With smaller objects a more usual method would duplicate the charges, thus "per bend argent and azure," and "argent, a star of six points azure" would result in "per bend argent and azure, two stars of six points counterchanged" (Fig. 771). — from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
one still pale cloud
Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; it lay with the neatliest finished border on every sloping roof, making the dark-red gables stand out with a new depth of color; it weighed heavily on the laurels and fir-trees, till it fell from them with a shuddering sound; it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches; the gates were all blocked up with the sloping drifts, and here and there a disregarded four-footed beast stood as if petrified "in unrecumbent sadness"; there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
or sick persons carried
If we depart hence, we either see dead bodies or sick persons carried about or those, whom for their misdeeds the authority of the public laws whilere condemned to exile, overrun the whole place with unseemly excesses, as if scoffing at the laws, for that they know the executors thereof to be either dead or sick; whilst the dregs of our city, fattened with our blood, style themselves pickmen and ruffle it everywhere in mockery of us, riding and running all about and flouting us with our distresses in ribald songs. — from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
of Speech Phrases Clauses
The Sentence: Subject and Predicate; Kinds of Sentences.—Use of words in the Sentence: the Eight Parts of Speech; Infinitives and Participles.—Comparative Importance of the Parts of Speech in the Sentence: the Subject Noun (or Simple Subject); the Predicate Verb (or Simple Predicate); Compound Subject and Predicate.—Substitutes for the Parts of Speech: Phrases; Clauses; Compound and Complex Sentences. — from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge
At length, I fervently requested her to lead me immediately to the object of my adoration; but she resisted my importunity, and explained the danger of such premature conduct. — from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett
of some primitive common
The typical embryonic form of the metazoa, as it is presented for a time by this simple structure of the two-layered body, is called the gastrula ; it is to be conceived as the hereditary reproduction of some primitive common ancestor of the metazoa, which we call the gastræa. — from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel
of St Paul compelling
We may be sure that the spirited action of St. Paul, compelling these provincial magnates to humble themselves before the despised strangers, must have had a very wholesome effect in restraining them from similar violence during the rest of their term of office. — from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes
sing because of the improving school system Liberia Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Liberia conventional short form: Liberia Government type: republic Capital: Monrovia Administrative divisions: 13 counties; Bomi, Bong, Grand Bassa, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru, Lofa, Margibi, Maryland, Montserrado, Nimba, River Cess, Sinoe Independence: 26 July 1847 National holiday: Independence Day, 26 July (1847) Constitution: 6 January 1986 Legal system: dual system of statutory law based on Anglo-American common law for the modern sector and customary law based on unwritten tribal practices for indigenous sector Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Charles Ghankay TAYLOR (since 2 August 1997); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: — from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
of subordinate places clerks
Persons who were in the classified civil service on July 16, 1883, and persons who have been since that date or may be hereafter put into that service by the inclusion of subordinate places, clerks, and officers, under the provisions of section 6 of the act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, approved January 16, 1883, shall be entitled to all rights of promotion possessed by persons of the same class or grade appointed after examination under the act referred to above. — from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland
only sixty per cent
Comparing wires of equal sizes and lengths, the aluminum have only sixty per cent of the conductivity of the copper, so that an aluminum wire must have 1.66 times the sectional area of a copper wire of the same length in order to offer an equal electrical resistance. — from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams
of some particular clan
The chiefs, on the other hand, are a most select class, whose pedigree is traced most carefully in the traditionary genealogies to the ancient head of some particular clan. — from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
on seventy per cent
It ran on seventy per cent hydrogen peroxide, first developed as a fuel back in the 1940s for the pumps of the V2 rockets that tried to win the Second World War for Germany. — from Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
of solid piece C
54 Pickerel weed characteristics, G 366 Pickles walnuts, A 37 Pickling metals definition, M 210 Picks (tools) forging stone picks, M 344 * Picnic tables and benches making, B 132–134 Picture frames and framing carbon photographs of a masterpiece, framing D 69–72 carving designs, C 101 , 102 , 130–132 colonial interiors in colors, framing, D 68 gluing mitred joints, D 144–146 * joints kind required, D 147 mitred, D 143–144 *, C 232–234 * large photographic reproduction, framing, D 148 palette photograph frame, C 131 passe partout, D 72–78 * rabbeting, C 232 * [215] selecting, D 67 shrinkage, D 146 silver work, M 185–186 * staining, D 69 , 71 stock, securing, D 142–143 * whittling back for, C 131 whittling out of solid piece, C 19–22 * Pictures, D 64–80 * cleaning, H 135 decorative value, D 64 grouping and hanging, D 66–67 hanging correctly, D 79 — from The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index by Cheshire Lowton Boone
of something particularly cruel
Again the tightness seized his throat while wave after wave of something particularly cruel swept through him. — from Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris
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