Interested Sentence Examples

I truly believe he may be interested in doing the same to you.

Are you as interested in photography as we are?

Would you be interested in minding my place?

The idea is the power of short, instant messages broadcast to interested crowds.

He had used her and she had been fool enough to think he was actually interested in her.

Additionally, I am quite interested in the history of food.

I was never interested in the ranch itself.

I am interested in hearing from publications who want me to review their books.

I thought you were mighty interested in him.

The politicians son was not interested in politics.

In fact, at times she had been almost brutally clear that she was no longer interested in him.

An interested party is, for example, a resident or a business in the vicinity.

Also, simply having a Facebook friend in Albania will tend to make you more interested in the events of Albania.

But just remember, it's the country that I'm interested in exploring.

Howie started to say something but changed his mind, interested to hear everyone's opinion.

I would be interested to hear from possible relatives in the UK, US, or anywhere else.

He's apparently really interested in meeting you.

My neighbor is interested in astronomy and bought a small telescope.

As long as people remain interested in the lead character, they'll keep coming back for the stories.

The vacationer was also interested in the history of the island.

A few of the guests cast curious looks her way, and everyone who looked at her seemed more interested in the plain charm at her chest than in meeting her gaze.

I had a splendid card all ready, as if it were the fun of the game which interested him most.

I mean, he isn't interested in women.

Even the usually bored Dawkinses ooh-ed and aah-ed appropriately but the brothers seemed more interested in the locale of the various shots than the scenery and flora so beautifully presented.

The student was also interested in the Scottish aspect of these themes.

If you're interested in being the friend of someone like me.

Interested candidates should contact Dr. Stuart Althorpe as soon as possible, and certainly before the end of December.

Thought you might be interested in something I found in Sean's notebook, Rourk said and rose, handing it to him.

Whenever anything delighted or interested me she talked it over with me just as if she were a little girl herself.

Last time, the death dealer wasn't interested in her.

Canada will then, by default, become interested in soccer too.

Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory.

He was so much interested in that task that he was unable to sleep, and in spite of his cold which had grown worse from the dampness of the evening, he went into the large division of the tent at three o'clock in the morning, loudly blowing his nose.

Maybe After would be interested in chasing down a well-placed tip.

There was no reason for him to think his father might be romantically interested in her.

Even Dulce isn't interested in that part.

She had given him every reason to believe she was interested in him, so it wasn't too surprising.

I set about showing Molly some of our Econ Scrutiny simple chores and she was immediately interested.

I forgot to tell him about those silly bones he was interested in.

Alex was interested in Lori.

Dean did not know Ethel's age and she wouldn't have told him if he had been interested enough to ask.

Lately she has been much interested in colour.

He smiled at the recollection of that time and of his love for Natasha, and passed at once to what now interested him passionately and exclusively.

Denisov, not being a member of the family, did not understand Pierre's caution and being, as a malcontent, much interested in what was occurring in Petersburg, kept urging Pierre to tell them about what had happened in the Semenovsk regiment, then about Arakcheev, and then about the Bible Society.

He wasn't interested in marriage and he didn't want her trying to manipulate him into it.

He was incredulous as a Missouri cynic but interested.

I explained I was interested in information on the now closed million dollar contest.

While he was interested in what Pumpkin said about Fitzgerald, he wanted to get Martha away from any questions about the skeleton before he could do the asking.

Deidre stayed for a moment then decided to leave, more interested in exploring the world than waiting long enough to see what happened.

The lad was so much interested in his work that he did not see the stranger.

They suggest other products a customer might be interested in.

We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Alex wasn't interested in Dulce.

You're not interested in commitment.

If Alex was interested in Lori, Josh had no right to insist he make an honest woman of Carmen.

Let him find someone who wasn't interested in having children.

Maybe by then she could make up her mind - if he was still interested.

He'd had a lot of women throw themselves at him, most of them more interested in the genetically altered body that made him as good in bed as he was in battle.

A number of schools are interested.

I'm interested in these Wassermann guys.

The federal agent was interested to learn Vinnie and Dean had played sports together, but Dean put to early rest any misconcep­tion about his prowess on the playing field.

Chances are our guy skipped out yesterday when he learned we were interested in him.

He'd never been as frustrated - -or interested - -in anywhere before.

Was it possible that he was personally interested?

In 1858, under the stimulus of Henry C. Brockmeyer, Harris became interested in modern German philosophy in general, and in particular in Hegel, whose works a small group, gathering about Harris and Brockmeyer, began to study in 1859.

Was it possible that he was equally interested in Mary?

If he's honestly interested in me, he can come courting the proper way.

Are you still interested in fishing the North Country?

Then again, she wasn't interested in the only type of relationship he had to offer.

