Step in A Sentence

    1

    A brisk step in the hallway brought her attention sharply back to the present.

    2

    A dedicatory inscription runs along the face of the top step, and has been the subject of much dispute.

    3

    A further step was taken by Henry II.

    4

    A quick glance back revealed Princess following, steam puffing from her mouth and nose with every labored step.

    5

    A similar step was taken, in 922, in the case of Robert II., this too marking the increasing irritation felt at the weakness of the Carolingian kings.

    6

    A step forward - the fusion of Dumas' type theory and the radical theory - was made by Laurent and Charles Gerhardt.

    7

    A still further step was taken when, on the 2nd of December, the emperor Ferdinand abdicated in favour of his nephew Francis Joseph.

    8

    About this time a body of Schoffen (scabini, jurats), fourteen in number, was formed to assist in the control of municipal affairs, and with their appointment the first step was taken towards civic representative government.

    9

    Absurd as much that we find both in Albertus Magnus and the Ortus seems to modern eyes, if we go a step lower in the scale and consult the " Bestiaries " or treatises on animals which were common from the 12th to the 14th century we shall meet with many more absurdities.

    10

    Accordingly as early as 1669 the French government decided on the foundation of a school for French dragomans at Constantinople, for which in later years was substituted the Ecole des langues orientales in Paris; most of the great powers eventually took some similar step, England also adopting in 1877 a system, since modified, for the selection and tuition of a corps of Britishborn dragomans.

    11

    After a sleepless night, I trod with a lofty step the ruins of the forum; each memorable spot, where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation."

    12

    After the capture of Monte Kuk and Monte Vodice this appointment was confirmed, and he received another step of promotion.

    13

    After the inconclusive proceedings at the realm-council of Merton (1236), when spiritual and temporal lords took opposite views, the king's judges went a step further and thenceforward submitted this particular question to a jury.

    14

    Alarmed by emotions Dusty had warned her were permanent, she took a step away.

    15

    Alex took a step forward and she turned away from him, throwing her arms around Carmen.

    16

    Alex took another step forward, reaching for her and she tried to climb Carmen.

    17

    All that was done was done step by step. First, marriage between the two orders was legalized.

    18

    Already (1887) the government had voluntarily made a great step in advance by divesting itself of the right to imprison or fine editors by executive order.

    19

    An important step in this direction was taken in 1896, when the senior class for steers, viz.

    20

    An intermediate step between Anu viewed as the local deity of Erech (or some other centre), Bel as the god of Nippur, and Ea as the god of Eridu is represented by the prominence which each one of the centres associated with the three deities in question must have acquired, and which led to each one absorbing the qualities of other gods so as to give them a controlling position in an organized pantheon.

    21

    Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety.

    22

    And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily.

    23

    Angered by this step, Ras Alula took prisoners the members of an Italian exploring party commanded by Count Salimbeni, and held them as hostages for the evacuation of Wa.

    24

    Anisya Fedorovna, with her light step, willingly went to fulfill her errand and brought back the guitar.

    25

    Another step in decentralization was taken in 1912 by the subdivision of the former unwieldy territorial division and by the grant of wider initiative to the commissioners of the divisions.

    26

    Apparently he saw the blood, because his step quickened.

    27

    As a sequel to this step, in 1884 the town of La Plata was declared to be the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, and the provincial administration was moved to that place.

    28

    As a step towards such hypothesis it has been noted that the Antarctic, the South African, and the Australian floras have many types in common.

    29

    As his chances of success became more and more desperate, he ventured on a step whereby he hoped to work potently on the pacific desires of the emperor Francis.

    30

    As the supremacy of Rome extended itself Roads, over Italy, the Roman road system grew step by step, each fresh conquest being marked by the pushing forward of roads through the heart of the newly-won territory, and the establishment of fortresses in connection with them.

    31

    At a later time he reproached himself for not having dethroned the Hohenzollerns outright; but it is now known that Alexander would have forbidden this step, and that he dissuaded Napoleon from withdrawing Silesia from the control of the House of Hohenzollern.

    32

    At any rate, he'll probably show up on your door step some time.

    33

    At his severe tone, she took another step back, ready to exit as fast as she could in the snug dress and high heels.

    34

    At once they took another step towards the goal.

    35

    Be so good as to step in.

    36

    Before leaving Bahia, Dom John took the first step to emancipate Brazil, opening its ports to foreign commerce, and permitting the export of all Brazilian produce under any flag, the royal monopolies of diamonds and Brazil-wood excepted.

    37

    Being subservient is taking a backward step for women.

    38

    Better communication is a huge step toward peace.

    39

    But as each successive range, proceeding south, represents a higher step in the terraced ascent from the desert of Gobi to the plateau of Tibet, the ranges when viewed from the north frequently appear like veritable upstanding mountain ranges, and this appearance is accentuated by the general steepness of the ascent; whereas, when viewed on the other hand from the south, these several ranges, owing to their long and gentle slope in that direction, have the appearance of comparatively gentle swellings of the earth's service rather than of well-defined mountain ranges.

    40

    But at length they came unexpectedly upon a huge rock that shut off the passage and blocked them from proceeding a single step farther.

    41

    But conversion, after all, was the chief aim of these devoted missionaries, and when some Venetian priests had invented a Latin alphabet for the Magyar language a great step had been taken towards its accomplishment.

    42

    But one step remained.

    43

    But such a hypothetical simplicity is the necessary step for solving the more complex problems of nature.

    44

    But take it a step further.

    45

    But that one step, from the abstract to the concrete, was precisely that which the character of Lagrange's mind indisposed him to make.

    46

    But the first important step in providing means whereby students could systematically study chemistry was the foundation of the College of Chemistry in 1845.

    47

    But the Magyars refused to send representatives to the central parliament; the Slays, resenting the Germanizing policy of the government, withdrew; and the emperor had really withdrawn his confidence from Schmerling long before the constitution was suspended in 1865 as a first step to a reconciliation with Hungary.

    48

    But up till noon he took no serious step to capture the cross-roads, which then lay at his mercy.

    49

    But, like all the vicissitudes, of the Italian race, while it was a decided step forward in one direction, it introduced a new source of discord.

    50

    But, while apparently aiding Edward, Bruce had taken a step which bound him to the patriotic cause.

    51

    By the proposed step she would weaken the Franco-Russian alliance.

    52

    By this step the pope became his vassal, and a divided allegiance was rendered impossible for the German clergy.

    53

    Carmen caught her breath and took a step back.

    54

    Carmen took a step back and reached for the door.

    55

    Commercial motives prompted the step, and Roman traders and land speculators speedily flocked in.

    56

    Cranmer stood by the dying bed of Edward as he had stood by that of his father, and he there suffered himself to be persuaded to take a step against his own convictions.

    57

    Cuvier on anatomical, and Von Baer on embryological grounds, made the further step of proving that, even in this limited sense, animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organization to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated modification, leads to any of the others.

    58

    Cynthia had avoided it since the woman's death and now entered, hesitation in her step.

    59

    Daniel rose a little, took a step, and with his whole weight, as if lying down to rest, fell on the wolf, seizing her by the ears.

    60

    Darian materialized seconds later and fell into step a few feet from him.

    61

    Darian strode to her, not stopping until she took a step away.

    62

    David now took the first great step to the throne.

    63

    Dean finally freed the last of the knots and Fred rose, pulling up his pants, staggered a step or two and sat back down.

    64

    Dean said before Shipton reached the bottom step or could open his mouth.

    65

    Dean took the opportunity to knock on Martha's door and step inside.

