Able Sentence Examples
His father was never able to get custody of him as a child.
When will you be able to take me to get my car?
It's good to be able to listen.
She wasn't going to be able to sleep any more.
If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.
Looking out, they could see into some of the houses near them, where there were open windows in abundance, and were able to mark the forms of the wooden Gargoyles moving about in their dwellings.
In the future, all people will be able to follow their passions without regard for market forces.
Nothing she had ever experienced in her life was more painful than that moment, knowing his pain and not being able to say a thing to help.
If I can slip them, I may be able to help.
Would she ever be able to watch a normal family scene without feeling the agony of her loss?
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A few times she nodded off, but for the most part she was able to stay awake until Alex arrived the next morning with Katie.
Our friends had a good start and were able to maintain it, for with their eight wings they could go just as fast as could the Gargoyles.
The coachman explained as well as he was able; and they rode onward.
They need to be able to irrigate without relying solely on rain.
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And if so, would they be able to fit three people comfortably in the front seat?
Brandon still wasn't sure when he would be able to leave the ranch.
I'd call him, but of course he wouldn't be able to answer!
She's such a little fraidy cat but I shan't be able to keep her much longer.
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We mutually agreed the subject of our tests was verboten until we were able to get together again in three weeks hence.
He should be able to deliver.
But the noise and clatter seemed as dreadful to them as Jim's heels, for all who were able swiftly turned and flew away to a great distance.
Being able to discuss such things with him was as comforting as it was new.
AdvertisementHe had an idea of how his father felt, fearing he would have to watch his little boy grow and not being able to be the provider.
It must be fun to be able to ride all around freely while we're stuck in our wagons.
This was not the first time she wasn't able to assist.
She turned to go back to the house and realized she wouldn't be able to make it before the storm caught up with her.
I've never been able to.
I will be able to change their color.
There was some question that he might not be able to keep his own child?
Will you be able to come?
And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.
A Cleveland mother had reported an infant child was taken from his crib while napping yet when Howie was able to enter the location before and during the alleged time, there was no sign of the child.
Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.
I was able to take care of that issue, though.
Would she be able to use it?
I should make too good a target for the French, besides I am afraid I should hardly be able to climb onto a horse.
It was several more minutes before she was able to take deep breaths – even longer before she was able to utter more than a strangled sound.
The vehicle was different but this time he was able to record the South Carolina license plate number.
On the record, tell the public this; you've been led to believe the psychic tipster is a woman of an age able to collect social security.
Howie was able to view the abduction, though it was particularly brutal as the young boy was knocked unconscious and bleeding.
Would you be able to access national data bases?
The thought distracted her, and she both yearned to be with him and hated herself for not being able to shake the thought of him.
Horrified, she wasn't able to look away.
He hadn't been able to sleep in two days but fell fast into a deep, peaceful slumber.
No, I was able to get you in at the Thompson's.
But my guess is that we will be able to do this and even make existing "good" genes perform better.
Structural famine exists when enough food is technically on hand or able to be imported, but some portion of the population is economically separated from it.
To further enhance yield, at the same time Borlaug bred wheat strains with short, stubby stalks, which were able to better handle more weight of grain.
In the past, humanity has been able to sustain both wars and progress.
The Internet is still able to be "turned off" by despotic rulers.
Computers will be able to reproduce them at will and hobbyists will still study them.
It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation.
It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read.
To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving.
If it has come to this--we must fight as long as Russia can and as long as there are men able to stand...
Would she have been able to hear his conversation behind a closed door?
If Howard had not been able to find anything on Yancey, it was probably because there was nothing to tell.
On the other hand, if you abandoned the wagons and rode the mules, you might be able to keep ahead of the Indians.
Then I busted his chops how he wouldn't be able to, I don't know, relate.
Granted, what we accomplished was monumental, but coming across a similar situation and duplicating what we were able to do might not occur very often.
Howie was able to follow her to a vehicle and relate the plate number!
Howie, now able to usually remain with a vehicle, stayed with the car to a suburban ranch style house only six miles from the kidnapping.
Are you able to maximize the use of this ability?
You're just as much a bull's eye if this monster is able to pick up your trail.
Now I'm able to adjust my method of operation accordingly.
It sounds like I might be able to work something out.
Are you saying it's only you who are able to.
I think … no, I know they have to be able to, if I can.
No one has ever been able to see into my mind.
But, if an Immortal or human or deity corners you, and you aren't able to summon me, you need to know how to defend yourself, Darkyn started.
Being able to trust my own mate.
He left, barely able to see straight let alone think straight.
But then, he didn't expect a woman to be able to work a farm... it wasn't natural.
I left him with my neighbor and haven't been able to reach her.
They looked barely able to hold her, let alone Brady!
Toby was silent, knowing a normal Immortal could never understand. He didn't yet have the full power of a real guardian angel, but he should've been able to do more than … nothing. Angels were placed with human mothers so they could understand the creatures they were meant to take care of. Human mothers raised them as their own, yet none of his human mothers had gone to the extent Katie did to try to protect him.
Kris heard what Kiki didn't say, that only Andre had been able to keep the Council together after their father's death. The six headstrong brothers of the Council That Was Seven had respected Andre, who was an adult when the rest of the brothers were born.
He sensed the death-dealer's presence without being able to see into the dark room.
There are signs when Death is in her fortress. I might be able to see the trees in their defensive positions from here.
As troubling as I find the latest trend of people entering my domain uninvited, I feel able to handle it.
It must be nice to be able to come out here and see them anytime you want.
Although under the sway of the dukes of Pomerania, the city was able to maintain a marked degree of independence, which is still apparent in its municipal privileges.
Had his successor been as prudent and able, he might have made a unified Netherlands the nucleus of a mighty middle kingdom, interposing between France and Germany, and a revival of that of the Carolingian Lothaire.
Though it joined in the Ionian revolt against Persia in 500 it was able to send only three ships to the combined fleet which fought at Lade.
His general administration seems to have been thoroughly honest and able, in some respects beneficent.
It is important to observe that the risk is in no way obviated by the increasing slack paid out, except in so far as the amount of sliding which the strength of the cable is able to produce at the points of contact with the ground may be thereby increased.
Delayed during the autumn months in Poland by the tardy arrival of reinforcements from Pomerania, it was not till November 1707 that Charles was able to take the field.
The subtle interplay of everything involved in nutrition is vastly more complex than our minds are able to handle.
Imagine if today everyone spoke one language and I said that in the future we will speak hundreds of different languages and not be able to understand each other.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.
That is all I have been able to find out about him.
If you don't get some sleep when you go home, you won't be able to relieve me tonight.
As Martha said, I'm able to dial in settings that affect time and a location.
The woman was far enough ahead she should be able to escape while he distracted the creature.
You must clean house, Jonny, or you'll never be able to go on the offensive.
I mean, I might be able to seal the breach I made, if it doesn't get bigger and I can borrow Damian's power.
Damian, however, was impressed he was able to do it at all.
No other woman has been able to resist me.
That thought coupled with her nightmare made her even angrier at not being able to eat.
