Important in A Sentence

    1

    A future life for him is important, because our happiness in it may depend on our present conduct; and therefore our action here should take into account the reward or punishment that it may bring on us hereafter.

    2

    A large number of cotton mills furnish the chief source of industry; printing, dyeing and bleaching of cotton and calico, spinning and weaving machine making, iron and steel works, and collieries in the neighbourhood, are also important.

    3

    A much more important work in the history of geographical method is the Geographia generalis of Bernhard Varenius, a German medical doctor of Leiden, who died at the age of twentyeight in 1650, the year of the publication of his book.

    4

    A simple, but important, addition to enable the reading from the instrument to be effected by sound is shown in fig.

    5

    A third important publication was Massimo dAzeglios Degli ultimi casi di Romagna, in which the author, another Piedmontese nobleman, exposed papal misgovernment while condemning the secret societies and advocating open resistance and protest.

    6

    A very important distinction is to be found in the conformation of the trunk, which, as shown in fig.

    7

    About 245 the emperor Philip the Arabian entrusted him with an important command on the Danube, and in 249 (or end of 248), having been sent to put down a revolt of the troops in Moesia and Pannonia, he was forced to assume the imperial dignity.

    8

    Abu Zaid also wrote on India, and his work is the most important that we possess before the epoch-making discoveries of Marco Polo.

    9

    Ah yes, there was something else important, very important, that I was keeping till I should be in bed.

    10

    Albert sought to play an important part in European affairs.

    11

    Alex had been attuned to her silent wants and needs because it was important to him.

    12

    Alex was living proof that an heir was more important to Senor Medena than honor.

    13

    Alexander Ghent had fallen into the hands of John Casimir, Farnese and under his armed protection a fierce and intolerant governor= Calvinism reigned supreme in that important city.

    14

    All the Maize - - - 1,39 more important questions of church discipline and all decisions regulating the doctrine and practice of the church are dealt with by the synods.

    15

    Although the timbers of commercial value are confined practically to the eastern and a portion of the western coastal belt and a few inland tracts of Australia, they constitute an important national asset.

    16

    Among later residents commemorated is Edward Lloyd, who was the first person to show the value of esparto grass for the manufacture of paper, and thus started an industry which is one of the most important in Algeria.

    17

    Among the most important trees of this area are the white and chestnut oaks, the black walnut, the yellow poplar, and the cherry, the southern portion of the state containing the largest reserve supply.

    18

    Amongst the more important buildings for ecclesiastical and philanthropic purposes erected to the north of the city since 1860 are the Russian cathedral, hospice and hospital; the French hospital of St Louis, and hospice and church of St Augustine; the German schools, orphanages and hospitals; the new hospital and industrial school of the London mission to the Jews; the Abyssinian church; the church and schools of the Church missionary society; the Anglican church, college and bishop's house; the Dominican monastery, seminary and church of St Stephen; the Rothschild hospital and girls' school; and the industrial school and workshops of the Alliance Israelite.

    19

    Amongst the more important explorations may be ranked those of Tietkins in 1889, of Lindsay in 1891, of Wells in 1896, of Hiibbe in 1896, and of the Hon.

    20

    An embassy, with the earl of Wiltshire at its head, was despatched to Rome in 1530, that " the matter of the divorce should be disputed and ventilated," and Cranmer was an important member of it.

    21

    An important advance on this was proposed in 1797 by Lomond,' who used only one line of wire and an alphabet of motions.

    22

    An important International Conference on radiotelegraphy was held in Berlin in 1906, and as a result of its deliberations international regulations have been adopted by the chief Powers of the world.

    23

    An important modification of this method enables not only audible signals but articulated words to be transmitted, and gives thus a system of wireless telephony.

    24

    An important product of oak woods is the bark that from a remote period has been the chief tanning material of Europe.

    25

    An important undertaking, known as the Agricultural Inquiry, brought to light vast quantities of information valuable for future agrarian legislation.

    26

    An important variation is seen, in the form of the hydrotheca itself, which may come off from the main stem by a stalk, as in Obelia, or may be sessile, without a stalk, as in Sertularia.

    27

    Another group of investigations that seems to play an important part in the future development of the theory of evolution relates to the study of what is known as organic symmetry.

    28

    Another important consequence of rotation is the deviation produced in moving bodies relatively to the surface.

    29

    Apellicon's chief pursuit was the collection of rare and important books.

    30

    Appingedam and Winschoten are very old towns, having important cattle and horse markets.

    31

    As no practical process of telephone relaying has been devised, it is extremely important that the character of the line should be such as to favour the preservation of the strength and form of the telephone current.

    32

    Aston Lower Grounds, adjoining the park, contain an assembly hall, and the playing field of the Aston Villa Football Club, where the more important games are witnessed by many thousands of spectators.

    33

    At a time when many encyclopedias have capsulated and condensed important knowledge, the 11th edition is generally much more in-depth and thorough on its topics.

    34

    At Bonn he took an important part in preparing the Durchmusterung of the northern heavens.

    35

    At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreating without a battle, namely the evacuation and burning of Moscow, Rostopchin, who is usually represented as being the instigator of that event, acted in an altogether different manner from Kutuzov.

    36

    At the moment he was one of the most important people in her life.

    37

    At the time of the meeting at Tilsit he asked the names of those who had come with Napoleon and about the uniforms they wore, and listened attentively to words spoken by important personages.

    38

    Avranches, an important military station of the Romans, was in the middle ages chief place of a county of the duchy of Normandy.

    39

    Before these alterations the relations between the state and the Roman Catholic communion, by far the largest and most important in France, were chiefly regulated by the provisions of the Concordat of 1801, concluded between the first consul, Bonaparte, and Pope Pius VII.

    40

    Besides absorption, assimilation, conduction and protection there is another very important function for which provision has to be made in any plant-body of considerable size, especially when raised into the air, that of support.

    41

    Besides copying the Roman habit of planting military colonies, the First Consul imitated the old conquerors of the world by extending and completing the road-system of his outlying districts, especially at those important passes, the Mont Cenis and Simplon.

    42

    Besides the important harbours already referred to, the French fleet has naval bases at Oran in Algeria, Bizerta in Tunisia, Saigon in Cochin China and Hongaj in Tongking, DiegoSuarez in Madagascar, Dakar in Senegal, Fort de France in Martinique, Nouma in New Caledonia.

    43

    Besides the Shari, the only important stream entering Lake Chad is the Waube or Yo (otherwise the Komadugu Yobe), which rises near Kano, and flowing eastward enters the lake on its western side 40 m.

    44

    Birmingham also has important lumber interests.

    45

    Boris was thus the first to learn the news that the French army had crossed the Niemen and, thanks to this, was able to show certain important personages that much that was concealed from others was usually known to him, and by this means he rose higher in their estimation.

    46

    Both of these men made important contributions to science, and rendered an inestimable service to the country, not only through their publications but also through the interest they aroused in scientific research.

    47

    Bristol, Exeter and other important towns have been laid, and eventually telegraphic communication between every important town in the United Kingdom will be rendered safe from interruptions caused by gales or snowstorms.

    48

    But he also knew (or rather felt at the bottom of his heart) that by resigning himself now to the force of circumstances and to those who were guiding him, he was not only doing nothing wrong, but was doing something very important--more important than anything he had ever done in his life.

    49

    But his original work was also important.

    50

    But important alterations were made.

    51

    But in addition to bringing forward a fundamental and philosophical view of morbid processes, which probably contributed more than any other single cause to vindicate for pathology the place which he claimed for it among the biological sciences, Virchow made many important contributions to histology and morbid anatomy and to the study of particular diseases.

    52

    But it is worthy of special attention that the mere chemical composition of agricultural and garden soils is, as a rule, the least important feature about them, popular opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.

    53

    But now it seemed to him that that meeting had had in it something very important and poetic.

    54

    But there is yet another argument which is even more important.

    55

    But there were more important things to think about at the moment.

    56

    But these were only suppositions, which seemed important to the younger men but not to Kutuzov.

    57

    By rigid precedence the Brahmans occupy the first rank; they are numerous and influential, and with them may be classed the peculiar and important caste of Bhats, the keepers of secular tradition and of the genealogies.

