • The result of this practice will be the formation on the roots of small roundish white bulbs, which make an excellent dish when stewed in gravy, and may be used for any purpose in cookery for which Onions or Shallots are employed.

  • As far as outward appearance went, this practice resulted in the fact that no distinction existed from a plain quartered coat.

  • But he was detected in secreting and selling large quantities of fish; and when the necessary enquiry was made, this practice appeared to have been of some standing with him.

  • An instance of this practice is given by Mr. Andersson in his "Lake Ngami.

  • An allusion to this practice of keeping great stores of clothing is made in Job xxvii.

  • A further, though less distinct, allusion is made to this practice in Isaiah vii.

  • The custom of going barefoot may be a principal impediment to this practice in a country overrun with thorny shrubs, and where no fences occur to render it a matter of expediency.

  • This practice is common in the islands near the coast of Sumatra, as will hereafter be noticed.

  • This practice I have been told is common in some parts of Wales.

  • This practice of turning down the vines, which appears singular but certainly contributes to the duration as well as strength of the plants, may yet amount to nothing more than a substitute for transplantation.

  • By this practice, St. Bonaventure says, all is recited and recited in order.

  • This practice is observed still, in a certain way, in Mass.

  • This practice is in conformity with the spirit of the liturgy and with the right order of the calendar.

  • This practice is of the greatest value in learning to read a map accurately and to estimate distances, directions and slopes correctly.

  • A few minutes each day should be spent in this practice, the soldier often being required to make his estimate by raising his rear-sight leaf and showing it to the instructor.

  • This practice will do to produce lambs for the butcher, as the consequence of a fresh cross is greater stamina and thrift; and it is found that lambs thus bred attain an early and full development.

  • This practice will do as a pastime for trustworthy boys, as it makes them gentle and manageable afterwards, but is hardly worth a man's time.

  • We can readily anticipate one objection to this practice, which is the want of food at the requisite season of the year to fatten them.

  • The tax of nursing is nearly equal to that of gestation, and farther injury to the dam may be avoided by this practice.

  • This practice has a good effect, in preventing or removing cutaneous disorders, and destroying ticks or other vermin.

  • Strict adherence to this practice in rubber cultivation has been inculcated by the older school of planters who obtained their experience in the cultivation of other crops such as tea, coffee, tobacco, etc.

  • From continued experience of this practice over a period of years it is found advantageous and to be preferred to the usual method of allowing sheets to drip under cover.

  • This practice is followed in smoke-houses, the idea being to move the drying sheets slightly each day, with a view to the prevention of a pronounced mark across the sheets.

  • The young woman must set herself resolutely in opposition to this practice.

  • This practice is so common in this one particular tribe, and so much have they monopolized the profession of courtesan, that the name of the tribe of Ouleds-Nails is in Arabia synonymous with that of courtesan.

  • This practice is by no means uncommon amongst the negroes; but whether it arises from a vitiated appetite, or from a settled intention to destroy themselves, I cannot affirm.

  • This practice, together with the cool of the evening, much diminished the inflammation.

  • To this practice it is owing, I presume, that the family of each wife is seldom very numerous.

  • We have the personal statement of Annaeus Seneca, in proof of this practice.

  • This practice of "seeling" appears to be of some antiquity, but has happily given way, to a great extent, to the more merciful use of the hood.

  • This practice is referred to by Shakespeare in Henry VIII.


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