It is one of those frequent assertions, made in the best of faith, but emanating solely from the recollection of the fierceness of a recent combat and from unreliable evidence.
In order to do justice to all sources of information, and show how unreliable our knowledge often was, it may be well to quote from Gen.
The thousands that are unreliable furnish a cloak for suppressing the hundreds that are industrious.
It is, therefore, not a question whether children of school ages should be taught the important facts of sex, but whether parents and trained teachers rather than playmates and other unreliable persons should be the instructors.
Here, then, is the fact that every parent should ponder seriously: Normal children are almost certain to get sexual information not later than the early adolescent years, and usually from unreliable and vulgar sources.
This is due largely to the fact that the parents have not yet been shown the reasons why it is now, and always has been, unsafe to allow children to gain more or less sexual information from unreliable and vulgar sources.
Mercury has been foundunreliable as a seal in acetylene apparatus.
Do not, if you possibly can help it, let go the second while the foul anchor is out ahead, for if it should stick it will put you in the predicament of having an unreliable hold at the end of your longest cable.
The most unreliableportion of a yacht's rigging is the ironwork.
And a little earlier still she had been desolating herself for hours because Louis was going to be careless about his investments, because he was unreliable and she would have to watch ceaselessly over his folly.
Indeed, she would admit every symptom of old age save an unreliable memory.
He had been wrong; he was a foolish, unreliable boy--but he was a boy.
You always forget," observed his companion, "that the reliable machine always has to be worked by an unreliable machine.
I mean Man," said Father Brown, "the most unreliable machine I know of.
He clung to all of his brother's conjectures about Gamaland, Kompagniland, and Staatenland as well as Jeco, although they were based on very unreliable accounts and the cartographical distortions of several generations.
On this point, too, Nordenskjoeld's statements are unreliable and misleading.
Testimony is unreliable because of the number of the witnesses (e.
Thus, a witness is unreliable either through his own fault (e.
But, as it would be harmful to guide oneself by anunreliable instrument (e.
Shut off entirely from any communication with their retreating troops and mingling so little with their captors, Richmond people got only most startling and unreliable rumors from the army.
Next came a report from an unreliable contraband that our horses had been stolen.
The road stretched out in the same way it had hitherto done, and the information derived from the inhabitants was as unreliable as ever.
It may seem inconsistent to condemn Barrow on one page as unreliable and then quote him approvingly on another.
The viduschaka has proved an unreliable sentinel; he has fallen asleep at the door of the house.
Now it is true that Schoolcraft is a very unreliable witness in such matters, as we shall see in the chapter on Indians.
The old bull, fat and lazy, becomes sluggish and unreliable in serving, and finally gets to be useless for breeding purposes.
Moreover I was unreliable and, I confess, unappreciative of what the fates had been so kind as to bestow upon me.
The examination indicates that Number “3” is of unreliable composition.
All are ofunreliable composition (conflict with Rule 1).
Further, it is unreliable as far as the presence of alkaloids is concerned since the A.
They were biased, unreliable at best, as regards culinary matters.
These writers who are unreliable in culinary matters anyway, claim that Apicius spent one hundred million sestertii on his appetite--in gulam.
A careful engineer will have nothing to do with a defective steam gauge or anunreliable safety valve.
By the use of an unreliablegauge you may become thoroughly bewildered, and in reality know nothing of what pressure you are carrying.
He is a patron of the drama, and a perfect mine of unreliable information as to the private life of the originals of the dazzling portraits which line his study--and indeed half the studies in the House.
But he is a rare bird, the confirmed cribber, with his algebraical formulae written on his finger-nails, and history notes attached to unreliable elastic arrangements which shoot up his sleeve out of reach at critical moments.
I regret to say that, so far as the Reconstruction period is concerned, it is not only inaccurate and unreliable but it is the most biased, partisan and prejudiced historical work I have ever read.
Although he accepts as facts certain unreliable statistics concerning the criminality of Negroes, he nevertheless presents the subject in a liberal manner.
Among the forgotten works of Goldsmith we note with interest several that he wrote for children: a fanciful History of England, an entertaining but most unreliable Animated Nature, and probably also the tale of "Little Goody Twoshoes.
