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Strolling down to the footbridge, she leaned on the railing.
It always comes down to this, doesn't it?
You're supposed to go down to be measured in the morning.
I'm going down to get Destiny.
I'm going to take Destiny and Jonathan down to say good-bye.
Carmen fed her a light lunch and she lay down to sleep for a while.
Princess had this birthing thing down to an art.
He held a hand up to her and then guided her down to his lap.
His fingers touched her chin and slid down her throat, exploring their way down to her bodice.
She started to get up so she could lead him to their bedroom, but he tugged her back down to the window seat.
AdvertisementShe applied the brakes and the dust cloud caught up, cloaking the road so thickly that visibility was down to the front of the car.
By the time I got it from the car, it was down to one bar.
Giddon looked completely relaxed, right down to his lazy smile.
Announcing that she was mailing a letter didn't seem wise, so she walked down to the mailbox.
He walked around it and then leaned down to look in the window.
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It took little urging to bring his mouth down to hers.
Once she was in the car, he shut the door and leaned down to speak.
He pushed the passenger's side door open and she leaned down to look at him.
The silence was uncomfortable until he leaned down to kiss her.
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She managed to make two 1-day trips to the ranch and Brandon came down to watch her graduate.
We'll get down to the details.
Cassie folded the lip of her sombrero down to protect her face from the scorching sun.
Finally he mounted and held a hand down to Cassie.
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Cassie drew her brows down to feign a stern expression.
The furniture - it was handed down to my mother and she left it to me.
Between the two of us we ought to be able to carry them down to that room.
Why don't I pack a lunch so we can go down to the pond for a picnic?
He was leaning down to meet her, but they couldn't seem to touch.
His hand moved down her side to her waist and then down to her leg, caressing the back of her knee in a delightful way.
I followed Quinn down to the water's edge as the women waved from whicker rocking chairs on the wide verandah.
If you don't think I've seen scars, I'll take you down to hospital ER on any Saturday night.
We heard him come downstairs and when he didn't return, I came down to check on him.
I bent down to pat a dog but it was like he wasn't there.
On the flight down to Washington a strange and perhaps unfair thought hit me.
Incidentally, you showed some smarts not calling down to Georgia and getting lost in the cracker barrel.
I couldn't sleep and went down to the kitchen for a drink.
I can't come down to Boston...
I looked forward to weekends when he'd come back down to Boston and we'd get together.
Can you go down to Boston and get her on a plane out here?
I'd never noticed the camping area the rear when I'd come down to watch some serious softball.
I'm sure Brennen was confused by my sharp response and background noise but once girls and dog had left we settled down to business.
He won't even go down to eat.
I prayed our stalwart group of five wasn't down to only me.
His skin was golden, his wide back muscled, lean and defined down to the slender hips and waist.
How do you wipe out an entire town down to the rats without anyone else ever finding out?
But two thousand innocent people, down to the family dog.
He glanced down to see Speck's number on his screen.
Jonny snatched the vamp by its neck and slammed it down to the table.
Her curtains were down to seal away the sunlight, and she was curled up in a ball in the middle of her bed with her back to the door.
She read, paced, and finally just lay down to stare at the ceiling until morning came.
She put her hair down to hide the mark, horrified by the idea of belonging to the devil.
Darkyn caught her hands and pushed them down to her side.
She treaded to him and pulled his head down to kiss her then nudged it aside instead to reach his neck.
For someone like him … he never even bowed down to the Dark One.
It might take some work, but I should be able to fill the tire enough to get us down to town.
I could go down to the courthouse myself and learn all those answers.
As they stopped to catch their breath, Dean noticed his rope was down to a single coil.
He wiggled out of his shirt and placed it over the boy's lifeless face and sat down to wait.
He changed into a clean shirt as he briefly described hearing the accident, climbing down to investigate and discovering Billy Langstrom's body.
All the guests are staying put, with no check-ins or check-outs, Cynthia said as she and her husband sat down to lunch.
Fred volunteered to temporarily move down to Martha's small first-floor room next to the Deans.
While Cynthia hemmed and hawed about the most diplomatic way to suggest that the Dawkinses might billet down to two rooms from the three they now occupied, the situation cured itself.
Nothing. I said I answered the 911 call and you came along— down the mountain, not up from town like me—and we went down to the crash together.
I really ought to go down to the jail and visit with the old guy.
Dean rose to his feet and went over to the officer, gently pushing her down to a sitting position.
He'd agreed to come down to help Deidre.
The creature that refused to bow down to the Dark One was not going to allow itself to become blood-dependent upon a mate of human origin.
Darkyn dragged him down to help, since it was his magic in my head, she replied.
Warm fingers clutched Carmen's hand and she looked down to find Jonathan watching her anxiously.
He opened the door and climbed out, leaning down to speak to her.
She squatted down to show it to Destiny.
She captured his neck in the noose of her arms, directing his head down to her with a gentle touch of her hand on the back of his neck.
One day, when Destiny was with Grandma Reynolds and Jonathan was at staying with a friend, she decided to go down to the house before she went to the hospital.
She called Brutus and slowly walked down to the house.
Alex brought one hand up toward his mouth and brought it down to an upturned palm.
The household gradually settled down to near normal.
While he was in the bathroom she stripped down to the black underwear and gave her hair another brushing.
Before the day got started, she should go down to the buffalo barn and check on the grain.
After feeding them, she walked down to the buffalo shed.
She followed his gaze as he put her down to determine what had startled him.
Dump her off here, if you don't want to deal with her, then get your ass down to the underworld and fix that shit.
Deidre flung herself into his arms, pulling his face down to spread kisses across his features.
He can probably take you down to the underworld and you'll be fine.
Everything was where she left it, down to the candle on the back porch.
Deidre gathered her composure with some difficulty and walked down the hallway, pausing four doors down to her room.
He felt the subtle shift and stopped on the stairwell down to the gym.
That's the other issue I've been dealing with, when not hunting you down to make you cry.
She glanced down to watch the blood stream down the drain then held up her arm.
Take a shower and come down to say hello to Gio.
You will send me home, and you'll remove Toby, Gabriel, and every other interference you placed in my life, down to the scuff marks in the hallway, which I know
We're going down to the bar.
Sasha dragged her down to Hell.
Hannah gathered her things and led her down to a warm, waiting car.
She bent down to pick up a yet unscathed pillow, startled to stand and see Rhyn had changed to his human form.
Toby was in Kris.s bed, the pale baby angel stripped down to his waist and unconscious.
He was almost done when the burst of coolness awoke her, and she looked down to see him smoothing the skin around her faded wound.
He glanced down to see how bad his clothing looked.
Something tickled her neck, and she looked down to see the first of the letters of her tattoo flutter to the ground.
She recalled falling asleep on the roof and knew Evelyn to be too tipsy to carry or drag her down to her room.
Kiera rose and trotted down to her studio, happy to see the movers had left her studio alone.
They didn't contain Evelyn's things; they contained her things, down to her dirty socks.
Cynthia bounced down to the floor to join the pair.
It all comes down to levels of excitement.
I read somewhere they swipe cars and ship 'em down to South America where the druggies buy 'em. Maybe that's it.
