Made-it Sentence Examples

His remark about how she looked in the swimsuit made it obvious that he saw her as something more than a baby sitter or maid.

He made it all sound so innocent - even noble.

As he rode into the yard, his expression made it clear that he didn't come to see the house.

But then, he had made it clear from the start that he didn't want any of them in his life.

The fact that they were expecting two babies instead of one made it more of a challenge.

Why lie when she made it so easy for him to avoid talking about it at all?

When the kitchen door opened suddenly, they jerked apart and turned guilty faces to Sarah, whose expression made it clear she had seen and comprehended their actions.

I think you made it clear last night.

Brandon should have told them, and when they finally made it to the barn, she said as much.

Hadn't she made it clear that she didn't want any distractions?

If you weren't appreciated, you wouldn't have made it past the first trip.

No. I can only assume that they made it to Ashley.

Aren't you the least bit concerned about whether they made it?

The twins begged me to bring you back, so I made it part of my plans.

Her stammering made it obvious she'd taken at least some of the calls.

Correct. He made it to an open window on the first floor.

I made it to the circle park at the head of Main Street and drank in the sunshine on a park bench.

He was as speechless as I had been as we hugged each other and somehow made it into my room.

Maybe, if she made it out of here, she'd go to lunch Sunday and do whatever felt right, like spend her life with him.

His rules made it clear she was just another of his duties.

She'd made it halfway up the stairwell when his voice rang out.

The recent chain of events made it impossible for her to deny something serious was going on, and she was somehow involved.

He maintained a shield around it that made it invisible to those who didn't know where it was.

It was busy enough; she might be able to lose him if she made it to a crowd of people.

Sofia's words freed them from deep within his mind, and Dusty's hammering at the facts made it impossible for him to silence them as he wanted to.

Shadows crawled over the world around her, and the tension in the air made it hard to breathe.

Ving pulled up and barely made it out of the car before Rainy grabbed him and slammed him over the hood.

She was fighting a fever, one that made it hard for her to focus.

The way he said it made it clear he was making fun of her.

Gabriel made her heart flutter; Darkyn made it fly.

Deidre made it to the library a few minutes later.

Wynn said your happiness made it grow.

They'd made it through the blahs of winter and the doldrums of spring, managing to satisfy most, if not all, of the bill collectors.

He was so calm and methodical during the whole business it made it that much worse.

But what about the Smokey Joe Jones and all the other Smokey Joes of world who never made it?

So you made it on the jury.

He mentioned she never made it to the site of the wreck.

We made it look like he was drunk—which he often was.

She made it through two and a half of the dinner-plate sized confections before she grimaced.

Only one of them made it out of Hell, though.

If it was Gabriel, he'd made it clear he'd walk in.

It was one of the first things he'd change, if he ever made it back to the underworld.

What made it bubble?

That made it hard to protect her at times.

It probably would have been so anyway, but Lori's visit made it more so.

But he didn't wake, and each day that passed made it less likely that he would come out of the coma.

She only made it a few steps away from him when she felt a tug on her back belt loop.

He sensed the presence of his assassins nearby, relieved a few had made it out of the underworld before the portal disappeared.

How many made it up?

Somehow, Deidre made it to town.

I made it the way you like it.

She crossed more boldly this time, terrified of seeing the doorway close behind her before she'd made it through another one.

Furious at the idea, Gabe began to wonder how the reincarnated Deidre made it this far without being slaughtered by one of her many enemies.

I don't know how you made it before that.

Breathless, she managed to open the door on the second try and made it into the hallway before sagging against the wall.

You've made it this far.

Wired, emotional energy made it hard to concentrate as she listened.

His power felt the same, but maybe his time in Hell had mellowed it out, made it more responsive to his command.

He'd protected her and made it clear anything that got near her would die a nasty death.

She was tall and willowy, a former model that'd made it big.

She's barely made it this long, Rhyn.

She made it to the sand before being forced to slow to a walk by the ankle-deep, loose sand.

She didn.t fit in; they made it clear every chance they could, just as their leader did.

The white Hummer limo made it up the snowy slope and slowed as it crossed the cleared cobblestone drive in front of the castle.

And find out if Iliana made it to her destination.

You made it clear you read my mind.

Some of the demons had made it into the castle.

She found herself hoping Gabriel made it here before Rhyn did.

She began to wonder if he made it out of the castle.

Barely made it back.

He had a choice, and he made it.

She made it to the sand before forced to slow to a walk by the ankle-deep, loose sand.

Evelyn made it sound permanent, as though Kiera would just pick up and leave for another country.

They made it several doors before three of Romas's clan charged around the corner of a nearby intersection.

You may not have made it out otherwise.

