Poorer Sentence Examples

The city they entered was dirty and rank, the people poorer than any he'd ever seen.

Indeed, the more you have of such things the poorer you are.

The poorer communes are aided by a state subvention.

Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him an allowance of ten thousand rubles.

The poorer grazing lands on the upper levels of the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and Vosges, the Landes, the more outlying regions of the central plateau, southern Brittany, Sologne, Berry, ChampagnePouilleuse, the Crau and the Carnargue, these districts being given over for the most part to sheep-raising.

Akhmim has several mosques and two Coptic churches, maintains a weekly market, and manufactures cotton goods, notably the blue shirts and check shawls with silk fringes worn by the poorer classes of Egypt.

He immediately brought forward a scheme for improving the condi - tion of the poorer clergy by equalizing the incomes of the bishops, the reception of which at the time may be imagined, though it was substantially the same as that carried into effect by Lord Melbourne's government fifty years later.

To encourage the poorer classes of the people to become landholders, it was decided that the lots offered for sale should be small, and that the purchaser should be allowed to pay by five or ten yearly instalments.

The public worship endowment fund has relieved the state exchequer of the cost of public worship; has gradually furnished to the poorer parish priests an addition to their stipends, raising them to 32 per annum, with the prospect of further raising them to 40; and has contributed to the outlay incurred by the communes for religious purposes.

Insect life is perhaps poorer and less varied than in Brazil, but in the 14 orders of insects there are no less than 98 families, each including many genera and species.

He also bought up various blocks of slum dwellings and converted them into model tenements, with the object of improving the conditions of the poorer classes of Dublin.

Having won popularity by donations to poorer citizens, he took advantage of a festival of Hera, which was being celebrated outside the walls, to make himself master of the city (about 535 B.C.).

The nuts of other species of Areca are used by the poorer classes in the East as substitutes for the genuine betel nut.

The poorer classes, above all the fishermen and small farmers, are physically much finer than the wellto-do, who are prone to excessive stoutness owing to their more sedentary habits.

This latter is chiefly used by the poorer classes.

Shepherd's Bush in the east is a populous and poorer quarter.

These by laws are in practice limited to those inhabited by the poorer classes, although the act imposes no such restriction.

The "Palais Royal," with its parterre and fountains, and the spacious public park are fine pleasure-grounds, whilst in the ravines that lead down to the sea cluster the houses of the poorer classes.

To these must be added the fattening of geese for Strassburg's celebrated pâtés de foie gras, which forms a useful source of income to the poorer classes.

And when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.

It was found also that many of the poorer rectors and parish priests, and a great many chaplains and curates, were in secret association with the Lollards, so much so that in many places processions were never made and worship on saints' days was abandoned.

These foot archers almost certainly represented the poorer elements of the various levies of Hungary.

Does becoming poorer necessarily have to go hand-in-hand with becoming barbarians?

Finally the poorer clergy, neglected by their bishops, and excluded from all preferment, took part with the szlachta against their own spiritual rulers and eagerly devoured and imparted to their flocks, in their own language, the contents of the religious tracts which reached them by divers ways from Goldberg and Konigsberg.

As these richest ores are exhausted, poorer and poorer ones will be used, and the cost of iron will increase progressively if measured either in units of the actual energy used in mining and smelting it, or in its power of purchasing animal and vegetable products, cotton, wool, corn, &c., the supply of which is renewable and indeed capable of very great increase, but probably not if measured in its power of purchasing the various mineral products, e.g.

Some of the poorer sorts of furs, such as hamster, marmot, Chinese goats and lambs, Tatar ponies, weasels, kaluga, various monkeys, antelopes, foxes, otters, jackals and others from the warmer zones, which until recently were neglected on account of their inferior quality of colour, by the better class of the trade, are now being deftly dressed or dyed in Europe and America, and good effects are produced, although the lack of quality when compared with the better furs from colder climates which possess full top hair, close underwool and supple leathers, is readily manifest.

