Easy in A Sentence

    1

    A few problems lead to indeterminate equations of the third and fourth degrees, an easy indeterminate equation of the sixth degree being also found.

    2

    A footing had no doubt been gained at Suvla, giving the Allies control of a fairly well-sheltered inlet on the outer coast of the peninsula; but as the high ground within easy artillery range of the landing-places, and which overlooked the whole occupied area, remained in the hands of the Turks, much of the benefit hoped for from the acquisition was in reality neutralized.

    3

    A good soil should be deep to allow of extensive root development and, in the case of arable soils, easy to work with implements.

    4

    A greater volume of fire can thus be obtained, but the great height of the cavalier makes it an easy target for a besieger's guns.

    5

    A month later, an easy triumph was obtained by McClellan and Rosecrans against the Confederates of Virginia at Rich Mountain.

    6

    A phenomenal growth of both customs and excise revenue has made such expenditures easy.

    7

    A rapid in the Tagus, artificially converted into a weir, renders irrigation easy, and has thus created an oasis in the midst of the barren plateau of New Castile.

    8

    A sudden storm gave abundance of rain, while hail and thunder confounded their enemies, and enabled the Romans to gain an easy and complete victory.

    9

    A treatise, Sur la destruction des Jesuites (1765), involved him in a fresh controversy, his own share in which was rendered very easy by the violence and extravagance of his adversaries.

    10

    A variety of the spruce, abounding in some parts of Nor way, produces a red heartwood, not easy to distinguish from that of the Norway B pine (Scotch fir), and imported with it into England as "red deal" or "pine."

    11

    About the time that Buffon was bringing to an end his studies of birds, Mauduyt undertook to write the Ornithologie of the Encyclopedic methodique - a comparatively easy task, considering the recent works of his fellow-countrymen on that subject, and finished in 1784.

    12

    After a series of phone calls to Denver and some monstrous lies, Dean managed to finagle a slot on the bike tour, not an easy accomplishment given the short time before the popular event.

    13

    After parking his vehicle—no easy chore with the summer traffic—he entered the beautiful and ornate Victorian hotel.

    14

    After the easy campaign of 1620, the possessions which had been taken by the Protestants were given back to the Roman Catholic church; this task was performed, under his supervision, with judgment and moderation.

    15

    Akhma, over the northern end of which runs a single easy pass (Beilan) to the north-east angle of the Levant coast (Alexandretta), while at the southern end is a gap through which the Orontes turns sharply to the sea.

    16

    All his gifts were made available for influencing other men by his easy command of a style rarely matched in dignity and colour.

    17

    All the mountains offer easy routes to pedestrians, but some of them, as Scafell, Pillar, Gable (Napes Needle), Pavey Ark above Langdale and Dow Crags near Coniston, also afford ascents for experienced climbers.

    18

    Along with high intellectual powers in certain directions, he had a simplicity of nature charming in itself, but often calculated to render him the easy prey of sharpers.

    19

    Although the limitations of the genus are well marked, and its recognition in consequence easy, it is otherwise with regard to the species.

    20

    Although the valleys between the ridges are not always easy of access, they give broad areas of nearly level agricultural land.

    21

    Although there was a scattering of other bikers, he was sure the bright yellow windbreaker would be easy to spot, unless the biker became lost in a large pack.

    22

    Among other uses and consequences of his treatise, Collier thinks it furnishes an easy refutation of the Romish doctrine of transubstantiation.

    23

    An easy food source following you around for the rest of all time?

    24

    An electrified conductor is a store of energy, and from the definition of potential it is clear that the work done in increasing the charge q of a conductor whose potential is v by a small amount dq, is vdq, and since this added charge increases in turn the potential, it is easy to prove that the work done in charging a conductor with Q units to a potential V units is z QV units of work.

    25

    An incline of r in 400 is reckoned easy, of r in 200 moderate and of r in roo heavy.

    26

    And his popular works, the Adagia, and the Colloquia (1524), had established themselves as standard books in the more easy going age, when power, secure in its unchallenged strength, could afford to laugh with the laughers at itself.

    27

    And it is easy to see how from this position Schelling was led on to the further statements that not in the rational conception of God is an explanation of existence to be found, nay, that all rational conception extends but to the form, and touches not the real - that God is to be conceived as act, as will, as something over and above the rational conception of the divine.

    28

    And, although Pisa had hitherto been able to oppose a glorious resistance to Genoa and Lucca, it was not so easy to continue the struggle when its enemies were backed by the arms and political wisdom of the Florentines, who were skilled in obtaining powerful allies.

    29

    As garden plants the Phyllocacti are amongst the most ornamental of the whole family, being of easy culture, free blooming and remarkably showy, the colour of the flowers ranging from rich crimson, through rosepink to creamy white.

    30

    As Luther was a much greater preacher than a systematic thinker, it was not easy to say exactly what this deposit was, and controversies resulted among the Lutheran theologians of the 16th century.

    31

    As Sweden was known to be exhausted by the long wars of Gustavus Adolphus and his successors, and weakened by internal dissensions, the dismemberment seemed an easy matter, and Peter embarked on the scheme with a light heart; but his illusions were quickly dispelled by the eccentric young Swedish king, Charles XII., who arrived suddenly in Esthonia and completely routed the Russian army before Narva.

    32

    As these independent Tatar states were always jealous of each other, and their jealousy often broke out in open hostility, it was easy to prevent any combined action on their part; and as in each khanate there were always several pretenders and contending factions, Muscovite diplomacy had little difficulty in weakening them individually and preparing for their annexation.

    33

    At about half a dozen yards from the cliff, widening and becoming lower, it extends outwards into a platform, which has a slight seaward inclination, but is easy to walk upon, and for nearly ioo yds.

    34

    At the end of the century, in only fifty years, the United States had secured an easy first place among the mineral-producing countries of the world.

    35

    Attempts to derive the anacromyodian and the katacromyodian from the diacromyodian condition are easy on paper, but quite hopeless when hampered by the knowledge of anatomical facts and how to use them.

    36

    Being human isn't easy.

    37

    Being the only place within easy distance of western Europe where patients can take with safety a course of baths during the winter months, it has become a resort of invalids.

    38

    Believe you me, it weren't easy.

    39

    Between the typical West African chimpanzee and the gorilla there is no difficulty in drawing a distinction; the difficulty comes in when we have to deal with the aberrant races, or species, of chimpanzee, some of which are so gorilla-like that it is by no means easy to determine to which group they really pertain.

    40

    Between this ridge and the offshoots of Geraneia opposite a narrow depression allowed of easy transit across the Isthmus neck.

    41

    Boats could be conveyed over flat and easy portages from one river-basin to another, and these portages were subsequently transformed with a relatively small amount of labour into navigable canals, and even at the present day the canals have more importance for the traffic of the country than have most of the railways.

    42

    Both passes are short and easy, and connect Cilicia Pedias geographically and politically with Syria rather than with Asia Minor.

    43

    Burgesses could buy and possess property in towns, which knights were forbidden to acquire; and though they could not intermarry with the feudal classes, it was easy and regular for a burgess to thrive to knighthood.

    44

    But a little consideration showed that, though Lamarck had seized what, as far as it goes, is a true cause of modification, it is a cause the actual effects of which are wholly inadequate to account for any considerable modification in animals, and which can have no influence at all in the vegetable world; and probably nothing contributed so much to discredit evolution, in the early part of the 29th century, as the floods of easy ridicule which were poured upon this part of Lamarck's speculation.

    45

    But after the death of Toghrul Shah (1170) his three sons disputed with each other for the possession of the throne, and implored foreign assistance, till the country became utterly devastated and fell an easy prey to some bands of Ghuzz, who, under the leadership of Malik Dinar (1185), marched into Kerman after harassing Sinjar's dominions.

    46

    But if the Order had now become a superfluous anachronism, it had still to be disposed of, and this was no easy task.

    47

    But it is easy to imagine that some confusion may have arisen in the transliteration of the name into Greek, and that the place really indicated is Khersa, near the middle of the eastern shore of the lake.

    48

    But it is easy to see that informal preaching to the people at large, especially after the Peasant Revolt, with which Miinzer had been identified, should have led to a general condemnation, under the name " Anabaptist " or " Catabaptist," of the heterogeneous dissenters who agreed in rejecting the State religion and associated a condemnation of infant baptism with schemes for social betterment.

