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Twitter became a weird congeries of protest updates and jokes about Smee. “Peter Pan Live!” and a Night of Protests 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z
The first, titled “The Book,” describes a strange bookshop, a “congeries/ Of crumbling elder lore.” A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z
My own are his pansy collages, tightly packed, edge-to-edge congeries of overlapping floral faces that give off a bright radiance as well as well as a sense of menacing, staring eyes. No Ordinary Joe 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z
Which is to say, a congeries of ideologies mandating, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, belief in fantastic, often ludicrous, unverifiable assertions about the cosmos and mankind’s place in it. They’re all just this deluded and deranged: Anti-intellectual religious wing-nuts run the GOP 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z
A novel loosely holding together distinct histories and temporalities effectively dramatizes a society that is a congeries of ancient and new, old lore and tradition bumping up against thoroughly modern ambitions and expertise. An Omani Novel Exposes Marriage and Its Miseries 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z
Does that justify corporate managers spending ever-shifting congeries of their shareholders’ money, without consulting them, on political campaign contributions and ads to sway citizens’ decisions about which officials should regulate the corporations themselves? Free speech on a slippery slope: Why are civil liberties advocates joining forces with the right? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z
The sixties may be just another decade, but The Sixties are something more – a mood, a state of mind, a way of life, a congeries of sounds and images. 1968: the year that changed America 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z
Rather is it a congeries of symphonic moods, structurally united by emotional intimacy and occasional thematic concourse. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
The request was unexpected, but the driver nodded, and showed some skill in turning through the congeries of vehicles which crowded the street. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z
Science would seem fairly to have reduced all this host of phenomena which we call the world into a congeries of motions in many forms. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z
By the causation, when known, of this common congeries of symptoms we judge of the essential nature of the malady, and so of its proper treatment. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
As the word “interpolation” implies, Hermann did not maintain the hypothesis of a congeries of independent “lays.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z
Those conditions can only be fulfilled by one system, viz. a congeries of houses or pavilions, more or less connected with each other by covered ways, so as to facilitate convenient and economical administration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z
The suggestion of creating a congeries of Metropolitan municipalities had even then been made, as it has often been renewed since. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z
Of the vast congeries of buildings which then encased St. Stephen's Chapel and its beautiful but degraded cloisters, little more than the Hall is left to us. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z
The United States was a pleasant congeries of localities. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z
I do not consider them entrancingly picturesque; they form the northern entrances to the Albaicin quarter, which is now a perplexing congeries of squalid houses, formless convents, and churches tottering to their fall. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z
Hossbach, preaching in a vacant church, declared that he repudiated the confessional doctrine of the divinity of Christ, regarded the life of Jesus in the gospels as a congeries of myths, etc. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z
The Spirit of Drink had seemed to him at length to sprawl, a huge, lethargic incubus, over that tortured congeries of crime. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z
Any dramatic situation made up of a congeries of minor situations is like a great desk the pigeon holes of which are crowded with letters and personal documents. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
In this case the long passage was outside the congeries of habitations, and was lighted on two floors by the windows of the recesses before alluded to as having been the oratories of past generations. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z
After a few blocks they swerved to the left, plunging into a congeries of mean streets where a network of fire-escapes encaged the house fronts. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z
No genuine laws of the sainted Edward have descended to us, and during his reign England seems but too likely to follow the bad example of Frankland, and become a loose congeries of lordships. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z
Three o'clock saw the two young men at the Maroobil home station, a large, old-fashioned, comfortable congeries of buildings, without attempt at architectural embellishment. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z
The electronic theory of the chemical atom supposes, in fact, that atoms are congeries of electrons in rapid orbital motion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z
What is now the German empire was a mere congeries of small states, waging perpetual tariff wars upon each other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z
In France under the Old Régime, the Catholic religion was stigmatized as an ally of despotism, as well as a congeries of absurd doctrines and ceremonies. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z
And so, these days an office at the Patina Restaurant Group in Midtown Manhattan is a Collyer brothers congeries of restaurant amenities. Picking a Name for the New Restaurant at Lincoln Center 2010-05-25T23:32:00Z
It has been stated to me that the theory of Professor Forbes is "the congeries of facts" which he has discovered. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc.
