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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
Some idea of the enormous damage wrought by the collective attacks of individually small and weak animals may be gathered from the fact that a conservative estimate places the loss due to insect attacks on cotton in the United States at the astounding figure of $60,000,000 (£12,000,000) annually.
This company, it is said, helped to attract the brokers back to the spinners, and an informal understanding was arrived at that the buying broker should not figure both as agent and principal in the same transaction.
Purchases for " speculation " remain in the market and therefore figure again in the sales.
In his later years his small alert figure was one of the most distinguished in the society of Berlin, and every honour open to a man of letters was conferred upon him.
Other houses of the Brothers of Common Life, otherwise called the "Modern Devotion," were in rapid succession established in the chief cities of the Low Countries and north and central Germany, so that there were in all upwards of forty houses of men; while those of women doubled that figure, the first having been founded by Groot himself at Deventer.
The legend has been followed by modern historians; but in point of fact Peter is a figure of secondary importance.
The great figure in the siege was naturally Bohemund (who had also been the hero of Dorylaeum).
We may conceive of the Third Crusade under the figure of a number of converging lines, all seeking to reach a common centre.
In later times the tendency was to regard Memnon as a real historical figure.
The name Marguerite was common in the Valois dynasty, and during the 16th century there were three princesses, all of whom figure in the political as well as in the literary history of the time, and who have xvii.
The polar equation is r= I -f - 2 cos 0 and the form of the curve is shown in the figure.
A figure placed on the right of a symbol only affects the symbol to which it is attached, but when figures are placed in front of several symbols all are affected by it, thus 2H 2 SO 4 means H 2 SO 4 taken twice.
Usually, when the symbols of the elements are written or printed with a figure to the right, it is understood that this indicates a molecule of the element, the symbol alone representing an atom.
Equally certain is a second observation of a general character that the epic originating as the greater portion of the literature in Assur-bani-pal's collection in Babylonia is a composite product, that is to say, it consists of a number of independent stories or myths originating at different times, and united to form a continuous narrative with Gilgamesh as the central figure.
There can be no doubt that Eabani, who symbolizes primeval man, was a figure originally entirely independent of Gilgamesh, but his story was incorporated into the epic by that natural process to be observed in the national epics of other peoples, which tends to connect the favourite hero with all kinds of tales that for one reason or the other become embedded in the popular mind.
The figure of the giant who is supposed to have once held the Hazelbosch under his terror is paraded on this occasion as the "lounge man."
The former method, usually called the " natural scale," may be described as " international," for it is quite independent of local measures of length, and depends exclusively upon the size and figure of the earth.
This figure, corresponding to the four hundred years of Egyptian bondage, occurs also in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 99a).
Already in the later Avesta he has become a half-mythical figure, the last in the series of heroes of east Iranian legend, in the arrangement of which series priestly influence is unmistakably evident.
Ormazd in his exalted majesty is the ideal figure of an Oriental king.
But the Buddha is now forgotten there, and the bas relief is reverenced only for the figure of the mother, who has been turned into a tutelary deity of the place.
Special commissioners were to have concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. circuit and district courts and the inferior courts of Territories in enforcing the law; fugitives could not testify in their own behalf; no trial by jury was provided; i The precise amount of organization in the Underground Railroad cannot be definitely ascertained because of the exaggerated use of the figure of railroading in the documents of the "presidents" of the road, Robert Purvis and Levi Coffin, and of its many "conductors," and their discussion of the "packages" and "freight" shipped by them.
By 1796 the issues had reached the enormous figure of 45,500,000,000 francs, and even this gigantic total was swollen still more by the numerous counterfeits introduced into France from the neighbouring countries.
Of the rarer woods particular mention may be made of curly pine, yielding a wood of beautiful figure and polish; magnolia, hard, close-grained, of fine polish and of great lasting qualities; and cypress, light, strong, easily worked and never-rotting.
Timur's army is said to have numbered 200,000, Bayezid's force to have amounted to about half that figure, mostly seasoned veterans.
So desperate had been their resistance that the Prussians unanimously stated Davout's strength at double the actual figure.
These last already appear in miniatures of the 9th century; from the II th onwards they predominated; and in the 13th century they ousted all other forms. Originally plain, the crook was from the lath century onwards often made in the form of a snake (5), which in richer staves encircled the Lamb of God or the representation of a figure.