    49

    But it is not easy to go beyond this general assertion into details.

    50

    But the converse, the measurement of the loudness of a sound not produced at our will, is by no means so easy.

    51

    But the style was not calculated to win general popularity, and the manufacturing processes were too easy to occupy the attention of great potters.

    52

    But the trench of the Uda, to the east of Lake Baikal, offers easy access for the Great Siberian railway up to and across the high plateau.

    53

    But to employ enamels successfully is an achievement demanding special training and materials not easy to procure or to prepare.

    54

    But, in spite of his strong personality, he was not easy to work with, and difficulties with Sir Robert Borden led to his sudden resignation of office in Nov.

    55

    By a natural series of transitions the gift theory became transformed, in the minds of the sacrificers, into the homage theory, which again passed by an easy transition into the renunciation theory.

    56

    By an easy transition, she came to be regarded as the protectress of thieves, whose operations were associated with darkness.

    57

    By Ancillon he was grounded in religion, in history and political science, his natural taste for the antique and the picturesque making it easy for his tutor to impress upon him his own hatred of the Revolution and its principles.

    58

    By constructing an entrenched camp at Ulm and concentrating all the available food within it, he expected to compel Napoleon to invest and besiege him, and he anticipated that in the devastated country his adversary would be compelled to separate and thus fall an easy prey to the Russians.

    59

    By repeated discharges upon these they gradually expend this marvellous force; after which, being defenceless, they become timid, and approach the edge for shelter, when they fall an easy prey to the harpoon.

    60

    By the aid of photography it is easy to prepare a plate, transparent where the zones of odd order fall, and opaque where those of even order fall.

    61

    Communicating feelings with Alex wasn't always easy.

    62

    Coronet Park was half way between their two houses, an easy walk from each.

    63

    Corps had reached Namur, within easy distance of the Ligny battlefield.

    64

    Darkyn had no intention of going easy on her, even if it was her first lesson in the proper behavior expected of a demon's blood slave.

    65

    Despite all this, one must not fall into the easy error of exaggerating the degeneration into which the Jewries of the world fell from the middle of the 17th till the middle of the 18th century.

    66

    Directing our tips was not an easy chore either.

    67

    Do you think this has been easy for me?

    68

    During the reigns of Ostojic (Stephen IV., 1418-14 21) and Tvrtkovic (Stephen V., 1421-1444) Bosnia was thus left an easy prey to the Turks, who exacted a yearly tribute, after again ravaging the country, and carrying off many thousands of slaves, with a vast store of plunder.

    69

    Each case must be considered on its merits; and the critic's procedure must of necessity be "eclectic" - an epithet often used with a tinge of reproach, the ground for which it is not easy to discover.

    70

    Easy enough to be a saint with a couple of million bucks in your back pocket.

    71

    Easy for you to say.

    72

    Easy to be confounded with it is another ware of the same type manufactured at Shidoro in the province of TOtOmi.

    73

    Effective superintendence even by overseers became less easy; the use of chains was introduced, and these were worn not only in the field during working hours but at night in the ergastulum where the slaves slept.

    74

    Elisabeth continued toward Victor, met him face to face, and growled, "Are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"

    75

    Extensive deposits, which are being developed successfully, occur in Tasmania, it being estimated that there are, within easy shipping facilities, 17,000,000 tons of ore.

    76

    Finally, when one remembers how, during the First Crusade, the pedites had marched side by side with the principes, and how, from the beginning of 1099, they had practically risen in revolt against the selfish ambitions of princes like Count Raymund, it becomes easy to understand the independent position which the burgesses assumed in the organization of the kingdom.

    77

    For a time, indeed, the Order lay under papal sentence of excommunication; but the transference of his seat to Marienburg at this time (1308) gave the grand master a basis from which he was able to make easy terms with the pope.

    78

    For instance, if the curve is of S-form, the point of danger is when the train enters the contra-flexure, and it is not an easy matter to assign the best superelevation at all points throughout the double bend.

    79

    For the last three days Bogucharovo had lain between the two hostile armies, so that it was as easy for the Russian rearguard to get to it as for the French vanguard; Rostov, as a careful squadron commander, wished to take such provisions as remained at Bogucharovo before the French could get them.

    80

    From 1756 to 1764 he was one of the town's tax-collectors, but in this office he was unsuccessful, his easy business methods resulting in heavy arrears.

    81

    From Howie's standpoint it was easy.

    82

    From such slender material it is not easy to form a clear conception of the saint's personality.

    83

    From the first the emperor reproached him with being too easy with his subjects and with courting popularity too much.

    84

    From the series for G and H just obtained it is easy to verify that dH = - 7rvG, dv av - dG _ 7rvH -1.

    85

    Further examination also revealed the fact 3 that in certain groups the number of " primaries," or quill-feathers growing from the manus or distal segment of the wing, formed another characteristic easy of observation.

    86

    Further north, the Aleutian islands offer a line of easy sea passage, while in north-east Asia, near Bering's Strait, live Chukchi tribes who carry on intercourse with the American side.

    87

    Generally he was in favour of more decided intervention on behalf of continental Protestants than Elizabeth would admit; but it is not always easy to ascertain the advice he gave.

    88

    Generals on the staff, excited by the memory of the easy victory at Tarutino, urged Kutuzov to carry out Dorokhov's suggestion.

    89

    Gerald was easy to talk to and his conversation generally led her in the direction she needed to go.

    90

    Getting over Brandon wasn't near as easy as getting her cap and stripes.

    91

    Getting the iron hot was no easy feat.

    92

    Getting through the door wasn't easy.

    93

    Harrisburg was named in honour of John Harris, who, upon coming into this region to trade early in the 18th century, was attracted to the site as an easy place at which to ford the Susquehanna, and about 1726 settled here.

    94

    He appears to have practised as a lawyer at Carthage and to have been in easy circumstances.

    95

    He didn't move an inch, but said, All right, take it easy.

    96

    He forced an easy smile.

    97

    He had early become connected with the brilliant band of authors and politicians who then led the Whig party, a connexion to which he owed his appointment to the well-paid and easy post of commissioner of stamps; but in practical politics, for which he was by nature unsuited, he took no active share.

    98

    He held the most rigid views on the sanctity of marriage and against easy divorce, and vehemently defended them in controversies with Robert Dale Owen and others.

    99

    He here observes that " all quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little from one another."

    100

    He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

    101

    He may more fairly be blamed for not having arranged the extracts in each title of the Digest according to some rational principle; for this would have been easy, and would have spared much trouble to students and practitioners ever since.

    102

    He must think she was as easy as a primed pump.

    103

    He says he thinks he has a cold, but the doctor told me he could get pneumonia real easy.

    104

    He successfully hunted down Brenda Washington, no easy chore.

    105

    He therefore issues the work to satisfy their desires, although, he states, it is manifest that it would have seen the light in a far more perfect state if his father could have put the finishing touches to it; and he mentions that, in the opinion of the best judges, his father possessed, among other most excellent gifts, in the highest degree the power of explaining the most difficult matters by a certain and easy method in the fewest possible words.

    106

    He was easy to talk to, despite knowing his history and his elevation to a god.

    107

    He was elected a Perse scholar in 1628, and fellow of his college in 1633, but the best evidence of his diligence as a student is the enormous learning of which he showed so easy a command in after years.

    108

    He was generally, by a curious error, regarded as the first emperor of Rome,' and representing as he did in the popular mind the glory of Rome, by an easy transition he became a pillar of the Church.

    109

    He was here practically at the meeting-point of four distinct jurisdictions - Geneva, the canton Vaud, Sardinia and France, while other cantons were within easy reach; and he bought other houses dotted about these territories, so as never to be without a refuge close at hand in case of sudden storms. At Les Delices he set up a considerable establishment, which his great wealth made him able easily to afford.

    110

    He was liberal, kindly, good-tempered and easy of access, and his yielding to his subjects' wishes in order to obtain supplies for carrying on the French war contributed to the consolidation of the constitution.

    111

    He won an easy victory.

    112

    He's trying to change, but it isn't easy.

    113

    Hence his mistakes though easy to understand are by no means so pardonable as were, for example, those of the Georges, who had been absolute monarchs in their own country.

    114

    Hence it is not very easy to determine experimentally the law of magnetic force between poles.