In the earlier days of field artillery, the artillery train was a miscellaneous congeries of pontoon, supply, baggage and tool wagons, heavy ordnance and light guns in carts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"
England up to that time had been but a broken congeries of earldoms or tribal territories, and would have gone on thus if it had not at last found a master. The Ifs of History
A substance is known to us only as a congeries of attributes. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis
The problem now is a social one,—how to unite into one people a congeries of races even more diverse than the resources and climates from which they draw their subsistence. Races and Immigrants in America
It might well be called the country of the outlaw, this vast tract of dense mountain forests and craggy ravines, this congeries of swirling torrents and cataracts and rapids. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories
Greece becomes a congeries of city-states, each with its own citizen-militia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"
The whole of your second Letter is no more than an unconnected congeries of the grossest impostures. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion
In a more marked degree than other capitals it is a congeries of towns and colonies, largely alien in sympathies. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2
While these figures compare with those of the Italians, yet, unlike the Italians, they refer to a congeries of races and languages distinct one from another. Races and Immigrants in America
This was done almost too rapidly for the eye to follow; at one instant the snake was motionless—the next he was one congeries of coils round his prey. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I.
These discourses are, however, in reality little but a congeries of anecdotes, often scandalous enough. A Short History of French Literature
Sum total, we had not the slightest acquaintance with any of that congeries of winding turns, sudden tricks, and baffling surprises. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
First in insisting upon leaving Oakleigh at this extremely early hour in the morning, after you had been suffering from a congeries of hysterical fits. Sir Hilton's Sin
Our lives are a congeries of solipsisms, out of which in strict logic only a God could compose a universe even of discourse. Essays in Radical Empiricism
"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865
It is high and barren, a congeries of gigantic precipices and ridges. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant
Society was no longer regarded as a congeries of individuals, but as an organism, and an organism whose function was chiefly the creation of wealth. Women of England
Do we hold it critically and coherently or as a mere congeries of irreconcilable propositions? Rationalism
He bequeathed to his son, Hum�y�n, then, a congeries of territories uncemented by any bond of union or of common interest, except that which had been concentrated in his life. Rulers of India: Akbar
The market-place and the big church were at the back of this congeries of quays and rows, and the sea and the old pier were at quite a respectable distance from the town.  East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations
The world exists for it as an innumerable congeries of things, each one independent of the other, and possessing self-existence. Pedagogics as a System
The existence," says Fiske, "of a single soul, or congeries of psychical phenomena, unaccompanied by a material body, would be evidence sufficient to demonstrate this hypothesis. Was Man Created?
We have become tied up in teeming congeries, to which we have grown so used that we are no longer able to see the blight they have brought on us. Another Sheaf
Tim and his congeries hate the clerics, but they fear the flagellum. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
In the school, the simplest offshoot, perhaps, from a congeries of families, we have, or ought to have, the parental element; we have magistracy also, and a certain statehood; we have, or should have, worship. The History of Dartmouth College
At a corner where the cross-street was empty she turned out of this haunted highway, presently finding herself lost in a congeries of old-time streets of which she had never heard. The Dust Flower
Sociology, so far as it can be regarded as a fundamental science and not mere congeries of social-welfare programs and practices, may be described as the science of collective behavior. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
In the midst of this congeries of dungeons, surrounded by clanking chains and weeping captives, stands the chair of the "Holy Father." Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Such a congeries of objects might have drifted side by side by chance, or the caprice of the currents; but they could not have tied themselves together in such fashion. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
But the published details showed the simplest among us that by this act the congeries of scattered nations we had called the British Empire were now truly welded into an Imperial State. The Message
And all the congeries of human atoms that make up the battalion, learn new and precious lessons and acquire new virtues—patience, obedience, courage, endurance…. The Rough Road
So much in fact Bentham might learn from Hume; and to defend upon any other ground the congeries of traditional arrangements which passed for the British Constitution was obviously absurd. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
But even granting that this entrance should be forced, as it sometimes was, there were ample means within the mountains themselves, which were but a congeries of fortresses, for prolonging the contest. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
