Quite Sentence Examples

It is quite near the park gate.

You're growing into quite the young lady.

He was getting to be quite a handsome young man.

But she didn't feel quite ready yet.

I must have made quite a spectacle.

That didn't come out quite right.

There was a barber shop and I could see a calendar on the wall but I couldn't quite read it.

I quite agree with you!

It was quite impossible to understand these sounds.

I am considered quite unusual.

It didn't quite work out as he planned.

Neighbors are quite close by.

There were clothes in the dresser, not quite her size but not too far off.

Heavy brush had totally obscured the entrance until someone had quite recently cut and pulled away the branches, exposing the opening.

It wasn't quite morning when he returned her to the extra bed in Jonny's room.

Now there was life and light in his eyes, even if he wasn't quite the man Jule remembered.

Also, my hat is quite empty.

It is quite a romance.

They were curious and thought she was quite a spectacle.

His dark gaze was steady, his body rippling with the power she couldn't quite pin down.

He'd likely be away with Jule for quite a while.

And I was quite sure they would be accepted as props.

I assure you I know quite enough.

She'd never done anything quite so disobedient—so stupid.

This was quite correct.

Quite young, I grieve to say; and all of my brothers and sisters that you see here are practically my own age.

At that time I eagerly absorbed everything I read without a thought of authorship, and even now I cannot be quite sure of the boundary line between my ideas and those I find in books.

As I see it you were quite right, and I told Natasha so.

Quite a few, and they're pulling in everyone from the east coast to Miami and Orlando.

He was quite an old little man and his head was long and entirely bald.

Edward could spell nearly all the words in his primer, and he could read quite well.

And you may even—reasonably, optimistically—think it to be quite likely.

I do not understand quite what that means.

But we shall not be quite separated; we shall see each other every day, I hope.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen.

Pierre pushed his way into the middle of the group, listened, and convinced himself that the man was indeed a liberal, but of views quite different from his own.

While this Greenbriar Road property is not quite so inviting, a spring lock on a back door was no serious test.

He'd fulfilled his end of the bargain and crossed quite a few things off her bucket list last night.

The Wizard carried his satchel, which was quite heavy, and Zeb carried the two lanterns and the oil can.

We've been in the dark quite a while, and you may as well explain what has happened.

Mr. Jefferson's, beautiful, pathetic representation quite carried me away with delight.

So you may imagine that we look quite like peacocks, only we've no trains....

But fortunately for us both, I am a little stronger, and quite as obstinate when I set out.

And Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, became quite pleasant again.

She was never quite sure how to respond to Martha's candor though the two continued to be best of friends.

From what Fred says after snooping on the Internet, Mr. Westlake is quite wealthy.

I was sorely perplexed, and felt quite discouraged, and wasted much precious time, especially in Algebra.

He must have made quite an impression on little eighteen-year-old Jennifer.

This is quite a turn around, isn't it?

His mother smiled, for she felt quite sure that there was no danger.

His older brothers were quite willing that he should go to sea.

He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could read quite well.

He lay quite still till the animal was very near.

He seemed to feel quite well and strong.

I did not know then what she was doing, for I was quite ignorant of all things.

The aurists then tried their experiments with quite different results.

This is like the effect of the slow dwelling on long words, not quite well managed, that one notices in a child who is telling a solemn story.

The clothing was obviously quite old and now that it was out of its container, reeked of dampness and dirt.

In heels, she stood as tall as Jackson and they made quite a pair.

I could not quite convince myself that there was much world left, for I regarded Boston as the beginning and the end of creation.

She said that Maud was born deaf and lost her sight when she was only three months old, and that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite helpless.

At last they reached a great forest, and, being quite tired, they decided to rest awhile and look for nuts before going any further.

Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me.

No. I'm quite, quite all right.

Adraksin was in uniform, and whether as a result of the uniform or from some other cause Pierre saw before him quite a different man.

Natalie is quite well again now, isn't she?

That is quite a gene pool you two have.

He didn't quite understand why she needed that.

I'm told I'm quite tasty.

He's quite a man, and he just saved my life.

She's quite a woman.

When the reception was over we went back to the hotel and teacher slept quite unconscious of the surprise which was in store for her.

It was one thing to tell herself everything was resolved, but quite another to thoroughly accept something she had always considered wrong.

