Step Sentence Examples
She took a quick step back.
She faced the speaker and took a step back.
The men looked at him and pressed to the bank, hesitating to step onto the ice.
Better communication is a huge step toward peace.
Every bite you eat, every step you take.
His horse snorted and took a step back.
I turned on the light, calmed her down and slowly explained step by step what Julie had told me.
She took a step back, overwhelmed by the scene before her.
She took a step back.
Slowly, one little step at a time, it crept up across the rough place where it had slipped and fallen so often.
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Her step was too long, making contact with his foot.
She gasped and took a step backward.
Recognizing the town would be a step in the right direction but it wouldn't tell you the scene you saw actually happened, back in 1932.
He winced and then took a determined step in her direction.
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She took a step closer, waiting for him to back down.
Marriage is a big step.
Just step inside and make believe that you are Dean Swift.
From the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps, the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maidservant saying, Straight, straight, along the path, Miss.
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The man had taken a step or two across the glass roof before he noticed the presence of the strangers; but then he stopped abruptly.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
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This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way.
Daniel rose a little, took a step, and with his whole weight, as if lying down to rest, fell on the wolf, seizing her by the ears.
Anisya Fedorovna, with her light step, willingly went to fulfill her errand and brought back the guitar.
The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.
Kindly step in, my orders are to bring you in.
Each step of the retreat was accompanied by a complicated interplay of interests, arguments, and passions at headquarters.
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily.
For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued.
Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information.
There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.
Not only does it occur at every step, but the universal historians' accounts are all made up of a chain of such contradictions.
The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history.
The path became more indistinct with each step, eventually coming to an end in dense underbrush.
Westlake twisted around the seat once more and after a struggle pulled out an old step pump.
No one had a suggestion for the next step, but Fred was determined to continue to research the ownership of the severed digit.
Joseph thinks he's a big corporate executive but he's really only half a step above a clerk.
Dean was seated on the step of a rescue vehicle when Lydia was pulled up to the road.
Lydia Larkin moved a step forward.
We'd better watch our step, and not give him any excuse to harass us further.
The Deans continued, a step at a time.
What did he do to those who hadn't taken that final step but probably would soon?
They'd taken a step together towards their future by talking openly on topics he never thought he'd be able to bring up.
Deidre took the first step down the path of their future when she told him her secrets.
For the first time this week, he realized that he, too, wanted to take the next step.
He took a step and was back in the hallway.
Gabe's step slowed as he neared the man dressed in a white shirt held closed by two buttons and cream linen pants rolled to his knees, as if he'd been walking in the ocean.
When did she step into the Twilight Zone?
She took an involuntary step back into the hall.
If you don't return… Toby shuddered, and Ully's step quickened.
The fact being established that magnetism is essentially a molecular phenomenon, the next step is to inquire what is the constitution of a magnetic molecule, and why it is that some molecules are ferromagnetic, others paramagnetic, and others again diamagnetic. The best known of the explanations that have been proposed depend upon the magnetic action of an electric current.
The advisors of the Princess did not like this test; but she commanded them to step into the flame and one by one they did so, and were scorched so badly that the air was soon filled with an odor like that of baked potatoes.
But at length they came unexpectedly upon a huge rock that shut off the passage and blocked them from proceeding a single step farther.
But take it a step further.
When you reach a step you do not understand, do you not start reading out loud really slowly?
Helen has taken the second great step in her education.
The Apsheron men, excited by the Tsar's presence, passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk pace.
To be in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make use of whatever interest he had to offer.
The Emperor said a few words to him and took a step toward his horse.
Things are nice as it is, she said to herself, and she began walking up and down the room, not stepping simply on the resounding parquet but treading with each step from the heel to the toe (she had on a new and favorite pair of shoes) and listening to the regular tap of the heel and creak of the toe as gladly as she had to the sounds of her own voice.
Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety.
While waiting for the young man to take his place on the step Rostopchin stood frowning and rubbing his face with his hand.
He had the courage to step forward and take chances, and the ability to persuade others to follow.
Alex took a step forward and she turned away from him, throwing her arms around Carmen.
Alex took another step forward, reaching for her and she tried to climb Carmen.
No one will fault you for taking that one step further and cleaning house, Dr. Wynn said with a faint smile.
Gabe took a step back.
Wired energy made him edgy and his step quick.
What appeared to be red wine was squeezed out of the bath mat at the weight of her step.
Maybe this was the push she needed to take that final step, the one that'd take her out of this world completely.
His step slowed as he saw her leaning against the wall, gazing into the darkness.
Not hesitating to hand over the compass, she appeared torn at taking the final step of betrayal.
She did a few more breathing exercises until she felt ready to step outside her room to face the new world.
She missed a step.
Whatever step towards him she seemed to take this day, she'd leapt back about twenty.
Gabriel's step through the shadow world slowed.
Stunned, Deidre took a step back.
Her step grew less brisk.
Her step slowed as she neared a booth with an assortment of kitchen décor.
You've taken the first step on a very long path.
She took a step back, heart fluttering.
He stood far enough away that she had to stand and walk a step to reach him.
At his severe tone, she took another step back, ready to exit as fast as she could in the snug dress and high heels.
Let's take a step back, shall we?
The room was dark, the floor-to-ceiling windows displaying the incredible views of the Eiffel Tower, whose frame was outlined by lights against the dark Parisian sky She was about to step onto the balcony when a knock at the door drew her attention.
Katie took another step back, the stillness of his gaze unsettling.
She took a step back, but he only snatched the scarf and flung it, too, out the window.
One of the pens in his hands snapped, and she took a step back.
She didn't hear his silent step.
His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.
His step grew quicker, and his face brightened as they wound their way through the compound.
He took a step to close the gap between them, and they were kissing again.
She heard the soft step of someone approaching and turned, surprised.
He took a step closer, his blond hair and green eyes highlighting a slender face.
She gave an excited wave and quickened her step.
Romas was all business by the time they rounded the corner; he even released Evelyn's hand and quickened his step into one that befitted a warrior prince.
She took another hasty step back as he grabbed it once more.
Her left foot found the first shallow step, and she took another step back, her eyes pinned on the second kitten running along the table.
Kiera braced herself and exited behind Evelyn, whose quick step led them back to the main house and outside, where the floating tents were still in place.
The moment the prisoner crossed the third step, she saw him.
Talal gasped, as if she'd never seen anyone cry, and took a step back.
Uneasy with the stirrings within her, she forced herself to step away.
She retreated a step, regretting drawing his intensity.
She raced forward through the men, not caring what they thought, and flung herself into Mansr's arms with enough force to drive him back a step.
He's asked Leyon to step into Ne'Rin's role.
Romas whirled at the name, and she ran into him before taking a quick step back.
Her long auburn hair, while looking like a magazine ad, was not enough to elevate her that step above ordinary.
Her dress was a half a step above the rag she used to polish the furniture and her hair had longer roots than Elmer Fudd's garden.