For example, extension is a congeries of indefinitesimal parts; the continuity of matter, as empirically known by us, is never absolute. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
Ethnology and Anthropology.—The earliest notices of the geography of Spain, from the 5th century B.C., represent Spain as occupied by a congeries of tribes distinguished mainly as Iberi, Celtiberi and Celts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Nature thus presented itself to Bacon's mind as a huge congeries of phenomena, the manifestations of some simple and primitive qualities, which were hid from us by the complexity of the things themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
The Scripture "cannot be broken," or interpreted as a promiscuous congeries of separate bits; for a divine intelligence and life throb through the whole collection. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions
Best of all, perhaps, he had the intelligence and the self-restraint to make all his poems wholes, and not mere congeries of verses. A History of Elizabethan Literature
It consists of a vast congeries of palaces, barracks, stables, pagodas, temples, offices, courtyards, corridors, alleys and bazaars, containing upward of fifteen thousand inhabitants, the whole encircled by a high wall four miles in length. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
In the beginning of this century Moscow from within appeared like a congeries of villages surrounded with groves and gardens, each with its manor-house and parochial church. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
It is indeed more a congeries of faiths than a simple religion, like Christianity. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ
They have individuality without having reality, because individuality is a thing acquired in the mind by the congeries of its impressions. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
We regard different bodies as congeries of atoms, but it is a singular fact that of two bodies containing exactly the same elements in the same proportions the one is poisonous and the other harmless. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance
We are informed to a certain degree upon atomic ratios; we know that all bodies are regarded by the physicist as a congeries of atoms, and that these atoms are "centres of force." How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer
One of the latter kind is a congeries of ruinous heaps of square stones, covering at least five or six acres. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology
A boarding-house is a congeries of people who have come down. Marge Askinforit
The world, for the poet and the philosopher alike, must be not a congeries of separate things, but in some sense a product of reason. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
A little farther back was the British divisional field hospital, planted in a congeries of native dirt-huts. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
Between the points where these two giant rivers change their direction there extends for a distance of 1500 miles the vast congeries of mountain ranges known collectively as the "Himálaya" or "Abode of Snow." The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
It is not many years since what passed for etymology in this country was merely a congeries of wild guesses and manufactured anecdotes. The Romance of Words (4th ed.)
They looked from outside exactly like a vast congeries of large, high, carpenters’ shops, with roofs of glaring red tiles, and surrounded by wooden palisades, very lofty and of prodigious strength.  The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale
By Charles Egbert Craddock 1911 It might well be called the country of the outlaw, this vast tract of dense mountain forests and craggy ravines, this congeries of swirling torrents and cataracts and rapids. Wolf's Head 1911
His writings are a congeries of praises and blames, both cruel smart, as they say in the States. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
Here are a congeries of two-story buildings, which are together fifteen hundred feet in length by a width of seventy feet. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
They could not live in colleges, as there were none; in fact, the only university buildings in existence, which probably served various ceremonial occasions, was a congeries of buildings called the Carolinum, after its founder. From a Terrace in Prague
If we are a congeries of mediæval Italian republics, why should the General Government have expended immense sums in fortifying points whose strategic position is of continental rather than local consequence? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
Ancient Greece was, for political purposes, a congeries of sovereign states, generally centring round the urban metropolis of a rural district smaller than that of an average English county. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
We have now before our mind's eye the whole organism of the perceiving, throbbing and responding plant, a complex unity and not a congeries of unrelated parts. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
I cannot imagine such a congeries of blunders as a war for the Poles. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
Emerson, it is to be feared, regarded a company of books but as a congeries of ideas.  Obiter Dicta Second Series
Thus, at the end of our journey, we are able, by this final process of drastic elimination, to reduce the world in which we live to a congeries of living souls. The Complex Vision
It was especially dangerous to do so at Whitehall, because, as has been already shown, the King lived at Westminster in a congeries of old buildings more or less dilapidated and inconvenient. Westminster The Fascination of London
