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They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangents to the wider life of things.
What was Dolan driving at? Racey had known the Judge for several years, and he was aware that the more indirect the Judge became in his discourse the more important the subject matter was likely to be. "No," said Racey, willing to bite, "you never can tell." "We was talking one day about a feller making mistakes." The tangent was merely apparent. "Yep," acquiesced Racey.
As they wished to start by daylight i. e., from the side of the earth turned towards the sun they could not steer immediately for Jupiter, but were obliged to go a few hundred miles in the direction of the sun, then change their course to something like a tangent to the earth, and get their final right direction in swinging near the moon, since they must be comparatively near some material object to bring apergy into play.
But in reaching the ground where we had left him encamped, we got advice that he too, with all his troops, were gone off, at a tangent, as hard as he could drive.
Something in the grave tenderness with which this was done, reminded Fleda irresistibly of the times when she had been a child under his care; and, somehow, her thoughts went off on a tangent back to the further days of her mother, and father, and grandfather, the other friends from whom she had had the same gentle protection, which now there was no one in the world to give her.
Let us go home!" An hour later the Pauillac spiralled far aloft, above the edge of the Abyss, then swept into its eastward tangent, and in swift, droning flight rushed toward the longed-for place of dreams, of rest, of love.
But he asked it with that same fierce look from under his bushy eyebrows with which he used to ask Tom to define the path of a tangent, and Tom was rattled at once. He answered something about being afraid that he was not well posted, owing to there being so little chance over there to read the papers. After that Professor Razzler and Mr.
I am known as the 'Lady Who Sits on the Sand, commonly condensed to the 'Sand Lady. My brother, who spends most of his time in his boat, is the 'Middle-Aged Man of the Sea, and his scientific friend is the 'Shell Man. When we have stayed on the Tangent as long as the weather and our pleasure induce us, we return to our ordinary routine of life.
The annals of the Peel Administration of course lie outside the province of this monograph; they have already been told with insight and vigour in a companion volume, and the temptation to wander at a tangent into the history of the Queen's reign especially with Lord John out of office must be resisted in deference to the exigencies of space.
"Hem! ahem! rather civil that, I should say!" said the bundle, in one of the smallest, and altogether the funniest little voices, between a squeak and a whistle, that I ever heard in all the days of my existence. "Ahem! rather civil that, I should observe." I fairly shouted with terror, and made off, at a tangent, into the farthest extremity of the room.