All the waters of India - the sea, the rivers and the tanks - swarm with a great variety of fishes, which are caught in every conceivable way, and furnish a considerable proportion of the food of the poorer classes.

The church was served in a nobler manner in 1704 by the abandonment of first-fruits and tenths by the queen for the purpose of raising the pittances of the poorer Union clergy (see QUEEN ANNES BouNTY).

But I have not killed anyone or taken anything that was not mine, but have only helped my poorer brothers.

He came out poorer than he went in, but satisfied with the outcome.

The FP (Virtue Party) despite making a poorer than expected showing in the polls, does have a female deputy.

This leads to price-fixing, with politicians siphoning off profits and leaving farmers and miners all the poorer.

Moab was evidently as poor as Judah and poorer than Israel, for few relics have been found there, beside the famous stele.

The hardware of the digital superhighway -- optical fiber -- is n't due to arrive in many poorer parts of the country for years.

Thoroughgoing policy changes by Government in every area of public policy have affected community life and often disproportionately the poorer people across our country.

This is typified by the growth in the number of American-style gated communities, where the better-off are comfortably isolated from their poorer neighbors.

Youngsters from poorer backgrounds (boys, especially) can buckle to peer group pressure and develop negative attitudes to learning early on.

Poorer people could buy the plain yellow tulips that are still familiar to many gardeners, while rich people could buy flowers such as the Semper Augustus, which sported red flames and was sold for exorbitant prices.

However, modeling school graduates are rarely seen by the industry pros that matter, and most find themselves in the same place they started, only thousands of dollars poorer.

This will help you take high-resolution photos instead poorer quality low resolution ones.

Buying girls' wholesale party dresses was the goal of many poorer people in cities who needed to get a good dress for their daughters that would work as well for First Communion, Easter or other religious or secular dressy occasions.

This was an advantage because it meant that a poorer neighborhood had a selection of shops that suited smaller budgets.

It can also give poorer students more time to prove themselves so that they may get into better schools or be offered larger scholarships.

Poorer quality paints will require two or more coats to get the same job done, quickly racking up both time and money.

The poorer wore cheaper grades of wool which were coarse and rough.

This is a great way to get more organic food into the hands of poorer people when there is a local market nearby.

The best brain age you can achieve is 20, with higher ages signifying poorer performance.

And if they had to commit to the trailer, gamers might end up getting poorer games because last-minute improvements would be impossible.

From characters to storylines, what you do in your faction affects if your city becomes wealthier and industrious or poorer and less popular.

There are no hard and fast rules, but some people have found that Samsung phones can sometimes have poorer connectivity than phones that come from Nokia and Motorola.

If surgery is performed before the infant is two months old, success is much more likely, while after three months of age, the success rate is much poorer.

Acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) has a poorer prognosis rate than acute lymphocytic leukemias (ALL) and the chronic leukemias.

In general, children whose lungs or kidneys are affected have poorer outcomes.

Researchers and policymakers have attributed the poorer health of minority Americans in part to their reduced access to medical care and the lower quality of primary care they receive.

People with Tourette syndrome who have other symptoms such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, and self-injurious behavior usually have a poorer prognosis.

In general, the younger the child at diagnosis and the more organs involved, the poorer the outlook.

Children with semiconsciousness, persistent diarrhea, jaundice, or low blood sodium levels have a poorer prognosis.

However, infants with Erb's palsy that involves C7 as well as C5 and C6 have a poorer prognosis.

Children afflicted with schizophrenia have a poorer prognosis than that of adults.

However, some low income families may be at higher risk due to poorer access to proper prenatal care and advanced medical services.

However, by junior and senior high school, retained students tend to have more behavior problems, more difficulties with peer relationships, lower self-esteem, and poorer attendance.

The prognosis is poorer if the cancer has spread beyond the eye (extraocular).

School-aged children who are abused typically have problems academically and have poorer grades and performance on standardized achievement tests.

Vitamin A deficiency, common throughout the poorer parts of the world, causes night blindness.