The Indiana sisters told him to just break open their trunk—they were only interested in the contents.

Alex glanced around at the interested faces at the tables near them, and pulled out the chair.

I was concerned about marrying a woman who was obviously still interested in another man.

Brady waited, unusually interested in her answer.

Maybe I was more interested in detailing your human weakness than in understanding what your instincts told you.

They're just interested in Jeff.

He was interested but perplexed about the March date when Byrne was excused from work—with­out his wife's knowledge.

But I'm just interested in our old pal Vinnie.

Monica grumbled that Segal was more interested in selling papers than the truth so if he wanted to kill her that was fine with her.

But I have to question their smarts if they're interested in Vinnie.

Winston was most personable and seemed genuinely interested in the small town and surrounding countryside.

After the amenities were put to rest, Fred casually mentioned they were interested in Mr. Cleary, on Bascomb Place.

Dean introduced himself and told her he was interested in discussing Jeffrey Byrne.

If Alfred Nota in his blue Ford was really interested in following Dean, why had the con taken off like a scared rabbit as soon as Dean showed up?

He said he was just asking about Dean's return trip but he was fishing for details on why the FBI was so unexpectedly interested in Billie Wassermann.

Three prospective buyers had looked at the house and at least one seemed interested.

Instead he tried and discarded a who-done-it and then attempted a conversation with Mrs. Lincoln, but she seemed more interested in sleeping than lis­tening to a bored detective.

Then Randy told me about the bike magazine and how you'd been interested in it—how Jeff marked the information on this tour.

Lori had been with Alex so much when she was helping him with his real estate needs that everyone thought they were interested in each other.

Still, even knowing that Lori was interested in Josh, it was hard to imagine that she wasn't attracted to Alex.

Did Alex suspect that Josh was still interested in her, or was he trying to say that she should be sleeping with Alex?

It wasn't as though she had time for it, but it was something that interested her.

One of our customers was telling Saundra about it and she thought you might be interested.

When lunch time arrived, she wasn't interested in eating.

But Josh was only interested in what served Josh best.

Even if she were still interested in Josh, she would never cheat on Alex — nor was it likely that Josh would cheat on Lori.

It was just as well, because she was no longer interested.

Of course, if the boy was interested in horses and the ranch, maybe it would be balanced out.

She didn't make a try for me, and I'm not interested in her anyway.

He still thought you were interested.

I have too much respect for you not to be direct about the fact I'm interested in you.

Jenn almost laughed at his sudden intensity, both flattered and terrified to see just how interested in her he was.

Interested in the strong reaction, Taran pushed his eye- band up to see her.

She believes you to be interested only in assuming her position.

He breathed deeply, more interested in detecting the faint smell of the warlord.

The demon was still, interested.

She was interested in everything and everyone.

Certainly it was the main reason she was trying to improve – to keep him interested.

I never would have guessed you'd be interested.

Why wouldn't he be interested in her?

Then again, maybe he isn't interested in Felipa at all.

The truth was, he hadn't been all that interested in any he'd met so far.

Well, I think he was interested in meeting you.

Oh, he was interested all right - interested in collecting the money offered to keep an eye on her.

Of course, she hadn't been interested in them either - not seriously, anyway.

If only she could believe that Keaton was genuinely interested in her.

Did he suspect she was getting bored, or did he assume she would be interested in them because of her profession?

She was assuming he was actually interested in her personally, not professionally.

Obviously there was plenty of work for anyone interested in working.

What was it that made her so certain he wasn't genuinely interested in her?

Aren't you the least bit interested, or are you...

I wanted to believe you were interested in me.

Obviously he was no longer interested.

Even more interested in what the Black God was doing, Xander lingered for a few minutes then left.

Xander was instantly interested.

Gerry appeared interested in her words, until Toni whinnied at him again.

He's interested in every woman.

Not so interested in me now, are you, Romeo?

Not the kind you're interested in.

Her expression grew interested.

Xander didn't let him drink long, more interested in his own full stomach than Charles' life.

It's not possible for someone who looks like Gerry to be interested in me.

Jonny won't let you go that easy, especially if he suspects Xander is interested in you.

Just like that, any pretension of him being interested in her was gone.

You don't have to pretend like you're not interested, either.

I'd be interested in reworking the place categories to make them more useful.

Cromwell was especially interested in the universities.

Becoming interested in journalism, he purchased and for two years edited the St Louis Enquirer.

It was publicly sealed and witnessed by professional witnesses, as well as by collaterally interested parties.

Three of Wakefield's brothers were also interested in New Zealand.

Whatever reservations may be made as to a certain interested or ambitious side of his character, Pierre d'Ailly, whose devotion to the cause of union and reform is incontestable, remains one of the leading spirits of the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries.

Let me know if you are interested.

