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This may arise from the parent getting out of health, a circumstance which will be so manifest to herself, and to those more immediately interested in her welfare, that it is only necessary just to allude to it here.
Among those of the highest exclusiveness kidneys are never alluded to after the tenth gong-stroke of the morning.
The Speedy lay with her bows towards us, and she had suddenly fired the shot to which I alluded, and which now came bounding from wave to wave, until it struck precisely in a line with the ship, about a hundred yards distant.
And now I may as well observe, that the sale of those works is not confined to one place; wherever I went on board a steamer, I was sure to find boys with baskets of books, and among them many of the kind above alluded to.
I have before alluded to the blight which destroyed so many fine elms on both shores of the James River.
It would be a somewhat difficult task, we thought, to discover the favors and patronage alluded to; but the young merchants had concluded that this clause gave a dignity and air of reality to the whole.
Although these various companies made much noise at the time, they introduced no new settlers into the land, and, in fact, did nothing of lasting effect; so that it is mere waste of time to allude to most of them.
The version just alluded to purports to be by a child in his eighth year.
In completing the second volume of a publication, to which the circumstances of the day have given rise, it may be right to allude to a change which has taken place in them since the date of its commencement.
Said the indignant Matthew, alluding, by that term, to the outlaws of his profession.
The poets almost always allude to the primrose as a pale and interesting invalid.
Indeed, in every way Washington showed how entirely he considered himself as a father, not merely speaking of them frequently as "the children," but even alluding to himself in a letter to the boy as "your papa."
Is the measure now under consideration of the objectionable character to which I have alluded?
Besides making the trip to Italy, already alluded to, in 1819, he journeyed in 1826 to North Germany, seeing Goethe in Weimar, in 1836 to Paris, in 1837 to London, in 1843 down the Danube to Athens, and in 1847 again to Berlin and to Hamburg.
I was really not acquainted with the circumstance to which you allude, but I shall look into it without delay.
With these impressions, therefore, he felt it a sort of duty to offer his book to the world; and should the objects alluded to be in any degree promoted by it, he shall consider its publication as the most fortunate circumstance of his life.
Kemp Town, named after its speculative builder, has been but briefly alluded to; it is to many the most attractive part of the great town, rising at the east end to a respectable height above the sea and with fine views of the Channel.
"Princess," exclaimed the nurse, "we cannot tell what you allude to without more explanation."
Now this very outcry proves the want of the very paper alluded to.
As he approached his home it seemed to him that he had profaned his affection for Marguerite by mentioning her name in that rude society, and broken her confidence by alluding to his hopes and his fears.
For instance, the guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot.
Here, then, your present condition is a type of the complete truth of the text: but there are other points, to which I alluded before, in which it is more than a type; it is the very truth itself, although, happily, only in an imperfect measure.
For most men, in such a case as I have referred to, when they do not believe the language of the Scripture, but wish to alter it, whether by omission or addition, do not deal so fairly with it as that great man did to whom I have alluded.
With the doctor, as with the lawyer, a long intellectual education, a slowly-increasing strain, and responsibilities of gradual growth tend, with his out-door life, to save him from the form of disease I have been alluding to.
I allude to the happy couples on their honeymoon whom one is wont to meet with in these retired bowers.
I allude to the impulse to strangle the object of sexual desire, and to the corresponding craving to be strangled.
Then as to the valuing of coffee plantations we have, of course, to consider all these points, as well as many others, to which I shall presently allude when I come to treat of that branch of my subject.
The captain, being unable to recall any shipper of the class alluded to by Fred, changed his course.
Under this view of the subject, the term perfect may be properly applied to this tense, for it specifies, not only the completion of the action, but, also, alludes to the particular period of its accomplishment.
Still, he was not the man to allude to the misadventures of his guest.
Certainly a barrier which usually stands fast had fallen, and it was possible to speak of matters which are generally only alluded to between men and women when doctors are present, or the shadow of death.
He alludes to the habit of drinking as one which he has now contracted; and he is clearly entering on the period of his greatest excesses, perhaps also of his most strenuous exertions in the cause of knowledge.
The various contents of the saga can only be alluded to in the briefest manner.