Since the 13th century the snake, under Gothic influence, developed into a boldly designed tendril set with leaves, which usually encircled a figure or group of figures, and the knob dividing shaft and crook into an elegant chapel (6 and 7).
In the Public Square is a soldiers' and sailors' monument consisting of a granite shaft rising from a memorial room to a height of 125 ft., and surmounted with a figure of Liberty; in the same park, also, is a bronze statue of Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city.
Both sexes wear the langouti or loincloth, which the men supplement with a short jacket, the women with a long scarf draped round the figure or with a long clinging robe.
That he was the most attractive figure of a man of letters in his generation is admitted; and the acknowledged fascination of his character was deepened, and was extended over an extremely wide circle of readers, by the publication in 1899 of his Letters, which have subdued even those who were rebellious to the entertainment of his books.
If the black ions move twice as fast as the white ones, the state of things after the passage of a current will be represented by the lower part of the figure.
When twenty-one years of age he composed a treatise on the figure of the earth, and the reputation which he soon acquired led to his appointment by the king of Sardinia to the professorship of philosophy in the college of Casale.
Towards the latter part of 1904 the price of fine Para reached a high level and then considerably declined, reaching in 1907-8 a lower figure than had been recorded since 1900.
This figure reached an average of 18,250 in 1873-1877, and from about 1880 until the discontinuance of the system in 1900 an average of 20,000 persons were annually exiled to Siberia.
He was the leading figure at the Imperial Conference in London of 1907.
A similar six-rayed system of cracks, bisecting the angles between the rays of the previous set, is produced when a blunt punch is gradually pressed against a sheet of mica; this is known as the "pressure figure."
As to artistic representations of the goddess, we have first the rude figure which seems to be a copy of the Palladium; secondly, the still rude, but otherwise more interesting, figures of her, as e.g.
On the expiration of his term Van Buren retired to his estate at Kinderhook, but he did not withdraw from politics or cease to be a figure of national importance.
Every symmetric function denoted by partitions, not involving the figure unity (say a non-unitary symmetric function), which remains unchanged by any increase of n, is also a seminvariant, and we may take if we please another fundamental system, viz.
If we wish merely to enumerate those whose partitions contain the figure 0, and do not therefore contain any power of a as a factor, we have the generator ze 1-z2.1-z3.1-z4....1-z0.
After a long period of dry weather the natural flow has been known to fall considerably below 200,000,000 gallons, whilst, on the other hand, in the rainy winter season, the flow in 1894 rose for a short time to as high a figure as 20,000,000,000 gallons, and the ordinary flow in winter months may be put down as 3,000,000,000 gallons.
From his views on centrifugal force he deduced the oblate figure of the earth, estimating its compression, however, at little more than one-half its actual amount.
Le Couronnement Looys, already mentioned, Le Charroi de Nimes (12th century) in which Guillaume, who had been forgotten in the distribution of fiefs, enumerates his services to the terrified Louis, and Aliscans (r2th century), with the earlier Chanrun, are among the finest of the French epic poems. The figure of Vivien is among the most heroic elaborated by the trouveres, and the giant Rainouart has more than a touch of Rabelaisian humour.
It is to be distinguished from an archaic figure still visible, carved in the northern side of the mountain near Magnesia, to which tradition has given the name of Niobe, but which is really intended for Cybele.
After a few repetitions of the reversal, the process becomes strictly cyclic, the upward and downward curves always following with precision the paths indicated in the figure.
The closed figure a c d e a is variously called a hysteresis curve or diagram or loop. The area f HdB enclosed by it represents the work done in carrying a cubic centimetre of the iron through the corresponding magnetic cycle; expressed in ergs this work is I HdB.
It is not known whether the turmae contained a fixed number of equites; there is no doubt that, in assigning the public horse, Augustus went far beyond the earlier figure of ' Soo.
The figure B also shows the peculiar neural investiture formed by the cerebral arteries in Limulus and the derivation from this of the arteries to the limbs, III, IV, VI, whereas in Scorpio the latter have a separate origin from the anterior aorta.
The followers of Credner are literalists; the opposite school of moderns includes some literalists (as Duhm), while others (like Hilgenfeld, and in a modified sense Merx) adopt the old allegorical interpretation which treats the locusts as a figure for the enemies of Jerusalem.