    66

    Dean was seated on the step of a rescue vehicle when Lydia was pulled up to the road.

    67

    Defoe's Review (1704-1713) dealt chiefly with politics and commerce, but the introduction in it of what its editor fittingly termed the "scandalous club " was another step nearer the papers of Steele and the periodical essayists, the first attempts to create an organized popular opinion in matters of taste and manners.

    68

    Deidre took the first step down the path of their future when she told him her secrets.

    69

    Didymus, writing in the year 60, made the first step towards establishing this pleasant-sounding scale upon a mathematical basis, by the discovery of the lesser tone; but unhappily he placed it in a false position below the greater tone.

    70

    Driven to extremities, Clement consented to call a Consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died (2nd of February 1769), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.

    71

    Each problem was something unique; the elements of transition from one to another were wanting; and the next step which mathematics had to make was to find some method of reducing, for instance, all curves to a common notation.

    72

    Each step of the retreat was accompanied by a complicated interplay of interests, arguments, and passions at headquarters.

    73

    Early in 1490 he took a further step and was betrothed to the duchess, and later in the same year the marriage was celebrated by proxy; but Brittany was still occupied by French troops, and Maximilian was unable to go to the assistance of his bride.

    74

    Edith entered, but only a step.

    75

    Elisabeth took a step back and looked at him quizzically.

    76

    Elise fell into step beside him after checking on Lana.

    77

    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.

    78

    Even a large skip will hold but a few men, the speed is slower, and more time is required for the men to get into and out of the skip than to step on and off a cage.

    79

    Every bite you eat, every step you take.

    80

    Evidently the idea of the great Yokoya experts, the originators of the style, was to break away from the somewhat formal monotony of ordinary engraving, where each line performs exactly the same function, and to convert the chisel into an artists i It is first boiled in a lye obtained by lixiviating wood ashes; it is next polished with charcoal powder; then immersed in plum vinegar and salt; then washed with weak lye and placed in a, tub of water to remove all traces of alkali, the final step being to digest in a boiling solution of copper sulphate, verdigris and water.

    81

    Faraday's next step was to pass the same current through different electrolytes in series.

    82

    Finally he lowered his arms and took a step toward her, grasping her shoulders.

    83

    First of all, his genetic method as applied to the mind's ideas - which laid the foundations of English analytical psychology - was a step in the direction of a conception of mental life as a gradual evolution.

    84

    For several seconds while the young man was taking his place on the step the silence continued.

    85

    For the first time this week, he realized that he, too, wanted to take the next step.

    86

    Frederick II., conscious of the instability of his French ally, was now eager to contract an offensive alliance with Russia; and the first step to its realization was the overthrow of Bestuzhev, "upon whom," he wrote to his minister Axel von Mardefeld, "the fate of Prussia and my own house depends."

    87

    From such names it is only a step to names of one element, a characteristic feature of which is the frequent addition of an ending -turn (feminine), an, a, um, atum, atija, sha, &c., most of these being " hypocoristic affixes," corresponding in a measure to modern pet-names.

    88

    From the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps, the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maidservant saying, Straight, straight, along the path, Miss.

    89

    From this it is a short step to say with the Quicumque vult that the Spirit proceeds from the Son, while guarding the idea that the Father is the one fountain of Deity.

    90

    Gabe took a step back.

    91

    Gabe's step faltered, and he tripped for the first time since he'd led them into the forest.  Katie's gaze went from Andre to the death-dealer.

    92

    Gabe's step slowed as he neared the man dressed in a white shirt held closed by two buttons and cream linen pants rolled to his knees, as if he'd been walking in the ocean.

    93

    Gabriel's step through the shadow world slowed.

    94

    General Orero, successor of Baldissera, pushed offensive action more vigorously, and on the 26th of January 1890 entered Adowa, a city considerably to the south of the Marchan imprudent step which aroused Meneleks suspicions, and had hurriedly to be retraced.

    95

    Grim, she quickened her step as she debated how to manipulate her killer before the final blow fell.

    96

    Having thus perfected the instrument, his next step was to apply it in such a way as to bring uniformity of method into the isolated and independent operations of geometry.

    97

    He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly.

    98

    He entered the castle, and his step slowed as memories he'd buried wriggled free.

    99

    He felt like they were moving one step forward, two steps backward.

    100

    He flinched visibly and took a step back.

    101

    He had the courage to step forward and take chances, and the ability to persuade others to follow.

    102

    He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block.  He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell.  She was curled up on the bed, sobbing.  When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why.  Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood.  The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.

    103

    He heard nothing aside from Yully's quick step down the hall to yet another door.

    104

    He held it against his arm and trotted through the hold, down stairwells until the familiar must of the underground slowed his step.

    105

    He looked up to see a shocked Donald Ryland step out of his room.

    106

    He quickened his step and his breath came in spurts as he gingerly climbed the stairs toward their rooms.

    107

    He secretly stole away to Bologna, entered the monastery of St Domenico and then acquainted his father with his reasons for the step. The world's wickedness was intolerable, he wrote; throughout Italy he beheld vice triumphant, virtue despised.

    108

    He stood far enough away that she had to stand and walk a step to reach him.

    109

    He superintended every step of the progress of the building and of the purchase of the very valuable collection of apparatus with which it was equipped at the expense of its munificent founder the seventh duke of Devonshire (chancellor of the university, and one of its most distinguished alumni).

    110

    He took a step and was back in the hallway.

    111

    He took a step away from her.

    112

    He took a step closer and his brows came down.

    113

    He took a step closer, his blond hair and green eyes highlighting a slender face.

    114

    He took a step to close the gap between them, and they were kissing again.

    115

    He took a step toward her and whispered.

    116

    He took a step towards her.

    117

    He took one step away from the fence.

    118

    He took the first important step in that way by winning a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, before he was quite seventeen years old.

    119

    He was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbour in Yorkshire, George, 2nd duke of Buckingham, was elected M.P. for York in 1665, and gained the "first step in his future rise" by joining Buckingham in his attack on Clarendon in 1667.

    120

    He was only carrying a step farther the policy of Augustus, who by a system of rewards and penalties had tried to encourage marriage and the nurture of children.

    121

    He was sitting there, in the dark, when he first heard a step on the stair.

    122

    He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.

    123

    He winced and then took a determined step in her direction.

    124

    He's asked Leyon to step into Ne'Rin's role.

    125

    Helen has taken the second great step in her education.

    126

    Her dress was a half a step above the rag she used to polish the furniture and her hair had longer roots than Elmer Fudd's garden.

    127

    Her first step drove her to her knees.

    128

    Her left foot found the first shallow step, and she took another step back, her eyes pinned on the second kitten running along the table.

    129

    Her long auburn hair, while looking like a magazine ad, was not enough to elevate her that step above ordinary.

    130

    Her step faltered, and more tears spilled.

    131

    Her step grew less brisk.

    132

    Her step slowed as she neared a booth with an assortment of kitchen décor.

    133

    Her step was too long, making contact with his foot.

    134

    His counsellor, Las Cases, strongly urged that step and made overtures to Captain Maitland of H.M.S.

    135

    His face contorted in rage and one long step brought him close enough to grab her shoulders.

    136

    His first step was renting an apartment and getting an address—a mail drop.

    137

    His first step was to introduce a regular government among his countrymen; his second, to send to the African coast one of his officers, who took possession of a Portuguese settlement, and thus secured a supply of slaves.

    138

    His horse snorted and took a step back.

    139

    His pace was slower now and she had no trouble keeping in step.