I don't fancy having him show up on our door step but I'm not sure there's much the law can do.
Edith entered, but only a step.
He was sitting there, in the dark, when he first heard a step on the stair.
Dean said before Shipton reached the bottom step or could open his mouth.
He looked up to see a shocked Donald Ryland step out of his room.
There is a spring in my step and a note on my lips, until I realize the awful truth of my situation and am forced to hold back my tears.
I can't really blame the ones that step over the line once in a while.
It hangs there, waiting for me to step upon this velvet chair where I sit, tie its far descending end to my neck, and step from this world, freeing it from the guilt and troubles Annie Quincy has caused.
Dean took the opportunity to knock on Martha's door and step inside.
Cynthia had avoided it since the woman's death and now entered, hesitation in her step.
Jackson had taken a step forward, ready to enter the room, but stopped when Connor's voice quieted.
Elisabeth took a step back and looked at him quizzically.
He felt like they were moving one step forward, two steps backward.
Jackson took a step back in shock, then noticed Connor and Sarah across the room laughing hysterically.
You better watch your step.
Jackson took a step back.
Being subservient is taking a backward step for women.
I have no intention of being subservient - and how is that taking a backward step, anyway?
I think it was a backward step when women started stooping to the morals of men.
His face contorted in rage and one long step brought him close enough to grab her shoulders.
She took a quick step backward, blood racing up her neck and warming her cheeks.
She laughed as she put an arm on his shoulder and fell into step with him.
She took a quick step back, glancing around for something to use as a weapon.
A brisk step in the hallway brought her attention sharply back to the present.
Stuffing trembling hands into her pockets, she took a step back from him.
She gazed up into his angry red face, knowing she had gone one step too far.
Planey looked from Brady to the soldier before motioning them down another hallway and quickening his step.
Elise fell into step beside him after checking on Lana.
She pushed herself away from him as he took another step towards her, a newfound horror creeping through her.
When he took a step towards her, she reached out to him.
Her step faltered, and more tears spilled.
While her step was anything but sure, Lana forced herself onto the road and walked.
Unaccustomed to the weight of the rucksack on her back, she almost toppled over at the first step of the stairwell and caught the banister with both hands.
Rhyn crept carefully through the demon scouts positioned throughout the forest surrounding the castle. The demons wore the Dark One's uniform of all black with waterproof cloaks and hoods. The demon side of him rendered his presence similar enough to a full-demon's that the others wouldn't be alarmed. He sized up each demon he passed, until he found one who appeared to be his size. The creature didn't hear his soft step, and the snapping of the demon's neck was the only other sound in the falling rain.
He entered the castle, and his step slowed as memories he'd buried wriggled free.
The water looked … black in the moonlight. She took a step back and looked up towards the moons. As Gabriel indicated, one moon was lower than the other.
Gabe's step faltered, and he tripped for the first time since he'd led them into the forest. Katie's gaze went from Andre to the death-dealer.
Rhyn ignored them, instead fixating on how to track Death in the underworld. He stumbled with his first step but was soon running hard through the castle, his mind on finding Death to regain Katie.
Look, Kris, don't take our resistance personally. Anyone who tried to step into Andre's shoes would receive the same treatment. It's too soon after his death.
She slowed her step and pointed at Gabriel with a questioning look.
Kris and Kiki both looked towards the sky when the thunder began. They'd both given their jackets to Hannah, whose step was growing slower the farther they went into the jungle. Kiki muttered but didn't openly bitch, probably knowing Kris had no patience for anyone insulting his mate.
Katie had never been so happy to step into the eerie shadow world.
He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block. He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell. She was curled up on the bed, sobbing. When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why. Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood. The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.
Dean finally freed the last of the knots and Fred rose, pulling up his pants, staggered a step or two and sat back down.
His first step was renting an apartment and getting an address—a mail drop.
With all other thoughts lulled from his mind by the steady cadence of the wheels, he moved step by step through every facet of the Byrne case.
The path led step by step from the renter of Bascomb Place, with Fred and Dean always a step behind him.
Was someone else a step behind them, looking over their shoulder?
Mr. Jonathan Winston had to back up a step or two and wipe the egg off his face when he realized I saved his bacon after he nearly let a killer get away.
She grunted as she mounted the last step into the kitchen.
Carmen took a step back and reached for the door.
His step was brisk as he walked around to the other side, but when he climbed into the truck, his expression was bland.
This time she marched toward the kitchen, her temper rising with every step.
With every step toward the phone she told herself she shouldn't answer it – shouldn't lose her temper.
He flinched visibly and took a step back.
Whether it was right or wrong, it certainly felt good to step into his stride.
Carmen caught her breath and took a step back.
She laughed and fell into step beside him.
Whistling appreciatively, he took a step toward her and captured her by the waist, drawing her into his arms.
Finally he lowered his arms and took a step toward her, grasping her shoulders.
He took a step toward her and whispered.
She watched as he crossed the room to the door, his broad shoulders swaying gracefully with each step.
His square toed boots clicked across the floor with that quick step she had learned to recognize.
A quick glance back revealed Princess following, steam puffing from her mouth and nose with every labored step.
The next step was renovating the old farmhouse for visitors.
The storm door squealed a protest as he left the house, and the porch moaned with each step he took away from her.
One step in a hole and she could lie out here mortally wounded with no one to know.
She gasped and took a step away from him.
Apparently he saw the blood, because his step quickened.
His shoulders moved with a graceful swing that defied the quick step.
He took one step away from the fence.
One step in her direction, and that was all she needed.
With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.
Lori waited until his quick step faded down the hall before she turned to Carmen.
If they knew Lori wanted to adopt the baby out, they would surely step in and take the baby, though.
She took one step then another, not understanding how her body could move when her mind couldn't.
More importantly, she had to find out what Jonny's next step was, once the month-long truce between White and Black Gods was up.
Jonny flinched, took a step back, then focused again on her.
What she'd done—and been about to do—made her step back.
He took a step away from her.
Alarmed by emotions Dusty had warned her were permanent, she took a step away.
Jonny took a step back then gazed at her in silent surprise.
He heard nothing aside from Yully's quick step down the hall to yet another door.
The Watcher took a step back at his lethal tone.
She took a step back at the flash of heat.
She didn't wait for him to step back but kicked his knee as hard as she could.
She took a step towards it.
She eased back a step, closer to the obelisk.
Darian strode to her, not stopping until she took a step away.
She missed but succeeded in scaring him back a step.
Sirian's voice preceded his quick step into the quarters.
His step was quick, his eyes darting around.
Surprise registered across his chiseled features, and he took a step forward.
She sighed, too tired to consider her next step.
Grim, she quickened her step as she debated how to manipulate her killer before the final blow fell.
His step quickened down the hall, but he was unable to tell if he were eager or dreading the sight of the woman again.
He held it against his arm and trotted through the hold, down stairwells until the familiar must of the underground slowed his step.
