Figure Sentence Examples

We can't figure it out.

She's smart enough to figure out what to do.

The sun made long shadows of her figure as she walked to the house.

A tall figure lounged against a huge oak tree beside the trail.

We'll figure out what to do when we're all together.

Her figure was not as well developed as Alondra or Dulce, but she looked nice in the style and color.

She screamed when she saw a figure at her bedroom window and her father chased him.

We figure he's still in the east.

I don't know what the odds are, but I figure god is responsible for both - don't you think?

She stood, frozen with fear as his dark figure moved past her.

Once someone knows how to make a factory that can produce 48,000 pins a day with ten people, someone else can figure out how to make one that makes 100,000 a day with five people.

When she reminded him that he was going over the thousand-dollar figure he had thrown out, he merely shrugged.

Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.

He made a striking figure, so tall and lean.

I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman cut!

A tall figure darkened the doorway and she looked up to find Cade watching her.

Liberty is a gigantic figure of a woman in Greek draperies, holding in her right hand a torch....

As she stepped off the walk to cross an alley, a lean figure stepped out of the saloon.

I also recited "Laus Deo," and as I spoke the concluding verses, he placed in my hands a statue of a slave from whose crouching figure the fetters were falling, even as they fell from Peter's limbs when the angel led him forth out of prison.

She glanced up as a figure approached, and her smile was genuine.

Sometimes, I have to figure it out.

He wasn't to that point yet, and he had to figure out just how to protect the woman from the man she considered her own father.

He was driving … Jule skipped through the details of Yully's car.… Another figure followed them.

Rostov was talking merrily to his two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very noticeable one at the dinner.

He only heard Dolokhov's hurried steps, and his figure came in view through the smoke.

His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps.

Speranski's whole figure was of a peculiar type that made him easily recognizable.

He heard footsteps in the darkness and a black figure appeared.

On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf.

While she was outside having a pity party, he was trying to figure out what he'd done wrong.

Turning, she stared at her figure.

I just can't figure her.

Another figure emerged from the night to stand beside Len.

He surveyed her slender figure with obvious appreciation.

His bloodshot gaze wandered over her figure in a way that made her regret leaving her beach robe in the house.

I figure he must have something in mind after he graduates this spring.

Roxanne had everything; beauty, a good figure, and a sweet personality.

She watched his tall figure move gracefully down the hall, forcing unwelcome warmth to crawl up her neck.

How do you figure?

I've been trying to figure this guy's route.

She looked unsettled at the idea of leaving her lab and looked around, as if trying to figure out what to take.

Dusty was going to kill all these people if he didn't figure out how to fix them.

The shadowy figure disappeared into an alcove.

I'd hoped not to have to do this, but I can't wait for you to figure it out.

The creature walking away from her wanted something, and she couldn't figure out what.

And I can't wait for Jonny to figure out how to do his job.

If I have a doctor's note saying I'm under their care, isn't that good enough until they figure it out?

She's started having symptoms that the doctors can't figure out what's wrong.

Something was really wrong in Europe, and he needed to figure out what, before the European front was overrun by vamps.

You figure out how to train one?

True, they had eternity to figure each other out, but he didn't want her turning cold like Dusty or jaded like Jule.

She approached the window, amazed at the snow, until her gaze fell to a figure kneeling like a dark gargoyle in the middle of the white lawn.

She braced herself against the memories running through his head and the confusion as he tried to figure out where he was.

She was trying hard to keep her fear away so she could figure out this new world.

She had to figure out what she was missing fast and how permanent it was to be an Immortal mate.

Deidre tried to figure out what it was she was supposed to say.

Death was a dark, towering, muscular figure in the living area of her apartment, clothed in black and wearing an expression that mirrored what she felt.

I've been trying to figure him out for the past few days and have no clue.

I'll figure it out way before our deal is up, she said, rolling her eyes.

You know I couldn't figure out how to turn on the shower?

I knew he'd figure out something.

When did you figure out I was your mate?

I'm trying to figure out how I can want to be with him but not stomach what he does as the Dark One.

I figure them bones is another matter.

That would take some research by Fred and his stalwarts, if Dean could figure a way to distance that investigation from Fred's court-dictated jury duty restrictions.