The other physical features of the great day, the darkening of the lights of heaven, are a standing figure of the prophets from Amos v.
The second group represents, first, the birth of Mithras; then the god nude, cutting fruit and leaves from a fig-tree in which is the bust of a deity, and before which one of the winds is blowing upon Mithras; the god discharging an arrow against a rock from which springs a fountain whose water a figure is kneeling to receive in his palms; the bull in a small boat, near which again occurs the figure of the animal under a roof about to be set on fire by two figures; the bull in flight, with Mithras in pursuit; Mithras bearing the bull on his shoulders; Helios kneeling before Mithras; Helios and Mithras clasping hands over an altar; Mithras with drawn bow on a running horse; Mithras and Helios banqueting; Mithras and Helios mounting the chariot of the latter and rising in full course over the ocean.
Salt, which does not figure in the list of exports, is produced along the coast between Pernambuco and Cape St Roque.
The Scottish dead in the American Civil War are commemorated in a monument bearing a life-sized figure of Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave.
Playfair (1789-1857), but it was not till 1883 that the building was completed by the dome, crowned by the bronze figure of Youth bearing the torch of Knowledge, on the facade in South Bridge Street.
In the 17th century we find Ludovico Sergardi (Quinto Settano), a Latinist and satirical writer of much talent and culture; but the most original and brilliant figure in Sienese literature is that of Girolamo Gigli (1660-1722), author of the Gazzettino, La Sorellina di Don Pilone, Il Vocabolario cateriniano and the Diario ecclesiastico.
The bulk of these exports are to the Transvaal and neighbouring countries, and previously figure as imports, other exports, largely wool and hides, are first imported from the Transvaal.
But the outstanding figure in the controversies of the first half of the 12th century is Abelard.
But his brilliant ability and restless activity made him the central figure in the dialectical as in the other discussions of his time.
From that time Cobden became a conspicuous figure in Manchester, taking a leading part in the local politics of the town and district.
But he pointed out also that the question of a separate bank did not actually figure in the act of 1867, and that it could not be introduced into it, more especially since the capital article of the ministerial programme, i.e.
Legendre, in 1783, extended Maclaurin's theorem concerning ellipsoids of revolution to the case of any spheroid of revolution where the attracted point, instead of being limited to the axis or equator, occupied any position in space; and Laplace, in his treatise Theorie du mouvement et de la figure elliptique des planetes (published in 1784), effected a still further generalization by proving, what had been suspected by Legendre, that the theorem was equally true for any confocal ellipsoids.
Finally, in a celebrated memoir, Theorie des attractions des spheroides et de la figure des planetes, published in 1785 among the Paris Memoirs for the year 1782, although written after the treatise of 1784, Laplace treated exhaustively the general problem of the attraction of any spheroid upon a particle situated outside or upon its surface.
Laplace's first separate work, Theorie du mouvement et de la figure elliptique des planetes (1784), was published at the expense of President Bochard de Saron.
When the series is theoretically continuous, the theoretical graph will be a continuous figure of which the lines actually drawn are ordinates.
The upper boundary of this figure will be a line of some sort; it is this line, rather than the figure, that is sometimes called the " graph."
Von Baer, however, has another place in the history of zoology, being the first and most striking figure in the introduction of embryology into the consideration of the relations of animals to one another.
If the angular interval between the components of a double line be half as great again as that supposed in the figure, the brightness midway between is 1802 as against 1.0450 at the central lines of each image.
If we consider for the present only the primary plane of symmetry, the figure is reduced to two dimensions.
The women had flowing robes, tall pointed caps, and veils descending over most of the figure.
Among the mixed and other coloured races in the census returns figure 1592 Bushmen, 3597 Hottentots and 1147 Koranna; these people are found chiefly in the southwestern regions and are remnants of the true aboriginal population.
Thus "the great unknown" from the Oberland is the ideal character, "who illustrates how God does his work for the world and for the church through a divinely trained and spiritually illuminated layman," just as William Langland in England about the same time drew the figure of Piers Plowman.
The English supply increased, with some oscillations, to between six and seven thousand tons annually in the period 1840-1860, when it suddenly rose to about io,000 tons, and this figure was fairly well sustained until about 1890, when a period of depression set in; the yield for 1900 was 4336 tons, and for 1905 about 4200 tons.