    140

    His penetrating gaze gave her a different kind of chill, one that made her blood quicken as well as her step.

    141

    His shoulders moved with a graceful swing that defied the quick step.

    142

    His square toed boots clicked across the floor with that quick step she had learned to recognize.

    143

    His step grew quicker, and his face brightened as they wound their way through the compound.

    144

    His step quickened down the hall, but he was unable to tell if he were eager or dreading the sight of the woman again.

    145

    His step slowed as he saw her leaning against the wall, gazing into the darkness.

    146

    His step was brisk as he walked around to the other side, but when he climbed into the truck, his expression was bland.

    147

    His step was quick, his eyes darting around.

    148

    I can't really blame the ones that step over the line once in a while.

    149

    I don't fancy having him show up on our door step but I'm not sure there's much the law can do.

    150

    I guess it was rather silly of me to step outside under either circumstance, wasn't it?

    151

    I have no intention of being subservient - and how is that taking a backward step, anyway?

    152

    I think it was a backward step when women started stooping to the morals of men.

    153

    I turned on the light, calmed her down and slowly explained step by step what Julie had told me.

    154

    I'll step back and give you room.

    155

    If an aperture for ingress and egress, for purposes of feeding, were left in the wall of such a chamber, there would arise in a rudimentary form what is known as the tubular nest or web; and the next important step was possibly the adoption of such a nest as a permanent abode for the spider., Some spiders, like the Drassidae and Salticidae, have not advanced beyond this stage in architectural industry; but next to the cocoon this simple tubular retreat - whether spun in a crevice or burrow or simply attached to the lower side of a stone - is the most constant feature to be observed in the spinning habits of spiders.

    156

    If the coin is heavy, S fits into the lowest step and the shoot stops over the left-hand slot.

    157

    If the coin is light the rod S fits into the uppermost step and the shoot stops over the right-hand slot.

    158

    If they knew Lori wanted to adopt the baby out, they would surely step in and take the baby, though.

    159

    If you don't return… Toby shuddered, and Ully's step quickened.

    160

    In 1169 he took the same step against two of the royalist bishops.

    161

    In 1188 William secured a papal bull which declared that the Church of Scotland was directly subject only to the see of Rome, thus rejecting the claims to supremacy put forward by the English archbishop. This step was followed by the temporal independence of Scotland, which was one result of the continual poverty of Richard I.

    162

    In 1198, on the election of Enrico Dandolo, the aristocracy carried their policy one step farther, and by the promissione ducale, or coronation oath, which every doge was required to swear, they acquired a powerful weapon for the suppression of all that remained of ancient ducal authority.

    163

    In 1229 the Order began the conquest of Prussia, founding fortresses at each step to rivet its conquests (for instance, at Thorn, named after Toron in Palestine), much as the AngloNormans had done in their conquest of Wales.

    164

    In 1784 John Wesley, in disregard of the authority of the Established Church, took the radical step of appointing the Rev. Thomas Coke (1747-1814) and Francis Asbury superintendents or "bishops" of the church in the United States.

    165

    In 1808 Moratin was involved in the fall of Godoy, but in 1811 accepted the office of royal librarian under Joseph Bonaparte - a false step, which alienated from him all sympathy and compelled him to spend his last years in exile.

    166

    In 1827 he was prime mover in the protest made by the French Academy against the minister Peyronnet's law on the press, which led to the failure of that measure, but this step cost him, as it did Villemain, his post as censeur royal.

    167

    In 1859 Siena was the first Tuscan city that voted for annexation to Piedmont and the monarchy of Victor Emmanuel II., this decision (voted 26th June) being the initial step towards the unity of Italy.

    168

    In 1869 the government of Santo Domingo (or the Dominican Republic) expressed a wish for annexation by the United States, and such a step was favoured Washington, comprising wholesale frauds on the public revenue, awakened lively disgust.

    169

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

    170

    In Germany the work of Martin Ohm (System der Mathematik, 1822) marks a step forward.

    171

    In India itself opinion was more divided, both among the English and among the Indians; but there was a large moderate section among both which welcomed the proposed reforms. In Dec. 1919 he had the satisfaction of passing the Government of India bill, embodying the recommendations of the report, through Parliament, and on its third reading he described it as a step in the discharge of our trusteeship for India; the ultimate justification of our rule would be in the capacity of the Indian peoples to govern themselves.

    172

    In July 1916 he received another step, and as colonel commanded the "Sabotino Sector."

    173

    In June 1546 he took a decided step by making a secret agreement with Charles at Regensburg.

    174

    In November Signor Gianturco died, and Signor Pietro Bertolini took his place as minister of public works; the latter proved perhaps the ablest member of the cabinet, but the acceptance of office under Giolitti of a man who had been one of the most trusted and valuable lieutenants of Signor Sonnino marked a further step in the dgringolade of that statesmans party, and was attributed to the fact that Signor Bertolini resented not having had a place in the late Sonnino ministry.

    175

    In one point he seems to have taken a false step; with a warmth and pertinacity worthy of a better cause he maintained the identity of Caesar's Alesia with Alaise (Doubs), and he died without becoming a convert to the opinion, now universally accepted, that Alise Sainte-Reine (Cote d'or) is the place where Vercingetorix capitulated.

    176

    In places, as between Mafeking and Johannesburg, the descent is in terracelike steps, each step marked by a line of hills; in other places there is a gradual slope and elsewhere the descent is abrupt, with outlying hills and deep well-wooded valleys.

    177

    In refusing to serve under Shelburne he was undoubtedly consistent, but his next step was ruinous to himself and his party.

    178

    In regard to methods and apparatus, mention should be made of his improvements in the technique of organic analysis, his plan for determining the natural alkaloids and for ascertaining the molecular weights of organic bases b y means of their chloroplatinates, his process for determining the quantity of urea in a solution - the first step towards the introduction of precise chemical methods into practical medicine - and his invention of the simple form of condenser known in every laboratory.

    179

    In the absence of higher authority Porter sanctioned on his own responsibility the request of Missouri Unionists for permission to raise troops, a step which had an important influence upon the struggle for the possession of the state.

    180

    In the disease of the scalp called favus, Schonlein had discovered a minute mycelial fungus; a remarkable discovery, for it was the first conspicuous step in the attribution of diseases to the action of minute parasites.

    181

    In the Roman Church the granting of the title "venerable" is the first step in the long process of the canonization of saints.

    182

    In the Wheatstone automatic apparatus three levers are placed side by side, each acting on a set of small punches and on mechanism for feeding the paper forward a step after each operation of the levers.

    183

    In this case, however, we cannot say that each step goes out of the other as in that of individual development.

    184

    In this Italy, and especially the renowned school of Padua, took the first step, where Giovanni De Monte (Montanus), (1498-1552), already mentioned as a humanist, gave clinical lectures on the patients in the hospital of St Francis, which may still be read with interest.

    185

    In this latter step the influence of the Church rather than of the king seems to have been effective.

    186

    In this way the fourth estate would be emancipated from the despotism of the capitalist, and a great step taken in the solution of the great " social question."

    187

    In, taking this step the Modenese and Romagnols had the encouragement of Bonaparte, despite the orders which the French directory sent to him in a contrary sense.

    188

    Instead, she trotted down the gravel driveway, each crunching step making her cringe.

    189

    Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?

    190

    It cannot have been his conscience which constrained him to leave Teresa, for his next step was to marry Berengaria of Castile, who was his second cousin.

    191

    It had paid the Post Office in royalties already £1,848,000, and the Post Office under the agreement would step into the business in 1911 by merely paying for the plant employed.