She hesitated, then looked at what capability the pod did have to keep her from smashing into the planet, even if she made it through the atmosphere.

The strange sound continued for several minutes, and she trembled, trying hard not to think of what happened if she made it unscathed to the planet's surface.

I'm not sure how you made it through the enemy's defenses.

I'm afraid I'd get evicted from Bird Song, if and when I made it back!

I knew her story couldn't be as simple as Claire made it out to be—wanted it to be.

She made it that far at least.

A large outcropping of rock made it impossible for a climber more than just a few feet below the edge, to see anyone above him.

If she had just kicked away the chair, we all would have made it to her room in time to save her.

He opened the door before she made it half way up the walk, and as usual she left him breathless.

Jackson knew this would not be as cut and dried as she made it sound.

For a long agonizing moment her knees and elbows took turns at the ground, but finally she made it to the chicken coup door.

No, I couldn't believe how easy she made it look.

Somehow he made it seem so intimate.

He'd made it plain enough how he felt.

Carmen made it to the telephone on the sixth ring, gasping for breath as she picked up the receiver.

My friend wouldn't have made it otherwise.

She sipped from a container of water and turned again to the wall behind the titanium glass, unable to pinpoint how one of the sensitive keypads had made it outside the compound or when.

I sent in twenty helos and only one made it back.

After ten days of walking, she needed a rest, now that she'd made it to the river.

I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt that she made it all the way to the river.

I'm wondering how you made it out of the Peak.

You made it to the castle by nightfall.

Cynthia Byrne was shaking so badly had he not supported her with an arm about her waist he doubted she could have made it into the building on her own.

He tried to appease the Norfolk detective by saying no permanent harm had been done and even Mrs. Byrne seemed to have made it through the ordeal.

Fred made it be known he had no intention of going to the hospital, though it wasn't suggested.

By the time Dean made it to the kitchen Monday morning, Fred had already left on the early bus to Scranton.

I made it out to Gruber's place with no problem, hardly.

That made it his call.

Ma Reynolds - Mums, was the undisputed matriarch of the Reynolds family, and she made it clear that Lori would be treated with respect.

It was the first time she had heard him call her that, and the tender smile on Mum's face made it clear that she was pleased.

And she had made it so much simpler by telling everyone that she wanted him to make all the decisions.

The scary part was, she made it with three minutes to spare.

Still, if she made it uncomfortable for him this time, maybe he'd be sure to ask her how she felt next time.

She barely made it to the porch steps when the third pain hit.

She took a few more steps and made it to the door.

Her mother made it to her feet and flung something at her.

She wondered what made it immune to the destruction.

She'd almost made it when she heard the voice.

Just made it clear I'm not allowed to leave.

A few close calls made it more of a challenge, as Claire bounced back to avoid Jenn's strategic strikes.

She made it only a few steps before the shaking earth brought her to her knees.

It didn't seem possible that none of them had made it to the mortal world.

He didn't know how Yully and Charles made it back or if Jenn had been with them.

Some days, this is not much, as the weakness of my forefathers has made it powerful enough to choose its next host and seize control of my body.

When he discovered a horse ranch had been her dream, he made it come true.

You made it clear enough what I did wrong and I've apologized.

Yes, she'd made it clear enough alright.

Thinking of Denton made it much less attractive.

She could have made it without the help of Denton, Dad, or the man he had sent.

Somehow, they made it to the hospital and managed to track down her cousin's room.

Hopefully, she made it before the tears started.

He made it and gave her a rueful smile before dropping down beside her.

You made it clear you know where I live.

Landolt and others, made it at first appear that the change in weight, if there is any, consequent on a chemical change can rarely exceed one-millionth of the weight of the reacting substances, and that it must often be much less.

Having once formulated his idea, he made it more general in order to apply it to the history of all nations.

Her wealth made it certain that he would be the richest man in France, and he determined to play a part equal to that of his great-grandfather, the regent, whom he resembled in character and debauchery.

There are signs of trade with Etruria as early as the 7th century B.C. The Carthaginians made it into an important grainproducing centre; and the Romans set foot in the island more than once during the First Punic War.

The building was enlarged by Edward IV., by Henry VIII., who made it one of his chief residences, by James I.

The building in which this fire was kept was the Prytaneum, and the chieftain (the king or prytanis)probably made it his residence.

Its geographical situation has made it a place of commercial importance throughout history.

In the 5th century the Franks seized Tournai, and Merovaeus made it the capital of his dynasty.

The city continued to flourish under the Romans, who made it a colony, with the name Colonia Victrix Julia Nova Carthago.

Pavia offered stubborn resistance; but after a three year siege it was taken, and Alboin made it the capital of his new kingdom.