Naw. She goes down to the bar on Tuesdays.
Dean skied down to join them.
Dean nodded in agreement and the two skied back down to "The Meadows" to join the others.
Yeah. She's run down to Bird Song.
It's a long way down to the river.
In between, his sleep-movies starred Annie, huddled and pregnant as she walked the penstock trail in tears, and Shipton plunging down to the rocks and river below, amid scores of viewers clapping and cheering his bloody demise.
If about eighty percent of your help left town maybe my nice country inn wouldn't look like Dillinger's hideout and we could get down to business and wrap this up.
While she despised the man, her feelings still lacked a motive to sever his rope in cold blood and watch him plummet down to the rocks and churning river below.
She moved down to press her face to his.
They gave me the job of running him down to tell him the missus killed herself.
He continued, "She came down to my room last night."
She came down to your room naked?
It seemed to Dean she'd spent her life on the outside, in some respects by choice, somehow driven from one social plane down to another, much lower, until there was nothing left but death.
Franny came over and leaned down to put her arm around his shoulders.
Later that evening, Fred came down to the kitchen as Martha was finishing drying the dishes.
Then you'd pull the free end of the line down to you.
Rappelling is just getting there, a way to get down to your base.
Shipton swore and began to fumble with his line to rappel again, down to the now injured and trapped form hovering below him.
But his cry came an instant too late as Shipton plummeted past him, his ice ax swinging in a rip across Dean's calf as he plummeted backward into space, and down to the rocks and churning river below.
So how did he get down to the point where he fell?
He considered going down to the drawing room for a drink, but decided, he too, felt quite weary.
She picked out an outfit right down to the shoes.
Connor came down to the kitchen looking for Sarah.
That's what I came down to tell you, but we'll save it for another time, let's get back to your problem.
She went up to tell Connor what had happened then back down to the drawing room.
He moved his hand down to her chest and could feel her heart thumping.
He slunk down to the holding cell to face the music.
His eyes landed on a perfect Little Red Riding Hood, right down to the ankle socks and patent leather Mary Janes.
He dropped down to one knee, removed the jewelry box from his jacket and opened it.
Maybe it would be a good idea to run down to Josh's place and call the vet.
Strong warm hands gripped her arm, guiding her down to the chair.
Of course, what were the odds that she would ever get down to Houston?
Carmen took the cup of coffee and sipped it, feeling the warmth all the way down to her stomach.
I told them they'd have to strap you down to get you into it.
Otherwise, I'll have to carry you down to the car.
Alex got out of the car and leaned down to say something to Lori.
She stretched as far as she could and laced her fingers behind his neck, pulling his mouth down to hers again.
Katie was busy sewing something for her hope chest, so Carmen grabbed her cane pole and some liver from the refrigerator, and strolled down to the pond.
Alex reached one hand down to help Carmen to her feet.
Alex was back by lunch and unusually quiet when they sat down to eat.
His truck was in the drive, but no one answered the door, so she walked down to the barn.
He reached down to help her up, but she ignored his hand.
She hugged the tree-line down to the side of the mountain then climbed a tree and waited.
He glared at her, then unbuttoned his tac gear, pulling his arms free and pushing it down to his waist to reveal the dark T-shirt beneath.
He snatched her hands and pinned them above her head with one hand, settling his weight atop her as he reached down to undo the buttons of his trousers.
She was down to her underwear and a T-shirt.
She sat down to plot, not wanting to think what would happen if she failed to deliver the Horsemen somewhere safe or how much her Guardian would despise her once she acted.
He peeled the tac suit down to his waist, revealing a snug T-shirt beneath whose sleeves were tight around bulging biceps.
Brady had piled his weapons on the couch and stripped down to a pair of pants and nothing else.
He sat down to pull off his boots.
Dan stayed behind where your helo went down to search.
The two soldiers moved away, greeting the next group of people before sitting down to talk.
The soldier led them down to the canal.
I plan on eating every part of you, down to your bones, Jared snapped and bared his teeth.
Toby held his breath as Ully disappeared through the door to where Jared sat. When the mad scientist wasn't sent sailing back through the door, Toby sat down to put on his shoes.
Katie hesitated before shuffling forward on her knees. She carefully touched the woman's leg then patted it as she followed it down to the thick roots wrapped around her ankles. Unable to see exactly how she was stuck, Katie used her cold fingers to fumble around the root and the woman's sneakers. "It's really jammed in there," she said at last.
Talk to the wife and go down to Philly where he works and maybe check out some of the neighbors.
It was the usual swing down to Norfolk.
I'm going down to Norfolk Friday to talk to the local police, but so far, there isn't a thing to point to the guy skipping.
By the way, I'm free to ride down to Norfolk on Friday if you want a little company.
He altered his course and coasted down to the edge of the field.
Let's get down to business, she said, pulling him to her.
I'm going down to Norfolk tomorrow.
Dean was down to 11 dollars and change, so he used his Visa card, holding his breath that it wasn't maxed-out while the clerk ran it through the recording machine.
Now, let's get down to this case.
He found me crying in the stairwell one day and just took my arm and hauled me down to this little restaurant on Walnut.
Fred O'Connor was seated on the toilet, a towel over his head with his pants and shorts pulled down to his ankles.
We had his cash figured down to pocket change.
He bought a motor home in Scranton and towed his company car down to Norfolk!
I'm going down to see her and try to straighten things out—a quick round trip.
Cynthia wasted no more time before getting down to business.
I hate it when you talk down to me like that.
If it comes down to it and we need an ID later in the week, I can locate the Greek god guy and show him the picture, but I didn't want to take the chance this early.
The roadside drop offs became more and more precipitous, opening on breath-stopping views of chasms so deep they made him dizzy just to look down to the bottom.
His hands slid off her shoulders and down to her arms.
He stood and leaned down to kiss her lips.
She walked down to the creek and waded through the water.
She dropped down to the relative safety of a chair and smiled up at him sweetly.
It always came down to this.
The next morning Carmen decided to go down to the house and mow the lawn in the cool of the day.
After a shower and lunch, she decided to go back down to look at the inside of the house.
His free hand stroked her neck softly and slid down to the bodice of her blouse.
Forcing her leg down, she slid her hands down to his chest, gently pushing him away.
Once they moved the chickens, there would be no reason to walk down to the farm every day.
Her knees were suddenly weak and she grabbed a pole, sliding down to sit in the hay.
Through the living room window Carmen saw a white truck slow down to pull in the drive.
She kneeled down to pet the cat.
His hand slipped down to hers and captured it.
He stood and held a hand down to her.
She reached up, sliding her hand behind his neck and drawing his face down to hers.
It all boiled down to money – who had a paycheck to measure the importance of their labor and who didn't.
Finally, when he sat down to read the paper, he revealed what had been on his mind all evening.
I'm going to talk to him about this if I have to tie him down to do it.
Then he led him outside, mounted and held a hand down to her.
I can't imagine you being happy when you're tied down to one spot... one woman.
A blacksmith in Gravette was making the wheels, but the rest of the buggy was complete, right down to the leather seats.