Claire was all that remained of his brother, and he'd loved her out of respect for a man whose death he'd never been able to accept.
He'd never been able to share his pain with anyone else.
He'd never been able to bring himself to wear it.
She wasn't able to tell what time it was in Hell.
Darkyn extended his hand, drawing her from the thoughts before it was able to form fully.
As my mate, you are able to use a limited amount of my power, he explained.
A few more days, and even I wouldn't have been able to undo what Wynn did.
She was almost able to catch it before it fled her again.
He whispered words she wasn't able to make out then bit her again, this time hard enough for the pain to piece her dreamlike stage.
After what he'd done to her, she wasn't able to.
Toby felt almost as distraught at having to stay in the cell while his human was lost in the underworld. Not that he didn't trust Rhyn or Gabe, just that, he might be able to find her first.
If Memon succeeds in raising an army of his allies, he will be able to trap us here on the cliffs, against the ocean here.
She sighed, no longer able to sustain her hope.
In seven years of marriage, he had not been able to teach her how to avoid being one of them.
He used to be able to read her every thought, but lately he seemed to do more misreading than anything else.
It was probably best to ignore the remark, and she was able to do so without being rude when the doorbell rang.
I have Felipa right now and I'll be able to do it in a few days.
You can find someone else for this job - and don't tell me I'll never be able to find another one.
He was able to see, hear, smell and predict the actions of those around him.
He was able to creep up, snatch a purse and run before anyone registered that the hooded youth ever approached.
He hadn't been able to steal enough coppers to replace even her boots and almost sighed.
She wasn't able to pretend to be okay.
He wasn't able to do it now.
The total school population of Argentina in 1900 (6 to 14 years) was 994,089, of which 45% attended school, and 13% of those not attending were able to read and write.
This able leader, eager to reach Asuncion as quickly as possible, sent on his ships to the river Plate, but himself with a small following marched overland from Santa Catherina on the coast of Brazil to join Irala.
Here the efforts of Dr Alem succeeded in supplying a large body of rebels with arms and ammunition, and he was able, by a bold attack, to seize the town of Rosario and there establish the revolutionary headquarters.
Uriburu found in 1897 the financial position so far improved that he was able to resume cash payments on the entire foreign debt.
He purchased the allegiance of the stryeltsi, or musketeers, and then, summoning the boyars of the council, earnestly represented to them that Theodore, scarce able to live, was surely unable to reign, and urged the substitution of little Peter.
About 292, thanks to his friend Theophrastus, he was able to return to Attica, and took up his abode in the country with a former associate, Proxenus.
Broom believes Thylacoleo to have been "a purely carnivorous animal, and one which would be quite able to, and probably did, kill animals as large or larger than itself."
Under their mild and just rule both the native Greeks and the Italian residents were able to carry on a brisk trade.
The Daly, which in its upper course is called the Katherine, is navigable for a considerable distance, and small vessels are able to ascend over 100 m.
This element was introduced via Torres Strait, and spread down the Queensland coast to portions of the New South Wales littoral, and also round the Gulf of Carpentaria, but has never been able to obtain a hold in the more arid interior.
The Labour unions were able to secure in these years many concessions both as to hours and wages.
The events of these three years taught the Labour leaders that a parliamentary party was of little practical influence unless it was able to cast on all important occasions a solid vote, and to meet the case a new method was devised.
Very few of the members who refused to take the pledge were returnca, and the adherents of the united party were able to accomplish more with their reduced number than under the old conditions.
One of the consequences of the persecutions of which he was the object was to oblige him to spend three years, from 1896 to 1899, in England, where his participation in the management of the Suez Canal had won for him some strong friendships, and where he was able to see the great respect in which the memory and name of his father were held by Englishmen.
The Romans, under an able general, Cerealis, took advantage of this, and Civilis, beaten in fight, retired to the island of the Batavians.
Finally in 924 Lorraine passed in the reign of Henry the Fowler under German (East Frankish) overlordship. Henry's son, Otto the Great, owing to the disordered state of the country, placed it in 953 in the hands of his able brother, Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, for pacification.
Deputies Philip and was able to hand over the country to his son Philip Joanna.
This extremely able man, a Burgundian by birth, was the son of one of Charles V.'s most trusted councillors, and it was largely to him that the government of the Netherlands was confided.
His primary object was to prove that the world was built after the same shape and fashion as the Ark made by the Children of Israel in the desert; but he was able to show that the Malay Peninsula had to be rounded and thereafter a course steered in a northerly direction if China was to be reached.
Burnet declares he had little Latin, but he was able to converse with the Dutch ambassador in that language.
It seemed likely that the whole of the north would be laid open and the royalists be able to march upon London and join Charles and Hopton there.
Do you think,"he had said," that the spirits of such base, mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Truly you will not be able to keep your ditch nor your shipping unless you turn your ships and shipping into troops of horse and companies of foot, and fight to defend yourselves on terra firma."
And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.
The date of this famous letter was 1767, but after Alceste Gluck was still able to use material from earlier work; and the overture to Armide is adapted from that of Telemacco, written in the year of Bach's death (1750).
Similar principles apply in infinite detail to the treatment of wind instruments, and we must never lose sight of them in speculating as to the reasons why the genius of Beethoven was able to carry instrumentation into worlds of which Haydn and Mozart never dreamt, or why, having gone so far, it left anything unexplored.
These springs are so adjusted that they are not quite able to release the armature.
Each transmitter is therefore able to transmit a separate series of positive and negative currents in different combinations; these are distributed, by suitably arranged distributors and relays at the receiving end of the line, into their respective receivers.
It cannot justly be said that the companies made large profits while neglecting to develop the services adequately, but it is true that they were not able commercially to comply with many of the demands made upon them by the public. Until speculation took place in anticipation of government purchase, the market prices of the telegraph securities were mostly below par.
In this manner he was able to provide means for locating an invisible sending station.
In this way he was able to produce an apparatus which created continuous trains of oscillations suitable for the purposes of wireless telegraphy.
In the middle ages Teignmouth was a flourishing port, able to furnish 7 ships and 120 mariners to the Calais expedition of 1347, and depending chiefly on the fishing and salt industries.
It is necessary that the operators working at a multiple board shall be able to ascertain without entering a subscriber's circuit whether the circuit be disengaged.
The effect of the unsettled policy of the Post Office until 1905 and of the difficulties created by the local authorities was that the National Telephone Company was never able to do its best to develop the enterprise on the most efficient lines.
Inasmuch as the debenture stocks and preference shares would have to be redeemed in 1911 at premiums ranging from 3 to 5 per cent., the state would have to pay the company £253,000 in excess of the total of the outstanding securities in order to enable the ordinary shares to receive par, and in the council's view this payment would diminish the p robability of the Post Office being able to afford a substantial reduction in the telephone charges.
A secondary industry is the raising of goats, which are able to stand neglect and a scanty food supply.