She took a step toward the wooden wagon.
Her first step drove her to her knees.
It was his responsibility and, Alex being the person he was, could do nothing but step up to it.
He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.
She took a step toward him and smiled.
I'll step back and give you room.
She came up too close to him and took a step back.
The door closed behind her and his quick step clipped across the floor.
She caught her breath and took a step back.
He took a step closer and his brows came down.
She tried to step around him, but he stepped into her path again.
She took a step back, avoiding his hands.
She took a step backward and stared mutely up at his face.
Selecting the back door key, she finally tore her attention from the serpent and took a step toward the back of the house.
At any rate, he'll probably show up on your door step some time.
She winced and moaned with every step.
She took a step toward the house and waited, but he didn't respond.
She swallowed down a lump in her throat and took a step closer to the door.
I guess it was rather silly of me to step outside under either circumstance, wasn't it?
His pace was slower now and she had no trouble keeping in step.
Let him take the first step.
Darian materialized seconds later and fell into step a few feet from him.
One of you step back before I lose it.
He took a step towards her.
Jessi took a step away from him and waved at Toni to make certain the model saw them.
Xander took a step closer.
The wall met another, and she quickened her step, scouring the area above her for some sign of a window.
Instead, she trotted down the gravel driveway, each crunching step making her cringe.
Language has crystallized them into certain definite notions and expressions, without which we cannot proceed a single step, but which we have accepted without knowing their exact meaning, much less their origin.
It was a step characteristic of his love for extreme and dramatic action, but it added to the dissensions between him and those who wished only for autonomy under the old dynasty, and his enemies did not scruple to accuse him of aiming at the crown himself.
The foundation was closely modelled on Winchester College, with its warden and fellows, its grammar and song schoolmasters, but a step in advance was made by the masters being made fellows and so members of the governing body.
A further step was taken by Henry II.
When that passionate young prince, in revenge for a fancied wrong, resolved to drive the English out of Bengal, his first step was to occupy the fortified factory at Cossimbazar, and make prisoners of Hastings and his companions.
Early in 1490 he took a further step and was betrothed to the duchess, and later in the same year the marriage was celebrated by proxy; but Brittany was still occupied by French troops, and Maximilian was unable to go to the assistance of his bride.
The king set out for Rome to secure his coronation, but Venice refused to let him pass through .her territories; and at Trant, on the 4th of February 1508, he took the important step of assuming the title of Roman Emperor Elect, to which he soon received the assent of pope Julius II.
Each problem was something unique; the elements of transition from one to another were wanting; and the next step which mathematics had to make was to find some method of reducing, for instance, all curves to a common notation.
With Descartes the use of exponents as now employed for denoting the powers of a quantity becomes systematic; and without some such step by which the homogeneity of successive powers is at once recognized, the binomial theorem could scarcely have been detected.
Having thus perfected the instrument, his next step was to apply it in such a way as to bring uniformity of method into the isolated and independent operations of geometry.
But such a hypothetical simplicity is the necessary step for solving the more complex problems of nature.
My next step will probably be to fix up the Germany issue, although this will be complicated.
The continual encroachments of the Portuguese at length led the Spanish government to take the important step of making Buenos Aires the seat of a viceroyalty with jurisdiction over the territories of the present republics of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Argentine Confederation (1776).
As a sequel to this step, in 1884 the town of La Plata was declared to be the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, and the provincial administration was moved to that place.
This law naturally made a deep impression on military Europe, not merely because the period of color service was reducedGermany had taken this step years beforebut because of the almost entire absence of the usual exemptions.
The first step taken in this direction was in 1900 when a law was passed which laid down that the colonies were to provide for their own civil expenditure.
In 1808 Moratin was involved in the fall of Godoy, but in 1811 accepted the office of royal librarian under Joseph Bonaparte - a false step, which alienated from him all sympathy and compelled him to spend his last years in exile.
In 1188 William secured a papal bull which declared that the Church of Scotland was directly subject only to the see of Rome, thus rejecting the claims to supremacy put forward by the English archbishop. This step was followed by the temporal independence of Scotland, which was one result of the continual poverty of Richard I.
As a step towards such hypothesis it has been noted that the Antarctic, the South African, and the Australian floras have many types in common.
In 1889 an important step towards federation was taken by Sir Henry Parkes.
The liver being regarded as the seat of the blood, it was a natural and short step to identify the liver with the soul as well as with the seat of life, and therefore as the centre of all manifestations of vitality and activity.
In the Wheatstone automatic apparatus three levers are placed side by side, each acting on a set of small punches and on mechanism for feeding the paper forward a step after each operation of the levers.
The next step of importance was the introduction of what was termed the " Standard board."
It had paid the Post Office in royalties already £1,848,000, and the Post Office under the agreement would step into the business in 1911 by merely paying for the plant employed.
The state, in taking over the Failways, did not exercise sufficient care to see that the lines and the rolling stock were kept up to a proper state of efficiency and adequacy for the work they had t,o perform; while the step itself was taken somewhat hastily.
As the supremacy of Rome extended itself Roads, over Italy, the Roman road system grew step by step, each fresh conquest being marked by the pushing forward of roads through the heart of the newly-won territory, and the establishment of fortresses in connection with them.
But, like all the vicissitudes, of the Italian race, while it was a decided step forward in one direction, it introduced a new source of discord.
Repenting of this step, he subsequently attempted to regain Turin, but was imprisoned in.
In, taking this step the Modenese and Romagnols had the encouragement of Bonaparte, despite the orders which the French directory sent to him in a contrary sense.
No further step was taken until, at the end of 1879, Rubattino prepared to establish a commercial station.
Angered by this step, Ras Alula took prisoners the members of an Italian exploring party commanded by Count Salimbeni, and held them as hostages for the evacuation of Wa.
General Orero, successor of Baldissera, pushed offensive action more vigorously, and on the 26th of January 1890 entered Adowa, a city considerably to the south of the Marchan imprudent step which aroused Meneleks suspicions, and had hurriedly to be retraced.
In November Signor Gianturco died, and Signor Pietro Bertolini took his place as minister of public works; the latter proved perhaps the ablest member of the cabinet, but the acceptance of office under Giolitti of a man who had been one of the most trusted and valuable lieutenants of Signor Sonnino marked a further step in the dgringolade of that statesmans party, and was attributed to the fact that Signor Bertolini resented not having had a place in the late Sonnino ministry.
He was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbour in Yorkshire, George, 2nd duke of Buckingham, was elected M.P. for York in 1665, and gained the "first step in his future rise" by joining Buckingham in his attack on Clarendon in 1667.
It was a somewhat curious concurrence of circumstances that transferred Cranmer, almost at one step, from the quiet seclusion of the university to the din and bustle of the court.
Cranmer stood by the dying bed of Edward as he had stood by that of his father, and he there suffered himself to be persuaded to take a step against his own convictions.