In his later years he dabbled in literature and the drama, and interested himself in arboriculture in his retirement at Henley-on-Thames.

As a Scotsman, Aberdeen was interested in the ecclesiastical controversy which culminated in the disruption of 1843.

He was deeply interested in the question of the southern boundaries of Russia and consequently ij1 the fate of the Turkish Empire.

Saint Simon relates that he once asked a hearing of the comte de Pontchartrain, saying that he would at first believe him mad, then become interested, and then see he was right.

Turgot was hated by those who had been interested in the speculations in corn under the regime of the abbe Terray - among whom were included some of the princes of the blood.

The meetings referred to were probably those of exceptional interest, such as the election or the coronation of a king, and people from the neighbourhood were there merely as interested, and sometimes excited, spectators.

It is his contact with the Jews which has chiefly interested later ages, and he is doubtless the monarch described in the pseudoprophetic chapters of Daniel.

His assumptions are based upon ordinary observation and experience, and are usually accurate in proportion to his practical shrewdness and sagacity, so that he is not interested in the speculative flights of philosophy, except in so far as they influence or have influenced conduct.

It is, in fact, quite true that many of them were more interested in practical aims than in the advancement of economic science.

Then it was, or perhaps at a slightly later date, that he became interested in the relations subsisting between political science and war.

At the same time a class of men arose interested in these forms for their own sake, professional lawyers Bence, but also "poisons, nay destroys, the divinest feeling in man, the sense of truth," and the belief in sacraments such as the Lord's Supper, a piece of religious materialism of which "the necessary consequences are superstition and immorality."

Interested cliques could control the business of the town-meeting in ordinary times, and boisterousness marred its democractic excellence in exciting times.

Without the active intervention of a strong body of interested parties it is sometimes unlikely that new industries will be undertaken even in places well suited for them.

A Mr Clegg, who afterwards interested himself keenly in the activities of the Cotton Supply Association reported that in the course of a tour in 1855 through the Eastern countries bordering on the Mediterranean he had found none of the gins presented by the British government at work or workable.

On the one hand, the death of the count of Champagne (May 1201) had induced the crusaders to elect as their leader Boniface of Montferrat, the brother of Conrad; and Boniface was the cousin of Philip, and interested in Constantinople, where not only Conrad, but another brother as well, had served, and suffered for their service at the hands of their masters.

Insane persons and persons under guardianship are excluded by the constitution, and " all persons convicted of bribery, perjury, larceny or of infamous crime, or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager the result of which shall depend upon any election," or who shall participate as principal, second or challenger in any duel, are excluded by legislative enactment.

He was especially interested in questions relating to the polarization of light, and his observations in this field, which gained him the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in 1840, laid the foundations of the polarimetric analysis of sugar.

The second Marguerite (1523-1574), daughter of Francis I., was born on the 5th of June, 1523, at St Germain-en-Laye, and, at an age the lateness of which caused lampoons, married Emmanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, in 1559 Like her aunt and her niece she was a good scholar and strongly interested in men of letters.

Among the first of these benefactions was the great gymnasium of Ptolemy, built in the neighbourhood of the Agora about 250 B.C. Successive princes of the dynasty of Pergamum interested themselves in the adorn western entrance being the well-known Doric portico of Athena Archegetis with an inscription recording its erection from donations of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

He gradually became interested in these books, and a mental struggle began.

Marca now interested himself in the fortunes of Mazarin, and remained faithful to him even during the xvn.

This author is indeed interested to prosecute vigorous and substantial thinking, but the mainspring of his interest is the conviction that such thought is significant for inner and outer life.

He also investigated the diamagnetic and paramagnetic properties of substances; and was keenly interested in the phenomena of electrochemical decomposition, accumulating much evidence in favour of Faraday's law and proposing a modified statement of it which was intended to cover certain apparent exceptions.

The unfortunate Niger expedition of 1841 was directed to similar ends; and it has been more and more felt by all who were interested in the subject that here lies the radical solution of the great problem.

He opened dispensaries in London and Bristol and was keenly interested in medicine.

He was much more interested in these and other political events than in his professional prospects; and his attention was specially directed to the events and tendencies which caused or preceded the Revolution in France.

From these it may be gathered that nearly every living scholar of note was included in the list of his friends, and that the subjects which interested him were by no means confined to his Platonic sudies.

Cicero shows that he was much interested in casuistical questions, as, for example, whether a good man who had received a coin which he knew to be bad was justified in passing it on to another.

Both of these powers were interested in preventing any possible accession of territory to the Bulgarian kingdom; and Rumania (q.v.) had for many years been a formidable opponent of Hellenism among the Macedonian Vlachs.

The question as to whether synthetic rubber will ever be produced cheaply on a commerical scale is therefore the important one for those who are largely interested in the rubber-planting industry.