She was quite for a moment, thoughtful.

He didn't need his people to see someone quite so … unusual.

He wasn't quite ready for sleep so he wandered back to the parlor, sat in the back corner and picked up a biking magazine.

Yes. It's quite tender.

Corday rose, and asked, not quite casually enough.

Donald Ryland, although I haven't quite figured why.

Jackson was quite familiar with it.

Yes, and you better not embarrass them when they come down, or you and I won't be making noise for quite some time.

In fact it will be quite pleasant for you.

Oregon. That's quite a commute.

Elisabeth tells me you are quite an accomplished musician.

He was quite the man with flowery statements, but did they mean anything?

She's quite a looker, isn't she?

That's one fine woman back there and quite a looker.

He's working out to be quite a find.

We're quite a family, Darian said.

She'd never seen a man quite like he who stood before her.

He's quite a warrior, he said.

He's had quite a bad day.

It must have been quite an ordeal for both of you … all three of you.

It's quite another to do so only because they are the current trend.

It was one thing to love and protect, but quite another to blindly accept total domination.

This must have been quite an ordeal for her.

Yet it made sense on a level that she didn't quite understand.

Briggs also used decimals, but in a form not quite so convenient as Napier.

Tail not quite so long as the body, and covered with short hairs.

Broom believes Thylacoleo to have been "a purely carnivorous animal, and one which would be quite able to, and probably did, kill animals as large or larger than itself."

Some writers place it north of the Temple on the site afterwards occupied by the fortress of Antonia, but such a position is not in accord with the descriptions either in Josephus or in the books of the Maccabees, which are quite consistent with each other.

Other writers again have placed the Acra on the eastern side of the hill upon which the church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands, but as this point was probably quite outside the city at the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and is at too great a distance from the Temple, it can hardly be accepted.

Other evidence allows us to link together the Kenites, Calebites and Danites in a tradition of some movement into Palestine, evidently quite distinct from the great invasion of Israelite tribes which predominates in the existing records.

This result created a great sensation, and proved that Transatlantic electric wave telegraphy was quite feasible and not inhibited by distance, or by the earth's curvature even over an arc of a great circle 3000 m.

But from another source we gain quite a different idea of the relations.

The form of the work was fatal to its success, and the subsequent Exegetisches Handbuch rendered it quite superfluous.

Some of his recommendations are quite unsuitable to the state of the country, and display more of general knowledge and good intention than of either the theory or practice of agriculture.

It must have been quite an exciting time to be alive.

The overall economic output of the planet, GWP (gross world product), will rise dramatically in the years to come, but its distribution will be quite skewed.

So while such an attack and its aftermath would not derail our eventual arrival at the next golden age, it quite possibly would delay it.

Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with low neck and short sleeves and quite a train?

She gropes her way without much certainty in rooms where she is quite familiar.

It made me laugh quite hard, for I know my father is Arthur Keller.

I also discuss the political situation with my dear father, and we decide the most perplexing questions quite as satisfactorily to ourselves as if I could see and hear.

Some were red, some white, and others pale pink, and they were just peeping out of the green leaves, as rosy-faced children peep out from their warm beds in wintertime before they are quite willing to get up.

I think the expedition is quite feasible.

It is quite light.

Doesn't quite seem real yet, though.

I couldn't quite place it, but it was sweet and yummy.

Mayer said, "And quite a lady."

There hasn't been any mail for quite awhile but the rent is still paid—for anoth­er two months.

Inside, a white-jacketed attendant, who looked like a high­schooler, casually checked Dean's credentials while Cynthia wait­ed, not quite out of ear shot.

Gently laying Cynthia on his bed, he tried to revive her but it was obvious she would be in the land of dreams for quite some time.

Courting a widow was one thing, but harboring a nagging feeling she might not be widowed was quite another matter.

Quite frankly, he was never sure he could trust her.

Actually, he had been contemplating her gift for quite a while before she took him to the mountain.

I need Darian alive, in case the plan to rule the mortal world doesn't quite work out for me.

She heard his words but couldn't quite digest that Darian would knowingly destroy any world.

She hadn't quite yet surrendered to her fate at his side; this much he sensed.

She didn't expect her life to change quite so fast or to be accepted into the White God's family with such ease.