With that done, she mounted again and leaned down to open the gate.
Let's go down to your old house and see how it's holding up.
Together they rode down to the old house.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and drew his mouth down to hers.
I've got to go down to the buffalo shed.
She clamped a lid on her temper and turned the fire down to simmer.
She would move her things down to the old house and stay there until he could get his head together.
She paused on the porch and then hefted it again, marching down to the car.
Carmen reached down to Jim.
I'll carry you down to see the buffalo.
I took the boys down to see the buffalo.
The next morning at church, Carmen said something to Alex and he leaned down to hear her answer.
Let's go down to the old house.
A week ago she and Alex had been down to open some windows, but the house still smelled stale.
We've been down to the old house, taking some measurements.
Wrapping her arms around his neck, she pulled his head down to hers.
It all boils down to a matter of minutes, he'd heard his masters saying.
She made her new spot as comfortable as possible and lay down to wait and watch.
She traced it down to his upper abdomen and paused.
They didn't talk down to me like they did when Xander was at our meetings.
She found herself remembering what his body looked like when he stripped down to spar with her, how the muscular length of him felt against her own body when they were locked in combat.
In a noble house, everything down to my shoes was scripted for me.
At some point, he'd have to snatch Yully and Charles and drag them down to the immortal world and hope they had a chance to Travel before being blasted to pieces.
Darian saw the hard look on Jonny's face as the Black God bent down to pick up the Oracle.
She woke Sofi with a touch and tugged the gurney down to the emergency room.
She threw herself down to avoid the second, sent another knife in its direction to distract it, and leapt up, dancing and twisting through the lightning streams.
He jogged down to the study, stopping at the sight of the bassinet beside Sofi's favorite chair.
As Alex made his way down to Katie, Carmen left the stage.
Lifting her chin for his affection, she forced his lips down to hers.
If we narrow it down to the US, the most people are killed by bees and wasps.
When he was done, he placed the mattock and shovel in the wheelbarrow and wheeled them down to the barn for her.
Pushing the thought from her mind, she headed down to the barn.
She scrolled down to Gerald's name and pressed send.
She slid down to the bed and sighed again.
That way she could ride down to the stables.
We went down to Mr. Getson's place to deliver a calf.
He touched her neck, softly tracing a finger from below her ear all the way down to the swell of her breasts.
It was on one of those days that Carmen decided to ride down to the stable on Princess and see how things looked.
He leaned down to kiss her lips and she bared clenched teeth.
He froze halfway down to the chair and stared at her, his startled gaze roving over her face.
Shall we go down to dinner?
Carmen undressed and put on her nightgown while Alex went down to get a book from the library.
When he leaned down to kiss her again, she eagerly returned his affection.
He chuckled as he pulled her down to the bed.
Then in Texas when you said we should think about it - and then the next morning you went down to see your father … what was that all about?
He had the southern drawl down to an art and his deep warm voice added a realistic touch.
When it came right down to it, why did she have to stay at the cabin?
She worked her way toward a little yellow flower and leaned down to examine it.
The laundry was one place she hadn't been yet and her wardrobe had dwindled down to a few clean items - none of them appropriate for a ride around the countryside with a man she hardly knew.
A tiny yellow flower peeped from under the log and she leaned down to examine it.
As he leaned down to kiss the infant, her heart felt as if it were being torn from her body.
She slipped her arms around his neck and drew his mouth down to hers.
Pinning her down to a date is going to be a problem, though.
He recognized this one and set the cat down to put on boots.
She sat down to read, growing more puzzled as she did.
He turned away towards the stairs leading down to the main floor, and she sneaked a glance to see if he still wore the necklace.
Jonny sent another note, this one detailing the activities of Ashley's day down to the license plate number of the friend Ashley ditched school to meet.
They looked down to find all four of those on the lower level staring up.
Disappointed but knowing she needed to walk away, she resisted the urge to pull his face down to hers for a kiss.
She went down to the beach.
Though the controversy went on, its most important result had already been achieved in the silencing of Convocation, for that body, though it had just "seemed to be settling down to its proper work in dealing with the real exigencies of the church" when the Hoadly dispute arose, did not meet again for the despatch of business for nearly a century and a half.
At Kufstein, down to which point it has still pursued a north-easterly direction, it breaks through the north Tirol limestone formation, and, now keeping a northerly course, enters at Rosenheim the Bavarian high plateau.
From the 4th century down to the time of the Mahommedan invasion several ecclesiastical buildings were erected on the spot, but of these no distinct traces remain.
Of George Sand's style a foreigner can be but an imperfect judge, but French critics, from Sainte-Beuve, Nisard and Caro down to Jules Lemaitre and Faguet, have agreed to praise her spontaneity, her correctness of diction, her easy opulence - the lactea ubertas that Quintilian attributes to Livy.
Of Vladimir Karenin's (pseudonym of Mme Komarova) George Sand, the most complete life, the first two volumes (1899-1901) carry the life down to 1839.
This has come down to us through a Latin version of an Arabic manuscript; it cannot, however, have been written by Archimedes in its present form, as his name is quoted in it more than once.
The Little Kanawha, which has also been improved, serves chiefly for the transportation of logs which are floated down to the Ohio.
The poems of Propertius, as they have come down to us, consist of four books containing 4046 lines of elegiac verse.
A just appreciation of the genius and the writings of Propertius is made sensibly more difficult by the condition in which his works have come down to us.
From these streets others strike at right angles down to the harbour, while others again lead obliquely up towards the Belt, beyond which are extensive suburbs.
Large cemeteries have been excavated, which show three different periods from the 8th century B.C. down to the Roman domination.
Palgrave's most important work is his History of Normandy and England, which appeared in four volumes (London 1851-1864), and deals with the history of the two countries down to 1101.
The Greek language occurs in their official seals down to the 13th century.
The dockyard, chiefly used for naval repairs, covers about 60 acres, and consists of three basins and large docks, the depth of water in the basins ranging down to 26 ft.
Foreigners were frequently granted the right of public hospitality by the senate down to the end of the republic. The public hospes had a right to entertainment at the public expense, admission to sacrifices and games, the right of buying and selling on his own account, and of bringing an action at law without the intervention of a Roman patron.
He would seem to have kept down to the coast until the headland of Ras Malan was reached, scattering before him the bands of Arabitae and Oritae who were the inhabitants of this well-provisioned tract.
In the spring of 323 he moved down to Babylon, receiving on the way embassies from lands as far as the confines of the known world, for the eyes of all nations were now turned with fear or wonder to the figure which had appeared with so superhuman an effect upon the world's stage.
A flow pipe which serves also for expansion is taken from the top of the cylinder to a point above the cold - water supply and turned down to prevent the ingress of dirt.
These saline basins extend down to the lower terraces of Cordoba, Mendoza and La Pampa.
The Seine descends from the Langres plateau, flows northwest down to Mry, turns to the west, resumes its north-westerly direction at Montereau, passes through Paris and Rouen and discharges itself into the Channel between Le Havre and Honfleur.
The situation of the town proper, on a small triangular islet only connected with the mainland by three moles and bridges at the angles, has always rendered its fortification comparatively easy, and down to 1873 it was a fortress of the first rank.