    115

    Hence it was easy for Suleiman, the son of Kutulmish, 3 the son of Arslan Pigu (Israil), to penetrate as far as the Hellespont, the more so as after the captivity of Romanus two rivals, Nicephorus Bryennius in Asia and Nicephorus' Botaneiates in Europe, disputed the throne with one another.

    116

    Her face grew red at his easy dismissal of his youngest brother.

    117

    Her own journey to reach this point hadn't been easy.

    118

    Her rifle was leaning against the wagon, within easy reach, and her whip hung near by.

    119

    Here he is said to have reigned over Galloway; and there is certainly some connexion, the character of which is now not easy to determine, between the two.

    120

    Here was a tempting field for the application of Catherine's aggressive policy, and if she had had to deal merely with the Poles she would have had an easy task.

    121

    Here, easy accessibility, great ice in a deep, narrow gorge, facilities close by and a park run by people who understood the sport and emphasized safety, made for an ideal package.

    122

    His character, like his namesake the decemvir's is not easy to define.

    123

    His first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate.

    124

    His great service to mankind lay in the fact that he disseminated throughout Europe by means of the French language, and popularized by his clear and easy style, the economic doctrines of Adam Smith.

    125

    His military instincts did not always make it easy for him to accommodate himself to courtiers and professional politicians.

    126

    His passage of the river and upward march along the left bank, the reinforcement he provided for his grandson Pir Mahommed (who was invested in Multan), the capture of towns or villages accompanied, it might be, with destruction of the houses and the massacre of the inhabitants, the battle before Delhi and the easy victory, the triumphal entry into the doomed city, with its outcome of horrors-all these circumstances belong to the annals of India.

    127

    His travels, however, if they enriched his mind, relaxed his character, and he brought home easy morals as well as exquisite manners.

    128

    How did he make it look so easy?

    129

    How easy it is to fly on paper wings!

    130

    However, it must also be remembered that, throughout the whole of his career, Gould consulted the convenience of working ornithologists by almost invariably refraining from including in his folio works the technical description of any new species without first publishing it in some journal of comparatively easy access.

    131

    I don't have an easy answer to your problem, if that's what you want.

    132

    I find this very easy to accept.

    133

    I know it wasn't easy.

    134

    I know it's not easy for you, but there's bound to be a learning curve.

    135

    I offered you the easy way, you refused.

    136

    I thought it'd be easy.

    137

    I told them I was a Wizard, and showed them some easy tricks that amazed them; and when they saw the initials painted on the balloon they called me Oz.

    138

    I wish it were that easy.

    139

    I won't make it easy on you.

    140

    I'm giving you an easy out.

    141

    I'm more used to country property where doors and windows are left open, making my life oh so easy.

    142

    I'm not letting you off that easy.

    143

    I've got friends, who get me stuff every ones in a while but it's not always easy.

    144

    If contoured maps are available it is easy to build up a strata-relief, which facilitates the completion of the relief so that it shall be a fair representation of nature, which the strata-relief cannot claim to be.

    145

    If he pass between the jack and either bowl he scores one, although it is not easy to see what driving he has done.

    146

    If she had felt the least bit threatened, it would have been easy enough to jump out of the truck.

    147

    If the decision was easy, I'd be furious.

    148

    If the difference of the number of oscillations made by the two pendulums in a given time is small compared to the number made by either of them separately, then it is easy to show that the power given to the circuit is measured by the gain or loss of one clock over the other in a given time, and can therefore be indicated on a counting mechanism or registering dials.

    149

    If these are first drawn it is easy, for any position of the loads, to draw the lines B'C, B'D, B'E, and to find the sum of the intercepts which is the total bending moment under a load.

    150

    If this is correct it is easy to see that the changes which take place may be initiated by the original delicate protoplasmic strands which pass through the cellwall.

    151

    If this were an attempt to steer a middle course his true actions could not have been kept secret long, and as it is implied that the Philistines subsequently acquiesced in David's sovereignty in Hebron, it is not easy to see what interest they had in embroiling him with the men of Judah.

    152

    If we assume that no other cause is at work, it is easy to prove that, with non-dissolvable electrodes, the ratio of salt lost at the anode to the salt lost at the cathode must be equal to the ratio of the velocity of the cation to the velocity of the anion.

    153

    If we were in Vienna it would be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, and I beg you all to help me.

    154

    In another direction, making a small angle with the last, such that the projection of AB upon it amounts to a few wavelengths, it is easy to see that the mode of interference is the same as if there were no ruling.

    155

    In any large collection of fragments it would be easy to find eight or ten varieties of opaque blue, ranging from lapis lazuli to turquoise or to lavender and six or seven of opaque green.

    156

    In both types pits are constructed between the rails on which the engines stand to afford easy access for the inspection and cleaning of their mechanism.

    157

    In fact, he introduced into Poland the easy French manner of such writers as Voiture.

    158

    In fact, if f and 4, have these forms, it is easy to verify that (f, 4,)i= (A j z) (rs)r x s x .

    159

    In Guatemala, as in other parts of Central America (q.v.), each of the three climatic zones, cold, temperate and hot (Berra fria, tierra templada, tierra caliente) has its special charac' eristics, and it is not easy to generalize about the climate of the country as a whole.

    160

    In her present frame of mind, facing her father would be easy.

    161

    In his defense, Josh wasn't making it easy.

    162

    In our own minds there lingers no doubt as to the easy detection of any radical which we have examined,.

    163

    In Oxford he was allowed to hold a disputation with some learned doctors on the rival merits of the Copernican and so-called Aristotelian systems of the universe, and, according to his own report, had an easy victory.

    164

    In spite of heavy losses the Austrians were perhaps better in hand and more capable of resuming the battle next morning than the victors, for they were experienced in war, and accustomed to defeat, and retired in good order in three organized columns within easy supporting distance of each other.

    165

    In spite of the emperor Alexander's engagements to the Grand Alliance and the ideal of European peace, this was no easy matter; for the murder of the patriarch was but the culmination of a whole series of grievances accumulated since the Treaty of Bucharest.

    166

    In studying the origin and growth of political feudalism, the distinction is easy to make.

    167

    In the complete subjection of the Continent which preceded the Russian War this was not so easy as it would have been earlier, and she remained at home during the winter of 1811, writing and planning.

    168

    In the course of the war with Persia Russia had received permission from the Ottoman government to use, for a limited time, the easy road from the Black Sea to Tiflis by way of the valley of the Rion (Phasis) for the transport of troops and supplies, and this permission had been several times renewed.

    169

    In the following table are given the values of the diameters of the molecules of six substances with which it is easy to experiment in the gaseous state, these values being calculated in different ways from formulae supplied by the kinetic theory.

    170

    In the great continental basin there are long lines with easy gradients and curves, while in the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains the gradients are stiff, and the curves numerous and of short radius.

    171

    In the heat of a battle it is easy to make a mistake.

    172

    In the loosely-knit Seleucid realm it is plain that a great deal more independence was left to the various communities, - cities or native tribes, - than in Egypt, where the conditions made a bureaucratic system so easy to carry through.

    173

    In the Saharan Atlas the passes leading to or from the desert are numerous, and in most instances easy.

    174

    In the second place, as has already been noticed, the Crusades represent the attempt of Western commerce to find new and more easy routes to the wealth of the East; and in this respect they led to various results.

    175

    In the South Wales system of working, cross headings are driven from the main roads obliquely across the rise to get a sufficiently easy gradient for horse roads, and from these the stalls are opened out with a narrow entrance, in order to leave support on either side of the road, but afterwards widening to as great a breadth as the seam will allow, leaving pillars of a minimum thickness.

    176

    In the universities of the Netherlands and of lower Germany, as yet free from the conservatism of the old-established seats of learning, the new system gained an easy victory over Aristotelianism, and, as it was adapted for lectures and examinations, soon became almost as scholastic as the doctrines it had supplanted.

    177

    In their first interview, held on a raft in the middle of the river Niemen at Tilsit on the 25th of June, the French emperor, by his mingled strength and suppleness of intellect, gained an easy mastery over the impressionable young potentate.

    178

    In these circumstances the intrusion of Germanic elements into ecclesiastical law is easy to understand.

    179

    In This Manner It Is Easy To Find The Dominical Letter Belonging To Each Of The Twenty Eight Years Of The Cycle.