Lazy eye is a common non-medical term used to describe amblyopia because the eye with poorer vision does not seem to be doing its job of seeing.

Infants who develop polio or persistent viral infections, however, have a poorer prognosis.

In a 1999 two-year follow-up study of adolescents hospitalized for manic episodes, patients who had ongoing drug or alcohol abuse problems had more manic episodes and poorer functioning than those patients who were not substance abusers.

Children with Chiari II malformation have a much poorer prognosis than those with Type I malformation.

Children with Chiari II malformation have a much poorer prognosis than those with Type I malformation and will usually be quite ill.

Patients with certain symptoms, including semiconsciousness, persistent diarrhea, jaundice, and low blood sodium levels, have a poorer prognosis than other patients.

Teenagers from poorer families have a higher risk of becoming pregnant.

Likewise, a poorer towel will not be very absorbent, and if you're swimming in anything other than blazing hot weather, it won't dry you off as quickly as you'd like.

The Romans were very serious about their bathing rituals and even poorer residents had access to baths.

Members of the public tend to be suspicious of fuzzy numbers, poor accounting, and equally poorer accountability.

The Young and the Restless originally focused on the wealthy Brooks family and the poorer Foster family.

They can be uncomfortable more than not, as a poorer quality belt can slide down to the hips and dig in or constrict movement.

She was born and raised in the same area where she now patrols, which is where the poorer folks in the city reside.

Rom works at the bar and has a much poorer sense of business than his brother, who frequently docks Rom's pay or cheats him out of latinum.

Their uniforms were made from a poorer quality and were done in cotton, which was plentiful in the South.

The new and better residence sections are on the western side; the poorer districts are on the eastern side nearer the swampy shores of Lake Texcoco.

The difference in level between the city and the lake being less than six feet and the lake having no natural outlet, typhus fever became a common epidemic in its lower and poorer sections.

Normal and industrial schools for both sexes are maintained, the latter (artes y oficios) performing a very important service for the poorer classes.

A secondary object of the cleruchies was social or agrarian, to provide a source of livelihood to the poorer Athenians.

Beyond the Jewish quarter, in the Ribat-el-Soweika, is the Place el Halfa-Ouine, a favourite rendezvous of the poorer Moslem population, wherein are many native cafés.

Stephen van Rensselaer, the proprietor of Rensselaerwyck, had suffered the rents, especially those of his poorer tenants, to fall much in arrears, and when after his death (1839) the agents of his heirs attempted to collect them they encountered violent opposition.

With its principle of Christian brotherhood, its emphasis upon the equality of all believers in the sight of God, and its preaching of a new social order to be set up at the return of Christ, it appealed strongly to multitudes, particularly of the poorer classes.

Fabius Rullianus limited the landless and poorer freedmen to the four urban tribes, thus annulling the effect of Claudius's.

The common cockle is regularly used as food by the poorer classes.

The rural teachers, however, have been paid from the state fund, so that the poorer districts receive aid from the richer districts of the commonwealth.

But this effect of participation in the bread and cup was not in Paul's opinion automatic, was no mere o, ', us operatum; it depended on the ethical co-operation of the believer, who must not eat and drink unworthily, that is, after refusing to share his meats with the poorer brethren, or with any other guilt in his soul.

It does not yield so much oil as the "winter" kind, but it will grow on soil in poorer condition.

Although Governor Brown represented the poorer class of white citizens he had taken a course in law at Yale College, had practised law, and at the time of his election was judge of a superior court; although he had never held slaves he believed that the abolition of slavery would soon result in the ruin of the South, and he was a man of strong convictions.

Johnson began in politics to oppose the aristocratic element .and became the spokesman and champion of the poorer and labouring classes.

In Congress he proved to be a tireless advocate of the claims of the poorer whites and an opponent of the aristocracy.

Various sections of the poorer part of the city are occupied almost exclusively by the immigrants from Poland, Hungary and Italy.

