| 单词 | equable |
| 例句 | “No, I just help out in the evenings,” Malcolm said in his most equable tone. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There is something intrinsically good-natured about all symbiotic relations, necessarily, but this one, which is probably the most ancient and most firmly established of all, seems especially equable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If there is to be any collaboration, it should involve a more equable creative relationship in which the audition shows are used to cast productions that would ultimately appear on the screen. TV and theatre should separate and end this glorified casting couch | Mark Lawson 2010-03-30T20:30:00Z He has no interest in the kind of uniformly gleaming, intelligent but finally equable kind of production which Anglo-Saxon opera audiences, despite their best efforts, tend to crave. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z It’s here, in the narration, that the novel finds itself — in the equable plainness of its language, a plainness that is nevertheless impressionistic and light-filled. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Richard Vine Adoption is tricky enough when the children involved are basically equable and well-adjusted. Tonight's TV highlights: Living with The Ayatollah - Panorama 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z Meanwhile, China's president, whose nickname, "Cool Limpidity," reflects his equable temperament, faces a challenge from hard-liners in the Politburo Standing Committee while he and America's national security adviser struggle to prevent a war. US-China relations are grist for satirist's mill 2012-05-07T17:48:11Z He is eccentric in his pursuits but is equable in person, careful in his speech and a fan of civilized but endless argument. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z “Sunshiny skies, clear invigorating air and equable temperatures mark a majority of the days,” the grandiloquent description said. Why Montreal wants you to visit in the winter 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Alkhanshali is equable in the face of every challenge — he passes his Q test — and his dream is about to become reality. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Otherwise he is equable, friendly to all comers, and thus able to fend off unwanted intimacy. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z "What happens is, I'm pretty equable and pretty much the same most of the time," he says with a shrug. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The young world of aviation came away thinking that L.A. — with its basin of wide, flat places and equable weather — was indeed the place for aviation’s future. How a 1910 air show launched L.A.’s rise to aerospace capital 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z He was simply bowled over by the beauty and the energy of the place, the broad-mindedness, the equable weather, the dramatic geography. Who gets to be an Angeleno? Lots of people, and that’s a good thing 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Though he grows somber when he discusses current events, Browne also seems to have softened with age — exuding less of an obstinate attitude than an equable one. Jackson Browne on cancel culture, his 'shelf life' and how to survive rush hour in L.A. 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The chief justice declared of Austen: “Her flights are not lofty, she does not soar on eagles’ wings, but she is pleasing, interesting, equable, and yet amusing. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A shameful virtual media blackout on Yemen 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Espionage and intelligence are so conducive to mistrust that the people who make the best use of them tend to be the most equable and disinclined to suspicion. Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z A faintly odd way of putting the question, but Murakami responded in his usual equable manner. Haruki Murakami: ‘You have to go through the darkness before you get to the light’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Instead, we are moving towards a more complete and equable genomic view of life. Newfound differences between great apes 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z When a candidate is equable and experienced it is not a sign of cynicism and not evidence that he is “establishment.” Alabama Teaches America a Lesson 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But when the Falcons led by 17 on Sunday, it was the normally equable Packers who looked as if they were beginning to fret. Atlanta Falcons Thrash Packers to Reach Second Super Bowl 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z They would operate in way that is "balanced, proportionate, transparent, fair and equable", it added. NIO proposal to deal with the past 'not an amnesty' - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z We expect them to be dispassionate in times of difficulty, equable and unruffled in the face of setbacks, slights, and partisan attacks. The History of Presidents Turning Against Their Own Parties 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z On the American literary scene, she is singular, and blessed, for the absence of angst in her creative life and her equable delight in what she does. Jane Smiley: ‘All you need is for one reader to love your book’ 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Until a fair and equable wage structure is the norm, most workers may prefer the safety net of a minimum wage. Letters: Raw facts for the Tory far right 2012-08-26T20:00:11Z He came and went, and spoke for a few moments in his usual calm and equable manner, but nothing more; and Cl�mence de Marly, it must be confessed, was somewhat piqued. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z It is the Serendib of the “Arabian Nights,” rich in glorious scenery, equable climate, tropical vegetation, unknown quantities of gems and pearls, and many minerals. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Marbling can only be done in a warm room where the temperature is equable and where there is no dust. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z Plutarch, though far less sublime, is more sustained, equable, and uniformly pleasing. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Comes up to a blaze in the centre; indicating a round mass of pretty equable density. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z From his books his personality stands out as clearly as that of Cervantes, equable, high-minded, with that mellow wisdom which has gleaned the best from a life full of opportunities. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z As she managed to rid herself of her admirers, and descended to the conservatory, she was highly vexed with herself and the Franciscan, and so came to her appointment in no equable frame of mind. