When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and that I have adhered to it through all time I owe to my mother.
When I was two years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence.
The baneful effects of such medication are not at once appreciable, but, if continued for any length of time, they will eventually result in a total demoralization of the nervous system.
The appendix goes on-- "The management of the airline instructed its counsel to deny every allegation of fault, and to counter-attack by ascribing total culpability to the air crew .
Gemmell or Ian Wood or David Graham intotal isolation in any part of the wreckage.
Between the tropics these trees yield ripe fruit twice a year, during a total period of about three of our months--perhaps for a hundred days.
Gravity on the surface of Mars is less than half what it is on Earth; the total mass of the planet is as two to fifteen.
As I removed her veil I was struck by the total unlikeness which her face and form presented to those I had just saluted.
A similar mountain range on earth would have presented a greater variety of colouring and scenery, the total absence of glaciers, even in the highest valleys, creating a notable difference.
Even now the totalinterruption of the action of apergy for a considerable time would not affect the rate at which I was already moving.
If at any time it appear that, for whatever cause, the total number left alive is falling off, the chief of this service suspends it partially or wholly at his discretion.
I impute it to moral influences, since the chief cause of death is low vitality, marked nervous depression and want of animal spirits, such as the total absence of personal tenderness and sympathy must produce in children.
I presume that the total obscuration of everything outside the cloud during my passage through it was due to its extent and not to its density, since at that height it could not have been otherwise than exceedingly light and diffuse.
France and the Emperor Conrad of Germany, had been a total failure.
Edward's total want of success might naturally have been expected to incline him to it; but he claimed exemption from rendering homage for Guienne, and demanded that Philip should cease to support the King of Scots against him.
Guienne or the aid of Brittany: namely, his grand dream of the totalconquest of France.
Total abstinence and habitual temperance augment considerably the chance of death from old age or natural decay, without special pathological lesion.
Five hundred individuals were caught in snap-traps, and forty additional voles that were marked were captured a total of 157 times.
Seasonal Changes in the Numbers of Adults in Relation to the Total Population of Prairie Voles.
To place a gravid female in its proper age class, the weight of the embryos was subtracted from the total weight, and the remaining weight was used as the body weight.
There was a totalwant of confidence in one another among the peoples of the ante-Christian period.
The first of Nicholas's wars with Turkey would have ended in his total defeat, if the Turks had been able to find a leader of ordinary capacity and average integrity.
He struck from the rolls at one time twelve of his best men for breaking the rule of total abstinence.
They blaze out suddenly and almost as suddenly fade away into obscurity or total invisibility.
Gore finds that the totalnumber should be about 1400 millions.
But the heat lost in causing a similar amount of contraction is so little more than the increase of heat produced by contraction, that the slightly diminished total heat in a smaller bulk causes the temperature of the mass to increase.
Now it has been calculated as the result of careful observations, that the total light given by stars down to nine and a half magnitude is one-eightieth of full moonlight, though some make it much more.
Both are on the same scale, and they show the total diameter across the Milky Way as being 3600 light-years, or about half that postulated by Lord Kelvin for his hypothetical universe.
What determines the total quantity of gaseous matter on the surface of a planet will be, mainly, its mass, together with the average temperature of its surface.
If we could rightly interpret the total life of the Greek nation, we should ever find reflected only that picture which in her highest geniuses shines with more resplendent colours.
Aristotle relates that, to the question what made life worth living, Anaxagoras had answered: "Contemplating the heavens and the total order of the Cosmos.
Here's a letter from the insurance people, inclosing a check for a total loss on the vessel, but they repudiate payment of the insurance on the cargo.
In fifteen minutes she would have been on the beach and a total loss--and I have a document, signed by Captain Murphy and his mates, to prove it.
Then I gave her a dab of paint here and there, sweetened her up, and sold her to Slade, of the Alaska Codfishing Corporation, at a net profit of fifteen hundred dollars over her total cost to me.
I'll bet a cooky you're a total loss and no accident insurance," Matt soliloquized.
I could imagine the rage of Sir Richard when his emissary should return and report the totalfailure of his scheme.
He took it by the blade; I placed my musket against the table and reached forward to take the hilt, but with a sudden swift movement he swept the candles to the floor and the room was in total darkness.
We passed but one house, and that was in total darkness, and if any person in it had been awake, our passage would not have been heard, for we were all barefooted but three, myself and two others.
The mate cursed him vigorously, rather from habit than from ill temper, and the seaman shut us in, leaving us once more in total darkness.
His total depravity tempts him to a startling succession of hideous murders.
The total is found to be written on the slate; and then at the behest of the performer the cards containing the figures of this totalrise in proper sequence out of the case.
No; it was only by thetotal change of all the ordinary channels of my ideas that I could bear up; and now my days were passed in the fields, either listlessly strolling along, or in watching the laborers as they worked.
Here I learned, for the first time, that we had gained the battle, and heard of the total annihilation of the French army, and the downfall of the Emperor.
As he came nearer, it was perceived that he was accompanied by a led horse, and apparently with total disregard of the presence of an enemy, rode boldly and carelessly forward.
That their object was the total destruction of our venerated University there can be but little doubt.
The total individual under this concentrated aspect is distinct from the existing and actual play of his consciousness, his secular ideas, developed interests, inclinations, &c.
In that total process of the mind's liberation and self-realisation the portion specially called Morals is but one, though a necessary, stage.
But these first principles were only an abstraction from complete reality--the reality which nature has when unified by mind--and they presuppose the total from which they are derived.
The finances deal with what in their nature are only particular needs, ever newly recurring, even if they touch on the sum total of such needs.
But they are misused when it is supposed that they connote abrupt and total discontinuity.
The total sensitivity has its self here in a separate subjectivity, which, in the case cited of this sentient life in the ordinary course of nature, is visibly present as another and a different individual.
The total is given for each: eleven hundred thousand for Israel, four hundred and seventy thousand for Judah, in all fifteen hundred and seventy thousand.
He probably made or had made for him some rough calculation as to the total of men, women, and children that would correspond to the vast array of fighting men.
And even supposing that we comprised the sum total of the wounded, there must have been a large proportion of dead in so desperate an affair as that of the past night.
Their honor was vindicated in the field of Tebeste, by the death of Solomon, and the total loss of his army.
The lesser piragua coming up with thirty-two more men, made a total force of sixty Buccaneers, including the king of Darien, engaged in this daring resistance to an overwhelming force.
The following was their plan, which completely succeeded, but nevertheless ended in the Spaniards' total rout.
The stable was in total darkness, but when he turned his attention to the house he at once discovered that one window was brightly lighted and his heart quickened at the sight, for there was now at least a possible explanation of the mystery.
Fewer men fell at Salamis than at Towton, and in the battle of Bedr[1] the totalforce engaged did not exceed two thousand, yet Mohammed's victory changed the history of the world.