Gracchus had proposed to distribute allotments to the poorer citizens subject to a state rent-charge; Drusus promised them free of all charge, and further that they should be inalienable.

Except in the case of a select few, Irving's preaching awakened little interest among the congregation of Chalmers, Chalmers himself, with no partiality for its bravuras and flourishes, comparing it to "Italian music, appreciated only by connoisseurs"; but as a missionary among the poorer classes he wielded an influence that was altogether unique.

The native dwellings are constructed of wood, or occasionally are huts thatched with grass at the sides and top. What little cooking is undertaken among the poorer natives is usually done outside.

The West was much poorer in relics than the East.

To these we find nothing analogous in the other kingdoms, though the poorer classes of Welsh freemen had wergilds varying from r 20 to 60 shillings.

It appears, therefore, that if the poorer classes of the community have the discretion to avoid the lowest qualities they may obtain very good value in serviceable goods.

He repeated this experiment three times; but each time he found that they all returned to their former condition, the rich becoming still richer and the poor still poorer.

Owing to the prevalent dry easterly winds from the arid plains of north Australia, Timor, like Ombay, Flores and other neighbouring islands, has a much drier climate, and a poorer vegetation, than islands further west, and has few perennial streams and no considerable rivers.

Thus, if the use of ores very much poorer than those we now treat, and the need of concentrating them mechanically, were to double the cost of a pound of iron in the concentrated ore ready for smelting, that would increase the cost of rails by only one quarter.

Hence the addition to the cost of finished steel objects which is due to our being forced to use progressively poorer and poorer ores is likely to be much less than the addition due to the progressive rise in the cost of coal and in the cost of labour, because of the ever-rising scale of living.

Fur is longer and weaker and poorer and yellower than chinchilla.

The farther south they are found, the poorer and coarser the fur.

Those taken in central Asia near or in Chinese territory are poorer and yellowish.

The poorer qualities are extensively bought and made up in a similar way for Austria-Hungary and Germany.

A smaller and poorer species inhabits South America, and a very few are found in the north of India, but these do not interest the European trade.

These are similar to the Amur skins previously referred to, but of much poorer quality and generally only suitable for linings.

The Beguines did not beg; and, when the endowments of the community were not sufficient, the poorer members had to support themselves by manual work, sick-nursing and the like.

A year later, however, Antipater banished some 12,000 of the poorer citizens, and Epicurus joined his father, who was now living at Colophon.

Leprosy is common, especially in the inland towns; while ophthalmia is prevalent in the north, especially among the poorer classes, who are compelled to expose themselves to the blinding dust from the deserts and the excessive glare of the sun reflected from the burning sand.

The shea-butter tree supplies an excellent oil for lamps, and also for cooking, though it is only used by the poorer classes.

While the houses of the poorer classes are mean and too often dirty, in marked contrast are the houses of the wealthier citizens, built generally in a style of elaborate arabesque, the windows shaded with projecting cornices of graceful woodwork (mushrebiya) and ornamented with stained glass.

The poorer classes cannot fully observe the harem system, but the women are in general carefully veiled.

The XXVIth Dynasty is often looked on as a renaissance; but when we compare similar work we see that it was poorer than the XXIInd, as that was poorer than the XIXth.

He was continually engaged in theological controversy, and, by his advocacy of all efforts to promote the social, moral, and religious amelioration of the poorer classes and his chivalrous courage in defending those whom he held to be unjustly denounced, undoubtedly incurred much and grow- ing odium in influential circles.

The old town is the upper or northern part, and is inhabited by the poorer classes, its streets being badly paved, crooked, undrained, dirty and pestilential.

From one cause or another, principally Ottilie von Goethe's extravagance, the family was in very straitened circumstances; and the brothers, being thoroughly unbusinesslike, believed themselves to be poorer than they really were.

The sustenance of the poorer classes is chiefly composed of fish, potatoes and gofio, which is merely Indian corn or wheat roasted, ground and kneaded with water or milk.