    58

    By these means, the unknown region of Mid Australia was simultaneously entered from the north, south, east and west, and important additions were made to geographical knowledge.

    59

    Calbayog has an important export trade in hemp, which is shipped to Manila.

    60

    Can a man so important and necessary to society be also my husband?

    61

    Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.

    62

    Clive showed his appreciation of Hastings's merits by appointing him in 1758 to the important post of resident at the court of Murshidabad.

    63

    Close by are the ruins of the castle of Sobroso, which played an important part in the medieval civil wars.

    64

    Colsa, grown chiefly in the lower basin of the Seine (SeineInfrieure and Eure), is the most important of the oil-producing plants, all of which show a diminishing acreage.

    65

    Common experience shows that temperature is the most important condition which controls the distribution of plants.

    66

    Considering the wide differences between the two groups in the size and external characters, and in the mode of life, including the mode of feeding, it is indeed surprising that in every important organ the two groups should show a fundamental morphological identity.

    67

    Cremona, on the north bank of the P0, was an important meeting point of roads and Hostilia (Ostiglia) another; so also was Patavium, farther east, and Altinum and Aquileia farther east still.

    68

    Crispi, burdened by the premiership and by the two most important portfolios in the cabinet, was, however, unable to exercise efficient control over all departments of state.

    69

    Cromwell's policy in this instance was not overturned at the Restoration, and the great Jewish immigration into England with all its important consequences may be held to date practically from these first concessions made by Cromwell.

    70

    Dammartin is historically important as the seat of a countship of which the holders played a considerable part in French history.

    71

    Danby had rendered extremely important services to William's cause.

    72

    Delfzyl, which was formerly an important fortress for the protection of the ancient sluices on the little river Delf (hence its name), has greatly benefited by the construction of the Ems (Eems) shipcanal connecting it with Groningen, and has a good harbour with a considerable import trade in wood.

    73

    Denver is an important railway centre, being served by nine railways, of which the chief are the Atchison, ' Topeka & Santa Fe; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; the Denver & Rio Grande; the Union Pacific; and the Denver, North-Western & Pacific, Denver lies on the South Platte river, at an altitude exactly m.

    74

    Douglas is in all important respects even more of a medievalist than his contemporaries; and, like Henryson and Dunbar, strictly a member of the allegorical school and a follower, in the most generous way, of Chaucer's art.

    75

    Douglas's longest, last, and in some respects most important work is his translation of the Aeneid, the first version of a great classic poet in any English dialect.

    76

    During his brief reign Decius was engaged in important operations against the Goths, who crossed the Danube and overran the districts of Moesia and Thrace.

    77

    During his three years of office as resident he was able to render not a few valuable services to the Company; but it is more important to observe that his name nowhere occurs in the official lists of those who derived pecuniary profit from the necessities and weakness of the native court.

    78

    During Somerset's protectorate he entered public life and was made a secretary of state, being sent on an important diplomatic mission to Brussels.

    79

    Einstein's work is so important and has proved fertile in so many various branches of physics that it is not possible to do more than enumerate a few of the most salient papers.

    80

    Empedocles took an important step in the direction of modern conceptions of physical evolution by teaching that all things arise, not by transformations of some primitive form of matter, but by various combinations of a number of permanent elements.

    81

    Equally extensive, but less important in the political sphere, were the Papal States and Veneti, the former torpid under the obscurantist rule of pope and cardinals, the latter enervated by luxury and the policy of unmanly complaisance long pursued by doge and council.

    82

    Ethical and sociological developments of this theory succeed its physical and psychological treatment, the consideration of the antinomy of freedom being especially important.

    83

    Even now with every possible hindrance in the way of cultivation it is an important centre of fruit-growing.

    84

    Experiments bearing on this subject were subsequently made by a great number of investigators.4 Page's discovery is of considerable importance in connexion with the theory of action of various forms of telephone, and was a very important feature in the early attempts by Reis to transit music and speech.

    85

    Few can doubt that, if not the whole cause, it is a very important factor in that operation; and that it must play a great part in the sorting out of varieties into those which are transitory and those which are permanent.

    86

    Fixation of Nitrogen.Another, and perhaps an even more important, instance of symbiotic association has come to the front during the same period, it is an alliance between the plants of the Natural Order Leguminosae and certain bacterium-like forms which find a home within the tissues of their roots.

    87

    For instance, he asserts the number of the Sabine virgins to have been exactly 527; again, in a certain year when no Greek or Latin writers mention any important campaign, Antias speaks of a big battle with enormous casualties.

    88

    For instance, Pierre's return was a joyful and important event and they all felt it to be so.

    89

    For some reason, his respect was important - even crucial.

    90

    For the rest, his theory is chiefly important as emphasizing the vital character of the original substance.

    91

    For this important achievement New York and Vermont granted him estates, whilst Congress gave him a gold medal.

    92

    From Beneventum, another important road centre, the Via Appia itself ran south-east through the mountains past Venusia to Tarentum on the south-west coast of the heel, and thence across Calabria to Brundusium, while Trajans correction of it, following an older mule-track, ran north-east through the mountains and then through the lower ground of Apulia, reaching the coast at Barium.

    93

    From this time forward the new moons, which till then had been at least as important as the Sabbath and were celebrated by sacrificial feasts as occasions of religious gladness, fall into insignificance, except in the conservative temple ritual.

    94

    Further, the skin is stated to be much less rough, with fewer cracks, while a more important difference occurs in the trunk, which lacks the transverse ridges so distinctive of the ordinary African elephant, and thereby approximates to the Asiatic species.

    95

    Ginseng is an important medicinal plant.

    96

    Gold is obtained chiefly from quartz reefs, but there are still some important alluvial deposits being worked.

    97

    Grant threw the whole weight of his great influence in favour of confederation, and his oratory played an important part in securing the success of the movement.

    98

    Having finished speaking to her, the Emperor looked inquiringly at Balashev and, evidently understanding that he only acted thus because there were important reasons for so doing, nodded slightly to the lady and turned to him.

    99

    Hay and forage are the most important crops, and Vermont grasses for grazing have been favourably known since the close of the 18th century.

    100

    He also made important contributions to the mathematical theory of electrodynamics, and in papers published in 1845 and 1847 established mathematically the laws of the induction of electric currents.

    101

    He also was provost of Edinburgh at various times, and it is a remarkable instance of the esteem in which the lairds of Merchiston were held that three of them in immediate lineal succession repeatedly filled so important an office during perhaps the most memorable period in the history of the city.

    102

    He asks you to come to him at once on a very important matter.

    103

    He became (1756-1759) the leading spirit of Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe, and ran some risk (which Frederick's good nature obviated) by somewhat freely criticizing the poems of the king of Prussia.

    104

    He collaborated with his father in the great edition of Saadia and the edition of Abu-1Walid, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers.

    105

    He had a brilliant position in society thanks to his intimacy with Countess Bezukhova, a brilliant position in the service thanks to the patronage of an important personage whose complete confidence he enjoyed, and he was beginning to make plans for marrying one of the richest heiresses in Petersburg, plans which might very easily be realized.

    106

    He hadn't realized how important a mother could be in a grown man's life until she died last year.

    107

    He published in 1797 the important book Die Griechen and Romer, which was followed by the suggestive Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen and Romer (1798).

    108

    He spoke at an important meeting upon this question in London on the 10th of June 1864, which laid the ground for the University Tests Act of 1871.

    109

    He supported stoutly the extreme party of opposition to the king, but did not take the lead except on a few less important occasions, and was apparently silent in the debates on the Petition of Right, the Grand Remonstrance and the Militia.

    110

    He tried to pass either in front of them or to the right or left, but there were soldiers everywhere, all with the same preoccupied expression and busy with some unseen but evidently important task.

    111

    He was also the author of important papers in which he extended to complex quadratic forms many of Gauss's investigations relating to real quadratic forms. After 1864 he devoted himself chiefly to elliptic functions, and numerous papers on this subject were published by him in the Proc. Lond.

    112

    He was in communication all his life with the leading contemporary statesmen, so that his correspondence is one of the most interesting and important of historical documents.