The lesser people tolerated him because he extended the power of their city and made it beautiful with public buildings., The bourgeoisie, protected in their trade, found it convenient to support him.

At the same time he made it clear that Italy would occupy Rome upon her own responsibility.

In 1138 David of Scotland made it a centre of military operations, and it was ravaged by Wallace in 1296, by Bruce in 1312, and by David II.

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway through this district has made it of some importance.

The former prohibition made it impossible far the unfortunate people to sell their goods which hence fell to the Inquisition.

It gained prominence after 1543, when the archbishop of Esztergom and primate of Hungary made it his residence after the capture of Esztergom by the Turks.

This may not be logical, but long usage has made it permissible or even necessary.

In early times irrigating canals distributed the waters over the plain, and made it one of the richest countries of the East, so that historians report three crops of wheat to have been raised in Babylonia annually.

Where they did not exist, as in America, everything has made it more and more impossible that they should arise.

For this purpose he created a very severe press-censorship and an expensive system of passports, which made it more difficult for Russians to visit foreign countries.

The use of automatic couplers for freight cars throughout the United States, introduced in 1893-1900, greatly reduced the number of deaths and injuries in coupling, and the use of air brakes on freight cars, now universal, has reduced the risk to the men by making it less necessary for them to ride on the roofs of high box-cars, while at the same time it has made it possible to run long trains with fewer men; but except in these two features the freight service in America continues to be a dangerous occupation.

There have been several professional photographers (all detected in fraud sooner or later) who made it their business to take photo complaints, to certain epidemics of the middles ages,' and to phenomena that have occurred at some religious revivals.

But the prevalence of the worship of " other gods " and of graven images in these " high places," and the moral debasement of life which accompanied these cults, made it clear that the " high places " were sources of grave injury to Israel's social life.

In 1151 it fell into the hands of the Kin Tatars, who made it a royal residence under the name of Chung-tu, or "central capital."

Its attractive situation and pleasant outlooks have made it a favourite residential suburb of San Francisco, which lies at a distance of 7 m.

In 1883 he resigned his seat in parliament owing to the reactionary measures of the government, which made it impossible for him to continue his former co-operation with Bismarck, but returned in 1887 to support the coalition of national parties.

Ivan the Terrible in 1561 made it the centre of the ecclesiastical province of Moscow.

Its natural fertility and its commanding position at the meeting-place of trade-routes from every quarter made it a dominant factor until its overthrow.

To Samuel of Nehardea belongs the honour of formulating the principle which made it possible for Jews to live under alien laws.

Augustus is said to have conducted here a colony of veterans,' but the place never had any great importance, and the lagoons behind it made it unhealthy, though the construction of the Via Domitiana through it must have made it a posting station.

The whites maintained their supremacy by very dubious methods until the adoption of the constitution of 1890 made it no longer necessary.

The hard times which followed the financial panic of 1893 made it possible for them, in alliance with the Republicans, to carry the state in the election of 1894.

The ancient town, Arelate, was an important place at the time of the invasion of Julius Caesar, who made it a settlement for his veterans.

The conversion of the gravel road into a paved road made it much easier for riding bikes.

No man ever so thoroughly used other men's work, and yet made it all seem his own.

The control of the papacy by Charles V., moreover, made it impossible for Wolsey to succeed in his efforts to obtain from Clement VII.

The fertility of its territory and its manufacture of black glazed pottery, which was even exported to Etruria, made it prosperous.

The introduction of new plants, which made it possible to dispense with the bare fallow, and still later the application to husbandry of scientific discoveries as to soils, plant constituents and manures, brought about a revolution in farming.

In modern times the conditions which have made economic science possible have also made it necessary.

Subsequent discoveries, however, have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief centre in its earlier stages, or, perhaps, at any period; and, accordingly, it is more usual now to adopt a wider geographical title.

The absence of preparations came to be felt more strongly with the rapid growth of the submarine menace, for the depth and number of the entrances made it a serious problem to establish adequate defences.

Formerly known as Karanovats, Kralyevo received its present name, signifying "the King's Town," from King Milan (1868-1889), who also made it a bishopric, instead of Chachak, 22 m.

The secrecy of its deliberations and the rapidity with which it could act made it a useful adjunct to the constitution, and it gradually absorbed many of the more important functions of the state.

But Parthian ambitions made it necessary for the Palmyrenes to choose one side or other, and their choice leaned towards Rome, both because they dreaded interference with their religious freedom and because the Roman emperor was further off than the Persian king.

The President made it clear that he regarded the conference merely as a step in securing international understanding and good will; he advocated the convening of succeeding conferences as a possible means of securing an international association for the promotion of peace, and he approved the principle of substituting an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan regarding Far-Eastern problems, for the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty.