    180

    In this mode of treating the question the order of the terms is numerical, and though the amount of labour is such as might well have deterred a younger man, yet the details were easy, and a great part of it might be entrusted to a mere computer.

    181

    Intermediate stations, like terminal ones, should be convenient in situation and easy of approach, and, especially if they are important, should be on the ground level rather than on an embankment or in a cutting.

    182

    Interpolation is easy in the case of all observations taken with a grating.

    183

    It ain.t easy being a good demon.

    184

    It can be said confidently that the truth is between these two extremes (though in what exact year it is not easy to say), as will be evident from a consideration of the arguments urged, which in each case appear less to prove one extreme than to disprove its opposite.

    185

    It couldn't be easy for him — and the way Josh answered the phone that night — no wonder he was suspicious.

    186

    It couldn't be easy shifting from the role of the patient to the demanding role of husband and father.

    187

    It couldn't be that easy.

    188

    It doesn't mean what I saw you do, what I know you can do, is easy for me to accept.

    189

    It had been supposed that, with the greatly improved telescopes of modern times, contact observations could be made with much greater precision than in 1761 and 1769, yet, for some reason which it is not easy to explain completely, the modern observations were but little better than the older ones.

    190

    It has been easy to confuse the study of the Old Testament in its relation to modern religious needs with the technical scientific study of the much edited remains of the literature of a small part of the ancient East.

    191

    It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

    192

    It hasn't been easy - for either of us.

    193

    It hasn't been easy for me to accept the people who killed my family.

    194

    It is easy from the vantagepoint of two centuries to criticize Charles XII.

    195

    It is easy to arrange the experiment so that U is small and nearly constant.

    196

    It is easy to convict him of having failed to control the glowing passion that was in him.

    197

    It is easy to deduce the modes of vibration from stationary waves as in the previous cases.

    198

    It is easy to denounce the dominant Magyar classes as a selfish oligarchy, and to criticize the methods by which they have sought to maintain their power.

    199

    It is easy to distinguish the great primitive watercourses from the lateral ducts which they fed, the latter being almost without banks and merely traceable by the winding curves of the layers of alluvium in the bed, while the former are hedged in by high banks of mud, heaped up during centuries of dredging.

    200

    It is easy to group the Anglo-Saxon laws according to the manner of their publication.

    201

    It is easy to lose one's bearings by over-emphasizing the importance of variation and exception.

    202

    It is easy to realize how such a rhythm can be modified by the reception of stimuli, and can consequently serve as the basis for the movement of the stimulated organ.

    203

    It is easy to see that the adjoint determinant is also 'symmetrical, viz.

    204

    It is easy to see that the length of the chord (which passes in all cases through 0) increases to a maximum near the place where the phase-retardation is s of a period, then diminishes to a minimum when the retardation is about a of a period, and so on.

    205

    It is easy to understand how English empiricism issued at once in the trenchant naturalism of Hobbes.

    206

    It is easy to understand, therefore, why we trace the beginnings of economics, so far as England is concerned, in the 16th century, and why the application of strict scientific tests in this subject of human study has become possible only in comparatively recent times.

    207

    It is easy to write laws, but difficult to rule....

    208

    It is equally true that, when under the influence of special local or other demand - proximity to towns, easy railway or other communication, for example - the products which would otherwise be retained on the farm are exported from it, the import of town or other manures is generally an essential condition of such practice.

    209

    It is far from easy to determine how far the development of the class of prophets meant the absorption into it of the old seers.

    210

    It is however easy to demonstrate by means of the compass that the force is much greater in some parts of the field than in others.

    211

    It is indeed by no means easy to distinguish and apportion the respective merits of the competitors.

    212

    It is indeed by no means easy to distinguish between what is dependent on individual experience, and what is not.

    213

    It is indeed easy to understand that the romantic incidents of this period were much in the mouths of the people - to whom David was a popular hero - and in course of time were written down in various forms which were not combined into perfect harmony by later editors, who gave excerpts from several sources rather than a new and independent history.

    214

    It is interspersed with many islands, and with its numerous smaller tributaries affords easy and rapid communication.

    215

    It is less easy to provide against the evils of excessive rainfall and of frost, hail and the like.

    216

    It is less easy to trace his previous moves.

    217

    It is not easy to define his relations to Richelieu.

    218

    It is not easy to determine the exact point at which the impulses fuse into a continuous tone, for higher tones are usually present with the deepest of which the frequency is being counted, and these may be mistaken for it.

    219

    It is not easy to determine whether the book is all from the same author.

    220

    It is not easy to exaggerate the service rendered by Owen to the study of zoology by the introduction of this apparently small piece of verbal mechanism; it takes place with the classificatory terms of Linnaeus.

    221

    It is not easy to fix the average stress s per sq.

    222

    It is not easy to reconcile these two phases, except on the assumption xix.

    223

    It is not easy to say when any example of the bird first came under the eyes of British ornithologists; but in the Zoological Proceedings for Seriema.

    224

    It is not easy to state with certainty the doctrines of a body which (in England at least) has never demanded subscription to any creed, and whose views have undoubtedly undergone more or less definite changes.

    225

    It is not easy to understand the spirit in which the author of the Principe sat down to exchange obscenities with the author of the Sommario della storia d'Italia.

    226

    It is not easy to value the services of Marsilio Ficino at their proper worth.

    227

    It is not easy, however, to understand how it was that when the first parishes were formed so small an area was attached to each.

    228

    It is not easy.

    229

    It is not quite easy to see why he abandoned this successful policy in order to hasten on a war with Sparta, and neither the Corcyrean alliance nor the Megarian decree seems justified by the facts as known to us, though commercial motives may have played a part which we cannot now gauge.

    230

    It is of course easy to see that Celsus had no apprehension of the spiritual needs even of his own day which it was the Christian purpose to satisfy, that he could not grasp anything of the new life enjoyed by the poor in spirit, and that he underrated the significance of the Church, regarding it simply as one of a number of warring sections (mostly Gnostic), and so seeing only a mark of weakness.

    231

    It is possible to prepare gratings which give a lateral spectrum brighter than the central image, and the explanation is easy.

    232

    It Is Therefore Infinitely More Commodious To Determine The Commencement Of The Year By A Fixed Rule Of Intercalation; And Of The Various Methods Which Might Be Employed, No One, Perhaps Is On The Whole More Easy Of Application, Or Better Adapted For The Purpose Of Computation, Than The Gregorian Now In Use.

    233

    It is this peculiar " waist " that catches the eye of the observer, and makes the insects so easy of recognition.

    234

    It is true that the river forms at this point several arms, and the adjoining districts were subjected to periodical inundations, while navigation was by no means easy here.

    235

    It is, however, by no means easy to determine their original tenets, as in the 13th and 14th centuries they were a body of obscure and unlettered peasants, hiding themselves in a corner, while in the 16th century they were absorbed into the general movement of the Reformation.

    236

    It made bargain and sale an easy means of secret or private conveyance, a policy to which the law was opposed.

    237

    It might not be easy to formulate precisely the doctrines for which he died, and certainly some of them, as, for example, that regarding the church, were such as many Protestants even would regard as unguarded and difficult to harmonize with the maintenance of external church order; but his is undoubtedly the honour of having been the chief intermediary in handing on from Wycliffe to Luther the torch which kindled the Reformation, and of having been one of the bravest of the martyrs who have died in the cause of honesty and freedom, of progress and of growth towards the light.

    238

    It seemed an easy task for such a coalition to wrest the coveted spoil from the young Charles XII.; yet Peter was the only one of the three conspirators who survived the Twenty-one Years' War in which they so confidently embarked during the summer of 1701.

    239

    It seemed so easy in hindsight.

    240

    It thence passed farther north to the Burdekin, ascending to the source of that river, and turned westward across a table-land, from which there was an easy descent to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

    241

    It was an easy inference for the French mind that the Rhine should be the boundary throughout and the Gaul of Caesar restored.

    242

    It was an extremely easy victory for me.

    243

    It was as easy to send copies of the French, and thus give no ground for the suspicion that the Scots letters were altered on the basis of information acquired between May and October 1568, and that the French versions were made to fit the new form of the Scots copies.

    244

    It was difficult to be sure as to the variations in the actual number of fish caught, but it was easy to show that there was a real variability in the yield of cod-liver oil (an important product of the fishery).

    245

    It was easy enough to see the " vulnerable temper " as it worked within, but it was never suffered to find audible expression.

