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From this cursory view of the preliminary investigations necessary can be realized what difficulties must attend the design of dams for reservoirs in newly settled or uncivilized countries, where there are no data of this nature to go on, and where if maps exist they are probably of the roughest description and uncontoured; so that before any project can be even discussed seriously special surveys have to be made, the results of which may only go to prove the unsuitability of the site under consideration as regards area, etc.
For I knew, now, that my own heart was undisciplined when it first loved Dora; and that if it had been disciplined, it never could have felt, when we were married, what it had felt in its secret experience. 'There can be no disparity in marriage, like unsuitability of mind and purpose. Those words I remembered too. I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable.
One factor which contributed to, if indeed it was not as many of us believed the primary cause of, the prevalence of these diseases, was the unsuitability of bully-beef and hard biscuits as the basis of our diet under the weather and other conditions in which we were then living.
The unsuitability of Francis Sales for the part of hero supplied most of the humour and saved her from loss of dignity. The thing was obviously absurd; she had never cared for dolls, but in her young womanhood she was finding amusement in the manipulation of a puppet. The death of Mr. Sales in the cold March of the next year shocked her from her game.
Later on: "There was another and a very strong reason why the actor of the eighteenth century was encouraged nay, driven to exert his powers to the utmost. It lay in the conditions under which he was compelled to exercise his art." These conditions were unsuitability of costume, the conduct of an unruly audience, and the meanness of the mounting.
The controversy that should have split these two young men apart had given them a new interest in each other. When afterwards she sounded her son, very delicately, to see if indeed he was aware of the clumsiness, the social ignorance and uneasiness, the complete unsuitability of his friend, she could get no more from him than that exasperating phrase, "He has ideas!" What are ideas?
If the subject discussed is entirely foreign to the aims of the magazine, it is simply a case of misapplication on the author's part; and it would be a waste of time for the editor to read something which he knows from its subject he cannot use. This, of course, applies more to articles than to other forms of literary work, although unsuitability in a poem is naturally as quickly detected.
'There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose' 'no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. 'There is nothing, said Annie, 'that we have in common. I have long found that there is nothing.
In these madrigal dramas, as we shall see, the attempts to overcome the musical unsuitability of polyphonic music to the purposes of dramatic dialogue led composers further and further from the truth which had stood at the elbows of Poliziano's contemporaries and immediate successors.
They collected gossip about him in Paris, and told Madame Hanska endless stories, occasionally true, often false, and sometimes merely exaggerated, about his oddities, his love affairs, and his general unsuitability for alliance with an aristocratic family.
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