When the weakness of his eyes made it necessary for him to depend almost entirely on the service of readers and secretaries, in his eighty-first year he began to write the Weltgeschichte (9 vols., Leipzig, 1883-88).

The critical method which has since become almost a formal system, aiming at scientific certainty, was with him an unexampled power, based on the insight acquired from wide knowledge, which enabled him to judge the credibility of an author or the genuineness of an authority; but he has made it impossible for any one to attempt to write modern history except on the "narratives of eye-witnesses and the most genuine immediate documents" preserved in the archives.

The lay basis of the Third Crusade made it, in one sense, the greatest of all Crusades, in which all the three great monarchs of western Europe participated; but it also made it a failure, for the kings of France and England, changing caelum, non animum, carried their political rivalries into the movement, in which it had been agreed that they should be sunk.

In such cases the simplicity of manipulation and the high degree of accuracy of the method have made it especially valuable.

But it was Wordsworth, a native of Cumberland, born on the outskirts of the Lake District itself, who really made it a.Mecca for lovers of English poetry.

At the same time Alexander himself made it a principal concern to win fresh geographical knowledge, to open new ways.

It was Alexandria into which this stream of traffic poured and made it the commercial metropolis of the world.

The swiftness, the strength and the highly developed power of scent in the dog, have made it a powerful ally of man against the other animals; and perhaps these qualities in the dog were necessary to the establishment of society.

At the same time he made it more dependent upon the emperor, by exercising an influence upon its composition.

Their insistence on the personal aspect of religious experience made it impossible for Friends to countenance the setting apart of any man or building for the purpose of divine worship to the exclusion of all others.

Bahrain deposed the vassal king of the Persian part of Armenia and made it a province.

The immense extension of the rural estates (latifundia) made it impossible for masters to know their slaves, even if they were disposed to take trouble for the purpose.

The danger of floods and the difficulty of drainage make the extension of the practice unprofitable, and the opening of the prairies has made it unnecessary.

Richard of Cornwall, king of the Romans, made it an imperial city in 1257.

The shallow water on the coast made it impossible for the British line-of-battle ships, or even large frigates, to press the attack on them home.

Since that period it has remained nominally a part of the Turkish empire; but with the decline of Turkish power, and the general disintegration of the empire, in the first half of the 18th century, a then governor-general, Ahmed Pasha, made it an independent pashalic. Nadir Shah, the able and energetic usurper of the Persian throne, attempting to annex the province once more to Persia, besieged the city, but Ahmed defended it with such courage that the invader was compelled to raise the siege, after suffering great loss.

The position of Melos, between Greece and Crete, and its possession of obsidian, made it an important centre of early Aegean civilization.

He issued few ordinances; the unofficial compilation known as the Leges Henrici shows that, like the Conqueror, he made it his ideal to maintain the "law of Edward."

The Ciudad gallantry of the troops made it successful, though with Rodrigo, the loss of Generals Craufurd and McKinnon, and 1300 ulfrary s men, and Marmont's battering train of 150 guns here fell into the allied hands.

Honolulu's safe harbour, discovered in 1794, made it a place of resort for vessels (especially whalers) and traders from the beginning of the 19th century.

Manlius Vulso, who made it his headquarters in his operations against the tribe.

During the Civil War General Goring quartered his troops at Totnes, and Fairfax also made it his temporary station.

Down the river Cauto, then open to the sea for vessels of 200 tons, and through Manzanillo, Bayamo drove a thriving contraband trade that made it at the opening of the 17th century the leading town of Cuba.

As Gaston left only daughters, the viscounty passed at his death to the family of Foix, from whom it was transmitted through the houses of Grailly and Albret to the Bourbons, and they, in the person of Henry IV., king of Navarre, made it an apanage of the crown of France.

This made it a grave sin in the priest to refuse absolution, whenever there was some good reason for giving it even when there were other and better reasons for refusing it.

He made it one of the aims of his life to free politics and jurisprudence from the control of theology, and fought bravely and consistently for freedom of thought and speech on religious matters.

The small town with its repetition of nice homes made it a good place to live.

In historical times it belonged to the Ozolian Locrians; but about 455 B.C., in spite of a partial resettlement with Locrians of Opus, it fell to the Athenians, who peopled it with Messenian refugees and made it their chief naval station in western Greece during the Peloponnesian war.

After the battle of Cannae Crotona revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years.

The latter, however, made it the base of his operations against the Romans in 89, 72 and 67 B.C. Pompey made it a free city in 65, after Mithradates' fall.

The construction of the coast road, the Via Severiana, from Ostia to Tarracina, added to the importance of the place; and the beauty of the promontory with its luxuriant flora and attractive view had made it frequented by the Romans as early as 200 B.C. Galba and Domitian possessed country houses here.