The defences of the place are now solely confined to the island of Danholm, known down to the 13th century as Strehla or Strehlo, lying in the Sound.
The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens.
He wrote also Bellum scodrense (1474), on account of the siege of Scodra (Scutari) by the Turks, and Antiquitates vicecomitum, the history of the Visconti, dukes of Milan, down to the death of Matteo the Great (1322).
The terrace closest to the land, known as the continental shelf, has an average depth of 600 ft., and connects Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania in one unbroken sweep. Compared with other continents, the Australian continental shelf is extremely narrow, and there are points on the eastern coast where the land plunges down to oceanic depths with an abruptness rarely paralleled.
The forms of life characteristic of India and the Malay peninsula come down to the island of Bali.
Of the Dutch discoverers, Pelsaert was the only one who made any detailed observations of the character of the country inland, and it may here be remarked that his journal contains the first notice and description of the kangaroo that has come down to us.
The sources of our knowledge of the country down to the 8th century are Caesar's De Bello Gallico, iv., the history of Velleius Paterculus, ii.
Divination through the liver remained in force among the Assyrians and Babylonians down to the end of the Babylonian Empire.
They consist of a number of circular or rectangular pits sunk from the cap of a hill, and going down to a depth of in some cases as much as 120 ft., until in fact the miners have been stopped by being unable to cope with the quantity of water made when the level of the valley was reached.
This intermediate region, which has Atlantic characteristics down to 300 fathoms, and at greater depths belongs more properly to the Arctic Sea, commonly receives the name of Norwegian Sea.
Below 500 fathoms the western centres of maximum disappear, and higher temperatures occur in the eastern Atlantic off the Iberian peninsula and north-western Africa down to at least 1000 fathoms; at still greater depths temperature gradually becomes more and more uniform.
The derrick crane introduces a problem for which many solutions have been sought, that of preventing the load from being lifted or lowered when the jib is pivoted up or down to alter the radius.
This material dates from the earliest times down to the commencement of our era.
For protection from lightning each pole has an " earth wire " running from the top, down to the base.
Taking the statistics for the whole kingdom, the annual marriagerate for the years 1876-1880 was 7.53 per 100o; in 1881-1885 it rose to 8o6; in 1886-1890 it was 777; in 1891-1895 it was 7.41, and in 1896-1900 it had gone down to 7.14 (a figure largely produced by the abnormally low rate of 6.88 in 1898), and in 1902 was 7.23.
Enormous flocks are possessed by professional sheep-farmers, who pasture them in the mountains in the summer, and bring them down to the plains in the winter.
Liguria is not much adapted for sheep-farming on a large scale; but a number of small flocks come down to thc plain of Tuscany in the winter.
Founded in 1735 by the marquis Carlo Ginori, they maintained a reputation of the very highest kind down to about 1860; but since then they have not kept pace with their younger rivals in other lands.
It is clear, however, that the Celtic and Etruscan elements together occupied the greater part of the district between the Apennines and the Alps down to its Romanization, which took place gradually in the course of the 2nd century B.C. Their linguistic neighbors were Ligurian in the south and south-west, and the Veneti on the east.
At first, indeed, the term was apparently confined to the regions of the central and southern districts, exclusive of Cisalpine Gaul and the whole tract north of the Apennines, and this continued to be the official or definite signification of the name down to the end of the republic. But the natural limits of Italy are so clearly marked that the name came to be generally employed as a geographical term at a much earlier period.
The road along the east coast from Fanum Fortmrnae down to Barium, which connected the terminations of the Via Salaria and Via Valeria, and of other roads farther south crossing from Campania, had no special name in ancient times, as far as we know.
They wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times (in most cases) down to their own days, the events of which were treated in much greater detail.
His work embraced the history of Rome from its foundation down to his own days.
Claudius Quadrigarius (about 80 B.C.) wrote a history, in at least twenty-three books, which began with the conquest of Rome by the Gauls and went down to the death of Sulla or perhaps later.
And indeed, whilst in theoretic theology Brahma has retained his traditional place and function down to our own days, his practical cult has at all times remained extremely limited, the only temple dedicated to the worship of this god being found at Pushkar (Pokhar) near Ajmir in Rajputana.
The coenosteum increases in size by new growth at the surface; and in the deeper, older portions of massive forms the tissues die off after a certain time, only the superficial region retaining its vitality down to a certain depth.
The law includes with clerics, monks, deaconesses, nuns, ascetics; and the word " clerics " covered persons in minor orders, down to doorkeepers.
It seems probable that the Vinaya and the four Nikayas were put substantially into the shape in which we now have them before the council at Vesali, a hundred years after the Buddha's death; that slight alterations and additions were made in them, and the miscellaneous Nikaya and the Abhidhamma books completed, at various times down to the third council under Asoka; and that the canon was then considered closed.
Many of them lived in the various vihdras or residences situate throughout the island; but the main centre of intellectual effort, down to the 8th century, was the Maha Vihara, the Great Minster, at Anwradhapura.
Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Pluto and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to earth.
The story is repeated of Dionysus; he is torn in pieces, and his head is carried down to Lesbos.
From Mohl down to the eighth decade of the century the study of anatomy was entirely in the hands of a group of German.
The protoplasm is in a condition of instability and is continually breaking down to a certain extent, giving rise to various substances of different degrees of complexity, some of which are again built up by it into its own substances, and others, more simple in composition, are given off.
Persis remained a part of the Seleucid empire down to Antiochus IV.
The earliest Arabian traveller whose observations have come down to us is the merchant Sulaiman, who embarked in the Persian Gulf and made several voyages to India and China, in the middle of the 9th century.
The abbe Migne carried his Latin patrology down to the time of Innocent III.
Jerome's work was continued successively by Gennadius of Marseilles, Isidore of Seville, and Ildefonsus of Toledo; the last-named writer brings the list down to the middle of the 7th century.
A record of patristic collections and editions down to 1839 may be found in Dowling's Notitia Scriptorum SS.
There was another outbreak in 1831 and frequent disorders down to 1848, when they culminated in another unsuccessful revolution.
It is probable that notes or selections were from time to time written down to help in teaching and learning the immense mass of material, in spite of the fact that even in Sherira's time (11th century) such aids to memory were not officially recognized.
As far as the Khabur Mesopotamia seems to have been a wellinhabited country from at least the 15th century B.C., when it constituted the Hittite kingdom of Mitanni, down to about the 12th century A.D., and the same is true of the country on the Syrian side of the Euphrates as far as the eastern limit of the Palmyrene.
On his return to France, a sadder and practically a wiser man, he settled down to very prosaic work.
In the simplest and crudest method, as practised in Sicily, a mass of the ore is placed in a hole in the ground and fired; after a time the heat melts a part of the sulphur which runs down to the bottom of the hole and is then ladled out.
At Rome down to the last it made a difference whether the candidate for office was patrician or plebeian, though the difference was in later times commonly to the advantage of the plebeian.
