Kind-of Sentence Examples
Jonathan said you were taking him to some kind of horse race tomorrow.
Alex doesn't want this kind of life.
I kind of have your soul, don't I?
Maybe they knew what kind of bait to throw out.
Alex didn't like any kind of discord, which generally meant that she shouldn't contest anything he said or did.
It's kind of personal.
He's kind of a spaz.
For the first time, it crossed Carmen's mind that he was kind of cute.
He said Alex was the kind of man who would crawl into bed with a woman on the first date.
She glanced around for some kind of weapon as they walked, and soon came up with a walking stick.
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You're the kind of woman he needs - someone who will stand up to him and yet understand his moods.
What kind of an evening did he have planned?
I figured that if Giddon was using a pseudonym, he would have to either do his banking with his own name or fill out some kind of paperwork to do business under another name.
Apparently Julia considered her to be some kind of competition.
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I thought you girls had some kind of a house rule.
Like her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Marsh had the kind of marriage she would like to have some day – happy.
I thought about it, but now that we're here, it all seems kind of stupid.
It's kind of small, but the rent isn't too bad, and it'll be available by then.
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Even at a distance it was obvious that the man was much taller and he rode with a proud kind of grace that her father never possessed.
Hopefully it would offer some kind of shelter from the threatening storm.
She kept a keen eye out for the same kind of weed and was surprised at how much they found.
They were served a kind of pancake that Bordeaux said was made from ground Mesquite beans.
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That sounds like your kind of logic - always thinking of the other person first.
What kind of snack could she whip up in fifteen minutes?
Once the floors had been waxed and the furniture polished, the house sparkled - in an empty kind of way.
I didn't mean to sound like some kind of authority on the subject.
What kind of comment was that to make about her brother?
Because Cade was so reclusive and entertained controversial ideas, he was a target for that kind of gossip.
It kind of leaves you in trouble either way, doesn't it?
Chauvinistic, no doubt, but it was kind of nice to be looked after.
As far as he knew, she made a habit of this kind of activity.
At one end of the field was a lean-to shelter with some kind of equipment stored under it.
She glanced up again and realized he was waiting for some kind of response.
What kind of future could she offer a child?
What kind of monster do you think I am?
Only it's a different kind of love; not the sex kind.
If what I'm seeing isn't some kind of joke, I'm at the end of the yellow brick road.
Yeah, I guess, as much as I know about having any kind of relationship.
God, Ben, you think I'm some kind of conniving bitch!
He never questioned if Julie knowledge presented any kind of threat.
It took me back to when we were kids, in Amherst and this knowing kind of trust and kinship we'd shared.
Howie is kind of tired and the old lady, his mother, isn't doing well.
Yeah. That's all Ronnie want's to discuss with people, like his wife's son is some kind of freak.
Garcia answered, "What kind of danger?"
She reached the door and undid the locks with trembling hands, wondering what kind of person kept five locks on his door.
Bianca was warm and sweet, the kind of woman who deserved better than he'd ever have to offer.
She didn't have his cold control; she was the kind of woman who would give herself freely in bed and hold no part of her back.
Bianca was the kind of woman who could heal his soul, if he had time to let her.
What kind of creature could do this?
Damian suspected what kind of hell Dusty had been through and was pleased to see his trusted friend looking good.
It didn't have the kind of bandages she suspected he'd need for his shoulder, so she turned several towels into thick bandages and added them to the pile.
What kind of creature would hurt a woman like this? her father asked.
I can track any animal, any kind of creature.
The drug wore off, leaving her in a dark fog, hot and sweating with a different kind of headache, the kind she got after taking a lot of Dr. Mallard's drugs.
He was built from the same mold—large and muscular, the kind of man more fitted to military special forces or UFC prizefighting than financial planning.
The kind of creature that could do such things to other men left her no doubt he'd do the same to her if she didn't obey.
Dustin didn't look like the kind of man who would like anything, let alone presents.
What kind of a person was he when you met?
He was the kind of man she wouldn't think twice about running from, though the intelligence gleaming in his soulful brown eyes gave him away as something more.
His was not the kind of pain she could fix.
This was the kind of man whose depravity Darkyn preyed on.
I kind of like him, even if he scares me.
To tell the truth, I was kind of blitzed most of the time back then—booze, not the bad stuff—but now I'm all clean.
What kind of backward thinking is that?
Yeah, but he was kind of a jerk.
It was really kind of stupid.
Might it have just been some kind of a joke?
Boston was a tad rowdy back then and we were kind of young and frisky ourselves.
It's kind of spooky knowing that's a part of a human being.
I don't need that kind of grief.
The runners might encounter any kind of weather, including freezing temperatures, fog, rain, or snow.
She's too young to make that kind of decision!
But what Lydia suggested he was up to was the worst kind of criminal sexual harassment.
I was kind of scared they might shoot us or something, but nothing bad happened.
I was kind of embarrassed about the money not coming in the mail like I said.
No. It was like they came in it from the store but a different kind of package.
What kind of deal did she make with Darkyn to rewrite the mating laws of the time-before-time?
He listened, though, curious what kind of deal human-Deidre had made with the only goddess to ever outsmart the Dark One and Immortal Laws.
She crossed to the pantry again, suddenly curious about what kind of new, intense flavors awaited her in the assortment of boxes and cans.
He was able to tackle this kind of problem, unlike the strange tension between him and his mate.
They were the kind of fangs a man fantasized about, not too large to cause damage but sharp enough to offer an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain if she nipped him.
It was a new kind of sense, one he'd never experienced before.
That was kind of far out, even for Lori.
On the other hand, it was kind of nice, just you and me.
The dark eyes implored her, possibly searching for some kind of assurance that he wasn't going to die.
He was tall and kind of heavy set.
I'm kind of a plain Jane.
That's kind of like buying a baby.
What kind of deity added a smiley face to its messages?
What kind of deal had past-Deidre made that the Oracle didn't record?
She didn't want to know what kind of creatures they might be.
The kind of good friend I need to pay a special visit to?
What kind of children's book is this?
He was the kind of man who struck once - and it'd kill his target.
I think the compass tells you what kind of soul it is.
He had her kind of humor.
What kind of mother let her five-year-old son carry on with death like he was a favorite uncle?