This is likewise true of the congeries of life which we call a society or a nation. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
So the city girded itself for a great festival; the nation approved and coöperated, and a vast congeries of white palaces began to rise on our far edge. On the Stairs
They lead to Shepherd's Market, a congeries of small streets, which occupy the site of Brook Field, so called from Tyburn, which flowed through it. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
The universe is an immense congeries of bodies, moved and sustained by an immense congeries of souls. The Complex Vision
Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation. On the Genesis of Species
Tunics were disentangled from the damp congeries on our backs and we had a few hours' precious sleep. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
And this glare, and heat, and noise, these congeries of individuals without sympathy and dishes without flavour; this is society! The Young Duke
Every nation has a congeries of such tales, and it is curious to mark how the same animal reappears with the same imputed physiognomy in all of them. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
No one has ever seen a compounded congeries of conscious states. The Complex Vision
Or that the Creator and cause of this infinite congeries of worlds should be without intelligence? The Promulgation of Universal Peace
It was not a congeries of separated particles, but a connected whole. The Emigrant Trail
First, it may be regarded as a congeries of inspired prophecies, a scenic unfolding, with infallible foresight, of the chief events of Christian history from the first century till now, and onwards. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
It started in one of the big tourist hotels facing on the sea, but it has gradually expanded until it now occupies a whole congeries of buildings. Italy at War and the Allies in the West
To some temperaments it might seem as though this reduction of the immense unfathomable universe to a congeries of living souls were a strangling limitation. The Complex Vision
I find myself writing upon matters connected, at least, with, religion, with the thought of saying something useful—of presenting a valuable experience, if not a valuable congeries of new ideas. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
The flickering fire in the grate, the bewildering congeries of books, statues, and furniture, were doubly homelike by contrast with Leigh's late vision of the descending night without. The Mayor of Warwick
Nature is a vast congeries of mechanical substances pervaded by mindless forces of vitality. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Life was a spectacle to her, and society a congeries of little guignols, at all of which she would fain be seated, in a front stall. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
What we call the "universe" is nothing but a congeries of innumerable "souls," manifested in innumerable "bodies," each one confronted by the objective mystery, each one surrounded by an indescribable ethereal "medium." The Complex Vision
The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. Death—and After?
Austria, or, more strictly speaking, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, means no more than the congeries of States governed each separately and all in combination by the head of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase
The consequence of this theory, rigidly carried out, created a descending congeries of hells, reaching from centre to nadir, in correspondence to an ascending congeries of heavens, reaching from centre to zenith. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The culminating point of this aimless congeries of reading matter, good, bad, and indifferent, is attained in the Sunday editions of the larger papers. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin
The universe, as we apprehend it, presents itself as a congeries of living souls united by some indefinable medium. The Complex Vision
But the church we have been sketching is a congeries of families, after all, and it will do just what these families, particularly the parents in them, stimulate it to do. Religious Education in the Family
His opera, then, is no longer a congeries of separate musical numbers, like duets, arias, chorals, and finales, set in a flimsy web of formless recitative, without reference to dramatic economy. The Great German Composers
A recent able author speaks of "that congeries of organs whose union forms the brain and whose action constitutes the mind." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Compared with one of the Pisans' pulpits they form a congeries rather than a composition. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Cultivated society, in the ordinary sense of the word, is a congeries of persons who have been educated to appreciate le beau et le bien. Art
It was decided, therefore, that assuredly the great nebula is a congeries of stars, and not a mass of nebulous matter as had been surmised by Sir W. Herschel. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
The first palace beyond the bridge, now a decaying congeries of offices, has very rich decorative stone work, foliation and festoons. A Wanderer in Venice
Their most remote account reaches to Tatooma and Tapuppa, male and female stones or rocks, who support the congeries of land and water, or our globe underneath. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
If you open the cocoon when the young spiders are just hatched, they begin to run about in the most lively fashion, and look like a living and moving congeries of little balls or seedlets. Science in Arcady