For the rest of Tunisia, the first explorer interested in archaeology was Victor Guerin in 1860; his results are contained in his remarkable Voyage archeologique dans la Regence de Tunis (1862, 2 vols.).

Apart altogether from the facts that this investigation is still in its infancy and that the conditions of experiment are insufficiently understood, its ultimate success is rendered highly problematical by the essential fact that real scientific results can be achieved only by data recorded in connexion with a perfectly nortnal subject; a conscious or interested subject introduces variable factors which are probably incalculable.

But the author had offended in it several powerful persons who threatened his life, and if Count Danneskjold had not personally interested the king in him, Holberg's career might have had an untimely close.

Besides theology he was interested in the study of grammar and natural history, but his name is chiefly associated with nautical science.

The decision was in favour of Waterboer, who had, on the 25th of August 1870, before the appointment of the arbitration court, offered his territory to Great Britain, and it was understood by all the parties interested that that offer would be accepted.

They induced Alfred Beit, who was an old personal friend of Rhodes, and also largely interested in the Rand gold mines, to lend his co-operation.

It is of course possible that Map's rise at court may have been due to his having hit the literary taste of the monarch, who, we know, was interested in the Arthurian tradition, but it must be admitted that direct evidence on the subject is practically nil, and that in the present condition of our knowledge we can only advance possible hypotheses.

The poets of the Augustan age, who were deeply interested both in his philosophy and in his poetry, are entirely silent about the tragical story of his life.

Actively interested with Cyrus Field in the laying of the first Atlantic cable, he was president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company, and his frequent cash advances made the success of the company possible; he was president of the North American Telegraph Company also, which controlled more than one-half of the telegraph lines of the United States.

She was an accomplished linguist, musician and mathematician, and deeply interested in metaphysics.

He was responsible, especially, for the great operation known as the opening of the Grand Livre (August 2 4), which was designed to consolidate the public debt by cancelling the stock issued under various conditions prior to the Revolution, and issuing new stock of a uniform character, so that all fund-holders should hold stock of the revolutionary government and thus be interested in its stability.

They were worked by the Union Miniere, in which British capital was largely interested.

Alterations and exceptions were, as a matter of fact, suggested by the interested parties themselves, and chiefly by the Church.

Fortunately, in the case of a large number of names occurring on business documents as the interested parties or as scribes or as witnesses - and it is through these documents that we obtain the majority of the Babylonian-Assyrian proper names - we have variant readings, the same name being written phonetically in whole or part in one instance and ideographically in another.

His father sent him in his sixteenth year to the gymnasium at Lubeck, where he became so much interested in ancient languages that he abandoned his idea of a legal career and resolved to devote himself to the study of theology.

He was also interested in literature and philosophical discussions.

A few successes in battle attracted to him men who were interested in fighting and who were willing to accept his religion as a condition of membership of his party, which soon began to assume a national form.

Forbes was also interested in geology, and published memoirs on the thermal springs of the Pyrenees, on the extinct volcanoes of the Vivarais (Ardeche), on the geology of the Cuchullin and Eildon hills, &c. In addition to about 150 scientific papers, he wrote Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers (1843); Norway and its Glaciers (1853); Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers (1859); A Tour of Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa (1855).

The latter state claimed sovereignty over the Napo and Maranon rivers on the grounds of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction exercised over this section of territory during the period of Spanish dominion, the government of Colombia asserting that these ecclesiastical rights to which Colombia became entitled after her separation from the Spanish crown carried also the right of absolute ownership. In a treaty signed by the three interested states in 1895 a compromise was effected by which Colombia withdrew a part of the claim advanced, and it was agreed that any further differences arising out of this frontier question should be submitted to the arbitration of the Spanish crown.

From London he went to Paris, and he notes in his Autobiography that the Parisians were much more interested in his strange manner of travelling than in the travels themselves.

His income was insufficient for the proper support of his family, and accordingly he had become partner in a banking house in which one of his sons was interested along with other persons.

In his youth he had been a playgoer, but he shortly came to the conclusion that tragedy is a stilted and bombastic art, and after a time comedy interested him no more than tragedy.

In 1752 the company had a pathway blazed between the small fortified posts at Will's Creek (Cumberland), Maryland, and at Redstone Creek (Brownsville), Pennsylvania, which it had established in 1750; but it was finally merged in the Walpole Company (an organization in which Benjamin Franklin was interested), which in 1772 had received from the British government a grant of a large tract lying along the southern bank of the Ohio as far west as the mouth of the Scioto river.

On the same day Cutler and Sargent " for themselves and associates " transferred to William Duer, then Secretary of the Treasury Board, and his associates " one equal moiety of the Scioto tract of land mentioned in the second contract," it being provided that both parties were to be equally interested in the sale of the land, and were to share equally any profit or loss.