You fell, and I tried to catch you, but then you kind of veered to one side and I grabbed your arm but then you --
It's kind of like… Ully looked around and stretched for the pen on the table.
Though she tried hard not to fear death, she wondered what kind of creature was capable of breaking through bars made of materials she'd never before seen and held in place with some sort of magic.
She wanted to see what the beast looked like, what kind of monster he'd be, yet knew if she saw him in full light, he was on his way to kill her.
What kind of human protector allowed one of his own men to turn her over to something like Sasha?
The geometric shapes changed as they circled her neck rather than stuck to a pattern; she assumed it was some kind of writing.
By the austere clothing and stern features, Katie assessed she was in some kind of religious convent.
That's kind of sad.
Their gazes locked, and she felt a different kind of warmth slide through her.
His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.
There really couldn't be any kind of good demon, could there?
It was cold and large, not the kind of place she.d ever choose to live.
She continued to the small women.s boutique that stocked every kind of facial and body care product she.d ever heard of—and many she hadn.t.
He.s not the kind of demon you want to piss off.
Even at such a young age, Rhyn.s features were troubled and somber, as if he knew what kind of a life awaited him.
What kind of stupid question is that?
She hadn.t been certain about the kind of life she.d have with him, but she was certain she didn.t want a life without him.
At least there you know what kind of shit you.ll go through.
He radiated the kind of quiet power Gabriel did.
In all his years in Hell, he.d never known this kind of pain.
She couldn't help wondering if Evelyn really understood that going to his home country would mean she'd hear this kind of nonsense all the time.
Perplexed as to what kind of movers worked at such an hour, she roamed through the row house from top to bottom.
At first glance, Lishana did not seem the kind of mother-in-law that might cause Evelyn problems.
Ne'Rin was the kind of man who took orders, not the kind of man who valued strategy.
Someone else would have to do the thinking for him if he were to execute any kind of betrayal.
I wanted my nephew to see what kind of enemy he had.
I want to see what kind of planet produces women like you.
You're kind of upset about it.
I'm a flannel kind of guy.
Dean wondered if she might be on some kind of medication.
It's kind of complicated.
She lacks any kind of positive self-image.
The WCTU and Anti-Saloon League were active and the churches sure didn't like the kind of business going on in Ouray.
There was a biography on him from some local storage shed association that made him some kind of muck a muck a few years back.
In my mind, that speaks of organizing, not the kind of behavior Edith Shipton has demonstrated.
I wouldn't be giving out that kind of information now, would I?
Then she added, What kind of a mother lets her son do something stupid like climbing icicles at the age of twelve?
It's kind of spooky.
I guess there was death—but not scary death—only inevitable, the-time-has-come kind of passing.
He had never felt such shame and self-loathing. He closed the door to his room, and leaning against it, thought, what kind of monster have I become?
He heard her sharp intake of breath and crooned, "I'm thinking we might have a different kind of fun together."
So, I think you can understand you really get to know a person in that kind of time, right?
Maybe she had some kind of contacts that blocked you.
This seems kind of thin.
What kind of perfume are you wearing, it's wonderful.
Elisabeth, what kind of car do you drive?
What kind of cheese did you use in the omelet?
He finally broke the silence, "So, are you some kind of wolf royalty?"
No, I'm okay, kind of talked out.
I don't know, it kind of feels like I would be moving in.
You have no idea what kind of magic it holds.
Elisabeth asked Sam, "What kind of higher purpose are you talking about?"
Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.
This feels kind of weird.
I hate to admit it, but I'm kind of bummed that you're leaving me on my birthday.
She thinks she is some kind of vicious animal.
That's kind of gross, isn't it?
The worst of it is, now he thinks he has some kind of claim staked on me.
Maybe that kind of love didn't exist.
Or maybe that kind of excitement existed only in newfound relationships.
So what kind of man are you looking for?
Just for the sake of conversation, what kind of man would appeal to you?
It was time to give Josh some kind of answer.
Carmen, I want to marry you in the worst way, but if you think I'm going to be the kind of man to stand back while my woman flirts with another man, you're sadly mistaken.
What kind of person did he think she was?
You're kind of tough on wildlife, aren't you?
Maybe the goats had some kind of control over commencement of labor.
What kind of girl do you think I am?
I'm kind of tied to Houston at the moment.
Now tell me what kind of class you're attending.
Of course, Josh was as good looking, if not better looking in a rugged kind of way.
We kind of strayed from the subject, didn't we?
You'd better be careful making that kind of remark.
I'm simply not ready to face that kind of commitment yet.
Frankly, I don't think either of us can stand up to this kind of pressure.
The only thing she could think of was some kind of disease.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to figure you out, though.
Lana shook her head, wondering what kind of man thought of chocolate at such a time.
I thought you domestic security types were supposed to be watching this kind of thing.
She wasn't the kind of woman who would ever belong in his world.
She wanted to think he'd done it to help her, but what kind of a monster could execute another in cold blood?
She was trained to assess, protect, repair, and sustain government systems through any kind of crisis.
He wasn't the kind of man to leave it lying somewhere.
What kind of man risked the person he was trying to protect?
Brady was a different kind of man.
She wasn't certain what kind of skills these people had that she didn't.
This is the kind of thing Lana could figure out.
They made her want to cry, for she couldn't imagine what kind of pain he'd been in after the helo crash.
What kind of father treats his daughter as a servant her entire life and lies to her about pretty much everything?
Gabriel cursed under his breath. He had no way of knowing what kind of test a deity like Death could create, but it wasn't likely to be good. While he had full faith in Rhyn, he also knew better than to trust the petite woman in white standing in his dream.
Lost in the food fantasy, she didn't see Gabriel disappear into the jungle. Katie blinked and looked around, still uneasy with the snakelike branches that moved of their own volition overhead. She didn't know what kind of creatures followed or what other critters would live in the Immortal jungle, but she wanted nothing to do with such a weird place.
She was in some kind of danger, which meant he was the worst guardian angel in the history of guardian angels.
If you loved her enough to destroy the world for her, then you know the pain Kris has been through twice. Hell cannot hold a candle to that kind of pain.
Pain streaked through her, the kind of pain with no physical source. Katie began to cry, unable to see an end to her ordeal that would mean she – or her baby – lived. She hugged her stomach and sobbed for the loss of Rhyn, her own life, their child's.
If he can't deal with that kind of adversity, how could he deal with something greater, like protecting us little humans?