It has sometimes been a dream concerning individuals, and again a vision of the perfected society, but in reality the two are one, for the social organism is but a congeries of individuals. The Ascent of the Soul
The Median Empire, like the Assyrian, was a congeries of kingdoms, each ruled by its own native prince, as is evident from the case of Persia, where Cambyses was not satrap, but monarch. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
Others seem to consist of shorter tubes, as that great congeries of glands, which constitute the liver, and those of the kidneys. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries the Egyptian Sudan became a congeries of Mohammedan kingdoms with Arab, mulatto, and Negro kings. The Negro
The whole might consist of a congeries of discrete bodies, even if these bodies were the ultimate molecules of matter. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
Oh that is merely one Of those innumerous congeries Of parasites by which, since time began, Space has been interfested. A Christmas Garland
The congeries of rice fields was fringed, where the water supply had given out, with upland cultivation. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People
The inevitable result of these methods was that it was not until a comparatively late date that a political conception of an Irish nation first began to emerge out of the congeries of clans. Ireland In The New Century
They are not a unified people, but a congeries of tribes of considerable physical diversity, united by the compelling bond of language and other customs imposed on the conquered by invading conquerors. The Negro
The Indian Christian Church is a living organisation, or congeries of organisations, over two and a half million souls all told, and growing rapidly. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
The Elizabethan drama is a view of life; and life does not focus, it is diffuse—a congeries of episodes, successive or simultaneous—something not re-producible by the ancient dramatic methods. A Librarian's Open Shelf
Their own memory of their past on Earth, however vivid, and then in exceptional beings, has slowly disappeared or left only vague cloud-like waverings and congeries of reminiscences. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars
There were no well established native states but rather a congeries of small groups something like clans. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
Thus saith the good practical man, who, because his mind is a congeries of commonplaces, piques himself on not being led away by his imagination. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
Every system is a constellation and every constellation is a congeries. Strange Visitors
We had now a full, but melancholy prospect of the most desolate country that can well be conceived, appearing a congeries of chains of mountains in succession, one behind the other, perpetually cloathed in snow. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
The head early becomes a mere congeries of dots and lines, but one horse of the chariot team remains recognizable to quite the end of the series. Early Britain—Roman Britain
Italy was a congeries of principalities and republics. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
They lived in Bury Street, and Prescott Street, and Finsbury—these aristocrats of the Ghetto—in mansions that are now but congeries of "apartments." Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
It is a mongrel city, a vast congeries of native wooden huts, hastily equipped with a few modern conveniences. Kimono
The land here seemed a congeries of broken islands, yet appearing like one continued mass, owing to the height of the mountains. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
And this secondary or modifying congeries of facts our author announces as primary. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863
This vast congeries of volitions, interests, and activities, constitute the instruments and means of the World-Spirit for attaining its object, bringing it to consciousness and realizing it. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
Oddly enough, they congregate round congeries of Railway Stations in the North. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890
Follow one of these volutes with your eye from its centre outwards, taking all its congeries of lines into companionship; you find your sympathies at once strangely engaged. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator
When other European capitals were mere congeries of rookeries, Dublin, the centre of Irish political life, possessed splendid streets, grandly planned. The Glories of Ireland
Prudence tried to come between them, and all three were nothing but a rolling, striking, shouting and weeping congeries. Eastern Shame Girl
The rocks of Dirk Hartog's Island are of a very remarkable formation, consisting of a congeries of quartzose sand, united in small circular kernels by a calcareous cement in which some shells were found embedded. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2
With the deprivation of his clothes he seemed to be deprived of his individuality, and, in adopting that shameful dress, to become an atom in a congeries of outcasts. Bred in the Bone
Beyond the individual soul is the world-soul, which periodically incarnates in the humanity of a planet, and beyond the worlds of a single system, suns and congeries of suns. Four-Dimensional Vistas
"Little Canada," as the quarter inhabited by the former people is called, exhibits a congeries of narrow, unpaved lanes, lined with rickety wooden houses, which elbow one another closely, and possess neither gardens nor yards. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