    113

    He was meeting Helene in Vilna after not having seen her for a long time and did not recall the past, but as Helene was enjoying the favors of a very important personage and Boris had only recently married, they met as good friends of long standing.

    114

    He was now sent on an important mission to India; he left England in September 1769, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea late in 1770 or early in 1771.

    115

    He was one of the leaders of the emeutes of the 20th of June and the 10th of August 1792, played an important part in the formation of the revolutionary commune which assured the success of the latter coup, and was made procureur of the commune.

    116

    He was thus important as the precursor of Malebranche and Spinoza.

    117

    He's already an important figure in the state of California.

    118

    Here, too, he published, in 1531, his most important work, the Chronica, Zeitbuch and Geschichtsbibel, largely a compilation on the basis of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), and in its treatment of social and religious questions connected with the Reformation, exhibiting a strong sympathy with heretics, and an unexampled fairness to all kinds of freedom in opinion.

    119

    Herod again raised the city to the position of an important capital, restoring the fortifications, and rebuilding the Temple from its foundations.

    120

    His eldest son Alexander, who succeeded him in 1 454, was provost of Edinburgh in 1 455, 1 457 and 1469; he was knighted and held various important court offices under successive monarchs; at the time of his death in 1473 he was master of the household to James III.

    121

    His exact words weren't important – especially because they weren't true.

    122

    His first original paper (1799) was on the compounds of arsenic and antimony with oxygen and sulphur, and of his other separate investigations one of the most important was that on the compound ethers, begun in 1807.

    123

    His language was antiquated and his style dry, but his work was considered important.

    124

    His most important works were published posthumously.

    125

    His own contributions to this periodical were numerous and important.

    126

    His position rather than any personal qualities enabled him to play an important part in a great crisis of European politics.

    127

    His power was formerly of great extent, but he has now practically no important duty to exercise except that of chairman of the Dover harbour board.

    128

    How you handle this is important, Darian.

    129

    I considered this suggestion carefully, then I told Mr. Rhoades that I should be proud and glad to have wise friends to whom I could always turn for advice in all important matters.

    130

    I don't know how important it is, but at least this time you haven't been excluded.

    131

    I had to talk over a very important matter with him.

    132

    I just hope there isn't something truly important she's trying to tell us but is too afraid to say.

    133

    I know, but having the family's support is more important to me.

    134

    I remember when it's important enough.

    135

    I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

    136

    I wouldn't want to miss anything important.

    137

    I'm sure if he sees how important this is to you, he'll relent.

    138

    If it's so important to you, I'll interview more people.

    139

    If it's that important to him, why don't you just sell the goats?

    140

    If it's that important to you, I'll find some one to take care of the ranch.

    141

    If Sam was going to take care of the horses, it was important that she know which ones to be cautious with.

    142

    If this dog is what you want, it isn't important who gave it to you – and you don't need to ask me before you put another animal on this place.

    143

    If you think it's important.

    144

    Important changes were also made in the provisions and administration of military law.

    145

    Important, as showing his views on a cardinal doctrine, was the Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament, which he published in 1550.

    146

    In 1329 the most important division of the Wittelsbach lands took place.

    147

    In 1443 the allied armies of the Hungarians under Hunyady and the Servians under George Brankovich, retook it from the Turks, but in 1456 it again came under Turkish dominion, and remained for more than 300 years the most important Turkish military station on the road between Hungary and Constantinople.

    148

    In 1830 and 1831 he took part in the Dutch campaign in Belgium, and in 1844, after being promoted to the rank of general, was sent on an important mission to the Dutch East Indies to inquire into the state of their military defences.

    149

    In 1873 there was an important rise in wages, in the following year there was a further advance, and another in 1876; but in 1877 wages fell back a little, though not below the rate of 1874.

    150

    In 1882 there was a very important advance in wages; carpenters received 11s.

    151

    In 1888 the last important conference on the Chinese question was held in Sydney and attended by delegates from all the states.

    152

    In 1889 an important step towards federation was taken by Sir Henry Parkes.

    153

    In 210 B.C. this important place, the headquarters and treasure city of the Punic army, was stormed and taken with great slaughter by P. Scipio.

    154

    In addition to the encyclical letter, nineteen resolutions were put forth, and the reports of twelve special committees are appended upon which they are based, the subjects being intemperance, purity, divorce, polygamy, observance of Sunday, socialism, care of emigrants, mutual relations of dioceses of the Anglican Communion, home reunion, Scandinavian Church, Old Catholics, &c., Eastern Churches, standards of doctrine and worship. Perhaps the most important of these is the famous "Lambeth Quadrilateral," which laid down a fourfold basis for home reunion - the Holy Scriptures, the Apostles' and Nicene creeds, the two sacraments ordained by Christ himself and the historic episcopate.

    155

    In connexion with the present subject it is important to notice the three characteristics of a musical sound, namely, pitch, loudness and quality.

    156

    In England materialism has been endemic, so to speak, from Hobbes to the present time, and English materialism is more important perhaps than that of any other country.

    157

    In February 1532 he protested against all acts concerning the church passed by the parliament which met in 1529, but this did not prevent the important proceedings which secured the complete submission of the church to the state later in the same year.

    158

    In north and central Franee the chief trees are the oak, the beech, rare south of the Loire, and the hornbeam; less important varieties are the birch, poplar, ash, elm and walnut.

    159

    In Prince Andrew's eyes Speranski was the man he would himself have wished to be--one who explained all the facts of life reasonably, considered important only what was rational, and was capable of applying the standard of reason to everything.

    160

    In spite of the statement that the nature of the organism is the most important factor in variation, the tendency amongst evolutionists has been to take much more account of the influence of external conditions.

    161

    In the British Postal Telegraph Department all the most important wires are tested every morning between 7.30 and 7.45 A.M., in sections of about 200 miles.

    162

    In the case of the inductive mode of exciting the oscillations an important quantity is the coefficient of coupling of the two oscillation circuits.

    163

    In the doctrines of the Neoplatonists, of whom Plotinus is the most important, we have the worldprocess represented after the example of Plato as a series of descending steps, each being less perfect than its predecessors, since it is further removed from the first cause.'

    164

    In the later middle ages these courts had jurisdiction over most questions, except indeed the then most important ones, those relating to real property.

    165

    In the long and important debate upon foreign policy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (6th to 9th December) the fear was repeatedly expressed lest Bismarck should seek to purchase the support of German Catholics by raising the Roman question.

    166

    In the mountain villages the parish priest takes the lead among his people, and is not infrequently the most important person.

    167

    In the municipality of Berhampur is included the remnant of the once important, but now utterly decayed city of Cossimbazar.

    168

    In the Origin of Species, and in his other numerous and important contributions to the solution of the problem of biological evolution, Darwin confined himself to the discussion of the causes which have brought about the present condition of living matter, assuming such matter to have once come into existence.

    169

    In the south they are rare, on account partly of the mountainous character of the country, and partly of the scarcity of traffic. All the important towns of Italy are provided with internal electric tramways, mostly with overhead wires.

    170

    In the southeastern division the river system is important.

    171

    In the time that she had known him, he had given no indication that he was impressed by money or people with important positions.

    172

    In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might be – perhaps a very important person – and hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him.

    173

    In this, as Most important cables, such as those of the Eastern Telegraph and the other with the earth; but it differed from other methods in requiring no " artificial " or balancing cable.

    174

    Indian Vedic henotheism (otherwise called kathenotheism); 3 Semitic monolatry, so important as the probable starting-point of religious development in Israel; the Greek use of " Zeus " almost as we say " God " - even the attempt to arrange deities in a monarchical pantheon, all show the tendency, though it so seldom attains a real victory.

    175

    Instead of regarding these as only ministering to the construction of the bulky portions, the living protoplasts take the first place as the essential portion of the tree, and all the other features are important mainly as ministering to their individual well-being and to their multiplication.

    176

    Is being in control so important that you're willing to sacrifice the happiness of your only son?

    177

    Is it really important?

    178

    It also has important fisheries.

    179

    It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands.

    180

    It contains an important museum of Etruscan and Roman antiquities.

    181

    It has two important branches - at the south-west the Gulf of Aden, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-elMandeb; and at the north-west the Gulf of Oman, connecting with the Persian Gulf.