Claire appeared pleased, and he couldn't quite get over just how unconcerned she was with what she'd done to him.

Alex was quite a treasure and she was proud of him, but the truth was, this was the first time she had been in charge of anything so detailed and she wanted his support.

I never thought of it quite that way, but you have a point.

His attempts at braiding her dark hair the way she liked it had ended up in a series of knots, because he didn't quite understand how to do it and his man-sized fingers were too clumsy.

He was stronger than she was, had been for quite some time.

We can't quite figure out what.

Her eyes flickered to Jessi, who couldn't quite read the expression on her face.

Or maybe she was right, and he was avoiding the obvious, because he couldn't quite handle the thought of being vulnerable to anyone.

Quite another, when you have to deal with it, Xander replied.

It was quite another to realize the weapon was him and the gem was merely the key to access it.

But, in attempting to make this conception quite clear and thinkable, we are forced to represent the connexion of things as a universal substance, the essence of which we conceive as a system of laws which underlies everything and in its own self connects everything, but imperceptible, and known to us merely through the impressions it produces on us, which we call things.

If 127 parts of iodine, which is an almost black solid, and loo parts of mercury, which is a white liquid metal, be intimately mixed by rubbing them together in a mortar, the two substances wholly disappear, and we obtain instead a brilliant red powder quite unlike the iodine or the mercury; almost the only property that is unchanged is the weight.

Two chlorides of copper are known, one a highly coloured substance, the other quite white.

Verres may not have been quite so black as he is painted by Cicero, on whose speeches we depend entirely for our knowledge of him, but there can hardly be a doubt that he stood pre-eminent among the worst specimens of Roman provincial governors.

It is of course quite possible that isolated cases of officers being put to death for their faith occurred during Maximinian's reign, and on some such cases the legend may have grown up during the century and a half between Maximinian and Eucherius.

Liebig and Pasteur were in agreement on the point that fermentation is intimately connected with the presence of yeast in the fermenting liquid, but their explanations concerning the mechanism of fermentation were quite opposed.

She cut off her hair and sent it to Musset as a token of penitence, but Musset, though he still flirted with her, never quite forgave her infidelity and refused to admit her to his deathbed.

The phenomenon was quite common between 9.30 A.M.

Wilson considers that convection currents in the upper atmosphere would be quite inadequate, but conduction may, he thinks, be sufficient alone.

This sort of knowledge stands quite apart from that produced by "theoretic" and "disinterested" judgments.

Strasburg was French territory in 1713, but Silbermann's organ is not quite a whole tone below.

The theological views of these teachers proved quite incompatible with the Arminianism of Wesley, and a definite breach between them and him took place in 1770.

In one sense tt may be said to stand to theological literature in Scotland in something of the same position as that occupied by the Canon Mirificus with respect to the scientific literature, for it is the first published original work relating to theological interpretation, and is quite without a predecessor in its own field.

But this certainly was not the leading point of view with the mass of the Rabbins; 1 and at any rate it is quite certain that the synagogue is a post-exilic institution, and therefore that the Sabbath in old Israel must have been entirely different from the Sabbath of the Scribes.

It is quite possible that shabattum and nubattum are from the same root and originally denoted much the same thing - a pause, abstention, from whatever cause or for ceremonial purposes.

It is quite consistent with the evidence to suppose that a seven-day week was in use in Babylonia, but each item may be explained differently, and a definite proof does not exist.

Ritchie, " that, in the various dialogues in which Plato speaks of immortality, the arguments seem to be of different kinds, and most of them quite unconnected with one another.

The history of Rhodes during the Persian wars is quite obscure.

A great plain, covering quite 500,000 sq.

Naked crags, when they do appear, lift themselves from a sea of green, and a tropical vegetation, quite Malaysian in character, covers everything.

The absence of active volcanoes in Australia is a state of things, in a geological sense, quite new to the continent.

In some instances the cones are quite intact, and the beds of ash and scoriae are as yet almost unaffected by denuding agencies.

With these might be associated the gigantic lily of Queensland (Nymphaea gigantea), the leaves of which float on water, and are quite 18 in.

Although the financial operations of the Commonwealth and the states are quite distinct, a statement of the total revenue of the Australian Commonwealth and states is not without interest as showing the weight of taxation and the different sources from which revenue is obtained.

