Usually six inches of flooring led to the ground-rock; in the sarcophagi about eight inches of tamped earth was based upon nine feet of sand that ended at the bottom.
But then he usually felt the need of a physician's services also.
He usually carried under his arm a leather portfolio.
They usually sacrifice a captive from the land of art.
He went out of the study in a rage, slammed the folding doors behind him, and stood eyeing the damask-covered chair in which she usually sat.
Still they could try; and with that feeling of hopeful confidence which usually precedes such trials, they set about making preparations.
Such occurrences usually led to angry altercations,--in which threats and ribald language would for some minutes freely find vent from the lips both of the disturbed and the disturber; and then both would growlingly subside into silence.
It is true that while fishing near the shore it usually retires to roost at night; but afar over the ocean it keeps all night upon the wing.
One, however, soon monopolised his attention; and that was a barrel of somewhat flimsy structure, and about the size of those usuallyemployed for carrying flour.
Most people are inclined to be proud, and when people are proud they are usually greedy and selfish.
In old pictures he is usually represented in a coat of mail, and with a short spear in his hand, hurling Satan downwards to the earth.
It is more than likely, indeed, that the breakfast itself will be late, for the grown-ups in most households are usually as excited as the children.
For the Twelfth Cake, in the old days, was usually very large, baked into very queer shapes, and always very nice to eat.
Little children are usually snug in bed when the first holiday of the year arrives.
It is curious to note, how that, although a holy day or a holiday may have begun with the adoration of saint or angel, it usually survives for us in some form of eating.
The priests are dressed in black, at the elevation of the Host a wooden clapper is used instead of a bell, all the glittering ornaments are removed from the altar, and the music is more than usually sad.
There were usuallyeighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme.
People usually went when they chose; the amount of time that they lingered being determined by the amount of interest that the conversation possessed for them, or by the difficulty of the process of digestion.
Every one came down in dressing-gown and slippers, and the conversation usually turned on anything that had happened the evening before; comments on the dress or appearance of the dinner contingent were exchanged in friendly confidence.
His habit of life was very regular; he usually went out after breakfast, returning in time for dinner, and disappeared for the rest of the evening, letting himself in about midnight with a latch key, a privilege that Mme.
The Count led the way to the room where his wife usually sat.
Vauquer took boarders who came for their meals; but these externes usually only came to dinner, for which they paid thirty francs a month.
He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
A mortification usually sends a young man of his age into a furious rage; he shakes his fist at society, and vows vengeance when his belief in himself is shaken.
A convict's wife is usually an illegitimate connection.
This was not what usually happened, and as soon as Nelse could spare the time he looked at his companion in surprise.
There is little or no news, when we do get some it is usually unsatisfactory.
In a corner of this deserted garden I came across a real, old-fashioned English rose, of the kind usually and irreverently called "cabbage.
A small piece of the kopje jerked at them by the most energetic member of our party, usually assures them of the negative, and with a few flaps of their wings they go whirring on.
We often get some of the Border men in our lines, and, like all of the Regulars, they are most entertaining, though their statements usually require a few grains of salt before swallowing.
When you meet a man out here, usually the first question is "What sort of grub are you having?
Their information is always startling and mostly unreliable--still it is interesting and usually affords us vast entertainment.
With the genuine club no one wishes to meddle; but the majority of places which go under this name are nothing but drinking and gambling hells, and are usually financed by, and run for the profit of, some brewer.
This manager is usually a man well known in the neighbourhood, and with plenty of friends.
The significance of these figures is increased when it is remembered that Maine is an old settled State, and in such the number of pensioners of public charity is usually far greater than in newly opened up districts.
The reasons are twofold: First, the houses are usually owned by brewers, who fear that if they abandon the licences, rival brewers may persuade the magistrates to grant additional licences in other parts of the place.
The majorities for it were usually overwhelmingly large.
He is usually liable to dismissal at a very short notice; and it is an understood thing that if the trade of the house drops at all he will have to leave.
The bribes received by the police are usually very small, and no doubt many constables look upon them as their regular perquisites.
The women were (as they had been in the parliamentary elections) by an overwhelming majority in favour of either no licences or reduction, usually the former.
Then, when the police do proceed and secure a conviction, the licence is not usually endorsed.
Its membership contains a very large, if not a predominating Conservative element; and hence its proposals deserve attention as being those of the members of a party usually not foremost in legislation of this kind.
The chiefs are usually tall and well formed, owing probably to the care taken of their nurture, and to the influence of blood.
But these are usually appeased without much difficulty.
From their singular dexterity in avoiding or parrying the missiles of their adversaries, the engagement usually continues a long time without any fatal result.
Marriage takes place at maturity, the male being usually from twenty to twenty-five years of age, and the female, from fifteen to twenty.
In front is usually a large arbour, on top of which is piled the cotton in the pod for drying.
I have before mentioned this practice of defiance, and I since find it is appealed to as a final judgment in disputes about property, and usually occurs in families when the right to land and fruit-trees comes to be discussed.