Having come to an understanding with his father-in-law Podébrad, he was able to turn his arms against the emperor Frederick, and in April 1462 Frederick restored the holy crown for 60,000 ducats and was allowed to retain certain Hungarian counties with the title of king; in return for which concessions, extorted from Matthias by the necessity of coping with a simultaneous rebellion of the Magyar noble in league with Podebrad's son Victorinus, the emperor recognized Matthias as the actual sovereign of Hungary.
Only now was Matthias able to turn against the Turks, who were again threatening the southern provinces.
A capital expenditure of 1/24,000,000 annually was decided on to bring the lines up to the necessary state of efficiency to be able to cope with the rapidly increasing traffic. It was estimated in 1906 that this would have to be maintained for a period of ten years, with a further total expenditure of 1/21 4,000,000 on new lines.
It was I 236, however, before he was able to take the field himself against the Lombards.
In the hands of able captains, like Francesco Sforza or Piccinino, these mercenary troops became moving despotisms, draining the country of its wealth, and always eager to fasten and found tyrannies upon the provinces they had been summoned to defend.
From this date, however, we are able to trace the revival of independent thought among the Italians.
Meanwhile Macdonald, after struggling through central Italy, had defeated an Austrian force at Modena (June 12, 1799), but Suvarov was able by swift movements utterly to overthrow him at the Trebbia (June 1719).
In 1856 the emperor and empress visited their Italian dominions, but were received with icy coldness; the following year, on the retirement of Radetzky at the age of ninety-three, the archduke Maximilian, an able, cultivated and kind-hearted man, was appointed viceroy.
On the 2gth of June 1881 the Chamber adopted a Franchise Reform Bill, which increased the electorate from oo,ooo to 2,000,000 by lowering the fiscal qualification from 40 to 19.80 lire in direct taxation, and by extending the suffrage to all persons who had passed through the two lower standards of the elementary schools, and practically to all persons able to read and write.
Bound by a secret understanding with the Radical leader Cavallotti, an able but unscrupulous demagogue, Rudini was compelled to bow to Radical exigencies.
Raynaudus's authorities, in favour of the recognition of a natural theology and against it, do not, so far as the present writer has been able to consult them, use the expression.
Just as our knowledge never can finish its task of reducing world-experience to an intelligible system, so our will is never once able perfectly to obey the law of reason.
If philosophy is able to fill up that programme, it justifies itself; it raises all belief to necessary truth;.
Even in that book Hume is able to play with sceptical solutions.
Gillespie's able Argument a priori for the Being and Attributes of the Godhead, published part by part 1833-1872.
John Fiske, however, an able interpreter of Spencer, reached what he called " Cosmic Theism.
Granted that, ideally, scientific knowledge ought to be able to demonstrate all truth, is it safe, or humane, for a being who is imperfectly started in the process of knowledge to fling away with scorn those unanalysed promptings and misgivings " Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing.
This was settled in May 1213, and in the new prelate, the papal nominee, Stephen Langton, who landed in England and absolved the king in the following July, the baronial party found an able and powerful ally.
Brissot became known as a facile and able writer, and was engaged on the Mercure, on the Courrier de l'Europe, and on other papers.
Two able officers, Colebrooke of the Bengal Engineers, and Blair of the sea service, were sent to survey and report.
Cladonema still has the typical medusan structure, and is able to swim about, but in Clavatella the umbrella is so much reduced that swimming is no longer possible.
Hydra must, in short, be a living representative of the ancestor of which the actinula-stage is a transient reminiscence in the development of higher forms. It may be pointed out in this connexion that the fixation of Hydra is only temporary, and that the animal is able at all times to detach itself, to move to a new situation, and to fix itself again.
The proclamations, however, designated him Stephen Frewen, and he was consequently able to escape into France.
By this law a tenant-farmer is able to bequeath his farm, that is to say, he holds his lease in perpetuity.
In some species of Rana and Staurois inhabiting mountainous districts in south-eastern Asia, the larvae are adapted for life in torrents, being provided with a circular adhesive disk on the ventral surface behind the mouth, by means of which they are able to anchor themselves to stones.
From the 6th century onwards he was looked upon as one of the chief poets and musicians of antiquity, the inventor or perfecter of the lyre, who by his music and singing was able not only to charm the wild beasts, but even to draw the trees and rocks from their places, and to arrest the rivers in their course.
During his residence in Thrace he joined the expedition of the Argonauts, whose leader Jason had been informed by Chiron that only by the aid of Orpheus would they be able to pass by the Sirens unscathed.
The protoplasm appears to be able also to bring about thc change without secreting any enzyme.
What the nature of the stimulation is we are not able to say.
In order that a Fungus may enter a plant, it must be able to overcome not merely the resistance of cell-walls, but that of the living protoplasm; if it cannot do this, it must remain outside as a mere epiphyte, e.g.
Obviously no more than this is possible until physiologists are able to state much more precisely than at present what is the influence of common salt on the plants of salt-marshes, of the action of calcium carbonate on plants of calcareous soils, and of the action of humous compounds on plants of fens and peat moors.
Although many plants typical of fresh water are able to grow also in brackish water, there are only a few species which appear to be quite confined to the latter habitats in this country.
The same plants have sometimes a superficial root system in addition, and are thus able to utilize immediately the water from rain showers and perhaps also from dew, as Volkensl maintains.
The xerophytic characters being present, it is not surprising that many marsh plants, like Juncus effusus and Iris pseudacorus, are able to survive in dry situations, such as banks and even garden rockeries.
Those of warmer countries cannot be cultivated in British gardens without protection from the rigours of winter; still less are they able to hold their own unaided in an unfavourable climate.
It is supposed that the latter serves monocular, the other the binocular vision, most birds being able to converge their eyes upon one spot.
We should be able to construct the pedigree of every group, in other words, the gigantic natural system, but there would be no classification.
But he was not able to save his friends, who were also the enemies of the reigning king.
Confucianism is an ethical rather than a religious system, and hence was able to co-exist, though not on very friendly terms, with Buddhism, which reached China about the 1st century A.D.
He was even able to strike at the Philistines, and to rescue Keilah (south of Adullam and to the east of Beit Jibrin) from their attack The close of ver.
He was a Whig member of the United States senate in 1831-1837, and as such took a prominent part in the legislative struggle over the United States Bank, whose rechartering he favoured and which he resolutely defended against President Jackson's attack, opposing in able speeches the withdrawal of deposits and Secretary Woodbury's " Specie Circular of 1836.
He thoroughly organized the department, and in his able annual report advocated the construction by government aid of a railroad to the Pacific Coast.
It was not until 1403 that the kings of Aragon were able to conquer the district of Arborea, which, under the celebrated Eleonora (whose code of laws - the so-called Carta de Logu- was famous), offered a heroic resistance.
He had been elected a member of the comite diplomatique of the Assembly in July 1790, and became its reporter at once, and in this capacity he was able to prevent the Assembly from doing much harm in regard to foreign affairs.
Man is able to derive a measure of enjoyment from life in spite of the nonexistence of the orthodox gods; yet this enjoyment is on the whole negative, the avoidance of pain.
He was an able administrator, but wanting in self-control.
In modern times they have proved themselves the most able and ambitious of all the Brahmans in the Indian Empire.
