United States or Mauritius ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
D'Arsonval points out that the accumulators of the Plante class have a great advantage over the Faure type as regards duration, and that the most striking quality of the Montaud accumulator is its longevity.
Very delightful, too, is the type of man thus produced charmingly learned, sweetly innocent, guileless, impracticable; walking the path of life with head in air, with eyes unseeing and ears unhearing the things that fill the thoughts of common men.
We know that the decline of the European red deer is due to these causes, and that a similar process of deterioration is showing among the moose in certain outlying districts in eastern North America. The type species of this group, known as Alces machlis, was long considered by European naturalists uniform throughout its circumpolar distribution, in the north of both hemispheres.
Booming softly as they dropped downwards through the sky, with a motion the size of them rendered delusive, they trooped up the Avenue towards the central point that summoned them. He realised the giant flock of them descent of fearful beauty outlining a type of life denied to the world for ages, countless as this sand that blew against his skin.
The goalkeeper of the team, too, young Lincoln, was rather a nice-looking fellow, nearly six feet high, and well-proportioned, with eyes sparkling with humour, but he lacked the fine open countenance of his captain. "The other members of the team were much of the ordinary type of humanity, just like our average football club men, with any amount of nerve and energy.
He was a big old man. His body looked long and muscular like that of some type of Englishmen, but his head and his features were Mongolian. He was entirely bald, as bald as the palm of a hand, as though bald from his mother he had so remained to this incredible age. And age was the impression that he profoundly presented.
Compare the Alexander, the Charlemagne, the Cid of the Middle Age traditions to the character of history. Even much nearer to us, this process of extreme simplification which the law of mental inertia or of least effort is sufficient to explain always persists: Lucretia Borgia remains the type of debauchery, Henry IV of good fellowship, etc.
A cold-blooded courtesan of the most brazen and unscrupulous type, she was, notwithstanding, one of the most popular women in the upper Tenderloin. She dressed with more taste than most women of her class, and her naturally happy disposition, her robust spirits and spontaneous gaiety had won her many friends.
The spectator of whom they would thus well have been worthy might have read meanings of his own into the intensity of their communion or indeed, even without meanings, have found his account, aesthetically, in some gratified play of our modern sense of type, so scantly to be distinguished from our modern sense of beauty. Type was there, at the worst, in Mrs.
Some thoroughly unselfish members of Congress like Senator Hoar, however, believed the bill a justifiable one and voted for it. See Hoar, Autobiography, II, chapter VIII. The election of 1880 was memorable only for the type of politics with which that contest was so inextricably involved.
Word Of The Day