    182

    It is an important military cantonment and sanatorium, being the headquarters of a brigade in the second division of the northern army corps.

    183

    It is an important station on the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, with a junction for Aligarh.

    184

    It is difficult to indicate in a short space the most important sources of general Italian history.

    185

    It is easy to see that such conclusions ignore important distinctions, and are, indeed, to a large extent an abuse of language.

    186

    It is found in European streams, and is caught by anglers, being also a favourite in aquariums. The well-known and important industry of "Essence Orientale" and artificial pearls, carried on in France and Germany with the crystalline silvery colouring matter of the bleak, was introduced from China about the middle of the 17th century.

    187

    It is important to notice that Baumgarten's first work preceded those of Burke, Diderot, and P. Andre, and that Kant had a great admiration for him.

    188

    It is important to observe that in resting the fame of Pheidias upon the sculptures of the Parthenon we proceed with little evidence.

    189

    It is important to observe that the risk is in no way obviated by the increasing slack paid out, except in so far as the amount of sliding which the strength of the cable is able to produce at the points of contact with the ground may be thereby increased.

    190

    It is in a rich farming region, of which Indian corn and oats are important products, and has a large trade.

    191

    It is mentioned in 354 B.C. as a trading port, and became important as a naval harbour during the Punic Wars.

    192

    It is more important to observe that under Joseph and his ministers or advisers, including the Frenchmen Roederer, Dumas, Miot de Melito and the Corsican Saliceti, great progress was made in abolishing feudal laws and customs, in reforming the judicial procedure and criminal laws on the model of the Code Napoleon, and in attempting the beginnings of elementary education.

    193

    It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.

    194

    It is practically important to consider the rate at which energy may be transformed into useful work, or the horse-power of the agent.

    195

    It is rough in form and the author shows no power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the chronicle is an excellent authority for the history of Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III.

    196

    It is seen from the foregoing account of medusa - budding that the entocodon is a very important constituent of the bud, furnishing some of the most essential portions of the medusa; its cavity becomes the subumbral cavity, and its lining furnishes the ectodermal epithelium of the manubrium and of the sub-umbral cavity as far as the edge of the velum.

    197

    It is sometimes said that lime acts as a poison on some plants and not on others, and sometimes that it is the physiological dryness of calcareous soils that is the important factor.

    198

    It is still the most important trade centre in eastern Asia Minor.

    199

    It is the most important pre-Carolingian church in Germany.

    200

    It is the see of a bishopric and headquarters of an important military district, having an arsenal and military barracks.

    201

    It lies in the open valley of the Trent, at a short distance from the river, and near the important Trent Junction on the Midland railway system.

    202

    It seemed to him that he was thinking of nothing, but far down and deep within him his soul was occupied with something important and comforting.

    203

    It took, however, an important part in the rebellion of 295, and was reduced, with Vulsinii and Arretium, to seek for peace in the following year.

    204

    It was administered under the empire by a curator of praetorian rank, as were the other important roads of Italy.

    205

    It was at one time thought that the centrosomes played an important part in the fertilization of plants, but recent researches seem to indicate that this is not so.

    206

    It wasn't important whether you were right or wrong.

    207

    It will be sufficient to describe those forms with which the most important work has been done, or which have survived the tests of time and experience.

    208

    It's important he's there and you're not.

    209

    It's important to me – even if it isn't important to you.

    210

    It's not only Quinn and his machines that are important; I need guidance even more.

    211

    It's not really important.

    212

    Italians continued to make important journeys in the East during the 15th century.

    213

    Italy had developed some important commercial interests in Montenegro, and anything which strengthened the position of that principality was a guarantee against further Austrian encroachments.

    214

    Its most important feature is a large stucco bas-relief, occupying a central position on the back wall of the sanctuary.

    215

    Its most important feature on the theological as distinct from the political side was the endeavour to promote the circulation of the Bible in the vernacular, by encouraging translation and procuring an order in 1538 that a copy of the Bible in English should be set up in every church in a convenient place for reading.

    216

    Jackson pinched her cheek and hummed, "Apparently your happiness is more important to him than his own."

    217

    Kutuzov made a grimace and sent an order to Dokhturov to take over the command of the first army, and a request to the duke--whom he said he could not spare at such an important moment--to return to him.

    218

    Lava is much used for paving-stones in the neighborhood of volcanic districts, where pozzolana (for cement) and pumice stone are also important.

    219

    Laymen may read the book of nature, and Man himself is the most important " leaf " in it.

    220

    Lemstrbm believed atmospheric electricity to play an important part in the natural growth of vegetation, and he assigned a special role to the needles of fir and pine trees.

    221

    Lines of steamers connect Australia with London and other British ports, with Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, China, India, San Francisco, Vancouver, New York and Montevideo, several important lines being subsidized by the countries to which they belong, notably Germany, France and Japan.

    222

    Local winds form an important feature in nearly all the coast climates of the Mediterranean, especially in winter, where they are primarily caused by the rapid change of temperature from the sea to the snow-clad hinterlands.

    223

    Many important differences are also recorded between the skulls of the two animals, and it is especially noteworthy that the last lower molar is smaller in the wild than in the tame race.

    224

    Marco remained for seventeen years in the service of the Great Khan, and was employed on many important missions.

    225

    Marconi, however, made the important discovery that if his sensitive tube or coherer had one terminal attached to a metal plate lying on the earth, or buried in it, and the other to an insulated plate elevated at a height above the ground, it could detect the presence of very feeble electric waves of a certain kind originating at a great distance.

    226

    Market gardening is an important industry.

    227

    Market-gardenin is an important industry in the regions round Paris, Amiens an Angers, as it is round Toulouse, Montauban,Avignon and in southern France generally.

    228

    Mavra Kuzminichna concluded that he was a very important man.

    229

    Maybe. Do you think honor is more important to him than an heir?

    230

    Milan 4s the most important railway centre in the country, and is followed by Turin, Genoa, Verona, Bologna, Rome, Naples.

    231

    Money is important... but didn't you find it ... exciting?

    232

    More important are the rivers that descend from the main chain of the Graian and Pennine Alps and join the Po on its left bank.

    233

    More important than all was the interest of the Roman curia, composed almost exclusively of Italians, to retain in its own hands the choice of the pontiff and to maintain the predominance 01 the Italian element and the Italian spirit in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

    234

    More important, she wasn't going to gain experience by leaving it all to him.

    235

    Most large towns contain important state or communal archives, iii which a considerable amount of research is being done by local investigators; the various societies for local history (Societd di Storia Patria) do very good work and issue valuable publications; the treasures which the archives contain are by no means exhausted.

    236

    Most of the movable paintings have since 1863 been collected in the Pinacoteca Vannucci, established in the Palazzo del Municipio; besides a considerable number of pieces by Perugino, there are specimens of Niccolo Alunno, Bonfigli, Pinturicchio, &c. A very interesting and important exhibition of Umbrian art was held here in 1907.

    237

    Mountain streams furnish important water-power, and the typical factory of Vermont has long been a sawmill run by a water-wheel.

    238

    Much attention has been paid to the improvement of the mechanical details of the lifting and other motions of cranes, and in important installations the gearing is now usually made of cast steel.

    239

    Naturally he felt that the prevalence of Christianity was incompatible with his ideal of Roman prosperity, and therefore that the policy of the Flavian emperors was the only logical solution of an important problem.

    240

    Naturally, however, as the ideals of the members of the party are the same, the members of the Labour party will be generally found voting together on all important divisions, the chief exception being with regard to free trade or protection.

    241

    Neither of them seemed to recognize anything as important except pitch and amplitude, and Reis thought the amplitude was to some extent obtained by the varying length of contact in the transmitting instrument.

    242

    Next to cereals and the vine the most important object of cultivation is the olive.

    243

    Next to the grandmother, the most important person in the household at Nohant was Deschatres.

    244

    Nishapur was an important place during the 5th century, for Yazdegerd II.

    245

    No other important event was associated with the castle, of which not a stone is now standing.

    246

    No satisfactory collection has been made of the Celtic inscriptions of Cisalpine Gaul, though many are scattered about in different museums. For our present purpose it is important to note that the archaeological stratification in deposits like those of Bologna shows that the Gallic period supervened upon the Etruscan.

