I have sometimes suspected that his reagents were not always very pure; but I believe the true reason of the unsatisfactory nature of many of his analyses, is the bad choice made of the specimens selected for analysis.
After half an hour's tumbling about, he came to the unsatisfactory conclusion, that it was of no use trying to sleep; so he got up and partially dressed himself.
About the sixteenth, more definite but still unsatisfactory statements appear respecting its existence.
No, we had a very unsatisfactory lunch there, badly cooked and badly served; the waitress wore a dirty apron and her hair was in curling pins.
She could not overlook the possibility that he might return no answer, or return an unsatisfactory one.
The catastrophe of her tale was the subject of endless but unsatisfactory conjecture.
I had rather people were clever and unsatisfactory than dull and good.
As for my unsatisfactory carcass [he writes on March 6, to Sir J.
Blackford's course at the military school he had chosen for himself had been so unsatisfactory that his father had been advised that he would not be received for another year.
When a note from Miss Waring to Mrs. Bassett at Fraserville conveyed the disquieting news of her daughter's unsatisfactory progress, Mrs. Bassett went to town and dealt severely with Marian.
Incomplete and unsatisfactoryas they are in some respects, the Ford Edition and the Memorial Edition are very useful tools, the best available at the present time.
But Doctor Dunglison's declaration is somewhat unsatisfactory and misleading, for Jefferson once gave his own definition of Unitarianism.
This was anunsatisfactory arrangement since it might happen that the senior Councillor was too old to take on important and arduous duties.
The expenditure of money appropriated during previous sessions had proved so unsatisfactory that they left all new disbursements to the Governor.
Such attempts began with the costly andunsatisfactory labours of the Record Commission (dissolved in 1836); and in recent years the work has again been taken up and pursued on better lines.
For the years not thus yet dealt with the unsatisfactory Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium (1802, fol.
Many of them are printed in unsatisfactory seventeenth century editions, but the Year Books of five of Edward I.
As an unsatisfactory compromise, however, the French moved a mile or so towards the enemy.
If the terms agreed upon by parliament were unsatisfactory to him, he was to return to Scarborough, which was still to be garrisoned by his followers, with leave to purchase supplies.
The attitude of the musical public in this country towards Liszt is at the present day the most unsatisfactory and anomalous feature of the musical situation.
The railway connections, equally of the City and Province of Quebec, I may add of the Dominion, will always remain incomplete and unsatisfactory without such a bridge.
It was not enforced, and they remained in this unsatisfactory condition for thirty years, when war broke out again in 1743.
Since they desired a rational standard for the latter, and had identified with experience the customs which had proved unsatisfactory supports, they were led to a flat opposition of reason and experience.
The grounds for the identification of experience with the unsatisfactory condition of things, the state of affairs represented by rule of mere custom, are not far to seek.
But I do not think it wise ever to part with a share in the ownership of the land, as, in the event of the death of a manager, who has been turned into a working partner, a very unsatisfactory state of things is liable to arise.
The pear, like the apple, is indigenous to this country; but the wild pear is a very unsatisfactory fruit.
Among the changes which they demanded as remedies for the unsatisfactory state of the representation were annual parliaments, the exaction of an oath against bribery, and the exclusion from parliament of holders of places and pensions.
During Grafton's administration the king became master of the government, but was forced to employ unsatisfactory instruments for the exercise of his power.
It was evident that some insect was attacking the husks which may account for the rather unsatisfactory bearing record.
In distinction from this rather unsatisfactory record of Hales trees we have great promise of something worth while in the only other bearing grafted transplanted hickory of which I can give information, Mr. Rush's Weiker tree.
There is little doubt that in its inception the Association had a large measure of philanthropy underlying its principles, for it was the outcome of the unsatisfactory social conditions existing in England at that period.
The restaurants of Chinatown are a very unsatisfactory feature of the unsavory quarter.
The schools for Indian children are well managed, and the education imparted should be sufficient to prevent the possibility of a relapse into the unsatisfactory habits and the traditional uncleanliness of the different tribes.
Six long months, however, ran along at eight dollars a week, and the unsatisfactoryman on the road proved more influential than the second assistant.
You are lucky to have escaped such a lot, for it is O, so lonesome and unsatisfactory to man!
But when I came to look more closely I saw that the only unsatisfactory part of the work was its appearance; it was not nearly so flimsy as at first sight it had appeared to be.