They were a loosely-knit congeries of tribes without any single leader or central authority; some say they merely possessed the instinct of anarchy, others that they were permeated with the ideals of democracy. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
It was, on the other hand, a vast congeries of nations, widely dissimilar in every respect from each other, speaking various languages, and having various customs and laws. History of Julius Caesar
The brain, which, from the earliest periods, has generally been considered as the seat of our mental functions, Dr. Gall regards as a congeries of organs, each organ having a separate function of its own. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
Austria, which had become more and more a congeries of different nationalities, fell before the mighty Corsican. Germany and the Next War
But society is only a congeries of individuals; consequently its nose is always in advance,—therefore its proper guide. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
The peoples of the Arab part of the Ottoman Empire are a congeries of differing races, creeds, sects, and social systems, with no common bond except language. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
If we are a congeries of mediaeval Italian republics, why should the General Government have expended immense sums in fortifying points whose strategic position is of continental rather than local consequence? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
It was now seen that the particles of carbon dust in contact which formed the button were a congeries of minute micro-phones. Heroes of the Telegraph
From this standpoint, many a minor political unit, one of our large cities, for example, is a congeries of loosely associated societies, rather than an inclusive and permeating community of action and thought. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education
The top floor at the Albany, as elsewhere, is devoted to the servants—a congeries of little kitchens and cubicles, used by many as lumber-rooms—by Raffles among the many. The Amateur Cracksman
Inside the congeries of glazed houses he was somewhat at sea. The Market-Place
Though the upper part of Durnover was mainly composed of a curious congeries of barns and farm-steads, there was a less picturesque side to the parish. The Mayor of Casterbridge
The hotel was empty—a congeries of rooms left in wild disorder, opened trunks in the passages, clothes tossed and trampled on the floors. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California
The numerous lime-stone rocks which consist of a congeries of the cells of these animals and which constitute a great part of the solid earth shew their prodigious multiplication in all ages of the world. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
But why not get down to the atoms, of which the molecules are only the theoretical congeries, and marshal the "atomic forces" into line? Life: Its True Genesis
The allusion to the brother-in-law in Kent had escaped his notice, so intent was he upon a new congeries of projects taking vague shape in his mind. The Market-Place
The rule and the subordination which is essential to the existence of the family, God made commensurate with mankind; for mankind is only the congeries of families. Slavery Ordained of God
If there be any real significance in politeness, if it be not a mere empty and therefore altogether hypocritical congeries of customs, it ought to have its birth, cultivation and chief exercise at home. Weighed and Wanting
This was Maubert; a square, straggling congeries of buildings approached from behind, and of no inviting aspect. The Roof of France
No; what was much worse in his eyes is that the Manichean physical science, a congeries of fables more or less symbolical, suddenly struck him as ruinous. Saint Augustin
English travellers may be reminded that Shakespeare's favourite hero, Henry V., was married to Katherine of France in the ancient church of St. Jean at Troyes, now the oldest congeries of different kinds of architecture. Holidays in Eastern France
The rock is found principally to consist of rough grit-stone, and of a congeries of sand and pebbles. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
Cameron and I landed under Brown's Wharf, the southernmost pier opposite the red roof and the congeries of buildings belonging to the late proprietor. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Not the old edifice only—the congeries also of events and struggles and surroundings, of which it has been the scene and motive—even the horrors, dreads, deaths. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
This legend, or, rather, congeries of intermingled legends, was communicated by Clark to Schoolcraft, when the latter was compiling his "Notes on the Iroquois." The Iroquois Book of Rites
Aquileia, on the other hand, was far more populous than Marseilles, even more a congeries of rabble from all shores and districts, even more easy- going. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Because France was not a nation, only a congeries of individualities. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
The task before the wretched congeries of people was to thread the stupendous gorge of the Khoord Cabul pass—a defile about five miles long, hemmed in on either hand by steeply scarped hills. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
The artist had made it a congeries of tubes and springs, by which every purpose of protection and offence was effectually served. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
His rule is such a congeries of evils that even the just man often welcomes death as a release, and Job himself with difficulty overcame the temptation to end his sufferings by suicide. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
