To this agent Washington confided a statement of the condition of the country; and with dignity and candour avowed that it had reached a crisis out of which it could not rise by its own unassisted strength.
So quickly had these rum-soaked, heartless monsters converted an absolutely harmless lad into a criminal, that Jim pleaded with Kansas Shorty to permit him to try unassisted to peddle needle cases.
I know that you and others have often wondered what those dark grey patches are which you can see upon the moon, even with the unassisted eye.
An error in pronunciation, a mistake about clarified butter, an unauthorised arrangement of raiment or hair, might involve the unassisted worshipper in pains and penalties of the most awful character.
After a few such lessons, the pupil may commence riding with the left hand entirely unassisted by the right.
Alone andunassisted he first ascertained by personal inquiry the extent of the evil.
Then he sold his Greek books, and bought Hebrew ones, and learnt that language, unassisted by any instructor, without any hope of fame or reward, but simply following the bent of his genius.
Whilst there he contrived to support himself unassisted by his father, carrying on a sort of small pedler's trade with "a little stock of merchandise.
It represents the current tone of Jewish religion, and shows us, with its narrowness and absurdities, what the New Testament would have been had it been the product of unassisted human nature.
It seemed to me a physical impossibility for the beavers to begin a new house at that late date and unassisted finish it by the beginning of winter.
Although Pegasus presents a striking appearance to theunassisted eye, on account of its great square, it contains little to attract the observer with an opera-glass.
Only about three thousand stars are visible to our unassisted eyes at once on any clear night, and of those only a few are conspicuous, and two thirds are so faint that they require some attention in order to be distinguished.
Entering the gate he found that three young unfattened pigs had escaped from their sty by leaping clean over the top, and that she was endeavouring unassisted to drive them in through the door which she had set open.
To think you should know that by your unassisted reading, and yet be in poverty and despair!
But reformation is seldom the work of pure virtue or unassisted reason.
The zeal of gratitude, the ardour of patriotism, fondness for an opinion, or fidelity to a party, may easily overpower the vigilance of a mind habitually well disposed, and prevail over unassisted and unfriended veracity.
Prudence and educated powers, thoughtfulness and study, often carry us where unassisted and uncultivated genius has signally failed.
The great improbability against the Pinckney draught is that one man alone and unassisted should have prepared so much of the Constitution.
Secondly, as fabellae, it is used to signify a special branch of literature, in which the imagination has full play, altogether unassisted by superstition in any shape or form.
His confidence that she could climb to the summit unassisted made her confident.