    192

    It hangs there, waiting for me to step upon this velvet chair where I sit, tie its far descending end to my neck, and step from this world, freeing it from the guilt and troubles Annie Quincy has caused.

    193

    It is more than a mere coincidence that this step was taken during the absence in England of one of the ablest and most notable of the Amsterdam rabbis.

    194

    It is probable therefore that Charles either considered the coronation premature, as he was hoping to obtain the assent of the eastern empire to this step, or that, from fear of evils which he foresaw from the claim of the pope to crown the emperor, he wished to crown himself.

    195

    It soon became evident, however, that the Porte was endeavouring to obstruct the execution of the new reforms. Several months passed without any step being taken towards this realization; difficulties were raised with regard to the composition of the international commissions charged with the reorganization of the gendarmery and judicial system; intrigues were set on foot against the Christian governorgeneral; and the presence of a special imperial commissioner, who had no place under the constitution, proved so injurious to the restoration of tranquillity that the powers demanded his immediate recall.

    196

    It was a fatal step on Paul's part, for everything goes to prove that he would never have been assassinated had Arakcheev continued by his side.

    197

    It was a rash step. The emissaries of the Inquisition were on his track; he was thrown into prison, and in 1593 was brought to Rome.

    198

    It was a somewhat curious concurrence of circumstances that transferred Cranmer, almost at one step, from the quiet seclusion of the university to the din and bustle of the court.

    199

    It was a step characteristic of his love for extreme and dramatic action, but it added to the dissensions between him and those who wished only for autonomy under the old dynasty, and his enemies did not scruple to accuse him of aiming at the crown himself.

    200

    It was his responsibility and, Alex being the person he was, could do nothing but step up to it.

    201

    It was only a step from the conquest of Mexico to that of Peru, and scarcely three months elapsed before he began to break ground on the latter subject.

    202

    It was these paradoxes that Kant sought to rebut by a more thoroughgoing criticism of the basis of knowledge the substance of which is summed up in his celebrated Refuta tion of Idealism,' wherein he sought to undermine Hume's scepticism by carrying it one step further and demonstrating that not only is all knowledge of self or object excluded, but the consciousness of any series of impressions and ideas is itself impossible except in relation to some external permanent and universally accepted world of objects.

    203

    It was this problem which led to the next step. To solve it the early Carolingian princes, especially Charles Martel, who found the royal domains exhausted and their own inadequate, grasped at the land of the Church.

    204

    It well may be that these massacres were, in fact, an abrupt and premature step in the policy of "Turkification," which the Government had in view.

    205

    Jackson had taken a step forward, ready to enter the room, but stopped when Connor's voice quieted.

    206

    Jackson took a step back in shock, then noticed Connor and Sarah across the room laughing hysterically.

    207

    Jackson took a step back.

    208

    Jessi took a step away from him and waved at Toni to make certain the model saw them.

    209

    Jonny flinched, took a step back, then focused again on her.

    210

    Jonny took a step back then gazed at her in silent surprise.

    211

    Joseph thinks he's a big corporate executive but he's really only half a step above a clerk.

    212

    Joseph took this step in April 1811, and proceeded to Paris in order to extort better terms, or offer his abdication; but he had to return with a monthly subsidy of 50o,000 francs and the promise that the army of the centre (the smallest of the five French armies) should be under his control.

    213

    Joseph was an idealist and a doctrinaire, whose dream was to build up his ideal body politic; the first step toward which was to be the amalgamation of all his dominions into a common state under an absolute sovereign.

    214

    Just step inside and make believe that you are Dean Swift.

    215

    Katie had never been so happy to step into the eerie shadow world.

    216

    Katie took another step back, the stillness of his gaze unsettling.

    217

    Kiera braced herself and exited behind Evelyn, whose quick step led them back to the main house and outside, where the floating tents were still in place.

    218

    Kindly step in, my orders are to bring you in.

    219

    Kris and Kiki both looked towards the sky when the thunder began.  They'd both given their jackets to Hannah, whose step was growing slower the farther they went into the jungle.  Kiki muttered but didn't openly bitch, probably knowing Kris had no patience for anyone insulting his mate.

    220

    Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information.

    221

    Language has crystallized them into certain definite notions and expressions, without which we cannot proceed a single step, but which we have accepted without knowing their exact meaning, much less their origin.

    222

    Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

    223

    Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

    224

    Let him take the first step.

    225

    Let's take a step back, shall we?

    226

    Like Gloger, Sundevall in his ideal system separated the true passerines from all other birds, calling them Volucres; but he took a step further, for he assigned to them the highest rank, wherein nearly every recent authority agrees with him; out of them, however, he chose the thrushes and warblers to stand first as his ideal " Centrum " - a selection which, though in the opinion of the present writer erroneous, is still largely followed.

    227

    Look, Kris, don't take our resistance personally.  Anyone who tried to step into Andre's shoes would receive the same treatment.  It's too soon after his death.

    228

    Lori waited until his quick step faded down the hall before she turned to Carmen.

    229

    Lydia Larkin moved a step forward.

    230

    Marriage is a big step.

    231

    Maybe this was the push she needed to take that final step, the one that'd take her out of this world completely.

    232

    Meanwhile, though the Colonial Conference (re-named Imperial) of 1907 showed that there was a wide difference of opinion on the tariff question between the free-trade government and the colonial premiers, in one part of the empire the ministry took a decided step - in the establishment of a self-governing constitution for the Transvaal and Orange River colonies - which, for good or ill, would make the period memorable.

    233

    Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.

    234

    More importantly, she had to find out what Jonny's next step was, once the month-long truce between White and Black Gods was up.

    235

    Moreover, every Norman to whom he granted lands and offices held them by English law in a much truer sense than the king held his; he was deemed to step into the exact position of his English predecessor, whatever that might be.

    236

    Mr. Jonathan Winston had to back up a step or two and wipe the egg off his face when he real­ized I saved his bacon after he nearly let a killer get away.

    237

    My next step will probably be to fix up the Germany issue, although this will be complicated.

    238

    Nevertheless, on economic as well as political grounds, the leaders of both parties in the Transvaal were prepared to consider favourably the proposals put forward by Dr Jameson at the close of 1906 for a closer union of all the self-governing colonies, and the first direct step to that end was taken at an inter-colonial conference held in May 1908.

    239

    Nevertheless, step by step, Bestuzhev, aided by his elder brother Mikhail, carried out his policy.

    240

    No further step was taken until, at the end of 1879, Rubattino prepared to establish a commercial station.

    241

    No one had a suggestion for the next step, but Fred was determined to continue to research the ownership of the severed digit.

    242

    No one will fault you for taking that one step further and cleaning house, Dr. Wynn said with a faint smile.

    243

    Nor was this line of inquiry pursued simply as a step in the more practical problem of man's final destiny.

    244

    Not hesitating to hand over the compass, she appeared torn at taking the final step of betrayal.

    245

    Not only does it occur at every step, but the universal historians' accounts are all made up of a chain of such contradictions.

    246

    Not till 1409 could Sigismund be said to be king in his own realm, yet in 1413 we find him traversing Europe in his endeavour to terminate the Great Schism, as the first step towards uniting Christendom once more against the Turk.

    247

    Of these the most notable is the Niagara escarpment which extends eastward from Canada, past Lewiston and Lockport, - a downward step from the Erie to the Ontario plain, where the Niagara limestone outcrops, and its resistance to denudation accounts for the steeply rising face at the boundary between the two plains.

    248

    Of this step she quickly repented.