The size of the trees as they generally occur in the limits above alluded to, entirely precludes all idea of any great liability to be destroyed by the extraction of juice, the amount of which must be so minute, compared to that of the whole tree.
From these conditions originates the active predisposing cause of pneumonia, to which we have already alluded.
He was alluded to as "a strange laddie," and the gulf of misunderstanding seemed to grow wider every day.
This is, of course, a very different story from the disgraceful tale alluded to above.
"The cavalier," he answered with dignity, "may have heard me allude to my travels?"
She lowered her eyes, remembering the moment to which I alluded, yet her glance turned to me beneath her eyelids, expressing the joy of a woman who finds the mere passing tones from her heart preferred to the delights of another love.
The unhappy old man had been sitting in the armchair we have alluded to, his chin resting on his breast, and his mind apparently absorbed in deep and painful reflection, when the officers of justice entered.
She is calm now, and when you speak do not allude to her bereavement, or recall yesterday's bloody tragedy.
Rook to close the inn, Cecilia had alluded to an inquest held on the body of the murdered man.
As in conversation too, the striking image or figure of speech is not forgotten, but is quickly caught up, and alluded to again and again; as it would still be in our own day in a genial and sympathetic society.
I allude to it with a satisfaction akin to that one feels in gazing upon a plain fertilized by an inundation.
"I mean no unkindness; but is not the heart you allude to an alarmingly searching one?"
Nelson was not blind to these facts, and not infrequently alludes to them.
The details of the intended assault upon Leghorn do not appear, and it is probable that they never passed beyond the stage of discussion to that of acceptance, although he alludes to the plans as "laid."
As he wrote, somewhat incoherently, to his brother, alluding to a disappointment about prize money.
It will be understood that I allude to the common forms in depreciating this species.
It resembles the Chinese habit of alluding to a "loathsome" wife and a "disgusting" daughter.
My instructions were not to allude to it if your attitude were in the least conciliatory.
I discovered it accidentally, for you know the papers were never left in my way, and in all her letters she alluded to her 'work being successful,' but never mentioned what it was; and I always imagined she was a musician giving concerts.
He alluded to the letter which he had written her, mentioning as a singular coincidence that at the moment of her entrance he was engaged in writing another to her, to inquire if the former had been received.
If he alludes to her mellow voice, she tries conscientiously to make it more beautiful still.
In some, we can clearly recognize his hand, as where he alludes to Roman customs, or indulges in puns.
At first, when the absence of the jailer was a recent occurrence, and the presence of the murderers among us was, in consequence, revived to our anxious thoughts, it was an event which few alluded to without fear.
I allude to those in which an attempt is made to soar above the ordinary actions and ordinary language of life.
I will never think of them or allude to them until you choose to enlighten me.
Shakespeare alludes quite complacently to the appearance of boys and men in women's parts.
She presented the delicate light hair, the quiet eyes, the finely-shaped lower features and the correctly oval form of face, repeated in hundreds on hundreds of the conventional works of Art to which I have ventured to allude.
In alluding to Eunice, she had blundered, strangely enough, on something like the truth.
These are facts known to all who have looked into the matter, but there is no such thing as decent public opinion on the subject, and the author or speaker who dares to allude to them takes his means of living, if not his life, into his hands.
And our sympathy is due to one who by one of those strange contradictions in human nature finds herself, a highly nervous creature, the victim of an affection for one of the coarser organizations to which I have alluded.
"A mere visionary, and no man," the hapless parent said, whenever he alluded to him.
She looked at him dumbly; not in the least knowing to whom he was alluding.
Of one thing she may be assured: no disrespect was intended by the gentleman to whom I allude, and she certainly cannot think that I would forget her claims as a lady, and as the wife of the man whom I had reason to believe my friend.
The characteristics alluded to below are those which may be easily observed and which are aids to a rapid judgment of character and which I have never before been able to give to the public in such a concise way.
While speaking on the subject of laying off the segments into degrees, the former matter of observing the heavens was alluded to, and Ralph inquired why all calculations of the heavens were made by degrees.
Here we have the view already alluded to of a term of life impressed on a species.