For some time he had been greatly interested by the poetry of the north, more particularly Percy's Reliques, the poems of " Ossian" (in the genuineness of which he like many others believed) and the works of Shakespeare.

The scheme astonished, interested and attracted the country.

Here he became acquainted with many of the savants of the capital, and was much interested in French clerical affairs.

It was not until the triumph of the northern dynasty was achieved through the prowess of an interested champion of the Ashikaga clan that the culture of ancient Japan revived.

His brother, Charles Washington Baird (1828-1887), a graduate of New York University (1848) and of the Union Theological Seminary (1852), and the minister in turn of a Dutch Reformed church at Brooklyn, New York, and of a Presbyterian church at Rye, New York, also was deeply interested in the history of the Huguenots, and published a scholarly work entitled The History of the Huguenot Emigration to America (2 vols., 1885), left unfinished at his death.

He was interested in the development of agriculture and commerce; sought to improve education and the administration of justice, and was in general a wise and liberal ruler.

This problem interested the East for the most part; in the West there was waged a theological warfare around the nature of man and the work of Christ.

He seems to have been interested in the poetic diction of Milton and Thomson, and a few of his verses are remotely inspired by Shakespeare and Gray.

Funds are raised from the voluntary offerings of the corps, from open-air and other collections, from friends interested in evangelical and charitable work, and from the profits on publications and general trading.

Sometimes again, as in the case of the Lupercalia, the attribution is so indefinite that it is hard to discover who was the special deity concerned; in other cases, such as those of the Robigalia and the Meditrinalia, the festival seems at first to have been addressed generally to any interested numina and only later to have developed an eponymous deity of its own.

Here he heard Luther preach, but was more attracted by Melanchthon, who interested him in mathematics and astrology.

Interested in a variety of subjects, he devoted himself chiefly to the philosophy of religion, and published The Science of Thought (Boston, 1869; revised 1891).

It is more probable that Leidrad was interested in the growing use of the creed as a canticle, and was consulted in the preparation of the famous Golden Psalter, now at Vienna, which contains the same collection of documents as an introduction.

Unrestrained conversation on the topics which most interested him - philosophy, politics, morals, religion - was at this time to be had in Holland with less danger and in greater abundance than in any other country in the world.

Interested as he was in soldiering, his eager temperament impelled him still more to adventure in politics and letters.

He was interested in the theological disputes and schisms in Galatia, in the two languages spoken in Cilicia, &c. At Antioch the party remained some time.

The king and his brother the duke of York (James II.), who were largely interested in the slave-trading Guinea Company, were eager to remove the Dutch ports from the slave coast.

In frequenting the salons of her friends the queen not only came in contact with a number of the younger and more dissipated courtiers, whose high play and unseemly amusements she countenanced, but she fell under the influence of various ambitious intriguers, such as the baron de Besenval, the comte de Vaudreuil, the duc de Lauzun and the comte d'Adhemar, whose interested manoeuvres she was induced to further by her affection for her favourites.

But in 1753 he was eagerly engaged in having several of his improvements incorporated in a new press, and more than twenty years after was actively interested in John Walter's scheme of " logography."

Germany was interested in the dispute, inasmuch as the southern frontier of the Uganda Protectorate coincided with the northern frontier of German East Africa.

He also interested himself in public affairs; and his son Francis was a Hungarian deputy.

Business interests of this magnitude were constantly expanding, and he became interested in numerous subsidiary enterprises, such as tramways and the supply of electric power and light.

As early as 1801 Morris became interested in projects for improving the communication between the Hudson river and Lake Erie, and from 1810 to 1816 he was chairman of the board of canal commissioners, which after exploring the country prepared plans for the Erie Canal.

It was the history, the realia of the literature, that always interested him; he did not care for Arabic poetry as such, and the then much praised Hariri seemed to him a grammatical pedant.

The popular opinion of a census, at least in the United States, depends largely upon the degree to which its figures for the population of the country, of states, and especially of cities, meet or fail to meet the expectations of the interested public. Judged by this standard, the census of 1890 was less favourably received than that of 1880.

In the 'eighties he was interested in the development of the coal, coke and iron industry of Western Pennsylvania and was often associated in various enterprises with Henry C. Frick.

The epoch-making events which occurred in England, while he was at Oxford profoundly interested him, and coinciding with the Revolution in Denmark, which threw open a career to the middle classes, convinced him that his proper sphere was politics.

The Ruthenians, who were loyal to the empire, drew attention to the small degree of resistance offered to this agitation by the Polish authorities, who were interested in making the whole Ruthenian people suspect of irredentism.