The Brahman priest (brahma) being thus the recognized head of the sacerdotal order (brahma), which itself is the visible embodiment of sacred writ and the devotional spirit pervading it (brahma), the complete realization of theocratic aspirations required but a single step, which was indeed taken in the theosophic speculations of the later Vedic poets and the authors of the Brahmanas (q.v.), viz.
At once they took another step towards the goal.
This custom, which owes its origin to Henry II., meant a loss of revenue to the lords, whose victory in this matter, however, was a step backwards.
The first step towards the formation of a mixed hydroid colony is undoubtedly a hastening of the sexual maturity of the medusaindividual.
The next step is illustrated by the female gonophores of Cladocoryne, where the radial and ring-canals F G H Modified from Weismann, Entstehung der Sexualzellen bei den Hydromedusen.
The next step is the gradual obliteration of the sub-umbral cavity by disappearance of which the sub-umbral ectoderm comes into contact with the ectoderm of the manubrium.
Nor was this line of inquiry pursued simply as a step in the more practical problem of man's final destiny.
Empedocles took an important step in the direction of modern conceptions of physical evolution by teaching that all things arise, not by transformations of some primitive form of matter, but by various combinations of a number of permanent elements.
First of all, his genetic method as applied to the mind's ideas - which laid the foundations of English analytical psychology - was a step in the direction of a conception of mental life as a gradual evolution.
In this case, however, we cannot say that each step goes out of the other as in that of individual development.
Cuvier on anatomical, and Von Baer on embryological grounds, made the further step of proving that, even in this limited sense, animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organization to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated modification, leads to any of the others.
This legislation marks another step forward.
After the inconclusive proceedings at the realm-council of Merton (1236), when spiritual and temporal lords took opposite views, the king's judges went a step further and thenceforward submitted this particular question to a jury.
Commercial motives prompted the step, and Roman traders and land speculators speedily flocked in.
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.
All that was done was done step by step. First, marriage between the two orders was legalized.
The Venetian nobility is an example of a nobility which gradually arose out of the mass of the people as certain families step by step drew all political power into their own hands.
The first step westwards was taken in Courland, which lay between Russian territory and the Baltic coast.
While failing to correct all the defects in the original statute, the amended law was a decided step in the direction of efficient regulation.
The fourth step in the development of intra-urban railways was to go to the other extreme from the deep tunnel which Greathead introduced.
It was only a step from the conquest of Mexico to that of Peru, and scarcely three months elapsed before he began to break ground on the latter subject.
After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the forum; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation."
He superintended every step of the progress of the building and of the purchase of the very valuable collection of apparatus with which it was equipped at the expense of its munificent founder the seventh duke of Devonshire (chancellor of the university, and one of its most distinguished alumni).
The step to magnetic phenomena was comparatively simple; but it was otherwise as regards electromagnetic phenomena, where current electricity is essentially involved.
To apply these discoveries to the malaria of man was an obvious step. In working out the details the Italian school have again taken a prominent part.
The most effective step would obviously be the extermination of the Anopheles mosquito.
But the Magyars refused to send representatives to the central parliament; the Slays, resenting the Germanizing policy of the government, withdrew; and the emperor had really withdrawn his confidence from Schmerling long before the constitution was suspended in 1865 as a first step to a reconciliation with Hungary.
It is more than a mere coincidence that this step was taken during the absence in England of one of the ablest and most notable of the Amsterdam rabbis.
But one step remained.
It soon became evident, however, that the Porte was endeavouring to obstruct the execution of the new reforms. Several months passed without any step being taken towards this realization; difficulties were raised with regard to the composition of the international commissions charged with the reorganization of the gendarmery and judicial system; intrigues were set on foot against the Christian governorgeneral; and the presence of a special imperial commissioner, who had no place under the constitution, proved so injurious to the restoration of tranquillity that the powers demanded his immediate recall.
This step paralysed the movements of Colonel Vassos, who after a few slight engagements with the Turks remained practically inactive in the interior.
In the Roman Church the granting of the title "venerable" is the first step in the long process of the canonization of saints.
In 1784 John Wesley, in disregard of the authority of the Established Church, took the radical step of appointing the Rev. Thomas Coke (1747-1814) and Francis Asbury superintendents or "bishops" of the church in the United States.
David now took the first great step to the throne.
An intermediate step between Anu viewed as the local deity of Erech (or some other centre), Bel as the god of Nippur, and Ea as the god of Eridu is represented by the prominence which each one of the centres associated with the three deities in question must have acquired, and which led to each one absorbing the qualities of other gods so as to give them a controlling position in an organized pantheon.
In 1229 the Order began the conquest of Prussia, founding fortresses at each step to rivet its conquests (for instance, at Thorn, named after Toron in Palestine), much as the AngloNormans had done in their conquest of Wales.
Step by step he attained his end; in 1840 he won his "bachelier es.
Thus at one step Pasteur gained a place of honour among the chemists of the day, and was immediately appointed professor of chemistry at the Faculte of Science at Strasburg, where he soon afterwards married Mlle Laurent, who proved herself to be a true and noble helpmeet.
The next step was to endeavour so to modify and weaken the virus as to enable it to be used as a preventive or as an antitoxin.
An important step in this direction was taken in 1896, when the senior class for steers, viz.
This measure was regarded at the time as a marked step in advance, and was only carried after a vigorous campaign in its favour.
The first step is to see whether there is a prima facie case for inquiry, for many acts of parliament have been passed which have never come into operation at all, or have been administered only for a short time on too limited a scale to have important or lasting results.
But, while apparently aiding Edward, Bruce had taken a step which bound him to the patriotic cause.
This step he afterwards regretted.
The beginnings of this rupture, as well as a sharp affray between his volunteers and the townsfolk of Ajaccio, may have quickened Bonaparte's resolve to return to France in May 1792, but there were also personal and family reasons for this step. Having again exceeded his time of furlough, he was liable to the severe penalties attaching to a deserter and an émigré but he saw that the circumstances of the time would help to enforce the appeal for reinstatement which he resolved to make at Paris.
Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.
The parallel extends even to the secret negotiations; for, if Austria could have been induced in May 1807 to send an army against Napoleon's communications, his position would have been fully as dangerous as before Austerlitz if Prussia had taken a similar step. Once more he triumphed owing to the timidity of the central power which had the game in its hands; and the folly which marked the Russian tactics at Friedland (14th of June 1807), as at Austerlitz, enabled him to close the campaign in a blaze of glory and shiver the coalition in pieces.
At a later time he reproached himself for not having dethroned the Hohenzollerns outright; but it is now known that Alexander would have forbidden this step, and that he dissuaded Napoleon from withdrawing Silesia from the control of the House of Hohenzollern.
They prepared for flight to America - a step which Napoleon took care to prevent; and a popular outbreak at Aranjuez decided the king then and there to abdicate (19th of March 1808).
By the proposed step she would weaken the Franco-Russian alliance.