It embraces specimens of eloquence on all kinds of subjects, in a middle style between the comparatively natural one of his Apologia and the congeries of styles of all periods which his latest works present. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
Away from the building out across by the spring and even to Fifth Avenue the mob extended, here thick, there thin, without order or coherence--a shifting, murmuring, formless, seemingly planless congeries of dull brutality. Darkness and Dawn
She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms; the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet. Coningsby
About 2000 B.C. a congeries of races which are now styled “Aryan” were driven by the shrinkage of water from their pasture-grounds in Central Asia. Tales of Bengal
The point is, however, that each is linked to a specific congeries of tendencies, limitations, effective or defective agencies, that are what they have been made by the parents of the race. Towards the Great Peace
Fallen trees in every possible stage of decay, and congeries of leaves that have been rotting since the flood, cover the ground and infect the air. Domestic Manners of the Americans
Yet, in spite of this daemoniac effort after uniformity, they are still the strangest congeries of racial and social types that has ever been placed at a single Government's mercy. Turkey: a Past and a Future
Karma," explained their interpreter, "is that congeries of circumstances which has necessitated the birth of each individual, and of whose good or evil he is the incarnation. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
The anguinum or serpent's egg, was a congeries of small snakes rolled together, and incrusted with a shell, formed by the saliva or viscous gum, or froth of the mother serpent. Thaumaturgia
Pessimists, who see in our Eastern states a mere congeries of all the white races, and some not white, bewail the impossibility of a real nation in America. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
They must learn the basis of sociology, the philosophic conviction that mankind should be studied, not as a congeries of individuals, but as an organic whole. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
It overshadows all other holidays and specialized days of whatever sort in that congeries of colonies. Following the Equator, Part 2
Five minutes after the man had started, in a cell below the temple, of Siva, the court official who had taken down the letter was repeating it word for word to a congeries of priests. Rung Ho!
Thus Spain was a congeries of states, joined by the marriage bond of the two rulers of its principal divisions, but by no means yet a single monarchy or a united nation. American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600
Localization is our difficulty; it is also the only means by which literature can keep touch with life in so huge a congeries as America. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
On examining these tufts with a telescope, they will be found to consist of congeries of stars. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
Let his habitations turn our cities into poisonous congeries of slums. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara
It has neither centre nor individuality, but is invariably a congeries of rooms tumbled together by chance hap. Hopes and Fears for Art
The Dinka are a congeries of independent tribes in the valley of the White Nile. The Golden Bough
She explored their ancestral history on both sides for the origin of their traits, and there were times when she reduced them in formula to mere congeries of inherited characteristics. April Hopes
Vijayanagar has disappeared as a city, and a congeries of small hamlets with an industrious and contented population has taken its place. A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India
At this date it was an imposing edifice—or, rather, congeries of edifices—as extensive as the residence of the Earl himself; though far less regular.  A Group of Noble Dames
In those days," Mr. Purcey heard him say, "the congeries of men were known as rookeries. Fraternity
We must therefore see the whole varied congeries of living things as a single very ancient Being, of inconceivable vastness, and animated by one Spirit. God the Known and God the Unknown
Great was the chaotic element in the congeries of erections and additions, brought together by various contrivances, and with daringly enforced communication. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
It was, like Greece, a congeries of homogeneous tribes, who had never been amalgamated into a single political entity, and who clung fondly to the idea of separate independence. History of Phoenicia
No one supposes that in a congeries of—how many?—six hundred and seventy men, chosen by the British public, there will be a very high average of mental capacity. Yet Again
The existence of a single soul, or congeries of psychical phenomena, unaccompanied by a material body, would be evidence sufficient to demonstrate the hypothesis. The Unseen World and Other Essays
The cell, said Haeckel, does not act, it reacts—and what is the instrument of reflection and speculation save a congeries of cells? In Defense of Women
Of these, many may be resolved by a sufficient telescopic power into a congeries of stars, but some, such as the great nebula in Orion, have resisted the best instruments hitherto made. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
Here, then, is the means of determining whether the light emitted by a given nebula comes from an incandescent gas, or from a congeries of ignited solids, stars, or suns. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
If its spectrum be discontinuous, it is a true nebula or gas; if continuous, a congeries of stars. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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