On the Gascoyne river, too, were seen natives of an olive colour, quite good-looking; and in the neighbourhood of Sydney rock-carvings have been also found.

His account of the country was quite as unfavourable as Pelsaert's.

Stansfeld was vigorously defended by Bright and Forster, and his explanation was accepted as quite satisfactory by Palmerston.

He was quite aware that the industrial wealth of the great Flemish communes was financially the mainstay of his power, but their very prosperity made them the chief obstacle to his schemes of unifying into a solid dominion the loose aggregate of states over which he was the ruler.

The ruffed grouse (or "partridge") is the most common of game birds, but woodcock, ducks and geese are quite common.

On the higher elevations it is generally stony and sterile, but in the valleys and on many of the lower hills, where it consists largely of clay and sand, it is quite productive.

The alternate leaves are more or less deeply sinuated or cut in many species, but in some of the deciduous and many of the evergreen kinds are nearly or quite entire on the margin.

The wood is hard, heavy and of fine grain, quite equal to the best British oak for indoor use, but of very variable durability where exposed to weather.

In Britain the evergreen oak is quite hardy in ordinary winters, and is useful to the ornamental planter from its capacity for resisting the sea gales; but it generally remains of small size.

From its rugged silvery bark and dark-green foliage, it is a handsome tree, quite hardy in Cornwall and Devonshire, where it has grown to a large size.

The south-moving currents originating from melting ice are probably quite shallow.

The new ship canal from Zeebrugge will not revive the ancient port, as it follows a different route, leaving Damme and Ecluse quite untouched.

Marsollier's longer life, in two volumes (1700), is quite untrustworthy; still more so that by Loyau d 'Amboise (1833), which is rather a romance than a biography.

It was quite small by the time of Eusebius.

Already Mozart divides his violas into two parts quite as often as he makes them play with the basses.

But both are quite right.

Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.

This slip is then passed through a transmitter fitted with brush contacts and connected to the two line wires of a metallic loop. One circuit is formed by the loop itself, and a second, quite independent, by the two wires in parallel, earthed at each end.

These springs are so adjusted that they are not quite able to release the armature.

This method of communication by magnetic induction through space establishes, therefore, a second method of wireless telegraphy which is quite independent of and different from that due to conduction through earth or water.

The magnetic and electric forces are directed alternately in one direction and the other, and at distances which are called multiples of a wave length the force is in the same direction at the same time, but in the case of damped waves h.as not quite the same intensity.

The metal is quite permanent in dry air, but in moist air it becomes coated with a superficial layer of the oxide; it burns on heating to redness, forming a brown coloured oxide; and is readily soluble in mineral acids with formation of the corresponding salts.

The box was filled nearly, but not quite full, of granulated hard carbon.

The eucalyptus is of quite modern introduction; it has been extensively planted in malarious districts.

The houses in Uzhitse are quite unlike those of more prosperous Servian towns, being tall, narrow structures of timber, frequently blackened by the damp. Pop. (1900) about 7000.

Although many plants typical of fresh water are able to grow also in brackish water, there are only a few species which appear to be quite confined to the latter habitats in this country.

For instance, the animal traps of carnivorous plants (Drosera, Nepenihes, &c.) did not, presumably, originate as such; they began as organs of quite another kind which became adapted to their present function in consequence of animals having been accidentally caught.

In endeavouring to trace the causation of adaptation, it is obvious that it must be due quite as much to properties inherent in the plant as to the action of external conditions; the plant must possess adaptive capacity.

Three-quarters of the native species are endemic; they seem, however, to be quite unable to resist the invasion of new-comers, and already 600 plants of foreign origin have succeeded in establishing themselves.

The coins demonstrate that Hellenism had become quite extinct in Persis, while the old historical and mythical traditions and the Zoroastrian religion were supreme.

The phosphate thus produced forms an efficacious turnip manure, and is quite equal in value to that produced from any other source.

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.

Their function is not quite clear.

Attempts to derive the anacromyodian and the katacromyodian from the diacromyodian condition are easy on paper, but quite hopeless when hampered by the knowledge of anatomical facts and how to use them.

The third or outermost chamber, the proctodaeum, is closed externally by the sphincter ani; the orifice is quite circular.