This may be explained by a variety of causes, of which the chief is the maintenance by the Slays down to a very late period of gentile or tribal organization and gentile marriages, a fact vouched for, not only in the pages of the Russian chronicler Nestor, but still more by visible social evidences, the gens later developing into the village community, and the colonization being carried on by large co-ordinated bodies of people.
The actual distribution of arable land, forests and meadows, in European Russia and Poland is shown in the following table The land in European Russia and Poland (Caucasia being excluded) is divided amongst the different classes of owners as follows Down to January 1st 1903, the peasants had actually redeemed out of the land allotted to them in 1861 a total of 280,530,516 acres..
This was the case once before, in 1901; and the total of fatal accidents to passengers and servants, taken together, has in several years been very low (1896, eight; 1901, eight; 1902, ten; 1904, thirteen), but never before was it down to six.
His account of this embassy in the Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana is perhaps the most graphic and lively piece of writing which has come down to us from the 10th century.
In search of materials for this purpose, Pertz made a prolonged tour through Germany and Italy, and on his return in 1823 he received at the instance of Stein the principal charge of the publication of Monumenta germaniae historica, texts of all the more important historical writers on German affairs down to the year 1500, as well as of laws, imperial and regal archives, and other valuable documents, such as letters, falling within this period.
Lastly it should be recollected that the entire body of the fragments of tradition and literature belonging to northern Israel has come down to us through the channel of Judaean recensions.
It was His " finger " that wrote the brief code which has come down to us in the decalogue.
All the evidence in Barclay's own work goes to prove that he was sincere in his reproof of contemporary follies and vice, and the gross accusations which John Bale 1 brings against his moral character may be put down to his hatred of Barclay's cloth.
After breakfast " he was expected," he says, to spend an hour with Mrs Gibbon; after tea his father claimed his conversation; in the midst of an interesting work he was often called down to entertain idle visitors; and, worst of all, he was periodically compelled to return the well-meant compliments.
In the Washoe Mountains, as in the rest of the Sierra Nevada range, there is a heavy growth of conifers, extending down to the very valleys; but in many places these mountains have been almost deforested to provide timbers for the mines.
The Kennet and Avon Canal, between Reading and the Avon, follows the river closely from Bradford down to Bath, where it enters it by a descent of seven locks.
From this time (1509) down to our own days, except for the interruptions caused by the wars of the French Revolution, Ravenna continued subject to the papal see and was governed by a cardinal legate.
These titles were preserved in the sacred writing down to the latest age.
It comprises seven large volumes and a geographical appendix; but the seventh volume, the history of the sultan Husain (1438-1505), together with a short account of some later events down to 1523, cannot have been written by Mirkhond himself, who died in 1498.
But probably the greater part of the enormous total of deaths set down to malaria is due to the malarial cachexia.
Glaciation was formerly much more extensive, old moraines being observed down to 12,000 ft.
The writings are the result of a continued literary process, and the Israelite national history has come down to us through Judaean hands, with the result that much of it has been coloured by late Judaean feeling.
The successive " Minoan " strata, which go well back into the fourth millennium B.C., reach down to a depth of about 17 ft.
But those works of his which have come down to us show few traces of unusual ability; and the laudation of him as a universal genius by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Aldus Manutius requires to be discounted.
The Oedipus legend was handed down to the period of the Renaissance by the Roman and its imitations, which then fell into oblivion.
The works of the ancient tragedians (especially Seneca, in preference to the Greek) came into vogue, and were slavishly followed by French and Italian imitators down to the 17th century.
He succeeded his father, probably in 427 B.C., and from his first invasion of Attica in 425 down to the close of the Peloponnesian war was the chief leader of the Spartan operations on land.
As a rule they are orderly and law-abiding, but traditions of plunder have been handed down to them from early times, and many of them retain the predatory instincts of their forefathers.
Some of his verses attracted the attention of the town, and the earl of Rochester, with Sir Charles Sedley and other wits, came down to see him.
The city was founded by Pizarro in 1 539 and was known as Guamanga down to 1825.
Disappointed after his return to England in 1788 in the hope which he had entertained, through a misapprehension of something said by Lord Lansdowne, of taking a personal part in the legislation of his country, he settled down to the yet higher task of discovering and teaching the principles upon which all sound legislation must proceed.
Dumont, the learned Genevan, once the associate of Mirabeau, were all who sat down to table.
The decrease in the demand for labour is attributable chiefly to the reduction of the cultivated area and the laying down to pasture of land once under the plough, and to the increasing use of agricultural machinery.
When the world has settled down to the new conditions, if it ever does so, we may be confronted with problems similar to those which our forefathers had to solve.
The defence of the country was next cared for by regulations for the arming of the whole nation, down to every one who owned the value of a cow, a measure far in advance of the old feudal levy.
Only by degrees did the events of the 19th of Brumaire stand out in their real significance; for the new consuls, installed at the Luxemburg palace, and somewhat later at the Tuileries, took care that the new constitution, which they along with the two commissions were now secretly drawing up, should not be promulgated until Paris and France had settled down to the ordinary life of pleasure and toil.
We see evidence of a uniform Nature Worship passing through all the normal stages down to theoanthropism in the latest period.
She is the mother of Ur, the personified fire of hell, who in anger and pride made a violent onset on the world of light, but was mastered by Hibil and thrown in chains down to the "black water," and imprisoned within seven iron and seven golden walls.
Aristotle was the first serious author on ornithology with whose writings we are acquainted, but even he had, as he tells us, predecessors; and, looking to that portion of his works on animals which has come down to us, one Early s.
The assaults, of the Dalmatian pirates, attracted by the growing wealth of the city, necessitated the building of strong castellated houses, of which no example has come down to our day, but we may gather what they were like from Petrarch's description of his house on the Riva degli Schiavoni, with its two flanking towers, probably retaining the primitive form, and also from the representations of protecting towers which occur in Carpaccio's pictures.
Dentil mouldings, of which examples may still be seen in the remains of the palace of Blachernae at Constantinople, are characteristic of Venetian ornamentation at this period, and remain a permanent feature in Venetian architecture down to the 11th century.
Indeed, the building has been compared to the treasure den of a gang of "sea sharkers," and from a museum of sculpture of the most varied kind, nearly every century from the 4th down to the latest Renaissance being represented.
Perhaps the most famous institution of Venice is the arsenal, whose history and activity has continued unbroken from the earliest days of the republic down to the present time.
The gallery now constitutes a unique collection of Venetian paintings from the most ancient artists down to Tiepolo, one hall only being reserved for other Italian schools and one for foreign schools.
There is a tradition that Venice was founded by "consuls from Padua"; and Padua claimed complete control of the course of the Brenta down to its mouth at Malamocco.
This, with the exception of a brief tenure of Cremona (1499-1512), formed her permanent territory down to the fall of the republic. Her frontiers now ran from the seacoast near Monfalcone, following the line of the Carnic and Julian and Raetian Alps to the Adda, down the course of that river till it joins the Po, and thence along the line of the Po back to the sea.
The victory of Agnadello (1510) gave the allies the complete command of Venetian territory down to the shores of the lagoon.
