Might-be Sentence Examples
At this point, abandoning the two fertilized eggs might be a worse sin.
This might be the most difficult decision she would ever make.
This might be the last time we see each other.
Carmen thought that might be the end of the conflict.
That might be true, but there was no point in working at becoming a spendthrift simply because he had money.
It crossed her mind that Alex might be more than uncomfortable in these surroundings.
It might be trivial, but it was an integral part of their marriage.
It wasn't something she was looking forward to, but it might be helpful.
A little memory work might be required, but anyone could count from nineteen to twenty.
She might be worrying for no reason.
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Giddon was obviously watching her, so calling on her telephone might be tipping her hand.
His hands might be soft, but he was capable of dealing with whatever came in his direction.
She had been making out with a man who might be involved in drug trafficking.
If Len was right, it might be a lifetime of hiding.
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Lisa dropped her pad and pencil on the couch and crossed the room, wondering who might be calling her on his telephone and why Yancey was screening her calls.
That might be never.
That might be true, but none of it explained his kiss.
The window was barely large enough for her to pass through, but she might be able to get out that way.
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If the driver was hurt, she might be able to help.
She might be getting over him, but the idea of running into him in town was particularly disturbing.
It might be the last trip for all of us.
Bordeaux pushed to his feet and moved away from her, careful not to make any sudden movements that might be misinterpreted.
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They might be the ones that sent the cavalry our way.
Accepting his proposal of marriage might be setting her up for a fall, but declining was surely something she would live to regret.
The inside of her legs were so sore that walking might be more comfortable.
This might be a good time to ask.
I mean, it might be hurtful for your sister to see me using your mothers' things.
If I had paid more attention to her and spent a little less time out on the range, she might be alive today.
It might be innocent to him, but it was far from that for her.
That's when it first crossed my mind that you might be the one.
Some might be that old, but to remember back then, they'd be more'n ninety.
For the first time, I felt we all sensed we might be on to something highly significant.
Betsy was hopeful she might be able to confirm where the people had lived.
Think of the good we might be doing!
We conveyed the meager information to a national tip line, fearing it might be too little too late.
It was a heart-wrenching chore, choosing which at risk victims might be saved and which ones ignored to suffer their fate.
Prying it loose and getting it to you might be a problem.
Now, through happenstance I learn of a way this heartache might be sometimes prevented.
While Howie was joyous that the kidnapper might be apprehended, he remained shaken by having watched the abduction.
We didn't let on to this guy, Jude Bryce, about the tip but he was a close neighbor and the parents suspected he might be involved so he was in our radar.
They got wind there might be someone out there in the nether world with incredible abilities they could commandeer.
She recognized tips came in all over the country; giving rise to her feeling there might be many different tipsters.
I volunteered no more information, nor did he want it, doubly so now that he might be suspected of having ties to us because of the frequent inquiries he made.
I would think if they see the connection they might be leery of taking our calls.
I'm sure answers might be forthcoming via direct and persuasive questioning.
Brennan's admonition that our tip line might be compromised was beyond being simply bothersome.
She thought you might be upset.
Another opportunity will present itself I'm sure, but not where I might be identified with my perfect house on wheels and electric bicycle.
I wondered if, with his days off, he might be hitting the bottle early.
While she was concerned about the rift in our associates' relationship, she felt Quinn and Howie getting together might produce some positive results, in spite of how acrimonious they might be to each other.
It sounds like I might be able to work something out.
Naw. He said Julie never talks about that old stuff and my guess is he doesn't want to open a can that might be messy.
We were concerned that his death might be a conduit to revealing the problem.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt Quinn, Martha and baby Claire might be gone.
I thought you might be a bit more accommodating.
Whether it was the panic in my voice or my description of the facts, Jackson was beginning to realize the seriousness of what might be happening in his jurisdiction.
While I had no direct evidence the attendees were all registered sex offenders, the way they nodded and agreed at the mention of deviant sexual behavior made me feel I might be unique among like penitents.
I thought I might be able to fix the time setting by trial and error but I was at a loss establishing a location.
My stomach knotted with the knowledge this might be our last chance.
There's a chance it might be the vehicle we're looking for.
Didn't stop to think we might be in the middle of helping when you sucked us dry?
I mean, I might be able to seal the breach I made, if it doesn't get bigger and I can borrow Damian's power.
I just don't know what it might be.
A better person to ask might be Darkyn.
You both might be interested in this.
You might be right.
That might be true.
Lori, you might be able to convince the police that you didn't intend for him to hurt anyone, physically.
Yet somewhere deep inside she feared that if he was capable of betrayal once, then he might be again.
There was no reason for him to think his father might be romantically interested in her.
In fact, if she confronted him now and then, he might be more inclined to volunteer information before she found out about it.
Still, Alex might be getting worse.
She sat up and reached for her robe, wondering who might be visiting at this time in the morning.
The battery in the lantern might be dead or the fall might have broken it.
It never occurred to her that he might be embarrassed when he found out.
There might be a thousand explanations for what she had witnessed, but only one came to mind.
She tried to assess how many there might be.
Thought you might be interested in something I found in Sean's notebook, Rourk said and rose, handing it to him.
She thought one might be Jule, but the energies faded in and out too quickly to tell.
Damian never imagined her protector might be the towering vamp before him.
They said it might be some sort of rare blood disorder.
It was busy enough; she might be able to lose him if she made it to a crowd of people.
If her Christmas gift was any indication, she thought she might be falling for the brute.
She shivered, not wanting to imagine what Darkyn was capable of or how hard it might be to outmaneuver him to leave Hell.
Deidre squeezed her eyes closed, not wanting to see Darkyn response and afraid his anger might be directed at her.
Her thoughts went to the good she might be able to do from Hell.
She had no idea if Darkyn sought her out when she was upset because he thought she might be in danger or because he was concerned about her being with her ex.
She'd never paid much attention to appliances but imagined they might be intriguing to someone who had never seen them before.
The thought that he might be gave her a modicum of confidence.
When Martha first came here, we thought I might be pregnant, remember?
Then he added, "I might be a bit too busy."
After embarrassed apologies, she seemed compelled to sit down and chat, as if idle conversation might be penance for the pilfered peach pie.
The phone rang, causing all three to jump, thinking it might be Martha.
David, six weeks ago I thought I might be pregnant!
Silly David Dean for thinking more time might be needed to put all these pesky details to rest.
Besides, it might be fun.
The couple was hoping to get on the road ahead of one or more of the feuding Dawkinses, who might be moseying to the same destination.
If the air is just let out of your tires, do you think a bicycle pump might be enough to get you running?
Me and Bertha here might be too old to drive all the way from Kansas, but we're still at home on these Jeep roads.
Dean felt as if he might be getting somewhere, at least in identifying Martha's bones.
