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The mimicry of the bumblebee fly, which was said to be one of the most conclusive cases, is, after all, a mere childish notion. Patient observation, continually face to face with facts, will have none of it and leaves it to the armchair naturalists, who are too prone to look at the animal world through the illusive mists of theory. The spider's web is a glorious mathematical problem.
I could hear his breathing, and it seemed to be only a question of getting across and behind the curtains of his berth without being seen. After that, it was a mere matter of quiet searching. "The car became very still. I was about to try for the other berth, when some one brushed softly past, and I lay back again.
The origin of the poems was distributed among the clouds of pre-historic imagination; and instead of a single inspired Homer for their author, we were required to believe in some extraordinary spontaneous generation, or in some collective genius of an age which ignorance had personified. But the person of a poet has been found more difficult of elimination than a mere fact of history.
What he did now was, therefore, a salve to the wounded pride of Harry Dickson, who resented having a mere berry picker enrolled among the students of the Academy and taking equal rank with boys of wealth and position.
They arrive on the ground flurried, blown; have not the least time to take breath and order: the fewest of them ever got fairly ranked, none of them ever stood above one push: all goes rolling wildly back upon the centre about Leuthen. Chaos come on us; and all for mere lack of time: could Nadasti but once stretch out one minute into twenty! But he cannot.
We Germans know but little of the laws which govern the formation of national character. The capacity of a people for profundity is not profundity, either of the individual or of the community. It may express itself in the masses as mere plasticity and softness of spirit.
Now that it has passed, I see it in its proper proportions, just as if it had happened to someone else, but to one as near and dear to me as myself. I have broken away from the Mob, too. My sympathy for what is called the People has been worn down to a mere thread that might easily be broken and turn me against them.
"Miss Ferguson," he said at last, abruptly, "I know you are thinking ill of me." Miss Ferguson did not reply. "I had hoped," he said, "that there had been a little something more than mere acquaintance between us. I had hoped you looked upon me as a friend." "I did, Mr. Endicott," said Rose. "And you do not now?" "I cannot say that," she said, after a pause; "but, Mr.
It was, her revived and uprising pudency declared, the principal; the only cause. Mere want of money. And she had a secret worth thousands! The secret of a day, no more: anybody's secret after some four and twenty hours. She smiled at the fancied elongation and stare of the features of Mr. Tonans in his editorial midnight den. What if he knew it and could cap it with something novel and stranger?
"The mere material notion of abundance of gold and precious stones, which appealed to the early churchmen, has no charm for us," she declared. "We must have new powers of perception, and new pleasures provided for us, such, for instance, as Mr.
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