    247

    Not to speak of the canonists, Thomas Aquinas gives natural law an important place; while Melancthon, drawing from Aquinas, gives it an entrance into Protestant thought.

    248

    Now that is important.

    249

    Of Porzio's other works, the Storia d'Italia (from 1547 to 1552), of which only the first two books have survived, is the most important.

    250

    Of sea-fish there are many varieties, the tunny, the sardine and the anchovy being commercially the most important.

    251

    Of the several attempts to cross Western Australia, even Major Warburton's expedition, the most successful, had failed in the important particular of determining the nature of the country through which it passed.

    252

    Oldenberg; and the more important parts of it have been translated into English by Rhys Davids and Oldenberg in their Vinaya Texts.

    253

    On his arrival he reinstated Hyrcanus in the high-priesthood at Jerusalem, suppressed revolts, introduced important changes in the government of Judaea, and rebuilt several towns.

    254

    One important measurement is that of the wave-length emitted from an antenna.

    255

    One important object of English maritime adventurers of those days was to discover a route to Cathay by the north-west, a second was to settle Virginia, and a third was to raid the Spanish settlements in the West Indies.

    256

    One important variation, however, was a clause in the bill of rights providing for the abolition of slavery, Vermont being the first state in America to take such action.

    257

    One of the most important manufacturing industries is grading, roasting, cleaning and shelling peanuts (in 1905 valued at $791,760).

    258

    One of the most important subjects is that of church property.

    259

    One of the most important was the passing of a golden snake under the clothes of the initiated across their bosom and its withdrawal from below - an old rite of adoption.

    260

    Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time.

    261

    Only less important and only less early to be established in Vermont was the quarrying of granite, which began in 1812, but which has been developed chiefly since 1880, largely by means of the building of "granite railroads" which connect each quarry with a main railway line - a means of transportation as important as the logging railways of the Western states and of Canada.

    262

    Other important crops grown are - maize, 324,000 acres; oats, 493,000 acres; other grains, 160,000 acres; hay, 1,367,000 acres; potatoes, 119,000 acres; sugar-cane, 141,000 acres; vines, 65,000 acres; and other crops, 422,000 acres.

    263

    Other important granite quarries are near Williamstown, Dummerston, Berlin and Woodbury.

    264

    Other important structural features are mentioned below.

    265

    Other important training institutions are the staff college (cole suprieure de Guerre) which trains annually 70 to 90 selected captains and lieutenants; the musketry school of Chlons, the gymnastic school at Joinville-le-Pont and the schools of St Maixent, Saumur and Versailles for the preparation.

    266

    Our credibility is important to us.

    267

    Palgrave's most important work is his History of Normandy and England, which appeared in four volumes (London 1851-1864), and deals with the history of the two countries down to 1101.

    268

    Papers by him have appeared in the mathematical journals of Italy, France, Germany and England, and he has published several important works, many of which have been translated into other languages.

    269

    Past experience constituted another important factor in establishing the interpretation of signs noted.

    270

    Paul III.s pontificate was further marked by important changes in the church, all of which confirmed the spiritual autocracy of Rome.

    271

    Perhaps the most important of these popular thinkers was Marcus Tullius Cicero - no great philosopher, but a graceful and effective man of letters.

    272

    Peronskaya was pointing out to the countess the most important people at the ball.

    273

    Phellos, a rather large tree found on swampy land in the southern states, is the most important of this group; its timber is of indifferent quality.

    274

    Pietro, forms a more or less protected basin, upon the shores of which are several small harbours (the most important being Carloforte), which are centres of the export of minerals and of the tunny fishery.

    275

    Possession of the king's person now became an important consideration.

    276

    Prince Andrew dimly realized that all this was trivial and that he had more important cares, but he continued to speak, surprising them by empty witticisms.

    277

    Prince Vasili, who still occupied his former important posts, formed a connecting link between these two circles.

    278

    Railways.The first important line in France, from Paris to Rouen, was constructed through the instrumentality of Sir Edward Blount (1809-1905), an English banker in Paris, who was afterwards for thirty years chairman of the Ouest railway.

    279

    Rain is by far the most important of the inorganic mobile distributions upon which land forms exercise their function of guidance and control.

    280

    Rajputana possesses no natural freshwater lakes, but there are several important artificial lakes, all of which have been constructed with the object of storing water.

    281

    Religious toleration was granted, but with the important exception that some harsh measures were enacted against Anglicans and Roman Catholics, to neither of whom was liberty of worship accorded.

    282

    Rhayader has for some centuries been an important centre for Welsh mutton and wool, and its sheep fairs are largely attended by drovers and buyers from all parts.

    283

    Roman remains have been discovered on the cliff north of the town; the site was probably important, but nothing is certainly known about it.

    284

    Sardine preserving is an important industry at Nantes and other places on the west coast.

    285

    Schoutes Die Steldr-Theorie (Groningen, 1902), gives an important critical account of this subject.

    286

    She couldn't take everything this trip, but she had the most important stuff.

    287

    She now tells stories in which the imagination plays an important part.

    288

    She walked through the gateway and imagined herself as important as the White God walking into his palace.

    289

    Slate-quarrying and cutting is carried on in the south-western part of the state, in Rutland county; there are important quarries at Fair Haven, Poultney, Castleton, Wells and Pawlet.

    290

    So far as the organization of the Anglican Church is concerned, the most important outcome of the conference was the reconstruction of the Central Consultative Body on representative lines (54-56); this body to consist of the archbishop of Canterbury and seventeen bishops appointed by the various Churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world.

    291

    So what was this important situation that forced you to break that promise?

    292

    Some of the guests might be important to his future in politics and he was dressed to impress.

    293

    Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, refusing to let her see them off.

    294

    Someone who could love her and understand how important it was that she remained her own person.

    295

    Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.

    296

    Sometimes they occupy the approaches to tablelands, the narrowest points of gorges, or the fords of rivers; sometimes almost inaccessible mountain tops or important points on ridges; and it may be noticed that, where two important nuraghi are not visible from one another, a small one is interpolated, showing that there was a system of signalling from one to another.

    297

    Soon after he was engaged on an important embassy to Germany, the result of which was the treaty of Ulm, signed July 1620.

    298

    Steamers run from Grand Rapids, through Lake Winnipeg, up Red river to the city of Winnipeg, important locks having been constructed on the river at St Andrews.

    299

    Stock-raising is an important industry, especially in the eastern part of the state.

    300

    Stoicism is a much more important system, but harder to classify.

    301

    Suspecting he'd missed something important, Darian joined them in the office area.

    302

    Taking the states as a whole, agrarian legislation has been the most important subject that has engrossed the attention of their parliaments, and every state has been more or less engaged in tinkering with its land laws.

    303

    That's what is most important.

    304

    That's why more current dates are more important and far easier to verify.

    305

    The "wisdom" personified by the moon-god is likewise an expression of the science of astrology in which the observation of the moon's phases is so important a factor.

    306

    The Adige has a course of about 220 m., and, after the Po, is the most important river in Italy.

    307

    The administration which thus fell was unquestionably the most important since the death of Cavour.

    308

    The Alleghany Plateau consists of nearly horizontal beds of limestone, sandstone and shales, including important seams of coal; inclines slightly toward the north-west, and is intricately dissected by extensively branching streams into a maze of narrow canyons and steep-sided hills.

    309

    The An pass, an important trade route, rises to a height of 4664 ft.

    310

    The ancient Roman city Naissus was mentioned as an important place by Ptolemy of Alexandria.

    311

    The Anecdota Graeca (1829-1833) and Anecdota Nova (1844) are important for Byzantine history and the Greek grammarians.

    312

    The Annales were first published in 1554, but many important passages were omitted in this edition, as they reflected on the Roman Catholics.

    313

    The award of the court is thus the equivalent of the determination of a special board in Victoria, and deals with the same questions, the most important of which are the minimum rates of wages and the number of working hours per week.

    314

    The belief in human immortality in some form is almost universal; even in early animistic cults the germ of the idea is present, and in all the higher religions it is an important feature.

    315

    The Brisbane river, falling into Moreton Bay, is important chiefly from the fact that the city of Brisbane is situated on its banks.

