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They viewed the subject from the more elementary stand-point of multiplication. Thus, in order to find out how many times 7 is contained in 77, an existing example shows that the numbers representing 1 times 7, 2 times 7, 4 times 7, 8 times 7 were set down successively and various experimental additions made to find out which sets of these numbers aggregated 77.
Mr. Copeland, Mrs. Paton, and I went round the island to Dr. Inglis's Station, where we were most cordially received and entertained by his dear lady, and by the Christian Natives there. As he was making several additions to his house at that time, we received for the next few weeks our first practical and valuable training in Mission house-building, as well as in higher matters.
These, though now entirely renewed, were built when the whole of this part of the choir was added. Part of the walling for a few feet below the parapet was renewed at the same time. The flying-buttresses are thirteenth-century additions of the same date as the vaults within; and those three nearest the transept abut on parts of the twelfth-century flat buttresses.
Then he fell to asking little Melicent about how much she had missed Father while Father was away, and he dutifully kissed the two other children, and he duly admired the additions to Emmerick's vocabulary during Father's absence. And afterward he went alone into the Room of Ageus.
It was felt at the time, more especially by the latest additions to the party, that this would have been a great calamity. Habits, long acquired, of stopping by the roadside and minutely examining weeds or bits of stone, are not to be eradicated in a night's journey by rail.
Curtis J. Smith and Newton Short held them a meeting, resulting in forty additions. The members of the first organization began to move their membership to Mt. Byrd, and soon the two congregations were one.
During the present Congress there need be no additions to the aggregate number of units of the navy.
Louis re-entered the room, and as he did so Horrocleave shut the petty-cash book with an abrupt gesture. "Here, take it!" said he, pushing the book away. "Is it all right?" Louis asked. Horrocleave nodded. "Well, I've checked about forty additions." And he smiled sardonically.
She took up her knitting again as she said, "I am afraid the balance of debt is on our side." "Then," said Penhallow, who, too, disliked argument on religion, "if you have got through with additions to the useless squabbles of centuries, which hurt and never help, I " "But," broke in his wife, "I have had no answer." "Oh, but you have, Ann; for me, Rivers is right."
The whole scene with its background of sloping meadows and budding woods so tranquil and contented a scene which William Morris would have loved for there is a pleasant grace of antiquity about the old house, a sense of homely and solid life, and of all the family associations that have gone to the making of it, generation after generation leaving its mark in the little alterations and additions that have met a need, or even satisfied a pleasant fancy.
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