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Updated: May 5, 2025
They were substituting another singer. "Call up the Herald," suggested Courtlandt. Abbott did so. And he had to answer innumerable questions, questions which worked him into a fine rage: who was he, where did he live, what did he know, how long had he been in Paris, and could he prove that he had arrived that morning?
This church appeared as a supreme effort of matter striving for lightness, rejecting, as though it were a burden, the diminished weight of its walls and substituting a less ponderous and more lucent matter, replacing the opacity of stone by the diaphanous texture of glass.
"Show us," they say, "a single case where the pressure of events has inspired them with the idea, for instance, of substituting clay or mortar for wax or propolis; show us this, and we will admit their capacity for reasoning."
"None that can cure me of the habit of frivolity of the claims of custom " "If a man takes a drug, he is cured by substituting something else for a while until he learns to do without it." "What would you substitute for my drug?" "I'll have to think about it. May I come again and tell you?" "Of course. I am dying to know." Mrs.
The labour for which they are best adapted, and in which, before the opening of roads, these cattle were formerly employed, is in traversing the jungle paths of the interior, carrying light loads as pack-oxen in what is called a "tavalam" a term which, substituting bullocks for camels, is equivalent to a "caravan."
Thus then, by substituting elementary for physical power, we have comfort for comparative inconvenience the inside of an elegant apartment, where books, amusement, or general conversation may occupy agreeably the time for the outside of a hard, unsafe stage conveyance, and exposure to all changes or varieties of atmosphere.
Christianity makes an often fatal attack on a man's morality if he happens to be blessed with any by substituting for the sentiments of love and duty to our neighbors, a sense of obligation of blind obedience to an infinite, mysterious, revengeful, tyrannical God! The real principle of Christian morality, is servile obedience to a dangerous Power!
Indeed, it is high time that the dignity and power of this great Nation should be fittingly signalized by proper buildings for the occupancy of the Nation's representatives everywhere abroad. The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
Still, NATO's chances of replacing the EU as the main continental political alliance are much higher than the EU's chances of substituting for NATO as the pre-eminent European military pact. the EU is hobbled by minuscule and decreasing defense spending by its mostly pacifistic members and by the backwardness of their armed forces.
Here then the builders, not for ornament's sake, but to strengthen their work, gave to the wall the support of a number of shallow buttresses. They also departed from their usual practice, by substituting for the rigid perpendicular of the other faces a slight slope outwards for some distance from the base.
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