For, by representing the prosecution of its party-political objects as a championship of the Catholic Church, Ultramontanism seeks to acquire the support of the official organs of that Church, and the good will of all circles interested in her welfare; while at the same time it strives to discredit any attempt at opposition by branding it as an assault on the orthodox faith.

As the father of King Leopold of Belgium's consort, the queen was much interested in his visit, which went off with great success and goodwill.

He was also interested in horseracing, and in 1901 won the English Derby with Volodyovski, leased by him from Lady Meux.

Zunz was always interested in politics, and in 1848 addressed many public meetings.

His experiments greatly interested Benjamin Franklin, who used to visit him and Goethe always regarded his rejection by the academy as a glaring instance of scientific despotism.

In especial he vindicates the propriety of resistance to kingly oppression or misrule, upholds the existence of an hereditary nobility interested in their country's good as the firmest barrier against such oppression, and maintains the authority of parliaments.

He was a studious and precocious boy, more interested in religious matters, history and foreign politics than in boyish things.

He was deeply interested in politics, was a follower of Mr Gladstone, and approved the Home Rule Bill of 1886, but objected to the later proposal to retain the Irish members at Westminster.

No art interested him except architecture, which he studied throughout his life; and he cared little for literature which was not either historical or political.

In 1910 the nations most directly interested in the future of the archipelago were the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, China and Portugal.

The political position of the governments of the Restoration and of Louis Philippe was such that they were unwilling to forfeit support by pushing measures in which, after all, they were not themselves deeply interested.

Rudolph was a clever and cultured man, greatly interested in chemistry, alchemy, astronomy and astrology; he was a patron of Tycho Brahe and Kepler, and was himself something of a scholar and an artist.

All the Baltic powers were more or less interested in the apportionment of this vast tract of land, whose geographical position made it not only the chief commercial link between east and west, but also the emporium whence the English, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and Germans obtained their corn, timber and most of the raw products of Lithuania and Muscovy.

Meanwhile other affairs had been progressing more harmoniously under the direction of special committees, which included representatives of the powers specially interested.

In the summer of 1827, through the persistent efforts of persons most interested in the woollen manufactures of Massachusetts and other New England states to secure legislative aid for that industry, a convention of about loo delegates - manufacturers, newspaper men and politicians - was held in Harrisburg, and the programme adopted by the convention did much to bring about the passage of the famous high tariff act of 1828.

The author is an industrious student and a typical scholar, who frequents libraries and is interested in the MSS.

He was interested in Greek, and, a full century before the fall of Constantinople, he was in possession of MSS.

Among the scholars of Italian birth, probably the only one in this age who rivalled the Greeks as a public expositor of their own literature was Politian (1454-1494), who lectured on Homer and Aristotle in Florence, translated Herodian, and was specially interested in the Latin authors of the Silver Age and in the text of the Pandects of Justinian.

When, however, surveillance became blockade, prizes could only with difficulty be brought into port, and, since the parties interested gained nothing by burning merchantmen, privateering soon died out, and was replaced by commerce-destroying pure and simple, carried out by commissioned vessels of the Confederate navy.

Becoming interested in terrestrial magnetism he made many observations of magnetic intensity and declination in various parts of Sweden, and was charged by the Stockholm Academy of Sciences with the task, not completed till shortly before his death, of working out the magnetic data obtained by the Swedish frigate "Eugenie" on her voyage round the world in 1851-1853.

This simplicity of aim is combined with a catholicity of constitution which admits the co-operation of all persons interested in the society's object.

The board is specially directed to prescribe the manner in which the railway corporations shall keep their accounts, to examine these accounts from time to time, to examine the railways at least once a year, to investigate the cause of all accidents and upon the petition of an interested party to fix rates for the transportation of persons and freight.

The English public first became interested in his works in 1912, and his fame rapidly spread.

He had been deeply interested from 1840 until 1850 in the militia of his state, and had risen through its grades of service to that of brigadier-general.

Aristotle in his Ethics stigmatizes as "extremely unloving" (Xiav a4xXov) the denial that ancestors are interested in or affected by the fortunes of their descendants; and in effect ancestor-worship is the staple of most religions, ancient or modern, civilized or savage.

As a young woman she studied art, but, owing to an acquaintance with Miss Octavia Hill, became interested in social work, and in particular in questions of housing.

Farmers are invited to visit these experimental farms, and a large correspondence is conducted with those interested in agriculture in all parts of the Dominion, who are encouraged to ask advice and information from the officers of the farms.

While the power of making treaties must rest ultimately in the hands that can enforce them, the tendency to give the colonies chiefly interested a larger voice in international arrangements had become inevitable.

As a member of the committee on railroads he became interested in the project, greatly aided by the government, to build a trans-continental railway, connecting the eastern states with California.

This matter of the king's marriage was of great political importance, the Protestants and the Catholics being equally interested in the issue.