This was so singularly the case that it had presumably much to do with the fact as to which, at the present day, I am at a loss for a different explanation: I allude to my unnatural composure on the subject of another school for Miles.
The "latent color" there alluded to, is one of the advantages of orient yellow.
The Consul must not refuse to submit to an inquiry or an injunction addressed to him by the Minister for Foreign affairs, because of finding the matter in question not to be of the kind alluded to above.
The excellence of the Field hospitals for their purpose has been already alluded to, and, as far as I could ascertain, won the confidence and approval of patients, military commanders, and civilians such as myself.
You gather, of course, that I am alluding to your very undignified conduct in the sight of all your fellow-pupils.
Who were the culprits was known in the course of the day, with the result that, acting on the suggestion already alluded to, the doctor had gone down to the mouth of the river to wait the coming of the borrowers of the boat.
I was alluding to times before she assumed that appellation, or became my parent.
From what I heard the girls say, I confess that I was somewhat afraid that his majesty would propose bestowing his daughter on me at once, and was greatly relieved when I found he had not in any way alluded to the subject.
By his manner, however, he appeared not to be conscious that we were witnesses of the fearful deed he had committed, and under the circumstances we were placed, Harry and Charley agreed with me that it would not be wise in any way to allude to it.
Esau, too, was overcome, I was sure; but it always after remained a point of honor with us never to allude to the proceedings of that night when we remained there back to back without uttering a word, and, till we heard steps, without moving.
Could she dare to allude to it, if only to implore him to forgive her?
The officer alluded to wrote to me that he on one occasion had read one of my articles by camp-fire to his regiment, who gave at the end three tremendous cheers, which were replied to by the enemy, who were not far away, with shouts of defiance.
Potts, who has just come up, alluding to Molly's little cruel outburst of merriment.
We must next allude to the cases where the relative is governed by a preposition.
A few days after, Mr Grayson asked him to what Bruce had alluded in his insinuation about an examination-paper.
There is one thing connected with him which must ever prevent any one of right feelings from esteeming him; I allude to his incessant abuse of his native land, a land, too, which had made him its idol.
Joseph Howe, in alluding to the riot, took the Scotch side of the broil.
Turpin listened with the gravity of one of the distinguished persons alluded to, at the commencement of the present chapter, upon their receiving the freedom of the city at the hands of a mayor and corporation.
He feels with me the unintentional injustice done to your wife, but he cannot bear the subject alluded to.
It was a sentiment we could all echo; for he, to whom she had alluded in these few lines as one she could not love, was a man whom most women would consider the embodiment of all that was admirable and attractive.
In his last address to the council Wilmot alluded to the benign influence of time on a slandered reputation.
A day or two ago Maria, in company with another "lady" of like loose character, went on board one of the boats alluded to, each bent upon securing a state-room, if possible, but one at least was doomed to disappointment.
Moreover, had he stolen the brooch, he would hardly have talked so openly of the fence he alluded to.
He alluded to his unfortunate attachment, and wished it were possible to discontinue his acquaintance.
Whether he meant that hunting was better now than in the old days twenty years ago, or that things as regarded the Newton estate were better, was not explained; but all who heard him speak imagined that he was alluding to the latter subject.
He alluded to witchcraft, and she defied him again, then he called the guard; but when the soldiers' tread echoed in the corridor, she drew the cloth from a hidden panel in her bureau and flung it at him, with bitter words cursing him.
He alluded to the political connection of the United States with Europe, and promised to give them, in a subsequent communication, a statement of occurrences which related to it, that had passed under the knowledge of the executive.
Still Maggie was restored to favor, and in a day or two seemed much the same as usual, even flying into a passion when, contrary to Eleanor's order, the subject was alluded to in the nursery and curiosity expressed as to what had become of the box.
She alluded to the girlhood of the present day as it presented itself to her regretful and disapproving eye.
He was fond of alluding to his past and entertained no diffidence whatsoever in regard to his own abilities.
Up to this time, although it had been alluded to and the doctor had told him of the intense interest with which he had read it, he had never ventured to make it the subject of any long talk, such as would be liable to fatigue his patient.