In 1184 Frederick made it a free imperial city, and about the same time the archbishop obtained the dignity of a prince of the Empire.

The crusading princes of Antioch never held the place, though they attacked it in 1124; and Saladin, who took it in 1183, made it a stronghold against them and the northern capital of himself and his successors until the Tatar invasion of 1260.

Meantime the Boers had founded Pietermaritzburg and made it the seat of their volksraad.

He at once became very popular with the students, but his political opinions made it impossible for the Saxon government to appoint him to a professorship. He was at that time a strong Liberal; he hoped to see Germany united into a single state with a parliamentary government, and that all the smaller states would be swept away.

Hungary was now a free and independent modern state; but the very completeness and suddenness of her constitutional victory made it impossible for the strongly flowing current of political life to keep within due bounds.

This procrastinating policy played into the hands of the extremists; for supplies had not been voted, and the question of the credits for the expenditure incurred in connexion with the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, increasingly urgent, placed a powerful weapon in the hands of the Magyars, and made it certain that in the autumn the crisis would assume an even more acute form.

Linnaeus by his binomial system made it possible to write and speak with accuracy of any given species of plant or animal.

Zarlino thought differently and made it the first mode, changing all the others to accord with it.

He made it doubtless from a Pahlavi version.

While his great gift to Roman literature is that he first made it artistic, that he imparted to "rude Latium" the sense of elegance, consistency and, moderation, his gift to the world is that through him it possesses a living image of the Greek society in the 3rd century B.C., presented in the purest Latin idiom.

Queenborough Castle was built about 1361 by Edward III., who named the town after Queen Philippa and made it a free borough, with a governing body of a mayor and two bailiffs.

In 485 the Gamori, who had been expelled by the Demos and the Sicel serfs, and had taken refuge at Casmenae, craved help of Gelo, the successor of Hippocrates, who took possession of Syracuse without opposition, and made it the seat of his power.

By July 1834 he had made it safe for Don Carlos to join his headquarters.

The church of St Editha, originally founded in the 8th century, was rebuilt, after being burned by the Danes, by Edgar, who made it collegiate, but the existing Decorated building, was erected after a fire in 1345.

The name " patent plate " arose from the fact that certain patented devices originated by James Chance of Birmingham first made it possible to polish comparatively thin glass in this way.

Charlemagne made it the capital of a marquisate.

The dense population was due to the elaborate irrigation of the Babylonian plain which had originally reclaimed it from a pestiferous and uninhabitable swamp and had made it the most fertile country in the world.

The system of reckoning time by limmi was of Assyrian origin, and recent discoveries have made it clear that it went back to the first days of the monarchy.

But later, with the growing claims of the individual and the acknowledgment of these in the religious and intellectual life, both problems, and especially the latter, pressed themselves irresistibly on the notice of religious thinkers, and made it impossible for any conception of the divine rule and righteousness to gain acceptance, which did not render adequate satisfaction to the claims of both problems. To render such satisfaction was the task undertaken by apocalyptic, as well as to vindicate the righteousness of God alike in respect of the individual and of the nation.

Moreover, it cultivated this form of literature and made it the vehicle of its own ideas.

The inn was purchased in 1901 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who restored it and made it a Putnam Memorial.

The use of multiple-effect evaporation made it possible to raise the steam for all the work required to be done in a well-equipped factory, making crystals, under skilful management, by means of the bagasse alone proceeding from the.

Although the first summer hotel was built here in 1855, Bar Harbor's development as a summer resort began about 1870, after some artists had visited the place, and made it widely known through their pictures.

If the political results of the mission were nil, the value to geographical science was immense; for though no geographer himself, Sadlier's route across Arabia made it possible for the first time to locate the principal places in something like their proper relative positions; incidentally, too, it showed the practicability of a considerable body of regular troops crossing the deserts of Nejd even in the months of July and August.

It already, however, bore within it the germ of decay; the accumulation of treasure in the capital had led to a corruption of the simple manners of the earlier times; the exhaustion of the tribes through the heavy blood tax had roused discontent among them; the plundering of the holy places, the attacks on the pilgrim caravans under the escort of Turkish soldiers, and finally, in 1810, the desecration of the tomb of Mahomet and the removal of its costly treasures, raised a cry of dismay throughout the Mahommedan world, and made it clear even to the Turkish sultan that unless the Wahhabi power were crushed his claims to the caliphate were at an end.

They held in precarious subjection the hordes whom the conditions of the climate and the soil made it impossible to supplant.

The Spaniards remained at Goletta and made it a strong fortress, they also occupied the island of Jerba and some points on the south-east coast; but the interior was a prey to anarchy and civil war, until in 1570 'Ali-Pasha of Algiers utterly defeated IIamid, the son and successor of Masan, and occupied Tunis.

