One can readily imagine the immediate problems all of which needed settlement at once, none of which could besettled without study of the most thorough and vital sort.
The quality of statesmanship in Wood which dealt with these problems and settled them so that from a slave-holding, polygamous, headhunting land there arose a self-governing community is of the highest order.
These two problems, then, were quite different in their essential elements and they required different qualities in the man who settled them.
But finally, following his father's lead, he settledupon the study of medicine.
This settled for all time a century-old trouble which alone would have made the setting up of a peaceable and effective government doubtful.
Ships that had cost months of labor to build settled and disappeared beneath the surface in a few minutes.
Settled in the Abruzzi, a paradise for brigands, they descended into the fertile plains of Naples and of Apulia and put Etruscan and Greek towns to ransom.
When the Dorian mountaineers invaded the Peloponnesus, the main body of them settled at Sparta in Laconia.
In all the countries settled by the Aryans they have followed this type of life--patriarchal, martial, and pastoral.
Once settled in this fertile country, under a burning climate, in the midst of a people of slaves, they gradually changed customs and religion.
It was not until after the garrison was settled here that I saw much of these Indian tribes, whom Custer's victory on the Washita, and diplomatic handling of affairs afterwards, had brought into villages under the guns of our cantonment.
Reed, who rode next to me, asked as we settled into line one November morning.
With fair, soft promises in return from their chief men these tribes settled purringly in their allotted places.
When the rain settled down for an all-night stay, Mrs. Whately would wrap us against it before we left her.
Law is my business; but I'll be fair and say to you that a man's case is sometimes safer settled out of court, if mercy is to play any part.
That our scouts had failed, and our fate was decreed, was now thesettled conclusion in every mind.
We might as well get this matter between us settledhere as over in the court-room, eh?
Get one point settled before you proceed to another.
There were two or three of the hard old Puritans made their little pile cutting Frenchmen's and Spaniards' throats in the Gulf of Mexico, and built meeting-houses when they came home and settled down.
Brooke decided that it would be advisable to take the risk, and when he had settled with his host and a storekeeper, found he had about six dollars left.
Corinne drew a chair to the end of the keyboard and settled herself comfortably.
Cicely settled back, her eyes bright; but gave Henry only the same suddenly impersonal little nod of good-bye that she gave Herbert de Casselles.
With this object he moved over to the heavily upholstered sofa and settled himself on it; stretched out his legs; thrust his hands into his pockets.
By the time they were settled on the train Henry found himself grateful to the certainly strong, however coarse-fibred woman.
Humphrey's gaze wandered to the window; settled on the roof of the Sunbury National Bank opposite.
Humphrey, glad of a brief respite, settled back in his swivel chair.
Henry Calverly, settled comfortably in the hammock on Mrs Arthur V.
McGibbon turned up in Sunbury, Mr Boice had some reason to feel settled and complacent in his years.
Corinne was moving lazily, comfortably about, humming a song by the sensational new Richard Strauss who was upsetting all settled musical tradition just then, and prying into corners and shelves.
As recently as on the 8th of that month, Douglas Jerrold had breathed his last, quite unexpectedly.
It accumulated for him, as it advanced, and that too within a wonderfully brief interval, a very considerable fortune.
A common soldier, poor brute though you called him just now, has this advantage in the stormy times we live in, that he always does his duty before a host of sympathising witnesses.
So Micky, effectually forestalled, went away with settled gloom shadowing his freckled face.
O'Byrn's steps toward Shaughnessy were unsteady but his face was eloquent withsettled purpose.
Dick, as the two settledthemselves comfortably before their sandwiches and coffee.
Now he settled back again in deep disgust as Harkins addressed the disreputable visitor.
I can't get settled and I haven't any balance wheel.
This Mamie is a jade," he remarked, with an air of finality that effectually settled the matter.
He rose abruptly and walked to the window, staring out into the soft night, for the ebon hadsettled down.
The travellers met with a warm welcome, but they tarried only a brief while, and finallysettled permanently in Egypt.
Mr. Pitts sighed and settled himself for a long argument.
Downstairs, Mr. Bill had settled himself in a chair beside the telephone switchboard and lighted a cigarette.
With a look that measured the distance between the front seat and the back, Ka-kee-ta stepped into the car and settled himself with a grunt.
