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Its perilous peregrinations demand agility of movement, long-sighted eyes and masterly balancing-appliances; it has, in fact, a slender shape, ocelli, legs and special organs adapted to averting a fall. Once inside the Bee's cell, it has to destroy the egg; its sharp mandibles, curved into hooks, will fulfil this office.
He loomed up in her thoughts as a relentless and sinister figure, unswayed by affection, yet with the power to counterfeit it, long-sighted for evil, sparing no one not even his daughter. She recalled their first meeting in the little house in Hobart Place, she remembered the thoughtful voice with which, as he had looked her over, he had agreed that she might be "useful."
It teaches us that if the orator could sometimes accuse innocent defendants and pervert well-disposed assemblies a part of the case which historians of Greece often present as if it were the whole he could also, and that in the most trying emergencies, combat the strongest force of present passion, and bring into vivid presence the half-obscured lineaments of long-sighted reason and duty.
"As often as prudence will permit, two or three times a week. We will choose our days well; we will consult the sky, the wind, the stars. On other days, at propitious hours, we will place ourselves at our windows, and communicate by signs which we will agree upon, for it seems that you, like me, are long-sighted. And besides, I know the sign language.
The window of the cedar-room, up two pair of stairs, was open; and in the shadow a darker outline was visible of a man, with his elbows on the window-stone, looking down upon them. "Look at his eyes like two live coals!" gasped Tom. The landlord could not see all this so sharply, being confused, and not so long-sighted as Tom.
Panmixia, or the suspension of natural selection, together with altered habits, will account for an increase of short-sight among the population generally. Long-sighted people could not work at watchmaking and engraving so comfortably and advantageously as at other occupations, and hence would be less likely to take to such callings.
Sahara, fertility of mixed races in; birds of the; animal inhabitants of the. Sailors, growth of, delayed by conditions of life; long-sighted. Sailors and soldiers, difference in the proportions of. St. John, Mr., on the attachment of mated birds. St. Kilda, beards of the inhabitants of. Salmo eriox, and Salmo umbla, colouring of the male, during the breeding season. Salmo lycaodon. Salmo salar.
From the roaring skerry and the wet thwart of the tossing boat, he passes to the stool and desk, and with a memory full of ships and seas and perilous headlands and shining pharos, he must apply his long-sighted eyes to the pretty niceties of drawing or measure his inaccurate mind with several pages of consecutive figures."
But the true way to attack Spain a method soon afterwards to be carried into such brilliant effect by the naval heroes of England and the Netherlands the long-sighted Welshman now indicated; a combined attack, namely, by sea upon the colonial possessions of Philip.
He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
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