As his chances of success became more and more desperate, he ventured on a step whereby he hoped to work potently on the pacific desires of the emperor Francis.
His counsellor, Las Cases, strongly urged that step and made overtures to Captain Maitland of H.M.S.
Absurd as much that we find both in Albertus Magnus and the Ortus seems to modern eyes, if we go a step lower in the scale and consult the " Bestiaries " or treatises on animals which were common from the 12th to the 14th century we shall meet with many more absurdities.
The classification was quite new, and made a step distinctly in advance of anything.
Like Gloger, Sundevall in his ideal system separated the true passerines from all other birds, calling them Volucres; but he took a step further, for he assigned to them the highest rank, wherein nearly every recent authority agrees with him; out of them, however, he chose the thrushes and warblers to stand first as his ideal " Centrum " - a selection which, though in the opinion of the present writer erroneous, is still largely followed.
This step was fatal to Pippin's designs.
The doge assumed the title of duke of Dalmatia, and a great step was taken towards the supremacy of Venice in the Adriatic, which was essential to the free development of her commerce and also enabled her to reap the pecuniary advantages to be derived from the Crusades.
The fall of Tyre marks a great advance in development of Venetian trade; the republic had now passed beyond the Adriatic, and had taken an important step towards that complete command of the Levant which she established after the Fourth Crusade.
The first step towards curtailing the power of the doge was taken in 1032, when the family of the Orseoli was finally expelled from Venice and the doge Domenico Flabianico was called to the throne.
In 1198, on the election of Enrico Dandolo, the aristocracy carried their policy one step farther, and by the promissione ducale, or coronation oath, which every doge was required to swear, they acquired a powerful weapon for the suppression of all that remained of ancient ducal authority.
The defeat of Genoa and the establishment of Venetian supremacy in the Mediterranean brought the state to a further step in its development.
The second step in the evolution of spinning instincts was probably the making of a silken chamber for the reception of the cocoon itself and for the protection of the mother while guarding it and her newly-hatched young.
If an aperture for ingress and egress, for purposes of feeding, were left in the wall of such a chamber, there would arise in a rudimentary form what is known as the tubular nest or web; and the next important step was possibly the adoption of such a nest as a permanent abode for the spider., Some spiders, like the Drassidae and Salticidae, have not advanced beyond this stage in architectural industry; but next to the cocoon this simple tubular retreat - whether spun in a crevice or burrow or simply attached to the lower side of a stone - is the most constant feature to be observed in the spinning habits of spiders.
The most important step taken by President Harding during the first year of his administration was the calling of an international conference on the limitation of armaments.
The President made it clear that he regarded the conference merely as a step in securing international understanding and good will; he advocated the convening of succeeding conferences as a possible means of securing an international association for the promotion of peace, and he approved the principle of substituting an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan regarding Far-Eastern problems, for the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty.
A similar step was taken, in 922, in the case of Robert II., this too marking the increasing irritation felt at the weakness of the Carolingian kings.
Only in one species, Carinella inexpectata, a step in advance has been made, in so far as in connexion with the furrow just mentioned, which is here also somewhat more complicated in its arrangement, a ciliated tube leads into the brain, there to end blindly amidst the nervecells.
In 1169 he took the same step against two of the royalist bishops.
The temple is entirely of Pentelic marble, except the foundations and lowest step of the stylobate, which are of Peiraic stone, and the zophoros of the cella, which is in Parian marble.
To interdict the importation of the drug altogether, as is done in Japan, was the step advocated by Japanese public opinion.
The first step in this direction was effected by the co-ordination of Gay Lussac's observations on the combining volumes of gases.
But the first important step in providing means whereby students could systematically study chemistry was the foundation of the College of Chemistry in 1845.
A step forward - the fusion of Dumas' type theory and the radical theory - was made by Laurent and Charles Gerhardt.
The step from Rienzi to Der fliegende Hollander is without parallel in the history of music, and would be inexplicable if Rienzi contained nothing good and if Der fliegende Hollander did not contain many reminiscences of the decline of Italian opera; but it is noticeable that in this case the lapses into vulgar music have a distinct dramatic value.
While rebellion was raging in Oudh he issued a proclamation declaring the lands of the province forfeited; and this step gave rise to much angry controversy.
This step was taken in Egypt after the death of Arsinoe Philadelphus (271) when she and her still-living brother-husband, Ptolemy II., began to be worshipped together as Oe01 a&Xq 01.
They did much to excite thinking, and advanced many problems by more than one step, but they did not furnish a coherent system, and the doctrines which were then new have since been worked out with greater consistency and clearness.
In this way the fourth estate would be emancipated from the despotism of the capitalist, and a great step taken in the solution of the great " social question."
Thus Sultan Ibrahim was dissuaded from such a step in 1644 only by the refusal of the Sheikh-ul-Islam to sanction the proceeding.
Thus it happened that the viceroy of Italy felt himself compelled to depart from the positive injunctions of the emperor to hold on at all costs to his advanced position at Posen, where about 14,000 men had gradually rallied around him, and to withdraw step by step to Magdeburg, where he met reinforcements and commanded the whole course of the lower Elbe.
The first step towards the modern improvement of the town was taken in 1774, when a special act was obtained for the purpose.
Wellington had also difficulties of a similar kind with his own government, and also the Spanish soldiers, in revenge for many French outrages, had become guilty of grave excesses in France, so that Wellington took the extreme step of sending 25,000 of them back to Spain and resigning the command of their army, though his resignation was subsequently withdrawn.
Faraday's next step was to pass the same current through different electrolytes in series.
This step, which caused him to be ostracized for a time from the Boston circles in which he had been reared, brought him the cases of the fugitive slaves, Shadrach, Sims and Burns, and of the rescuers of Shadrach.
The journeys of Hansteen and Erman (1828-1830) were a most important step in the exploration of the territory.
The harsher measures which about that time began to be adopted towards his co-religionists in France are usually assigned as the motive of this step. He now devoted himself during six years to the production of lenses of enormous focal distance, which, mounted on high poles, and connected with the eye-piece by means of a cord, formed what were called "aerial telescopes."
The next step was to force the confessors to accept their lax interpretation of the law; and this was accomplished by their famous theory of probabilism - first taught in Spain about 1580.
Some of his brilliant rival's most conspicuous discoveries were implicitly contained in his writings, and wanted but one step for completion.
But that one step, from the abstract to the concrete, was precisely that which the character of Lagrange's mind indisposed him to make.
This division of the Vertebrata into hot and cold blooded is a curiously retrograde step, only intelligible when we reflect that the excellent entomologist had no real comprehension of vertebrate morphology; but he makes some atonement for the blunder by steadily upholding the class distinctness of the Amphibia.
The time requisite for the several degrees is unknown, and may have been determined by the Patres, who conferred them in a solemn ceremony called Sacramentum, in which the initial step was an oath never to divulge what should be revealed, and for which the mystic had been specially prepared by lustral purification, prolonged abstinence, and severe deprivations.