We're just trying to find out who might be involved in covering up the matter.
Dean wondered if Fitzgerald might be a closet drunk.
It might be a firecracker.
Cynthia's admonition to be careful echoed in his ears—but someone might be down there.
He thought she might be sleeping, but her place was ablaze with lights, and she met him at the door as if expecting him.
That might be painful, considering where Mr. Dean was shot!
If it's one of them Dawkins, it might be considered jury tampering.
He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.
Dean speculated that they might be concentrating too much on Fitzgerald and the Dawkinses, and not on others who had access to the Deans' quarters.
Some hacker might be able to, or the FBI maybe.
I'm beginning to think we might be underestimating deputy Larkin.
Brandon Westlake, mournfully depressed, readied for Billy Langstrom's funeral while Dean wondered if Lydia Larkin might be involved in funeral plans of her own.
I don't even know the decade the guy died, much less who he was or who might be connected to him.
Pumpkin and some of Billy's friends thought there might be more to the young man's death than reported.
If he doesn't kill her, she might be what prevents him from building his Army of Souls.
The only thing we might be able to do is plug the holes.
He wasn't certain what might be going through her mind.
The idea Darkyn voluntarily took a bond to a human when he made a name for himself disobeying his former master … There might be a reason Darkyn hadn't explained it to his mate.
The only thing she might be able to contest was the will.
She offered to watch Destiny overnight and Alex said that might be a good idea.
They couldn't keep the foal as a stud, but she might be able to trade it for a mare when it was older.
This might be a common situation for him, but it was horrifying for her.
Considering the last person she thought might be one of his customers, the idea wasn't all that comforting.
He might never wake up, and if he did, he might be a vegetable the rest of his life.
If so, Lori might be hurt somewhere.
Alex might be alive in body, but he was no longer the man she had married.
Before she dived in too far, it might be something she should look into.
It was frustrating to work with someone who didn't try, but if it had not been for him trying to rescue her, she might be the one on that bed – or in the morgue.
At first she though exhaustion might be the cause, but when he started working longer hours, it was obvious that wasn't the case.
If you think the specialist might be able to help you, I think it would be a good idea to go.
He might be upset, but surely he would see her point.
Carmen glanced at Alex, unsure who he was talking to, or where the conversation might be going.
It might be warm.
She'd made a decision in front of him, one that warned him this might be his last chance to reveal his secret.
There might be some sort of … Gabe grabbed the new one, and the face flared to life.
She didn't want to know what kind of creatures they might be.
Possibly. It might be an early indication.
I cannot be certain what the result might be if you tried to kill yourself or if you died of unnatural causes.
It might be all that stood between the Dark One and the human world.
Distracted, Gabe began to think about how he might be able to save Deidre using the powers of Death.
But I might be able to help you.
There are strings attached to anyone raised from the dead-dead, but these are of no concern to a deity like they might be to a little human like you.
I'm thinking death might be a bit more to my liking.
Without a thought as to who might be watching, he ducked into an alley and flung himself into the air.
He thought she might be an Ancient.s mate like you.
Her breath caught as she considered more Immortals than Rhyn might be able to read her mind.
We think he might be an Ancient, but he.s so weak and his face has been so damaged, we can.t tell.
She hadn't thought to use it as a bribe; if it were gold, it might be worth something.
One of those distant suns was hers, and maybe, one of those distant suns might be Kiera's.
He sifted through memories to find who might be connected to his youngest sister.
This might be some of your best work.
I thought they might be auburn, like mine.
At the very least, perhaps they might be able to direct her to the help she so obviously needed.
Dean wondered if she might be on some kind of medication.
She might be exaggerating.
Fred suggested that one of the letters might be in error so the group continued to look at the puzzle on the basis Cynthia had first suggested.
At first they tested to see if the numbers might be the vowels but that assumption didn't seem to work out.
When Janet told him she was going to home-school Martha, Weller suggested rather firmly it might be a good idea if Martha went back to a more formal setting.
It certainly sounds as if it might be the thoughts of one of—those girls— not Mrs. Martin.
Do you suppose these are just speculations about how their life might be?
He hesitated, reluctant to return to his room, past Ryland's door from which might be expelled the naked visitor, just as he passed by.
In the next town over, the sun might be shining.
Weller turned to Dean, "I thought you might be interested in the welfare of your guests."
However, in view of the Shipton couple's unconventional estrangement, he wasn't sure what words might be appropriate.
God, I can't be sitting here considering for even a minute, my wife might be a killer!
Dean wondered if his phone might be tapped.
There was no reason for her to even think he might be involved.
When do you think you might be able to come home?
She hadn't been able to sleep, she told him, wondering what his reaction would be, if in fact she might be pregnant.
The others might be below, but Shipton would attempt the same climb where he had fallen two weeks before.
I guessed the second rope might be cut, putting Shipton in serious danger.
Once the shock wore off, rational thinking set in and he calmed down, feeling this might be an advantage.
I wasn't sure, thought it might be wishful thinking on my part.
Jackson decided to take a chance she might be there.
It might be worth it to humiliate the guy.
Of course, she might be skittish if she didn't know how secure the structure was.
Yes you do, and I might be the only man who could ruin it.
And why was Josh worried about what might be happening between Alex and Lori, anyway?
He admired Alex for his courage - and he thought Alex might be telling the truth.
Was that why she seemed so concerned that they might be having an affair?
Looks like some of them might be serious.
I can't have you spreading any contaminants you might be carrying.
I might be close, but I think you beat me.
Unfortunately, I think you might be right.
His heart quickened at the first sign of proof that Lana might be alive.
If she didn't get the Horsemen to safety, more might be lost.
And now, it might be too late to make things right.
I'm going to circle back to see what might be there. Rest for a few minutes.
But … something is off. She might be trying to fix it.
I'll take you to where she might be.
There are signs when Death is in her fortress. I might be able to see the trees in their defensive positions from here.
Toby felt almost as distraught at having to stay in the cell while his human was lost in the underworld. Not that he didn't trust Rhyn or Gabe, just that, he might be able to find her first.
Kris said nothing. Rhyn's assurances that Hannah was safe in Hell didn't sit well with him. Kris followed the half-demon without knowing where they might be headed, instead thinking of just how bad of a situation he'd left Kiki in.
The super-demon bowed his head and left. Darkyn watched him go then looked again at the hourglass. He hadn't expected Death to quit, but she was about to give him a new window of opportunity, one that might be more powerful. He might soon take over the underworld and its army of souls.
After offering his condolences, Dean asked if it might be convenient for him to come by and speak with Mrs. Byrne.
Mrs. Byrne, looking embarrassed at the confusion, suggested that she and Dean might be better off talking on the back deck.
It might be a number of days before they find him.
I just thought I might be able to help you out.