    249

    On the commander-in-chief pronouncing himself as emphatically opposed to such a step, Sir C. Monro was sent out from England to take his place.

    250

    One of the pens in his hands snapped, and she took a step back.

    251

    One of you step back before I lose it.

    252

    One step in a hole and she could lie out here mortally wounded with no one to know.

    253

    One step in her direction, and that was all she needed.

    254

    One step led to another, and as all efforts at union failed the elector invited Martin Bucer to Cologne in 1542.

    255

    Only in one species, Carinella inexpectata, a step in advance has been made, in so far as in connexion with the furrow just mentioned, which is here also somewhat more complicated in its arrangement, a ciliated tube leads into the brain, there to end blindly amidst the nervecells.

    256

    Planey looked from Brady to the soldier before motioning them down another hallway and quickening his step.

    257

    Please step into the portrait gallery.

    258

    Previous to that date, the only step towards compilation of the census results of the empire had been a bare statement of area and population, appended without analysis, comparison or comment, to the reports for England and Wales, from the year 1861 onwards.

    259

    Recognizing the town would be a step in the right direction but it wouldn't tell you the scene you saw actually happened, back in 1932.

    260

    Repenting of this step, he subsequently attempted to regain Turin, but was imprisoned in.

    261

    Rhyn crept carefully through the demon scouts positioned throughout the forest surrounding the castle.  The demons wore the Dark One's uniform of all black with waterproof cloaks and hoods.  The demon side of him rendered his presence similar enough to a full-demon's that the others wouldn't be alarmed.  He sized up each demon he passed, until he found one who appeared to be his size.  The creature didn't hear his soft step, and the snapping of the demon's neck was the only other sound in the falling rain.

    262

    Rhyn ignored them, instead fixating on how to track Death in the underworld.  He stumbled with his first step but was soon running hard through the castle, his mind on finding Death to regain Katie.

    263

    Romas was all business by the time they rounded the corner; he even released Evelyn's hand and quickened his step into one that befitted a warrior prince.

    264

    Romas whirled at the name, and she ran into him before taking a quick step back.

    265

    Salvius Julianus was entrusted by Hadrian with the task of reducing into shape the immense mass of law which had grown up in the edicts of successive praetors - thus taking the first step towards a code.

    266

    Selecting the back door key, she finally tore her attention from the serpent and took a step toward the back of the house.

    267

    Shaftesbury was nearly forty before he married, and even then he appears to have taken this step at the urgent instigation of his friends, mainly to supply a successor to the title.

    268

    She came up too close to him and took a step back.

    269

    She caught her breath and took a step back.

    270

    She did a few more breathing exercises until she felt ready to step outside her room to face the new world.

    271

    She didn't hear his silent step.

    272

    She didn't wait for him to step back but kicked his knee as hard as she could.

    273

    She eased back a step, closer to the obelisk.

    274

    She faced the speaker and took a step back.

    275

    She gasped and took a step away from him.

    276

    She gasped and took a step backward.

    277

    She gave an excited wave and quickened her step.

    278

    She gazed up into his angry red face, knowing she had gone one step too far.

    279

    She grunted as she mounted the last step into the kitchen.

    280

    She heard the soft step of someone approaching and turned, surprised.

    281

    She laughed and fell into step beside him.

    282

    She laughed as she put an arm on his shoulder and fell into step with him.

    283

    She missed a step.

    284

    She missed but succeeded in scaring him back a step.

    285

    She pushed herself away from him as he took another step towards her, a newfound horror creeping through her.

    286

    She raced forward through the men, not caring what they thought, and flung herself into Mansr's arms with enough force to drive him back a step.

    287

    She retreated a step, regretting drawing his intensity.

    288

    She sighed, too tired to consider her next step.

    289

    She slowed her step and pointed at Gabriel with a questioning look.

    290

    She swallowed down a lump in her throat and took a step closer to the door.

    291

    She took a quick step back, glancing around for something to use as a weapon.

    292

    She took a quick step back.

    293

    She took a quick step backward, blood racing up her neck and warming her cheeks.

    294

    She took a step back at the flash of heat.

    295

    She took a step back, avoiding his hands.

    296

    She took a step back, but he only snatched the scarf and flung it, too, out the window.

    297

    She took a step back, heart fluttering.

    298

    She took a step back, overwhelmed by the scene before her.

    299

    She took a step back.

    300

    She took a step backward and stared mutely up at his face.

    301

    She took a step closer, waiting for him to back down.

    302

    She took a step toward him and smiled.

    303

    She took a step toward the house and waited, but he didn't respond.

    304

    She took a step toward the wooden wagon.

    305

    She took a step towards it.

    306

    She took an involuntary step back into the hall.

    307

    She took another hasty step back as he grabbed it once more.

    308

    She took one step then another, not understanding how her body could move when her mind couldn't.

    309

    She tried to step around him, but he stepped into her path again.

    310

    She watched as he crossed the room to the door, his broad shoulders swaying gracefully with each step.

    311

    She winced and moaned with every step.

    312

    Since the eddy currents induced in the disk are 90 degrees in phase behind the inducing field, the eddy currents produced by the main coil are in step with the magnetic field due to the shunt coil, and hence the disk is driven round by the revolution due to the action of the shunt coil upon the induced currents in the disk.

    313

    Sirian's voice preceded his quick step into the quarters.

    314

    Slowly, one little step at a time, it crept up across the rough place where it had slipped and fallen so often.

    315

    Some of his brilliant rival's most conspicuous discoveries were implicitly contained in his writings, and wanted but one step for completion.

    316

    Some suspension bridges have broken down in consequence of the oscillations produced by bodies of men marching in step. In 1850 a suspension bridge cable was carried on a separate saddle on rollers on each pier.

    317

    Step by step he attained his end; in 1840 he won his "bachelier es.

    318

    Step by step, and in spite of the efforts of the emperors at Constantinople, the great imperial officials became landowners, the owners of land - kinsmen or at least associates of these officials - intruded on the imperial administration, while the necessity for providing for the defence of the imperial territories against the Lombards led to the formation of local militias, who at first were attached to the imperial regiments, but gradually became independent.

    319

    Still the result of Stakelberg's attack, for which he was unable to deploy his whole force, was disappointing, but the main Japanese attack on Bilderling was not much more satisfactory, for the Russians had entrenched every step of their previous advance, and fought splendidly.

    320

    Stuffing trembling hands into her pockets, she took a step back from him.

    321

    Stunned, Deidre took a step back.

    322

    Surprise registered across his chiseled features, and he took a step forward.

    323

    Talal gasped, as if she'd never seen anyone cry, and took a step back.

    324

    The "Day of Dupes," as this famous day was called, was the only time that Louis took so much as a step toward the dismissal of a minister who was personally distasteful to him but who was indispensable.

    325

    The advisors of the Princess did not like this test; but she commanded them to step into the flame and one by one they did so, and were scorched so badly that the air was soon filled with an odor like that of baked potatoes.

    326

    The appearance of this book, which traces the development of the English constitution from the Teutonic invasions of Britain till 1485, marks a distinct step in the advance of English historical learning.

    327

    The Apsheron men, excited by the Tsar's presence, passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk pace.

    328

    The beginnings of this rupture, as well as a sharp affray between his volunteers and the townsfolk of Ajaccio, may have quickened Bonaparte's resolve to return to France in May 1792, but there were also personal and family reasons for this step. Having again exceeded his time of furlough, he was liable to the severe penalties attaching to a deserter and an émigré but he saw that the circumstances of the time would help to enforce the appeal for reinstatement which he resolved to make at Paris.