The two armies (usually from fifty to two hundred each) meet, and after a great deal of mutual vituperation, the combat commences.
In a country like our own, where reflection usually follows action, the woman's natural mental attitude is exaggerated.
In these little families where love prevails--it usually does exist.
In the classroom she will usually outstep him in mathematics.
The failure to recognize this is due either to ignorance of facts or to a willful disregard of them; usually it is the former.
It is true in the professional classes, and especially burdensome there; for the income is usually small, but the social demand great.
The woman's mind is still the woman's mind, although she is usually the last to recognize it.
Content of mind is usually in proportion to the service one renders in an undertaking he believes worth while.
If he understands integrity as a man, it is usually because a woman has done her work well.
The natural task found, a method of handling it in a fashion sufficiently acceptable to prevent family revolts mastered, and the woman usually is as fixed as a star in its orbit.
The tablinum was usuallyseparated from the atrium by curtains.
The theaters built at this time were little more than enclosed sheds and they were usually painted red.
The poorer classes sometimes fared badly, but usually in England the peasants had sufficient food, although often of the cheaper sort and not of great variety.
The furniture of these buildings usually consisted of stools for the children and a seat with a back for the teacher.
In the cathedral school there was usually a song school, for elementary instruction, and a grammar school, for those who should want more advanced education.
In the earlier times the dead were buried in the houses, but later they were placed outside the cities, usually along a road, but in Sparta they were kept in the city, while in the country they were buried in the fields.
The owner of the tlachco, usually the lord of the place, also performed certain ceremonies and presented offerings, before opening the game.
The dress of the female dancers was usually a loose flowing robe, reaching to the ankles, fastened at the waist, and around the hips was a small narrow girdle of various colors and ornamented with beads.
The Doric maidens usually wore but a single loose woolen garment.
In sleeping, for the head they used a low half cylinder, usually of wood, sometimes of pottery or stone, some of the wooden ones being made of rare woods and ornamented.
As in the other contests, usually the combatants were captives and criminals.
It was not uncommon on the arrival of a ship for schoolmasters to be advertised for sale along with men of other callings and usually the teachers did not fetch as good prices as weavers, tailors, and the like.
This was in the form of a loaf or cone, called loaf-sugar, which weighed nine or ten pounds, and one cone would usually last a family an entire year.
Frau von Wallbach meanwhile finished her second cup, which she usually took on the sofa, and leaned back.
It is as if God in His mercy had blinded her usually quick eyes on this point.
He was himself in plain clothes this morning, as he usually had been since his retirement; he would put on his uniform.
The girl's usually laughing rosy face was pale and changed; she was breathless from the haste she had made, and could hardly bring out her words, as with trembling knees she sank into the nearest chair.
Besides, Thomas had no time except on Sundays to go in quest of his enemy, and on Sundays the Captain was usually at the Vicarage.
At times Wanless stood by the doors of low music halls and of theatres, but the door-keepers usually ordered him off.
A prayer like this should be inserted among the collects of the day, instead, say, of the collect for peace, which comes so ill from the lips of men whose ambition is usually to train some of their children as licensed men-slayers.
He could not even stand very long, but usually sought the rest of a friendly doorstep, and at times a recess on a bridge, watching, with tender wistfulness, the stream of life hurrying on around him.
He insisted, however, on reading the burial service himself, in spite of the remonstrances of his young curate, who usually did this work.
The meals are usually table-d'hôte, but it is possible also to order a dinner if one prefers to do so.
This is usually very safe, and any one going to Mottez's at Ghent should try it there.
Notwithstanding, it is a remarkable dinner, and there is usually a good variety of sweets.
And it usually strikes them, If they have not yet found it out, That these sausages are splendid When they're mixed with Sauerkraut.
It is most frequented towards the evening and for suppers after the theatres; usually a first-class but very noisy band is engaged there.
There is almost invariably good cider to be had and good wine on payment, but the cider and wine usuallyput on the table rival each other as throat-cutting beverages.
I was once at Lucerne during race week, and was doubtful whether I should find a room vacant at either of the hotels I usually stay at.
The atmosphere isusually hot, thick, and stuffy, but the clientèle does not seem to mind it.
A Goulache, as it is usually written on menus, or Gulyas as the Hungarians call it, is a ragout in which the pepper plays an important part.
Pfordte is a man of small stature but of most courteous and polished manners, and is no exception to the general rule that small men have usually great brains.
The food is of the best, while a special feature is made of English beers and other drinksusually sought after by the Briton travelling abroad.
In the small hotels in little provincial towns the meals are served at the times that the middle-class German of the north usually eats them, and are an inferior copy of what he gets in his own home.
Here the officers usually lunch and make a general rendezvous, often bringing their wives.
Madame was the only one who did not move, and smiling at her husband, said, "Is not this the hour you usually devote to your toilette?
Do you happen to know she was usually styled 'My Lady,' without the addition of any name to that description?
Seeing him set off, I followed him, as I usually do.
I am now expecting his majesty; it is the hour he usually pays me a visit; explain the matter to him yourself.