She was coping, forcing herself to acknowledge that it might be weeks, or possibly never, before her husband's body was recovered.
While the case might be officially closed, Dean felt an obligation to Randy Byrne, as well as his own curiosity, to follow up the March fourth Whitney Motel incident.
We thought it might be this Cleary fellow.
Dean felt it might be better if she talked instead of letting the silence and the upcoming events prey on her mind.
If he called the station quickly enough they might be able to run down the car.
Dean hadn't thought much about Cynthia Byrne's reaction to the ever growing possibility that her husband might be alive.
He thought it might be important, seeing as you asked the question.
Yeah, I thought that might be a problem but it's not like I don't know how to drive.
Complicating the picture was Baratto's tip to the mob—probably via Arthur Atherton—that Byrne might be involved with the missing money.
Not knowing who would show presented a chance he might be recognized but as the eavesdropper wouldn't expect him to be there, it gave him an advantage.
I kind of hoped she might be with you," and then he added, a tad self-consciously, "she's been gone all night."
Then she said, "If you believe there's a chance Jeff's alive you'd have to consider I might be a part of it."
While Fred had chatted amiably during the course of the two weeks, he confined his discussions to methods that might be used in finding and identifying Byrne, and never complained about having to remain in Parkside.
Seems to me it might be the other way around.
The afternoon was a blur as Dean's mind alternated between the task at hand and the sobering fact that he might be within miles, or perhaps yards, of Cynthia Byrne's missing husband.
Then we started hearing all this nonsense about Byrne until it got us wondering if there might be something to it, so we did a little detecting ourselves.
They must have followed you to Maid Marian Lane and thought Vinnie might be stashed there.
It might be a while before I round him up but you look pretty comfy.
If Jeff had confided in me that he'd found the money, I'd have walked him straight to the police and he might be alive today!
At times it seemed that she might be afraid of him.
Usually, he was simply Alex – as exciting as that might be.
Because if she stayed with him any longer, she might be sorry in the morning.
No, because I realize that I might be influenced by lust.
That might be true, but for some reason Alex felt he needed to protect her.
His expression indicated he might be a little annoyed.
It crossed her mind to call him, but if he was with Josh, that might be a trigger.
If they gave in now, it might be the beginning of a habit of doing so.
She explained it that way to Alex and he thought she might be grieving her virginity.
Some things, like not eating too fast or taking large bites, not talking with the mouth full, might be assumed, but it was surprising how many people did them – in public, even.
It might be something handy to know next time the church had a bake sale.
One of our customers was telling Saundra about it and she thought you might be interested.
I'm afraid Brutus might be killing deer.
I thought Brutus might be killing deer.
He said he'd get something to eat later because with the weather front coming through, there might be a lot of turbulence.
It might be a big bull calf.
Do you think it might be a colt this time?
How could she let him leave this way when it might be the last time she saw him?
Do you think Josh might be abusing Lori?
No, he didn't want to consider the possibility that he might be wrong.
It might be a good idea to get some counseling.
I thought maybe a little time here might be good for him.
And if everyone who hit their spouse landed in jail, we might be rather shocked at the percentage.
It crossed her mind that Lori might be better off.
In that instant, it occurred to her that Lori might be one of them.
The doctor said it might be caused by post-partum depression.
Jenn thought it might be.
Combined, we might be able to escape from one.
The rest of us might be hosed, though.
For once, he didn't know what Damian might be thinking.
It might be to me.
There might be others like him who want to go back to who they were.
I told them you might be by.
He might be awaiting the other kingdoms to align with him.
She turned to follow his gaze, saddened by what might be the last look at her kingdom.
Once again he was doing something that might be considered effeminate in another man, and yet he looked totally masculine.
Another child might be a bad influence.
Why hadn't it occurred to her that this might be their first experience on a horse?
That might be so, but it was still worrisome.
In fact, a young single girl might be exactly what they needed to inject more interest in the tour – and Felipa was an excellent rider.
She sounds like she might be exactly what we need.
About time she was thinking Sam might be the one she wanted to hire, Sam threw a kink into the process.
Alex might be unhappy that she hadn't asked him to help – because he was working – but he'd probably be glad to know she hadn't called Gerald.
It was impossible to say what dragons Alex might be fighting at this point.
I thought you might be ready for some company.
He'd never tried to impress his family before, but that might be his purpose at this point.
Carmen might be the only one in the room who was not surprised by his answer.
Some of the guests might be important to his future in politics and he was dressed to impress.
The little red car might be inappropriate, but it would suffice.
More likely Clara wanted to ask questions, but if she said no it might be construed as unfriendly.
How can you swim in that water when you know snakes might be lurking under the surface?
Someone might be waiting outside.
I think she might be involved in some sort of gang or something.
Xander paused to sense what might be waiting for him then whipped open the door to his bedroom and strolled out.
It struck him that she might be lying about the kids and her name to throw him off.
Xander looked at her again, a flicker of something she thought might be cunning crossing his features.
Unable to read her mind, he almost understood what might be more than one night of fun about the woman.
Until he called Jonny a teen, she'd been able to pretend it might be two different Jonnys.
Had no part of her realized how dangerous that might be?
I might be doing the world a favor.
He gave no sign of what he might be thinking.
Xander wasn't certain what Jessi might be thinking.
Only a mistake would give the Others away and might be all that stood between life and death.
The silvery moon above was bright, and she admired what she thought might be her last vision of the star-speckled night sky.
Lotze publicly and formally denied that he belonged to the school of Herbart, though he admitted that historically the same doctrine which might be considered the forerunner of Herbart's teachings might lead to his own views, viz.
Unlike Victor Hugo and Balzac, she founded ' no school, though Fromentin, Theuriet, Cherbuliez, Fabre and Bazin might be claimed as her collateral descendants.
Her nights were spent in writing, which seemed in her case a relaxation from the real business of the day, playing with her grandchildren, gardening, conversing with her visitors - it might be Balzac or Dumas, or Octave Feuillet or Matthew Arnold - or writing long letters to Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert.
The screen might be separate from the rood beam or rood loft.
It is noted for the fine boxwood grown in the vicinity, is a port of call for Black Sea coasting steamers and carries on a considerable trade with Constantinople which might be increased were it not for the obstruction of the harbour by a bar.
At the front is a large slab, sometimes carved, with a small aperture in it, through which offerings might be inserted.
Especially he had written to Pere Mesland, one of the order, to show how the Catholic doctrine of the eucharist might be made compatible with his theories of matter.
But with all these often opposed conditions, we find less variation than might be expected, the main and really important divergence being due to the necessity of transposition, which added a very high pitch to the primarily convenient low one.
The ritual books of our Pentateuch were not then in existence, and the sacrificial cult might be treated with contempt as not authoritative.
The village was founded by David Dale (1739-1806) in 1785, with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning-frame, who thought the spot might be made the Manchester of Scotland.