His first step was to introduce a regular government among his countrymen; his second, to send to the African coast one of his officers, who took possession of a Portuguese settlement, and thus secured a supply of slaves.
Before leaving Bahia, Dom John took the first step to emancipate Brazil, opening its ports to foreign commerce, and permitting the export of all Brazilian produce under any flag, the royal monopolies of diamonds and Brazil-wood excepted.
In 1859 Siena was the first Tuscan city that voted for annexation to Piedmont and the monarchy of Victor Emmanuel II., this decision (voted 26th June) being the initial step towards the unity of Italy.
The next step was taken by the settlers at the port, who in 1835 resolved to lay out a town, which they named Durban, after Sir Benjamin d'Urban, then governor of Cape Colony.
The governor was strongly opposed to this step, as he was anxious to protect the coal supply, and also feared the moral effect of a withdrawal.
But conversion, after all, was the chief aim of these devoted missionaries, and when some Venetian priests had invented a Latin alphabet for the Magyar language a great step had been taken towards its accomplishment.
Not till 1409 could Sigismund be said to be king in his own realm, yet in 1413 we find him traversing Europe in his endeavour to terminate the Great Schism, as the first step towards uniting Christendom once more against the Turk.
Zapolya, a devout Catholic, is lauded by Archbishop Frangipan in 1533 for arresting the spread of the new doctrines, though he would not allow Martinuzzi to take the extreme step of burning perverts at the stake.
Joseph was an idealist and a doctrinaire, whose dream was to build up his ideal body politic; the first step toward which was to be the amalgamation of all his dominions into a common state under an absolute sovereign.
A still further step was taken when, on the 2nd of December, the emperor Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his nephew Francis Joseph.
This was the first and most important step in the establishment of the stability of the solar system.
The one is a problem of interpolation, the other a step towards the solution of an equation in finite differences.
The "Day of Dupes," as this famous day was called, was the only time that Louis took so much as a step toward the dismissal of a minister who was personally distasteful to him but who was indispensable.
The principal step in the modern development of algebra was the recognition of the meaning of negative quantities.
The first step consists in the functional treatment of equations.
The next step is to suppose that fractional numbers are represented in the same way.
We therefore take a third step, and obtain theoretical continuity by considering that every point on the line, if it does not represent a rational number, represents something which may be called an irrational number.
In Germany the work of Martin Ohm (System der Mathematik, 1822) marks a step forward.
This memorial is built principally of Milford (Mass.) granite, with a bronze statue of the president, and with sarcophagi containing the bodies of the president and Mrs McKinley, and has a total height, from the first step of the approaches to its top, of 163 ft.
The three groups communicated secretly through Switzerland, and it was felt that the time had come for the exiles to take a fresh step forward, in view of the prominence given to the doctrine of self-determination since the Russian Revolution and America's entry into the war.
Unhappily every step led to a fresh misunderstanding.
We imagine a wave-front divided o x Q into elementary rings or zones - often named after Huygens, but better after Fresnelby spheres described round P (the point at which the aggregate effect is to be estimated), the first sphere, touching the plane at 0, with a radius equal to PO, and the succeeding spheres with radii increasing at each step by IX.
The first step is to calculate the force which represents the reaction between the parts of the medium separated by x=o.
Didymus, writing in the year 60, made the first step towards establishing this pleasant-sounding scale upon a mathematical basis, by the discovery of the lesser tone; but unhappily he placed it in a false position below the greater tone.
In places, as between Mafeking and Johannesburg, the descent is in terracelike steps, each step marked by a line of hills; in other places there is a gradual slope and elsewhere the descent is abrupt, with outlying hills and deep well-wooded valleys.
The incident was, however, but the first step in the struggle for the possession of that country (see Bechuanaland).
The wisdom of the step taken by Shep- British stone has been called in question.
The best evidence in favour of the step is to be found in the publicly expressed views of the state's own president, Burgers, already quoted.
What the next step should be was freely discussed.
The two thousand odd rifles which had been distributed among the Uitlanders were then given up. With regard to the inducements to this step urged upon the reform committee by the high commissioner, it is only necessary to say with reference to the first that the grievances never were considered, and with reference to the second it subsequently appeared that one of the conditions of the surrender of Jameson's force at Doornkop was that the lives of the men should be spared.
Nevertheless, on economic as well as political grounds, the leaders of both parties in the Transvaal were prepared to consider favourably the proposals put forward by Dr Jameson at the close of 1906 for a closer union of all the self-governing colonies, and the first direct step to that end was taken at an inter-colonial conference held in May 1908.
The appearance of this book, which traces the development of the English constitution from the Teutonic invasions of Britain till 1485, marks a distinct step in the advance of English historical learning.
The people of Keft (Aegeans) wore a similar arrangement which is a step in the direction of the proper drawers.
Then in April 1688 he took the suicidal step of issuing a proclamation to force the clergy and bishops to read the Declaration in their pulpits, and thus personally advocate a measure they detested.
This step was the beginning of the troubles which clouded the closing years of Albert's reign.
The older, belonging probably to the beginning of the 6th century B.C., appears, from an inscription on the uppermost step, to have been dedicated to Apollo.
In this Italy, and especially the renowned school of Padua, took the first step, where Giovanni De Monte (Montanus), (1498-1552), already mentioned as a humanist, gave clinical lectures on the patients in the hospital of St Francis, which may still be read with interest.
In the disease of the scalp called favus, Schonlein had discovered a minute mycelial fungus; a remarkable discovery, for it was the first conspicuous step in the attribution of diseases to the action of minute parasites.
Meanwhile, though the Colonial Conference (re-named Imperial) of 1907 showed that there was a wide difference of opinion on the tariff question between the free-trade government and the colonial premiers, in one part of the empire the ministry took a decided step - in the establishment of a self-governing constitution for the Transvaal and Orange River colonies - which, for good or ill, would make the period memorable.
Even a large skip will hold but a few men, the speed is slower, and more time is required for the men to get into and out of the skip than to step on and off a cage.
On the commander-in-chief pronouncing himself as emphatically opposed to such a step, Sir C. Monro was sent out from England to take his place.
The responsible authorities on the spot perceived that the process of gradually removing the huge accumulations of impedimenta that were massed about the landing-places and of reembarking the troops must take place during the dark hours and step by step, every effort being made to keep the Turks unaware of what was in progress.
The constable himself headed the leading line of dismounted men-at-arms; weighted with their armour, and sinking deep into the mud with every step, they yet reached and engaged the English men-at-arms; for a time the fighting was severe.
The next and most important forward step in the progress of optical glass manufacture was initiated by Ernst Abbe and carried out jointly by him and 0.
The first step in this process is that of grinding the surface down until all projections are removed and a close approximation to a perfect plane is obtained.
Another step in decentralization was taken in 1912 by the subdivision of the former unwieldy territorial division and by the grant of wider initiative to the commissioners of the divisions.