I guess that's the kind of thing you do when you're bored.
Death didn't come. Darkness fell, and Rhyn waited. He paced and stretched, imagining there would be some kind of a struggle. At long last, he forced himself to admit she wasn't coming. No one could've overlooked the blow he dealt her underworld. The trees all around them had died off with a tear forming in the earth that led in the direction of the palace.
Katie's eyes watered, and she squeezed him harder. The nightmares of the past few weeks seemed to fade away while she was in his arms. She'd been too afraid to think about what kind of life they might possibly have, but she found herself wondering how it would feel to wake up and go to sleep with Rhyn beside her.
It was kind of a dumb thing for ol' Jeff to do, wasn't it?
What kind of car does he drive?
That's the kind of prick he is.
I was kind of hoping he did, after I heard.
Otherwise I'd always wonder what it looked like, what kind of place it was and I'd never know.
He's barefoot after he leaves his shoes on the beach and needs some kind of footwear so he might as well get bike shoes; after all, he's biking.
Sunday was a sleep-in-late kind of day, followed by a Phillies game on TV and a few naps in between mental re-hashes of the prior late-night conversation with Cynthia Byrne.
Not the kind of day to slowly choke to death while you leave your customers waiting.
It was a shared-popcorn, arm-around-her-shoulder, old-fashioned-love-story-movie kind of evening, topped off by a kiss goodnight—a real one, just one, maybe not passionate but on the lips and not a brother-sister smooch at all.
Where would he come up with that kind of dough to repay you?
I kind of hoped she might be with you," and then he added, a tad self-consciously, "she's been gone all night."
Fred asked, reaching for his glasses, "some kind of a race?"
I should know better, but I kind of fell in back there with your pace.
It kind of ticked me off—like I was an assignment he had to take care of, and our going out wasn't a social thing.
You're looking kind of fuzzy.
They saw people not for who they were or what they had, but for what kind of person they were.
In two weeks, they'd be relatives... kind of.
At twenty-five, that kind of thing wouldn't be an issue for most women.
It seems kind of silly for you to get up every morning and walk over there to clean his house and do his chores – then go back to your house.
Throwing back the covers, she slid off the window seat and headed for the door, using her fingers as a comb to put her hair in some kind of order.
There's nothing between us anymore but friendship and I don't want to ruin that with this kind of talk.
That seems kind of wasteful.
I do when I'm riding in this kind of country.
It wasn't the kind of information she wanted to hear at the moment either.
That's kind of childish, isn't it – for a woman my age?
His sultry gaze traveled over her face, probably searching for some kind of signal.
I'm kind of used to being frugal.
I guess it does look kind of silly.
As for the inheritance, obviously he had some kind of access to Katie's money or he couldn't have invested with it.
She was a homeless girl – kind of put me in mind of you.
Ride up the mountain in this kind of weather?
I don't want to set myself up for that kind of hurt.
The animals would have a kind of sanctuary here.
Honorable, even admirable, but what kind of a marriage would that be?
Surely their marriage could never survive this kind of abuse.
He stepped around her, smiling down at her in a fetching kind of way.
It was some kind of honor thing, I guess.
I was kind of thinking ... figuring some things ... about the ... ranch.
They aren't very good ... kind of basic.
It's kind of like when you wake up from a terrible nightmare, and then something happens to remind you of it.
What kind of life would it be, alone and lonely?
I guess I know how you felt — kind of.
Hers was the kind of beauty that made a man notice her in a crowd full of beauties, or a god spot her from others gathered in his orchard for a celebration of his twenty-seventh birthday.
She was wired with a different kind of energy after the sparring session, one that made her remember all too clearly how she'd felt under his body.
But she … she didn't want what came with that kind of happiness.
Considering what happened to you there, I don't know how you can look at it with any kind of fondness.
She couldn't let it stop her now, though this kind of fear was far different than that of losing her life or failure on a mission.
A new kind of fury rose within him.
That you could run around killing and threatening them without any kind of retribution?
He knew that kind of pain.
She closed her eyes, ready to die, when a different kind of warmth flowed through her.
His clothes were made for his body, the kind of clothing only the wealthiest could afford.
What kind of men did such to a woman of any clan, even an enemy clan?
Not the kind of fear one experienced when falling from a horse, but a soul-deep fear that wrapped around her core.
I cannot see what comes, but I know what kind of a man Taran is.
Rob wasn't the first man to make that kind of remark and he probably wouldn't be the last.
Even so, how did a person respond to that kind of praise?
That kind of praise was reserved for the less attractive, it seemed.
Now she was costing him time at the clinic, an ambulance bill and who knew what kind of medical bills?
Don't act like I'm some kind of control freak.
That's just the kind of thing your father would say.
If you gave me free rein I'd have every kind of animal there was.
What kind of cat did you want?
Polaris – that kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
It sounds kind of noble.
What kind of place is that?
What kind of questions was he asking?
Tall with dark hair... had a kind of sophisticated look about him.
The forest floor was rocky, with occasional yellow flowers and some kind of ground cover with tiny blue flowers.
Refreshed and clean, she made herself a sandwich of lunch meat and scratched her way through half of a novel before she gave up and went to the bathroom to search for some kind of ointment.
I should have warned you to wear some kind of repellent.
He sounded kind of like a snob to me.
I suppose he is... kind of.
I thought you were some kind of wild animal.
Not that it mattered, except that kind of talk would make it uncomfortable for Denton and Clarissa.
No, you wanted a take-charge kind of man.
After all, every married couple started out with some kind of problem.
It was not a warm smile, like Xander's mother gave him, but a kind of smile that left Xander scared, without knowing why.
It was the kind of finery she should be wearing, instead of being trapped in rags at the edge of the city.
Born to a wealthy merchant family, she'd been disowned when it became known what kind of deformed child she bore.
What kind of monster refuses to kill women?
I don't think hurting them is the right kind of motivation.
This was the kind of place one went for a sexual escape.
What kind of cat had red eyes?
Which meant – whatever her intentions were – she was a new kind of challenge, and Xander found himself intrigued.
It was bad enough that Jonny was threatening some kind of penalty.
The kind of body that was strong enough to hold and protect her from the freaky dream she'd stumbled into this week.
She hated that kind of insincerity, but if ever she wanted to deliver it, it was now.