For a time, indeed, the Order lay under papal sentence of excommunication; but the transference of his seat to Marienburg at this time (1308) gave the grand master a basis from which he was able to make easy terms with the pope.
He had faced difficult problems with independence and yet he had been able to inaugurate something of an " era of good feeling."
Conrad, related by marriage to Manuel, decided in favour of the land route, which Manuel desired because it brought the Crusade more under his direction, and because, if the route by sea were followed, Roger of Sicily might be able to divert the crusading ships against Constantinople.
He was able to do but little.
Well, obviously, Amazon is able to collect this data as they make sales.
Machines will never, in my opinion, be able to be creative.
To the extent that the Internet is able to increase trade, it increases utility.
These stores are able to increase trade a number of ways.
That is what we expect to be able to do, because it is theoretically possible in a hundred different ways.
Why would your employer pay you more than the value you are able to add?
I hesitate to start talking about nanotechnology for fear I will not be able to stop—the entire field is amazing to me!
Researchers also discovered the vaccine was able to restore normal blood sugar levels without using insulin.
But it really is no different than me thinking it is my birthright to be able to have freedom of speech.
How much more should we be able to with the Internet, computers, and other technology?
The shade was grateful, and the tree was so easy to climb that with my teacher's assistance I was able to scramble to a seat in the branches.
But the rumble of the machinery made me think it was thundering, and I began to cry, because I feared if it rained we should not be able to have our picnic out of doors.
Miss Keller will never be able, I believe, to speak loud without destroying the pleasant quality and the distinctness of her words, but she can do much to make her speech clearer.
Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements.
In lathing I was pleased to be able to send home each nail with a single blow of the hammer, and it was my ambition to transfer the plaster from the board to the wall neatly and rapidly.
Now and then they glanced at one another, hardly able to suppress their laughter.
I shall not be able to equip him.
In the hospitals, death was so certain that soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the front rather than to the hospitals.
Pierre listened to him, scarcely able to repress a smile.
I thought I might be able to fix the time setting by trial and error but I was at a loss establishing a location.
Jonny was safe, even if she hadn't been able to wipe away all traces of the poison in his blood.
She hadn't been able to log onto Dusty's computer, because he kept it locked out.
It was his job to protect humans, and he hadn't been able to protect one woman in his own home!
We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.
She hadn't been able to get through to anyone else and wondered if there was some magic trick he'd done to reach her.
She belonged with him, even if she was second rung to his war against bad guys or even if he was never able to devote himself to any one woman at all.
He'd be able to read her mind and confirm she was indeed intent on destroying the gateway between the realms.
She'd always been grateful to him for accepting her and her gift, but he'd always refused to tell her what exactly he was and how he seemed to be able to read her mind sometimes.
The Black God wasn't able to take his eyes off her.
He wouldn't respond to her mind manipulation attempts, and he was able to control Jonny.
Jule looked at the clouds, able to feel the gateway cracking with his newfound powers.
This is the first time I've been able to find you.
I haven't been able to get you out of my cube for the past two weeks.
Despite being able to bench press two of her, the men actually listened.
We didn't catch on until one of the new Naturals we just discovered was able to track them.
Trac—the Natural tracker was able to identify patterns in the attacks.
There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.
You'll be able to go outside once you transform.
It was busy enough; she might be able to lose him if she made it to a crowd of people.
I don't like being hungry and not being able to go to the kitchen.
I wanted to explain things to you in a way you'd be able to understand.
He began to cry, the soul-deep weeping of a man who'd lost all and spent his tormented life in a level of hell she'd never be able to imagine.
He'd spent the morning vomiting blood and was able to remember Jule and Dusty by afternoon.
Even if his features were young and his body lean, he wasn't able to hide what he was.
Harmony bent over her, saying something Deidre wasn't able to hear.
Cynthia held the door handle, looking ready to jump while Dean contorted around the shift stick, barely able to press the pedal with his toe.
Lydia Larkin was bent over at the waist, hardly able to stand, clutching her mid-section.
In her penthouse, she was able to take in things at her own pace.
The pain faded then stopped suddenly, but she wasn't able to leave the in-between place.
They seem to think if they can find it, they'll be able to replace you with a Death of their choice.
The only thing we might be able to do is plug the holes.
From this point, Xander was able to see most of the city, including the white dome of the palace at its center that marked the home of one of the three Gods that ruled the immortal realm.
You will become so strong, no one will ever be able to hurt you again.
With a unique vantage point into the world, they were able to perceive what she couldn't see.
Had she ever been able to breathe without the vise of her destiny squeezing her chest?
I spared no one, but their fates were as painful as I was able to make them.
He was able to hear thoughts and manipulate minds in addition to brute strength that allowed him to tear men in two with no effort.
He fulfilled his purpose, only he was not going to be able to live a normal life in the mortal world like she was.
I'm sorry I wasn't able to get a hold of you last night, the nurse said with an expectant look.
At that point, no one was able to withstand what he could do.
He didn't need much, and he was able to appreciate the skills she had.
It was good being able to manipulate the minds of everyone around him.
He wasn't able to track the Others, a set of creatures known for favoring the Black God's dominance of the human world.
He knew Jule was able to balance his alliance with the White God and his alliance with Xander.
He needed her insight, for when he wasn't able to see outside his narrow lane.
He'd never be able to sense the Original Other or Original Watcher, since they were able to move without detection by anyone, even their own kind.
He circled the bench, until he was able to see the features of the Original Human more fully.
It was so dark, she wasn't able to make out how large the room really was.
She sank into it, unaware a bed was able to provide that level of comfort.
If the cat got near the food, she should be able to grab it.
What if she wasn't able to get what Jonny sent her for?
But that did nothing to explain to him how an oblivious Natural who was able to block his mind power just happened to end up in his home.
Except, for the first time in his existence, Xander wasn't able to read the mind of the only person who knew why.
He wasn't able to read her mind, but she didn't look like someone there to betray him.
Or maybe, she was a damned good one, able to throw him off the scent.
Xander didn't like the idea of letting someone who was able to evade him – and possibly connected to Jonny – just leave.
He'd never be able to find her again to know why she was there in the first place.
Fortunately, no human-made weapon was able to hurt him.
There was only one Tracker in existence that was able to pinpoint the whereabouts of a Watcher or Other, the two sets of immortals always at each others' throats.
But Xander's enhanced eyesight was able to see one half of the strange interaction.
If he bit her, would he be able to read her mind finally?
Xander was pissed by the time she returned, aware he'd never be able to track her down if she didn't come back of her own free will.
The idea he'd never solve this mystery infuriated him, but not as much as the idea she was able to sneak up on him at will.
She didn't dare turn around, not certain she'd be able to witness Toni throwing herself at Xander without laughing at him.
Jessi tried not to listen but wasn't able to shake the vision of the dreamy look on the woman's face as she relived the night.
Jessi wasn't able to figure out how Jonny, Xander and Gerry were connected, except that they had to be.
With him on top of her, she was able to feel just how strong and wide he was.
He squeezed her forearms in reminder she wasn't able to do anything about it if he did decide to bite her.