    316

    The characters offered by the circular lip are among the most important for the distinction of species.

    317

    The coal beds are of enormous extent, and constitute an important element in the wealth of the state.

    318

    The coast, constantly encroaching on the sea by reason of the alluvium washed down by the rivers of the Pyrenees and Cvennes, is without important harbours saving that of Cette, itself continually invaded by the sand.

    319

    The colonial minister is assisted by a number of organizations of which the most important is the superior council of the colonies (created by decree in 1883), an advisory body which inclUdes the senators and deputies elected by the colonies, and delegates elected by the universal suffrage of all citizens in the colonies and protectorates which do not return members to parliament.

    320

    The conception of the north-western route to Cathay now leads the story of exploration, for the first time as far as important and sustained efforts are concerned, towards the Arctic seas.

    321

    The continual encroachments of the Portuguese at length led the Spanish government to take the important step of making Buenos Aires the seat of a viceroyalty with jurisdiction over the territories of the present republics of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Argentine Confederation (1776).

    322

    The coronation of Birger Jarlsson Valdemar took place in the cathedral in 1251; and in the reign of Gustavus Vasa several important diets were held in the town.

    323

    The cortex of a young stem is usually green, and plays a more or less important part in the assimilative function.

    324

    The countship of Angouleme dated from the 9th century, the most important of the early counts being William Taillefer, whose descendants held the title till the end of the 12th century.

    325

    The cultivation of this tree in Europe forms one of the most important branches of the forester's art.

    326

    The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive.

    327

    The department of agriculture has an experiment station, established by the state in 1896, in which important experiments in cotton breeding have been carried on.

    328

    The distinction between these two was made emphatic by Aquinas, who is at pains, especially in his treatise Contra Gentiles, to make it plain that each is a distinct fountain of knowledge, but that revelation is the more important of the two.

    329

    The earliest form of the name is Bodleton or Botheltun, and the most important of the later forms are Bodeltown, Botheltunle-Moors, Bowelton, Boltune, Bolton-super-Moras, B olton-in-yeMoors, Bolton-le-Moors.

    330

    The effect of this point of view in regard to moral perceptions is that they represent an important relative truth, but that philosophy " passes " beyond them " into a higher region, where imputation of guilt is " absolutely " meaningless " 2 - enseits des Guten and Bosen.

    331

    The environs of Creil (Oise) and Chteau-Landon (Seine-et-Marne) are noted for their freestone (pierre de taille), which is also abundant at Euville and Lrouville in Meuse; the production of plaster is particularly important in the environs of Paris, of kaolin of fine quality at Yrieix (1-Jaute-Vienne), of hydraulic lime in Ardche (Le Teil), of lime phosphates in the department of Somme, of marble in the departments of HauteGaronne (St Beat), Hautes-Pyrnes (Campan, Sarrancolin), Isre and Pas-de-Calais, and of cement in Pas-de-Calais (vicinity of Boulogne) and Isre (Grenoble).

    332

    The events of these three years taught the Labour leaders that a parliamentary party was of little practical influence unless it was able to cast on all important occasions a solid vote, and to meet the case a new method was devised.

    333

    The export, moreover, of live sheep and of frozen mutton to Europe has become an important factor in the trade of Argentina.

    334

    The family name of the principal branch of this tribe is Abu Sin, and Gedaref, an important town in the centre of the Shukria country, was formerly called Suk Abu Sin.

    335

    The first important discovery was made in 1882, when gold was found in the Kimberley district; but it was not until a few years later that this rich and extensive area was developed.

    336

    The first important industry of the state was "rafting" lumber from Vermont through Lake Champlain and the Richelieu and St Lawrence rivers to Quebec. Burlington became a great lumber market for a trade moving in the direction of Boston after the Richelieu river was blocked to navigation and railway transportation began, and in 1882 Burlington was the third lumber centre in the United States.

    337

    The first important mine, the Kapunda, was opened up in 1842.

    338

    The fisheries are important - for herring, mackerel, sprats, cod, salmon, lobsters and anchovies.

    339

    The fisheries are important and some 600 smacks belong to the port.

    340

    The former of these two appendixes plays an especially important part in hepatoscopy, and, according to its shape and peculiarities, furnishes a good or bad omen.

    341

    The Gallo-Celtic tribes bore the general appellation of Belgae, and among these the Nervii, inhabiting the district between the Scheldt and the Sambre were at the date of Caesar's invasion, 57 B.C., the most warlike and important.

    342

    The greatest number of Jews is to be found at Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux, while the departments of the centre and of the south along the range of the Cvennes, where Calvinism flourishes, are the principal Protestant localities, Nimes being the most important centre.

    343

    The Hari-Rud marks the only important break existing in the continuity of the great central water-parting of Asia.

    344

    The important results obtained showed that a weapon of great power had been provided for assisting naval warfare.

    345

    The important silk industry, however, began to revive about 18go, and dairy farming is prosperous; but the condition of the vilayet is far less unsettled than that of Macedonia, owing partly to the preponderance of Moslems among the peasantry, and partly to the nearness of Constantinople, with its Western influences.

    346

    The important T Lents of 1617 and 1618 at Grenoble were a prelude to a still more important apostolate in Paris, "the theatre of the world," as St Vincent de Paul calls it.

    347

    The indirect effects of temperature are also important.

    348

    The island contains a very large number of important prehistoric monuments.

    349

    The Italian government, to whom the greater part of it now belongs, laid bare many of the more important buildings in 1880-1889; but much was left undone.

    350

    The Kabul (ancient Kophes), which is the most important (although not the largest) river in Afghanistan, rises at the foot of the Unai pass leading over the Sanglakh range, an offshoot of the Hindu Kush towards Bamian and Afghan Turkestan.

    351

    The king set out for Rome to secure his coronation, but Venice refused to let him pass through .her territories; and at Trant, on the 4th of February 1508, he took the important step of assuming the title of Roman Emperor Elect, to which he soon received the assent of pope Julius II.

    352

    The law of f875 therefore still regulates the principles of military service in Italy, though an important modification was made in 190719o8.

    353

    The Lombard campaign had produced important effects throughout the rest of Italy.

    354

    The lower, or south-eastern, part contains both the small group of streets belonging to old Stuttgart, and also the most important part of the new town.

    355

    The main industries are cotton-spinning, flax-spinning, cottonprinting, tanning and sugar refining; in addition to which there are iron and copper foundries, machine-building works, breweries and factories of soap, paper, tobacco, &c. As a trading centre the city is even more important.

    356

    The main railway from Belgrade to Constantinople skirts the Maritza and Ergene valleys, and there is an important branch line down the Maritza valley to Dedeagatch, and thence coastwise to Salonica.

    357

    The many important objects found in these excavations are preserved in the local museum.

    358

    The mineral springs are important, including those at Wiesbaden, Homburg, Langenschwalbach, Nenndorf, Schlangenbad and Soden.

    359

    The modern highroad follows the ancient line, and remains of the 1 It is important to note how the Romans followed up every victory with a road.

    360

    The more important cases, especially those involving life and death, were tried by a bench of judges.

    361

    The more important mines are those of Cobar, where the Great Cobar mine produces annually nearly 4000 tons of refined copper.

    362

    The more important of the suburbs lie towards the east, where the promontory joins the main plateau, of which it forms the north-western extremity.

    363

    The more important of those in use to-day are carbolic acid, the perchloride and biniodide of mercury, iodoform, formalin, salicylic acid, &c. Carbolic acid is germicidal in strong solution, inhibitory in weaker ones.

    364

    The more important township officials are a moderator, a board of selectmen, a clerk, a treasurer and a superintendent of schools.

    365

    The most famous remains of the ancient city are the temples, the most important of which form a row along the low cliffs at the south end of the city.

    366

    The most important and interesting remains, however, are those of Dodona.

    367

    The most important Arctic work in the 18th century was performed by the Russians, for they succeeded in delineating the whole of the northern coast of Siberia.

    368

    The most important are those on Madame de Montausier (1672), which gained him the membership of the Academy, the duchesse d'Aiguillon (1675), and, above all, Marshal Turenne (1676).