What kind of psycho are you?
Drinking her blood was a different kind of experience.
A surrender from someone like this was the kind of challenge he needed.
Fortunately, he was good at reminding her what kind of …creature he actually was.
He's the kind of person you need to run from, if you ever meet anyone like him.
She winced, unable to fathom what kind of penalty she'd face tonight.
He's not the kind of person I want to piss off.
What kind of secret could you possibly have?
I'm not a one-night stand kind of girl.
One she kind of found herself liking for more reasons than he was the sexiest man she'd ever seen and his touch made her want to throw herself into his bed.
He was torn again between frustration and the kind of interest that came from trying to capture a ghost.
Maybe this kind of revenge really is better.
Certain difficulties that he met with in his speculations led him to the conclusion that the particles of any one kind of gas, though all of them alike, must differ from those of another gas both in size and weight.
It is evident that this is practicable if the number and kind of atoms contained in the molecule of a compound can be determined.
A kind of jam-cake, called a "Bakewell pudding," gives another sort of fame to the place.
The food of this species seems to consist of the seeds and buds of many sorts of trees, though the staple may very possibly be those of some kind of pine.
It is evident from the fact of thirteen inhabitants being allowed to hold the manor that the town had some kind of incorporation in the 17th century, although its incorporation charter was not granted until 1899, when it was created a municipal borough.
They have a kind of short kilt, stiff, made of black wool, with a band from back to front between the legs; under this they wear short linen trousers, which come a little below the knee, and black woollen leggings with boots.
What makes him memorable in English history is that he opposed the establishment of a special kind of political organization.
The name is also applied to a special kind of wall-paper, which has an appearance almost like cloth, or, in the more expensive kinds, of velvet.
In reason, as in revelation, man can only attain to the lower kind of knowledge; there is a higher kind which we may not hope to reach.
The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.
The footless larvae are elongate, worm-like and very active; they feed upon almost any kind of waste animal matter, and when full-grown form a silken cocoon.
Owing to the proximity of the capital this group is comparatively subject to the Turkish power, and pays a small annual tribute; the chiefs, who assess and collect the tribute, form a kind of administrative council; the confederation has also an official representative council at Scutari, called the Jibal, under the presidency of a Serkarde or Moslem official.
As the deed was not destroyed, but is in existence now, it is to be presumed that the terms of it were, riot fulfilled; but the fact that such a contract should have been drawn up by Napier himself affords a singular illustration of the state of society and the kind of events in the midst of which logarithms had their birth.
But Presbyterianism was associated in the 2nd century with a kind of episcopacy.
No kind of information is excluded, but the fullest details refer to the bishopric of Merseburg and to the wars against the Wends and the Poles.
The heads are surrounded with a kind of head-dress or halo and one wears a necklace.
They never, in any situation, cultivated the soil for any kind of food-crop. They never reared any kind of cattle, or kept any domesticated animal except the dog, which probably came over with them in their canoes.
The Turkestan Committee elects a small council, forming a kind of cabinet and having control of the different branches of the administration.
The astringent principle is a peculiar kind of tannic acid, called by chemists quercitannic, which, yielding more stable compounds with gelatine than other forms, gives oak bark its high value to the tanner.
A peculiar kind of sugar called quercite exists in all acorns.
Francis Bacon expressed his conviction that heat consists of a kind of motion or "brisk agitation" of the particles of matter.
The complainer entirely overlooks the fact that this is the kind of music in which such a phrase will certainly be heard again before we have time to forget it; and as a matter of fact the strings promptly repeat it fortissimo in a position which nothing can overpower.
Timbre itself is, as Helmholtz shows, a kind of harmony felt but not heard.
The actual load factor to be chosen depends on the nature of the work and the kind of crane.
Obviously, nearly every kind of crane can be made portable by mounting it on a carriage, fitted with wheels; it is even not unusual to make the Portable Scottish derrick portable by using three trucks, one under the mast, and the others under the two back legs.
It is still used locally for making shoes, ships' cables, mats and a kind of spun cloth.
It has been defined as apparently a kind of collective madness.
Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.
Up to that year some of the regions of the kingdom, such as Tuscany, continued to have a kind of autonomy; but by the laws of the 20th of March the whole country was divided into 69 provinces and 8545 communes.
As the companies grew in size and improved their discipline, it was seen by the Italian nobles that this kind of service offered a good career for men of spirit, who had learned the use of arms. To leave so powerful and profitable a calling in the hands of foreigners seemed both dangerous and uneconomical.
As he himself took part in the events he describes, his work was a kind of memoirs.
In " Some Causes of Belief," he tries, standing outside the psychological process, to show how beliefs grow up under every kind of influence except that of genuine evidence.
This kind of writ allowed a man to refer the question of his guilt or innocence to the verdict of his neighbours instead of proving his innocence by the duel.
The mesogloea in the hydropolyp is a thin elastic layer, in which may be lodged the muscular fibres and ganglion cells mentioned above, but which never contains any connective tissue or skeletogenous cells or any other kind of special mesogloeal corpuscles.
To Spinoza (as Kuno Fischer observes) man differs from the rest of nature in the degree only and not in the kind of his powers.
His image and name are often found on "votive hands," a kind of talisman adorned with emblems, the nature of which is obscure.
The occupants of certain sees by a kind of prescription became legates without special appointment, legati nati, as in the case of Canterbury.
The so-called "black amber" is only a kind of jet.
Both inculcated a peculiar kind of ascetic life; both had a mystical speculative theory of religion, with purificatory rites, abstinence from beans, &c.; but Orphism was more especially religious, while Pythagoreanism, at least originally, inclined more to be a political and philosophical creed.
The rules of the Orphic life prescribed abstinence from beans, flesh, certain kinds of fish, &c., the wearing of a special kind of clothes, and numerous other practices and abstinences.
When, in place of a number of such cells called tracheids, we have a continuous tube with the same kind of wall thickening, but composed of a number of cells whose cross walls have disappeared, the resulting structure is called a vessel.
Another kind of differentiation in such a cell-mass as we are dealing with is the setting apart of particular groups of cells for various metabolic purposes.
There is no direct connection between the two, the oxygen is absorbed almost immediately by the protoplasm, and appears to enter into some kind of chemical union with it.
The growing apex of such a stem will alternately incline, first to one side and then to the other, exhibiting a kind of nodding movement in the two directions.