He wasn't able to hear her thoughts, but he felt what she did.
Already, he wanted another sip of her, enough to tide him over until he was able to make a meal out of her.
Even them, he was able to read, if he was willing to expend the effort needed to do so.
None of them were able to move in stealth mode, like Jessi-the-Natural lying breathless and furious beneath him.
Being with someone who seemed normal helped her relax, though she wasn't able to forget he had something to do with Xander.
How did she quit when he was able to hurt them?
If she wasn't certain she'd be able to take the necklace out the door with her, she was screwed.
Jessi crossed to the kitchen to start dinner for her cousins, mind on how she was going to get out of this mess, if she wasn't able to get the necklace.
Xander's ability was far weaker than hers, but he was able to see certain parts of another's path when in their minds.
She didn't do it, though; he was able to tell from her thoughts.
Before any of them were able to remind him to call next time before he dropped in, he was gone.
Of course, she wasn't able to tell what he had in the bedroom.
They weren't normal criminals; this much she was able to tell by their appearances.
Rendered breathless, Jessi wasn't certain she'd be able to stand on her own, if he walked away too fast.
She wasn't sure why she was bothering with the tug-of-war battle with him, except that she hoped she was able to hide what she sought and make it easier for her to get.
Jessi braced herself against the counter, not certain she was able to stand on her own.
He and Jessi alone would be able to tolerate the crystal's magic without being killed.
The man was alive, that much she was able to see.
Jessi watched Xander move for a moment, unable to shake the sense there was more to him than she was able to understand.
Jessi moved up the beach far enough she was able to sit and watch.
Until he called Jonny a teen, she'd been able to pretend it might be two different Jonnys.
It definitely wasn't something she was able to dismiss.
She sucked in a sharp breath, wondering if Jule really was able to read her mind after telling her he couldn't.
Part of her hoped he was too tired to do anything, that he took a nap instead and she was able to free the necklace.
Worse, what if he discarded her before she was able to get the gem?
He was able to tolerate it for the hour a day during the season when they shot his show.
She straightened up and searched his room for the necklace, frustrated that she wasn't able to find it.
The idea he was able to read minds was bizarre; the idea he couldn't read her mind was so satisfying, she was proud of herself.
When it's over, you should be able to grab the necklace and bring it to me.
She could see the kid doing it, though she liked to think Xander was able to counter anything like that.
Were these people really able to protect them?
It sucks not being able to read the minds of those around you.
Unaccustomed to emotions he wasn't able to control, he watched her hips sway but stayed where he was.
He was strong and solid; she almost believed he was able to protect her from the mess she was in.
He kissed her again before she was able to push him.
He loved how complicated it was while suspecting she dug herself a grave, one he wasn't going to be able to help her avoid without her telling him what was going on.
The Others wouldn't spare the realm in their attempt to destroy their enemies, and Jonny wasn't yet able to grasp his role in the mess.
Darian was right; his mate, Jenn, was able to fend for herself in the Black God's lair.
Creatures Darian said really were able to appear here.
We can teach him to fight and send him in to spy, since our enemies won't be able to sense him or access his mind.
Whatever was between her and Xander, it wasn't something she was going to be able to walk away from.
Before she was able to stop herself, she was crying.
Xander wasn't able to sleep, even after making love to Jessi.
If she was able to save Ashley, though … If.
She wasn't able to see what lay beyond the ring of light.
Her heartbeat seemed too loud in her ears, and she hoped he wasn't able to hear as well as Xander seemed to.
No one could sense her, but he would be able to smell her blood.
Xander's heightened senses were able to see everything from above – except Jessi.
Their goal had been to get rid of as many of the Others as possible and save Jessi, because Darian wasn't able to disable the dozens gathered at once.
While he was able to do a lot of things with his power, floating above the ground wasn't one of them.
Xander knocked Darian's foot off it and snatched its neck, before it was able to Travel.
Benjamin Hoadly, the newly-appointed bishop of Bangor, scented the opportunity and wrote a speedy and able reply, Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, in which his own Erastian position was recommended and sincerity proposed as the only test of truth.
Nor are they afraid to venture out of their depth, being excellent swimmers, and able, by means of their trunks, to breathe without difficulty when the entire body is submerged.
It was a time when, under able leaders, a great national party was beginning the struggle for reform against the stagnant Austrian government.
From the first Mr Hart gained the entire confidence of the members of the Chinese government, who were wise enough to recognize his loyal and able assistance.
The American commodore was now able to blockade the British flotilla at Kingston.
He went to Nottingham, in the hope of being able to support himself by teaching French and Italian.
These long-chinned mastodons must have had an extremely elongated muzzle, formed by the upper lip and nose above and the lower lip below, with which they were able to reach the ground, the neck being probably rather longer than in elephants.
William's Son, (HENRY) BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON (1757-1823), was an officer in the American War of Independence, and was an able lawyer and judge.
To be able to marry he accepted.
According to Shafi`ite law, such a cadi must be a male, free, adult Moslem, intelligent, of unassailed character, able to see, hear and write, learned in the Koran, the traditions, the Agreement, the differences of the legal schools, acquainted with Arabic grammar and the exegesis of the Koran.
That province was under the able government of Ali Vardi Khan, who peremptorily forbade the foreign settlers at Calcutta and Chandernagore to introduce feuds from Europe.
During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.
From that time forth, though he could not always command an absolute majority in council, Hastings was never again subjected to gross insult, and his general policy was able to prevail.
Shortly before his acquittal he had been able to satisfy the dream of his childhood, by buying back the ancestral manor of Daylesford, where the remainder of his life was passed in honourable retirement.
Natives and Anglo-Indians alike venerate his name, the former as their first beneficent administrator, the latter as the most able and the most enlightened of their own class.
Rouvier was able to make a statement of the whole proceedings in the chamber, which received the assent of all parties.
He was one of the able band of professors who in 1870 supported Dbllinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated with Ignaz v.
An able paper written by him to the king in support of these principles, on the ground especially of their advantage to trade, has been preserved.
But the work progressed under his wise direction, and he was able "to be present, in 1744, at meetings of ten thousand souls."
In the frequent wars between Austria and Turkey during the i 7th and 18th centuries the Austrians captured Naissus twice (in 1689 and 1737), but were not able to retain it long.
Artists have been known to use the left hand in the hope of checking the fatal facility which practice had conferred on the right; and if Hood had been able to place under some restraint the curious and complex machinery of words and syllables which his fancy was incessantly producing, his style would have been a great gainer, and much real earnestness of object, which now lies confused by the brilliant kaleidoscope of language, would have remained definite and clear.
Eventually he was able to prove that the biological doctrine of omnis cellula ecellula applies to pathological processes as well as to those of normal growth, and in his famous book on Cellular-pathologic, published at Berlin in 1858, he established what Lord Lister described as the "true and fertile doctrine that every morbid structure consists of cells which have been derived from pre-existing cells as a progeny."
Caesar had projected remedial measures, but (as in so many cases) had never been able to carry them out, and it was not until the time of Claudius that the problem was approached.