This depicts the journey of the soul from heaven to earth, its life in the body, and its final return to the heavenly home, under the figure of a Parthian prince who is sent from the court of his parents to the land of Egypt to fetch the serpent-guarded pearl; after a time of sloth and forgetfulness he fulfils his quest, and returns triumphant and again puts on the heavenly robe.
Looking at the question then from the point of view of sexual selection it would seem that a stage in the progress of human society is marked by the discovery that concealment affords a greater stimulus than revelation; that the fact is true is obvious, - even to modern eyes a figure partially clad appears far more indecent than a nude.
He was thereupon elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and more than justified the selection by his "Teucer" of the following year, a bronze figure of extraordinary distinction which, bought for the Chantrey collection, is now in the National (Tate) Gallery of British Art.
From that time until 1900 the dominating figure in the town was that of the president - Paul Kruger.
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.
But the most prominent figure in Byzantine medicine is that of Paul of Aegina (Paulus Aegineta), who lived probably in the early part of the 7th century.
Above Mannheim the depth of the stream is always less than 5 ft., and generally varies between that figure and 4 ft.
Especially may be noticed the so-called edition of Kehl, in which Voltaire himself, and later Beaumarchais, were concerned (70 vols., 1785-89); those of Dalibon and Baudouin, each in 97 volumes (from which "the hundred volumes of Voltaire" have become a not infrequent figure of speech); and the excellent edition of Beuchot (1829) in 72 volumes.
His brilliant personal courage, his amiability and his loyalty to the cause make him a very attractive figure, but a commander-in-chief of the Vendeans, who came and went as they pleased, had little real power or opportunity to display the qualities of a general.
The total figure he asked for amounted to 95,000 men, his calculation being based upon the strength of the opposing army, as this was fairly accurately known.
The simple catenary is shown in the figure.
This is probably never completely attained, variations in the sixth significant figure of the refractive index being observed in different parts of single large blocks of the most perfect glass.
The more elaborate patterns found on what is known as " figure rolled plate " are produced in a somewhat different manner; the glass used for this purpose is considerably whiter in colour and much softer than ordinary rolled plate, and instead of being rolled out on a table it is produced by rolling between two moving rollers from which the sheet issues.
Some of the last-named are represented with such truth of colouring and delicacy of detail that even the separate feathers of the wings and tail are well distinguished, although, as in an example in the British Museum, a human-headed hawk, the piece which contains the figure may not exceed 4 in.
In the South Kensington Museum is a fragment of such a tablet or slab; the figure, a portion of which remains, could not have been less than about 14 in.
The glass in all is greenish, very thick, with many bubbles, and has been cut with the wheel; in some instances circles and cones, and in one the outlines of the figure of a leopard, have been left standing up, the rest of the surface having been laboriously cut away.
The effective angular inertia of the body in the medium is now required; denote it by C 1 about the axis of the figure, and by C2 about a diameter of the mean section.
A rotation about the axis of a figure of revolution does not set the medium in motion, so that C 1 is.
The effect of an external circulation of vortex motion on the motion of a cylinder has been investigated in § 29; a similar procedure will show the influence of circulation through a hole in a solid, taking as the simplest illustration a ring-shaped figure, with uniplanar motion, and denoting by the resultant axial linear momentum of the circulation.
The whole story is a composite product, and it is possible that some of the stories are artificially attached to the central figure.
In Babylonia, in place of the basrelief we have the figure in the round, the earliest examples being the statues from Tello which are realistic but somewhat clumsy.
In 1891, with the object of getting the total duration of the dynasties to agree with the chronological system of Berossus and with the statement of Nabonidus concerning Khammurabi's date, Peiser proposed to emend the figure given by the Kings' List for the length of Dynasty III.
Andbabylonia Assyria Sennacherib's figure in the Bavian inscription; this he reduced by a hundred years,' instead of increasing it by sixty as Rost had suggested.
Lehmann-Haupt's influence is visible in Marquart's system, published in the following year; 2 it may be noted that his slightly reduced figure for the beginning of Dynasty I.
When revising his scheme of chronology in 1900, Rost abandoned his suggested emendation of Sennacherib's figure, but by decreasing his reduction of the length of Dynasty III., he only altered his date for the beginning of Dynasty I.
He continued to accept the figure of the Kings' List for Dynasty III., but he reduced the length of Dynasty II.