There is consequently a transmission of the stimulus from the sensitive organ to a kind of motor mechanism situated some little way off.
As the sieve plate grows these non-cellulose regions swell and gradually become converted into the same kind of mucous substance as that contained in the tube; the two cells are thus placed in open communication.
Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.
Thus the Zulu says to the ancestral ghost, "Help me or you will feed on nettles"; whilst the still more primitive Australian exclaims to the "dead hand" that he carries about with him as a kind of divining-rod, "Guide me aright, or I throw you to the dogs."
To the magician, endowed in the opinion of his fellows (and doubtless of himself) with this wonderful power of effective suggestion, the output of such power naturally represents itself as a kind of unconditional willing.
The next following instalments of vapour, getting diffused throughout a large mass of relatively cold gas, condense into a kind of "snow," known in commerce and valued as "flowers of sulphur" (fibres sulphuris).
When we are first entitled to speak with any kind of certainty, the non-privileged class possess a certain share in the election of magistrates and the making of laws.
They do really seem to engender a kind of hereditary capacity in their members.
Had they been able to establish and to maintain any kind of privilege, even that of mere honorary precedence, they would exactly answer to continental nobility.
Offa, like most of his predecessors, probably held a kind of supremacy over all kingdoms south of the Humber.
Although very little of the coast belt is actually swampy, a kind of natural canalization connects many of the rivers at their mouths with each other, though some of these connecting creeks are as yet unmarked on maps.
It is covered with a thick sheet of black earth, a kind of loess, that is mixed with humus.
Organized as they are into a kind of community for mutual protection and mutual help, they soon become masters of the trade wherever they penetrate.
This maximum rate depends upon the kind of coal used, whether small, friable, bituminous or hard, upon the thickness of the fire, and upon the correct design and setting of the blast-pipe.
Coal-saving can be shown to the extent of about 1% in some cases, but the saving depends upon the kind of service on which the engine is employed.
Stray specimens of the great king penguin have been observed, and there are also mollymauks (a kind of albatross), Cape pigeons and many carrion birds.
As results of Roberval's labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.
It lies low, but is regarded as exceptionally healthy, and serves as a kind of sanatorium for the surrounding district.
To the fisherman in India the mahseer affords the same kind of sport as the salmon in the British Isles, and it rivals that fish as regards size, strength and activity.
Rhetorical accomplishments were considered to be the chief object of a liberal education, and to this end every kind of learning was made subservient.
The Albigenses have received much sympathy, as being a kind of pre-Reformation Protestants; but it is now recognized that their tenets were an extreme form of Manichaeism.
A special class of Roman prelatures exist at Rome, endowed as a kind of ecclesiastical majority to which those members of certain families who are destined for the clerical life naturally succeed.
The missionaries, finding their position secure, presently began to take action in political affairs, and persuaded the king to grant a constitution to the Tongans, who welcomed it with a kind of childish enthusiasm, but were far from fitted to receive it.
Late Minoan art in its finest aspect is best illustrated by the animated ivory figures, wall paintings, and gesso duro reliefs at Cnossus, by the painted stucco designs at Hagia Triada, and the steatite vases found on the same site with zones in reliefs exhibiting life-like scenes of warriors, toreadors, gladiators, wrestlers and pugilists, and of a festal throng perhaps representing a kind of " harvest home."
The evidence supplied by this and other Cretan sites shows that the principal Minoan divinity was a kind of Magna Mater, a Great Mother or nature goddess, with whom was associated a male satellite.
A fine paved corridor running east from this gives access to a line of the later magazines, and through a columnar hall to the central court beyond, while to the left of this a broad and stately flight of steps leads up to a kind of entrance hall on an upper terrace.
The regular authorities sent from Constantinople were wholly unable to control the excesses of the janissaries, who exercised without restraint every kind of violence and oppression.
This body is not, however, a special board, as in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, but a kind of administrative cabinet as in Iowa, consisting of the secretary of state, the auditor, the treasurer, and the superintendent of 2 The changes made in 1875 were adopted in a convention, were ratified in 1876, and were so numerous that the amended constitution is frequently referred to as the Constitution of 1876.
Dionysius was regarded by the ancients as a type of the worst kind of despot - cruel, suspicious and vindictive.
Sufism (q.v.) appears in the 9th century among the Mahommedans of Persia as a kind of reaction against the rigid monotheism and formalism of Islam.
Each kind of ant is so addicted to its own particular fungal food that it refuses disdainfully, even when hungry, the produce of an alien nest.
This police report at least serves to show the kind of rumour then current.
It was a kind of blind-alley, the end of which widened into a small, neat courtyard.
He erected many temples and public buildings (amongst them the Odeum, a kind of theatre for musical performances) and restored the temple of the Capitol.
This has taken the form of inoculating the soil with the particular organism required by the particular kind of leguminous crop. To this end the endeavour has been made to produce preparations which shall contain in portable form the organisms required by the several plants, and though, as yet, it can hardly be claimed that they have been generally successful, the work done justifies hopes that the problem will eventually be solved in a practical direction.
In studying, therefore, such an apparently simple question as the effect of an act of parliament on wages in a small group of trades we want a general theory which we can use as a kind of index of the factors we have to consider.
They have to be interpreted in every age in relation to the state of society, the other motives or ideals with which they are associated, the kind of action they inspire, and the means through which they operate.
We are told that we can see " the law at work underneath the more superficial agencies on which attention fixes itself "; it " undergoes temporary suspension," which may last indefinitely; and " there is another agency, in habitual antagonism " to it, namely, " the progress of civilization," which may include every kind of human improvement.
It never has been, and never can be, more than an indication of the kind of thing which might he expected in a purely hypothetical world.
They differ much according to the kind of insect, and in the adult according to sex.
The gonapophyses are the projections near the extremity of the body that surround the sexual orifices, and vary extremely according to the kind of insect.
Bionomically, metamorphosis may be defined as the sum of adaptations that have gradually fitted the larva (caterpillar or maggot) for one kind of life, the fly for another.
His work is a kind of commonplace book kept without scientific discrimination.
This will perhaps be the most convenient place to mention another kind of classification of birds, which, based on a principle wholly different from those that have just been explained, requires a few words, though it has not been productive, parte.