    246

    It was easy for us to recognize Martha's pain with the subject.

    247

    It was easy, therefore, to understand why Anselm's method did not become the dominant one in theology.

    248

    It was no easy task to establish Yahweh in permanent possession of the new lands conquered by the Hebrew settlers.

    249

    It was so easy to agree and sink into his strength, let the scent of dark chocolate work its way into her skin as his hands moved over her.

    250

    It was too easy for the beautiful woman to distract him.

    251

    It was too easy of a death for the first Ancient.

    252

    It was too easy.

    253

    It was, however, fortunately found easy to remedy this.

    254

    It wasn't an easy decision.

    255

    It wasn't an easy life, though if anyone could adjust and thrive, it was the women Damian, Dusty, and Jule chose.

    256

    It wasn't quite as easy as he thought, especially since she was so helpless.

    257

    It wasn't that easy.

    258

    It would be easy to cut their threads any time with a little sharper blast from the north.

    259

    It Would Have Been Easy To Correct This Error By Placing The Golden Numbers Four Lines Higher In The New Calendar; And The Suppression Of The Ten Days Had Already Rendered It Necessary To Place Them Ten Lines Lower, And To Carry Those Which Belonged, For Example, To The 5Th And 6Th Of The Month, To The 15Th And 16Th.

    260

    It wouldn't be an easy weekend for any of them.

    261

    It wouldn't be easy to tell Denton the marriage was off.

    262

    It's an easy job, like I expected.

    263

    It's easy to find this family owned restaurant, just look for the bright yellow exterior and forest green awning.

    264

    It's easy to see why outoor enthusiasts are attracted to the mountains.

    265

    It's not easy information to pull up but I have a friend.

    266

    It's not easy with these guys; they're a level of government all to themselves.

    267

    It's not going to be easy for you to take, but hear me out, okay?

    268

    It's not that easy, as I discovered.

    269

    It's not that easy.

    270

    It's too easy for kids to get liquor and too little else for them to do with their time.

    271

    Its habits much resemble those of the rest of the group to which it belongs; and, like the leopard, when it happens to come within reach of an abundant and easy prey, as the sheep or calves of an outlying farming station, it kills far more than it can eat, either for the sake of the blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction.

    272

    Jonny won't let you go that easy, especially if he suspects Xander is interested in you.

    273

    Lampreys, especially the sea-lamprey, are esteemed as food, formerly more so than at present; but their flesh is not easy of digestion.

    274

    Latin was, above all, to be learned through use, with as little grammar as possible, but with the reading of easy Latin texts, and with no repetition, no composition.

    275

    Leaving the main body of his party at Menindie on the Darling under a man named Wright, Burke, with seven men, five horses and sixteen camels, pushed on for Cooper's Creek, the understanding being that Wright should follow him in easy stages to the depot proposed to be there established.

    276

    Leland said that it is easier to collect the leaves of the Sibyl than the titles of the works written by Roger Bacon; and though the labour has been somewhat lightened by the publications of Brewer and Charles, referred to below, it is no easy matter even now to form an accurate idea of his actual productions.

    277

    Life is anything but easy.

    278

    Look how easy the city fell.

    279

    Making the decision to marry him was the easy part.

    280

    Manichaeism, which combined the adoration of Zoroaster and Christ, became the refuge of those supporters of Mithraism who were inclined to compromise, while many found the transition to orthodox Christianity easy because of its very resemblance to their old faith.

    281

    Maybe most were, but there was that percentage – no matter where you went - who were looking for easy victims.

    282

    Meanwhile the returned pope was not having an easy time.

    283

    Meanwhile, at other favourable spots in the Aegean, but chiefly, it appears, on sites in easy relation to maritime commerce, e.g.

    284

    Men are easy to manipulate, as you well know.

    285

    Moreover, notwithstanding the unity of language, it is easy to detect among the Great Russians themselves two separate branches, differing from one another by slight divergences of language and type and deep diversities of national character - the Central Russians and the Novgorodians.

    286

    Most of the mining development is in southern British Columbia, where a network of railways and waterways gives easy access; but as means of communication improve to the north a similar development may be looked for there.

    287

    Most were easy to open plastic containers but six cans of baked beans were without an opener.

    288

    Neither of their lives had been easy.

    289

    Next, as all investigation proceeds from that which is known best to that which is unknown or less well known, and as, in social states, it is the collective phenomenon that is more easy of access to the observer than its parts, therefore we must consider and pursue all the elements of a given social state together and in common.

    290

    No, I couldn't believe how easy she made it look.

    291

    No, it wasn't going to be that easy.

    292

    None extend farther to the westward than the valley of the Indus,' which, considering the nature of the country in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, is perhaps intelligible enough; but it is not so easy to understand why none are found either in Cochin China or China proper; and they are also wanting in the Philippine Islands, which is the more remarkable and instructive when we find how abundant they are in the groups a little farther to the southward.

    293

    None the less it is easy to find it in embryo in the speculations of the essentially European philosophers of Greece.

    294

    Not an easy thing to do when you're Death.

    295

    Nothing yet in the Immortal world had been as easy as this bargain.

    296

    Now it is easy to "call spirits from the vasty deep," but disappointed experience shows that they will not always come.

    297

    Of all his portraits of adventurous sailors, "Gentleman Chucks" in Peter Simple and "Equality Jack" in Mr Midshipman Easy are the most famous, but he created many other types which take rank among the characteristic figures in English fiction.

    298

    Of course, it was not easy at first to fly.

    299

    Of course, living in an apartment with three girls couldn't be easy.

    300

    Of course, that was easy to say when she had everything she needed now.

    301

    Of course, that was easy to say.

    302

    Of George Sand's style a foreigner can be but an imperfect judge, but French critics, from Sainte-Beuve, Nisard and Caro down to Jules Lemaitre and Faguet, have agreed to praise her spontaneity, her correctness of diction, her easy opulence - the lactea ubertas that Quintilian attributes to Livy.

    303

    On his death in 1580, after a brief reign of seventeen months, the male line of the royal family which traced its descent from Henry, first count of Portugal (c. i ioo), came to an end; and all attempts to fix the succession during his lifetime having ignominiously failed, Portugal became an easy prey to Philip II.

    304

    On light easy draining land 2 2 yds.

    305

    On the other hand, putting up with his volatile moods wouldn't be exactly easy.

    306

    On the other side, the great men coveted the wide estates of bishop and abbot, and were ready without persuasion to annex portions of them to their own on the easy terms of this tenure, not always indeed observed by the holder, or able to be enforced by the Church.

    307

    On the outbreak of the French Revolution he sided with the royalists and was eventually brought into conflict with the French republic. The army being demoralized and the treasury empty, the kingdom The fell an easy prey to the republican forces.

    308

    On the south bank, owing to better natural drainage and a drier subsoil, movement was fairly easy, but the Austrians found it almost impossible.

    309

    One of these is micro-lending, which directly connects the lender with the borrower and which the Internet has made appealingly easy and personal.

    310

    Only by way of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys, and round about the southern termination of the system were there easy routes to the interior of the country, and these were long closed by hostile aborigines and jealous French or Spanish colonists.

    311

    Or so some of the hard-bodies on the bus said—this was the easy part!

    312

    Organizing it like this would be easy, because it would be working with the grain of the encyclopedia itself, and usually, for instance, the county that any British or Irish town is in is listed very early in the article.

    313

    Our path won't be easy, but we didn't spend thousands of years trying to be together not to take the chance we have now.

    314

    Owing to the fact that the great plateau separates the Lena from the Amur, no easy water communication can be established between the latter and the other Siberian rivers.

    315

    Owing to the great extent of Asia, it is not easy to obtain a correct conception of the actual form of its outline from ordinary maps, the distortions which accompany projections of great and misleading.

    316

    Parks.-In 1908 Cincinnati had parks covering about 540 acres; there are numerous pleasant driveways both within the city limits and in the suburban districts, and several attractive resorts are within easy reach.

    317

    Passages have been collected, and it is an easy task, from the writings of Erasmus to prove that he shared the doctrines of the Reformers.

    318

    Practically the lines of communication along the Danube were denuded of combatants, even Bernadotte being called up from Passau, and the viceroy of Italy, who driving the archduke Johann before him (action of Raab) had brought up 56,000 men through Tirol, was disposed towards Pressburg within easy call.