Every power, is, therefore, rightfully interested in the prevention of such exclusion.

As a political mission it failed utterly, the great powers being at that period far more interested in western than in eastern affairs.

He thenceforth became passionately interested in Egyptology, devoted himself to the study of hieroglyphs and Coptic, and in 1847 published a Catalogue analytique of the Egyptian Gallery of the Boulogne Museum; in 1849, being appointed to a subordinate position in the Louvre, he left Boulogne for Paris.

Struthious birds, was placed beyond cavil, and the author called upon all interested in zoology to aid in further research as to this singular form.

This conflict, moreover, brought Ultra montanism the enormous advantage that, even after the abolition of the May Laws, it had still left to it a well-disciplined press, an admirable organization, and a network of interests and interested parties; and all these combined to make the Centrum the strongest and the most influential political party in Germany for the remainder of the 19th century.

William Penn (q.v.) became interested in the plan at least as early as 1666.

The Mongols were interested in the religion of the lamas, especially since 1576, when Altan, khakan of the Tumeds, and his cousin summoned the chief lama of the most important monastery to visit him.

Like most of the great metaphysicians of the 17th century, Malebranche interested himself also in questions of mathematics and natural philosophy, and in 1699 was admitted an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences.

To gamekeepers and those interested in the preservation of game, all animals such as the pole-cat, weasel, stoat, hawks, owls, &c., which destroy the eggs or young of preserved birds, are classed as "vermin," and the same term includes rats, mice, &c. It is also the collective name given to all those disgusting and objectionable insects that infest human beings, houses, &c., when allowed to be in a filthy and unsanitary condition, such as bugs, fleas, lice, &c.

It was also interested in the close of the world's history, and taught a decisive, final victory of Ormuzd over Ahriman, of the forces of good over the forces of evil.

Castner had long been interested in aluminium, and was desirous of lowering its price.

He was interested in extending the parcel post, and worked for the promotion of aerial mail service.

Albert's rival was George's son-in-law, Rupert, formerly bishop of Freising, and son of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine; and the emperor Maximilian I., interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the dispute.

The great question of the Spanish succession was looming in all men's eyes, and though partition treaties between the interested powers were concluded in 1698 and 1700, it is practically certain that the French king held himself little bound by them.

It is highly doubtful, however, whether he had anything to do either with the Antiphonary or with the invention or revival of the cantus planes; it is certain that he was not the founder of the Roman singing-school, though he may have interested himself in its endowment and extension.

This name did not please those interested in the new product, because existing wrought iron was a low-priced material.

The question frequently arises, not only for those interested in the production of fur apparel, but for those who derive so much comfort and pleasure from its use, whether the supply of fur-bearing animals is likely to be exhausted.

The hat trade is largely interested in the fur piece trade, the best felt hats being made from beaver and musquash wool and the cheaper sorts from nutria, hare and rabbit wools.

She became interested in the educational methods of Froebel, and in 1860 opened in Boston a small school resembling a kindergarten.

Keenly interested in the education of women, she made friends with Miss Emily Davies, Madame Bodichon, Miss Buss and others.

He belonged to that group of courtiers interested in the colonization of America, and was one of the eight to whom Charles II.

During 6th and 7th centuries, Irish anchorites, in their "passion fc_ solitude," found their way to the Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands, Faroes and Iceland, but they were not interested in colonization or geographical knowledge.

Modern investigators have been interested in establishing the superiority of one over the other of the two narratives.

In 1839 on the final dissolution of the kingdom of the Netherlands, Holland gave definite form to this right by fixing the toll, and by obtaining the assent of the powers to the arrangement which fettered the trade of Antwerp. In 1863 after long negotiations Belgium bought up this right - each of the powers interested in the trade contributing its quota - and the navigation of the Scheldt was then declared free.

But even more than in external nature, Hobbes was interested in the phenomena of social life, presenting themselves so impressively in an age of political revolution.

He had early read an account of the Hebrides, and had been much interested by learning that there was so near him a land peopled by a race which was still as rude and simple as in the Middle Ages.

He was especially interested in the Macedonian churches, which he helped to found.

In the same year he became interested in the Washingtonian temperance movement.

The opposition came from the Agrarians and extreme Conservatives, who feared that it would enable foreign corn to compete on better terms with German corn; they were also jealous of the attention paid by the government to commercial enterprise in which they were not immediately interested.

Bismarck therefore, who took this rebuff much to heart, said he would have nothing more to do with the matter, and warned those interested in colonies that they must depend on self-help; he could do nothing for them.

Instead of this, the emperor, who was much interested in social reform, published two proclamations.

He was also deeply interested in the reorganization of education in Scotland, both in school and university, and acted as one of the temporary board which settled the primary school system under the Education Act of 1872.