But, though we may refuse to accept the accuracy of this figure of Nabonidus, it is not possible at present to fix a definite date for the early kings of Agade.
Round the rim was a cuneiform legend, and in the field a Hittite figure with six Hittite symbols engraved twice over on either hand of it.
Remains of buildings, not yet explored, lie near the " Niobe " figure.
The second figure was unknown, till found by Dr Beddoe in 1856.
Sculptured stelae, honorific or funerary, all with pyramidal or slightly rounded upper ends, and showing a single regal or divine figure or two figures, have come to light at Bor, Marash, Sinjerli, Jerablus, Babylon, &c. These, like most of the rock-panels, are all marked as Hittite by accompanying pictographic inscriptions.
Furthermore, the visionary who is found at most periods of great spiritual excitement was forced by the prejudice of his time, which refused to acknowledge any inspiration in the present, to ascribe his visionary experiences and reinterpretations of the mysterious traditions of his people to some heroic figure of the past.
The finest figure produced by these events was that of Francesco Ferruccio; by his defence of Empoli he showed himself a first-class soldier, and was appointed commissioner-general.
A relic of pre-Reformation times, these old men still figure in the accounts of English cathedrals.
The form of the proglottides is most generally a rhombic or trapezoidal figure.
The accompanying figure will assist this description.
The uterus (X in figure C) begins in all cases at the shell gland (c, d) and may exhibit a swelling (R S) for the retention of the spermatozoa..
But Leto is a real goddess, not a mere mythological figure.
Noteworthy is the affinity between some notions evidently not first framed by the prophet himself and the prologue to Job - the heavenly hosts that wander through the earth and bring back their report to Yahweh's throne, the figure of Satan, the idea that suffering and calamity are evidences of guilt and of accusations presented before God.
Coxe of Philadelphia published a description and coloured figure taken from living plants sent him two years previously from Mexico.
From an investigation of all the observations upon Mercury and the other three interior planets, Simon Newcomb found it almost out of the question that any such mass of matter could exist without changing either the figure of the sun itself or the motion of the planes of the orbits of either Mercury or Venus.
Here, in the gist of the " booklet " received from the hand of a female figure representing the Church, we have in germ the message of The Shepherd.
Frederick's importance as an historical figure arises from his having obtained the electorate of Saxe-Wittenberg for the house of Wettin, and transformed the margraviate of Meissen into the territory which afterwards became the kingdom of Saxony.
A, Fasciola hepatica, from the ventral surface (X 2); the alimentary and nervous systems only shown on the left side of the figure, the excretory only on the right; a, right main branch of the intestine; c, a diverticulum; g, lateral ganglion; n, lateral nerve; o, mouth; p, pharynx; s, ventral sucker; cs, cirrus sac; d, left anterior dorsal excretory vessel; m, main vessel; v, left anterior ventral trunk; x, excretory pore.
Walther is not an historical figure, although the legend undoubtedly represents typical occurrences of the migration period, such as the detention and flight of hostages of noble family from the court of the Huns, and the rescue of captive maidens by abduction.
Merlin (Myrddin), the famous wizard, bard and warrior, perhaps an historical figure, first introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth, originally called Ambrose from the British leader Ambrosius Aurelianus, under whom he is said to have first served.
More important in the West, however, was the cycle of legends gathering round the figure of Charlemagne, forming what was known as " the matter of France."
The character of Charlemagne himself undergoes a change; in the Chanson de Roland he is a venerable figure, mild and dignified, while later he appears as a cruel and typical tyrant (as is also the case with Ermanaric).
When asleep they roll themselves into a ball, as shown in the figure.
He was past eighty when he published the collection of new verses entitled Demeter and other Poems (1889), which appeared almost simultaneously with the death of Browning, an event which left Tennyson a solitary figure indeed in poetic literature.
During Lord Palmerston's last administration, which lasted from 1859 to 1865, Gladstone was by far the most brilliant and most conspicuous figure in the cabinet.
It consists of a colossal figure of Hungary, with four allegorical groups, and medallions of the executed generals.
The returns thus obtained show that from the year 1723 until 1846 the population remained almost stationary, the figure in the former year being 26,065,422, and that in the latter year 26,907,625.
Returns prepared at the beginning of the 10th century showed 21/8 million acres under crops, whereas the figure in 1834 was over 8 million acres.