    319

    Preventing Destiny from crawling out of the bed wasn't easy.

    320

    Quinn, surprised we were still clinging to our project, slumped down in an easy chair, journals in hand.

    321

    Railways.It is easy to understand that an enterprise like railway construction, requiring a great outlay of capital with returns long delayed, did not at first commend itself to the Japanese, who were almost entirely ignorant of co-operation as a factor of business organization.

    322

    Raising two teenagers in a place as expensive as southern California was not easy.

    323

    Recollections of their easy triumph in 1894 and perhaps thoughts of Sevastopol, German theories of the " brusque attack," the fiery ardour of the army, and above all the need of rapidly crushing or expelling the squadron in harbour, combined to suggest a bombardment and general assault.

    324

    Res Judicatae in 1892 and various other volumes followed, for he was in request among publishers and editors, and his easy charm of style and acute grasp of interesting detail gave him a front place among contemporary men of letters.

    325

    Returning from this mission, he pronounced an eloquent discourse in favour of the republic. His simple manners, easy speech, ardent temperament and irreproachable private life gave him great influence in Paris, and he was elected president of the Commune, defending the municipality in that capacity at the bar of the Convention on the 31st of October 1792.

    326

    Savary expresses preference for this second plan, and makes the pertinent remark that in both these models " the rays of red light in the two solar images will be next to each other, which will render the sun's disk more easy to be observed than the violet ones."

    327

    Semites and Egyptians, Peruvians and Aztecs, slew human victims; Africa, especially the West Coast, till recently saw thousands of human victims perish annually; in Polynesia, Tahiti and Fiji were great centres of the rite - in fact, it is not easy to name an area where it has not been known.

    328

    Several women bathed in stalls, the easy banter between them marking their camaraderie.

    329

    Shaler there are altogether " doubtless a hundred thousand miles of ways large enough to permit the easy passage of man."

    330

    She had exhausted every art of diplomatic obstruction to the aggressive action of France; her counterstroke to the unexpectedly easy victory of the French arms was the formal recognition of the revolted colonies as independent states.

    331

    She manages to call me every few weeks when she can get off on her own, which isn't easy.

    332

    She possessed a regal countenance and carried herself with an easy grace.

    333

    Since these streams had in no case originally easy access to the sea, we naturally find lakes on their course, and several of them terminate in tracts of more or less permanent inundation.

    334

    Somehow talking to him was easy.

    335

    Sometimes, however, a sharp incline occurring on an otherwise easy line is not reckoned as the ruling gradient, trains heavier than could be drawn up it by a single engine being helped by an assistant or " bank " engine; sometimes also " momentum " or " velocity " grades, steeper than the ruling gradient, are permitted for short distances in cases where a train can approach at full speed and thus surmount them by the aid of its momentum.

    336

    Strenuous devotion to the deliverance of mankind from dangers and pests is the " virtue " which, in Prodicus' famous apologue on the Choice of Hercules, the hero preferred to an easy and happy life.

    337

    Such a post set up by the priests is a god, is thrice anointed with ghee (or holy butter), and being set up beside the fire is invoked to let the offering go up to the gods .2 It is not always easy to mark off consecration from inspiration.

    338

    Such recitations were given by itinerant Bonzes, and it is easy to understand the connection between them and the No.

    339

    Suppressing the urge to laugh wasn't easy, but she managed it.

    340

    Take it easy, buddy.

    341

    Take it easy, Carmen.

    342

    Take it easy, Howie...

    343

    Take it easy, they'll get to you out of here.

    344

    That the son of a Corsican notary should have been able to dispose of the Spanish Bourbons in this contemptuously easy way is one of the marvels of history.

    345

    That was an easy one.

    346

    That wasn't going to be easy.

    347

    That's easy for you to say.

    348

    The application of electricity to purposes of manufacture and transportation made the waterfalls and rapids in which the country abounds the source of an almost unlimited supply of energy capable of easy distribution for industrial purposes over wide areas.

    349

    The Bay of Hakodate, an inlet of Tsugaru Strait, is completely land-locked, easy of access and spacious, with deep water almost up to the shore, and good holding-ground.

    350

    The causes of disease may be provisionally classified somewhat as follows, but it may he remarked at the outset that no one of these proximal causes, or agents, is ever solely responsible; and it is very easy to err in attributing a diseased condition to any of them, unless the relative importance of primary and subordinate agencies is discoverable.

    351

    The chief direct result in the life of the Egyptian people was the virtual destruction of the governing caste of the Mamelukes, the Turks finding it easy to rid themselves of their surviving chiefs and to re-establish the authority of the Sultan.

    352

    The communications within the city are maintained by an excellent system of electric trams, which bring the more distant suburbs into easy connexion with the business centre.

    353

    The conquest was easy; but, when it came to a partition, Ferdinand played his ally false.

    354

    The Czech immigrants, attracted to Vienna as to other German towns by the growth of industry, are now too numerous for easy absorption, which is further retarded by their national organization, and the provision of separate institutions, churches, schools (thus far private) and places of resort.

    355

    The dispersion from Arabia is easy to imagine.

    356

    The dry process is more frequently practised, for the easy reducibility of the oxide and sulphide, together with the low melting-point of the metal, renders it possible to effect a ready separation of the metal from the gangue and impurities.

    357

    The effect on the passionate sultan of this " unparalleled outrage on a friendly power in time of peace " is easy to imagine.

    358

    The entrance is easy and safe, and the harbour affords secure anchorage for large vessels, with deep water alongside the iron railway wharf.

    359

    The evils of this complicated system are obvious, and easy to condemn.

    360

    The exact date of the beginning of what Mme de Stael's admirers call her duel with Napoleon is not easy to determine.

    361

    The exaltation of Humanity into the throne occupied by the Supreme Being under monotheistic systems made all the rest of Comte's construction easy enough.

    362

    The extensive deposits of clay in the Hudson Valley together with the easy water communications with New York City have made this valley the greatest brick-making region in the world; in 1906 the common bricks made here numbered 1,230,692,000.

    363

    The famous city, within easy reach of the southern desert and central Palestine (to Hebron and to Samaria the distances are about 18 and 35 miles respectively), had already entered into Palestinian history in the " Amarna " age (§ 3).

    364

    The feeding of carnivores is on the whole the most easy; the chief pitfall being the extreme liability of all except the larger forms to fatal digestive disturbances from food that is not quite fresh.

    365

    The formation of nitrides and cyanamides by actions of this kind and their easy conversion into ammonia is a useful method for fixing the nitrogen of the atmosphere and rendering it available for manurial purposes.

    366

    The French king therefore found it easy to form a temporary alliance with Russell, Hollis and the opposition leaders, by which they engaged to cripple the king's power of hurting France and to compel him to seek Louis's friendship, - that friendship, however, to be given only on the condition that they in their turn should have Louis's support for their cherished objects.

    367

    The generally peaceful disposition of the tribes rendered the opening up of the country comparatively easy.

    368

    The Geometry of Descartes, unlike the other parts of his essays, is not easy reading.

    369

    The government looked on the practice with great disfavour, because it transferred large areas from the easy access of the state to an ownership beyond its reach.

    370

    The great bend of the river affords easy irrigation, and the surrounding country is covered by a network of irrigating canals, even the paved streets of the town having streams of cool water running through them.

    371

    The groundwork, so far as it can be ascertained, and the grammar are Indo-European, but a large number of words have been borrowed from the Latin or Italian and Greek, and it is not always easy to decide whether the mutilated and curtailed forms now in use represent adopted words or belong to the original vocabulary.

    372

    The guarantee of the imperial government made easy the provision Nova Scotia question.

    373

    The heartwood varies in colour from dark brown to pale yellowishbrown; hard, close-grained, and little liable to split accidentally, it is, for a hard wood, easy to work.

    374

    The height of the tower is 179 ft., but the ascent is easy by a stair in the wall, and the visitor hardly perceives the inclination till he reaches the top and from the lower edge of the gallery looks "down" along the shaft receding to its base.

    375

    The history is written in an easy style and is a work of great merit.

    376

    The hydraulic crane is rapid in action, very smooth and silent in working, easy to handle, and not excessive in cost or upkeep, - advantages which have secured its adoption in every part of the world.