It is, of course, quite impossible, in a survey of extinct birds, to divide them into those which are bona fide fossil, sub-fossil, recently extirpated and partially exterminated.

His keenly logical intellect, and his impatience of authority where it clashed with his own convictions, quite unfitted him for that unquestioning obedience which the Church demanded.

Thus it is quite in accordance with the outlook of the classical period that Plato in his Laws (909-910) should prohibit all possession of private shrines or performance of private rites; "let a man go to a temple to pray, and let any one who pleases join with him in the prayer."

Their religion was pagan, being quite distinct from Buddhism; but in Assam they gradually became Hinduized, and their kings finally adopted Hindu names and titles.

By far the larger part of the valley is quite uncultivated, and much of it is occupied by tamarisk jungles, the home of countless wild pigs.

Here the river turns quite sharply eastward.

Twentysix miles farther down lies the town of Deir, where the river divides into two channels and the river valley opens out into quite extensive plains.

With the acquisition of the Suez Canal, moreover, the value of this route from the British standpoint was so greatly diminished that the scheme, so far as England was concerned, was quite abandoned.

But in Sicily we see the quite different phenomenon of three, four, five classes of men living side by side, each keeping its own nationality and speaking its own tongue.

Patricians and plebeians went on as orders defined by law, till the distinction died out in the confusion of things under the empire, till at last the word "patrician" took quite a new meaning.

And, as the old distinction survived in law and religion after all substantial privileges were abolished, so presently a new distinction arose of which law and religion knew nothing, but which became in practice nearly as marked and quite as important as the older one.

The case is again often misunderstood because the words "patrician" and "plebeian," like so many other technical Roman and Greek words, have come in modern language to be used in a way quite unlike their original sense.

The Athenian eb rarpl8at, who were thus gradually brought down from their privileged position, seem to have been quite as proud and exclusive as the Roman patricians; but when they lost their privileges they lost them far more thoroughly, and they did not, as at Rome, practically hand on many of them to a new nobility, of which they formed part, though not the whole.

When one branch of a family was admitted and one shut out we have an analogy to the patrician and plebeian Claudii, though the distinction had come about in quite another way.

In not a few of the Italian cities nobility had an origin and ran a course quite unlike the origin and the course which were its lot at Venice.

But in the more strictly crown, even if of quite humble origin, are "commanded" to court functions with their husbands.

The birds of Liberia are not quite so peculiar as the mammals.

Intolerant reliance upon force presents greater difficulties to them; soon it grows quite obsolete.

And the inner mind of Butler has moral anchorage in the Analogy, quite as much as in the Sermons.

It is, indeed, quite incalculable.

This, however, is quite erroneous.

Quite commonly the burrow has a second passage running obliquely upwards from the main passage to the surface of the soil, and this subsidiary track may itself be shut off from the main branch by an inner door, so that when an enemy has forced an entrance through the main door, the spider retreats behind the second, leaving the intruder to explore the seemingly empty burrow.

This, the longest of his works, added much to existing knowledge, especially as to the relations between England and the continent, but it lacked something of the freshness of his earlier books; he was over seventy when it was completed, and he was never quite at home in dealing with the parliamentary foundations of English public life.

This effort to shelve the dispute was quite in vain.

It is not found in a wild state and the auffalo (bos caffer) is almost if not quite extinct in the Transvaal.

The fog lay unbroken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light.

Peronskaya was quite ready.

On grounds of policy and morality alike the act was quite indefensible; but it is perhaps some palliation of his perjury that it was committed to satisfy the last urgent wish of a dying man, and that he alone remained true to the nine days' queen when the others who had with him signed Edward's device deserted her.

That is a task quite beyond what is generally recognized as Natural Theology.

It can never quite confine attention to the problem of the being of God.

Of course the cosmological argument is rarely or never left to stand quite alone.

Quite a different view of necessity is the moral necessity pointed to by Kant's " Practical Reason."

Realist make him almost if not quite intuitionalist; while there is also an idealist reading possible.

On the present occasion it was evidently regarded as quite a formal and introductory matter, and the same remark applies to the general grant of liberties to all freemen and their heirs, with which the chapter concludes.

Not only does the rainfall at one place vary from year to year, but there is an extraordinary difference in the returns for places quite close to one another.

They are black, with woolly hair, and in their eyes and countenances there is something quite frightful ....