As Dean rolled his Jeep down the main street of Ouray, he caught sight of a familiar figure with a rounded haircut.

As Dean neared the structure, a figure emerged from the building.

Maybe figure where my life's going from here.

Dean stared at the woman's near crumpled figure.

Suddenly the beam caught a figure crouched ahead.

She paused, trying to figure out what to tell him.

He loved touching her and loved even more watching her try to figure out what to do about it.

Deidre had never seen him like this, as a quietly commanding figure, capable of lethal force one moment and gentle kisses the next.

Her eyes rested on the figure of a girl representing the humans.

Deidre sought to figure out what it was about the currents and subtle movement that kept her in place when she wanted to return to the castle, where it was warm.

He heard two of the Immortals shouting from down a nearby hall and saw the dark figure duck into a doorway.

Silently, he strode down the hallway after the figure he saw.

Though he possessed nowhere near the level of power he used to, he was still able to sense the figure cowering in a corner.

He went to the window opposite the figure and closed his eyes, then whipped the curtain open.

The figure's arm was raised to block the blinding light.

The smooth lines of the dress flattered her petite figure, but more important was the fact that Alex liked it.

As she stepped out into the bright sunlight, a tall figure caught her attention.

Alex opened the passenger door and climbed into the car, his attention equally divided between the retreating figure and Carmen.

If I had a figure like yours, I'd use it.

There was nothing wrong with Katie's figure except that she was a little over weight.

When she modeled them in front of the mirror, they did things to her figure she never would have guessed.

We've got to figure out this shit, he told the female death-dealer beside him.

I can't figure out how they're tracking the dead.

We're trying to figure out what Darkyn is doing planting a shape-shifter demon on the mortal realm, Rhyn said, referring to the demon lord who wanted both their heads on pikes.

I can't figure out how they're beating us.

Would it help him figure out how to deal with Deidre?

You'll have to figure out the rest, first.

If what Wynn said was true, Gabriel needed as much time as he could find to figure out how to save her.

He had to figure out a way to do it in a way he was able to recover from, if she survived.

She poured herself some more, struggling to figure out what she was missing.

Very. I can tell but it takes men longer to figure out that stuff.

Dressed in black, he was an imposing figure, even in the cavernous room.

Would it have been easier on you if you heard it from either a complete stranger or someone you can't quite figure out?

I know what really happened, and I hoped others would figure it out.

The creatures had reached the top of the stairs and were looking around, trying to figure out which way she'd gone.

Gabriel was right --he had to figure it out before he lost his mate.

Rhyn watched him go, wondering just what his brother was planning, and how he.d figure it out before Katie was hung on the wall next to his mother.

All he needed was to figure out how to win a game of strategy he didn.t know how to play, before his time was up and he lost the only thing that mattered.

Instead I'm here trying to figure out how this could have happened.

The way I figure it, he's more in love with the idea of having a woman worship him than he is with me.

Greenie's holed up in the hub trying to figure out what to do.

The figure denoting the general average yield per acre of any class of crop needs readjustment after every successive harvest.

You figure out how to make your widget from this new plastic.

The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he was only redder than usual.

The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel.

Can you fancy the figure he cut?...

He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him.

It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well.

They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.

He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other.

The rider, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented and adored monarch.

The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denisov.

Twenty-one rubles, he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and taking up a pack he prepared to deal.

Now they drew close to the fox which began to dodge between the field in sharper and sharper curves, trailing its brush, when suddenly a strange white borzoi dashed in followed by a black one, and everything was in confusion; the borzois formed a star-shaped figure, scarcely swaying their bodies and with tails turned away from the center of the group.

At first she heard only Metivier's voice, then her father's, then both voices began speaking at the same time, the door was flung open, and on the threshold appeared the handsome figure of the terrified Metivier with his shock of black hair, and the prince in his dressing gown and fez, his face distorted with fury and the pupils of his eyes rolled downwards.

In the figure in which he had to choose two ladies, he whispered to Helene that he meant to choose Countess Potocka who, he thought, had gone out onto the veranda, and glided over the parquet to the door opening into the garden, where, seeing Balashev and the Emperor returning to the veranda, he stood still.