    369

    The most important change introduced by the new law has been the creation in every province of a provincial administrative junta entrusted with the supervision of communal administrations, a function previously discharged by the provincial deputation.

    370

    The most important discovery of coal in the state, so far, is that made in the bed of the Collie river, near Bunbury, to the south of Perth.

    371

    The most important export is fish, other items being seaweed, marble, preserved foods, butter and margarine and infusorial earth.

    372

    The most important free institution in this class is the cole des Sciences Politiques, which prepares pupils for the civil services and teaches a great number of political subjects, connected with France and foreign countries, not included in the state programmes.

    373

    The most important French lake is that of Grand-Lieu, between Nantes and Pairnbceuf (Loire-Infrieure), which presents a surface of 17,300 acres.

    374

    The most important imports are minerals, including coal and metals (both in pig and wrought); silks, raw, spun and woven; stone, potters earths, earthenware and glass; corn, flour and farinaceous products; cotton, raw, spun and woven; and live stock.

    375

    The most important internal industries are in wool and frozen meat.

    376

    The most important minerals are lead and zinc, obtained in lodes in the forms of galena and calamine respectively.

    377

    The most important of the local dues is the gate tax, or dazio di consumo, which may be either a surtax upon commodities (such as alcoholic drinks or meat), having already paid customs duty at the frontier, in which case the local surtax may not exceed 50% of the frontier duty, or an exclusively communal duty limited to 10% on flour, bread and farinaceous products,2 and to 20% upon other commodities.

    378

    The most important of these are the greater tolerance by the African animal of sunlight, and the hard nature of its food, which consists chiefly of boughs and roots.

    379

    The most important of these, the Lacus Fucinus of the ancients, now called the Lago di Celano, situated almost exactly in the centre of the peninsula, occupies a basin of considerable extent, surrounded by mountains and without any natural outlet, at an elevation of more than 2000 ft.

    380

    The most important orders were the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camelia.

    381

    The most important ruins are those of the great basilica.

    382

    The most important tin-mines in Queensland are in the Herberton district, south-west of Cairns; at Cooktown, on the Annan and Bloomfield rivers; and at Stanthorpe, on the border of New South Wales.

    383

    The name of Orpheus is equally important in the religious history of Greece.

    384

    The Neapolitans were ignominiously beaten in May and retired to the frontier; on the 1st of June Oudinot declared that he would attack Rome on the 4th, but by beginning operations on the 3rd, when no attack was expected, he captured an important position in the Pamphili gardens.

    385

    The next important epoch in building construction at Jerusalem was about 460, when the empress Eudocia visited Palestine and expended large sums on the improvement of the city.

    386

    The next important expedition was differently conducted.

    387

    The nodules, in particular, appear to play the important part in the process.

    388

    The observance of such days was a bar to attending even to important diplomatic business or setting out on a journey Such nubattu days fell on the 3rd, 7th and 16th of the intercalary month of Elul, and were noted as the nubattu of Marduk and his consort.

    389

    The older records utilized by the Deuteronomic and later compilers indicate some common tradition which has found expression in these varying forms. Different religious standpoints are represented in the biblical writings, and it is now important to observe that the prophecies of Hosea unmistakably show another attitude to the Israelite priesthood.

    390

    The older, which extends to 150 B.C., set forth, in bald, unattractive language, without any pretensions to style, but with a certain amount of trustworthiness, the most important events of each successive year.

    391

    The only important industry is carpet-weaving at Kir-sheher and Kaisarieh.

    392

    The only plain in the rugged little country was the White Plain, in which was situated the only important town, Megara.

    393

    The Orphic poems also played an important part in the controversies between Christian and pagan writers in the 3rd and 4th centuries after Christ; pagan writers quoted them to show the real meaning of the multitude of gods, while Christians retorted by reference to the obscene and disgraceful fictions by which the former degraded their gods.

    394

    The other ideal, typified by the South Australian party, differs from this in one important respect.

    395

    The particular sizes and descriptions of wires used are dependent upon the character of the " circuits " the longer and more important circuits requiring the heavier wire.

    396

    The past isn't important to me.

    397

    The presence of these threads between all the cells of tfie plant shows that the plant body must be regarded as a connected whole; the threads themselves probably play an important part in the growth of the cell-wall, the conduction of food and water, the process of secretion and the transmission of impulses.

    398

    The present dome and the drum on which it stands, masterpieces of graceful line and harmonious proportion, were very important alterations from the earlier scheme.

    399

    The raising of cattle, pigs and sheep is a fairly important branch of industry throughout the duchy; horses are bred in Kamburg.

    400

    The red gum forests of the Murray valley and the pine forests bordering the Great Plains are important and valuable.

    401

    The reign of this duke was long remembered as a period of internal prosperity, wise legislation and important public enterprise.

    402

    The relatively peripheral position ii the stem of the pericycle is important in this connexmon.

    403

    The river valleys abound in natural pasture, and sainfoin, lucerne and other forage crops are largely grown; cattle-raising is an important source of wealth, and the cheeses of Troyes are well known.

    404

    The sardine fishery, which might also be important, at present serves mainly for local consumption.

    405

    The shoulder protested when she put an arm around Destiny, but right now Destiny was more important.

    406

    The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare.

    407

    The so-called " contracts," including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts and, most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts, exist in thousands.

    408

    The special form of government was not the important point, but its possibility and its acceptability.

    409

    The state's lumber trade was important until 1890, when the white pine was nearly exhausted, although there were still spruce and hemlock.

    410

    The strikes of the years 1890 and 1892 are just as important on account of their political consequences as from the direct gains or losses involved.

    411

    The surrounding country produces tobacco of a very superior quality, and to the tobacco industry, introduced in 1872, the growth of Winston is chiefly due; the manufacture of flat plug tobacco here is especially important.

    412

    The symmetrical diaminophenazine is the parent substance of the important dyestuff toluylene red or dimethyldiaminotoluphenazine.

    413

    The temple occupied a most important position.

    414

    The Tiber, a much more important river than the Arno, and the largest in Italy with the exception of the Po, rises in the Apennines, about 20 m.

    415

    The town has an important woollen trade and possesses dyeing and fulling mills.

    416

    The town is an important agricultural centre, its fairs for sheep and ponies in particular being well attended.

    417

    The town is on the Great North Road, on which it was formerly an important coaching station.

    418

    The town-house is also a noteworthy building and contains large and important archives.

    419

    The Udgatri's duties being mainly confined to the chanting of hymns made up of detached groups of verses of the Rigveda, as collected in the Samaveda-samhita, the more important Brahmanas of this sacerdotal class deal chiefly with the various modes of chanting, and the modifications which the verses have to undergo in their musical setting.

    420

    The use of cranes is of great antiquity, but it is only since the great industrial development of the 19th century, and the introduction of other motive powers than hand labour, that the crane has acquired the important and indispensable position it now occupies.

    421

    The vertical relief of the land above the ocean is a very important factor in determining the climate as well as the distribution of the fauna and flora of a continent.

    422

    The Via Flaminia was the earliest and most important road to the north; and it was soon extended (in 187 B.C.) by the Via Aemilia running through Bononia as far as Placentia, in an almost absolutely straight line between the plain of the P0 and the foot of the Apennines.

    423

    The voyages of Columbus and of Vasco da Gama were so important that it is unnecessary to detail their results in this place.

    424

    The War of the Polish Succession which now disturbed Europe is only important in Italian history because the treaty of Vienna in 1738 settled the disputed affairs of the duchies Polish of Parma and Tuscany.

    425

    The white pine had been much cut off by 1890 and it is no longer commercially important.

    426

    The woollen manufactures, dating from the close of the 16th century, are the most important in Scotland, though now mainly confined to the weaving of tweeds.

    427

    Their absolute freedom from diffraction, the perfect control of the illumination and thickness of the lines, and the accuracy with which it will be possible to construct scales for zone observations will be important features of the new method.

    428

    Then he just makes all the important decisions - and you have no input?

    429

    There are also several extremely valuable soft timbers, the principal being red cedar (Cedrela Toona), silky oak (Grevillea robusta), beech and a variety of teak, with several important species of pine.

    430

    There are important quarries in Franklin (disambiguation)|Franklin county (at Swanton), the stone being a dark Chazy limestone, in which pink and red ("jasper," "lyonnaise" and "royal red") marbles of Cambrian age are found.