The Villa Munichen or Forum ad monachos, so called from the monkish owners of the ground on which it lay, was first called into prominence by Duke Henry the Lion, who established a mint here in 1158, and made it the emporium for the salt coming from Hallein and Reichenhall.

The Bavarian dukes of the Wittelsbach house occasionally resided at Munich, and in 1255 Duke Louis made it his capital, having previously surrounded it with walls and a moat.

The Normans made it the capital of the Abruzzi.

Its natural surroundings must have made it an important town from the beginning of organized society in this region.

Bagenal made it his private residence, and laid the foundations of its prosperity.

The circumstances in which it was written made it an act of heroism comparable with any that Grant ever showed as a soldier.

But the dissensions of the native Franks and the crusaders made it hopeless to continue the struggle; and Richard was alarmed by the news which reached him of John's intrigues in England and Normandy.

Hamilton was the early home of William Dean Howells, whose recollections of it are to be found in his A Boy's Town; his father's anti-slavery sentiments made it necessary for him to sell his printing office, where the son had learned to set type in his teens, and to remove to Dayton.

The sale of Tennyson's poems now made it safe for him to settle, and on the 13th of June 1850 he was married at Shiplake to Emily Sarah Sellwood (1813-1896).

Bravely defended by the Austrian general Berger until the 1st of July 1849, it was then captured by the Hungarian rebels, who made it their headquarters during the latter part of the insurrection.

The Journal litteraire (1713-1722, 1729-1736) was founded by a society of young men, who made it a rule to discuss their contributions in common.

But he knew too much of the English to suppose they would Tolerate an armed invasion, and he accordingly made it clear that he would not undertake active interference unless he received a definite invitation from leading Englishmen.

The pay of his rank was small, and his appointment on the quartermaster-general's staff made it necessary to keep two horses, so that he had to write mathematical school-books in his spare time to eke out his resources.

Olivares made it his business to acquire the most complete influence over the young prince.

But this very fact of its ever-extending influence, coupled with an absence of dogmatism in belief, which made it at all times ready and even anxious to adopt foreign customs and ideas, gave its religion a constantly shifting and broadening character, so that it is difficult to determine the original essentials.

Recent discoveries have made it practically certain that there existed, prior to the extant romances, a collection of short episodic poems, devoted to the glorification of Arthur's famous nephew and his immediate kin (his brother Ghaeris, or Gareth, and his son Guinglain), the authorship of which was attributed to a Welshman, Bleheris; fragments of this collection have been preserved to us alike in the first continuation of Chretien de Troyes Perceval, due to Wauchier de Denain, and in our vernacular Gawain poems. Among these "Bleheris" poems was one dealing with Gawain's adventures at the Grail castle,where the Grail is represented as non-Christian, and present s features strongly reminiscent of the ancient Nature mysteries.

Manning made it clear that he regarded the matter as vital, though he did not act on this conviction until no hope remained of the decision being set aside or practically annulled by joint action of the bishops.

This was Lumby's revised date, but the progress of palaeographical studies has made it possible to demonstrate that MSS.

Augustus made it the capital of Achaea; Hadrian enriched it with public works.

But fertile fields and running water made it attractive; and outsiders gradually came in.

These foreigners introduced new life into politics and the press, and made it fashionable for educated Maltese to delude themselves with the idea that the Maltese were Italians, because a few of them could speak the language of the peninsula.

To the incorporation of Mantineia into the Achaean League (233) Tegea replied by allying itself with the Aetolians, who in turn made it over to Cleomenes III.

The want of water made it impossible to maintain a large force near the city, and the brave Arabs routed the Roman cavalry.

It was perhaps impossible for him to renounce his rights, and his education, co-operating with his natural disposition, made it morally impossible for him to believe that he could be in the wrong.

Its situation at the junction of two great roads from the west of England made it an important coaching station, and some Soo coaches formerly passed through it daily.

For the book is a revelation made by God to Jesus Christ, who through His angel made it known to John for transmission to the churches.

Mill has shown that in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth the average depth of visibility of a disk in the winter half-year was 4; fathoms and in the summer half-year 62 fathoms, and, although the greater frequency of rough weather in winter might tend to obscure the effect, individual observations made it plain that the angle of the sun was the main factor in increasing the depth to which the disk remained visible.

This has made it possible to obtain many samples from moderate depths along a long line in a very short space of time.

It was natural that Francis, who from a very early age had been in the habit of writing occasionally to the newspapers, should be eager to take an active part in the discussion, though his position as a government official made it necessary that his intervention should be carefully disguised.