From such names it is only a step to names of one element, a characteristic feature of which is the frequent addition of an ending -turn (feminine), an, a, um, atum, atija, sha, &c., most of these being " hypocoristic affixes," corresponding in a measure to modern pet-names.
Nevertheless, step by step, Bestuzhev, aided by his elder brother Mikhail, carried out his policy.
Frederick II., conscious of the instability of his French ally, was now eager to contract an offensive alliance with Russia; and the first step to its realization was the overthrow of Bestuzhev, "upon whom," he wrote to his minister Axel von Mardefeld, "the fate of Prussia and my own house depends."
The next step was to prepare glucose.
This decisive step was not long in making itself felt in the chanceries of Europe.
The next step is to remove the harvested crop to the drying-shed; primed leaves are placed at once in shallow baskets or boxes, and when under cover are strung on string or on wire and hung up on laths in the barn.
In regard to methods and apparatus, mention should be made of his improvements in the technique of organic analysis, his plan for determining the natural alkaloids and for ascertaining the molecular weights of organic bases b y means of their chloroplatinates, his process for determining the quantity of urea in a solution - the first step towards the introduction of precise chemical methods into practical medicine - and his invention of the simple form of condenser known in every laboratory.
The first step towards this result was easily and quickly taken.
In this latter step the influence of the Church rather than of the king seems to have been effective.
It was this problem which led to the next step. To solve it the early Carolingian princes, especially Charles Martel, who found the royal domains exhausted and their own inadequate, grasped at the land of the Church.
Three years later the fateful step was taken of appointing Moawiya (Mu'awiyya) governor of Syria.
The next step was the introduction of metre into the body of the sentence and the restriction of the passages to a definite length.
To apprehend it is really the first great step in philosophical education.
The bishopric of Dol had been raised to the rank of an archbishopric during the 10th century by Nomenoe, king of Brittany, but this step had been objected to by the archbishops of Tours.
The first man to step to the front at this moment was Count Ugolino della Gherardesca of the powerful house of that name.
The first practical step towards the development of the camera obscura seems to have been made by the famous painter and architect, Leon Battista Alberti, in 1437, contemporaneously with the invention of printing.
The irregularity of this step, however, was resented by many of the clergy, and the occurrence is still passed lightly over by his Roman Catholic panegyrists.
The next step in the development of epic narrative was the single lay of an episodic character, sung by a single individual, who was frequently a member of a distinguished family, not merely a professional minstrel.
In 1869 the government of Santo Domingo (or the Dominican Republic) expressed a wish for annexation by the United States, and such a step was favoured Washington, comprising wholesale frauds on the public revenue, awakened lively disgust.
He secretly stole away to Bologna, entered the monastery of St Domenico and then acquainted his father with his reasons for the step. The world's wickedness was intolerable, he wrote; throughout Italy he beheld vice triumphant, virtue despised.
Then, repenting this ill-judged step, he hurried in person to the French camp at Pietra Santa and humbled himself before the king.
The first step in this direction is to arrange scientific method and positive knowledge in order, and this brings us to another cardinal element in the Comtist system, the classification of the sciences.
By this step the pope became his vassal, and a divided allegiance was rendered impossible for the German clergy.
The taxation of the tsar's slyuzhnuie lyudi, or military tenants, was a first step towards the proportional taxation of the hitherto privileged classes.
About this time a body of Schoffen (scabini, jurats), fourteen in number, was formed to assist in the control of municipal affairs, and with their appointment the first step was taken towards civic representative government.
It cannot have been his conscience which constrained him to leave Teresa, for his next step was to marry Berengaria of Castile, who was his second cousin.
Already (1887) the government had voluntarily made a great step in advance by divesting itself of the right to imprison or fine editors by executive order.
Evidently the idea of the great Yokoya experts, the originators of the style, was to break away from the somewhat formal monotony of ordinary engraving, where each line performs exactly the same function, and to convert the chisel into an artists i It is first boiled in a lye obtained by lixiviating wood ashes; it is next polished with charcoal powder; then immersed in plum vinegar and salt; then washed with weak lye and placed in a, tub of water to remove all traces of alkali, the final step being to digest in a boiling solution of copper sulphate, verdigris and water.
In the absence of higher authority Porter sanctioned on his own responsibility the request of Missouri Unionists for permission to raise troops, a step which had an important influence upon the struggle for the possession of the state.
Defoe's Review (1704-1713) dealt chiefly with politics and commerce, but the introduction in it of what its editor fittingly termed the "scandalous club " was another step nearer the papers of Steele and the periodical essayists, the first attempts to create an organized popular opinion in matters of taste and manners.
In refusing to serve under Shelburne he was undoubtedly consistent, but his next step was ruinous to himself and his party.
Salvius Julianus was entrusted by Hadrian with the task of reducing into shape the immense mass of law which had grown up in the edicts of successive praetors - thus taking the first step towards a code.
The first step in the direction was the recovery of their sea-power, which was effected by the victory of Conon at Cnidus (August 394 B.C.).
A dedicatory inscription runs along the face of the top step, and has been the subject of much dispute.
Step by step, and in spite of the efforts of the emperors at Constantinople, the great imperial officials became landowners, the owners of land - kinsmen or at least associates of these officials - intruded on the imperial administration, while the necessity for providing for the defence of the imperial territories against the Lombards led to the formation of local militias, who at first were attached to the imperial regiments, but gradually became independent.
In India itself opinion was more divided, both among the English and among the Indians; but there was a large moderate section among both which welcomed the proposed reforms. In Dec. 1919 he had the satisfaction of passing the Government of India bill, embodying the recommendations of the report, through Parliament, and on its third reading he described it as a step in the discharge of our trusteeship for India; the ultimate justification of our rule would be in the capacity of the Indian peoples to govern themselves.
From this it is a short step to say with the Quicumque vult that the Spirit proceeds from the Son, while guarding the idea that the Father is the one fountain of Deity.
Shaftesbury was nearly forty before he married, and even then he appears to have taken this step at the urgent instigation of his friends, mainly to supply a successor to the title.
Driven to extremities, Clement consented to call a Consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died (2nd of February 1769), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.
The records of kings whose names hitherto were known to us only through Bible references have been found in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, and personages hitherto but shadowy now step forth as clearly into the light of history as an Alexander or a Caesar.
The next step was to secure, by permanent political institutions, the independence which had been so dearly purchased; and, accordingly, on the 30th of August 1821 the constitution of Colombia was adopted with general approbation, Bolivar himself being president, and Santander vice-president.
He was only carrying a step farther the policy of Augustus, who by a system of rewards and penalties had tried to encourage marriage and the nurture of children.
He took the first important step in that way by winning a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, before he was quite seventeen years old.
It is probable therefore that Charles either considered the coronation premature, as he was hoping to obtain the assent of the eastern empire to this step, or that, from fear of evils which he foresaw from the claim of the pope to crown the emperor, he wished to crown himself.
