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The follies of youth will break out, but I think that you have a sterling foundation to your character underlying any superficial levity.
Such is the chronological order of events; but on the face of it, it explains little of the underlying causes of this conflagration.
He was trying to detect there some signs of that coquetry or affectation of reluctance which he believed must surely underlie her words.
The latter, being a deliberate attempt to dramatize a revolution rather than to express the feelings that underlie revolutions, was an artistic failure.
Ordinarily a yellowish or greenish tinge underlies the ornamental color, and if this latter disappears, the yellowish ground will become manifest.
He was full of good intentions, of a certain underlying honesty and benevolence, all rather obscured by his boorish exterior and manners.
"Yes," blustered Verity, fully alive now to the immense possibilities underlying the appearance in print of Iris's references to her forthcoming marriage.
Quiet, reticent, and unassuming, it was given to but few to know the great-hearted, unselfish sweetness of nature underlying his whole life.
A firm faith in the underlying goodness of human nature is shown throughout all these tales, and all teach love and forbearance.
Barth, maintained that by touching or irritating any part of the outer skull, the underlying portions of the brains could be excited.
Underlying complacency with respect to social ills grows up because they afford an opportunity for developing and displaying this finest of virtues.
Howsoever, be the underlying cause what it might, Paris weathered the brunt of the ordeal with splendid fortitude and an admirable coolness.
Acts of loving and hating, where in this way there is an underlying general conception, also possess frequently the character of rightness.
The sandstone shows no bedded structure, but seems to form a mantle over the hill, following the irregularities of the underlying granite.
The torpor of deceived hopes underlying his superficial changes of mood had been pricked by these words which seemed pointed with purpose.
Especially does it help us to understand the complexity underlying the facts of heredity, which until now have seemed so strange and capricious.
Sage's wealth increased, the generous and public-spirited impulses which were his underlying characteristics, became entirely obscured by the craze for accumulation.
I insisted that it might be possible there were no absolute rules underlying all reality, but only relative rules that might be changeable.
She was not yet sufficiently acquainted with his voice to detect the regret underlying its kindly tone, and answered without suspicion.
Apart from any intrinsic merit underlying the new system there were many causes at work, all gravitating towards its general acceptance.
The reason for the impotent result in this one direction is easy to comprehend when we get at the facts underlying the corruption.
Science becomes exact science only when the underlying laws which correlate and unify its scattered facts and theories have been discovered.
Drugs, stimulants and tonics, while they produce an artificial, temporary stimulation, do not change the underlying abnormal conditions in the organism.
In fact, the central tenet underlying measurement in normal science directly contradicts the central tenet of human science: created versus creating.
It seemed as though everything that any man there could do or say was to be studied for an underlying and furtive motive.
It has, therefore, been brought forward here at once, as it underlies the whole subject and is essential to all clear thought thereon.
Often it is possible to trace them to their underlying disordered sense impression or the particular environment or to vestiges of outgrown beliefs.
Or was it concerned with underlying principles and purposes with which English culture had not for three hundred years been troubled?
Yet even in these papers he recurs again and again to those fundamental political questions which underlie all notions of persons and parties.
The same answer may be made of any scientific doctrine whatever, and in reference to any one of the multitudinous assumptions underlying it.
There was no resisting her merry audacity, with its underlying principle to strengthen it, and Melville was the first to speak.
Allen longed to ask just where Covington claimed to stand, but he dreaded further imputations as to the motives underlying his question.
The latest despatches say that the published reports give but a slight idea of the grave trouble that is underlying this matter.
However ordinary and accustomed court trials may become to the participants, there will always remain the deep underlying stress of human passions.
No diplomatic subterfuge can efface the humiliation that underlies the situation; and no one can possibly exaggerate the danger that lies ahead of us.
The advertising is lavish, and the underlying principle of it is, that the prospective purchaser wishes a complete description of the wares.
It is astonishing to see how clearly the first short sketch states the underlying conception which all of Darwin's subsequent work amplifies.
Continued correspondence with the Girl accentuates the divergence of our views, painfully discovering the fundamental difference of attitude underlying even common conclusions.
"Good night, Tom," the young man was saying, with an outward show of carelessness barely concealing a great deal of underlying irritation.
Probably one underlying reason of this, at a date so late, was to make sure that no formality should be lacking to make the forfeiture effective.
If we are not agreed on these points, the debate must be adjourned until we have settled the first principles which underlie the discussion.
We find that Ezekiel restates in the most emphatic manner the theological principles which underlie this new development of his prophetic duties.
Yet the slim, sweet, patrician face that stared into his had an underlying expression of expectancy that reminded him of the cove.
Simplicity of thought begets simplicity of expression, and the orator with but a single idea underlying his argument has this irresistible power.
Further acquaintance with the Grebe only deepened the interest and made clearer the emotional tinge underlying all the relations of the sexes.
Those underlying conditions were a drawback, they were a misuse of human nature employed as a basis for that ornamental superstructure to build on.
It is solicitude about what others will say that underlies all our vanity and pretension, yes, and all our show and swagger too.
One and all, they are opposed to the turmoil and corruption that it involves, and resentful of the invasion of liberty underlying it.
Treated in most of the arguments for or against the players was salary, but it was only a cover hiding an underlying malaise.
This clay is cold and sour, almost impervious to moisture and air, and protects the underlying rock from decay to a great extent.
Then he went to his room and left me wondering at the vast mysteries that underlie the rough surface of the sophomore's soul.