In the absence of literary culture the Albanian dialects, as might be expected, are widely divergent; the limits of the two principal dialects correspond with the racial boundaries of the Ghegs and Tosks, who understand each other with difficulty; the Albanians in Greece and Italy have also separate dialects.
Such a remnant, amongst whom might be members of the priestly and royal families, would gather strength and boldness as the troubles of Babylon See the note on Ps.
It was therefore natural that Haggai and Zechariah should urge the speedy building of the temple, in order that the great king might be fittingly received.
Much the same might be said of a score of cities in the new West, but none is a more striking example than Denver of marvellous growth.
Later the synod of Nimes (1572) decreed that no minister might be imposed upon an unwilling people.
It was a year in which all agriculture was remitted, in which the fields lay unsown and the vines grew unpruned, only the spontaneous yield of the land might be gathered.
These are opposite to the large estuaries of the Queensland rivers, and might be thought to have been caused by fresh water from the land.
Jack concluded that western Queensland might be a deep artesian basin.
With these might be associated the gigantic lily of Queensland (Nymphaea gigantea), the leaves of which float on water, and are quite 18 in.
All belonged to the same totem or totemic class, and might be scattered throughout the tribe, though subject to the same marriage laws.
The six colonies entering the Commonwealth were denominated original states, and new states might be admitted, or might be formed by separation from or union of two or more states or parts of states; and territories (as distinguished from Provisions states) might be taken over and governed under the legis- of the Act lative power of the Commonwealth.
Whatever crimes might be charged against Charles, his past conduct might appear to be condoned by the act of negotiating with him.
Cromwell had exhausted every expedient for arriving at an arrangement with the king by which the royal authority might be preserved, and the repeated perfidy and inexhaustible shiftiness of Charles had proved the hopelessness of such attempts.
A new foundation had to be laid on which a new system of legality might be reared.
Douglas Ogilby (Catalogue of Australian Mammals, p. 1, Sydney, 1902), but expressed the hope "that further inquiries might be made by naturalists in Australia as to the actual finding of such eggs in the burrows, so that this most interesting point might be finally settled."
In the treatment of the orchestra volumes might be written about Haydn's and Mozart's sense of fitness, as shown in Haydn's experiments and Mozart's settled methods.
In the large towns banking and commerce flourish to a degree beyond what might be expected.
Land might be let at a fixed rent when the Code enacted that accidental loss fell on the tenant.
If he appropriated or sold the implements, impoverished or sublet the cattle, he was heavily fined and in default of payment might be condemned to be torn to pieces by the cattle on the field.
The whole property of the debtor might be pledged as security for the payment of the debt, without any of it coming into the enjoyment of the creditor.
These children were free, in any case, and their mother could not be sold, though she might be pledged, and she was free on her master's death.
This might be double, treble, fourfold, fivefold, sixfold, tenfold, twelvefold, even thirtyfold,, according to the enormity of the offence.
Guarantees might be entered into to produce the witnesses on a fixed day.
The judges might be satisfied of its existence and terms by the evidence of the witnesses to it, and then issue an order that whenever found it should be given up. Contracts annulled were ordered to be broken.
Faraday's term " electrode," literally " a way (650s) for electricity to travel along," might be well applied to designate the insulated conductor along which the electric messenger is despatched.
In this manner Trowbridge showed that signalling might be carried on over considerable distances by electric conduction through the earth or water between places not metallically connected.
He also repeated the suggestion which Lindsay had already made that it might be possible to signal in this manner by conduction currents through the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Europe.
Canal system of flow lines of current through the sea, and these might be detected by any other ships furnished with two plates dipping into the sea at stem and stern, and connected by a wire having a telephone in its circuit, provided that the two plates were not placed on the same equipotential surface of the original current flow lines.
Sir William Crookes had already suggested in 1892 in the Fortnightly Review (February 1892) that such an application might be 1 Nuovo cimento, series iii.
It is obvious that this apparatus might be used either as a transmitter or as a receiver, but that the effects must under ordinary circumstances be in either case extremely feeble.
The call-wires were usually equipped with drops in order that the exchange might be called at night when the operators were not listening continuously.
As might be expected, progress has been most rapid wherever education, at the moment of national unification, was most widely diffused.
Some clue to this enigma might be found by asking a lot of questions.
Invariably a foreigner, elected for a year with power of life and death and control of the armed force, but subject to a strict account at the expiration of his office, the podest might be compared to a dictator invested with limited authority.
Yet from many points of view it might be regretted that Frederick was not suffered to rule Italy.
The period we have briefly traversed was immortalized by Dante in an epic which from one point of view might be called the poem of the Guelphs and Ghibellines.
Instead of opposing Francesco Sforza in Milan, he lent him his prestige and influence, foreseeing that the dynastic future of his own family and the pacification of Italy might be secured by a balance of power in which Florence should rank on equal terms with Milan and Naples.
While the French directory saw in that province little more than a district which might be plundered and bargained for, Bonaparte, though by no means remiss in the exaction of gold and of artistic treasures, was laying the foundation of a friendly republic. During his sojourn at the castle of Montebello or Mombello, near I\Iilan, he commissioned several of the leading men of northern Italy to draw up a project of constitution and list of reforms for that province.
Robilants opposition to a precipitate acceptance of the Austrian hint was founded upon fear lest King Humbert at Vienna might be pressed to disavow Irredentist aspirations, and upon a desire to arrange for a visit of the emperor Francis Joseph to Rome in return for King Humberts visit to Vienna.
The occupation, effected on the 5th of February, was accelerated by fear lest Italy might be forestalled by France or Russia, both of which powers were suspected of desiring to establish themselves firmly on the Red Sea and to exercise a protectorate over Abyssinia.
The deputies of the Extreme Left, instead of using their influence in favor of pacification, could think of nothing better than to demand an immediate convocation of parliament in order that they might present a bill forbidding the troops and police to use their arms in all conflicts between capital and labor, whatever the provocation might be.
He sent his wife to England, but delayed his own return in the vain hope that another appointment might be made.
It showed weakness, but it added nothing to whatever immorality there might be in successively taking two incompatible oaths.
The business of the divorce - or rather, of the legitimation of Anne Boleyn's expected issue - had now become very urgent, and in the new archbishop he had an agent who might be expected to forward it with the needful haste.
Mill boldly affirmed that there might be remote realms in space where 2+2 did not make 4 but some different total, even empiricists may hestitate to concur; and yet Mill's assertion is at least the most obvious empiricist reading of the situation.
In view of the great resemblance between Microhydra and the polyp of Limnocodium, it might be expected that the medusae to which they give origin would also be similar.
Ordinarily, the appeal from an archdeacon or his official lay to the court of the bishop; but by custom the appeal might be to the court of the metropolitan.