The kharrub (carob) is common and yields a fruit eaten by the poorer classes.

The state also makes annual grants directly to owners who are willing to place their plantations under state supervision, for the sale of plants at half price to the poorer peasantry, for making protective or sheltering plantations, and for free transport of marl or loam.

The poorer houses are built of brick with plaster fronts.

The spiked millet, known as bajra or cumbu, which yields a poorer food, is grown on dry sandy soil in the Deccan and the Punjab.

Gram is largely eaten by the poorer classes, but it is also used as horse-food.

Among the poorer classes it is called pacholi.

The government edifices, large retail shops and most of the fine urban residences are in the ciudad nueva, while most of the urban industries, the railway stations and the dwellings of the poorer classes are in the ciudad novisima.

Tamarinds overhang the huts of the poorer classes, while the seat of a wealthy family may be recognized by clumps of bamboo.

These poorer people - who were not, however, "poor whites" - developed an abiding hostility towards the oligarchy.

Either fresh or salted they form an important article of diet of the poorer people.

In every part of the country many of the ministers were miserably poor; there were many stipends, even of important parishes, not exceeding £40 a year; and it was not till after many debates in the assembly and appeals to the government that an act was obtained in 1810 which made up the poorer livings to £150 a year by a grant from the public exchequer.

That great philanthropist had come to see that the church could only reach the masses of the people effectively by greatly increasing the number of her places of worship and abolishing or minimizing seat-rents in the poorer districts.

The linen manufacture by degrees ceased to be a domestic industry, and began to centre in and become the characteristic factory employment of special localities, which depended, however, for their supply of raw material primarily on the operations of small growers, working, for the most part, on the poorer districts of remote thinly populated countries.

At the present day, the poorer Jews in large English cities make a great consumption Iv.

The dry method, or ordinary smelting, cannot be profitably practised with ores containing less than 4% of copper, for which and for still poorer ores the wet process is preferred.

Nothing is being done to improve the vine, and the Persian wines, until recently of world-wide reputation, are yearly getting thinner and poorer.

From reign to reign the portraits grow poorer and more stereotyped, and the inscriptions more neglected, till it becomes obvious that the engraver himself no longer understood Greek but copied mechanically the signs before his eyes, as is the case with the contemporary Indo-Scythian coinage, and also in Mesene.

An excessive copper coinage during the past three or four years had caused much distress among the poorer classes since the beginning of the year, and the small trade was almost paralysed.

In grammatical forms it is still poorer than Middle New Persian; except English, no Indo-European language Persian.

The ten mosques and madrasas of Yarkand, although poorer than those of Bokhara or Samarkand, enjoy wide renown in the Moslem world.

At the lower elevations rice, maize and millets are common, wheat and barley at a somewhat higher level, and buckwheat and amaranth usually on the poorer lands, or those recently reclaimed from forest.

Having finally settled the diocese, he was permitted, as had been previously stipulated by himself, to return to his former diocese, or rather to the smaller and poorer portion of it, the bishopric of Down.

This quarter has wide airy streets and lofty houses, and though perhaps the houses were let at prices which were beyond the purses of the lowest class, the result of their erection was to cause a number of the poorer houses in the old town to be vacated, thus giving an opportunity to the lowest class to be at any rate better housed than they were before.

Both cultivation and manufacture have been carried on in the old time way, by the rudest of methods, and the principal product is a coarse brown sugar, called panela, universally used by the poorer classes as an article of food and for making a popular beverage.

In 1534 the annates were, along with the supremacy over the church in England, bestowed on the crown; but in February 1704 they were appropriated by Queen Anne to the assistance of the poorer clergy, and thus form what has since been known as "Queen Anne's Bounty".

The Hague has grown very largely in modern times, especially on its western side, which is situated on the higher and more sandy soil, the south-eastern half of the town comprising the poorer and the business quarters.