In 1198 he was able to procure a five years' truce with the Mahommedans, owing to the struggle between Saladin's brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories.
By this means it was able to defy both the Seljuks and the Ottomans, and to maintain its independence against the emperors of Nicaea and Constantinople.
At atmospheric pressure the discharge is able to pass through a far greater distance in helium than in the common gases.
The hills inland were the domain of fighting tribes which the Persian government had never been able to subdue.
The latter was a great magician, able, by operating upon waxen figures of the armies and ships of his enemies, to obtain complete power over their real actions.
Guy was a brave if not a particularly able knight; and his instant attack on Acre after his release by Saladin shows that he had the sentiment de ses devoirs.
Scaurus decided in favour of the latter, who was able to offer more money.
He was an able leader during the Revolutionary period, when his wealth and social position were of great assistance to the patriot party.
He was able to restore Roman authority in the major part of the papal states, and in 1398 put an end to the republican liberties of the city itself.
By the adoption of a regular system of work, and a careful plan of reduction, he was able to keep his observations reduced practically up to date, and published them annually with a degree of punctuality which astonished his contemporaries.
But his powers were no longer what they had been, and he was never able to examine sufficiently into the matter.
If there is no such class in England, it is simply because the class which answers to it has never been able to keep any universally acknowledged privileges.
Had they been able to establish and to maintain any kind of privilege, even that of mere honorary precedence, they would exactly answer to continental nobility.
Generally regarded as the partisan of a pro-English policy, he rendered most valuable service to his country by his able management of the foreign relations of Turkey, and not least by his efficacious settlement of affairs in Syria after the massacres of 1860.
The French in the 17th century claimed that but for the loss of the archives of Dieppe they would be able to prove that vessels from this Norman port had established settlements at Grand Basa, Cape Mount, and other points on the coast of Liberia.
The Bashkirs, Meshcheryaks and Teptyars rendered able service to the Russian government against the Khirgiz, and until 1863 they constituted a separate Cossack army.
As a consequence this central Russian industry, even when supported by very high protective duties, is only able to produce for the home market and the markets of the adjacent territories in Asia which are under Russian political control.
On the other hand, the khans of the Crimea were able, partly from their geographical position and partly from having placed themselves under the protection of the sultans of Turkey, to resist annexation for more than two centuries and to give the Muscovites a great deal of trouble, not only by frequent raids and occasional invasions, but also by allying themselves with the Western enemies of the tsars.
The two countries were thus once more united and better able to resist aggression, but some of the great nobles were discontented and Basil hoped with their assistance to attain his ends.
His son and successor, Theodore (Feodor), was a weak man of saintly character, very ill fitted to consolidate his father's work and maintain order among the ambitious, turbulent nobles; but he had the good fortune to have an energetic brother-in-law, with no pretensions to sanctity, called Boris Godunov, who was able, with the tsar's moral support, to keep his fellow-boyars in order.
The remedy they proposed was that the labourers should be prohibited from migrating from one estate to another, and an order to that effect was issued, with the result that the peasants, being no longer able to change their domicile and seek new employers, fell practically under the unlimited power of the proprietors on whose land they resided.
In return for these services Bismarck helped Russia to recover a portion of what she had lost by the Crimean War, for it was thanks to his connivance and diplomatic support that she was able in 1871 to denounce with impunity the clauses of the treaty of Paris which limited Russian armament in the Black Sea.
His stay at this post was short, for he was able to organize a counter-intrigue which soon brought him back to court.
In 1831 the Baltimore & Ohio Company offered a prize of $4000 for an American engine weighing 32 tons, able to draw 15 tons at 15 m.
The growth of railways has been accompanied by a world-wide tendency toward the consolidation of small independent ventures into large groups of lines able to aid one another in the exchange of traffic and to effect economies in administration and in tl-_e purchase of supplies.
The water cranes or towers which are placed at intervals along the railway to supply the engines with water require similar care in regard to the quality of the water laid on to them, as also to the water troughs, or track tanks as they are called in America, by which engines are able to pick up water without stopping.
The principal condition operating in the design of locomotives intended for local services with frequent stops is the degree of acceleration required, the aim of the designer being to produce an engine which shall be able to bring the train to its journey speed in the shortest time possible.
First, it must be able to exert a tractive force sufficient to start the train under the worst conditions possible on the railway over which it is to operate - for instance, when the train is stopped by signal on a rising gradient where the track is curved and fitted with a guard-rail.
Secondly, it must be able to maintain the train at a given speed against the total resistances of the level or up a gradient of given inclination.
In British practice the chains consist of three links, and are of such a length that when fully extended there is a space of a few inches between opposing buffers; this slack facilitates the starting of a heavy train, since the engine is able to start the wagons one by one and the weight of the train is not thrown on it all at once.
No serious observer, acquainted with modern microscopic technical methods, has been able to confirm the explanation of their observations.
A condition of tenure attached to this chair was that the holder should propose mathematical questions for solution, and should resign in favour of any person who solved them better than himself; but, notwithstanding this, Roberval was able to keep the chair till his death, which occurred at Paris on the 27th of October 1675.
For Amos and Isaiah were able to single out those loftier spiritual and ethical elements which lay implicit in Mosaism and to lift them into their due place of prominence.
Barton's Semitic Origins is extremely able, but his doctrine of the derivation of male from original female deities is pushed to an extreme.
So proficient did he become that he was able to retain the equivalent of sixty pages of printed matter in his memory, turning and returning them as he walked or drove.
Finally, it was concluded that he would never be able to encounter the discipline of a school; and casual instructors, at various times and places, were provided for him.
Thus he was able often to recover the meaning of a passage which had long been buried under a heap of contradictory glosses, and he founded a school in which sobriety and common sense were added to the industry and ingenuity of former commentators.
As governor he gave Washington able support and sent out the expedition under George Rogers Clark into the Illinois country.
After long negotiations he accepted the Sicilian and Neapolitan crowns, and in 1264 he sent a first expedition of Provencals to Italy; he also collected a large army and navy in Provence and France with the help of King Louis, and by an alliance with the cities of Lombardy was able to send part of his force overland.
He was undoubtedly an extremely able soldier and a skilful statesman, and much of his legislation shows a real political sense; but his inordinate ambition, his oppressive methods of government and taxation, and his cruelty created enemies on all sides, and led to the collapse of the edifice of dominion which he had raised.
It seemed to Herschel that he was thus able to view the actual changes by which masses of phosphorescent or glowing vapour became actually condensed down into stars.
Being thus composed, he is neither able to eat flesh like his father, nor herbs like his mother; therefore he perisheth from inanition"; the moral follows.
Thus Dominic was at his death able to contemplate his great creation solidly established, and well launched on its career to preach to the whole world.
Ferdinand, now that the young archduke was of age, was able to carry out the abdication which he and his wife had long desired.
Generally it may be said that throughout his long reign Francis Joseph remained the real ruler of his dominions; he not only kept in his hands the appointment and dismissal of his ministers, but himself directed their policy, and owing to the great knowledge of affairs, the unremitting diligence and clearness of apprehension, to which all who transacted business with him have borne testimony, lie was able to keep a very real control even of the details of government.