A clerk in like case might be suspended from office.
Long ago the view that this gas might be the source of the combined nitrogen found in different forms within the plant, was critically examined, particularly by Boussingault, and later by Lawes and Gilbert and by Pugh, and it was ascertained to be erroneous, the plants only taking nitrogen into their substance when it is presented to their roots in the form of nitrates of various metals, or compounds of ammonia.
Many instances might be given of appreciation of and response to other changes in the environment by the growing parts of plants; among them we may mention the opening and closing of flowers during the days of their expansion.
Sequoia and the tulip-tree still remain; figs are abundant; laurels are represented by Sassafras and camphor; herbaceous plants (Ranunculaceae, Cruciferae, Umbelliferae) are present, though, as might be expected, only fragmentarily preserved.
At first sight a South African Euphorbia might be mistaken for a South American Cactus, an Aloe for an A gave, a Senecio for ivy, or a New Zealand Veronica for a European Salicornia.
Thus the stream bed, from which at first the water might be blown away into a new channel by a gale of wind, ultimately grows to be the strongest line of the landscape.
To these might be added the antarctic, which is still very imperfectly known.
There is very little grey matter in the cortex of the hemispheres, the surface of which is devoid of convolutions, mostly quite smooth; in others, for instance pigeons, fowls and birds of prey, a very slight furrow might be compared with the Sylvian fissure.
It will therefore be seen from the above that next to the Nearctic area the Palaearctic has a much greater affinity to any other, a fact which might be expected from geographical considerations.
It is often difficult, if not impracticable, to draw the line between orthodox writers and heterodox; on which side, it might be asked, is Origen to be placed ?
In 1847 an altazimuth was erected, designed by Airy to enable observations of the moon to be made not only on the meridian, but whenever she might be visible.
In this mode of treating the question the order of the terms is numerical, and though the amount of labour is such as might well have deterred a younger man, yet the details were easy, and a great part of it might be entrusted to a mere computer.
Moreover, every Norman to whom he granted lands and offices held them by English law in a much truer sense than the king held his; he was deemed to step into the exact position of his English predecessor, whatever that might be.
So far as there ever was a Sicilian nation at all, it might be said to be called into being by the emperor-king Frederick II.
In Sicily, Greek, Arabic, Latin and its children were the tongues of distinct nations; French might be the politest speech, but neither Greek nor Arabic could be set down as a vulgar tongue, Arabic even less than Greek.
They gave Scotland nobles and even kings; Bruce and Balliol were both of the truest Norman descent; the true Norman descent of Comyn might be doubted, but he was of the stock of the Francigenae of the Conquest.
Both consuls might be plebeians, both could not be patricians; a patrician could not wield the great powers vested in the tribunes of the commons.
The renowned patriciate of Venice was as far removed as might be from the character either of a nobility of conquest or of a nobility of older settlement.
It was, as might be looked for, commonly filled by members of distinguished families, descendants of ancient magistrates, who were already beginning to be looked on as noble.
These families and branches of families, however noble they might be in descent, were thus shut out from all the n political privileges of nobility.
The Great Council of Venice, the curiae of Rome, were each of them the assembly of a privileged class, an assembly in which every member of that class had a right to a place, an assembly which might be called popular as far as the privileged class was concerned, though rigidly oligarchic as regarded the excluded classes.
For example, were there no reactionary peasant among the delegates, a reactionary majority might be forced to return a Social Democrat to the Duma.
In short, they became a considerable power in eastern Europe, and might be regarded as one of the claimants for the inheritance of the decrepit East Roman Empire.
There was no longer within the Russian land any independent principality in which an asylum could be found, and emigration to a principality beyond the frontier, such as Lithuania, was regarded as treason, for which the property of the fugitive would be confiscated and his family might be punished.
Having obtained these important concessions the tsar imagined for a moment that in any further territorial changes he would be consulted and his advice allowed due weight, and he seems even to have indulged in the hope that the affairs of Europe might be directed by himself and his new ally.
Napoleon, who could brook no equal, was nourishing the secret hope that his confederate might be used as a docile subordinate in the realization of his own plans, and the confederate soon came to suspect that he was being duped.
From Manchuria, it was assumed, the political influence and spontaneous infiltration would naturally spread to Korea, and on the deeply indented coast of the Hermit Kingdom might be constructed new ports and arsenals more spacious and strategically more important than Port Arthur.
Her husband died after eleven years of wedlock, leaving her childless; and, since both her brothers were now dead, she was recalled to her father's court in order that she might be recognized as his successor in England and Normandy.
In the former case (a) individual animals might be distinguished by certain marks, or (b) the whole species.
On the Congo, if a man commits a murder, the community votes whether he shall die or be expelled; if the latter, a victim is killed, of which all must partake; but this is not, as might be imagined, a case of Robertson Smith's piaculum for the re-establishment of the tribal bond; for the criminal is driven out of the community.
In Scotland, as might be supposed from the nature of the country, the wolf maintained its hold for a much longer period.
His repugnance to public life had been strongly expressed to his father in a letter of a very early date, in which he begged that the money which a seat in the House of Commons would cost might be expended in a mode more agreeable to him.
Early in 1864, when it became evident that two more Republican votes might be needed in the United States Senate for reconstruction purposes, party leaders at Washington urged the people of Nevada to adopt a constitution and enter the Union as a patriotic duty, and on the 21st of March 1864 Congress passed an act to enable the people of the Territory to form a state government.
The Spaniards were entrenched, with their heavy artillery distributed along the front, but, thanks to Navarro, they had a more mobile artillery in the shape of 200 arguebuses d croc mounted in groups upon carts, after the German fashion, and this was held ready to move wherever its services might be needed.
More usually, however, the ring might be expected not to be uniform, and, therefore, to condense in some parts more rapidly than in others.
If this factor could be discovered it might be applied to the suppression of the disease in malarious localities.
Many instances of exaggerated and apparently unnatural structure nevertheless occur, as in the case of the genera Pangonia, Nemestrina, Achias, Diopsis and the family Celyphidae, .and, as might be expected, it is chiefly in tropical species that these peculiarities are found.
It would certainly be unwise to draw a sharp boundary line between the two districts; kings of Judah could be tempted to restore the kingdom of their traditional founder, or Assyria might be complaisant towards a faithful Judaean vassal.
The destruction of Jerusalem might be regarded as an event of merely domestic importance; for the Roman cosmopolitan it was only the removal of the titular metropolis of a national and an Oriental religion.
Jason sent money for a sacrifice to Heracles at Tyre; and the only recorded opposition to his policy came from his envoys, who pleaded that the money might be applied to naval expenditure.
Literature and affairs, science and statecraft, poetry and medicine, these various expressions of human nature and activity were so harmoniously balanced that they might be found in the possession of one and the same individual.