His whole short corpulent figure with broad thick shoulders, and chest and stomach involuntarily protruding, had that imposing and stately appearance one sees in men of forty who live in comfort.

One fair-haired young soldier of the third company, whom Prince Andrew knew and who had a strap round the calf of one leg, crossed himself, stepped back to get a good run, and plunged into the water; another, a dark noncommissioned officer who was always shaggy, stood up to his waist in the water joyfully wriggling his muscular figure and snorted with satisfaction as he poured the water over his head with hands blackened to the wrists.

Pierre recognized him at once by his peculiar figure, which distinguished him from everybody else.

Kutuzov noticed Pierre's figure and the group gathered round him.

The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden.

Her eyes" (Nicholas looked at his partner) "are blue, her mouth coral and ivory; her figure" (he glanced at her shoulders) "like Diana's...."

Darkyn wins now if you don't figure out this simple truth.

Definitely some advice from someone who understood make-up better and a real hair stylist who could figure out how to un-pink hair.

I was trying to figure out what was there, not to remove it, but to ensure no one else could either.

He'd figure something out.

Ully might figure something else out.

She refused to send him to school or to go to work, determined to figure out what insanity was going on under her roof.

Jade straightened, eyeing the dark figure with bright eyes.

This time, Rhyn couldn't figure out why the creature wanted a human so badly he'd bring her here yet didn't seem eager about her becoming his mate.

When her mind had cleared and her body no longer thrummed with need, she tried to figure out what the hell had happened.

You'll just have to figure it out on your own.

I.ve got a lot to figure out.

She suspected Kris might override his promise to let her go in five weeks, if Ully couldn.t figure it out.

A dark figure in the snow-covered park area caught her attention.

She.d have to pray Rhyn didn.t drop by her mind when she thought of it, or when she was trying to figure out what to do.

Hell toughened him up, yet this was one challenge he couldn.t figure out.

He couldn.t figure out what the hell the puny human in front of him wanted.

What I can.t figure out is why he came here.

He.d have to figure out what to do with the wounded man.

If they can.t figure out what Sasha did about the vial, they.ll need her and Ully.

Didn.t Sasha.s lab figure it out?

It wasn.t hard to figure out why he did it after so long refusing to become Death.s slave, Darkyn answered.

I.ll figure something out, Kris said.

Kiera would figure things out soon, especially once Evelyn got her into this new world and its customs.

Excited to see that even this world had video games, she sat in the chair behind the buttons and screen, studying all three in an attempt to figure out how the game worked.

She set the knife down on the edge and circled the fountain again until she'd reviewed all three of the pictographs where the female figure held a dagger.

One headed for her, and she turned to run, only to collide with a large figure at her back.

One female figure moved forward, wrapping a shawl around Evelyn's shoulders and placing a translator on her ear.

The craft door opened, and a figure strode out.

Time to figure out what we're running here, a house for haunted women or just a house for 'hunted' women!

But even when I figure out all the substitutions, deciphering the entire notebook will be a long project.

The state boys figure I'm too close to you to be what somebody calls 'objective'.

He considered switching a digit and feigning a mistake but he knew these guys would figure he was hiding something and be all the more aggressive when they questioned Cynthia.

He then added, "Or do you figure it's tapped?"

He named his salary, a figure that surprised Dean.

We figure it's her choice if she wants to take the big trip.

The way I figure it, Edith took the knife the night when she first tried on the dress.

Fred nodded his head, scribbled on his pad, and asked, "You figure the note's a confession, of sorts?"

If I had tried to figure it out logically, things might have fallen into place.

I realize in most ways Edith isn't deserving of too much sympathy, but I still think of her as a tragic figure.

There, in the fog of semi-darkness, stood a white-clad figure, smiling down at him.

She had long blonde hair like spun silk, a perfectly proportioned figure and blue-green eyes that made you feel you were looking into the sea.

Because she wants to give you some time to figure out that you two can make this work.

Men let it rest for a while, then figure out whether to nurse it back to health or kill it.

He should be controlling this situation by now; not sitting here trying to figure out what the hell was happening.

Although totally unnerved, he knew he could not let himself lose it again, yet had to speak to her, see if he could figure her out.