More than one-third of the district lies under jungle, which yields gum, medicinal fruit and nuts, edible fruits, lac, honey and the blossoms of the mahuci tree (Bassia latifolia), which are eaten by the poorer classes, and used for the manufacture of a kind of spirit.

Pericles had introduced the practice of giving a small bounty from the treasury to the poorer citizens, for the purpose of enabling them to attend the theatre at the great festivals, - in other words, for the purpose of bringing them under the concentrated influence of the best Attic culture.

In 1696 and 1697 he presented memorials to the king suggesting that the firstfruits and tenths raised by the clergy should be devoted to the augmentation of the poorer livings, and though his suggestions were not immediately accepted, they were carried into effect under Queen Anne by the provision known as Queen Anne's Bounty.

This is probably due to two causes - the emigration of the poorer classes who subsisted on that form of food, and the gradual introduction of a more varied dietary.

The poorer servile classes or cottiers, wood-cutters, swine-herds, &c., who had a right of domicile (acquired after three generations), lived here and there in small hamlets on the mountains and poorer lands of the estate.

The land-tax was doubled and trebled by war, by the pensions of the nobles, by an extortion the profits of which Richelieu disdained neither for himself nor for his family; and just when the richer and more powerful classes had been freed from taxes, causing the wholesale oppression of the poorer, these few remaining were jointly and severally answerable.

He strengthened his hold on the poorer classes by his measure for trebling the pay of the jurymen, which provided the poorer Athenians with an easy means of livelihood.

Jobst paid very little attention to Brandenburg, and the period was used by many of the noble families to enrich themselves at the expense of the poorer and weaker towns, to plunder traders, and to carry on feuds with neighbouring princes.

Quite apart from the usual summer holiday apathy, poorer economic news is affecting sentiment.

There is no doubt that the poorer classes in our country are much more charitably disposed than their superiors in wealth.

Yesterday's masses were overwhelmingly the poorer - and historically downtrodden - Shia, who form 40% of the population.

Where there are special concessions made by rich countries to poorer ones, these are usually little more than short-term expedients.

Comment Men with more severe symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia had poorer health status.

The crowd footage was generally poorer due to the dim studio lighting.

African-Americans may have an increased risk of developing a myositis and poorer outcomes compared to Caucasians.

It can hit poorer areas worse, similarly it can lead to growth in area which is already overheating.

Conversely poorer weeks can be transformed by a sudden downpour a couple of days earlier upstream, into a veritable Paradise.

Either we have poorer pensioners, relative to national income.

Most BBC and ITV regions are available, although the regions with horizontal polarization tend to give poorer reception than regions with vertical polarization.

The hardware of the digital superhighway -- optical fiber -- isn't due to arrive in many poorer parts of the country for years.

It may be that poorer people could only afford to buy the coarse wares.

The safety of feeling poorer weaker the investment accounts.

In the first period (Italic) cremation burials closely approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second 1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and situlae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th centilry B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.

Collier deprecated the extent of the authority assumed by the patron and the servility of the poorer clergy.

This law provided for the establishment of a commission of ten, empowered to purchase land in Italy for distribution amongst the poorer citizens and for the foundation of colonies.

The practice is confined to poorer types of land, such as heaths covered with furze and bracken or fens and clay areas smothered with rank grasses and sedges.

Severed nerves, particularly avulsion injuries in which the nerve is severed at the root, have poorer prognoses.

Meantime much evil arises from usury in the poorer districts.

The public buildings include the cathedral (1760), the government palace, the municipal palace, the episcopal palace, the church of Santa Ana, a national theatre, a school of arts and trades, a foreign hospital, the former administration building of the Canal Company, Santo Tomas Hospital, the pesthouse of Punta Mala and various asylums. The houses are mostly of stone, with red tile roofs, two or three storeys high, built in the Spanish style around central patios, or courts, and with balconies projecting far over the narrow streets; in such houses the lowest floor is often rented to a poorer family.

Trade and other gilds in antiquity held subscription suppers or g pavot, similar to those of the early Corinthian church, usually to support the needs of the poorer members.

