One day during the
prevalence of the excitement Saylor presented himself at the office of the Commercial for orders.
learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the
prevalence of this gesture
And something did, for the next summer was made memorable by the
prevalence of a mysterious disease--epidemic, endemic, or the Lord knows what, though the physicians didn't--which carried away a full half of the population.
The existence of Society, as you truly say, is threatened by the present lamentable
prevalence of Liberal ideas throughout the length and breadth of the land.
Hence, as has often been remarked, a species may depart from its allies in several characters, both of high physiological importance and of almost universal
prevalence, and yet leave us in no doubt where it should be ranked.
Until well into the seventeenth century, to be sure, the London companies made frequent tours through the country, but that was chiefly when the
prevalence of the plague had necessitated the closing of the London theaters or when for other reasons acting there had become temporarily unprofitable.
He could defend many institutions better than any philosopher, because, in describing them as they concerned him, he gave the true reason for their
prevalence, and speculation had not suggested to him any other.
Why, there is a mixture, I said; but one thing, and one thing only, is predominantly seen,--the spirit of contention and ambition; and these are due to the
prevalence of the passionate or spirited element.
Such
prevalence had money in this family; and though the mistress would have turned away her maid for a corrupt hussy, if she had known as much as the reader, yet she was no more proof against corruption herself than poor Susan had been.
In nature every species of organic being instinctively adopts and practises those acts which most conduce to the
prevalence or supremacy of its kind.
As Washington may be called the head-quarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva, the time is come when I must confess, without any disguise, that the
prevalence of those two odious practices of chewing and expectorating began about this time to be anything but agreeable, and soon became most offensive and sickening.
It is remarkable as showing the wide
prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
