He sat, his head resting on his large, strong fingers, pining for sharp-edged mediaeval tables and antique lamps.
Louvre, when Tavannes had so skilfully turned the tables on him, instilling venom into his tone.
And at Landriano, where Leyva turned thetables on us again.
Almost from the fifth year the tables would seem to have suffered but a very gradual change; for even when twenty-eight, these parts do not indicate the horse to be more than "aged.
Whiteness is no sign of youth in the tooth of a horse, and the file cannot make the tables assume the juvenile figure.
On inspection, however, it will be seen that in figures the tables approach more towards the square, which is the last form these surfaces assume.
The round form of the tables results from the horse biting when being groomed, and generally is seen in those which are of an excitable nature.
The continental authors have been very minute, and not a little profuse upon the changes of form which the tables undergo, and attribute the alteration to the gradual wear of the teeth.
This semi-circular arrangement of the incisors is most conspicuous when the colt is rising five; and from that period gradually alters, till in very old subjects the tables will occasionally be ranged almost in a straight line.
The representations of the tables are correctly given, but, in the living mouths, these were corrected by the appearances of the teeth themselves.
Such tables then exhibited to the eye the strength of affinity of all the different bodies that are capable of uniting with one and the same substance, and the order in which decompositions are effected.
There was a new edition of it published, after Bergman's death, in the year 1796, to which are appended Bergman's Tables of Affinities.
Bergman drew up tables of affinity according to these views in fifty-nine columns.
The white-covered tables in the adjoining rooms were occupied by families drinking punch and eating supper.
In the other room some white-covered tables were arrayed, which were still standing empty.
For while the majority of the guests supped at long tables in the picture gallery and in the Hall of the Twelve Months, supper was laid in the Silver Hall for the Grand Ducal family, diplomats, and leading Court officials.
The daily rations were set on clean white tablesin little bottles side by side.
The Tables themselves follow, {314} A Perpendicular Line divided into Signes, supposed to be the Periods of the Risings and Fallings of the Tides, as is in the other Table represented.
They even refused to supply their time-tables to Bradshaw when they ascertained the use to which that enterprising Quaker was putting them.
He got hold of the time-tables somehow: he waited in person on the boards; afterwards he even purchased stock in the hostile railway companies, and the enterprise went on.
There had been no fire in the room since mother went away, and all the chairs and tables were in the wrong places, and the chrysanthemums were dead, and the water in their pots nearly dried up.
It is really in size and type and style the same thing as the time-tables; but being sold at a shilling was continued distinct from the time-tables until it was merged into the "Guide" in 1848.
The tables were laid along the floor of the sewer over four hundred feet of its length, and on both sides of this table, with plenty of room in which to move, sat the best-known citizens of the State.
We are also beginning to see from these tests, that a systematic method of attacking such a problem as the memorizing of the tables will do much to save time and promote efficiency.
Experiments have been conducted to determine the best length of time to give to drill processes, such as spelling, and penmanship, and the fundamental tables of arithmetic.
This wonderful charm not only brought him good luck in everything he undertook, but enabled him to give a wide berth to those who sought to do him harm, and to turn the tables upon them whenever he saw fit to do so.
Afterward it was easy to talk and laugh with Lloyd, as they went through the conservatory cutting the flowers which were to decorate the tables at The Beeches.
You'll hear more gossip here in one afternoon than at all the Cranford tea-tables put together," said Katherine Marks.
His family traced him to a hotel in Pittsburg, and then lost all clue, except that just before leaving the hotel he had asked the clerk for the time-tables of an Eastern railroad.
Dietel would far rather have served the Cologne theologians, whom he regarded as the appointed defenders of the true faith, than the insignificant folk at the other tables who had just finished their meal.
An arbor, with a few clumsy tables and wooden benches, filled the space between the cottage and the road, and invited the passers-by to rest themselves.
Indeed, "Ducie's luck" was a proverbial phrase at the whist-tables of his club.
Smaller tables were placed here and there close to the divan for the convenience of smokers.
The garden between the two buildings was inclosed by a high board fence as tight as a partition, and in summer Joe kept beer-tables and wooden benches among the gooseberry bushes under his little cherry tree.
At one of these tables Nils Ericson was seated in the late afternoon, three days after his return home.
Tables referred to below) regarding the cost prices of the different alloys, solders, etc.
Thence onwards they lived a hand-to-mouth existence, dependent on Valentine's luck at the tables and the inviolableness of an aunt's legacy of five thousand guineas.
One half of them pulled out chairs from the tables and the other half pushed them back again.
And if the quiet tea-tables of Newton Candover were temporarily disturbed by the escapade of Miss Phyllida Courteen, why the parson benefited by an increase in his congregation.
It lent quite a flavour even to the inferior Port that disgraced most of the dinner-tables at Curtain Wells.
The following are the means from the tables of Dr.
This is more reliable as to the winter season than the tables of annual means--although the evidence they afford, making due allowance for the exceptions, is very striking.
Hence, he failed to discover what the tables and summaries most clearly disclose--the principles and system unfolded in the foregoing work.
And, third, there are occasional single cold years during the warm period, and these correspond with what the tables of Dr.
The average of the month is a trifle higher, in most localities, as the tables show.
That the monsoons do not reach the desert is demonstrated by the tables of Professor Coffin, and to set it at rest we will make the necessary extracts.
Still his tables afford general and obvious evidence of the regularity of those periodic conditions.
Weather-tables and lunar phases, compared for nearly one hundred years, show four hundred and ninety-one new or full moons attended by a change of the weather, and five hundred and nine without.
If the solar spots exert any slight influence on our atmosphere, my tables would, perhaps, rather tend to show that the years which exhibit a larger number of spots had a smaller number of fine days than those exhibiting few spots.
The tables also show that this wave was occasionally a double, or divided one--evinced by an intervening partial precipitation.
It did not reach St. Louis on the north, nor extend north of the Ohio River, as will appear from the tables hereinafter given.
The little tables are now all taken, and the luscious fruit bathed in cream and covered with sugar moisten beautiful lips.
They weren't ready to have the tables turned, nor for the trick Zorchi had suggested.
I thumbed through the fine-printed pages of actuarial tablesand turned to the words of Millen Carmody, Chief Underwriter, in the preface.
There were desks and tables and file cabinets; it looked almost like any branch of the Company, with whirring mimeographs and clattering typewriters.
This was a long narrow saloon, decked with tables each covered with a red cloth, whereon stood, in white vases representing a hand grasping a cornucopia, formal bouquets, composed principally of peonies and the foliage of asparagus.
Within, the tables had again been cleared, and then piled upon top of one another at one end of the saloon; in front of this pile stretched a row of chairs.
On the tables and chairs lay piles of packages, cardboard boxes, and parcels.
At one of the tablesnear were sitting several officers of the garrison of the Maine.
Papa is always talking to me about chairs and tables and frying-pans, and I shall practise to do with as few of them as possible.
Certainly;--some day, when the difficulty about the chairs and tables can settle itself.
You shall have chairs and tables as many as you want.
When, therefore, we are forming our tables they must be searched out with the greatest zeal, and placed in the table.
We are wont to term the office and use of these three tables the presenting a review of instances to the understanding; and when this has been done, induction itself is to be brought into action.
We must, therefore, form tables and co-ordinations of instances, upon such a plan, and in such order that the understanding may be enabled to act upon them.