It was a rash step. The emissaries of the Inquisition were on his track; he was thrown into prison, and in 1593 was brought to Rome.
Of this step she quickly repented.
The final step in the determination of the present boundaries of the state was taken in 1896, when the Supreme Court of the United States decided the Greer county case.
With John Adams and Edward Rutledge he was selected by Congress to discuss with Admiral Howe (September 1776, at Staten Island) the terms of peace proposed by Howe, who had arrived in New York harbour in July 1776, and who had been an intimate friend of Franklin; but the discussion was fruitless, as the American commissioners refused to treat " back of this step of independency."
The first step in clarifying the situation is to come to a full realization that the medieval Church was essentially an international state, and that the character of the Protestant secession from it was largely determined by this fact.
One step led to another, and as all efforts at union failed the elector invited Martin Bucer to Cologne in 1542.
To have established this position was a great step in speculation.
It was these paradoxes that Kant sought to rebut by a more thoroughgoing criticism of the basis of knowledge the substance of which is summed up in his celebrated Refuta tion of Idealism,' wherein he sought to undermine Hume's scepticism by carrying it one step further and demonstrating that not only is all knowledge of self or object excluded, but the consciousness of any series of impressions and ideas is itself impossible except in relation to some external permanent and universally accepted world of objects.
Accordingly as early as 1669 the French government decided on the foundation of a school for French dragomans at Constantinople, for which in later years was substituted the Ecole des langues orientales in Paris; most of the great powers eventually took some similar step, England also adopting in 1877 a system, since modified, for the selection and tuition of a corps of Britishborn dragomans.
But up till noon he took no serious step to capture the cross-roads, which then lay at his mercy.
This step, fatal to the Norman kingdom, was possibly taken that William might devote himself to foreign conquests.'
This led to the further step of setting up personal merit rather than ecclesiastical ordination as the ground of the priestly office.
The last step in the development of the Waldensian body was taken in 1530, when two deputies of the Vaudois in Dauphine and Provence, Georges Morel and Pierre Masson, were sent to confer with the German and Swiss Reformers.
Previous to that date, the only step towards compilation of the census results of the empire had been a bare statement of area and population, appended without analysis, comparison or comment, to the reports for England and Wales, from the year 1861 onwards.
The first step is the establishment of the exact equality of congruence of two geometrical figures.
The second step is the conversion of one figure into another by a process of dissection, followed by rearrangement of parts; the figure as rearranged being one whose area or volume can be calculated by methods already established.
The third step is the arithmetical calculation of the area or volume of the rearranged figure.
The deduction of the formula tab, where a and b are numbers, should be regarded as a later step.
In July 1916 he received another step, and as colonel commanded the "Sabotino Sector."
After the capture of Monte Kuk and Monte Vodice this appointment was confirmed, and he received another step of promotion.
If the coin is light the rod S fits into the uppermost step and the shoot stops over the right-hand slot.
If the coin is heavy, S fits into the lowest step and the shoot stops over the left-hand slot.
The middle step and slot are for coins within the remedy.
Of these the most notable is the Niagara escarpment which extends eastward from Canada, past Lewiston and Lockport, - a downward step from the Erie to the Ontario plain, where the Niagara limestone outcrops, and its resistance to denudation accounts for the steeply rising face at the boundary between the two plains.
Two other French attacks had at the same time been directed against New England, and to meet the dangerous situation Leisler performed the one statesmanlike act of his public career, notable in American history as the first step toward the union of the colonies.
The split broke up the rule of the "regency," Marcy accepting the " Hunker " support and a seat in Polk's cabinet, while Wright, Butler and Van Buren joined the " Barnburners," a step preliminary to Van Buren's acceptance of the " Free Soil " nomination for president in the campaign of 1848.
In 1827 he was prime mover in the protest made by the French Academy against the minister Peyronnet's law on the press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did Villemain, his post as censeur royal.
It well may be that these massacres were, in fact, an abrupt and premature step in the policy of "Turkification," which the Government had in view.
The guardian angels of the nations in Daniel probably represent the gods of the heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by Milton in Paradise Lost.
The Campbell-Bannerman administration decided to do without this intermediary step in both colonies.
The first rush of the assailants carried them up to the wire and other obstacles, but they were for many hours unable to advance a step farther.
The first step in the Japanese plan was the advance of Kuroki's army to Anping.
Still the result of Stakelberg's attack, for which he was unable to deploy his whole force, was disappointing, but the main Japanese attack on Bilderling was not much more satisfactory, for the Russians had entrenched every step of their previous advance, and fought splendidly.
Some suspension bridges have broken down in consequence of the oscillations produced by bodies of men marching in step. In 1850 a suspension bridge cable was carried on a separate saddle on rollers on each pier.
What Austria desired to be was a state at once conciliatory and just, and it opposed no national demand which did not overstep the limits of state security; but this loosing of bonds unchained at the same time a number of national passions before which the state retired step by step.
The current in the shunt coil lags 90 degrees behind the impressed electromotive force of the circuit to be measured; hence if the main current is in step with the potential difference of the terminals of the supply mains, which is the case when the supply is given wholly to electric lamps, then the field due to the main coil differs from that due to the shunt coil by 90 degrees.
Since the eddy currents induced in the disk are 90 degrees in phase behind the inducing field, the eddy currents produced by the main coil are in step with the magnetic field due to the shunt coil, and hence the disk is driven round by the revolution due to the action of the shunt coil upon the induced currents in the disk.
Joseph took this step in April 1811, and proceeded to Paris in order to extort better terms, or offer his abdication; but he had to return with a monthly subsidy of 50o,000 francs and the promise that the army of the centre (the smallest of the five French armies) should be under his control.
This step Lucien refused to take; and after residing for some time at his estate of Canino, from which he took the papal title of prince of Canino, he left for America.
In one point he seems to have taken a false step; with a warmth and pertinacity worthy of a better cause he maintained the identity of Caesar's Alesia with Alaise (Doubs), and he died without becoming a convert to the opinion, now universally accepted, that Alise Sainte-Reine (Cote d'or) is the place where Vercingetorix capitulated.
But as each successive range, proceeding south, represents a higher step in the terraced ascent from the desert of Gobi to the plateau of Tibet, the ranges when viewed from the north frequently appear like veritable upstanding mountain ranges, and this appearance is accentuated by the general steepness of the ascent; whereas, when viewed on the other hand from the south, these several ranges, owing to their long and gentle slope in that direction, have the appearance of comparatively gentle swellings of the earth's service rather than of well-defined mountain ranges.
The final step in the process is the conception of the Absolute, which is abstract in the most complete sense.
It was a fatal step on Paul's part, for everything goes to prove that he would never have been assassinated had Arakcheev continued by his side.
In June 1546 he took a decided step by making a secret agreement with Charles at Regensburg.
This was the first direct step taken at home towards the establishment of the new State.