Of their massacres of shipwrecked crews, even in quite modern times, there is no doubt, but the policy of conciliation unremittingly pursued for the last forty years has now secured a friendly reception for shipwrecked crews at any port of the islands except the south and west of Little Andaman and North Sentinel Island.

The process carrying the otolith outer side of a or concretion hk, formed by endoderm cells, is tentacle, two enclosed by an upgrowth forming the " vesicle," nerves run round which is not yet quite closed in at the top. the base of the (After Hertwig.) tentacle to it.

Normally the medusae are liberated in quite an immature state; they swim away, feed, grow and become adult mature el individuals.

On the 26th of December 1076 Boleslaus encircled his own brows with the royal diadem, a striking proof that the Polish kings did not even yet consider their title quite secure.

With this use of the word, philologically inexact, but historically quite defensible, may be compared the use of the word English, which is not exactly the language of the Angles, or of the word French, which is not exactly the language of the Franks.

The construction of the wooden external dome, and the support of the stone lantern by an inner cone of brickwork, quite independent of either the external or internal dome, are wonderful examples of his, constructive ingenuity.

The layers below have progressively fewer of these, the central cells being quite colorless.

The branches may be quite free or they may be united laterally to form a solid body of more or less firm and compact consistency.

In the majority of ferns, at a higher level, after the stele has increased greatly in diameter, a large-celled true pith or medulla, resembling the cortex in its characters, and quite distinct from conjunctive, from which it is separated by an internal endodernlis, appears in the centre.

The protoxylem of each is a leaftrace, while the metaxylem consisting of a right and a left portion forms a quite distinct cauline system.

These collateral bundles are separated from one another by bands of conjunctive tissues called primary medullary rays, which may be quite narrow or of considerable width.

In other cases a most intricate arrangement of secondary tissue masses is produced, quite impossible to interpret unless all stages of their development have been followed.

In nearly all plants which produce secondary vascular tissues by means of a cambium there is another layer of secondary meristem arising externally to, but in quite the same fashion as, Ph II

This explanation is unsatisfactory from many points of view, but till quite recently no acceptable alternative has been advanced.

While they are quite capable of taking up nitrates from the soil where and so long as these are present, they can grow and thrive in soil which contains no combined nitrogen at all, deriving their supplies of this element in these cases from the air.

As the tube grows down the hair it maintains its own independence, and does not fuse with the contents of the root-hair, whose protoplasm remains quite distinct and separate.

It is not quite certain whether a true pepsin exists in plants, but many trypsins have been discovered, and one form of erepsin, at least, is very widespread.

If we consider a leaf of the common fern we find that in its young condition it is closely rolled up, the upper or ventral surface being quite concealed.

The effects of frost and of sunburn are frequently quite local.

The picturesque Bureya Mountains above the Amur, the forest-clad Sikhota-alin on the Pacific, and the volcanic chains of Kamchatka belong, however, to quite another orographical construction, being the border-ridges of the terraces by which the great plateau formation descends to the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

The peasants, as already stated, form a class apart, untouched by the influence of Western civilization, the principles of which they are quite incapable of understanding or appreci.

Vast areas in Russia are quite unfit for cultivation, 19% of the aggregate surface of European Russia (apart from Poland and Finland) being occupied by lakes, marshes, sand, &c., 39% by forests, 16% by prairies, and only 26% being under cultivation.

The sable has quite disappeared, being found only on the Urals; the beaver may be trapped at a few places in Minsk, and the otter is very rare.

Any idea of proselytism is quite foreign to the ordinary Russian mind, and the outbursts of proselytizing zeal occasionally manifested by the clergy are really due to the desire for " Russification," and traceable to the influence of the higher clergy and of the government.

The amount of iron and steel produced in the Urals is not quite 20% of the total in all European Russia and Poland.

It is quite possible, as some apologists suggest, that the number of his victims may have been exaggerated, but that they are to be counted by thousands there can be no doubt.

In the expected war with Poland, which followed quickly, the Russians were so successful that the arrangement was upheld; but it was soon found that the Cossacks, though they professed unbounded devotion to the Orthodox tsar, disliked Muscovite, quite as much as Polish, interference in their internal affairs, and some of their leaders were in favour of substituting federation with Poland for annexation by Russia.

