Turner, Chairman of the Andersonville Prison Board, is due in largemeasure the complete success attending the movement to gain possession of and to beautify the site and surroundings of the historic Andersonville prison.
In this contest the patriotic soldiers of the north and of the south made common cause, and what they did and what they suffered indicates a measure of the enduring worth of our national life.
This accounts in great measure for the "glunch o' sour disdain" that mars so many countenances.
In some measure this morbid sentiment is due to the spectacular features of the Hillsville tragedy.
The measurewas bitterly opposed by many public men, notably by Jefferson; but it passed.
Many, however, scrutinize a visitor calmly for minutes at a time or frankly measure him with the gipsy eye of Carmen.
No outsider can discern and measure those powerful but obscure motives, those rooted prejudices, that constitute their real difference from other men, until he has lived with the people a long time on terms of intimacy.
We owe to him in a great measure the revival of the elegant art of manufacturing encaustic tiles.
There was no measure to the lamentations over the ruin of that great institution of English life--the stage-coach, with its gallant driver and guard, and spanking team.
Here, as in some measure at Limoges, the tables are turned.
Even without the battle the story of Poitiers is a sufficiently varied one, and connected in a great measure with the story of England, if it be remembered that Eleanor, wife of our Henry II.
That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp.
An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.
The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not wooed in good time: if the prince be too important, tell him there is measure in every thing, and so dance out the 60 answer.
There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit.
A man with so keen an intellectual vision, so wise a measure of men and things, must have fathomed to its full extent the depth of moral corruption in the midst of which the Church he presided over fought for existence.
Did the bishops of these cities ever claim to themselves a dignity beyond the measure of that which had descended to them from ancient times?
The smallness of a city does not diminish the rank of a king residing in it; nor does the imperial presence change the measure of religious rank.
Let that city be renowned for the power of the actual empire; but the strength, the liberty, the advance of religion under it consists in religion holding its own undisturbed measure in the presence of that power.
But commonly Swift, too, must be ranked with the wits, if we measure him rather by what he wrote than by what he was.
For why a God's name may not we, as else the Greekes, have the kingdome of our owne Language, and measure our Accentes by the Sounde, reserving the Quantitie to the Verse?
In judging of the merit of an author, and assigning him his niche among our household gods, we have a right to regard him from our own point of view, and to measure him by our own standard.
We have biennial festivals on the evening of election day, when the constituency avenges itself in some small measure on its Representative elect by sending a baker's dozen of orators to congratulate him.
It is something which has nothing to do with the measure of their intellectual powers or of their moral insight, but is the one quality which essentially distinguishes the artist from the mere man of genius.
The Suffragists withdrew with high hopes of a real measure of enfranchisement in the ensuing year.
It is the exact measure of the national recoil since 1908, and if fortune is on our side next week, we have only to carry on the fight resolutely and steadily to the end in order finally to convince the nation.
But I don't believe your mother, in spite of a great measure of personal disappointment, ever had the smallest doubt or misgiving in this matter.
This, he was sure, would do much not only to strengthen the ties that bound this country to the West Indian Colonies, but also to restore to Bristol some measureof that position she had once enjoyed in the trade of the United Kingdom.
We hope during the succeeding year to keep the monthly prints upon exhibition until the following meeting, believing that this measure will both stimulate those who show and benefit those who look.
The higher men rise here in the divine life, the more they discern their imperfections, because they can better measure them by the measure of GOD'S perfections.
But we've got themeasure of the old Boche now, and it's dogged as does it.
He studied the map and began to measure distances.
I reckon I've got themeasure of the Young Turks and their precious Committee.
That time we can measure to the moment, and that is well.
The opportunities are endless; and I hope you may think I have taken advantage of them with a measure of success.
It must have been miles across, though we had no way to measure it, and it stretched down into dim hazy distance.
It came in surging rolls, like thick fluid oozing forward; it would have been hard to measure its size, for each moment it changed.
In all that time they did not see their pursuer once, and the hope that they had lost it brought a measure of much needed optimism to drive their tired bodies onward.
And of the seeing such The meed, as unto each in due degree Grace and good-will their measure have assign'd.
Thou arguest; if the good intent remain; What reason that another's violence Should stint the measureof my fair desert?
But it is part of our delight, to measure Our wages with the merit; and admire The close proportion.
After his retirement, his party proposed no measureuntil a visit was first made to the "Sage of Monticello," and his opinion obtained.
The early, open, and determined resistance, of this parish did not escape the notice of the enemy, and accordingly it was made to feel the full measure of royal vengeance.
Young Prescott took the measure with his string, then applied it to the print in the ground.
Come here and let me measurethe length of your left shoe with this string.
To take a true measure of constancy, one must necessarily know what the suffering is.
There is a certain poor wretch of a villainous painter, one Mr. Lowe,(137) who is in some measure under Dr.
As I knew not to whom to speak, nor how to give a positive order, in my ignorance whether the measure I desired to take was practicable or not, Miss Port undertook to be my agent.
If the Germans try to get a measure through the parliament that is for their benefit alone, the Czechs combine to defeat it.
In fact, these Telugu churches, in the support of their native ministry, are in large measure independent of foreign financial aid.
Who can measure the corrupting influence of this temple upon the lives of the people over a wide area in Assam?
Many persons, however, are readier to take measure of the capacity of others than of themselves.
The thorough aeration of his blood by free exposure to a large breathing surface in the lungs is necessary to maintain that vital power on which the vigorous working of the brain in so large a measure depends.
Even the leisure classes are in a measure compelled to work, sometimes as a relief from ennui, but in most cases to gratify and instinct which they cannot resist.
A man's character is seen in small matters; and from even so slight a test as the mode in which a man wields a hammer, his energy may in some measure be inferred.
The capacity for continuous working in any calling must necessarily depend in a great measure upon this; and hence the necessity for attending to health, even as a means of intellectual labor.
Rousseau, who knew himself better, was much more likely to takemeasure of Tronchin than Tronchin was to take measure of him.
And the habits which lie thus early acquired were, in a great measure the foundation of those admirable business qualities which he afterward so successfully brought to bear in the affairs of the government.
Indeed, goodness in a measure implies wisdom--the highest wisdom--the union of the worldly with the spiritual.
With few exceptions they fill the measure of their publication, and the information they furnish, if properly and judiciously used, can have none but a healthy effect.
