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His business partakes more of the character of retail than wholesale, and the grinding technically slaughtering system of the factors of Birmingham has an unfavourable Yankeefying effect on their character. The principal mercantile houses are in direct communication with American houses, if not actual partners or agents.

The factors in the cases might simply be summarized as childlessness, anxiety, neglect, and loneliness, and in each case the main symptoms were anxiety, attacks of cardiac symptoms, fatigue, and sleeplessness. The young Jewish woman, thirty years of age, had been married since the age of twenty.

Perhaps it is allowable to add here that marquetry, or marqueterie, its French equivalent, is the more modern survival of "Tarsia" work to which allusion has been made in previous chapters. In considering the design and manufacture of furniture of the present day, as compared with that of, say, a hundred years ago, there are two or three main factors to be taken into account.

I see pretty plainly that their number increases in proportion as their size diminishes, as though the Tachytes were seeking to make up for the smallness of the game by increasing the amount; none the less I find it quite impossible to detect the least equivalence by combining the two factors of number and size.

The automobile and the consolidation of rural schools, resulting in social centers, are large factors in the good-roads movement.

Could the melancholy croaking of frogs in the distance have fallen on the ears of the boy, he would have had all the factors that go to bring on the most absolute loneliness of which a human being is capable. Unfortunately Jack did not need that addition to render his misery complete, for it was furnished by his own condition and situation.

In those days I found so often some train of circumstances a borrowed book, a stranger coming across my path, some unexpected visit paid, which were later found to have been factors in a special experience that I was rather surprised to realise that I was leaving the "most haunted castle in Ireland" and that nothing had happened.

This is expressed by the product of two factors which cannot be separated, namely, the sum of available means and the strength of the Will.

Because, monsieur, recognizing that this country is one of the chief factors in preserving the peace of Europe, the nations have sent the ablest men they possess as their Ambassadors to Sturatzberg. Your British Minister is a case in point.

The variations between cheeses thus made may be slight or they may be considerable, but variations certainly do occur. Every one knows the great difference in flavours of different cheeses, and these flavours are due in considerable measure to factors other than the simple mechanical process of making the cheese.