In a resonant voice with that particularly dominant form of accent, Scots with a dash of Canadian, there floated up through the clear morning air this somewhat arrested announcement: "I'm the finest judge of women in Europe.
Throughout, the dominant features of the legions were heavy infantry and Roman citizenship.
Many of the large and dominant families have a range wide as that of the order, and certain species that have attached themselves to man--like the meal moths and the clothes moths--have become almost cosmopolitan.
The Nymphalidae are by far the largest and most dominant family of butterflies.
Leo assisted at St Clara's death-bed, 1253; after suffering many persecutions from the dominant party in the order he died at the Portiuncula in extreme old age.
The dominant considerations in placing commercial peach-orchards in the peach-zones in New York seem now to be economic ones.
Late Crawford is at the head of the Crawford family, long dominant among the several groups of American peaches and not yet equalled by any other yellow-fleshed peaches in quality.
He became naturally the dominant figure in my horizon, and his scheme of discipline impressed itself almost at once upon his children.
As to the other dominant languages, the points in their favour are different.
It has been compelled to recognize that other individuals, however united with the dominant class for certain limited purposes, have their independent interests, orbits, and personalities.
But the legal privilege preserved by the Divorce Act is enjoyed by the dominant sex to this day.
For four years more the Catholic Association remained the dominant force in Irish politics, and every bitter and violent man in the country had a just ground for denouncing the English Government.
But the Churchman was still involved in the Liberal Prime Minister, and the theological honours and offices were left to the dominant creed.
The conditions of their existence were prescribed by the members of the dominant sect.
But a more striking, because a more innocent, revelation of the arrogance of the dominant class is contained in Lord John Russell's record of his discovery of intelligence among employers of labour.
An arbitrary standard, convenient to the interest of the dominant sex, had been erected for women, and they had been carefully trained up to it.
There is no motive, other than that of selfish interest, the desire to retain the most honourable and profitable occupations for the dominant sex, which can impel a man to the use of this argument.
What romance had ever been written that was equal to this story; this perpetual fiction, with a real hero dominant in every chapter?
The young man lamented the loss of his father with all that single-minded earnestness which was the dominant attribute of his character.
When, then, scene is to furnish the dominant interest, plot and character become relatively insignificant and shadowy.
Perhaps the writer wishes to make character the dominant element.
The dominant part of the royal favorite belongs now to Slavery, which is the cause of all the national calamities, while in the Rebel States it is a more than royal favorite.
The university of Oxford was a natural centre for such a reaction, and it was set on foot with the deliberate purpose of defending the Church and the Christianity of England against the anti-catholic aggressions of the dominant liberalism.
Our map shows that they form the dominant element in the population only in eastern Bulgaria, where they indeed constitute a solid and coherent body.
The same policy of hypocrisy, deception, favoritism, and proscription is a dominanttrait of the administration of the Government.
You perceive why there is here a height and there a hollow; you note what has given the ridges and vales their dominant forms and directions; you detect the causes that have spread out a meadow in one place and raised up a hill in another.
In this pull and haul between the social forces of the two continents we finally discover the dominant influence, perhaps, which throughout history has condemned this region to political disorder and ethnic heterogeneity.
The metalloids dominant in this chaos of affinities and repulsions were then floating in an irrespirable atmosphere along with a mass of aqueous vapors.
There is a strong, a very strong, feeling against a dominant Church; but a majority of the Province would rather have that, and connection with Great Britain, than republicanism.
Ryerson stated elsewhere) the discussion on the question of a dominant church monopoly and party .
Each step was contested by the dominant party, and every reform was resisted with a determination worthy of a better cause.
To put a weapon into the hands of the friends of a dominant church in Upper Canada.
Ryerson and those who acted with him were directed, as intimated before, against the efforts put forth to establish a "dominant church" in Upper Canada.
With me, therefore, it was a sine qua non to get quit of our dominant Church nuisance in Canada, viewing it as a thing in the way of the prosperity of the people, and therefore as a thing insidiously undermining their loyalty.
This impartiality in his early studies is the key of his philosophic work, the dominant characteristic of which is comprehensiveness rather than originality.
At the end of the 6th century all the provinces of the Empire had become independent kingdoms, in which conquerors of Germanic race formed the dominant nationality.
It was easy, therefore, to understand why Anselm's method did not become the dominant one in theology.
But in those tragic poems of which the dominant note is the note of Beaumont's genius a subtler chord of thought is sounded, a deeper key of emotion is touched, than ever was struck by Fletcher.
The dominantfashion was the moustache, worn with long and drooping whiskers.
As an ecclesiastic he maintained the privileges of the hierarchy and the dominant system of belief conscientiously, but always with harshness and sometimes with cruelty.
Indeed, I should say that the superficially casual and piecemeal manner in which a moving drama can be built up is the dominant impression which I brought away from this abode of mystery.
His letters to her reveal the two great dominantelements in his mind and heart at that time: a deep and respectful love, and some of the highest ideals of vital religion.
The typical Cuban does not belong to the coast cities, the inhabitants of which are more distinctly Spanish, especially the dominant class.
The purpose of the dominant race South to overthrow the rule of the blacks or their friends was then manifest in the conduct of elections.
The blood of the dominant race became intermingled with the black, and often white blood predominated in the slave.
Pelloutier, a zealous and efficient administrator, had already become the dominant spirit in one entire section of the French labor movement, that of the Bourses du Travail.
In all these acts we find a point of view in harmony with the dominant one of our day.
As a result, there is a parliamentary cretinism, because, in a sense, the dominant elements in Parliament are only managing the affairs of powerful influences outside of Parliament.
That the State is only an agency for representing in certain fields the power of a dominant economic class--this is something the anarchist will not admit.
Following up Rathke, he strove to substitute for the then dominant fantastic doctrines of the homologies of the cranial elements advocated by Owen, sounder views based on embryological evidence.
But when persons were recommended to office, it was not the practice to name, as a recommendation, that they had been or were warm supporters of the dominant power.
The idea of supporting a dominant party, merely because it was dominant, did not influence his judgment, or withdraw him from the high path of duty which he had marked out for himself.
Since music is founded deeply in the nature of man, the dominant national mood is reproduced invariably in a country's music.
The lofty idealism, which was the strength of the dominant school of thought, and which found political expression in the revolutionary movements of 1848, was now followed by a wave of reaction.
Spaciousness is the dominant expression of the whole--the back-yard is a feature of the meanest one-storeyed hovels.
But Chinese relations being a compound of courtesy and force on the part of foreign Powers, it is not difficult to divine which of the two must be the dominant factor.
It needs no great effort of imagination to divine, in a body thus composed, whose would be the dominant voice.
One seems naturally inclined to be religious, and must be carefully watched lest the sensitiveness should become morbid, and a dominant thought should lead to mania, melancholy, or a possible reaction.
It is a melancholy fact that in the most progressive and civilized communities the greed of gain, instead of dying out, becomes aggravated, acquires a dominant influence, and sways men as the master passion.
It is constant and dominant in him, an expression of his religion.
He goes pencilless into the woods, and waits before writing until his return home, until time has elapsed for the multitudinous details of the trip to blur and blend, leaving only the dominant facts and impressions for his pen.
Stronger than love of kind, than love of mate, constant and dominant in his slow cold heart is his instinct for home.