In medieval ecclesiastical usage the term might be applied to almost any person having ecclesiastical authority; it was very commonly given to the more dignified clergy of a cathedral church, but often also to ordinary priests charged with the cure of souls and, in the early days of monasticism, to monastic superiors, even to superiors of convents of women.
But in that case it might be difficult to find a systematic philosopher who would escape the charge of mysticism; and it is better to remain by long-established and serviceable distinctions.
In the summer a great accumulation of solar heat takes place on the dry surface soil, from which it cannot be released upwards by evaporation, as might be the case were the soil moist or covered with vegetation, nor can it be readily conveyed away downwards as happens on the ocean.
This, indeed, is not surprising, when one considers that, from the first moment of his entering upon the career of an author, he had been altogether indifferent how numerous or how powerful might be the enemies he should provoke.
They have generally the lofty brow, the regular features, the spare upright figure, and the calm aspect which might be expected in a race maintained in great purity yet upon a broad basis.
Peace, he thought, might be made "if men would not call all opinions by the name of religion, and superstructures by the name of fundamental articles."
If so, it might be possible to save the lives of persons bitten by mad dogs.
He was one of the king's secret managers during the troublesome and dangerous riksdag of 1789, but advised caution and compared the estate of clergy, which at one time held the balance between the jarring orders, to ice which might be walked upon but could not be driven over.
Many other inquiries conducted by him might be mentioned, and some idea may be gained of his scientific activity from the fact that a selection only from his papers, published by the Cambridge University Press, fills three large volumes.
In the south, and in the plains, the harvest, as might be expected, commenced some weeks earlier than in the northern and mountainous districts.
The low price of agriculturalproduce, beneficial though it might be to the general community, had lessened the ability of the land to bear the proportion of taxation which had heretofore been imposed upon it.
The witan appears probably to have had no fixed place of meeting, and to have assembled around the person of the king, wherever he might be.
He ceased to attend the society in 1829, but he carried away from it the strengthening memory of failure overcome by persevering effort, and the important doctrinal conviction that a true system of political philosophy was "something much more complex and many-sided than he had previously had any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model institutions but principles from which the institutions suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced."
Viewed as a candidate for ministerial office, he might be regarded as a failure in parliament, but there can be no doubt that his career there greatly extended his influence.
If the Ricardian school of economists had been merely philosophers, or even a group like the French physiocrats, this state of things might be regarded with equanimity.
Unfortunately, from the tenable theory that the intensity of a sensation increases by definite additions of stimulus, Fechner was led on to postulate a unit of sensation, so that any sensation s might be regarded as composed of n units.
This is, as might be expected, what is found to be the case in all " reversed " Gastropods.
They might be consulted by the prefect or sub-prefect; but they had no hold over him.
Further, an alliance with the House of Habsburg might be expected to wean the Germans from all thought of gaining succour from that quarter.
There are, however, in certain respects at certain periods, evidences of such changes as might be due to the intrusion of small conquering castes, which adopted the superior civilization of the conquered people and became assimilated to the latter.
On his return, he outlined to Parliament a scheme by which the cost might be greatly reduced, mainly through the transference of authority to Arab chiefs.
As regards doctrine, the work is exhaustive; but it is diffuse, obscure, and occasionally selfcontradictory, as might be expected in a work which consists of a number of unconnected paragraphs of various authorship and date.
In 1796, on the refusal of Washington to accept another election, Adams was chosen president, defeating Thomas Jefferson; though Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists had asked that an equal vote should be cast for Adams and Thomas Pinckney, the other Federalist in the contest, partly in order that Jefferson, who was elected vice-president, might be excluded altogether, and partly, it seems, in the hope that Pinckney should in fact receive more votes than Adams, and thus, in accordance with the system then obtaining, be elected president, though he was intended for the second place on the Federalist ticket.
In front of the three masses that will form the sub-oesophageal ganglion the mass of cells that is to form the nervous system is very large, and projects on each side; this anterior or " brain " mass consists of three lobes (the prot-, deut-, and tritencephalon of Viallanes and others), each of which might be thought to represent a segmental ganglion.
Many larval Hexapods might be defined in similar general terms, unlike as they are to their parents in most points of detail.
It is probable that many of these Carboniferous insects might be referred to the Isoptera, while others would fall into the existing orders to which they are allied, with some modification of our present diagnoses.
But the allies interfered in Charles's favour, lest he might be tempted to aid France, and induced the emperor to satisfy all the Swedish king's demands, the maritime Powers at the same time agreeing to guarantee the provisions of the peace of Altranstadt.
His wife besought the gods below that he might be permitted to return to earth for the space of three hours.
Thrice Samson scoffingly told her how he might be bound, and thrice he readily broke the bonds with which she had fettered him in his sleep; seven green bow-strings, new ropes, and even the braiding of his hair into the frame of the loom failed to secure him.
At common la .w a lease for a term of years (other than a lease by a corporation) might be made by parol.
During the periods the cottons have been cultivated, selection, conscious or unconscious, has been carried on, resulting in the raising, from the same stock probably, in different places, of well-marked forms, which, in the absence of the history of their origin, might be regarded as different species.
Much buying might take place when stocks were scanty, with the result that prices would be needlessly forced up; and when stocks were plentiful demand might be weak and prices, therefore, be unduly depressed.
The first is that spinners would be performing the two functions of industrial management and cotton buying (together with others perhaps), and that in consequence the best industrial men would not necessarily be able to maintain their position in the trade because as buyers of cotton they might be unfortunate.
The difference between the highest and lowest price, we may observe, is a very imperfect indication of the range of movement (though, taken in conjunction with the standard deviation, it is the best at our disposal), because either of the extreme prices might be accidental and quite out of relation to all others.
In this table measurements of price movements stated both absolutely and as percentages of price levels are given, because authorities have expressed doubts as to whether the former or the latter might be expected to remain constant, other things being equal, when price rose.
Mr Hooker has shown with reference to the wheat market how close is the correlation between prices in different places,' and the same has been observed of the cotton market, though the Conceivably some indication of the working of " futures " might be gleaned from observation of the relations of near and distant " futures " to one another and of both to spot."
Instances might be given of its falling unintermittently.
It might be thought that the "futures" of different months, being substitutes in proportion to their temporal proximity to one another, should vary together exactly; but it would seem to be a sufficient reply that as they are not perfect substitutes they are in some slight degree independent variables.
The "spot" market might be judged generally as too high, in view of crops and the probable normal demand of the year, but it might not therefore drop immediately, owing partly to the pressure of demand that must be satisfied instantaneously.
Possibly the advantages of specialism might be retained and yet the elasticity of supply be enhanced.
Such adjustments might be made, in his opinion, by the executive on the advice of the Tariff Commission.