Don't you think we owe it to ourselves to figure out what all this means?

As they approached Jackson's car, he said, "I'm going to need some time to absorb all this before I can even begin to figure out what to do."

We'll figure this out somehow.

He sat for a minute trying to figure out how to fix things, but came up empty.

Well, I have a whole year to figure that one out.

I suggest we concentrate on you feeling better before trying to figure this out.

We have another month to figure it out.

They figure Josh is tough competition - but do you really think Josh could scare them off if they knew you were interested?

Two occupied stalls and he couldn't figure out where to put the water.

Anyway, I didn't figure I'd be running the farm for a while.

A tall lean figure stepped into the room and cool gray eyes surveyed her.

Her heart skipped a beat as a lean figure in a business suit entered the room.

They figure if it makes money, it must be a wise business choice.

As she lifted the hay and turned, a figure moved in the hay on the floor.

Sometimes it's kind of hard to figure you out, though.

They'll figure it out as soon as they see the news.

You figure out how to deal with the supply issue?

We can't figure out who we're fighting.

No one here understood that they were surrounded by an enemy even Brady couldn't figure out yet.

How would he figure it out?

They gazed at each other for a long moment, and he tried to figure out what was going through her thoughts.

I'm trying to figure you out.

Someone as bright as she was would figure out a way to get somewhere safe.

We'll figure out which route she took and track her.

Brady focused on the micro, trying to figure out where Lana might've gone.

Brady scanned the surrounding forest again, trying to figure out which way Lana had gone.

We're trying to figure out which path she took.

We have someone from Harvard here who can't figure out the generator.

The rest, she'd figure out when she got there.

This is the kind of thing Lana could figure out.

It's taking three so-called experts way too long to figure it out.

A figure appeared from the forest between her and the river.

Be careful.  I mean that.  We'll figure out something.

A moment later, a thin figure entered the room.  The last of the shapeshifters created, this one was a mirror image of the mad scientist, Ully.

We'll figure something out.

Maybe.  In any case, whatever you felt for Jade, you have to figure out how to get over it.  You have your mate.  I've been waiting for mine for a lifetime.

Kris blinked, trying to figure out what the deity wanted.

Unable to sleep without knowing the truth, Toby huddled beneath the jungle leaves and stretched his senses until he found Katie.  He couldn't put her in more danger, if there was something wrong with Ully.  She was close enough for him to find when he needed to.  If he kept some distance between him and Katie, he could figure out what was wrong with Ully without endangering her more.

Her thoughts went to Rhyn then Hannah then the past few weeks as she sought to figure out where she'd gone wrong.

Nothing I can't handle.  I have Kiki, Tamer, and Erik on lockdown.  A week without food, and they're happy to help.  Kiki is running most things, until I figure them out.

I don't know anything about the case, but I know it would take a room full of CPA's to figure out how many cups of coffee you guys owe each other.

She named a salary figure close to the small amount Dean drew from the Parkside Police Department.

He could imagine the difficulty in supporting a fam­ily of three on the figure.

Fred possessed a full head of snow-white hair, carried himself ramrod straight and was a familiar sight and well-liked figure about town.

Some of the guys figure a dumb trick like a midnight swim ain't so surprising for a Yankee with a snoot full.

I surely don't know what you guys figure you'll find as many times as you've looked around.

There was also a small sheet of white paper listing 11.2 gallons of gas purchased in Aberdeen, Maryland, a mileage figure and the amount of the purchase.

The latest entry dated Monday showed a mileage figure and the starting point of Parkside, Pennsylvania.

Fourth and Oak were just as desolate as Ninth and Locust, but as soon as Dean stopped the car, a disheveled figure jumped from the darkness and clawed at the passenger door until Dean reached over and opened it.

They'd figure the poor kid would get all kinds of razing in school and all.

I'm hard pressed to figure why any man in his right mind would dump her.

You don't know what to do so you take the next day off when you're sober, find some quiet motel and try and figure out what you've got or what to do with the stuff.

There in the blur of a passing auto and mirrored in descending waves of rain was the huddled figure of Cynthia Byrne stumbling across the parking lot toward the road and the beach beyond.