    377

    The irreconcilable minority, recognizing this, exhausted all the resources of " technical obstruction " in order to reduce the government to impotence, a task made easy by the absurd standing-rules of the House which enabled any single member to block a measure.

    378

    The King's Own was a vast improvement, in point of construction, upon Frank Mildmay; and he went on, through a quick succession of tales, Newton Forster (1832), Peter Simple (1834), Jacob Faithful (1834), The Pacha of Many Tales (1835), Japhet in Search of a Father (1836), Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), The Pirate and the Three Cutters (1836), till he reached his highwater mark of constructive skill in Snarley-yow, or the Dog Fiend (1837).

    379

    The land board is a government department charged with the control of Crown lands leased to settlers on easy terms for agricultural purposes.

    380

    The language of the prose Lancelot is good, easy and graceful, but the adventures lack originality and interest, and the situations repeat themselves in a most wearisome manner.

    381

    The Lao, who descended from the mountain districts of Yunnan, Szechuen and Kweichow to the highland plains of upper Indo-China, and drove the wilder Kha peoples whom they found in possession into the hills, mostly adopted Buddhism, and formed small settled communities or states in which laws were easy, taxes light and a very fair degree of comfort was attained.

    382

    The latter are the more easy to study.

    383

    The latter wished for more fasting, the prohibition of second marriages, a frank, courageous profession of Christianity in daily life, and entire separation from the world; the bishops, on the other hand, sought to make it as easy as possible to be a Christian, lest they should lose the greater part of their congregations.

    384

    The little princess, plump and rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases.

    385

    The lowlands of Britain, with their partly Romanized and partly scanty population and their easy physical features, presented no obstacle.

    386

    The mallee scrub appears like a forest of dried osier, growing so close that it is not always easy to ride through it.

    387

    The Mecanique celeste is, even to those most conversant with analytical methods, by no means easy reading.

    388

    The mechanical idea, named the parallelogram of velocities, permits a ready and easy graphical representation of these facts.

    389

    The method also renders comparatively easy the verification of the results of certain selected parts.

    390

    The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

    391

    The most notable characteristic of his style is its graceful simplicity; it is never affected or laboured; his sentences are short and easy, and follow one another naturally.

    392

    The new national feeling demanded that all Arabs should be free men, so the caliph ordained that all Arab slaves should be freed on easy terms. The solidarity of Arabia survived the first foreign conquests.

    393

    The Number Of Days In The Period Being Known, It Is Easy To Ascertain Its Accuracy Both In Respect Of The Solar And Lunar Motions.

    394

    The ores are generally of good quality, and are easy of extraction.

    395

    The original source is not easy to determine.

    396

    The parts are easy of transport and can be handled without difficulty through narrow doorways and in confined situations.

    397

    The Phoenicians have left no marked trace of their presence; but inasmuch as they were probably of nearly the same race as the Arabs, it would not be easy to distinguish the two types.

    398

    The phrase, "devil's advocate," has by an easy transference come to be used of any one who puts himself up, or is put up, for the sake of promoting debate, to argue a case in which he does not necessarily believe.

    399

    The plan was quick and easy.

    400

    The poles of a piece of magnetized steel may be at once distinguished if the two ends are successively presented to the compass; that end which attracts the south pole of the compass needle (and is therefore north) may be marked for easy identification.

    401

    The position of the hand is as easy to feel as it is to see.

    402

    The preceding considerations render it comparatively easy to follow the reasoning on which the experimental verification of the EgaJva- above statements is based.

    403

    The pregnancy had not been an easy one, especially not with the excitement of the past few months.

    404

    The process whereby the independent hero of the Lanzelet (who, though his mother is Arthur's sister, has but the slightest connexion with the British king), the faithful husband of Iblis, became converted into the principal ornament of Arthur's court, and the devoted lover of the queen, is by no means easy to follow, nor do other works of the cycle explain the transformation.

    405

    The question whether this cause modifies gravitation admits of an easy test from observation.

    406

    The reason of this is easy to find.

    407

    The rebellious elements allied themselves instinctively with the Poles, who thus found the absorption of the greater part of the lands of the Order an easy task.

    408

    The Republican machine finds it easy with the support of the millionaire summer colony at Newport and the street railway corporations to corrupt the French-Canadians and a portion of the native element in the rural towns and maintain absolute control of the state government.

    409

    The resident foreigners, who are mostly Spaniards, Italians, Germans and British subjects, numbered less than 8000 in 1904; immigration is, however, encouraged by the easy terms on which land can be purchased from the state.

    410

    The returns from the copper fields in the state are at present a little over half a million sterling per annum, and would be still greater if it were not for the lack of suitable fuel for smelting purposes, which renders the economical treatment of the ore difficult; the development of the mines is also retarded by the want of easy and cheaper communication with the coast.

    411

    The Rhine has been one of the chief waterways of Europe from the earliest times; and, as its channel is not exposed to the danger of silting up like those of the Elbe and the Oder, it has always been comparatively easy to keep it open.

    412

    The rule is a simple one and easy to apply.

    413

    The shop was pleasant, with comfortable easy chairs in the front, coffee counter in the center and tables to the rear.

    414

    The simplicity is great; they can be quickly mounted and dismounted; the correct gauge can be perfectly maintained; the sections of rails and sleepers (which are of iron) are very portable, and skilled labour is not required to lay or to take them up; the making of a " turn-out " is easy, by taking out a 15 ft.

    415

    The situation of the Acropolis, dominating the surrounding plain and possessing easy communication with the sea, favoured the formation of a relatively powerful state - inferior, however, to Tiryns and Mycenae; the myths of Cecrops, Erechtheus and Theseus bear witness to the might of the princes who ruled in the Athenian citadel, and here we may naturally expect to find traces of massive fortifications resembling in some degree those of the great Argolid cities.

    416

    The situation of the town proper, on a small triangular islet only connected with the mainland by three moles and bridges at the angles, has always rendered its fortification comparatively easy, and down to 1873 it was a fortress of the first rank.

    417

    The soft shales or clays of the hills bounding the valley render these hills especially subject to the action of denudation, and the result, in rounded slopes and easily accessible crests, determines the nature of the easy tracks and passes which intersect them.

    418

    The Spanish slave laws (although in practice often frightfully abused) were always comparatively generous to the slave, making relatively easy, among other things, the purchase of his freedom, the number of free blacks being always great.

    419

    The species and varieties of mammals and birds that have a commercial value as farmyard stock or as pets, are for the most part easy to keep, are attractive to the public and may be a source of profit.

    420

    The spirit of his thought is mystical and by no means easy to follow, and this difficulty is accentuated, even to German readers, by the use of artificial terminology.

    421

    The sun was warm and he walked with a slight limp but an easy stride, past the shops of the small central section to the west side of the quiet town.

    422

    The term is loose in application and the line between shrubs, trees and certain woody herbaceous plants is not easy to draw.

    423

    The term light railways is somewhat vague and indefinite, and therefore to give a precise definition of its significance is not an easy matter.

    424

    The text was followed by a critical apparatus, the first part of which consisted of an introduction to the criticism of the New Testament, in the thirty-fourth section of which he laid down and explained his celebrated canon, "Proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua" (" The difficult reading is to be preferred to that which is easy"), the soundness of which, as a general principle, has been recognized by succeeding critics.

    425

    The ticket furnished an easy means for guarding the meetings of the society against intrusions."

    426

    The tinning of a copper basin is an easy operation.

    427

    The tsar, the king of Prussia, Schwarzenberg and a very large headquarter staff watched the fighting from a hill near Racknitz and offered an easy mark to the French guns.

    428

    The United States navy paid great attention to its gunnery, which the British navy, misled by its easy victories over the French, had greatly neglected.

    429

    The various calculations are not quite easy to harmonize, but the extent of choice for the year of Herod's death is limited to the years 4 and 3 B.C., with a very great preponderance of probability in favour of the former.

    430

    The western descent of the mountains appeared to the explorers comparatively easy, and they returned to report their discovery.

    431

    The wood is generally reddish-brown, light and of a coarse grain and spongy texture, easy to work, but liable to shrink and warp. Mountain-grown wood is harder, stronger, less liable to warp and more durable.

    432

    The word was not easy to translate.

    433

    The work is not easy or to be taken up lightly.

    434

    Then it was easy to supplant her with another favourite, Mademoiselle de Lafayette.