Yet the idea of a " physiological " arrangement on the same kind of principle found another follower, or, as he thought, inventor, in Edward Newman, who in 1850 communicated N ewman.
Fiirbringer supposes that birds must have begun with toothed forms of small or moderate size, with long tails and four lizard-like feet and bodies clothed with a primitive kind of down.
Of this kind of retribution Scott in The Abbot gives a vivid picture, the Protestants interrupting the mass celebrated by the trembling remnant of the monks in the ruined abbey church, and insisting on substituting the traditional Feast of Fools.
The last prince of the house of Saman, Montasir, a bold warrior and a poet of no mean talent, carried on for some years a kind of guerilla warfare against both Mahmud and the Ilek Khan, who had occupied Transoxiana, till he was assassinated in 1005 (395 A.H.).
Thus the Mintra of the Malay Peninsula have a demon corresponding to every kind of disease known to them; the Tasmanian ascribed a gnawing pain to the presence within him of the soul of a dead man, whom he had unwittingly summoned by mentioning his name and who was `devouring his liver; the Samoan held that the violation of a food tabu would result in the animal being formed within the body of the offender and cause his death.
Again we must distinguish between the " future " contracts for the delivery of a particular kind of cotton, which may be entered into by spinners and their brokers, and are real purchases in the sense that the spinners want delivery of the cotton referred to, and the "futures," which always relate 1 The Cotton Trade of Great Britain, by Thomas Ellison, p. 186.
Our concern lies with the first kind of Crusade, and with the other three only so far as they bear on the first, and as they illustrate the immense widening which the term "Crusade" now underwent - a widening accompanied by its inevitable corollary of shallowness of motive and degradation of impulse.
He was said to be the inventor of a kind of flying-machine, a wooden pigeon balanced by a weight suspended from a pulley, and set in motion by compressed air escaping from a valve.'
In imitation of Antimachus he wrote a work called Catachannae, probably a kind of miscellanea.
It gave its name to cadurcum, a kind of light linen, and the bankers of Cahors were famous.
The Malays wear a loose coat and trousers, and a cap or headkerchief, but the characteristic item of their costume is the sarong, a silk or cotton cloth about two yards long by a yard and a quarter wide, the ends of which are sewn together, a forming a kind of skirt.
If he says that a subject is to allow himself to be moved and directed, under God, by a superior just as though he were a corpse or as a staff in the hands of an old man, he is also careful to say that the obedience is only due in all things "wherein it cannot be defined (as it is said) that any kind of sin appears."
Marius, on his return to Rome after his victory over the Cimbri, finding himself isolated in the senate, entered into a compact with Saturninus and his ally C. Servilius Glaucia, and the three formed a kind of triumvirate, supported by the veterans of Marius and the needy rabble.
Up to this time the rule of the Bhonsla rajas, rough warriors of peasant extraction, had been on the whole beneficent; but, soured by his defeat, Raghoji now set to work to recover some of his losses by a ruthless exploitation of the peasantry, and until the effective intervention of the British in 1818 the country was subjected to every kind of oppression.
All that kind of pre-established harmony Wagner left behind him the moment he deserted the heroes and villains of romantic opera for the visionary and true tragedy of gods and demi-gods, giants and gnomes, with beauty, nobility and love in the wrong, and the forces of destruction and hate set free by blind justice.
The Rhine-daughter sings it in a childlike, indolently graceful way which well expresses the kind of toy the ring or the world itself would be to her.
During the latter period of his term of office he was on a very unsatisfactory footing with the young king George III., who gradually came to feel a kind of horror of the interminable persistency of his conversation, and whom he endeavoured to make use of as the mere puppet of the ministry.
The island was annexed by Great Britain in 1628 and was bestowed in 1680 upon the Codrington family who, for more than 200 years, held it as a kind of feudal fief.
The associations of his home, not far from Corinth, where Arion was said to have established the cyclic choruses of satyrs, may account for his preference for this kind of drama.
Among the larger trees are the mountain cedar, reaching to 100 ft.; the gob, which bears edible berries in appearance something like the cherry with the taste of an apple, grows to some 80 ft., and is found fringing the river beds; the hassadan, a kind of euphorbia, attaining a height of about 70 ft.; and the darei, a fig tree.
A man of literary taste and culture, familiar with the classics, a facile writer of Latin verses' as well as of Ciceronian prose, he was as anxious that the Roman clergy should unite human science and literature with their theological studies as that the laity should be educated in the principles of religion; and to this end he established in Rome a kind of voluntary school board, with members both lay and clerical; and the rivalry of the schools thus founded ultimately obliged the state to include religious teaching in its curriculum.
His encyclical issued at Easter 1902, and described by himself as a kind of will, was mainly a reiteration of earlier condemnations of the Reformation, and of modern philosophical systems, which for their atheism and materialism he makes responsible for all existing moral and political disorders.
The pirates sold great numbers of slaves at Delos, where was the chief market for this kind of wares; and these sales went on as really, though more obscurely, after the successful expedition of Pompey.
The charta Fanniana appears to have been a kind of papyrus worked up from the amphitheatrica, which by flattening and other methods was increased in width by an inch, in the factory of a certain Fannius at Rome.
At Rome there was certainly some kind of industry in papyrus, the charta Fanniana, already referred to, being an instance in illustration.
The red matter proves to be the remains of wine, not of blood; and the conclusion of the ablest archaeologists is that the vessels were placed where they are found, after the eucharistic celebration or agape on 'the day of the funeral or its anniversary, and contained remains of the consecrated elements as a kind of religious charm.
The loculi were intact and the epitaphs still in their places, so that " they form a kind of museum, in which the development, the formulae, and the symbolic figures of Christian epigraphy, from its origin to the end of the 3rd or 4th century, can be notified and contemplated, not in artificial specimens as in the Lateran, but in the genuine and living reality of their original condition."
The development of this line of thought led in some thinkers like John Philoponus to a kind of tritheism.
Indeed, mathematicians now reserve "continuity" as the term for the latter kind of continuity; the mere property of having an infinite number of terms between any two terms is called "compactness."
Now, owing to the necessary inexactness of measurement, it is impossible to discriminate directly whether any kind of continuous physical quantity possesses the compactness of the series of rationals or the continuity of the series of real numbers.
Every village or town district has a kind of mayor (mukhtar) appointed by election and approved by the official provincial authorities, and a " council of ancients " whose members are elected directly.