And as the peasants were looking at the innkeeper, usually so supercilious, and saw how respectful he had become in the presence of a poor monk, the Franciscan drew from a deep pocket three or four pieces of gold which he held out.
Footnote 2: In most other editions, the previous chapter and the next are usually combined into one chapter, entitled "D'Artagnan calls De Wardes to account.
Mr. Scott informs me that near Calcutta the tall columnar castings (previously described), the diameter of which is usually between 1 and 1.
Worms are nocturnal in their habits, and at night may be seen crawling about in large numbers, but usually with their tails still inserted in their burrows.
When they were illuminated by a candle, or even by a bright paraffin lamp, they were not usually affected at first.
From a very remote period and in many countries, land has been ploughed, so that convex beds, called crowns or ridges, usually about 8 feet across and separated by furrows, have been thrown up.
Work of this kind is usually performed during the night; but I have occasionally known objects to be drawn into the burrows during the day.
Although worms usually live near the surface, yet they burrow to a considerable depth during long-continued dry weather and severe cold.
The De Aar road was one block of moving transport, and the usuallyquiet main street of the village was alive with troops.
I fancy that you will find it has dried up a bit now, and as these storms are usually local, it is quite possible that you may strike better going as you get along.
Here indeed was a fund of information,--such being the channels through which the British Intelligence usually is worked.
The contract for the organ was made with a company whose agent said they usually sold their organs on faith, but that churches always paid the cost and often paid in advance of the date when the notes matured.
Usually health reigned in the entire church, and it was reasonably claimed that in five years more than six hundred cases of lung and throat trouble were permanently healed.
The clerk usually wrote the body of cheques, for his master to sign.
She had received a fair amount of education--a much better education than girls in her station usually receive.
He, however, usually preferred to be known as a man who had once been in, but now retired from, that business.
She was, perhaps, one of the handsomest women in London; and her beauty was of that order usually denominated "sweet.
These parcels are received from the hands of the clerk by some one who is always on the lookout at each place of deposit, with that eagerness or care men usually betray when they expect to obtain the reward of their industry.
They did not wish to communicate the fact of it being in their possession to any third person, and ask his advice, knowing that a secret shared with others is usually a secret no longer.
There were also two small saws, with handles to them, and a bottle of very thick oil, to make the saws and files cut faster, and also to prevent that harsh, squeaking sound which usually arises when steel cuts against steel.
But in these days the means is usually legal and Mexicans the victims.
He usually ignored them altogether now as they no longer were in his employ.
For a quarter of a mile he had been interested in the evidences of unwonted hilarity at the usually untenanted structure.
That's the way broken hips usually turn out; and if his spine is injured, as I suspect, he will probably be paralyzed from the waist down.
But life usually manages to adjust itself, and a boy's position in form is chiefly important as regards the relation it bears to that of the other members of his house.
Schoolmasters usually select the focus that is most near to the boy's interests: namely, athletics.
At a Public School only one boy in every twenty gets really ragged, and usually for obvious reasons.
And it is generally conceded that though they may on occasions do harm to the smaller boy, they usually prove of benefit to the elder boy.
He is usually a very fine fellow indeed, but he represents eternally the spirit of reaction.
It is usually during the course of his fourth term that a boy first begins to swear.
The emotion experienced is genuine, and usually takes the elder boy by surprise.
And, in every school, there is usually a thoroughly bad house.
This fact is realised by both parents and house masters, and those boys who are good neither at games nor work usually leave at about this period.
Occasionally cribbing wins a prize, but it is usually through a fluke.
Slackness on the field is the excuse for an official reprimand, and its effect is usually salutary.
And the public school boy does not usually set much greater value on his marks than the housewife on her egg-shells.
It must be remembered also that the parents who send their sons to day schools are usually not particularly well off.
The fear of being thought a coward very often makes the preparatory school boy confess to sins that he has never committed, and it is usually the ones who are most often in trouble who find themselves in this position.
Poets are not necessarily fortunate in love; but they usually fall among more romantic circumstances, and bear their disappointment with a better grace.
The ghouls had come later than usual, and they seemed more than usually eager to be gone.
Towards this benefactor he usually gets credit for a respectable display of gratitude.
The amateur cannot usually rise into the artist, some leaven of the world still clogging him; and we find Pepys behaving like a pickthank to the man who taught him composition.
She grew moody, moreover, and subject to fits of passionate ill temper; which usually wreaked itself on the heads of those who loved her best.
If you consider him well, you will observe an odd mixture of the bulldog, or some other equally fierce brute, in our friend's composition; a trait of savageness hardly to be expected in such a gentle creature as he usually is.
It is ten o'clock, your love"; the last two words being the mode of address usually adopted in Germany and Austria by Royalties when speaking to one another.
The efforts of humanity and religion to substitute the appeals of justice and the arbitrament of reason for the coercive measures usually resorted to by injured nations will receive little encouragement from such an issue.
Those credits on the books of some of the Western banks, usually called deposits, were already greatly beyond their immediate means of payment, and were rapidly increasing.