The pope's representative, Cardinal Cajetan, made it clear that the only safety lay in the collection of a tenth from the clergy and a twentieth from laymen; but the diet appointed a committee to consider the matter and explain why they proposed to refuse the pope's demands.

They made it clear that they still held a great part of the beliefs of the medieval Church, especially as represented in Augustine's writings, and repudiated the radical notions of the Anabaptists and of Zwingli.

This made it clear that the communion was no longer to be regarded as a propitiatory sacrifice, the names " Holy Communion " and " Lord's Supper " being definitively substituted for " Mass " (q.v.), while the word " altar " was replaced by " table."

Its population was formerly dependent wholly upon the sea, but its climate has made it a popular summer resort, Oak Bluffs being one of the chief resorts of the Atlantic coast.

The adhesion of Utrecht to the party of revolt was the work of the aristocratic party, and the critical state of affairs made it for a while dominant in the town.

In replying to the guns of Fort Elsinore no execution was done, as the long range made it impossible to lay the guns (Lloyd and Hadcock, P. 33).

The deficit in the treasury made it inevitable that the gold reserve should be used to meet current expenses.

But neither order made it sufficiently clear to Ney that co-operation at Ligny was the essential, provided that Wellington was held fast at Quatre Bras.

Einhard is said to have visited the emperor's daughter regularly and secretly, and on one occasion a fall of snow made it impossible for him to walk away without leaving footprints, which would lead to his detection.

Decision after decision of individual instances has made it a settled practice for the Federal government to co-operate with or to supplement the state governments in the gathering of statistics that may furnish a basis for state or Federal legislation.

This has made it easy for the states to the west to contribute raw materials, notably coal and iron, adding these to the natural raw products of New York.

The position of New York made it naturally one of the principal theatres of military operations during the War of Independence.

The importation of stoats and weasels, ferrets and cats has resulted in a process of extermination which has already made it necessary to set aside the islets Resolution, Kapiti and Little Barrier as sanctuaries.

The opening of the Amazon to navigation, and the subsequent arrival of foreign ocean-going vessels at Iquitos, added immensely to the importance of the city, and made it the commercial entrepot of eastern Peru.

When contact was made it completed an electric circuit which passed to a recording station, and there, by means of an electro-magnet, actuated a style writing a record on a band of travelling smoked paper.

Before 6 B.C. Augustus made it a colony, with the title Caesarea, and it became the centre of civil and military administration in south Galatia, the romanization of which was progressing rapidly in the time of Claudius, A.D.

He made it not only nationally prominent, but instrumental in shaping the course of legislative and executive action by introducing into the work of the Commission an entirely new spirit and new methods.

Riis,' to whom Mr Roosevelt made it in commenting upon his first political success in the New York legislature.

When Kdrber declined to carry through the Ausgleich with Hungary without consulting Parliament, and made it a question of confidence the young Emperor on Dec. 20 1916 lightly dismissed his best adviser.

These conditions were undoubtedly determined by the critical political situation from 1908 onward, which made it probable that, sooner or later, the Habsburg Monarchy would have to fight for its right to exist.

This factor was the rupture of communications with foreign countries, due in the earlier stages of the war to the limitation, and at one time the prohibition, of exports by neutral countries, the passing over of some of these countries to the enemy, and lastly the blockade by the enemy Powers, which increased in efficiency and made it more and more difficult to import the most essential commodities, until in the end it was almost impossible to obtain from abroad anything, needed either for the soldiers or the civilians.

The Balkan War, which broke out in the autumn of 1912, did not occasion the crisis, but it made it more acute.

The caliph `Ali made it his residence and the capital of his caliphate.

And there is at least this to be said for him that even the most zealous desire to frustrate the Arian had never made it a part of orthodoxy to speak of David as 6eoir6TCUp or of James as aS&X460eos.

In 1699 Batavia was visited by a terrible earthquake, and the streams were choked by the mud from the volcano of Gunong Salak; they overflowed the surrounding country and made it a swamp, by which the climate was so affected that the city became notorious for its unhealthiness, and was in great danger of being altogether abandoned.

The existence of monasticism made it possible at once to hold up a high moral standard before the world and to permit the ordinary Christian to be content with something lower.

Political conditions at the beginning of the middle ages favoured the Nestorian church, and the fact that the Arabs had conquered Syria, Palestine and Egypt, made it possible for her to exert an influence on the Christians in these countries.

Some provisions for reciprocity arrangements with other countries, opening the way for possible reductions of duty by treaty arrangements, were also incorporated in the act of 1897, though with limitations which made it improbable that any considerable changes would ensue from this policy.

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.

Aristippus and his followers seized upon this, and made it the prime factor in existence, denying to virtue any intrinsic value.

Rurik's successor Oleg conquered Kiev in 882 and made it the chief town of his principality.