Putting into Tyre he was able to save the city from the deluge of Mahommedan conquest which followed Saladin's victory at Hittin.
In the absence of its native records its relations with Palestine are not always clear, but it may be supposed that amid varying political changes it was able to play a double game.
Judas and his zealots were thus able to maintain their prominence and gradually to increase their power.
Having this advantage, he was able to abdicate in favour of Aristobulus and to retire into private life.
He carried with him the Arabs and the princes of Syria, and through Hyrcanus he was able to transform the hostility of the Egyptian Jews into active friendliness.
He was also ready and able to protect the Jews of the dispersion.
Pharisaic Judaism, put to the severest test to which a religious system has ever been subject, showed itself able to control and idealize life in all its phases.
Not even the Qaraite schism was able to break the power of the geonim.
But besides these three, there were many other independent cities, which, though they generally followed the lead of one or other of these more powerful rivals, enjoyed complete autonomy, and were able to shift at will from one alliance to another.
It was declared that he had long lived in England, and in only one case (1896) had he been able to vote for a presidential candidate.
Knowledge is nothing to these men if it does not show them the infinite reality which is able to fill the aching void within.
Reason has three stages, in the highest of which the mind is able, by abstraction from earthly things, to rise to contemplatio or the vision of the divine.
The arboreous forms which least require the humid and equable heat of the more truly tropical and equatorial climates, and are best able to resist the high temperatures and excessive drought of the northern Indian hot months from April to June, are certain Leguminosae, Bauhinia, Acacia, Butea and Dalbergia, Bombax, Shorea, Nauclea, Lagerstroemia, and Bignonia, a few bamboos and palms, with others which extend far beyond the tropic, and give a tropical aspect to the forest to the extreme northern border of the Indian plain.
The walking or climbing fishes, which are peculiar to south-eastern Asia and Africa, are organized so as to be able to breathe when out of the water, and they are thus fitted to exist under conditions which would be fatal to other fishes, being suited to live in the regions of periodical drought and rain in which they are found.
If all the industries belong to one economic area over which, so far as we can tell from general statistics of wages and prices, and other information, fairly homogeneous conditions prevailed, we may be able to reach some useful conclusions as to the operation of the act.
But every genuine attempt to overcome its difficulties brings us into closer touch with the period we are examining; and though we may not be able to throw our conclusions into the form of large generalizations, we shall get to know something of the operation of the forces which determined the economic future of England; understand more clearly than our forefathers did, for we have more information than they could command, and a fuller appreciation of the issues, the broad features of English development, and be in a position to judge fairly well of the measures they adopted in their time.
By comparing England with other countries we may be able in the distant future to reach conclusions of some generality as to the laws of growth, maturity and decay of industrial nations.
At the same time he endeavoured to acquire a knowledge of Hebrew, in order to be able to read the Old Testament in the original.
The actual sinfulness of all men Origen was able to explain by the theological hypothesis of pre-existence and the premundane fall of each individual soul.
This he was able to do, as a moderate Lutheran, whose calmness and common sense contrasted advantageously with the unbridled violence of his contemporaries.
The Spartans were happy, said the writer, because they had plenty of good, suitable clothing and lodging, robust women, and were able to meet their requirements both physical and mental.
Sieyes, conscious that his political mechanism would merely winnow the air, until the profoundly able and forceful man at his side adapted it to the work of government, relapsed into silence; and his resignation of the office of consul, together with that of Ducos, was announced as imminent.
Napcleon was now able by degrees to dispense with all republican forms (the last to go was the Republican Calendar, which ceased on the 1st of January 1806), and the scene at the coronation in Notre Dame on the 2nd of December 1804 was frankly imperial in splendour and in the egotism which led Napoleon to wave aside the pope, Pius VII., at the supreme moment and crown himself.
Further, owing to the carelessness of the Prussian negotiator, Napoleon was able to require the exaction of impossibly large sums from that exhausted land, and therefore to keep his troops in her chief fortresses.
Godoy, having the prospect of the Algarve before him, likewise offered no opposition to the advance of Napoleon's troops to the capital; and so it came about that Murat, named by Napoleon his Lieutenant in Spain, was able to enter Madrid in force and without opposition from that usually clannish populace.
That the son of a Corsican notary should have been able to dispose of the Spanish Bourbons in this contemptuously easy way is one of the marvels of history.
Thereafter he never entered Spain; and the French operations suffered incalculably from the want of one able commander-in-chief.
As it was, they were able to contrast their moderation with his wrongheadedness, and thereby seek to separate his cause from that of France.
To Walpole, who looked upon every able colleague, or subordinate, as an enemy to be removed, Carteret was exceptionally odious.
His convictions gained weight from the simplicity, uprightness and diligence of his character; but they need a more effective justification than he was able to give them.
At any rate, he spoke at Guildhall on Lord Mayor's Day in a worthy manner; admitting that the growth of the German navy was a main factor in British construction, and pointing out that no power was better able to bear the strain or less likely to fail than Great Britain.
If any one nation, he said, were able to back the strongest fleet with an overwhelming army, the whole world would be in jeopardy.
In the light of this knowledge we shall be able to formulate the moral code, which, in turn, will serve as a criterion of actual civic and social institutions.
Political conditions in Great Britain, at the moment, made the conclusion of peace almost a necessity with the British ministry, and eventually the American negotiators were able to secure a peculiarly favourable treaty.
In 1785 John Adams was appointed the first of a long line of able and distinguished American ministers to the court of St James's.
Unfortunately, in so doing, he used phrases savouring of aristocracy which offended many of his countrymen, - as in the sentence in which he suggested that " the rich, the well-born and the able " should be set apart from other men in a senate.
Other aquatic larvae have the tracheal system entirely closed, and are able to breathe dissolved air by means of tubular or leaf-like gills.
The plates, which show no improvement in execution on those of Martinet, are after drawings by Huet and Pretre, the former being perhaps the less bad draughtsman of the two, for he seems to have had an idea of what a bird when alive looks like, though he was not able to give his figures any vitality, while the latter simply delineated the stiff and dishevelled specimens from museum shelves.
The new doctrine, loudly proclaiming the discovery of a " Natural" System, led away many from the steady practice which should have followed the teaching of Cuvier (though he in ornithology had not been able to act up to the principles he had lain down) and from the extended study of Comparative Anatomy.
This form Nitzsch was only able to find in the bittern (Ardea stellaris).
Yet it is said, on good authority, that Nitzsch had the patience so to manipulate the skins of many rare species that he was able to ascertain the characters of their pterylosis by the inspection of their inside only, without in any way damaging them for the ordinary purpose of a museum.
On the other hand, he declares that the American rodstart, Muscicapa, or, as it now stands, Setophaga ruticilla, when young, has its vocal organs like the rest - an extraordinary statement which is worthy the attention of the many able American ornithologists.
But Muller has the merit of clearly outstriding his predecessors, and with his accustomed perspicuity made the way even plainer for his successors to see than he himself was able to see it.