As these acts of terrorism had quite the opposite of the desired effect, repeated attempts were made on the life of the emperor, and at last the carefully laid plans of the conspirators were successful.

No other remains have been found round them, though it seems improbable that they stood quite alone and unprotected.

Of this character are the expenditures necessary for maintenance of way, for general administration and for interest on capital borrowed, which are almost independent of the total amount of business done, and quite independent of any individual piece of business.

If, however, they are not published, and are given to certain persons as individual favours, they become a prolific source of abuse, and are quite indefensible from the standpoint of political economy.

Unless it be quite short, it can scarcely ever be planned simply to connect its two terminal points, without regard to the intervening country; in order to be of the greatest utility and to secure the greatest.

Many mountains are quite without perennial streams, and some lack even springs.

It is quite clear that many provisions in the old codes of J and E expanded lie at the basis of the book of Deuteronomy.

In these illustrations, which gave an impluse to the production of "enblems" and were copied in the English version, there appears a humour quite absent from the text.

Here there is no splendour; everything is quite plain; and one hall contains all that is sacred in the building.

The biblical name Kittim, derived from Citium, is in fact used quite generally for Cyprus as a whole; 3 later also for Greeks and Romans in general.

Harbour and citadel have now quite disappeared, the latter having been used to fill up the former shortly after the British occupation; some gain to health resulted, but an irreparable loss to science.

He soon learned to call to his aid the subsidiary sciences of geography and chronology, and before he was quite capable of reading them had already attempted to weigh in his childish balance the competing systems of Scaliger and Petavius, of Marsham and Newton.

He adds, what is not quite clear from one who so frankly acknowledges his limited acquaintance with the science, that he had reason to congratulate himself that he knew no more.

In any case the association of Poseidon, representing the fertilizing element of moisture, with Demeter, who causes the plants and seeds to grow, is quite natural, and seems to have been widespread.

The summit is flat and quite bare of vegetation, but the panorama in every direction is extremely grand.

There is no difficulty in conceiving how a nebula, quite independently of any internal motion of its parts, shall also have had as a whole a movement of rotation.

There is quite a different method of considering the nebular origin of our system, which leads in a very striking manner to conclusions practically identical with those we have just sketched.

It is no longer possible to distinguish clearly the Greek and Roman elements in this curious cult, though it is itself quite intelligible as that of an Earth-goddess with mysteries attached.

The city of Rome is an example of what can be done by drainage; situated in the midst of malaria, it is itself quite healthy.

Suarez endeavoured to reconcile this view with the more orthodox doctrines of the efficacy of grace and special election, maintaining that, though all share in an absolutely sufficient grace, there is granted to the elect a grace which is so adapted to their peculiar dispositions and circumstances that they infallibly, though at the same time quite freely, yield themselves to its influence.

Yet the idea of the "Northern Accord," though never quite realized, had important political consequences and influenced the policy of Russia for many years.

The critical examination of the nature and growth of this compilation has removed much that had formerly caused insuperable difficulties and had quite unnecessarily been made an integral or a relevant part of practical religion.

At all events, two quite distinct views seem to underlie the opening books of the Old Testament.

The commercial activity of the king and the picture of intercourse and wealth are quite in accordance with what is known of the ancient monarchies, and could already be illustrated from the Amarna age.

It is taken, strangely enough, from an Israelite source, but the tone of the whole is quite dispassionate and objective.

But many of the laws were quite unsuitable for the circumstances of his age, and the belief that a body of intricate and even contradictory legislation was imposed suddenly upon a people newly emerged from bondage in Egypt raises insurmountable objections, and underestimates the fact that legal usage existed in the earliest stages of society, and therefore in pre-Mosaic times.

But the destruction of Jerusalem is not quite unique, and somewhat later we meet with indirect evidence for at least one similar disaster upon which the records are silent.

Unfortunately the internal conditions in the 6th century B.C. can be only indirectly estimated (§ 18), and the political position must remain for the present quite uncertain.

No alternative hypothesis prevails, mere desultory criticism of the internal intricacies being quite inadequate.

But it is quite clear that Vitellius was concerned to reconcile the Jews to the authority of Rome.

They have exercised an influence over distant neighbours, especially in Fiji, quite out of proportion to their numbers.