The place belonged to various noble Bohemian families, and in the 17th century came into the hands of Wallenstein, who made it the capital of the duchy of Friedland and did much to improve and extend it.

The ignorance of the people of the north made it very difficult for Methodism to benefit from these manifestations, until the advent of the Rev. Thomas Charles (1755-1814), who, having spent five years in Somersetshire as curate of several parishes, returned to his native land to marry Sarah Jones of Bala.

Heavy fines made it impossible for preachers in poor circumstances to continue without claiming the protection of the Toleration Act, and the meeting-houses had to be registered as dissenting chapels.

Puttkammer was the chosen instrument of the Clerical Conservative policy initiated by Bismarck when the Socialist peril made it expedient to conciliate the Catholic Centre.

Aristotle, as usual, adopted "eudaemonia" as the term which in popular language most nearly represented his idea and made it the keyword of his ethical doctrine.

On the 9th of June the cavalry combat of Brandy Station made it clear to the Federal staff that Lee was about to use the Valley once more to screen an invasion of Maryland.

From time immemorial, indeed, this coast has had an evil reputation among mariners, quite apart from the pirates who for centuries made it the base of their depredations.

This system made it impossible for French immigrants to obtain land by lawful transfer.

But the events which were taking place in Europe made it imperative to send home a part of the army of Africa, and Medea had to be evacuated.

The outline of Job's story was no doubt supplied by tradition; and a later poet has developed this outline, and made it a vehicle for expressing his new thoughts respecting a great moral problem which perplexed his contemporaries.

Later accounts made it appear that this was an exaggeration, although the standard of morality was unquestionably low on the whole.

The tsar did great damage to Evelyn's beautiful gardens, and, it is said, made it one of his amusements to ride in a wheelbarrow along a thick holly hedge planted especially by the owner.

This latter route began at Inglis's Ferry, on the New river, in what is now West Virginia, and proceeded west by south to the Cumberland Gap. The " Wilderness Road," as marked by Daniel Boone in 1775, was a mere trail, running from the Watauga settlement in east Tennessee to the Cumberland Gap, and thence by way of what are now Crab Orchard, Danville and Bardstown, to the Falls of the Ohio, and was passable only for men and horses until 1795, when the state made it a wagon road.

Augustus made it a military station; Tiberius chose it as his headquarters against the Pannonian rebels; and from Septimius Severus, who made it the centre of a military government, it gained the name of Septimia Sissia.

For a brief period, in the 7th and 8th centuries, the conquering Sla y s made it one of their Zupanates, or governments; but in the 10th century it was sacked by the Magyars, and in 1092 its territories were bestowed upon the cathedral chapter of Agram by Ladislaus I., king of Hungary.

But his great qualities were overbalanced by an incurable suspiciousness, which made it impossible for him to act cordially with those about him.

Recent grail researches have made it most probable that that mysterious talisman was originally the vessel of the ritual feast held in honour of a deity of vegetation, - Adonis, or another; if the Round Table also, as Dr Mott suggests, derives from a similar source, we have a link between these two notable features of Arthurian tradition, and an additional piece of evidence in support of the view that behind the Arthur of romance there lie not only memories of an historic British chieftain, but distinct traces of a mythological and beneficent hero.

After this his ministry was marked by a zeal which made it famous.

Cases of conflict between the church and the civil power arose in Auchterarder, Dunkeld and Marnoch; and when the courts made it clear that the church, in their opinion, held its temporalities on condition of rendering such obedience as the courts required, the church appealed to the government for relief.

He made it clear from the first might prove a useful instrument for carrying out the Society's objects.

The purser, however, made it appear that he had again jumped overboard, concealed him for some days - generally inside one of the saloon sofas - and helped him to get ashore in disguise at Vera Cruz.

Farms in the more sterile parts of New Hampshire were abandoned when the depleted soil and the old methods of agriculture made it impossible for owners or tenants to compete with western farmers.

His strong personal will and inflexible opinions had much to do with the resurrection of France; but the very same facts made it inevitable that he should excite violent opposition.

In 1821 Robert Moffat arrived at Kuruman as agent of the London Missionary Society, and made it his headquarters for fifty years.

Ransomed in 1103 by the generosity of an Armenian prince, Bohemund made it his first object to attack the neighbouring Mahommedan powers in order to gain supplies.

Comprehensive researches (1905, seq.) have made it evident that Trypanosomes have a much more varied and complex development and life-history than was previously supposed.

He compelled the poetry of art to draw nearer to life and nature, extended its boundaries and made it more generally intelligible and popular.

The position of Schandau in the heart of the romantic "Saxon Switzerland" has made it a place of importance, and thousands of tourists make it their headquarters in summer.