Especially complicated was the ancient Babylonian demonology; all the petty annoyances of life - a sudden fall, a headache, a quarrel - were set down to the agency of fiends; all the stronger emotions - love, hate, jealousy and so on - were regarded as the work of demons; in fact so numerous were they, that there were special fiends for various parts of the human body - one for the head, another for the neck, and so on.
The names of two other bishops of the 5th and 6th centuries have come down to us.
Paphos was believed to have been founded either by the Arcadian Agapenor, returning from the Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.), or by his reputed contemporary Cinyras, whose clan retained royal privileges down to the Ptolemaic conquest of Cyprus in 295 B.C., and held the Paphian priesthood till the Roman occupation in 58 B.C. The town certainly dates back to the close of the Mycenaean Bronze age, and had a king Eteandros among the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C.'
Under the law of Scotland down to 1880, a landlord had as security for rent due on an agricultural lease a " hypothec " - i.e.
Memphis was the chief city of the 1st nome of Lower Egypt; in its early days it was known as "the white walls" or the "white wall," a name which clung to its citadel down to Herodotus's day.
They date from the Persian rule down to the Ptolemaic period and are evidently modelled by Greek workmen.
Attempts are being made to render the Angara navigable below Irkutsk down to the Yenisei.
The work, which is thus a pragmatical chronicle of the calamities that have happened to mankind from the fall down to the Gothic period, has little accuracy or learning, and even less of literary charm to commend it; but it was the first attempt to write the history of the world as a history of God guiding humanity.
Drawing on the knowledge accumulated during sixty years, he had brought it down to the end of the 15th century before his death in Berlin on the 23rd of May 1886.
In this work Harnack traces the rise of dogma, by which he understands the authoritative doctrinal system of the 4th century and its development down to the Reformation.
In 1893 he published a history of early Christian literature down to Eusebius, Geschichte der altchristl.
Thus the story of the legists shrinks down to the regular myth of the primitive legislator, used to give an air of respectability to law-books, which really record an unwritten custom.
This translation also contained a continuation by various hands down to 1277; while besides the continuation embedded in the Livre d'Eracles, there are separate continuations, of the nature of independent works, by Ernoul and Bernard the Treasurer.
On the northern inland downs liquorice grows wild and is collected by the peasants and sent down to Alexandretta.
These, however, in spite of more than one revolt, continued to supply fleets to the Persians down to the time of the Macedonia invasion (332 B.C.), and inland Syria remained comparatively peaceful first under its own local governors, and, after Darius, as a satrapy, till its subjugation by Alexander.
The first two volumes were published in 1863; after his death a third volume appeared in 1898, covering the period 1858-1883, and a fourth in 1904, coming down to the beginning of the 10th century.
Besides these more highly differentiated organs of vision, more primitive eyes are present in others down to simple stellate pigment specks without any refracting apparatus.
Another compound, properly of mixed sex, appears in the Aramaean Atargatis (`At[t]ar-`athe), worn down to Derketo, who is specifically associated with sacred pools and fish (Ascalon, Hierapolis-Mabog).
The record of Hadrian's journeys 1 through all parts of the empire forms the chief authority for the events of his life down to his final settlement in the capital during his last years.
The finer soaps are perfumed by the cold method; the soap is shaved down to thin slices, and the essential oil kneaded into and mixed with it by special machinery, after which it is formed into cakes by pressure in suitable moulds.
A high class soap, which after framing contains about 30% of water, is brought down to a water content of 11-14% by drying in chambers through which warm air is circulated.
He was the author of an Annales, probably from the earliest times down to his own days.
The descent of alchemistical doctrine can thus be traced with fair continuity for a thousand years, from the Greeks of Alexandria down to the time when Latin alchemy was firmly established in the West, and began to be written of by historical authors like Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon and Arnoldus Villanovanus in the 13th century.
This is briefly the doctrine that the metals are composed of mercury and sulphur, which persisted in one form or another down to the 17th century.
The entire area of the summit was now thoroughly explored, the excavations being carried down to the surface of the rock, which on the southern side was found to slope outwards to a depth of about 45 ft.
The staircase leading down to the sanctuary of Aglaurus was enclosed in masonry.
The oldest stage-building was erected in the time of Lycurgus; it consisted of a rectangular hall with square projections (1rapauKs vca) on either side; in As= front of this was built in late Greek or early Roman times a stage with a row of columns which intruded upon the orchestra space; a later and larger stage, dating from the time of Nero, advanced still farther into the orchestra, and this was finally faced (probably in the 3rd century A.D.) by the " bema " of Phaedrus, a platform-wall decorated with earlier reliefs, the slabs of which were cut down to suit their new position.
The earlier text, of which five short fragments have come down to us, is known as the Pactus Alamannorum, and from the persistent recurrence of the expression "et sic convenit" was most probably drawn up by an official commission.
The Lex Saxonum has come down to us in two MSS.
A collection of laws has come down to us bearing the name of these two peoples, the hoc est, Thuringorum.
It is pleasantly situated at the foot of a lofty range of hills, which here dip down to the river, at the junction of the main lines of railway from Bremen and Hanover to Hamburg, which are carried to the latter city over two grand bridges crossing the southern and the northern arms of the Elbe.
The writings of Gildas have come down to us under the title of Gildae Sapientis de excidio Britanniae liber querulus.
The walls, piers and arches, are all built in brick, covered with stucco, a great portion of which is preserved down to the present day.
In the r3th century a portion of Hakim's addition was pulled down to make way for the first cathedral, which was dedicated to the Virgin.
Having replaced the oxygen in the absorption vessels by air, they are disconnected and weighed, after having cooled down to the temperature of the room.
Only two specimens of Roman cartography have come down to us, viz.
Between the Harrar plateau and Cape Guardafui the coast ranges maintain a mean altitude of from 4000 to 5000 ft., and fall generally in steep escarpments down to the narrow strip of sandy lowlands skirting the Gulf of Aden.
In early Attica, and even down to the time of Pericles, the landowners lived in the country.
In Russia, a country which had not the same historical antecedents with the Western nations, properly so called, and which is in fact more correctly classed as Eastern, whilst slavery had disappeared, serfdom was in force down to our own days.
Papyrus was cultivated and manufactured for writing material by the Arabs in Egypt down to the time when the growing industry of paper in the 8th and 9th centuries rendered it no longer a necessity.
Of medieval literary Greek papyri very few relics have survived, but of documents coming down to the 8th and 9th centuries an increasing number is being brought to light among the discoveries in Egypt.
Many of the freshwater algae which form a mere crust, such as Palmella cruenta, may be placed in a vessel of water, where after a time they float like a scum, the earthy matter settling down to the bottom, and may then be mounted by slipping a piece of mica under them and allowing it to dry.
Ten steps lead down to a basin of sufficient depth for immersion, supplied by a spring.
From this a wide staircase leads directly down to a chamber, discovered in March 1881, of a very early date.
During summer the surface salinity of the Black Sea is from 1.70 to 2'00% down to 50 fathoms, whereas in the greater depths it attains a salinity of 2.25%.
Gayarre, coming down to the war, based on deep and scholarly research, and greatly altered in successive editions.
It was the allimportant one in the early history of the island, down to about the latter part of the 18th century.