But new deposits are continually being exploited, and there may be others as yet unknown, which would entirely alter any view that might be expressed at the present time in regard to the probable duration of the world's supply of oil and gas.
The kingdom of Jerusalem consisted of a society of peers, in which the king might be Primus, but in which he was none the less subject to a punctilious law, regulating his position equally with that of every member of the society.
The conception of the kingdom as a fief not only subjected it to the jurisdiction of the high court; it involved the more disastrous result that the kingdom, like other fiefs, might be carried by an heiress to her husband; and the proximate causes of the collapse of the kingdom in 1187 depend on this fact and the dissensions which it occasioned.
Conrad, related by marriage to Manuel, decided in favour of the land route, which Manuel desired because it brought the Crusade more under his direction, and because, if the route by sea were followed, Roger of Sicily might be able to divert the crusading ships against Constantinople.
For, however Ghibelline might be the original intention, the result was not commensurate with the subtlety of the design, and the power of the pope was rather increased than diminished by the event of the Crusade.
Louis had been led to think that the bey of Tunis might be converted, and in that hope he resolved to begin this eighth and last of the Crusades by an expedition to Tunis.
The Crusades afforded new details which might be inserted into old matters, and a new spirit which might be infused into old subjects; and a crusading complexion thus came to be put upon old tales like those of Arthur and Charlemagne.
Since the difference between the acceleration of gravity at the pole and at the equator is about 2%, the correction for latitude will be quite sensible in an instrument which might be used at various times in high and low latitudes.
Their language, which is neither monosyllabic nor tonic, has nothing in common with that of the MonAnnam group. It has, moreover, been pointed out that had the Malays been driven southwards by the stronger races of the mainland of Asia, it might be expected that the people inhabiting the country nearest to the border between Siam and Malaya would belong to the Malayan and not to the Mon-Annam or Mon-Khmer stock.
This sulphur again was not ordinary sulphur, but some principle derived from it, which constituted the philosopher's stone or elixir - white for silver and yellow or 1 " Some traditionary knowledge might be secreted in the temples and monasteries of Egypt; much useful experience might have been acquired in the practice of arts and manufactures, but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens.
He was a powerful preacher and teacher, who broke from Calvinism in denying imputation and teaching perfect freedom of the will, by which perfect holiness might be attained.
Henry's demands were more defensible in substance than might be supposed from the manner in which he pressed them on the bishops.
Owing to the configuration of the soil, the climate of Moravia varies more than might be expected in so small an area, so that, while the vine and maize are cultivated successfully in the southern plains, the weather in the mountainous districts is somewhat rigorous.
To the Ancient Order of Hibernians none might be admitted but persons of Irish birth or descent, who were Roman Catholics, and whose parents were Roman Catholics; but notwithstanding this requirement, the organization - being a secret society - was under the ban of the Catholic Church.
The senate declared the proceedings null and void, because thunder had been heard; Saturninus replied that the senate had better remain quiet, otherwise the thunder might be followed by hail.
Priestley and many others who might be mentioned.
To him is also due a rigorous examination of the nature of elements and compounds; he held the same views that were laid down by Boyle, and with the same prophetic foresight predicted that some of the elements which he himself accepted might be eventually found to be compounds.
When, as in the formation of naphthalene tetrachloride, for example, the one ring becomes saturated, the other might be expected to assume the normal centric form and become relatively inactive.
Telramund, again, is no ordinary operatic villain; there is genuine tragedy in his moral ruin; and even the melodramatic Ortrud is a much more life-like intrigante than might be inferred from Wagner's hyperbolical stage-directions, which almost always show his manner at its worst.
The Hellenistic monarchies rested, as all government in the last resort must, upon the loyalty of those who wielded the brute force of the state, and however unlimited the powers of the king might be in theory, he could not alienate the goodwill of the army with impunity.
Or from the Persian Gulf wares might be taken up the Euphrates and carried across to Antioch; this route lay altogether in the Seleucid sphere.
The diadem could be worn round the kausia; the chlamys offered scope for gorgeous embroidery; and the boots might be crimson felt.
Yet the restorations are so many and so obvious that our contention might be taken for proven.
The study of Church history was next encouraged, and in August 1883 the pope addressed a letter to Cardinals de Luca, Pitra and HergenrOther, in which he made the remarkable concession that the Vatican archives and library might be placed at the disposal of persons qualified to compile manuals of history.
He became a full member of the state only, as in the case of foreigners, by a vote in an assembly of six thousand citizens; and even this vote might be set aside by a graphe paranomon.
Euripides, as might be expected from his humanitarian cast of sentiment, and the " premature modernism " which has been remarked in him, rises above the ordinary feelings of his time in regard to the slaves.
The union of a male and female slave had not the legal character of a marriage; it was a cohabitation (contubernium) merely, which was tolerated, and might be terminated at will, by the master; a slave was, therefore, not capable of the crime of adultery.
Conditions might be annexed by the master to the gift of freedom, as of continued residence with him, or of general service or some particular duty to be performed, or of a money payment to be made.
But in the meantime much might be done towards further mitigating the evils of slavery, especially by impressing on master and slave their relative duties and controlling their behaviour towards one another by the exercise of an independent moral authority.
He actually sent home, in 1494, above Soo Indian prisoners taken in wars with the caciques, who, he suggested, might be sold as slaves at Seville.
The question of the legal existence of slavery in Great Britain and Ireland was raised in consequence of an opinion given in 1729 by Yorke and Talbot, attorney-general and solicitor-general at the time, to the effect that a slave by coming into those countries from the West Indies did not become free, and might be compelled by his master to return to the plantations.
Washington in his will provided for the emancipation of his own his first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in his country might be abolished by law," and again he wrote that to this subject his own suffrage should never be wanting.
At the close of the first decade of the 10th century it might be said that over the greater part of Africa slave raiding was a thing of the past.
It was for some time thought that from Sierra Leone as a centre industry and civilization might be diffused amongst the nations of the continent; and in 1822 the colony (which in 1847 became the independent republic) of Liberia had been founded by Americans with a similar object; but in neither case have these expectations been adequately fulfilled.
Emmet went to Paris in October 1802, where he had an interview with Bonaparte which convinced him that the peace of Amiens would be of short duration and that a French invasion of England might be looked for in August 1803.
He maintained that the Platonic doctrine was providentially made to harmonize with Christianity, in order that by its means speculative intellects might be led to Christ.
But the material was also subject to other defects, such as moisture lurking between the layers, which might be detected by strokes of the mallet; spots or stains; and spongy strips (taeniae), in which the ink would run and spoil the sheet.
Besides, in case of the entire roll not being filled with the text, the unused and inferior sheets at the end could be better spared, and so might be cut off.
The Catacombs of Rome are the most extensive with which we are acquainted, and, as might be expected in the centre of the Christian world, are in many respects the most remarkable.