Thither he attracted the poorer classes by the simplicity of his life and teaching.

Among the tombs many of the poorer under the Empire were simply formed of amphorae, in which the body was placed.

Though Jason had fled, it was necessary to storm the city; the drastic measures which Menelaus advised seem to indicate that the poorer classes had been roused to defend the Temple from further sacrilege.

Shortly before this date the palaces both of Cnossus and Phaestus had undergone a great destruction, and though during the ensuing period both these royal residences were partially reoccupied it was for the most part at any rate by poorer denizens, and their great days as palaces were over for ever.

It seems obvious that the lighter and poorer soils would benefit more than the heavier or richer soils by the extended growth of leguminous crops.

The poorer grades are employed in the manufacture of soap, candles and phonograph records.

As regards the cultivation of the soil Syria remains stable; but the soil is becoming relatively poorer, the value of the imports constantly gaining upon that of the exports.

In the latter are grown wheat and other spring crops, while the lighter kinds of rice and the hill millets are all that the poorer land can bear.

In the case of poorer interments the destruction of the body was, on the contrary, often accelerated by the use of quicklime.

The Bahamas are far poorer in their fauna than in their flora.

The period between the downfall of Roman power, late in the 5th century, and the growth of a Bosnian state, in the i ith, is poorer in antiquities.

He did much for education and for the poorer clergy, and endowed the library of the gymnasium with 6000 volumes.

Far poorer are the slopes of Parnon, consisting for the most part of barren limestone uplands scantily watered.

The ancient royal tenants became the feudatories of the great nobles, and fell naturally into two classes, the nobiles bene possessionati, and the nobiles unius sessionis, in other words the richer and the poorer gentry.

But attendance at the diet was regarded by the bulk of the poorer deputies as an intolerable burden, and they frequently agreed to grant the taxes for two or three years in advance, so as to be saved the expense 1 Some of these were of gigantic size, e.g.

In 1870 a hospice for poorer pilgrims was erected.

The discontent of the rural labourers and of the poorer class of craftsmen in the towns, caused by the economic distress that followed the Black Death and the enactment of the Statute of Labourers in 1351, was brought to a head by the imposition of a poll tax in 1379 and again in 1381, and at the end of May in the latter year riots broke out at Brentwood in Essex; on the 4th of June similar violence occurred at Dartford; and on the 6th a mob several thousands strong seized the castle of Rochester and marched up the Medway to Maidstone.

The Bolivian tin ore is treated by first extracting the silver by amalgamation, &c., and afterwards concentrating the residues; there are, however, considerable difficulties in the way of treating the poorer of these very complex ores, and several chemical processes for extracting their metallic contents have been worked out.

Slippers (irepauKai) were adopted from the East by women; shoes (E e13a&ES) were worn by the poorer classes.

His wars in Sicily and Africa left him time to do something for the relief of the poorer citizens at the expense of the rich, as well as to erect new fortifications and public buildings; and under his strong government Syracuse seems to have been at least quiet and orderly.

Cutch-boiling forms the chief means of livelihood of a large number of the poorer classes in the Prome and Thayetmyo districts of Lower Burma, and a subsidiary means of subsistence elsewhere.

As trade and intercourse diminished Konia grew poorer and more ruinous.

The western slope of Lebanon has the common characteristics of the flora of the Mediterranean coast, but the Anti-Lebanon belongs to the poorer region of the steppes, and the Mediterranean species are met with only sporadically along the water-courses.

All benefices except those under the clear annual value of £50 pay their first fruits (one year's profits) and tenths (of yearly profits) to Queen Anne's Bounty for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poorer clergy.

As it is a staple food with the poorer classes, the deficiency is made up through importation.

Due to poorer visibility and unstable snow next day we went skiing.

If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be poorer than the poorest beggar.

And as soon as the enemy drew near the wealthy classes went away abandoning their property, while the poorer remained and burned and destroyed what was left.