I'm fitter nor my father thinks," said James as he settled down again in bed.
He had a strong drawing, not only to his immediate relations, but to all of his blood; who were not few, for he came of an ancient family, long settled in the neighbourhood.
At last, James opening the door, the gruesome thing fell forward just as he crossed the threshold, knocked him down, and settledon the top of him.
Thus Isy and her mistress, for so Isy insisted on regarding and calling her, speedily settled into their new relation.
Miss Beach received her with unusual complacency, and the two settled down quite harmoniously together.
It was a matter to be settled entirely at their discretion.
Thus supported by masculine authority, Mrs. Woodward settled the question in the affirmative, and replied to her aunt by return of post.
There was a general laugh, and the audiencesettled itself to enjoy the next item on the program.
But she had higher ambitions, and the cloud of depression soon settled down again.
Such of the ancient planters as had paid their own way to Virginia, which was to say those who had settled at their own cost before Dale's departure in 1616, were also to receive grants in like amount.
It is also easy to draw an obvious contrast between the dedicated missionaries who so frequently formed the vanguard of Spanish and French settlement in America and the adventurous and often unruly men who first settled Virginia.
Some of them were smart enough to discount the propaganda that had persuaded them, and so they settled for the wages offered by the company.
Rozier attended to the counter, and, Audubon says, grew rich, but he himself spent most of the time in the woods or hunting with the planters settled about Louisville, between whom and himself a warm attachment soon sprang up.
After they were settled in their new abode, he seated his son beside him and taking one of his hands in his, calmly said: "My beloved boy, thou art now safe.
He finallysettled down again in Edinburgh and prepared the fourth volume of his "Ornithological Biography.
In the fall of that year the family returned to America and settled in New York City, at 86 White street.
Then, Rollo, chief of the marauders, baptized in Rouen, settled down in the duchy granted him in fief by the harassed king of France.
It was sound statesmanship that discerned the menace of the Eastern Question; the advance of the Seljukian Turk was indeed a knotty problem for the XII century, when XX-century Europe, after oceans of blood, has not settled the trouble.
If ever an Englishman was all of a piece it was that son of a Rouen merchant settled in London.
Perhaps the huge jubé and the episcopal tomb both came from the studios of Tours, where had settled the earliest artists of the transalpine Renaissance.
Both now were moving swiftly, the stern of each boat had settled low in the water and the spray from the bow speedily drenched every one on board.
A silence so tense that it was almost possible to feel it had settled over the region.
And as day after day passed without news, it began to be accepted as a settled fact that the culprits would never be found.
For several days the sifting process went on, but when the line up was finally settled upon, Teddy held down short, while Fred was to alternate with Ned as pitcher.
A long fly to centre field ended the inning, and gloom settled down on the boys from Rally Hall.
And I'm not going to be satisfied till I find out," the man went on, glaring suspiciously from one to the other of the boys until he finally settled on Teddy.
But, taken as a whole, the letter met the views of Mr. Mansfield Rushton, and when the family council broke up, it was definitely settled that the boys should go to Rally Hall.
Quicherat gives a note on this subject to point out that there was really was but one Pope at this moment, the question having been settled by the abdication of Clement VIII.
And to-day there was not even Morna to come and see her, or for her to go and see, for Tuesday afternoon was not one of the few upon which the vicar's wife had no settled duty or occupation in the parish.
Rachel could have smiled as she drew herself up with this point settled in her mind for ever; why, the room reeked of Australia!
There was a fortune waiting for special knowledge and a little ready cash; and Alexander Minchin settled down to make it, taking for the nonce a furnished house in a modest neighborhood.
But appeal to them is vain; for they have one settled purpose absorbing them--namely, to cast him down from his height.
Egypt, touches lightly on the wilderness history, and then passes to the early history of Israel when settled in the land, and finishes with the establishment of David on the throne.
We settled it twenty times, or to be exact, thirteen times, Helena.
I could not, at first, assign the fellow a place, for I knew this was an old and well settled country, and not supposed to be overrun with tramps or campers.
I knew this from the library, and I never stopped until I reached a large ant-hill; and there I settled myself to watch them.
There theysettled themselves all three; and Alfred, what can be said of him, only that he was like a bishop among a flock of geese?
And so he did; and people said of the fifth, "He has not settled to anything.