    329

    The best evidence in favour of the step is to be found in the publicly expressed views of the state's own president, Burgers, already quoted.

    330

    The bishopric of Dol had been raised to the rank of an archbishopric during the 10th century by Nomenoe, king of Brittany, but this step had been objected to by the archbishops of Tours.

    331

    The Brahman priest (brahma) being thus the recognized head of the sacerdotal order (brahma), which itself is the visible embodiment of sacred writ and the devotional spirit pervading it (brahma), the complete realization of theocratic aspirations required but a single step, which was indeed taken in the theosophic speculations of the later Vedic poets and the authors of the Brahmanas (q.v.), viz.

    332

    The Campbell-Bannerman administration decided to do without this intermediary step in both colonies.

    333

    The classification was quite new, and made a step distinctly in advance of anything.

    334

    The constable himself headed the leading line of dismounted men-at-arms; weighted with their armour, and sinking deep into the mud with every step, they yet reached and engaged the English men-at-arms; for a time the fighting was severe.

    335

    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).

    336

    The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.

    337

    The current in the shunt coil lags 90 degrees behind the impressed electromotive force of the circuit to be measured; hence if the main current is in step with the potential difference of the terminals of the supply mains, which is the case when the supply is given wholly to electric lamps, then the field due to the main coil differs from that due to the shunt coil by 90 degrees.

    338

    The Deans continued, a step at a time.

    339

    The deduction of the formula tab, where a and b are numbers, should be regarded as a later step.

    340

    The defeat of Genoa and the establishment of Venetian supremacy in the Mediterranean brought the state to a further step in its development.

    341

    The doge assumed the title of duke of Dalmatia, and a great step was taken towards the supremacy of Venice in the Adriatic, which was essential to the free development of her commerce and also enabled her to reap the pecuniary advantages to be derived from the Crusades.

    342

    The door closed behind her and his quick step clipped across the floor.

    343

    The Emperor said a few words to him and took a step toward his horse.

    344

    The fact being established that magnetism is essentially a molecular phenomenon, the next step is to inquire what is the constitution of a magnetic molecule, and why it is that some molecules are ferromagnetic, others paramagnetic, and others again diamagnetic. The best known of the explanations that have been proposed depend upon the magnetic action of an electric current.

    345

    The fall of Tyre marks a great advance in development of Venetian trade; the republic had now passed beyond the Adriatic, and had taken an important step towards that complete command of the Levant which she established after the Fourth Crusade.

    346

    The final step in the determination of the present boundaries of the state was taken in 1896, when the Supreme Court of the United States decided the Greer county case.

    347

    The final step in the process is the conception of the Absolute, which is abstract in the most complete sense.

    348

    The first man to step to the front at this moment was Count Ugolino della Gherardesca of the powerful house of that name.

    349

    The first practical step towards the development of the camera obscura seems to have been made by the famous painter and architect, Leon Battista Alberti, in 1437, contemporaneously with the invention of printing.

    350

    The first rush of the assailants carried them up to the wire and other obstacles, but they were for many hours unable to advance a step farther.

    351

    The first step consists in the functional treatment of equations.

    352

    The first step in clarifying the situation is to come to a full realization that the medieval Church was essentially an international state, and that the character of the Protestant secession from it was largely determined by this fact.

    353

    The first step in the direction was the recovery of their sea-power, which was effected by the victory of Conon at Cnidus (August 394 B.C.).

    354

    The first step in the Japanese plan was the advance of Kuroki's army to Anping.

    355

    The first step in this direction is to arrange scientific method and positive knowledge in order, and this brings us to another cardinal element in the Comtist system, the classification of the sciences.

    356

    The first step in this direction was effected by the co-ordination of Gay Lussac's observations on the combining volumes of gases.

    357

    The first step in this process is that of grinding the surface down until all projections are removed and a close approximation to a perfect plane is obtained.

    358

    The first step is the establishment of the exact equality of congruence of two geometrical figures.

    359

    The first step is to calculate the force which represents the reaction between the parts of the medium separated by x=o.

    360

    The first step is to see whether there is a prima facie case for inquiry, for many acts of parliament have been passed which have never come into operation at all, or have been administered only for a short time on too limited a scale to have important or lasting results.

    361

    The first step taken in this direction was in 1900 when a law was passed which laid down that the colonies were to provide for their own civil expenditure.

    362

    The first step towards curtailing the power of the doge was taken in 1032, when the family of the Orseoli was finally expelled from Venice and the doge Domenico Flabianico was called to the throne.

    363

    The first step towards the formation of a mixed hydroid colony is undoubtedly a hastening of the sexual maturity of the medusaindividual.

    364

    The first step towards the modern improvement of the town was taken in 1774, when a special act was obtained for the purpose.

    365

    The first step towards this result was easily and quickly taken.

    366

    The first step westwards was taken in Courland, which lay between Russian territory and the Baltic coast.

    367

    The foundation was closely modelled on Winchester College, with its warden and fellows, its grammar and song schoolmasters, but a step in advance was made by the masters being made fellows and so members of the governing body.

    368

    The fourth step in the development of intra-urban railways was to go to the other extreme from the deep tunnel which Greathead introduced.

    369

    The governor was strongly opposed to this step, as he was anxious to protect the coal supply, and also feared the moral effect of a withdrawal.

    370

    The guardian angels of the nations in Daniel probably represent the gods of the heathen, and we have there the first step of the process by which these gods became evil angels, an idea expanded by Milton in Paradise Lost.

    371

    The harsher measures which about that time began to be adopted towards his co-religionists in France are usually assigned as the motive of this step. He now devoted himself during six years to the production of lenses of enormous focal distance, which, mounted on high poles, and connected with the eye-piece by means of a cord, formed what were called "aerial telescopes."

    372

    The incident was, however, but the first step in the struggle for the possession of that country (see Bechuanaland).

    373

    The irregularity of this step, however, was resented by many of the clergy, and the occurrence is still passed lightly over by his Roman Catholic panegyrists.

    374

    The journeys of Hansteen and Erman (1828-1830) were a most important step in the exploration of the territory.

    375

    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.

    376

    The last step in the development of the Waldensian body was taken in 1530, when two deputies of the Vaudois in Dauphine and Provence, Georges Morel and Pierre Masson, were sent to confer with the German and Swiss Reformers.

    377

    The liver being regarded as the seat of the blood, it was a natural and short step to identify the liver with the soul as well as with the seat of life, and therefore as the centre of all manifestations of vitality and activity.

    378

    The man had taken a step or two across the glass roof before he noticed the presence of the strangers; but then he stopped abruptly.

    379

    The men looked at him and pressed to the bank, hesitating to step onto the ice.

    380

    The middle step and slot are for coins within the remedy.

    381

    The moment the prisoner crossed the third step, she saw him.

    382

    The most effective step would obviously be the extermination of the Anopheles mosquito.

    383

    The most important step taken by President Harding during the first year of his administration was the calling of an international conference on the limitation of armaments.

    384

    The next and most important forward step in the progress of optical glass manufacture was initiated by Ernst Abbe and carried out jointly by him and 0.

    385

    The next step in the development of epic narrative was the single lay of an episodic character, sung by a single individual, who was frequently a member of a distinguished family, not merely a professional minstrel.

    386

    The next step is illustrated by the female gonophores of Cladocoryne, where the radial and ring-canals F G H Modified from Weismann, Entstehung der Sexualzellen bei den Hydromedusen.

