This idea, besides its being unsupported by any analogy we are acquainted with, ascribes a greater continuity to organized matter than we can readily admit.
Unsupported and weak, let him wander through fields where the unreaped corn stands in barren plenty, through copses planted by his fathers, through towns built for his use.
Frequently his victorious charge was but the prelude to disaster; for the cavalry were apt to pursue too eagerly, leaving the foot unsupported on the field.
The King's foot, left unsupportedon the field, suffered great damage.
In order to prevent the vessel from hogging under the influence of the weights of the unsupported ends, a truss was employed, similar in principle and object to those used to this day in American river steamers.
But the view that the female selects the most beautiful of her suitors has always seemed to Wallace "to be unsupported by evidence, while it is also quite inadequate to account for the facts.
The suggestion is an ingenious one, but is at present totally unsupported by evidence.
He turns from the discussion of theories, and examines his subject by the daylight of institutions, believing that laws depend much on the condition of society, and little on notions and disputations unsupported by reality.
I feel certain that the ice from here to the edge is nothing but an unsupported cornice hanging over the tremendous precipice beneath.
The strata inclined downwards, so that the smooth and crackless slabs overlay one another like the slates on a house-roof, and there was no more hold for hand or foot apparent, while the slabs were far too steep for unsupported progression.
Such accusations are easily brought, especially when unsupported by evidence.
This author's unsupported statements may be taken always with some allowance for the play of his imagination.
The oft-repeated statement that all the temples and palaces were exactly oriented is altogetherunsupported by facts.
All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
The force pushed home the blow, but as they were unsupported they had to retire, leaving their leader, Major Jackson, dead behind them.
The first was that the ground on the far side was found to be too steep for artillery, and the maxims of the French army forbade infantry from advancing unsupported under such circumstances.
That happiness I am now deprived of, and unassisted by friends, unconnected with the great, and unsupported by the world, I must throw myself totally on your Lordship's generosity.
I stand alone to sue for your protection, in some confidence that you will not suffer the dejected and unsupported to fall.
Statement of the postulate suffices, however, to reveal its unsupported character.
This, as we have already noted, is a distinction difficult to take quite seriously, and is entirely unsupported by psychological evidence.
Each advance must have the nature of an unsupported shove along a narrow channel, until the whole mountain system, that is, is won, and the attack can begin to deploy in front of the passes.
On an offensive front they have vertical sides of unsupported earth and occasional soakaways for rain, covered by wooden gratings, and they go on and on and on.
One of the unsupported conjectures is that the colonists amalgamated with the tribe of Hatteras Indians, and Indian tradition and the physical characteristics of the tribe are said to confirm this idea.
Misrepresented in London, andunsupported and conspired against in Virginia, Smith felt his fall near at hand.
Serious history would not listen for a second to the unsupported word of such a man.
When we set aside demonstrable myths and legends, and when we decline to entertain the vicious charges of his enemies that are unsupported by other testimony, we have a tolerably clear character and consistent career.
The statement that Green held the receiverships of the Isle of Wight and Porchester is derived from an entirely unsupported note by Strype.
The accusation against the knights in the retinue of those princes is Lingard's own, unsupported by any evidence whatever.
I know you will not convict a man of murder on the unsupported evidence of a fellow criminal.
It annoyed Inspector Chippenfield to think that Crewe might be nearer at the moment to the murderer than he himself was, even though that proximity was merely physical and unsupported by evidence or even by any theory.
This account is not quite correct, in so far as the Earl of Murray alone, unsupportedby Mary's authority, is described as having diverted the Archbishop from his purpose.