    435

    There he studied the New Testament in the editions of Erasmus and began to found his preaching on "the Gospel," which he declared to be simple and easy to understand.

    436

    There is a university, to which admission is easy and where the fees are moderate, and the Conservatoire provides as good musical teaching as can be found in Europe.

    437

    There is no doubt that the disintegration caused by monophysitism largely facilitated the rapid and easy victory of Islam in Syria and Egypt.

    438

    There was a danger of admitting Gentile converts to the church on too easy moral terms; hence the need of such insistence on the ideal as in The Two Ways and the Mandates.

    439

    There was a hurried "I love you," not an easy thing for her to say, then a dial tone.

    440

    There was no easy way to the edge of the ravine, and it looked too shallow along most places to make a jump pay off.

    441

    There were no manifestations of triumph or exultation on the part of the victors, the lot of the vanquished was made as easy as possible, and after a short time the armies melted into the mass of the people without disturbance or disorder.

    442

    These cracks coincide with planes of easy separation or of gliding in the crystal; they are especially useful in helping to determine the crystallographic orientation of a cleavage flake of mica when crystal faces are absent.

    443

    These extensions in the south and east had also, it is easy to see, a commercial motive.

    444

    These illustrations are comparatively simple; it would have been easy to select others of a more complicated nature, but all evidently connected with the visits of insects and the cross fertilization of the flower.

    445

    These relations may be readily tested, for the ratio C p /C„ is capable of easy experimental determination.

    446

    They allow for easy return of merchandise that doesn't meet my expectations, decreasing my fear of making a bad purchasing decision.

    447

    They are said, though it is not easy to p believe, to have been elaborated by way of Utopia.

    448

    They are very easy to cultivate and do not require lifting.

    449

    They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.

    450

    They met with a quick and easy sale, were very extensively read, and very liberally and deservedly praised for the unflagging industry and vigour they displayed, though just exception, if only on the score of good taste, was taken to the scoffing tone he continued to maintain in all passages where the Christian religion was specially concerned, and much fault was found with the indecency of some of his notes.'

    451

    They promised an easy expiation for crimes to both living and dead on payment of a fee, undertook to punish the enemies of their clients, and held out to them the prospect of perpetual banqueting and drinking-bouts in Paradise.

    452

    They seemed so easy with each other and she had never seen Elisabeth this happy.

    453

    They want to go easy on this and not make any mistakes.

    454

    They were mostly quiet on the ride home, both reflecting on how easy it was to be together, and Jackson enjoyed watching her drive.

    455

    This has made it easy for the states to the west to contribute raw materials, notably coal and iron, adding these to the natural raw products of New York.

    456

    This is easy to happen with plants dependent on insects for their fertilization.

    457

    This isn't easy for you, is it?

    458

    This made the problem of deciphering Persian inscriptions a relatively easy one.

    459

    This partitional period, as Polish historians generally call it, lasted from 1138 to 1305, during which Poland lost all political significance, and became an easy prey to her neighbours.

    460

    This prolific author copied, and so imported into Ottoman literature, a didactic style of ghazel-writing which was then being introduced in Persia by the poet Sa'ib; but so closely did the pupil follow in the footsteps of his master that it is not always easy to know that his lines are intended to be Turkish.

    461

    This slight work of a Macedonian freedman, destitute of national significance and representative in its morality only of the spirit of cosmopolitan individualism, owes its vogue to its easy Latinity and popular subject-matter.

    462

    This system, which has been employed for the lowest weir on the Moldau, and for a weir at the upper end of the Danube canal near Vienna to shut out floods and floating ice, as well as on the Seine, possesses the merits of raising all the movable parts of the weir out of water in flood-time, and rendering the working of the weir very safe and easy.

    463

    This thing wouldn't be easy to handle on a red carpet, but I think I can make it all right.

    464

    This time, the Watchers wouldn't get off easy.

    465

    This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun (1871); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy (1872); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science (1873); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus (1874);(1874); Our Place among Infinities (1875); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy (1877); The Universe of Stars (1878); Flowers of the Sky (1879); The Peotry of Astronomy (1880); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies (1882); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid (1883); The Universe of Suns (1884); The Seasons (1885); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars (1887).

    466

    This wasn't easy for him — or her.

    467

    This will be easy to set up.

    468

    This won.t be easy.

    469

    This wouldn't be easy.

    470

    Thus far the road is easy, but at Michmash it descends into a very steep and rough valley, which has to be crossed before reascending to Geba.l At the bottom of the valley is the Pass of Michmash, a noble gorge with precipitous craggy sides.

    471

    Thus it is easy to detect a want of tuning in these intervals.

    472

    To apply the method to the calculation of N n, it is necessary that we should be able to express N in the form A+a or Aa, where a is small in comparison with A, A" is easy to calculate and a/A is convenient as a multiplier.

    473

    To illustrate how easy it is to go astray in this line, observe the continual reference in modern handbooks to the cubic foot as 1000 oz.

    474

    To make this apparatus more perfectly automatic, an arrangement for continually adding to and mixing with the juice the proper proportion of milk of lime has been adapted to it; and although it may be objected that once the proportion has been determined no allowance is made for the variation in the quality of the juice coming from the mill owing to the variations that may occur in the canes fed into the mills, it is obviously as easy to vary the proportion with the automatic arrangement from time to time as it is to vary in each separate direction, if the man in charge will take the trouble to do so, which he very seldom does with the ordinary defecators, satisfying himself with testing the juice once or twice in a watch.

    475

    Under such conditions, Metzko, unsupported either by Klenau or the main army beyond the ravine, was an easy victim.

    476

    Under this system the crimes in a given district were always committed by strangers rendering identification of the criminal difficult and escape easy.

    477

    Unfortunately the Cavalla does not afford a means of easy penetration into the rich hinterland of Liberia on account of the bad bar at its mouth.

    478

    Vorarlberg is composed of the hilly region of the Bregenzerwald, and, to its south, of the mountain valley of Montafon or of the upper Ill, through which an easy pass, the Zeinisjoch (6076 ft.), leads to the Tirolese valley of Paznaun, and so to Landeck.

    479

    Was he being unfair, taking the easy way out?

    480

    We Will Now Show In What Manner This Whole Apparatus Of Methods And Tables May Be Dispensed With, And The Gregorian Calendar Reduced To A Few Simple Formulae Of Easy Computation.

    481

    We'll let you off easy.

    482

    We're watching, but it's not easy balancing the Council, demons and a pregnant mate.

    483

    Well, I guess that makes it easy for us.

    484

    When we remember that more than half of the area of London was occupied by these establishments, and that about a third of the inhabitants were monks, nuns and friars, it is easy to imagine how great must have been the disorganization caused by this root and branch reform.

    485

    Where the soul is regarded as no more than a finer sort of matter, it will obviously be far from easy to decide whether the gods are spiritual or material.

    486

    Whether a Japanese art-worker sets himself to copy what he sees before him or to give play to his fancy in combining what he has seen with some ideal in his mind, the result shows perfect facility of execution and easy grace in all the lines.

    487

    While, again, legitimately insisting upon personality as a fundamental constituent in any true theory of reality, the relation between human individualities and the divine Person is left vague and obscure; nor is it easy to see how the existence of several individualities - human or divine - in one cosmos is theoretically possible.

    488

    While, for instance, it may be difficult to realize the equality of area of two plots of ground of different shapes, it may be easy to realize the equality of the amounts of a given material that would be required to cover them to a particular depth.

    489

    Why are you always so easy on me?

    490

    Why did everyone make it look so easy?

    491

    Why lie when she made it so easy for him to avoid talking about it at all?

    492

    With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth's coercive measures were political and not religious.

    493

    With respect to his attacks on the critical philosophy in the Metakritik (1799), it is easy to understand how his concrete mind, ever alive to the unity of things, instinctively rebelled against that analytic separation of the mental processes which Kant attempted.

    494

    Wolfe Creek Pass at 10,850 feet was unlike anything Dean had ever seen and easy wasn't the description that came to his mind.

    495

    Wollner, with his impressive personality and easy if superficial eloquence, was just the man to lead a movement of this kind.

    496

    You had a choice and didn't take the easy way out.

    497

    You make an easy target.

    498

    You think it was easy for me to consider turning you over?

    499

    You're easy, you know that?

    500

    You're letting this saintly man of the cloth off a bit easy, aren't you?