    387

    The next step is the gradual obliteration of the sub-umbral cavity by disappearance of which the sub-umbral ectoderm comes into contact with the ectoderm of the manubrium.

    388

    The next step is to remove the harvested crop to the drying-shed; primed leaves are placed at once in shallow baskets or boxes, and when under cover are strung on string or on wire and hung up on laths in the barn.

    389

    The next step is to suppose that fractional numbers are represented in the same way.

    390

    The next step of importance was the introduction of what was termed the " Standard board."

    391

    The next step was renovating the old farmhouse for visitors.

    392

    The next step was taken by the settlers at the port, who in 1835 resolved to lay out a town, which they named Durban, after Sir Benjamin d'Urban, then governor of Cape Colony.

    393

    The next step was the introduction of metre into the body of the sentence and the restriction of the passages to a definite length.

    394

    The next step was to endeavour so to modify and weaken the virus as to enable it to be used as a preventive or as an antitoxin.

    395

    The next step was to force the confessors to accept their lax interpretation of the law; and this was accomplished by their famous theory of probabilism - first taught in Spain about 1580.

    396

    The next step was to prepare glucose.

    397

    The next step was to secure, by permanent political institutions, the independence which had been so dearly purchased; and, accordingly, on the 30th of August 1821 the constitution of Colombia was adopted with general approbation, Bolivar himself being president, and Santander vice-president.

    398

    The older, belonging probably to the beginning of the 6th century B.C., appears, from an inscription on the uppermost step, to have been dedicated to Apollo.

    399

    The one is a problem of interpolation, the other a step towards the solution of an equation in finite differences.

    400

    The parallel extends even to the secret negotiations; for, if Austria could have been induced in May 1807 to send an army against Napoleon's communications, his position would have been fully as dangerous as before Austerlitz if Prussia had taken a similar step. Once more he triumphed owing to the timidity of the central power which had the game in its hands; and the folly which marked the Russian tactics at Friedland (14th of June 1807), as at Austerlitz, enabled him to close the campaign in a blaze of glory and shiver the coalition in pieces.

    401

    The path became more indistinct with each step, eventually coming to an end in dense underbrush.

    402

    The path led step by step from the renter of Bascomb Place, with Fred and Dean always a step behind him.

    403

    The people of Keft (Aegeans) wore a similar arrangement which is a step in the direction of the proper drawers.

    404

    The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history.

    405

    The President made it clear that he regarded the conference merely as a step in securing international understanding and good will; he advocated the convening of succeeding conferences as a possible means of securing an international association for the promotion of peace, and he approved the principle of substituting an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan regarding Far-Eastern problems, for the existing Anglo-Japanese Treaty.

    406

    The principal step in the modern development of algebra was the recognition of the meaning of negative quantities.

    407

    The records of kings whose names hitherto were known to us only through Bible references have been found in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, and personages hitherto but shadowy now step forth as clearly into the light of history as an Alexander or a Caesar.

    408

    The responsible authorities on the spot perceived that the process of gradually removing the huge accumulations of impedimenta that were massed about the landing-places and of reembarking the troops must take place during the dark hours and step by step, every effort being made to keep the Turks unaware of what was in progress.

    409

    The room was dark, the floor-to-ceiling windows displaying the incredible views of the Eiffel Tower, whose frame was outlined by lights against the dark Parisian sky She was about to step onto the balcony when a knock at the door drew her attention.

    410

    The second step in the evolution of spinning instincts was probably the making of a silken chamber for the reception of the cocoon itself and for the protection of the mother while guarding it and her newly-hatched young.

    411

    The second step is the conversion of one figure into another by a process of dissection, followed by rearrangement of parts; the figure as rearranged being one whose area or volume can be calculated by methods already established.

    412

    The split broke up the rule of the "regency," Marcy accepting the " Hunker " support and a seat in Polk's cabinet, while Wright, Butler and Van Buren joined the " Barnburners," a step preliminary to Van Buren's acceptance of the " Free Soil " nomination for president in the campaign of 1848.

    413

    The state, in taking over the Failways, did not exercise sufficient care to see that the lines and the rolling stock were kept up to a proper state of efficiency and adequacy for the work they had t,o perform; while the step itself was taken somewhat hastily.

    414

    The step from Rienzi to Der fliegende Hollander is without parallel in the history of music, and would be inexplicable if Rienzi contained nothing good and if Der fliegende Hollander did not contain many reminiscences of the decline of Italian opera; but it is noticeable that in this case the lapses into vulgar music have a distinct dramatic value.

    415

    The step to magnetic phenomena was comparatively simple; but it was otherwise as regards electromagnetic phenomena, where current electricity is essentially involved.

    416

    The storm door squealed a protest as he left the house, and the porch moaned with each step he took away from her.

    417

    The taxation of the tsar's slyuzhnuie lyudi, or military tenants, was a first step towards the proportional taxation of the hitherto privileged classes.

    418

    The temple is entirely of Pentelic marble, except the foundations and lowest step of the stylobate, which are of Peiraic stone, and the zophoros of the cella, which is in Parian marble.

    419

    The third step is the arithmetical calculation of the area or volume of the rearranged figure.

    420

    The three groups communicated secretly through Switzerland, and it was felt that the time had come for the exiles to take a fresh step forward, in view of the prominence given to the doctrine of self-determination since the Russian Revolution and America's entry into the war.

    421

    The time requisite for the several degrees is unknown, and may have been determined by the Patres, who conferred them in a solemn ceremony called Sacramentum, in which the initial step was an oath never to divulge what should be revealed, and for which the mystic had been specially prepared by lustral purification, prolonged abstinence, and severe deprivations.

    422

    The two thousand odd rifles which had been distributed among the Uitlanders were then given up. With regard to the inducements to this step urged upon the reform committee by the high commissioner, it is only necessary to say with reference to the first that the grievances never were considered, and with reference to the second it subsequently appeared that one of the conditions of the surrender of Jameson's force at Doornkop was that the lives of the men should be spared.

    423

    The Venetian nobility is an example of a nobility which gradually arose out of the mass of the people as certain families step by step drew all political power into their own hands.

    424

    The wall met another, and she quickened her step, scouring the area above her for some sign of a window.

    425

    The Watcher took a step back at his lethal tone.

    426

    The water looked … black in the moonlight.  She took a step back and looked up towards the moons.  As Gabriel indicated, one moon was lower than the other.

    427

    The wisdom of the step taken by Shep- British stone has been called in question.

    428

    Then in April 1688 he took the suicidal step of issuing a proclamation to force the clergy and bishops to read the Declaration in their pulpits, and thus personally advocate a measure they detested.

    429

    Then, repenting this ill-judged step, he hurried in person to the French camp at Pietra Santa and humbled himself before the king.

    430

    There is a spring in my step and a note on my lips, until I realize the awful truth of my situation and am forced to hold back my tears.

    431

    There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.

    432

    They did much to excite thinking, and advanced many problems by more than one step, but they did not furnish a coherent system, and the doctrines which were then new have since been worked out with greater consistency and clearness.

    433

    They prepared for flight to America - a step which Napoleon took care to prevent; and a popular outbreak at Aranjuez decided the king then and there to abdicate (19th of March 1808).

    434

    They'd taken a step together towards their future by talking openly on topics he never thought he'd be able to bring up.

    435

    Things are nice as it is, she said to herself, and she began walking up and down the room, not stepping simply on the resounding parquet but treading with each step from the heel to the toe (she had on a new and favorite pair of shoes) and listening to the regular tap of the heel and creak of the toe as gladly as she had to the sounds of her own voice.