Suddenly a flash of lightening illuminat­ed the crouched figure of Cynthia Byrne several yards away.

Dean maneuvered the still-unconscious figure beneath the covers, tucking the blanket as tightly as he dared.

He gazed down upon her now-peaceful figure.

I figure it like this.

When Dean replaced the phone and glanced up, the tall figure of Jonathan Winston was standing next to his desk, smiling down and, as usual, impeccably dressed.

They'll figure out it wasn't me.

He could figure the gas he'd have used and written his own receipt when he filled up the motor home, stop­ping after filling the tank part way.

Well, the way I see it, he's gotta figure the motor home is hot.

The car ain't due back at the garage 'til tomorrow but we gotta figure some way of returning it or they're gonna get miffed.

He slid in behind another biker and followed the crouched figure evenly, absentmindedly match­ing the rider stride for stride for several miles as he pondered his course of action.

She was a gorgeous creature in her early twenties with a figure that would make a monk sigh.

I figure we just set up this tent right on the other site and pull his stuff inside.

People will figure they reassigned the site.

There's one thing I can't figure.

Dean only had a brief glance at the rider, not enough to even tell if the helmeted figure was a man or a woman, much less recognize the person.

It was a brief lapse of concentration from his purpose at hand, catching the yellow-clad figure flowing through the curves and bends below him.

For a moment his gaze lingered on her slender figure as she walked into the kitchen.

Actually, 250 combined pounds would be a fairly accurate figure.

As she walked through the screened porch, a tall figure stepped out of the evening shadows.

I can't figure you.

If he hadn't done so, she might not have seen the lean figure lounging against the tree.

When she lifted her head, a figure in the doorway caught her attention.

I'll figure it out later.

I couldn't figure out his fascination with her at the time.

The barn door groaned as it swung shut, exposing the figure leaning against the wall.

A lean figure in a gray business suit stepped out of a crowd of new arrivals.

I'd better figure on building a pen close to the house to quarantine the Longhorns in.

Right now she needed him as a husband, not a father figure.

Why did he have to wait until her figure started to fall apart before he complained about seldom seeing her in a dress?

He gets a little caught up in the role of head of the household, and becomes a parental figure as well.

Lori was hard to figure though.

Another woman lay on the ground near the youth named Damian, her shapely figure, porcelain complexion, and auburn hair indicating her beauty even in her sleep.

Somehow, they lessened her pain again, as if the strange figure before her wrapped them in magic before placing them in her head.

Once a god then a slave, he was just starting to figure out who he was now.

He's in Europe trying to figure out how to pick up the pieces, Damian said.

Darian remained for another long moment before Traveling to the nearest town, determined to figure out what was going on.

She'd figure out his weakness and hold onto that knowledge for when she needed it.

She'd stopped trying to figure out why Xander tormented her every day.

As soon as I figure out how, I will, he said simply.

Soon, I'll figure out how to do more than track your kind.

Darkness swallowed him before he could figure it out.

I've Seen some things … and there are some things so up in the air right now, I can't figure out what it means.

Darian lingered, unable to figure out exactly what was wrong.

When he figured out how to do it without also ending up dead, he'd figure out what had fallen between him and Jenn.

Darian felt the magic of the world bombard him, both welcoming home the man that had been its king and trying to figure out what he now was.

He'd have to figure out how to start a conversation she didn't want to have.

Your fortune cookies forget to tell you I'd figure out what you didn't tell me about Jenn?

Enough time for me to figure out what Jonny's doing with the Others.

If that's not the answer, then you'll figure it out, Jenn, and you'll do it in two days.

His eyes went past Claire for a moment, to the dark figure waiting by the tree line.

Before the moment when she saw the book, she hadn't wanted to connect the spectral figure of her mind with the very real man before her.

Taran glanced toward the darkened figure near the door.

The demon sensed it, even as she struggled to figure out where he was.

Something was troubling him and he was trying to figure out the best way to approach it.

That wasn't very nice, I guess, but you always tried to hide your figure – though I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Actually, she had never tried to hide her figure.

The knit pants hugged her figure, but they were comfortable and stretched when she did.

She might as well figure on getting that cell phone for Jonathan.

Alex glanced up as a tall figure stepped through the door.