Its characteristics are exceptional tallness combined with slenderness and elegance of figure; a face somewhat long, without any special prominence of the cheekbones but having more or less oblique eyes; an aquiline nose; a slightly receding chin; largish upper teeth; a long neck; a narrow chest; a long trunk, and delicately shaped, small hands with long, slender fingers.
The figure is strongly and squarely built, but this last characteristic can scarcely be called typical.
The Englishmans head is often one-eighth of the lengtl of his body or even less, and in continental Europeans, as a rule the ratio does not amount to one-seventh; but in the Japanese it exceeds the latter figure.
The largest circulation recorded in 1908 was about 150,000 copies daily, and the honor of attaining that exceptional figure belonged to the Osaka Asahi Shimbun.
On the other band, the draped figure received admirable treatment from his brush, and the naturalistic school of the 17th, 18th and i9th centuries reached a high level of skill in depicting men, women and children in motion.
One of the most remarkable developments of figure sculpture in modern Japan was due to Matsumoto Kisaburo (1830-1869).
In the forefront of the new movement are to be found men like Yoneharu Unkai and Shinkai Taketaro; the former chiselled a figure of Jenner for the Medical Association of Japan when they celebrated the centenary of the great physician, and the latter has carved life-size effigies of two Imperial princes who lost their lives in the war with China (1894 95).
Thus Arakawa Reiun, one of Kouns most brilliant pupils, has exhibited a figure of a swordsman in the act of driving home a furious thrust.
A more imaginative work by the same artist is a figure of a farmer who has just shot an eagle that swooped upon his grandson.
The threads extend only to the outlines of each figure, and it follows that every part of the pattern has a rim of minute holes like pierced lines separating postage stamps in a sheet, the effect being that the design seems to hang suspended it1 the groundlinked into it, as the Japanese term implies.i A specimen of this nature recently manufactured by Kawashimas weavers measured 20 ft.
It has fastened on the family on account of the cruelties perpetrated by Vlad Drakul (1433-1446) and Vlad Tsepesh (1456-1476), who figure in popular legend as representatives of the most fiendish cruelty.
I enquired therefore how, in these series, the rest of the terms may be derived from the first two being given; and I found that by putting m for the second figure or term, the rest should be produced by the continued multiplication of the terms of this seriesI X m 2 I X m - 2 This rule I therefore applied to the series to be interpolated.
One may also be permitted to hold that the mythic figure of the dragon, if used poetically, is a highly serviceable one, and consider that " in the beginning God fought with the dragon, and slew him " would have formed an admirable illustration of the passages just now referred to, especially to those in the Apocalypse.
Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were - "Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana" (1866), "Venus disrobing for the Bath" (1867), "Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon," and "Helios and Rhodos" (1869), "Hercules wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis" (1871), "Clytemnestra" (1874), "The Daphnephoria" (1876), "Nausicaa" (1878), "An Idyll" (1881), two lovers under a spreading oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the rich plain below; "Phryne" (1882), a nude figure standing in the sun; "Cymon and Iphigenia" (1884), "Captive Andromache" (1888), now in the Manchester Art Gallery; with the "Last Watch of Hero" (1887), "The Bath of Psyche" (1890), now in the Chantrey Bequest collection; "The Garden of the Hesperides" (1892), "Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Return of Persephone," now in the Leeds Gallery (1891); and "Clytie," his last work (1896).
Another statue, "The Sluggard," of equal merit, was exhibited in 1886; and a charming statuette of a nude figure of a girl looking over her shoulder at a frog, called "Needless Alarms," was completed in the same year, and presented by the artist to Sir John Millais in acknowledgment of the gift by the latter of his picture, "Shelling Peas."
There, also, is the refined and spirited figure of "Cimabue" in mosaic. In Lyndhurst church are mural decorations to the memory of Mr Pepys Cockerell, illustrating "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins."
A more commanding figure is that of Aurelius Augustinus or St Augustine (354-430), bishop of Hippo, who for comprehensiveness and dialectical power stands out in the same way as Hieronymus or St Jerome (c.33 I or 340-420), a native of Stridon in Dalmatia, does for manysided learning and scholarship.
Thucydides is almost certainly wrong in saying that the amount of the original tribute was 460 talents (about £106,000); this figure cannot have been reached for at least twelve, probably twenty years, when new members had been enrolled (Lycia, Caria, Eion, Lampsacus).