    436

    This custom, which owes its origin to Henry II., meant a loss of revenue to the lords, whose victory in this matter, however, was a step backwards.

    437

    This decisive step was not long in making itself felt in the chanceries of Europe.

    438

    This division of the Vertebrata into hot and cold blooded is a curiously retrograde step, only intelligible when we reflect that the excellent entomologist had no real comprehension of vertebrate morphology; but he makes some atonement for the blunder by steadily upholding the class distinctness of the Amphibia.

    439

    This law naturally made a deep impression on military Europe, not merely because the period of color service was reducedGermany had taken this step years beforebut because of the almost entire absence of the usual exemptions.

    440

    This led to the further step of setting up personal merit rather than ecclesiastical ordination as the ground of the priestly office.

    441

    This legislation marks another step forward.

    442

    This measure was regarded at the time as a marked step in advance, and was only carried after a vigorous campaign in its favour.

    443

    This memorial is built principally of Milford (Mass.) granite, with a bronze statue of the president, and with sarcophagi containing the bodies of the president and Mrs McKinley, and has a total height, from the first step of the approaches to its top, of 163 ft.

    444

    This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way.

    445

    This step he afterwards regretted.

    446

    This step Lucien refused to take; and after residing for some time at his estate of Canino, from which he took the papal title of prince of Canino, he left for America.

    447

    This step paralysed the movements of Colonel Vassos, who after a few slight engagements with the Turks remained practically inactive in the interior.

    448

    This step was fatal to Pippin's designs.

    449

    This step was taken in Egypt after the death of Arsinoe Philadelphus (271) when she and her still-living brother-husband, Ptolemy II., began to be worshipped together as Oe01 a&Xq 01.

    450

    This step was the beginning of the troubles which clouded the closing years of Albert's reign.

    451

    This step, fatal to the Norman kingdom, was possibly taken that William might devote himself to foreign conquests.'

    452

    This step, which caused him to be ostracized for a time from the Boston circles in which he had been reared, brought him the cases of the fugitive slaves, Shadrach, Sims and Burns, and of the rescuers of Shadrach.

    453

    This time she marched toward the kitchen, her temper rising with every step.

    454

    This was the first and most important step in the establishment of the stability of the solar system.

    455

    This was the first direct step taken at home towards the establishment of the new State.

    456

    Three years later the fateful step was taken of appointing Moawiya (Mu'awiyya) governor of Syria.

    457

    Thus at one step Pasteur gained a place of honour among the chemists of the day, and was immediately appointed professor of chemistry at the Faculte of Science at Strasburg, where he soon afterwards married Mlle Laurent, who proved herself to be a true and noble helpmeet.

    458

    Thus it happened that the viceroy of Italy felt himself compelled to depart from the positive injunctions of the emperor to hold on at all costs to his advanced position at Posen, where about 14,000 men had gradually rallied around him, and to withdraw step by step to Magdeburg, where he met reinforcements and commanded the whole course of the lower Elbe.

    459

    Thus Sultan Ibrahim was dissuaded from such a step in 1644 only by the refusal of the Sheikh-ul-Islam to sanction the proceeding.

    460

    To apply these discoveries to the malaria of man was an obvious step. In working out the details the Italian school have again taken a prominent part.

    461

    To apprehend it is really the first great step in philosophical education.

    462

    To be in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make use of whatever interest he had to offer.

    463

    To have established this position was a great step in speculation.

    464

    To interdict the importation of the drug altogether, as is done in Japan, was the step advocated by Japanese public opinion.

    465

    Two other French attacks had at the same time been directed against New England, and to meet the dangerous situation Leisler performed the one statesmanlike act of his public career, notable in American history as the first step toward the union of the colonies.

    466

    Unaccustomed to the weight of the rucksack on her back, she almost toppled over at the first step of the stairwell and caught the banister with both hands.

    467

    Uneasy with the stirrings within her, she forced herself to step away.

    468

    Unhappily every step led to a fresh misunderstanding.

    469

    Was someone else a step behind them, looking over their shoulder?

    470

    We imagine a wave-front divided o x Q into elementary rings or zones - often named after Huygens, but better after Fresnelby spheres described round P (the point at which the aggregate effect is to be estimated), the first sphere, touching the plane at 0, with a radius equal to PO, and the succeeding spheres with radii increasing at each step by IX.

    471

    We therefore take a third step, and obtain theoretical continuity by considering that every point on the line, if it does not represent a rational number, represents something which may be called an irrational number.

    472

    We'd better watch our step, and not give him any excuse to harass us further.

    473

    Wellington had also difficulties of a similar kind with his own government, and also the Spanish soldiers, in revenge for many French outrages, had become guilty of grave excesses in France, so that Wellington took the extreme step of sending 25,000 of them back to Spain and resigning the command of their army, though his resignation was subsequently withdrawn.

    474

    Westlake twisted around the seat once more and after a struggle pulled out an old step pump.

    475

    What appeared to be red wine was squeezed out of the bath mat at the weight of her step.

    476

    What Austria desired to be was a state at once conciliatory and just, and it opposed no national demand which did not overstep the limits of state security; but this loosing of bonds unchained at the same time a number of national passions before which the state retired step by step.

    477

    What did he do to those who hadn't taken that final step but probably would soon?

    478

    What she'd done—and been about to do—made her step back.

    479

    What the next step should be was freely discussed.

    480

    Whatever step towards him she seemed to take this day, she'd leapt back about twenty.

    481

    When did she step into the Twilight Zone?

    482

    When he took a step towards her, she reached out to him.

    483

    When that passionate young prince, in revenge for a fancied wrong, resolved to drive the English out of Bengal, his first step was to occupy the fortified factory at Cossimbazar, and make prisoners of Hastings and his companions.

    484

    When you reach a step you do not understand, do you not start reading out loud really slowly?

    485

    Whether it was right or wrong, it certainly felt good to step into his stride.

    486

    While failing to correct all the defects in the original statute, the amended law was a decided step in the direction of efficient regulation.

    487

    While her step was anything but sure, Lana forced herself onto the road and walked.

    488

    While rebellion was raging in Oudh he issued a proclamation declaring the lands of the province forfeited; and this step gave rise to much angry controversy.

    489

    While waiting for the young man to take his place on the step Rostopchin stood frowning and rubbing his face with his hand.

    490

    Whistling appreciatively, he took a step toward her and captured her by the waist, drawing her into his arms.

    491

    Wired energy made him edgy and his step quick.

    492

    With all other thoughts lulled from his mind by the steady cadence of the wheels, he moved step by step through every facet of the Byrne case.

    493

    With Descartes the use of exponents as now employed for denoting the powers of a quantity becomes systematic; and without some such step by which the homogeneity of successive powers is at once recognized, the binomial theorem could scarcely have been detected.

    494

    With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.

    495

    With every step toward the phone she told herself she shouldn't answer it – shouldn't lose her temper.

    496

    With John Adams and Edward Rutledge he was selected by Congress to discuss with Admiral Howe (September 1776, at Staten Island) the terms of peace proposed by Howe, who had arrived in New York harbour in July 1776, and who had been an intimate friend of Franklin; but the discussion was fruitless, as the American commissioners refused to treat " back of this step of independency."

    497

    Xander took a step closer.

    498

    You better watch your step.

    499

    You've taken the first step on a very long path.

    500

    Zapolya, a devout Catholic, is lauded by Archbishop Frangipan in 1533 for arresting the spread of the new doctrines, though he would not allow Martinuzzi to take the extreme step of burning perverts at the stake.