Tiflis is far from having fulfilled the prophecy of Count Gamba, in 1820, and become a second Palmyra or Alexandria; on the contrary, every measure has been adopted that could extinguish the very germs of the national wealth.
As victors, the Russians used all the rights of the strong hand to consolidate their conquest and extinguish all chance of insurrection.
His zeal for his party did not extinguish his kindness for the merit of his opponents; when he was Secretary in Ireland, he refused to intermit his acquaintance with Swift.
The greater the value of the line current, the greater the number of gaps required to extinguish the arcs.
The relatively long gap required toextinguish the arc, limiting this form of switch to low or moderate pressure circuits.
In each of the above circuits the number of gaps and the resistance are so proportioned as to extinguish the line arc at the end of the half cycle in which the lightning discharge takes place.
We should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish; our attempts should be, not to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage.
No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light.
Men only associate in parties by sacrificing= 15 =their opinions, or by having none worth sacrificing; and the effect of party government is always to develop hostilities and hypocrisies, and to extinguish ideas.
In order entirely to extinguish the glowing cinders, the water streams were now all directed upon the spot where the fire had broken out; a few bold men, Kuhl at their head, ventured wherever a sudden flame could still dart out.
These speeches redoubled the love of Gwynplaine and Dea, and Ursus was astonished at his want of success, just as one who should say, "It is singular that with all the oil I throw on fire I cannot extinguish it.
Did he, then, desire to extinguish their love, or to cool it even?
They then began to extinguish the members to obtain some trace of the Pandavas, and they saw the innocent Nishada woman with her five sons burnt to death.
O, extinguish that flame with the water of thy love poured on it!
Other serpents said, 'We will extinguish the blazing sacrificial fire by ourselves becoming clouds luminous with lightning and pouring down showers.
By this act, O father, extinguish the grief that consumeth me like a blazing fire, that robbeth me of sleep, and that pierces my heart even like a terrible dart.
Beholding Khandava on fire the dwellers (in the forest) that were there, made great efforts to extinguish the conflagration.
Murat and Davoust precipitately advanced to extinguish the flames.
Roguet, feeling the destructive effects of its fire, fancied he was able to extinguish it.
They now hesitated no longer, and without losing time to extend their line under the enemy's fire, they dashed through the trees, and rushed forward to extinguish it.
They hurried on to extinguish the fire, but Rostopchin himself rejected their aid.
No one was making an attempt toextinguish the fire; personal safety and the rescue of their possessions alone occupied the thoughts of such people as were still in the house.
Go out,' he said, 'and then I'll extinguish the lamp.
He had been, seen in the Chapel at Whitehall on the evening of January 8, and that night the sentinel on duty smelt fire just in time to extinguish a slow-match that was to explode a mass of blazing chemicals at midnight.
Some persons made ineffectual efforts to extinguish the fire by tearing down the drapery and smothering the flames with their hands; but in the twinkling of an eye the curtains, papers, and garlands caught, and the wood-work began to burn.
He woke me often during the night, complaining of being unable to sleep, and made me extinguish and relight his lamp again and again.
It was afterward learned that the Infanta Maria Teresa’s fire main had been cut by one of our first shots, and that she was unable to extinguish the fire.
The Spaniards were seen in vain attempting toextinguish the flames.
We had also means of access to the roof, so that if it were set on fire, we might extinguish the flames.
But the government had also acknowledged the limits of Georgia, and had agreed to extinguish the Indian title whenever it could be peaceably effected.
Before the government could extinguish the Indian claim in the manner before agreed upon, i.
A young man, at the risk of burning himself to death, had sacrificed himself in order to extinguish the fire, and he did it very adroitly, but at the cost of quite a bad burn on his wrist.
If all be safe, I will remain till ye send me away, but whate’er ye do, of your mercy extinguish not the light.
Better extinguishthe fire than have to go forth into the courtyard.
It was thrown on the ends of darts and arrows, and even water did not extinguish it; so that the sea all around this Saracen ship was a mass of lurid flames.
Nothing could extinguish it, and besides the great heat it produced, it threw forth dense volumes of poisonous and stifling gases, which soon suffocated those near by.
Having chosen his side in the great war which divides the universe, man can only prosecute that war with all his force; he must regard the Daevas and their followers as his enemies, and try to weaken and extinguish them.
It was only the attempt to extinguish old established worships that was fiercely resisted, not the addition of a new god, even as superior to those already seated in the temple.
Do not extinguish the light,--else we are left in total darkness, on the dangerous corridor.
My lamp of life is already all but exhausted--this would extinguish it forever.