    431

    There are important zinc works at Auby and St Amand (Nord) and Viviez (Aveyron) and Noyelles-Godault (Pas-de-Calais); there are lead works at the latter place, and others of greater irirportance at Couron (Loire-Infrieure).

    432

    There are numerous and important variations of these two types, but the above contain the elements out of which most cranes of the class are built.

    433

    There are salt-works at Salzungen and Neusulza, the former the most important in Thuringia; and the mineral water of Friedrichshall is well known.

    434

    There are several interesting limestone caverns, and Sylvan Lake, in the high mountain district, is an important resort.

    435

    There are signs of trade with Etruria as early as the 7th century B.C. The Carthaginians made it into an important grainproducing centre; and the Romans set foot in the island more than once during the First Punic War.

    436

    There is a small pig (Sus andamanensis), important to the food of the people, and a wild cat (Paradoxurus tytleri); but the bats(sixteen species) and rats(thirteen species) constitute nearly three-fourths of the known mammals.

    437

    There were, moreover, other and broader oscillations which raised or lowered extensive areas withbut much crumpling of the strata, and to these are due some of the most important breaks in the geological series.

    438

    These attempts, however, to perpetuate the usage were finally discredited by Huxley's important Lectures on Comparative Anatomy (1864), in which the term was finally abolished, and the "radiate mob" finally distributed among the Echinodermata, Polyzoa, Vermes (Platyhelminthes), Coelenterata and Protozoa.

    439

    These bundle sheaths are important in the conduction of carbohydrates away from the assimilating cells to other parts of the plant.

    440

    These were followed by his most important work, the History of France (5 vols., 1858-1868).

    441

    They can't understand that all those feelings they prize so--all our feelings, all those ideas that seem so important to us, are unnecessary.

    442

    They had frequent interviews, which had doubtless an important influence on Cranmer's opinions.

    443

    They may occur on all parts, buds, leaves, stems or roots, as shown by the numerous species of Cynips on oak, Phylloxera on vines, &c. The local damage is small, - but the general injury to assimilation, absorption and other functions, may be important if the numbers increase.

    444

    This affair resulted in an important bu litical change, for the Piedmontese deputies, hitherto the th Llwarks of moderate conservatism, now shifted to the Left or 3rf nstitutional opposition.

    445

    This comparison leads to the important conclusion that the wild Bactrian Camelus bactrianus ferus comes much nearer to the fossil species than it does to the domesticated breed, the resemblance being specially noticeable in the absolutely and relatively small size of the last molar.

    446

    This conception of the Sabbath, however, necessarily underwent an important modification when the local sanctuaries were abolished under the "Deuteronomic" reform, and those sacrificial rites and feasts which in Hosea's time formed the essence of every act of religion were limited to the central altar, which most men could visit only at rare intervals.

    447

    This constitution of the great mass of the central Apennines has in all ages exercised an important influence upon the character of this portion of Italy, which may be considered as divided by nature into two great regions, a cold and barren upland country, bordered on both sides by rich and fertile tracts, enjoying a warm but temperate climate.

    448

    This event has such an important bearing on the issue of Magna Carta that it is not inappropriate to quote the actual words used by Matthew Paris in describing the incident.

    449

    This gave them not merely greater steadiness, but, what was far more important, the power of rallying and reforming for a second effort.

    450

    This has had a most important effect on the development in recent years of morphological anatomy.

    451

    This is an important night, and I want to mark it as such.

    452

    This is anextremely important question, since the supply of energy to the animal world has been found to depend entirely upon the vegetable one.

    453

    This modification is important, because it transfers the formative influence from the plastic substances to the protoplasm, suggesting that, the diverse constituents are produced (whether spontaneously or as the result of stimulation) as secretions by the protoplasm.

    454

    This new stuff is too important.

    455

    This promise was carried out, but two charters appeared, one being a revised issue of Magna Carta proper, and the other a separate charter dealing with the forests, all references to which were omitted from the more important document.

    456

    This telegraph required six wires, and was shortly afterwards displaced by the single-needle system, still to a large extent used on railway and other less important circuits.

    457

    This thing happens to be very important to me.

    458

    This voyage proved to be the most important to geography that had been undertaken since the first circumnavigation of the globe.

    459

    This was a very important position owing to the amount of information concerning European affairs which passed through the hands of the representative of Spain.

    460

    This was Raevski, who had spent the whole day at the most important part of the field of Borodino.

    461

    Though the controversy went on, its most important result had already been achieved in the silencing of Convocation, for that body, though it had just "seemed to be settling down to its proper work in dealing with the real exigencies of the church" when the Hoadly dispute arose, did not meet again for the despatch of business for nearly a century and a half.

    462

    Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.

    463

    To a certain extent these works embody the more important discoveries of their author.

    464

    To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward promotion.

    465

    To Heribert is attributed the invention of the Carroccio, which played so singular and important a part in the warfare of Italian cities.

    466

    To him it was something to occupy her mind, not something important - like his work.

    467

    To the south of Terranova there is no harbour of any importance on the east coast (the Gulf of Orosei being exposed to the E., and shut in by a precipitous coast) until Tortoli is reached, and beyond that to the Capo Carbonara at the south-east extremity, and again along the south coast, there is no harbour before Cagliari, the most important on the island.

    468

    To the west of the Sheep Gate there were two important towers in the wall, called respectively Meah and Hananeel.

    469

    Tortoiseshell, an important article of commerce, is derived from the Thalassochelys caretta, a sea turtle.

    470

    Tramway lines, which date from 1870, are to be found in all important towns.

    471

    Trier contains more important Roman remains than any other place in northern Europe.

    472

    Trout may now be taken in many of the mountain streams. At one time whaling was an important industry on the coasts of New South Wales and Tasmania, and afterwards on the Western Australian coasts.

    473

    Two important educational establishments are the Indian Institute for the education of civil service students for thecolonies, to which is attached an ethnographical museum; and the Royal Polytechnic school, which almost ranks as a university, and teaches, among other sciences, that of diking.

    474

    Upon our knowledge of its minute structure or cytology, combined with a study of its physiological activities, depends the ultimate solution of all the important problems of nutrition.

    475

    Victor drawled, "Hmm, seems your pet is important to you… I believe you both know the lovely Cassandra."

    476

    Vulcan was the most important - perhaps in early times the only - deity worshipped at Ostia, and the priesthood of Vulcan was held sometimes by Roman senators.

    477

    We know how important it is to you.

    478

    We now come to an important series of articles which deal with abuses in the administration of justice.

    479

    We omit, however, one of the most important, viz.

    480

    We've both learned important lessons about ourselves.

    481

    Westward two short but important roads led on each side of the Tiber to the great harbour at its mouth; while the coast of Latium was supplied with a coast road by Septimius Severus.

    482

    What could be more important than their marriage?

    483

    What could possibly be more important to us than saving lives?

    484

    What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old!

    485

    What's important is that you recognize you are into this thing.

    486

    What's important is that you're alive.

    487

    Wheat is the most important crop and is widely distributed.

    488

    While these early traders used the canoe and the York boat,' yet the steam-boat played an important part in the early history of the region from 1868 till 1885, when access from the United States was gained by steamers down the Red River.

    489

    Why are the words so important?

    490

    Why was it suddenly so important to be attractive?

    491

    Why was it suddenly so important to do this her way?

    492

    With the exception of railway shops, there are no important industrial establishments.

    493

    With the exception of Tasmania there are no important islands belonging geographically to Australia, for New Guinea, Timor and other islands of the East Indian archipelago, though not removed any great distance from the continent, do not belong to its system.

    494

    Yet from the beginning, too many important facts had been shrouded in secrecy.

    495

    You are more important to me than having children.

    496

    You don't know how important you are to me, how much you've done for me....

    497

    You have to decide if it's important enough to speak up.

    498

    You must be someone important.

    499

    Your life is important to me, more so than the amount of pain I must put you through to sustain it, she replied.

    500

    Zanichellis Scritti del Conte di Cavour (Bologna, 1892) are very important, and so are Prince Metternichs 7ff moires (7 vols., Paris, f881).