Here, where he had to deal with the Judaism that believed in a Messiah, he was far better able to do justice to Christianity as a revelation; and so we find that the arguments of this work are much more completely in harmony with primitive Christian theology than those of the Apology.
In agility they are unsurpassed; in fact they are stated to be so swift in their movements as to be able to capture birds on the wing with their paws.
But when Venice took possession of the mainland her builders were able to employ a strong hydraulic dark lime from Albettone, which formed a durable cement, capable of resisting salt water and the corrosive sea air.
On the walls of the chief council chambers are a magnificent series of oil-paintings by Tintoretto and other less able Venetians - among them Tintoretto's masterpiece, "Bacchus and Ariadne," and his enormous picture of Paradise, the largest oil-painting in the world.
The art of making stained xxv11.3 2 a glass windows was not practised by the Venetians; almost the only fine glass in Venice is that in a south transept window in the Dominican church, which, though designed by able Venetian painters, is obviously the work of foreigners.
All the world over it is held that such people can assume the form of animals; sometimes the power of the shaman is held to depend on his being able to summon his familiar; among the Ostiaks the shaman's coat was covered with representations of birds and beasts; two bear's claws were on his hands; his wand was covered with mouse-skin; when he wished to divine he beat his drum till a black bird appeared and perched on his hut; then the shaman swooned, the bird vanished, and the divination could begin.
The treatise opens with an able sketch of psychology, founded upon, but in some important respects varying from, Aristotle's De Anima.
The creation of the state commissions, independent of the city's control, but able to commit the city indefinitely by undertaking expensive works and new debt, was resented.
By trailing a thread behind them spiders are able to drop from any height to the ground and to retrace their steps with certainty to a particular spot.
Thus by heating spirits of salt he obtained "marine acid air" (hydrochloric acid gas), and he was able to collect it because he happened to use mercury, instead of water, in his pneumatic trough.
Heating spirits of hartshorn, he was able to collect "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia), again because he was using mercury in his pneumatic trough; then, trying what would happen if he passed electric sparks through the gas, he decomposed it into nitrogen and hydrogen, and "having a notion" that mixed with hydrochloric acid gas it would produce a "neutral air," perhaps much the same as common air, he synthesized sal ammoniac. Dephlogisticated air (oxygen) he prepared in August 1774 by heating red oxide of mercury with a burning-glass, and he found that in it a candle burnt with a remarkably vigorous flame and mice lived well.
The soil should be able to maintain very uniform conditions of moisture.
The best soil for cotton is thus a deep, welldrained loam, able to afford a uniform supply of moisture during the growing period.
The colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, including India, seemed well able to grow all the cotton that could be required, whilst numerous other countries were ready to afford their co-operation.
America had re-entered the field of competition, and was rapidly gaining ground so as to be able to bid defiance to the world.
They must watch demand, be able to form reasonable anticipations of its move ments, and at the same time know the existing stocks of cotton, the sales taking place from day to day, and the best forecasts of the coming supplies.
The first is that spinners would be performing the two functions of industrial management and cotton buying (together with others perhaps), and that in consequence the best industrial men would not necessarily be able to maintain their position in the trade because as buyers of cotton they might be unfortunate.
But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.
The Druids are represented as being able to foretell the future and to perform magic. Before setting out on the great expedition against Ulster, Medb, queen of Connaught, goes to consult her Druid, and just before the famous heroine Derdriu (Deirdre) is born, Cathbu prophesies what sort of a woman she will be.
In other texts the Druids are able to produce insanity.
With the assistance of Florentius Radewyn, who resigned for the purpose a canonry at Utrecht, he was able to carry out a long-cherished idea of establishing a house wherein devout men might live in community without the monastic vows.
The influence of the Italian towns did not make itself greatly felt till after the end of the First Crusade, when it made possible the foundation of a kingdom in Jerusalem, in addition to the three principalities established by Bohemund, Baldwin and Raymond; but during the course of the Crusade itself the Italian ships which hugged the shores of Syria were able to supply the crusaders with provisions and munition of war, and to render help in the sieges of Antioch and Jerusalem.4 Sea-power had thus some influence in determining the victory of the crusaders.
When a power arose in Mosul, about 1130, which was able to unify Syria - when, again, in the hands of Saladin, unified Syria was in turn united to Egypt - the cause of Latin Christianity in the East was doomed.
But it was finally by the treachery of one of Yagi-sian's commanders, the amir Firuz, that Bohemund was able to effect its capture.
But the real menace to the Latin kingdom lay in northern Syria; and here a power was eventually destined to rise, which outstripped the kings of Jerusalem in the race for Cairo, and then - with the northern and southern boundaries of Jerusalem in its control - was able to crush the kingdom as it were between the two arms of a vice.
Thus, although Alexius had been able, in the wake of the crusading armies, to recover a large belt of land round the whole coast of Asia Minor, - the interior remaining subject to the sultans of Konia (Iconium) and the princes of Sivas, - he left the territories to the east of the western boundary of Cilicia in the hands of the Latins when he died in 1118.
He had not those rights of sovereign which the Norman kings of England inherited from their AngloSaxon predecessors, or the Capetian kings of France from the Carolings; nor was he able therefore to come into direct touch with each of his subjects, which William I., in virtue of his sovereign rights, was able to attain by the Salisbury oath of 1086.
Two years later Zengi died; but he left an able successor in his son, Nureddin, and an attempt to recover Edessa was successfully repelled in November 1146.
As king of Jerusalem Frederick was now able 1 Joinville, ch.
The Christians were, however, able to maintain a footing in Syria for forty years after St Louis' departure, not by reason of their own strength, but owing to two powers which checked the advance of the Mamelukes.
On the other hand, like Frederick II., he aimed at uniting the kingdom of Jerusalem with that of Sicily; and here, too, he was able to provide himself with a title.
St Louis had barely landed in Tunis when he sickened and died, murmuring "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" (August 1270); but Charles, who appeared immediately after his brother's death, was able to conduct the Crusade to a successful conclusion.
These were hard-headed men of affairs - men who would not lightly embark on joyous ventures, or seek for an ideal San Grail; nor were the popes, doomed to the Babylonian captivity for seventy long years at Avignon, able to call down the spark from on high which should consume all earthly ambitions in one great act of sacrifice.
Through them the popes had deposed the emperors of the West from their headship of the world, partly because through the Crusades the popes were able to direct the common Christianity of Europe in a foreign policy of their own without consultation with the emperor, partly because in the 13th century they were ultimately able to direct the Crusade itself against the empire.
Alien domination alone has been able to correct the tendency of this long strip of land to break up into hostile belts.
It is impossible here to follow in detail the numerous changes in the distribution of the territory and the gradual disappearance of particular dynasties which maintained a footing for some time longer in Chalcis, Abila, Emesa and Palestine; but it is of special interest to note that the kingdom of the Arab Nabataeans was able to keep its hold for a considerable period on the north as far as Damascus.
He was thus able to throw himself into the spirit of modern experimental science.
He was, however, an able and conscientious experimenter, and was very fertile and ingenious in devising physical apparatus.