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But he kept his thoughts to himself, for he knew the terrible punishment to which a deserter would be liable, and did not wish Lady Eleanor to think of such a thing. But however the gentry might doubt at the Hall, the folks in the village found no difficulty in accounting for everything.

As we should put it, Body is unthinkable except by reference to space which that body does not occupy, as well as to space which it does occupy; and conversely Space is unthinkable except by reference to body actually or potentially filling or defining it. What Democritus hoped to get by this double or correlative system was a means of accounting for or conceiving of change in nature.

A parishioner is cited before the ordinary because he withholds church goods and refuses both to enter into bond for them and to make an accounting.

Not that she liked the golden, hissing stuff. It made her sick and gave her a bad headache the next morning, but still she must drink it, drink it unceasingly. It was the only way she could deaden that terrible, accusing conscience which persistently demanded an accounting.

There is no accounting for taste; but I do not feel sorry, I own, to see our enemies rather degrade themselves, by employing one of our generals, whose talents, even before we knew his treachery, we held in light estimation: abilities must, in truth, be rare in New York.

Bingle gently. "You are a lawyer yourself." "Am I to infer that you What do you mean, sir?" "I leave that entirely to you, sir." Mr. Hoskins coughed, although there was nothing to indicate that it was necessary. "It is possible, sir, for my clients to bring suit against you for a full accounting of all monies that you have expended or misused in "

Had aught befallen thee, Angelica too had died, and welcomed death that joined her to her Bulbo. 'H'm! there's no accounting for tastes, said Bulbo, looking so very much puzzled and uncomfortable that the Princess, in tones of tenderest strain, asked the cause of his disquiet.

To us it is horrible because we have inherited the tendency to think it so, accounting for the notion by wild and fanciful theories of another world as names of places give rise to legends explaining them and reasonless conduct to philosophies in justification. You can hang me, General, but there your power of evil ends; you cannot condemn me to heaven."

Hadn't the boat been in since ten o'clock in the morning? so the truckman told her, and here were the hands at two in the afternoon! There was no accounting for it after all that had passed between them!" However, it couldn't be helped, and as the hour of three struck, and no Mr.

Continuous investigation of this sort would not at all resemble the sensational legislative inquiry and the spasmodic fishing expedition which are now a common feature of our government. The bureau should have the right to propose accounting methods to the department, and if the proposal is rejected, or violated after it has been accepted, to appeal under its charter to Congress.