It was accepted as an unquestionable fact by every one who undertook to describe the catacombs, that the Christians of Rome, finding in the labyrinthine mazes of the exhausted arenariae, which abounded in the environs of the city, whence the sand used in building had been extracted, a suitable place for the interment of their martyred brethren, where also the sacred rites accompanying the interment might be celebrated without fear of interruption, took possession of them and used them as cemeteries.
Romanes thought that the manner of stinging and paralysing their prey might be justly deemed the most remarkable instinct in the world.
It is in and along the borders of this coast swamp region that most of the rice and much of the sugar cane 1 A sixth, less characteristic, might be included, viz.
Tobacco might be grown profitably over a large part of the state, but in reality very little is grown.
The manufacturing industries of Cuba have never been more than insignificant as compared with what they might be.
Taking all into account, the available strength of the fleet might be put at 7 armour-clad ships, of which the " Messudiyeh " was one, the six others varying in displacement from 2400 to 6400 tons; two cruisers (unarmoured) of 3800 tons displacement; some 18 gunboats; 12 destroyers, 16 first-class torpedo boats and 6 second-class torpedo boats.
As regards the first of these, it is curious to observe that the budget decree of 1880 stringently limited the peace strength of the Ottoman army to 100,000 men, " including officers and generals," in order to put a stop to the rapidly increasing military expenditure; but this was merely the expression of a pious wish, at a time when European financial good will was indispensable, that expenditure might be kept down.
In March 1897 the floating debt was calculated by a financial authority in the Fortnightly Review to amount to upwards of £TJ5,000,000, which might be compressed to £T25,000,000 since a large proportion was certainly composed of salaries in arrear and other items of a similar kind which the government would never, under any circumstances, make good.
Some of the dispossessed princes of Asia Minor had repaired to Timur and begged him to reinstate them; accordingly Timur sent to Bayezid to request that this might be done.
The arrival of the Spaniards at Constance necessitating the formation of a fifth nation, Pierre d'Ailly availed himself of the opportunity to ask either that the English nation might be merged in the German, or that each great nation might be allowed to divide itself into little groups each equivalent to the English nation.
Judging from the title of her book Dix annees d'exil, it should be put at 1804; judging from the time at which it became pretty clear that the first man in France and she who wished to be the first woman in France were not likely to get on together, it might be put several years earlier.
Any one who removed a boundary stone was accursed (sacer) and might be slain with impunity; a fine was afterwards substituted for the death penalty.
The fact of the inclusion of his statue in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; the hole cut in the temple roof so that he might be worshipped in the open air as being, like Jupiter, a god of 1 Agathocles was a native of Thermae.
We thus see that the American and the European-Asiatic elements of the flora are nearly equivalent; and if the flora of Arctic North America were better known, the number of plants common to America might be still more enlarged.5 In the south, a few goats, sheep, oxen and pigs have been introduced.
It might be expected that there should be a decrease in the Greenland seal fisheries, caused by the European and American sealers catching larger quantities every year, especially along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, and so actually diminishing the number of the animals in the Greenland seas.
So far as we know, however, no case has yet been recorded of a peach or a nectarine producing an almond, or vice versa, although if all have had a common origin such an event might be expected.
It may, however, well be that both peach and almond are derived from some pre-existing and now extinct form whose descendants have spread over the whole geographic area mentioned; but this is a mere speculation, though indirect evidence in its support might be obtained from the nectarine, of which no mention is made in ancient literature, and which, as we have seen, originates from the peach and reproduces itself by seed, thus offering the characteristics of a species in the act of developing itself.
And similar records might be multiplied almost to any extent.
Were it not for political and municipal boundaries Hamburg might be considered as forming with Altona and Ottensen (which lie within Prussian territory) one town.
It chanced to be the occasion of a pagan festival at Tara, during which no fire might be kindled until the royal fire had been lit.
A by no means unwarrantable fear of the king of Prussia, who was "to be reduced within proper limits," so that "he might be no longer a danger to the empire," induced Elizabeth to accede to the treaty of Versailles, in other words the Franco-Austrian league against Prussia, and on the 17th of May 1757 the Russian army, 85,000 strong, advanced against Konigsberg.
Many other uses of mica might be mentioned.
An innocent clerk is under no disability, as he might be by the canon law.
If Hebrew, it might be derived from the root p rr (to embrace) as an intensive term of affection.
Glanvill's first work (a passage in which suggested the theme of Matthew Arnold's Scholar Gipsy), The Vanity of Dogmatizing, or Confidence in Opinions, manifested in a Discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our Knowledge, and its Causes, with Reflexions on Peripateticism, and an Apology for Philosophy (1661), is interesting as showing one special direction in which the new method of the Cartesian philosophy might be developed.
Pascal had already shown how philosophical scepticism might be employed as a bulwark for faith, and Glanvill follows in the same track.
Thus it might be argued that there can be no logical combination of elements from Christian ethics, with its divine sanction, and purely intuitional or evolutionary ethical theories, where the sanction is essentially different in quality.
The transits of Venus observed in 1874 and 1882 might be expected to hold a leading place in the discussion.
In order to meet the objection that the phenomenon might be due to electromagnetic action between the coil and the rod, Bidwell made some experiments with iron rings, and found that the length of their diameters varied under magnetization in precisely the same manner as the length of a straight rod.
Since that date it has more than once been suggested that the molecular currents producing magnetism might be due to the revolution of one or more of the charged atoms or " ions " constituting the molecule.
In the wild schemes of Shaftesbury after the election of Tory sheriffs for London in 1682 he had no share; upon the violation of the charters, however, in 1683, he began seriously to consider as to the best means of resisting the government, and on one occasion attended a meeting at which treason, or what might be construed as treason, was talked.
Already the nations are groaning under the burdens of militarism, and are for ever diverting energies that might be employed in the furtherance of useful productive work to purposes of an opposite character.
In the 10th century the counts were permitted by the kings to divide their benefices and rights among their sons, the rule being established that countships (Grafschaften) were hereditary, that they might be held by boys, that they were heritable by females and might even be administered by females.
This region is the smallest of the chapadao divisions of the great plateau, and might be considered either a southward extension of the Sao Francisco or an eastward extension of the Parana chapadao.
Fearing lest victory, even if won, might be purchased too dearly, the Highlanders gradually withdrew.
In his famous speech in the Senate on the 12th of July 1848, on the question of establishing a government for Oregon Territory, he held that a slave should be treated by the Federal government on the same basis as any other property, and therefore that it was the duty of Congress to protect the owner's right to his slave in whatever state or territory of the Union that slave might be.
In the campaign he held, in opposition to the wishes of the more radical members of his party, that although secession might be resorted to as a last alternative the circumstances were not yet such as to justify it.