Opposite to the promontory of Sabbioncello, and at the entrance to the Bocche di Cattaro, the frontier of Herzegovina comes down to the Adriatic; but these two strips of coast do not contain any good harbour, and extend only for a total distance of 141 m.
By this decree the outstanding capital of the exterior debt, to which were added the Ramazan certificates above mentioned, and all interest fallen due, making a grand total of £252,800,000, was scaled down to £106,437,234 (£T117,080,958).
The old or Persian school flourished from the foundation of the empire down to about 1830, and still continues to drag on a feeble existence, though it is now out of fashion and cultivated by none of the leading men of letters.
He himself tried versification, and some of his lines which have come down to us appear quite equal to the average work of his contemporaries.
Depending on coloured tiles and gorgeous fabrics for their rich effects, nothing of the buildings of the times of Harun al-Rashid or Mamun, once counted so magnificent, have come down to us.
At any rate the Samaritans have, throughout their history, observed the Passover with all its Pentateuchal ceremonial and still observe it down to the present day.
Of these, the first four have come down to us complete, or nearly complete.
Notes in Latin on the first epistle of Peter, the epistle of Jude, and the first two of John have come down to us; but whether they are the translation of Cassiodorus, or indeed a translation of Clement's work at all, is a matter of dispute.
The unusual glaciation of the east coast is evidently owing to the north polar current carrying the ice masses from the north polar basin 4 south-westward along the land, and giving it an entirely arctic climate down to Cape Farewell.
Nearer the coast, where the melting on the surface is more considerable, the wet snow freezes hard during the winter and is more or less transformed into ice, on the surface of which rivers and lakes are formed, the water of which, however, soon finds its way through crevasses and holes in the ice down to its under surface, and reaches the sea as a sub-glacial river.
Considerable additions of later date, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, are due to the Despensers and to Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, while the present residential part is of various dates ranging from the 15th century down to the last half of the r 9th, when a thorough restoration, including the addition of a superbly ornamented clock-tower, was carried out.
Near the upper Orkhon was the permanent camp of Karakorum, from the 8th century down to the end of the 13th the centre of the Mongol power, especially under the sway of Jenghiz Khan and his son Ogotai or Ogdai in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Land masses are denuded and minerals containing silicates are carried down to the sea as sediments.
Under Venetian protection, freely accepted in 1401, the inhabitants maintained their municipal independence and commercial prosperity down to the destruction of the Venetian republic in 1797, though on two occasions, in 1500 and 1560, their city was burned by the Turks.
The juice, when not boiled down to form sugar, is either drunk fresh, or fermented and distilled to form arrack.
But his task in the south was doubtless rather that of an organizer, and a kind of circular letter has come down to us which was addressed by Patrick, Auxilius and Iserninus, to all the clergy of the island.
Two highly important documents purporting to have been written by Patrick have come down to us.
The first portion deals with Patrick's career down to his arrival in Ireland and contains an unvarnished statement of fact.
The names of some of these tribes have come down to us.
There were numerous battles between the Ripuarians and the Alamanni; and the memory of one fought at Ziilpich has come down to us.
The outcome has been that in the Church of England, and in many of her daughter Churches, there exists a bewildering variety of "uses," varying from that of Sarum and that of Rome down to the closest possible approximation to the Geneva model.
America down to the slopes of Chimborazo; the Cordilleras of the Andes separating the Castilloas from the Heveas of Brazil.
Below 150 fathoms they are rare, but a few such as Terebratulina wyvillei are found down to 2000 fathoms. Lingula is essentially a very shallow water form.
Undue stress is often laid on the fact that Lingula has come down to us apparently unchanged since Cambrian times, whilst Crania, and forms very closely resembling Discina and Rhynchonella, are found from the Ordovician strata onwards.
Five further instalments of his Synoptiques were published after this, bringing the work down to the Confession of Peter inclusively.
The great object of 17th-century moralists had been to find some general principle from which the whole of ethics could be deduced; common-sense, by turning its back on abstract principles of every kind, forced the philosophers to come down to the solid earth, and start by inquiring how the world does make up its mind in fact.
He was much tempted by the proposal, and hurried down to Knowsley to consult his father, who called out when he entered the room, " Hallo, Stanley !
The Berber tribes, whose racial unity is attested by their common spoken language and by the comparatively numerous Berber inscriptions that have come down to us, bore in ancient times the generic names of Numidians, Gaetulians and Moors or Maurusiani.
Japaconitine, obtained from the Japanese aconites, known locally as "kuza-uzu," hydrolyses to japbenzaconine, which further breaks down to benzoic acid and japaconine.
For steel which has been made redhot, suddenly cooled, and then let down to a yellow temper, the critical value of the magnetizing force is smaller than for steel which is either softer or harder; it is indeed so small that the metal contracts like nickel even under weak magnetizing forces, without undergoing any preliminary extension that can be detected.
His De magnete magneticisque corporibus et de magno magnete tellure physiologia nova (1600), contains many references to the expositions of earlier writers from Plato down to those of the author's own age.
His descendants, through his daughter Lucia, can be traced down to 1724.
The cunning and stratagem of the fox have been proverbial for many ages, and he has figured as a central character in fables from the earliest times, as in Aesop, down to "Uncle Remus," most notably as Reynard (Raginohardus, strong in counsel) in the great medieval beast-epic "Reynard the Fox" (q.v.).
There are cogent reasons for placing Joel either earlier or later than the great series of prophets extending from the time when Amos first proclaimed the approach of the Assyrian down to the Babylonian exile.
From this time down to the last period of the Hebrew monarchy Egypt was not the enemy of Judah.
The last-named gives an elaborate history of interpretation from the Septuagint down to Calvin, and appends the Ethiopic text edited by Dillmann.
He wrote a history, in ten books, of the period from 1298-1463, describing the fall of the Greek empire and the rise of the Ottoman Turks, which forms the centre of the narrative, down to the conquest of the Venetians and Mathias, king of Hungary, by Mahommed II.
The line then crosses to the hill-range called Cuchilla de Sant' Anna, which is followed in a north-west direction to the source of the Cuareim, or Quarahy, this river becoming the boundary down to the Uruguay.
There are also a few of greater length which rise far back on the plateau itself and flow down to the plain through deeply cut, precipitous courses.
The introduction of European immigrants dates from 1818 when a Swiss colony was located at Nova Friburgo, near Rio de Janeiro, and it was continued under the direction and with the aid of the imperial government down to the creation of the republic. Since then the state governments have assumed charge of immigration, and some of them are spending large sums in the acquisition of labourers.
Under the protection of the hill-fort, a native settlement was established on the ridge running down to the valley at the foot of Salisbury Crags, and another hamlet, according to William Maitland (1693-1757), the earliest historian of Edinburgh, was founded in the area at the northwestern base of the rock, a district that afterwards became the parish of St Cuthbert, the oldest in the city.
But henceforward the balia had supreme jurisdiction in all affairs of the state, although always, down to the fall of the republic, nominally preserving the character of a magistracy extraordinary.
In the domain of history we have first the old Sienese chronicles, which down to the 14th century are so confused that it is almost impossible to disentangle truth from fiction or even to decide the personality of the various authors.