It is of irregular figure, approaching to an oval, about 3 m.
Any closed path or figure, such as ABCD, represents a complete cycle or series of operations, in the course of which the substance is restored to its original state with respect to temperature, intrinsic energy and other properties.
New figures may join the figure first seen, as when one enters a room.
Alaska appeared in the list of gold-producing countries in 1886, and gradually increased its annual output until 1897, when the country attracted much attention with a production valued at over £500,000; the opening up of new workings has increased this figure immensely, from about £1,400,000 in 1901 to £3,006,500 in 1905.
The figure of the Saviour is especially fine.
In the Homeric poems Corinth is a mere dependency of Mycenae; nor does it figure prominently in the tradition of the Dorian migrations.
Most impressive is a colossal female figure of grand style and excellent drapery.
Here a pilaster forming the back of the figure receives a Corinthian capital, upon which the architrave rests; and the figures merely brace up the pilaster.
This great ancestral figure came, it was said, from Ur in Babylonia and Haran and thence to Canaan.
As the revenues of Bhutan mainly depended on these Dwars, the British government, in return for these concessions, undertook to pay the Deb and Dharm rajas annually, subject to the condition of their continued good behaviour, an allowance beginning at £ 2500 and rising gradually to the present figure.
The same figure of the church as a pure virgin is also used as in iii.
A figure of Christ has been known even to give its shoes to a poor man, and a Virgin to drop a ring off her finger to a suppliant.
The belfry tower of five storeys with three terraces, surmounted by a golden figure, is a striking feature.
One figure called Sarapo appears to be the Egyptian Serapis, and others are perhaps Babylonian deities.
It consists of a cylindrical tube of a capacity ranging from 10 to 50 cc., provided at the upper end with a thick-walled capillary bent as shown on the left of the figure.
His features were firm and clearly cut; his figure was tall and soldierly.
He was a brilliant social figure in Paris.
Cesare Borgia had entered into the Principe as a representative figure rather than an actual personage; so now conversely the theories of the Principe assumed the outward form and semblance of Castruccio.
In the earlier chansons de geste he is invariably a majestic figure and represents within limitations the grandeur of the historic Charles.
No part of the equatorial mounting is shown in the figure, as it resembles in every respect the usual Fraunhofer mounting.
Rotation is communi cated by a pinion, turned by the handle c (concealed in the figure), which works in teeth cut on the edge of the flange h.
The screw, turned by the wheels at g', acts in a toothed arc, whence, as shown in the figure, equal and opposite motion is communicated to the slides by the jointed rods v, v.
Grant said of him, "Hancock stands the most conspicuous figure of all the general officers who did not exercise a separate command.
The figure of the first beast presents many difficulties, owing to the fact that it is not freely invented but largely derived from traditional elements and is by the writer identified with the seventh wounded head.
Hence any writer who would appeal to them was obliged to do so in the name of some great figure of the past.
Coal, textiles and iron and steel goods figure prominently amongst the imports, and emery, leather, lemons, sponges, flour, valonia and iron ore amongst the exports.
Hence the geoid or figure of the sea-surface is not part of an ellipsoid of rotation but is irregular.
Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man.
Tirpitz remained a leading figure in the political agitation against the Chancellor's policy and was selected as president of the " Vaterlandspartei," a political association started in Sept.
The older amphorae were oval-shaped, such as the vases filled with oil for prizes at the Panathenaic festival, having on one side a figure of Athena, on the other a representation of the contest; the latter were tall and slender, with voluted handles.
But the name and the figure which it suggested occupied so prominent a place in the mind of Europe for two or three centuries that a real history could hardly have a stronger claim to exposition.
In the same figure is also shown the method of working whole coal and pillars at the same time, a barrier of two or three ranges of pillars or a rib of solid coal being left between the working in the solid and those in the pillars.
The order in which the coal is cut is shown in the dotted and numbered squares in the figure.
Third and fourth digits of both feet almost equally developed, and their terminal phalanges flattened on their inner or contiguous surfaces, so that each is not symmetrical in itself, but when the two are placed together they form a figure symmetrically disposed to a line drawn between them.
He is also the central figure of Fr.
The larger plaques are richly ornamented with emeralds and sapphires, and the smaller plaques have each an enamelled figure of Our Lord, David, Solomon, and Hezekiah respectively.