There are two tolerably clear references to its prevalence in England before the peculiarly unwholesome state of Europe began with the modern age.
I shall not venture to say what the infection was; but it seems tolerably certain that it was contracted by the English during their occupation of the capital town of St Jago.
With the chance of facilitating his choice he had recourse to his pencil, with which he was tolerably skilful, and on the back of each letter he drew a portrait of its sender.
A man tolerably well off can at least get his wife some help when she is laid up, and when she is near her end can remain with her to take her last kiss and blessing.
Suppose, now, the teacher has obtained a tolerably clear idea of the differences between the registers; she should then arouse a perception of tone-quality in her pupils.
Torch-bearers rode at the head of the tolerably long train of the residents of Ratisbon, and some of the guests carried cressets.
Outside the door the major-domo detained Barbara, and had a tolerablylong conversation with her, of which the marquise vainly endeavoured to catch even a few words.
We found the beach already lively with the indefatigable bathers, who seize on all tolerably sunshiny days to search for health in the luxurious water.
The author has tolerably clear views of the Incarnation, and some other Catholic doctrines.
At night they covered me up with cloaks and a sail, and in the daytime I was able to walk about, for the sea, fortunately, was tolerably smooth.
We had been five days at sea, and a fair breeze, though somewhat light at times, had sent us tolerably well on our course.
The two officers were tolerably good friends in general; but a very slight thing would make them fall out, though they as speedily patched up their quarrels again.
The chancel is tolerably lofty and cheerful-looking.
The congregation of our Parish Church is tolerably numerous, and embraces many fine human specimens.
It has a tolerably good appearance; but it is a serious sinner with reference to its internal arrangements.
At the rear of the school there is a fine playground for the boys--it is about the largest in Preston; and close to it we have the old graveyard of the church, which is in a tolerably fair state of order.
The congregation at Cannon-street Chapel is made up of tolerably respectable materials.
Altogether there are about 400 seats free and tolerablyeasy in the building.
When these roads became tolerably dry in summer, they were ploughed up, and laid in a half circle to dry, the only amendment they ever had.
England is full of such people, and a hundred other varieties of peripatetic tricksters, higher than these, and lower, who act their parts tolerably well, but seldom with an absolutely illusive effect.
There is, however, a tolerably good hotel in the place, and we at present beg to take our reader with us into the largest room therein, which was usually dignified by the name of the Ball Room.
During dinner he was somewhat silent and moody; but when he got to his wine he recovered his spirits, and seemed tolerably happy.
When the whole of the high nobility of our district has honored him with an election," exclaimed the newly elected ispravnik who was already tolerably tipsy, "he certainly ought not to fail in his duties toward society in general.
He became less bashful, got acquainted with everybody, and played tolerably well.
Still young, tolerably handsome, with comfortable apartments in the entresols of the Tuileries, she saw a great deal of company, and in the evening had assemblies, consisting of deputies of the revolutionary party.
We found her accompanied only by a stout woman, who appeared tolerably civil; she was the keeper of the apartments.
The acorns were tolerably plentiful around the roots of the big oaks, so the boys set to work to pick them up.
Frank had his gun, and Willy had the musket; and both carried a plentiful supply of powder and some tolerably round slugs made from cartridges.
I know of a tolerably large town which could not light its lamps in 1804, on account of having sent its mayor to Paris at the expense of the commune to see Bonaparte crowned.
Allusions to it are tolerably frequent in the poets.
Her Parachute had a large orifice in the top, in order to check the oscillation, and this appears to have been tolerably successful.
He had spent his years in the unremitting effort to add thousands to thousands, and, now that he stood well outside of it, the business of money-getting appeared tolerably dry and sterile.
He was glad he was rich and tolerably young; it was possible to think too much about buying and selling, it was a gain to have a good slice of life left in which not to think about them.
I made up my mind tolerably early in life that a beautiful wife was the thing best worth having, here below.
The other members of our set have been tolerably regular in their inquiries, especially since they were undeceived as to the danger of your wound.
He paused, not knowing exactly how to proceed, yet with a tolerably strong suspicion that Corbet was cheating him.
The evening wastolerably advanced, and the hour of dinner long past; but, notwithstanding this, there were several persons engaged in dispatching the beef and cabbage we have described.
Let the parties commence with, say, a tolerably strong stock of honest hatred on both sides.
The patient was physically healthy and stalwart, mentally not excitable, and tolerably tranquil in the midst of shell fire.
Waking suggestion did so well with the man that after three weeks normal sensibility was restored to the leg, and he could walk tolerably well without a cane.
After a few days, the patient was able to speak the separate vowels tolerably well, and was then made to go on with such words as Anna, Otto, Hurrah.
The right upper abdominal reflex was elicited, and both patellar reflexes were tolerably active.
In the specific fevers which have a tolerably definite period and course it is important to keep up the nourishment even during the period of anorexia, in order to provide against the debility which is to follow.
The chloride, like the sulphate of iron, is a tolerably powerful disinfecting agent.
In erysipelas, however, it is tolerably certain that there are different degrees of virulence to be recognized in different cases, and that the disease at times is transmitted in its different types.
The clerk's office beyond is a large room, tolerably well lighted, but seldom floored with wood.
As the King of Scotland had now been King Edward's captive for eleven years too, his success was, at this time, tolerably complete.
So, if you call me Quicksilver, the name will fit tolerably well.
The practice of Betting is tolerably prevalent at present, and by no means confined to any particular class of the community.