If they can figure a way to smoke without getting it in my eyes and lungs, they can smoke themselves to death for all I care.

He's already an important figure in the state of California.

A tall balding figure moved into the room.

As near as she could figure, it was more than half full - all she would need.

I think I can figure it out.

You figure taking care of one more critter is no big deal?

A tall figure emerged from the brush and she gasped with relief.

She scrambled to her feet, gaping at the tall figure in the doorway.

We can't quite figure out what.

Did Jonny figure that out and plan to use her against him?

I'll wait to fire you until I figure out why you're working for me in the first place.

Silently, he began to think he wasn't going to tolerate the ghost in his house long enough for him to figure out what was going on.

She stood in the doorway to his room for a long moment, trying to figure out how the hell he knew so much about her.

You'll figure it out, he said.

Jessi wasn't able to figure out how Jonny, Xander and Gerry were connected, except that they had to be.

You're saying that, instead of treating him like I do my teenage cousins, I should pretend I'm dealing with a five-year-old who's convinced his stick figure drawing is a masterpiece.

While appealing, it would ruin his chances to figure out what Jessi was hiding.

After the round shape was introduced, the one side was always inscribed with the figure of a ship's prow, and the other with the double head of Janus.

This figure, also known as the vesica piscis, is common in ecclesiastical seals and as a glory or aureole in paintings of sculpture, surrounding figures of the Trinity, saints, &c. The figure is, however, sometimes referred to the almond, as typifying virginity; the French name for the symbol is Amande mystique.

It is suggested that Hylas was a harvest deity and that the ceremony gone through by the Kians was a harvest festival, at which the figure of a boy was thrown into the water, signifying the dying vegetation-spirit of the year.

He was not cast in a heroic mould, and he had no desire to figure at the stake; like Cecil, and Elizabeth herself, he had a great respect for authority, and when his time came he could consistently impose authority on others.

Our figure of the nervous system of Aplysia does not give the small pair of buccal ganglia which are, as in all glossophorous Molluscs, present upon the nerves passing from the cerebral region to the odontophore.

To the right (in the figure) of the rectal peduncle is seen the deeply invaginated shell-gland ss, with a secretion sh protruding from it.

In the figure the cord of the left side is seen, marked re.

It was said that the male figure represented Christ, and that the group had been set up in recognition of the miraculous cure.

The folly of the monarchs of the Holy Alliance in Europe gained for the writings of Montholon and Las Cases (that of Gourgaud was not published till 1899) a ready reception, with the result that Napoleon reappeared in the literature of the ensuing decades wielding an influence scarcely less potent than that of the grey-coated figure into whose arms France flung herself on his return from Elba.

The chief object of the author, who had been naturalist to the Niger Expedition, and curator to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, was to figure the animals contained in its gardens or described in its Proceedings, which until the year 1848 were not illustrated.

The original project was apparently to give a figure and ()Udall.

Moreover, Dr Cornay's, scheme was not given to the world with any of those adjuncts that not merely please the eye but are in many cases necessary, for, though on a subject which required for its proper comprehension a series of plates, it made even its final appearance unadorned by a single explanatory figure, and in a journal, respectable and wellknown indeed, but one not of the highest scientific rank.

Men's minds began to figure to themselves the original type of some well-marked genus or family of birds.

The service opened with a procession of Old Testament characters, prophets, patriarchs and kings, together with heathen prophets, including Virgil, the chief figure being Balaam on his ass.

His figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his hair hung in dishevelled locks over his haggard countenance.

Over each, at a much higher level, is a colossal figure of an archangel - Raphael, Michael and Gabriel.

In the Malay Peninsula the blood of a murdered man must be put in a bottle and prayers said over; after seven days of this worship a sound is heard and the operator puts his finger into the bottle for the polong, as the demon is called, to suck; it will fly through the air in the shape of an exceedingly diminutive female figure, and is always preceded by its pet, the pelesit, in the shape of a grasshopper.

In the American Presbyterian church he was a prominent figure; he worked for union with the Congregationalists and with the Dutch Reformed body; and at the synod of 1786 he was one of the committee which reported in favour of the formation of a General Assembly and which drafted "a system of general rules for.