They are Orlando Malavolti (1515-1596), a man of noble birth, the most trustworthy of all; Antonio Bellarmati; Alessandro Sozzini di Girolamo, the sympathetic author of the Diario dell' ultima guerra senese; and Giugurta Tommasi, of whose tedious history ten books, down to 1354, have been published, the rest being still in manuscript.
The streets are irregular in width, some of them narrow and close together, while those leading down to Darling Harbour have a steep incline.
In November 1864 he went down to Rochdale and delivered a speech to his constituents - the last he ever delivered.
This book, which comes down to the year 1526 and the extinction of Czech independence,'was founded on laborious research in the local archives of Bohemia and in the libraries of the chief cities of Europe, and remains the standard authority.
Immediately after this proclamation Gdrgei disappeared with his army among the hills of Upper Hungary, and, despite the difficulties of a phenomenally severe winter and the constant pursuit of vastly superior forces, fought his way down to the valley of Hernad - and safety.
Unfortunately very few of these harrows have come down to us unplundered, and we cannot find one complete example and take it as a type.
Her husband, having then acquired a fixed domicile in Lisbon, settled down to advocacy with success, and he was able to send Antonio to the university of Coimbra, where he matriculated in the faculty of law.
The events of the year 1860, as well as of all the years that followed down to British annexation in 1877, show that licence rather than liberty, a narrow spirit of faction rather than patriotism, were the dominant instincts of the Boer.
The system continued steadily down to 1899, by which time railways, dynamite, spirits, iron, sugar, wool, bricks, jam, paper and a number of other things were all of them articles of monopoly.
The reform leaders in the Transvaal, down to and including the Johannesburg rising, had always recognized as a cardinal principle the maintenance of the independence of the state.
Before this Lord Roberts had initiated a movement from Pretoria to sweep down to Komati Poort on the Portuguese frontier, in which Buller, advancing across country from the south, was to co-operate.
And if we cannot without much hesitation admit that Isaiah was really the first preacher of a personal Messiah whose record has come down to us, yet his editors certainly had good reason for thinking him capable of such a lofty height of prophecy.
From Christian writers we learn that Harran continued to be a seat of pagan worship and culture down to and even later than the Mahommedan era.
All in all the study of oriental costume down to the days of Hellenism proves to be something more than that of mere apparel, and any close survey of the evidence speedily raises questions which concern old oriental history and thought.
Nevertheless veils were not usually worn out of doors, the countrywoman of to-day is not veiled, and it is uncertain whether there is any early parallel for the yashmak, the narrow strip which covers the face below the eyes and hangs down to the feet.
In ancient Ireland a king's mantle was dyed with saffron, and even down to the 17th century the "lein-croich," or saffron-dyed shirt, was worn by persons of rank in the Hebrides.
Charters were granted by subsequent sovereigns down to Charles I., who reincorporated the town under the title of the mayor, jurats, bailiffs and burgesses of Queenborough.
Several have come down to us on the original marbles, entire or in fragments; others are known from old copies.
The development of rich gold and silver mines brought in more Spanish settlers, and then the record changes to one of partisan warfare, which continued down to the administration of President Porfirio Diaz.
His chief temple at Nippur was known as E-Kur, signifying "mountain house," and such was the sanctity acquired by this edifice that Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, down to the latest days, vied with one another in embellishing and restoring Bel's seat of worship, and the name itself became the designation of a temple in general.
It was no doubt owing to his position as the second figure of the triad that enabled him to survive the political eclipse of Nippur and made his sanctuary a place of pilgrimage to which Assyrian kings down to the days of Assur-bani-pal paid their homage equally with Babylonian rulers.
Yet he is, like Nicias and Phocion, the official man, head of a board of fifteen generals, which he persuades the people to cut down to three.
He left a gap to the north of the circular fort which formed the centre of the Athenian lines, the point where Epipolae slopes down to the sea, and he omitted to occupy Euryelus.
The point where the terrace of Epipolae narrows down to a ridge about 60 yds.
It now bears the ruins of a mighty fortress, finer than that which defends the entrance to the acropolis of Selinus - the most imposing, indeed, that has come down to us from the Greek period - which there is no doubt is the work of Dionysius.
Moreover, his works on natural history doubtless furthered the progress among the Greeks of sciences tributary to medicine, though the only specimens of such works which have come down to us from the Peripatetic school are those of Theophrastus, who may be considered the founder of the scientific study of botany.
The work on diseases of women is the only complete work on that subject which has come down to us from antiquity, and shows remarkable fullness of practical knowledge in relation to its subject.
In spite, therefore, of the encyclopaedic tradition which has persisted from Aristotle through the Arab and medieval schools down to Herbert Spencer, it is forced upon us in our own day that in a pursuit so manysided as medicine, whether in its scientific or in its practical aspect, we have to submit more and more to that division of labour which has been a condition of advance in all other walks of life.
Rising amid the ancient gneiss rocks of the St Gotthard, the Rhine finds its way down to the Lake of Constance between layers of Triassic and Jurassic formation; and between that lake and Basel it penetrates the chalk barrier of the Jura.
The work of blasting out the rocks which at that spot projected in the bed of the river, begun in 1830, was continued down to the year 1887, so that now there are two navigable channels of sufficient depth for all vessels which ply up and down that part of the stream.
Single tree trunks sent down to the Rhine by the various tributaries are united into small rafts as they reach the main stream; and these again are fastened together to form one large raft about Andernach.
Every general who has fought in its neighbourhood has at one time or another had to provide for a crossing of the Rhine, from Julius Caesar, who crossed it twice, down to our own time.
There is reason to think that, notwithstanding the order for the use of incense at every celebration, it was in practice burnt only on high festivals, and then only in rich churches, down to the period of the Reformation.
On the north there is a flat tract between Chelsea and Westminster, covering Pimlico, but from Westminster down to the Tower there is a marked slope directly up from the river bank.
The line from Bishopsgate ran eastward to St Giles's churchyard (Cripplegate), where it turned to the south as far as Falcon square; again westerly by Aldersgate round the site of the Greyfriars (afterwards Christ's Hospital) towards Giltspur Street, then south by the Old Bailey to Ludgate, and then down to the Thames, where Dr Edwin Freshfield suggests that a Roman fortress stood on the site of Baynard's Castle.
We know the size of London at different periods and are able to guess to some extent as to the number of its inhabitants, but most of the figures which have come down to us are mere guesses.
A gorilla-like feature in "Johanna" is, however, the presence of large folds at the sides (ala) of the nostrils, which are absent in the typical chimpanzee, but in the gorilla extend down to the upper lip. Chimpanzees exhibit great docility in confinement, where, however, they seldom survive for any great length of time.
In steeply inclined beds the working-place can be so arranged that the mineral will fall or slide from the place where it is broken down to the main haulage road.
In this method of mining the different stopes must be kept close together; otherwise there is much added labour in shovelling the broken ore down to the main level.
Every drop of mercury, as it enters from the funnel, entirely closes the narrow tube like a piston, and in going past the place where the side tube enters entraps a portion of air and carries it down to the trough, where it can be collected.