The walls are prepared with a glossy paper of a silver gray tint, spotted with small Arabesque devices of a fainter hue of the
prevalent crimson.
The two choral gentlemen looked at each other, and agreed with the prevalent sentiment.
Another ratification of agreement with the prevalent opinion between Smith and Jones.
Authorities were somewhat divided, as to the outward form of the spirit, owing to a custom quite
prevalent among negroes,--and, for aught we know, among whites, too,--of invariably shutting the eyes, and covering up heads under blankets, petticoats, or whatever else might come in use for a shelter, on these occasions.
A
prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.
On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a
prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly--a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away.
They found the prairies saturated with the heavy cold rains,
prevalent in certain seasons of the year in this part of the country, the wagon wheels sank deep in the mire, the horses were often to the fetlock, and both steed and rider were completely jaded by the evening of the 12th, when they reached the Kansas River; a fine stream about three hundred yards wide, entering the Missouri from the south.
In many polished countries civil contentions, as well as domestic enmities, are
prevalent, and the same time that the most atrocious foreign wars are waged.
This intelligence, whether true or false, so roused the fiery temper of M'Lellan, that he swore, if ever he fell in with Lisa in the Indian country, he would shoot him on the spot; a mode of redress perfectly in unison with the character of the man, and the code of honor
prevalent beyond the frontier.
Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion
prevalent in the time of Methuselah.
The municipality stated that although the number of people drying laundry in balconies is less it is quite
prevalent in some areas than others.
The report includes a 10-year epidemiological forecast for the total
prevalent cases of female infertility segmented by age (for ages 15-44 years) in these markets.