They were established at a time when industry was not free, and the government fixed the number of artisans of every kind of trade in each town, no one having 'the right to increase that number.
After the promulgation of the reforms, the judicial duties of the Imperial Divan, which with other functions also exercised those of a kind of supreme court of appeal, were transferred to the Sheikh-ul-Islam.
Their manoeuvre was carried out with complete success, kind of stupor and allowed his marshals to fight by themselves.
But Corinne is still a very remarkable exposition of a certain kind of aestheticism, while De l'Allemagne is still perhaps the most remarkable account of one country, by a native and inhabitant of another, which exists in literature.
The presentation was accompanied by a kind of mathematical performance, in which Leonardo solved several hard problems proposed to him by John of Palermo, an imperial notary, whose name is met with in several documents dated between 1221 and 1240.
We observe, however, that this kind of problem was not new.
In 1684 Bayle began the publication of his Nouvelles de la republique des lettres, a kind of journal of literary criticism.
This iron seems, however, in several respects to be unlike the celebrated large nodules of iron found by Nordenskiold at Ovifak, but appears to resemble much more closely the softer kind of iron nodules found by Steenstrup in the basalt;' it stands exposure to the air equally well, and has similar Widmannstaten figures very sharp, as is to be expected in such a large mass.
To overthrow the ecclesiastical hierarchy, to deprive the clergy of all their privileges, to reduce the pope to the rank of a kind of president of a Christian republic, which governs itself, or rather submits to the government of Caesar - such is the dream formed in 1324 by two masters of the university of Paris.
He gathered by degrees around him "a kind of feudal clan of servants and retainers," and he plunged, with more generous ardour than coolness of judgment, into the troubled politics of the country.
The plankton, both animal and vegetable, attains its minimal values and many of the larger forms of animal life pass into a kind of condition of hibernation.
According to the story in Genesis, Noah's ark was large enough to contain his family and representatives of each kind of animal.
But his task in the south was doubtless rather that of an organizer, and a kind of circular letter has come down to us which was addressed by Patrick, Auxilius and Iserninus, to all the clergy of the island.
They also noticed that a similar kind of chemical action went on in the battery itself.
In simple substances like potassium chloride it seems evident that one kind of dissociation only is possible.
He also edited a monthly magazine, The Sword and Trowel; an elaborate exposition of the Psalms, in seven volumes, called The Treasury of David (1870-1885); and a book of sayings called John Ploughman's Talks; or, Plain Advice for Plain People (1869), a kind of religious Poor Richard.
The globules in the latex are liquid, and the phenomenon of coagulation would seem to consist in the passage of this liquid into solid caoutchouc through the kind of change known as polymerization or condensation, in which a liquid passes into solid without alteration of composition or by condensation with the elimination of the elements of water.
In Africa it seems probable that the production of rubber from vines is likely to be entirely superseded in process of time, and replaced by the plantations of trees which are already being established in those districts in which careful experiment has determined the kind of rubber tree best adapted to the locality.
There is some evidence that " tackiness " may be induced by a kind of fermentation which takes place in crude rubber.
A kind of vulcanite which contains a large proportion of vermilion or other mineral pigment is used, under the name of dental rubber, for making artificial gums and supports for artificial teeth.
As a rule, this kind of colonization has not produced the results that were expected.
On the other hand the severe measures taken by the government prevented the growth of anything like legalized slavery on Siberian soil; but the people, ruined as they were both by the intrusion of agricultural colonists and by the exactions of government officials, fell into what was practically a kind of slavery to the merchants.
The valves are, consequently, essentially symmetrical, which is not the case with the Lamellibranchiata, - so much so, that certain Brachiopod shells were named Lampades, or lamp shells, by some early naturalists; but while such may bear a kind of resemblance to an antique Etruscan lamp, by far the larger number in no way resemble one.
A kind of seigniorial taille continued to exist besides the servile taille, but this kind presupposed a title, a contract between the taxable roturier and the lord, or else immemorial possession, which amounted to a title.
The system appeared to be admirable, forming in this respect a kind of self-government, but in practice it was frequently oppressive for the taxpayers.
They also endeavoured to distinguish between different kinds of income, in order to arrive at a more just estimate of the total income, and fixed by tariff the proportion in which each kind of income was to contribute.
Moreover, from the 12th century Beam enjoyed a kind of representative government, with tours plenieres composed of deputies from the three estates.
His morality is not yet separated from his religion; and religion for him means the cult of some superior being - the king or priest of his tribe - whose person is charged with a kind of sacred electricity.
Cicero's De Officiis abounds in the kind of question afterwards so warmly discussed by Dr Johnson and his friends.
These were huge digests of all that popes, councils, primitive fathers had decided on every kind of question pertaining to the confessional - what exactly is a sin, what kind of questions the priests must ask, under what conditions he could give absolution.
But the age was incurably suspicious of attempts to deal with such difficulties on any kind of technical system.
Every kind of cereal and many fruits grow in great abundance, e.g.
Their respective followers, and more especially cultured laymen, lacking the capacity for original work, seeking for a solution in some kind of compromise, and possibly failing to grasp the essentials of the controversy, take refuge in a combination of those elements in the opposing systems which seem to afford a sound practical theory.
Under these officers the equites formed a kind of corporation, which, although' not officially recognized, had the right of passing resolutions, chiefly such as embodied acts of homage to the imperial house.
Flesh that has become tainted appears to be specially acceptable; but it is a curious fact that on no account will a fox eat any kind of bird of prey.
Among the specialities of Bologna may be noted the salami or mortadella (Bologna sausage), tortellini (a kind of macaroni) and liqueurs.
The discoveries of silver brought great wealth to the margraves, but they resorted at times to bedes, which were contributions from the nobles and ecclesiastics who met in a kind of diet.
Pliny says that there is another kind of alum which the Greeks call schistos.
The approach to the grotto lay through a portico on the level with and fronting the street, and a pronaos, in communication with which was a kind of sacristy.
For some years the French kept up a kind of bush warfare; but in 1567 the Portuguese succeeded in establishing a settlement at Rio.
John Major in his Latin History speaks of "one Henry, blind from his birth, who, in the time of my childhood, fashioned a whole book about William Wallace, and therein wrote down in our popular verse - and this was a kind of composition in which he had much skill - all that passed current among the people in his day.
