Here and there, little groups of loiterers assumed a threatening aspect.
The eastern groups are inhabited by a brown skinned and generally handsome race, often not darker than Spaniards, and supposed to be descended from a common stock, as in general appearance and language there is a great resemblance.
The groups of the large islands to the westward on either side of the equator are peopled by a black and savage race, in many respects resembling the negroes of Africa, and sunk even still lower in barbarism.
And as Abbas Khan took the leaf of pan which was handed to him, and turned to the groups behind him, and cried, "O friends, will ye accept me?
A company of women, with bright water-pots on their heads, were going for water, and some people had collected in groups to watch the unusual sight of the strangers' arrival.
Her own garden was just beneath her window, and in its borders the groups of old-fashioned spring flowers could be dimly seen through the silver-shot air.
These two component groups originally sat together, forming a collective assembly from which the modern Parliament has gradually developed.
Riding through the villages round Seville on Sundays it delighted me to see little groups making a circle about the house doors, in the middle of which were dancing two girls in bright-coloured clothes, with roses in their hair.
I came to the old rampart of the town, now a promenade; and at the gate groups of idlers, with cigarettes between their lips, stood talking.
Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won.
But while they have followed Gauguin's lead in abandoning representation both of these two groups of advance are lacking in spiritual meaning.
I have chosen these three groups to illustrate the search for the abstract in art.
It is interesting to notice three practically contemporary and totally different groups in painting.
This society consists of groups who seek to approach the problem of the spirit by way of the INNER knowledge.
Between these red masses of stone groups of live oaks emerged, and here and there small ponds could be seen glistening.
I walked through the groups of Indians to him, with my young lady friend hanging tightly on my arm.
It was here and there covered with bushes and groups of trees, while every now and then its bed widened and formed small pools.
However that may be, we meet with at least four common groups of bacteria more or less constantly present in cheese-ripening, either in the early or late stages.
This prodigious task is accomplished by the agency of two groups of organisms, the decomposition and denitrifying[37] bacteria.
It will be obvious that from these data it is inferred that Groups 1 and 2 are rarely conveyed by the air, whereas Group 3 is frequently so conveyed.
All these four groups may bring about a variety of changes, beneficial and otherwise, in the cheese-making.
Groups of children flutter and chirrup; little girls with their dolls play at being mothers, and little boys play at brigands.
All the morning groups of people succeeded each other in the big cavern of our room, a going and coming of sighs.
At the foot of a wooden cupboard which looks like iron are lamp glasses in paper shirts; and farther away, groups of oil-drums.
Emerging from church, the men go away; the women swarm out more grudgingly and come to a standstill together; then all the buzzing groups scatter.
Here and there groupsformed and lamented in undertones the public authority's lack of foresight, the insufficient measures for preserving order.
On the edges of it we can clearly see isolated silhouettes and groups as they fall, with an extended line of figures like torchlights.
One saw him afar, fascinating the groups of urchins who a week ago threw stones at him.
It consisted of groups of huts, ten or a dozen groups in all, set on low ground near the river, which suggested that the population might number anything between seven hundred and a thousand souls.
They ran through groves of cedars and large groups of forest trees not unlike to enormous oaks and pines, and yet not the same.
Within these size-groups the subspecies can be distinguished by differences in color pattern.
The dog accompanies the human scout in his reconnaissance, and helps in finding advance posts or sentinels, and locating small groups of the enemy.
As the train pulled away the little groups broke into strangling sobs.
Mistaking the identity and the intentions of the groups he saw advancing, he ran towards them to reassure them and bring them back to the trenches.
They tore through the horse-fittings, killing numbers of the unfortunate horses, and also wounded several of the men, who were now clustered in groups near the boats.
With only one of the many groups on the deck need we concern ourselves, and a few words will introduce our fellow-travellers.
Spectators, one by one, took a near view and a distant view, and then walked gently by and took an occasional view, and lastly gathered together in little groups and took a general view.
The strength of the human tie which binds heart to heart is nowhere more strikingly displayed than on these distant shores, where groups of rough, stalwart men hurry to the post office in the hope of receiving letters from home.
Dead men were thickly strewed over the fields with their faces blackened, and eyes starting from their sockets; and upturned, swollen horses lay, sometimes in groups of six or eight, showing where some battery had suffered fearfully.
As evening approached, the voice of singing was heard from all the camps, and groupswere gathered under the shadow of the chestnut trees, where many pairs of government shoes were shuffling to the music of violins.
Now you will perhaps permit me to denominate these three groups of patterns that occur in our new home fabrics as modern patterns.
That in itself tells us a good deal about its ancestors and its future, “places” it, in fact, in one of those major groups into which all plants are divided.
But merely to sort plants into these large groups does not tell us all we need to know about them.
There are whole groups of plants that rely on this method for seed dispersal, notably the avens, tick-seed, tick trefoil, and many shrubs in the tropical regions.
Orders are thus groups of one or more plant families, all differing one from another, but obviously related and having some characters in common.
No better idea of the present size and importance of these two groups of plants can be gained than to state the fact that perhaps not over 500 different kinds of gymnosperms, all of which are trees and shrubs, are known.
Some perished as did the Cordaitales, but left descendants who themselves gave rise to other groups that survive to-day.
As we shall see in the chapter on Plant Families, this is a distinction between two great groups of plants, as important in their classification as negro and white man are in classifying humans.
Just as plant distribution is the reflection of many, usually widely operating forces, so ecology narrows down to individual plants or groups of them the impact of the immediately surrounding conditions upon vegetation.
No matter from what part of the world a totally unfamiliar plant may come, it is always possible to decide into which one of these groups it belongs.
While no general account of the plant families can be attempted here, some of the more interesting in both the monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous groups will be briefly discussed.
While ferns in great variety, gymnosperms, and hundreds of flowering plants are known quite definitely, they total only a minute fraction of these groups to-day.
Families of plants are thus groups of genera, placed together in the scheme of classification, because they are more like one another than like any other such group.
As Mr Stanforth's eye travelled over the various groupshe observed two young men sitting close together on one of the benches at a little distance.
The blue sky, the dancing waves, the groups of people moving about, the unfamiliar sights and sounds amused him.
Some fishermen and seamen had gathered in groups upon the wharf to watch her as she came nearer, and to make conjectures as to what might be her name and whence she had come.
The warrant-officers stood in groups apart from the seamen, for they were persons of great importance on board.
The peril in question is the peril of having in a democracy large groups of voters actuated by racial and national affiliations other than those of the country in which they live: in other words, large elements of unassimilated foreigners.
Thus far the principle of freedom of the seas had been invoked in connection with efforts to preserve for the benefit of a whole nation or of favored groups of nationals, all access to the trade and resources of certain regions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groups" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: art; group; movement; school