Later, he interested himself in the problem of mechanical flight.

Germans and Czechs, induced the Chamber to sanction the estimates, the contingent of recruits and other " necessities of state " for 1901 and 1902, by promising to undertake large public works in which Czechs and Germans were alike interested.

Greatly interested in the Jews, he longed ardently for their conversion to Christianity; and with a view to this he edited the periodical Saat auf Hoffnung from 1863, revived the "Institutum Judaicum" in 1880, founded a Jewish missionary college for the training of theologians, and translated the New Testament into Hebrew.

Whereas Sparta had been least of all the allies interested in the war, and apart from the campaigns of Brasidas had on the whole taken little part in it, her allies benefited least by the terms of the Peace.

In 1846 he became interested in the condition and treatment of idiots, and particularly in the experiments of Dr Guggenbiihl on the cretins of Switzerland.

Public work may be prevented by remonstrance of interested property owners except in certain instances, when the city, by vote of the people, may overrule all remonstrances.

He now became specially interested in the establishment of an Irish literary theatre; and he founded and conducted an occasional periodical (appearing fitfully at irregular intervals), called first Beltain and later Samhain, to expound its aims and preach his own views, the first number appearing in May 1899.

While the removal of ancient jealousies among the European powers interested in Egypt helped to smooth the path pursued by the Egyptian administration under the guiding hand of Great Britain, the intrigues of the Turks and movement, the danger of a revival of Moslem fanaticism threatened during 1905-1906 to disturb the peace of the country.

This he succeeded in doing, in spite of the Seven Years' War and of the difficulties attending the thorny Gottorp question in which Sweden and Russia were equally interested.

The effect of these revelations was profound not only politically, but also economically; the important export trade in Danish butter, especially, was adversely affected, as Herr Alberti had been interested in numerous dairy companies.

Still later, he was induced by the machinations of some of the prelates who haunted his court, and by the influence of Theodora, herself much interested in theological questions, and more than suspected of Monophysitism, to raise a needless, mischievous, and protracted controversy.

As no preceding sovereign had been so much interested in church affairs, so none seems to have shown so much activity as a persecutor both of pagans and of heretics.

He was interested in many things, and threw himself with ardour into whatever he took up; he contrived schemes quickly, and pushed them on with an energy which usually made them succeed when no long time was needed, for, if a project was delayed, there was a risk of his tiring of it and dropping it.

And his unbending common-sense, and sobriety of criticism in matters which deeply interested the less academic Radicals who were enthusiasts for extreme courses, would have made the parliamentary situation difficult but for the exceptional popularity of the prime minister.

The drama of the subject has in this instance not interested him at all, but only the forms and designs of the figures, the realization of the quality of flesh surfaces by the subtlest use of the graving-tool known to him, and the rendering, by methods of which he had become the greatest of all masters, of the richness and intricacy of the forest background.

Through the tuition of the local Protestant clergyman, who was interested in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently became a fellow.

The historical student will be mainly interested in discovering anticipations of the later style and purpose of Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, and in finding therein early evidence of what has been too often treated as the characteristics of later Scotticism.

Robert Chambers, in the once famous Vestiges of Creation, interested and shocked his contemporaries by his denial of the fixity of species and his insistence on creation by progressive evolution, but had no better theory of the cause of variation than to suppose that organisms - "from the simplest and oldest to the highest and most recent" were possessed of "an inherent impulse, imparted by the Almighty both to advance them from the several grades and modify their structure as circumstances required."

He was greatly interested in university reform and acted as secretary to the royal commission appointed in 1850.

But in 1878 he was deeply interested by a tour in America, and in the following autumn visited for the last time northern Italy and Venice.

But in Hawaii there are traditions'of a wise king who interested himself in promoting the social well-being of the people, and made good laws for their guidance.'

Gilbert looked up from his play and saw that his mother was very deeply interested in her book.

And so we are interested in the Italian restaurants people drive across town repeatedly to frequent.

As children, we had all these things we liked to do that interested and excited us.

From the first I was not interested in the science of numbers.

She was (or imagined she was) putting on paper the things which had interested her.

Evidently only what took place within his own mind interested him.

Pierre did not understand and was not interested in any of these questions and only answered them in order to get rid of these people.

There's a chance the offer for the mine was completely innocent—simply someone who was legitimately interested in The Lucky Pup and then changed his mind.

Deidre paced through the garden, not really interested in the blooming flowers, statuary or neat rows of hedges.

Gabriel could move forward, try to win over the woman who seemed much more interested in him than she had a few days ago, before her deal with the Dark One.

You both might be interested in this.

Alex wouldn't have been interested in her.

It was one of those uncomfortable moments that left her wondering if the odometer was what he was interested in.