I could write; but I never revised the press sheets, and have been obliged, accordingly, now to amend the text here and there, or correct it in unimportant particulars.
An admirably-equipped field telegraph formed a not unimportant adjunct to the army’s equipment.
In the matter of the British prisoners he was unable, he said, to recall exactly what had become of them, but, after all, it was an unimportant matter!
The king, who had attained the patriarchal age of ninety years, had really played an unimportant part in the insurrection, and had merely been set up as a royal figurehead by the mutineers.
When a few more unimportant questions had been asked, Wilde left the witness-box, returning to the dock with the same air of what may be described as serious easiness.
I am convinced it was written in passionate sincerity at the time, and yet it represents a mere mood and an unimportant one of the man who wrote it, a mood too which does not even last through the 150 pages of the book.
A few unimportant creeks having been crossed, they found themselves on the western fall, and discovered one of the Gulf rivers, which was named the Lynd.
As regards authorities, I have spared no pains to get at the original sources of information, and have succeeded in all but a few unimportant exceptions.
The unimportant conversation with which this scene opens is a proof of Shakespeare’s minute knowledge of human nature.
No moment can be unimportant since they all contain treasures of grace, angelic food.
Providence, by means of some apparently unimportant action which she unconsciously performs, rescues her from the embarrassments into which she has been led by her own uprightness and the malice of her enemies.
The marvels of this work which gratify the curiosity of our readings serve only to disgust us with the apparently unimportant events through which, if we despise them not, the divine love effects great things in us.
Yet with these same unimportantactions God deigns to be content.
And why, it may be asked, have I entered into this explanation respecting a matter so unimportant as the admission or exclusion of the Poem in question?
Somehow all that they will suffer seems small to me and unimportant beside this great, sweeping gladness that I feel.
A scoundrel he might be, but a cool brain was at work inside his head--a brain not easily disturbed by unimportant things, he decided.
His senses were swimming back one by one to a vital point from which they had been swept by an unexpected sea, gripping rather incoherently at unimportant realities as they assembled themselves.
It is such a simple, little thing to put out of your mind, so trivial, so unimportantwhen you look back--and think.
The boys will learn submission to the majority in such unimportant things as may be committed to them; they will learn system and regularity, and every thing else, indeed, that belongs to the science of political self-government.
And the extra cost for service of more brakemen as the size of the train increases, is relatively unimportantwhen modern equipment with air brakes is used.
But, on the other hand, it must be borne in mind that at best this tonnage is even today relatively unimportant to the transcontinental railroads.
Historically, on the other hand, Chattanooga was long anunimportant point.
The great contest between the trunk lines over the granting of differentials to Philadelphia and Baltimore, as against New York and Boston, played a not unimportant part in the diplomacy leading to the acceptance of the MacGraham system.
But railroad traffic as a whole was still relatively unimportant as compared with water carriage.
The general acceptance, both in practice and theory, of the principle that distance is a relatively unimportant element in rate making[249] is significant at this time, in connection with the recent amendment of the Act to Regulate Commerce.
Whether the failure of so many of his fellows was due to inefficiency, or to a spirit of faction and disloyalty, is unimportant to the general military writer, however interesting to French officers jealous for the honor of their service.
Some unimportant redistribution of trading-posts on the west coast of Africa was also made.
The remaining incidents of the Sicilian war are unimportant to the general subject.
The various forms of bark also yield a very small quantity of an unimportant alkaloid, conquinamine.
A few unimportant ranges rise within the north-eastern portion, the highest hill being the sacred Sitakund, 1155 ft.
There is one other note to Payne in the Century Magazine, unimportant and undated, suggesting a walk one Sunday.
Here should come three unimportant notes to Hone with reference to the Every-Day Book--adding an invitation to Enfield to be shown "dainty spots.
I doubt if he could have told you himself, and I am sure he would have considered the point as unimportant as I do.
Or did he in the good old oriental way regard her as unimportant in the eyes of the Deity?
One would see how important or unimportant portent in the cosmos was the agricultural ant's dream of three millimetres and an aphis compared with the aspirations of the English labourer.
Bristol plays a not unimportantpart in the Post Office telephone trunk line system, commenced in 1896.
Miss Ida's indisposition was not so unimportantas you supposed, you see, sir;" said he sarcastically.
They failed, in two or three cases to arouse the keepers; and from others received unimportant and early replies.
It would argue ridiculous vanity in me, to suppose that my absence has detracted from the pleasures of the assembly; and from the aspirants for the smile of the reigning belles, so unimportant a personage is not missed.
Moreover, the use and practice of restraining one's bashfulness in small and unimportant matters is advantageous also in regard to praise.
Then, again, if anyone thinks it a small and unimportant matter to govern the tongue, another point I promised to touch on, he is very far from the reality.
In the first place, let us begin with the most trifling and unimportant matters.
He left even less mark on Florida than did De Leon, and belongs to the class of Spanish explorers who, though real heroes, achieved unimportant results, and are too numerous to be even catalogued here.
France had made a few gingerly expeditions, which bore no substantial fruit; and Portugal had founded a few comparatively unimportant towns in South America.
Hajto took possession of that speech, and translated it,--of course with a few unimportant alterations.
This, however, is unimportant if the skin remains intact, unless a very large vessel should be injured, or the fracture should open some of the important cavities of the body, in which case a fatal hemorrhage may result.
If the fracture is through the posterior part of the bone, it is unimportant and deserving of no more attention than placing the animal in such position as to insure it against subsequent injury until the bones are united.
Unless the point of the broken bone penetrates the cavity of the chest the fracture is usually unimportant and calls for no treatment other than quiet.
There was no longer any question of the admission of representatives of the Protestants; yet its work, if limited to Catholic nations, was neither unimportant nor easy.