Holmes (Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, 1899), who comes to the conclusion that "when the Reman delegates told Caesar that the Belgae were descended from the Germans, they probably only meant that the ancestors of the Belgic conquerors had formerly dwelt in Germany, and this is equally true of the ancestors of the Gauls who gave their name to the Celtae; but, on the other hand, it is quite possible that in the veins of some of the Belgae flowed the blood of genuine German forefathers."

The most valuable species for lumber are the long-leaf pine which is predominant in the low southern third of the state, sometimes called the "cow-country"; the short-leaf pine, found farther north; the white oak, quite widely distributed; cotton-wood and red gum, found chiefly on the rich alluvial lands; and the cypress, found chiefly in the marshes of the Delta.

Eckhart was a distinguished son of the Church; E but in reading his works we feel at once that we have passed into quite a different sphere of thought from that of the churchly mystics; we seem to leave the cloister behind and to breathe a freer atmosphere.

The lower levels are in climate and cultivation quite similar to the regions in the same latitude on the Malay peninsula.

The musk deer (Moschus) is also quite restricted to northern Asia, and is one of its most peculiar types.

But the case is quite different if one looks at the two continents as a whole, for improvement in means of communication has brought about strange vicissitudes, and western Europe has asserted her power in middle and eastern Asia.

Although quite thin, the Ludlow Bone Bed can be followed from that town into Gloucestershire for a distance of 45 m.

Thus it was quite in keeping with the romantic attachment between David and Saul's son Jonathan that when he became king of Israel he took Jonathan's son Meribbaal under his care (ix.).

But the exact meaning which he attaches to such expressions is not quite clear; and they occur, moreover, only incidentally and with the air of current phrases mechanically repeated.

The aqueduct was constructed in quite recent times, rain-water having previously given the only supply.

The prostomium overhangs the mouth, and is often of considerable size and, as a rule, quite distinct from the segment following, being A„ f s / 6/ ' A B I.

Quite independent of these are certain large dorsally situate funnel-like folds of the coelomic epithelium, ciliated, but of which no duct has been discovered leading to the exterior.

Quite recently, another mode of budding has been described in Trypanosyllis gemmipara, where a crowd of some fifty buds arising symmetrically are produced at the tail end of the worm.

It is not quite certain whether these are to be regarded as the remnant of an earlier excretory system, replaced among the Oligochaeta by the subsequently developed paired structures, or whether these "head kidneys" are the first pair of nephridia precociously developed.

In the middle of the body, where the limits of the somites can be checked by a comparison with the arrangement of the nephridia and the gonads, and where the ganglia are quite distinct and separated by long connectives, each ganglion is seen to consist of six masses of cells enclosed by capsules and to give off three nerves on each side.

The history of Cyrus very soon became involved and quite overgrown with legends.

These serve to fix the chronology, which is here as everywhere quite in accordance with the dates of the canon of Ptolemy.

The famous story of Herodotus, that the conqueror condemned Croesus to the stake, from which he was saved by the intervention of the gods, is quite inconsistent with the Persian religion.

In its earlier history the sect opposed voting or taking any active part in political affairs, but these restrictions have quite generally disappeared.

This, according to the manner of speaking of that day, is the meaning of his words ante conversionem meam, though it is quite possible that he may at the same time have renounced the Arian creed of his forefathers, which it is clear that he no longer held when he wrote his Gothic history.

It was, however, one thing to experiment on dogs, and quite another to do so on human beings.

The Armenian highlands, which run generally parallel to the Caucasus, though at much lower elevations (5000-6000 ft.), are a plateau region, sometimes quite flat, sometimes gently undulating, clothed with luxuriant meadows and mostly cultivable.

Although the Ingushes speak a Chechen dialect, they have recently been proved to be, anthropologically, quite a distinct race.

The annual average value maybe put at not quite £2,000,000, machinery and tin-plate being a long way the most important items. There is further a small transit trade through Transcaucasia from Persia to the value of less than half a million sterling annually, and chiefly in carpets, cocoons and silk, wool, rice and boxwood; and further a sea-borne trade between Persia and Caucasian.

But he employed Nordin quite differently from his episcopal colleague Olaf Wallqvist.

The appearance of the tree - the bark, the foliage, the flowers - is, however, usually quite characteristic in the two species.