In the case of the sane criminal, an immoral basis underlies all causes, and without this they would each and all be impotent.
They were both smiling, yet with an underlying credulity and seriousness as singularly pathetic as it seemed incongruous to their years and intelligence.
He is also the universal law, the rational principle, underlying all the apparently casual and fitful phenomena of physical nature and human life.
This spot coincides in position with the underlying dorsal pineal eye, which shines out conspicuously owing to the glistening whiteness of its pigment.
I was perpetually in a row with the overhanging thickets and the underlying logs, and my thoughts were a monologue of exclamation points.
This positive affirmation, which is the underlying root and origination of the process, is consequently also forced to exhibit itself in a like positive way.
Among the several processes of complication which underlie this differentiation of the laughing psychosis, some tend to arrest or tone down the reaction.
The guileless lady was prattling on, no doubt as usual, as a relief to her own feelings, and not with any underlying intention.
Underlying the whole question are the native proclivities based upon the strange and significant practices of earlier forms of Pagan superstitions and sacrifices.
The principles of the canning of salmon are not different at all from those which underlie the sterilization of any kind of food.
They leave one still puzzling as to what may be the aboriginal conception underlying this legendary beast of earth and clouds and waters.
Your inquest, when you hold it, will reveal some curious facts; but I doubt if it will reveal the secret underlying this man's reticence.
The aspect is purely political, with the underlying thought, it may be supposed, that under the postulated government, all else will prosper.
It was patent that the revelation had startled and thrilled her; however, there was a more insistent, underlying trouble struggling for expression.
While she had been cordial enough, yet there was an underlying suggestion of reserve, not at all apparent and yet unmistakably felt.
Of the bitterness underlying the words that were said, that she should not spend too much on his clothes, she knew nothing.
Such principles take note of the factors pertaining to the subjects, and indicate the underlying relationships in a manner to be later shown herein.
Used in a scholastic sense, it does not mean the sensuous attributes of a thing taken altogether, but something that underlies and supports them.
In considering these ways we find ourselves, at almost every turn, face to face with the great enigmas of life which underlie all Theology.
This law of growth, which is the grand underlying one that moves the universe, acts on living species mainly through the male.
Such seems to me to be the reasoning underlying Paul's conception of the powerlessness of the Law to save, its failure to impart righteousness.
The scientific facts underlying his color moods should answer all futile questions of why he selected such deep and somber color combinations.
As a deductive exercise in clear, logical thought, the indirect proof involved in establishing certain principles underlying the four figures, is of immense value.
The soil and the rocks were a bright red instead of, as in our village, a dazzling white because of the underlying chalk beds.
There is indeed much in your plan that commends itself to me, but I confess a liking for the underlying part of a scheme.
What was the web of which this word was the woof, knitting together, underlying, now appearing, now hidden, but always there?
"The Venerable Russell Edmonds has the floor," said Tommy Burt in a voice whose open raillery subtly suggested an underlying affection and respect.
The underlying idea of the war is a life for a life; and in the matrimonial matter one life is the sum of vengeance required.
There are scratches on the underlying rock in every part of the town, pointing in the southerly direction in which the glacier moved.
His stories are distinguished by simplicity of motive; each is related with fine unobtrusive humor and with an underlying pathos, never unduly emphasized.
I hold, then, that the "struggle for existence" belongs to an underlying order of facts to which moral epithets cannot be properly applied.
Deficiencies in the cerebral vascular system underlie the pathological phenomena on the basis of infantile cerebral paralysis, and allied hereditary and congenital states.
An industry of considerable importance is the quarrying of the beautiful, dark Cape Ann granite that underlies the city and all the environs.
From these the validity of the a priori principles that underlie mathematics and physics can (in the Analytic of Principles) be directly deduced.
Here again she but exemplifies a principle which underlies the practice of all the Saints, in proportion to their maturity and full normality.
Truth is the underlying foundation of respect, respect begets friendship, and friendship sometimes is followed by the more tender passion we call love.
Nevertheless, it is convenient to consider under a single head a number of relatively infrequent disorders in which there is invariably an underlying constitutional cause.
It came to him now linked with remembrance of the slight, reluctant touch of her fingers, the faintly evasive dislike underlying her glance.
His outburst was too vehement and sudden not to come from some underlying current of deep feeling, rather than from the present conversation.
The interchange of these principles underlies all mundane activity and existence, and upon its cessation life would wholly disappear from the planet.
When a person exclaims, "I did a thing inadvertently or mechanically," it often means that he did not note the motive underlying the action.
For a correct understanding of these practices and of the relative desirability of these systems we must again turn to underlying principles and purposes.
This much is true for me, namely, whatever tallies with my experience and reveals to me more of the underlying purpose of the universe.
It is gratifying to know that this important interest, which underlies all others, is receiving increased attention in various portions of the United States.
This result is natural and necessary, because matter, substance, "a space-filling force," is the underlying notional upon which as ground any concept is possible.
I say without the slightest hesitation that the basic, underlying motive of these men is a fierce and uncompromising passion to get rich quick.
Happy people with a deep sense of underlying contentment and satisfaction in life may yet strive ardently to improve and beautify everything round them.
The mythological subjects underlying both canvases have a classic note, but their refreshing color scheme removes these pictures from any classic affiliation.
The underlying markings are inconspicuous and are only visible on eggs having a pale background, and then they are of small size and indistinct.