Horsesickness, a kind of malarial fever, which takes an epidemic form in very wet seasons, causes considerable loss.
It is eaten by the natives, who also make a kind of wine from the juice.
In some early cases of pyloric cancer resection of the disease may be performed, the upper end of the intestine being afterwards joined to the middle of the stomach by a kind of short-circuiting operation.
The distinction between algebraical and arithmetical reasoning then lies mainly in the fact that the former is in a more condensed form than the latter; an unknown quantity being represented by a special symbol, and other symbols being used as a kind of shorthand for verbal expressions.
In the case of division we get two kinds of arithmetical formula, which, however, may be regarded as requiring a single kind of numerical process in order to determine the final result.
In the same way we regard log l 02, not as a new kind of number, but as an approximation.
Another kind of sequence is that which is formed by introducing the successive factors of a continued product; e.g.
Ordinary algebra developed very gradually as a kind of shorthand, devised to abbreviate the discussion of arithmetical problems and the statement of arithmetical facts.
The efforts of the best minds in zoology had been directed for thirty years or more to ascertaining with increased accuracy and minuteness the structure, microscopic and gross, of all possible forms of animals, and not only of the adult structure but of the steps of development of that structure in the growth of each kind of organism from the egg to maturity.
It is no discovery that this latter kind of variation is not hereditable, and it is not the fact that the small variations, to which Darwin attached great but not exclusive importance as the material upon which natural selection operates, are of this latter kind.
In the above argument the whole space between the object and the lens is supposed to be occupied by matter of one refractive index, and X represents the wave-length in this medium of the kind of light employed.
This kind of irregularity may clearly be present in a ' It must not be supposed that errors of this order of magnitude are unobjectionable in all cases.
In like manner our present law (20) would apply to the kind of obstruction that would be caused by an actual physical division of the elastic medium, extending over the whole of the area supposed to be occupied by the intercepting screen, but of course not extending to the parts supposed to be perforated.
The Scyths lived upon the produce of their herds of cattle and horses, their main food being the flesh of the latter, either cooked in a cauldron or made into a kind of haggis, and the milk of mares from which they made cheese and kumiss (a fermented drink resembling buttermilk).
Both men and women avoided washing, but there was something of the nature of a vapour bath, with which Herodotus has confused a custom of using the smoke of hemp as a narcotic. The women daubed themselves with a kind of cosmetic paste.
We cannot place Ariantas, who made a kind of census of the nation by exacting an arrow-head from each warrior and cast a great cauldron out of the bronze, nor Taxacis and Scopasis, the under-kings in the time of Idanthyrsus.
As worn by gods and men it was a long and rather loose kind of skirt suspended from a girdle.
A significant feature is the kind of cape which covers the shoulders; it would not and no doubt was not intended to leave play for the arms; it was the dress of the leisured classes, and a typical FIG.
In the cinctus Gabinus, which was the fashion adopted in early times when fighting was in prospect, the end of the toga was drawn tightly round the waist and formed a kind of girdle; this was retained in certain official functions, such as the opening of the emple of Janus in historical times.
The palliolum was a kind of mantilla.
In the garzeros of Venezuela are to be found nearly every kind of heron, crane, stork and ibis, together with an incredible number of Grallatores.
All went well for a time; but Dionysius had Philistus and others about him, who were opposed to any kind of liberal reform, and the result was the banishment of Dion from Syracuse as a dangerous innovator.
He brought out in the Presse (1849) a series of Confidences, and somewhat later a kind of autobiography, entitled Raphael.
Lamartine in short occupied a kind of half-way house between the 18th century and the Romantic movement, and he never got any farther.
The chief immediate result we can trace is the introduction of certain mineral remedies, especially antimony, the use of which became a kind of badge of the disciples of Paracelsus.
Most famous in connexion with this kind of poetry are Xenophanes and Parmenides, the Eleatics and Empedocles of Agrigentum.
Marguerite Arouet, of whom her younger brother was very fond, married early, her husband's name being Mignot; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong Jansenist, and there never was any kind of sympathy between him and Francois.
In 1732 another tragedy, Eriphile, appeared, with the same kind of halting success which had distinguished the appearance of its elder sisters since Odipe.
He had written important and characteristic work before; but he had always been in a kind of literary Wanderjahre.
A kind of reconciliation occurred in March, and after some days of good-fellowship Voltaire at last obtained the long-sought leave of absence and left Potsdam on the 26th of the month (1753).
At the end of the month he was able to attend a performance of it, which was a kind of apotheosis.
Frankincense, however, though the most common, never became the only kind of incense offered to the gods among the Greeks.
For many centuries this district between London and Westminster was a kind of " no man's land " having certain archaic customs. Gomme in his Governance of London (1907) gives an account of the connexion of this with the old village of Aldwich, a name that survived in Wych Street, and has been revived by the London County Council in Aldwych, the crescent which leads to Kingsway.
There is a great profusion of fruit, the apples yielding a kind of cider which, however, does not keep longer than a month.
But it has been and is still held by many critics that the author of Acts is a different person, and that as in the Third Gospel he has used documents for the Life of Christ, and perhaps also in the earlier half of the Acts for the history of the beginnings of the Christian Church, so in the "we" sections, and possibly in some other portions of this narrative of Paul's missionary life, he has used a kind of travel-diary by one who accompanied the Apostle on some of his journeys.
The instances in which he has departed from the Marcan order, and the manner in which he has introduced his additional matter into the Marcan outline, do not suggest the idea that he had any independent knowledge of an exact kind of the chronological sequence of events.
It must be remembered that the Romans possessed no fine procelain decorated with lively colours and a beautiful glaze; Samian ware was the most decorative kind of pottery which was then made.
The Portland or Barberini vase in the British Museum is the finest example of this kind of work which has come down to us, and was entire until it was broken into some hundred pieces by a madman.
That peculiar kind of glass usually called schmelz, an imperfect imitation of calcedony, was also made at Venice in the 15th century.
It was probably suggested to Ctesibius by the Egyptian Wheel or Noria, which was common at that time, and which was a kind of chain pump, consisting of a number of earthen pots carried round by a wheel.
He considered the horizontal strata of this hyperboloid as always in motion, while the remainder of the water was in a state of rest, and imagined that there was a kind of cataract in the middle of the fluid.