King John of France might indeed marvel to find himself among a nation of shopkeepers, and laugh at the thrift and order which underlay even his Royal cousin's extravagances.
The part which he played in later life was to a great extent forced upon him by the strong practical sense which underlay his speculative genius.
No wonder that the sight, and something that underlay the sight, diverted my mind for a moment from M.
Caius had other sentiments in going home besides those which underlay the motive which we have assigned.
Whether anything underlay this somewhat mysterious action does not appear; the significance of the affair lies in the fact that it at once became a matter of general public concern.
They resolutely declined to legislate by entering upon a consideration of the soundness or reasonableness of the policy which underlay the action of the legislature.
That was the fundamental purpose which underlay the adoption of a written constitution whose object was to keep local sovereignties intact, especially at the South.
The question which underlay all other questions, down to the Civil War, was the determination of the seat of sovereignty.
I Think this is the only reference in the Old Testament to that great vision which underlay Moses' call and Israel's deliverance.
It was the guiding principle of that inner idealism which underlay his whole life and which strengthened with his maturity.
Colonel Henry, whose momentous knowledge of the real motives which underlay the Dreyfus affair made his own removal by suicide or murder—who can tell which?
The habit of regarding America as dependent upon Europe, which underlayso much of the thought of the time, was not easily laid aside, and the tests applied to the conduct of American affairs were of European precedents.
A consideration of his general labors belongs elsewhere, but it ought to be noted here that he was prompt to see the perils which underlay American slavery.
He recognized the fierce spirit which underlay a nature of kindliness and gentle feeling, and, curiously enough, it warmed him, as the gentler side of the man had left him untouched.
Audie followed the direction of his gaze and sat spellbound, listening to the sound of hurrying feet as they crushed the brittle underlay of the woods.
His complete failure to improve his first advantage--whether the weakness lay in his plan or the execution--indicated the radical unsoundness which underlay his impressive exterior.
That underlay all the fine theories about differences of race, all the theological deductions from Noah's curse upon Canaan.
To them the form was what constituted a work poetical, not the creative idea that underlay it.
Under circumstances like these we cannot wonder if strict law was little attended to, and the moral principles that underlay it still less.
Well, now, although we are no miracle-workers, the very same principle which underlay these two works of supernatural power is to be applied to all our work, and to our lives as Christian people.
The granites which underlay the second and modern Sierra are seen in the towering heights of the crest.
The granite which underlay the folds of the first Sierra are still disclosed in the walls of the Yosemite Valley.
The Squire did not understand the fine breadth of strategy that underlay this plan mapped out for him.
A different aim underlaythe attempts alike of Fletcher and Randolph; the combination, namely, of the traditions of the Arcadian and romantic dramas.
The conception of love as a civilizing and humanizing power already underlay the sensuous stanzas of the Ninfale fiesolano, while the later part of the romance was not uninfluenced by recollections of the Divine Comedy[51].
Was it a mere chance remark--a little stone in the garden path--or was it the first visible outcropping of a stratum of unconquerable granite which grimly underlay all the flower beds of his good nature?
She was very straightforward herself and generally had a very clear idea of what underlay any action or feeling on her part.
Sustained by the presence of Penelope and Ralph, Nan had carried through her part in it with a brilliance and reckless daring which revealed nothing at all of the turmoil of confused emotions which underlay her apparent gaiety.
His face was drawn, his eyes veined with red, and a pallor underlay his tanned skin.
Then she laughed, but he did not like the symptoms that underlay it.
The features were long and narrow, and a warm gold, suggesting an Aryan strain, underlay her clear skin.
The process of making ready forms containing illustrations is practically the same as for plain ones, except that a new underlay is made for each form, and much more care and skill must be used on the cuts themselves.
These printed sheets are used for "overlays," which are very much like an underlay except that much more care is taken in marking any uneven places.
Before levelling up the form with the bevels and blank sheets, the plates of all open or short pages, if any, are replaced with solid pages, as these sheets and underlay are to remain through the printing of all the forms of the book.
But it is characteristic of the large outlook of Deuteronomy that not only is the evil protested against; the universal human need which underlay it is acknowledged and supplied.
It was to commit itself to the religious principles that underlay the life of the people, and to proclaim them with the utmost publicity.
We have now given some account of the general character of the Greek state, the ideas that underlay it, and the criticism of those ideas suggested by the course of history and formulated by speculative thought.
Curiously enough, however, her insouciance and matter-of-fact pertness sometimes reached to that buried stream of human sensation that underlay the granite of Bogart's surface.
Only Watts' shrewd brain guessed at the emotions that underlay the girl's present scorn.
And so I venture now to say a word or two about the religion of the man that to his own consciousness underlay all the rest of him.
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