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z Those about the person who has been bitten should preserve a calm, equable, and cheerful demeanor and avoid all allusion to the occurrence. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z To insure an equable distribution of the food, Tyson took charge and personally measured out both bread and pemmican. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z The younger Mrs. Franklin, a fresh, strong, equable creature, who woke at dawn as a child wakes, liked an early breakfast as a child likes it. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Very small seeds should only have a sprinkling of light earth or of sand, and sometimes only a thin layer of soft moss to exclude light and preserve an equable degree of moisture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Ah, well! when I came down to breakfast next morning, whom should I find in tears--and she, as a rule, the most equable girl in the world--but Kitty. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z I had not expected such a display in a man of his grave, equable nature, of his high station, his great name. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Huelva has a mild and equable climate, with abundant moisture and a fertile soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The equable temperature of the sea-water has an influence on coast towns. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Lynn is in the temperate zone, and we should naturally reason that its piracies would be more calm and equable than those of the tropics, and so they were. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He has been surrounded by a set of terrific natural phenomena, combined with a good food supply and a warm and equable climate. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z But it is only temporary, and is succeeded by an equable capability for exertion far surpassing his former various and fluctuating strength. A Vindication of Natural Diet. 2012-02-02T03:04:34.883Z Save in the mountains its gradient is slight, and below the falls, except for a number of small rapids, the 628 flow of the stream is equable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z "Oh, I don't know," said Dizzy, who had lost his match, and was as nearly inclined to pessimism as was consistent with his equable nature. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z A merely more equable distribution can, however, improve the condition of the people only in exceedingly rare cases. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z "I am afraid she has determined to go, Edward," said Mrs. Clinton in her equable voice. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The climate of this country is more equable, subject to fewer extremes than any, perhaps, in the world. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z Of the first the atmosphere is cool and equable; of the other it is burning and irregular. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z The dissipation is well effected by this equable application of heat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z It is quite different, of course, when the more equable distribution coincides with an absolute growth of the nation's economy. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Whatever the secret of his style, it succeeded in producing a wonderfully equable yet varied narrative, just and appropriate in expression. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Her temper, always so equable formerly, so gay, was beginning to sour. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z The pleasant situation of the castle at the extremity of the chain of Revermont, its proximity to France, and equable climate made it the favourite home of the Dukes of Savoy. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z Countless torrents from the hills watered ever-verdant valleys as beautiful as those of Tyrol, lying under a brilliant equatorial sun, yet with a climate as cool and equable as any European might desire. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z Wallace relied chiefly on the more equable distribution of land, and the smaller luxury of the ancient nations. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Such an island, it was thought, with an equable climate, fertile, and of adequate extent, must be the very thing for the idyllic life of such a people as the Pitcairn Islanders. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Otherwise his career had been much like other careers, denouncing, or coquetting and even pressing for office, equable in expectation, and vindictive if refused. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Climate and Agriculture.—Though the county is exposed to the full sweep of the east wind during March, April and May, the climate is on the whole mild and equable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The climate of El Pet�n is tropical with equable temperatures throughout the year. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Rainforests of Southern El Peten, Guatemala 2011-12-25T03:00:10.957Z Conversation should be marked by a gentle and devout pleasantness, and your manner when engaged in it, ought to be equable, composed and gracious. Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z The elevation of this region gives it a moderate climate during the summer as compared with the plain country, while the winter is warmer and more equable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The mild and equable climate would make practicable a successful growth of every possible product of garden, orchard, or vineyard, including oranges and grape-fruit. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z The climate is good, the temperature equable and epidemic diseases are rare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In Spain, with its early spring and warm equable climate, it might be supposed that most birds would nest both early and more or less simultaneously. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z That an equable temperature is only to be obtained by draining and clearing a marshy and wooded country, is sufficiently authenticated. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z The trade wind gives a succession of steady and equable breezes, and tropical storms are almost unknown.” Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z Even alone, it was very pleasant to bowl along a level road at an equable rate of speed. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z What strange mystery was this which had been effective so violently to upset her ordinarily so equable and self-contained host—this was not her first visit to Heath Hover. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z His last speech of all, in 1819, contained a passage referring to the union he had so passionately resisted, which exhibits the statesmanship and at the same time the equable quality of Grattan’s character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z His health is good, his face calm, his spirits equable, and he will doubtless remain here for many years to come, with an occasional visit to London. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z So long as they can grow enough rice to feed themselves and procure enough cotton to make the few articles of clothing necessary in this equable climate, they are content.” The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z "Thank you," said the Beau, with the merest hint of a tremour in his equable voice. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z “Yes, it’s all you say,” he went on, in an equable tone. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The childlike sincerity of these shepherd farmers, the candour of their repartee and their appraisal of gentle-folk are as irresistible as their patience and equable temper. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Hardly anywhere else is the climate so equable, the soil so right for the feet of colts and the grass so good. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Incapable of continuous and equable effort, he will always want to prey on society by begging, deceiving, stealing and robbing. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z He looks as if he might have been one of those quiet equable people who may be pushed into a corner," said Di, "and then become rather dangerous. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z He had his equable bouts, and his gloomy bouts, his peppery bouts and his gusty bouts, and sometimes downright nasty and cynical bouts. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z She was anxious, too, about her father, whose equable spirits had failed him this year. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Seeing that economy in combustion can only be attained under the conditions of an equable pressure, it becomes necessary to subdue the fluctuations above referred to, or at least to prevent their reaching the burner. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z He had through life a serene equable mind, he took the kindness and unkindness of fortune with even looks, and preserved his relish for a joke undiminished, in all his circumstances. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z If her mind could have been freed from the depressing influences exerted on it by her frail and suffering body, it would have been one of the healthiest and most equable minds of our age. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z When once the oceans were warmed, they would form an extremely strong conservative force tending to preserve an equable climate in all latitudes and at all seasons. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z He may have found her even more attractive than when she was younger; more equable in spirits, more lenient in her judgments, her whole disposition mellowed and ripened in the stern school of adversity. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z But her gentle nature, her confiding piety, her more equable temper, enabled her to succeed better in the circumstances she had chosen. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z The day temperature in the hills was invariably lower than that in the valley, in short, it was more equable. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z Mrs. —— treats me with a serene, equable kindness which just suits me. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z These apartments having been brought into some sort of order, the count established himself in them; from the time he had taken possession of his paternal property, his temper appeared to have become more equable. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z Her unblushing excitement seemed further to annoy the usually equable Wilbur. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The rather equable climatic conditions, especially more or less evenly distributed rainfall throughout the year, permit this frog to be active most of the year. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z There are, of course, favoured highlands, such as those of Colombia, where the temperature is at the same time moderate and equable and the climate appears admirably adapted to white men. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z The book is also remarkable for its courteous and equable tone, even towards bitter personal and political enemies. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z The energies of her people, the prodigal wealth of her territory, and her singularly equable and temperate climate, form a sufficient guarantee of the increasing greatness of her future. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z These should be so constructed as to meet the required conditions of an equable and cool temperature, with darkness, and a sufficient amount of dryness to insure freedom from mold and damp. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The equable climatic conditions seemingly permit these frogs to be active throughout most of the year. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z It is the case that in the tropics, particularly in the equable equatorial belt, many evils of the temperate zone are avoided, chiefly those due to cold and to sudden changes of temperature. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z The climate of our town and neighbourhood was pretty equable, especially in summer, which is a very good thing for tramps and vagabonds. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z In trembling and in much dismay he undertook it; and when the hour came, it found him calm and equable in spirit, neither dismayed nor demoralised by fears. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z Also, there was Old Tom Morris—"born in the purple of equable temper and courtesy," as Lord Moncrieffe, I think it is, well describes him. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z She had promised to give Lord Manister his answer in a month, and meanwhile she was displaying all the even temper and equable spirits of settled happiness. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z As his manner grew more and more restrained toward her, she unconsciously turned to Schwatka, whose equable temperament seemed to invite her confidence and her friendship. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Some people enjoy climbing, just as others prefer going down-hill, and the more equable natures, like Mr Musgrave, have a predilection for a flat road. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z The young man was in no mood to control himself, to assume the quiet, equable manner he always assumed. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z He is one of tolerably equable temperament, a good sportsman, and a man of strong character and physique, who did a long term of military service in India. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z The highest death rate from pneumonia is to be found in some of our southern cities which have rather mild winters and rather equable temperature,—that is, no considerable variation in the daily temperature range. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z His closest friends forever talk of his equable temperament. England's Alastair Cook hits new heights with 'grandaddy hundred' 2011-08-12T16:17:12Z There is scarcely a country in the world with a climate so mild and equable. The Story of the Toys 2011-08-05T02:00:49.720Z Being so far eastward, Barbadoes enjoys an exceptionally equable climate, and it is claimed for it that it has a lower thermometer than any other West Indian island. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Nevertheless, he had seen them burn with quick indignation, for the girl possessed a spice of the Chatterton temper, which was never remarkably equable. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z In such delicate equable natures all secret changes give very faint external tokens of their existence, and it requires a watchful, practiced eye to detect them. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z There are two seasons, wet and dry, but the climate is equable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z George's strength was in his equable temper, in his downright honesty and sincerity, and in the steady common-sense with which he reviewed situations and men. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Though Lima is blessed with such a seemingly equable climate, for some unexplained reason it is very far from being a healthy place. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The soothing pipe helped still further to produce in Lance's case a calm and equable state of mind. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Now she remembered how indifferent she had been to his wishes, how careless of his comforts; how little she had valued his love, had appreciated his cheerfulness, his kindness, his forbearance, his equable temper. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z All this in thirty hours; and all this was certainly enough to disturb more equable pulses than those which beat under the coarse red skin of Mrs. Brooks Cunninghame. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z But they had not been long on the road before she discovered something else—viz, that her escort, usually so equable, and full of ideas and conversation, was to-day not himself. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z The climate must be very equable and fine to admit of such fruit culture as exists here. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z By uniting the aristocratic spirit with the democratic form of Government, he insured a politic at once equable and effective.—H. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z You would scarcely have seen a nobler form, a more peaceful spirit, an activity so equable and universal. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Where it is possible, such patients must be sent to climates as equable as possible. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The temperature is equable, the average of the two midsummer months being about 47� Fahr., and that of the two midwinter months 37� Fahr. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z True, the climate is equable and healthy, but that great drawback, the liability to earthquakes and tidal waves, still remains, like a dark, portending shadow. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He desired ardently a more equable distribution, not merely of wealth, but of health and intelligence. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The Devonian flora seems to have been introduced in the northern parts of the American continent at a time of warm and equable climate, and of elevation of new land out of the Silurian sea. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The temperature of the country is equable; neither frosts nor burning heats destroy the vegetation. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z It was George Ryle's unsatisfactory manner, so intensely calm and equable. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z His mind, being thus never for any length of time in an equable tone, could scarcely pursue with steady regularity a work of any length. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z One of them was Simonov, who had been in no way distinguished at school, was of a quiet and equable disposition; but I discovered in him a certain independence of character and even honesty. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z The inexhaustible equable gift of Blake for the writing of short sweet songs is perceptible at every turn we take in this labyrinth of lovely words, of strong and soft designs. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z It contains the Tree of Life: there is neither cold nor heat there, but perpetual equable temperature. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z Under her judicious management, the household had fallen into more equable and tranquil ways. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The haunting melody of this poem, its serene and equable sweep, exalt the writer among his contemporaries; although for ardent feeling and pure workmanship the idyll entitled "A Tragedy without Words" ranks nearly as high. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Further, it is important to observe strict personal hygiene and to take moderate exercise, lead a regular, quiet life in an equable climate, and above all to avoid worries of any sort. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z It was impossible to ruffle his equable disposition. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Our streams will be fuller and less capricious, our gales less destructive, our climate more equable, when we shall have reclothed our rugged slopes and rocky crests with trees. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z He was a kind-hearted man, of equable temper, few words, cool, deliberate, decided; lithe as a Gaul and gentle as a girl. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z There is an equable lucidity about his expression; it is never necessary to pause in order to adjust the sense of a passage. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z He paused, stirred from his usual equable calm and waited for an answer. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z I don't think I have been the cause of your dropping Trebell, have I? horsham, rid of the letter, is rid of responsibility and his charming equable self again. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z Your springs and streams will be rendered more equable and enduring by increasing the area and the luxuriance of your timber. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition between town and country, by a more equable distribution of population over the country. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Blown, startled, and intimidated, he will in all probability find his pupil perfectly amenable to reason when he pulls up, and should then coax and soothe him into an equable frame of mind once more. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Her temper was equable; she was gifted with a rich flow of animal spirits, and a keen perception of the ludicrous, which would have upset the gravity of the most confirmed hypochondriac. The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew 2011-03-10T03:00:43.810Z One equable, just and useful commercial interest, founded on the necessity and convenience of mutual exchange of products, will also form another important bond of union. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z The district owes its reputation as a health resort to its equable climate and to the protection afforded by the wide coast timber belt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Large quantities of peaches, grapes and small fruits are grown; the islands in the west end have a climate much warmer and more equable than the adjoining mainland, and are practically covered with vineyards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Even should he break into a canter and become impetuous at last, there is no space for a violent rush in three strides, during which you must hold him in a firm, equable grasp. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z For it, steady, equable minds are needed--we do not possess them. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z The Marquis assented with an equable little nod. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Fine sandstones, for example, extend over a wider area, and preserve a more equable thickness throughout than conglomerates, while limestones and coals are more continuous than either. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z The climate, once hot and sultry, has now become comparatively moist and equable under the influence of irrigation and the planting of trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z His father, perfectly at home—happy and equable—sparing with the wine, too, as Sidney had wished, and yet had not thought filial to hint to his sire. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z In a bad temper—he who was generally so calm and equable—he took his tea, and shunned his father's inspection by turning his back upon him. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z Anything out of order always put him in an ill temper, and he wanted to discuss business matters in an equable way, and with as little to disturb him as possible. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z Solemnly enough the son-in-law of Ferdinand the Twelfth promised that this should be done, and I descended to the drawing-room in a more equable frame of mind. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z It also retains heat better than a dark covering, and may thus serve to maintain an equable temperature at all seasons within the body. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z It is the poorest conductor of heat, and therefore secures the most equable temperature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Climate and Agriculture.—The climate of the coast is equable and mild, even exotic fruits ripening readily in the open. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Many give and receive on an equable basis, and they are the ones who are happy. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Soothed already by the equable English climate and the lovely English scenery, he is aware now of an influence in the solid English city that turns his intellectual life to perfect tranquillity. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Some weakness, under the stress of feeling, had come out in him, instead of the equable strength which his children had learnt to rely on. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z Were I required to name the remedy which promises most aid in the onset of consumption, I should say, daily gentle and protracted exercise in a mild and equable atmosphere.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z "I am horribly unscrupulous in such matters," declared the doctor, with sweet, equable frankness. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Her nose was well modeled, with broad, flexible nostrils, unfailing sign of good health and an equable disposition. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Nothing ever smudges her equable, clear wholesomeness; but there are moments when I feel as if Mrs. Barnes and I got much mixed up together in a sort of sticky mass. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z Even here there are local modifications, as at Ambato, where a shallow depression, surrounded by barren, dust-covered ridges exposed to cold winds, is celebrated for its warm, equable climate and its fruit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Here the strident call of flesh and blood was hushed, and the equable balance of mind and body was able to be resumed. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z This wonderful longevity was ascribed by Mr. Warner to the equable climate and a simple diet. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The disappearance of competitive slave labour made them unexpectedly prosperous; it secured a more equable division of wealth. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Cook was also in equally equable mood to friend and foe. The Ashes 2010-11: Ian Bell is not a cheat says Michael Clarke 2011-01-05T10:14:12Z His must have been that calm, equable temperament not easily ruffled, which goes with the self-respecting nature. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z The climate is mild and equable, the constant breeze prevents too great a heat, while the rigours of winter, thanks to the warm sea-water, are unknown. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Seldom have I seen my young friend in a more equable frame of mind. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z The equable sunlight fell on everything, without glare and without shadow, from exactly overhead. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z He would "hang on" by gentle and equable living, and to that extent, and if all went well, time might presently become to him something more nearly approaching what it was to anybody else. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The handsome face is full of refinement and shows the calm, equable temperament which made him a leader. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Martyn Williams, a forward known for his equable temperament, was at the centre of several disputes and his captain, Paul Tito, was an arm's length away. Cardiff Blues 19-23 Northampton Saints 2010-12-19T19:04:48Z Johnson was no less equable in the aftermath of a final-round meltdown at Pebble Beach in June, which cost him victory at the US Open. Watson and Johnson add power to USA 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z Many countries made a genuine attempt to set a new and equable tone for discussion and debate. Climate talks continued: Son of Copenhagen 2010-06-17T11:20:00Z These deeply personal moments will leave the usually calm and equable Barry trembling. Barry hopeful on World Cup all-clear 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z It has a dry and equable climate and beautiful scenery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" There is also less distinction between marine plants of different latitudes; for the great currents of the ocean, and other causes, render its temperature more equable than that of the atmosphere. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History He felt inclined to throw himself down there again in spite of the snow, and try to recover the equable frame of mind that he had been in then. The Undying Past The more I saw of hers, the more I admired it; she was so free from the petty vanities of the sex, and so sweet and equable in her temper. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Lying so much nearer the Antarctic Circle it is of course cooler than the continent, but the influence of its sea surroundings renders its climate more equable. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands On the whole, the Maltese climate is equable and mild. The Story of Malta They had a continuity of interest that kept her calm and equable. Manslaughter They were symmetrical, sound in body, equable in temperament, and affectionate towards the parents and each other. What a Young Husband Ought to Know But the exquisite pleasure he had taken in the trim and equable row was gone; for as soon as the eye caressed it, there was this intolerably naked tree to affront all regularity. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The climate is so equable and healthy that it bears the name among the Australians of the Eden of the Colonies. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands In warm and equable climates some rise into forest-trees, with habit of Palms; but most of them are perennial herbs. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The climate is equable, and the people suffer from no very prevalent disease, except in the more mountainous parts, and in Yarkand, where goitre is of frequent occurrence. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar The climate is remarkably equable, being relatively warm in winter and cool in summer; the average temperature in July is 61.7� F., and in January 40.3�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Possibly the equable Miss McDonnell had been faintly alarmed for her sister's good name. Sinister Street, vol. 1 It is well wooded, and the climate is equable. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Hannah Simpson was a calm, equable, self-contained young woman, as reticent and forbearing as her husband was disputatious and impetuous. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The surrounding waters, the yellow sands, the clear, delicious air, the equable climate, the illimitable ocean—these were the raw material for the exquisite result, which one sees at Del Monte. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 An equable tone of public morals, social and humane, verging neither to voluptuousness nor austerity, seems the most adapted to genius, or at least to letters, as it is to individual comfort and national prosperity. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The equable Miss McDonnell then left her sister and Michael to their own devices. Sinister Street, vol. 1 On the coasts, though warm, it is remarkably equable, and perhaps no country in the world enjoys a finer or healthier climate than some parts of Hawaii and Maui. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II But his temper was most kindly, equable, and contented; he was a steady friend, and he appears to have been always liked and honored in the cultivated and uncontentious society in which he delighted. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The greater portion indeed of central France, it may justly be said, has as strong and palpable claims to a genial and equable climate, as the province of Touraine, with all its acknowledged local advantages. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France Hair upon the head was meant originally to preserve in all seasons an equable temperature above the brain. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. And the magnetic comparative rest, and the seed time and equable “spell” of April is reproduced in the Indian summer of autumn. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Thought is true when the soul is equable in temperature. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy "By no manner of means," was the equable rejoinder. The King of Arcadia The mild equable temperature of the Touraine climate is peculiarly adapted to afford essential relief to persons predisposed to phthisis or consumption, and those suffering from laryngeal, bronchial, and catarrhal affections, assimulating that disease. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France This more equable and humid climate could, within certain limits, favour the development of the ancient glaciers by increasing the snowfall and slackening the summer rate of melting. The History of the European Fauna It seemed to inspire her letters with the equable gaiety that Guy was so glad to think was coming back to her. Plashers Mead A Novel She had become more equable, more dependent on the approval of others, and less liable to unconventional self-assertions. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance The climate is equable and moist, but healthy; but the islands are subject to heavy storms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" He had always known that he had a business head and now that his life was equable and regular he was astonished at the useful man that he was becoming. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary On the lower grounds the temperature is equable, the daily range seldom exceeding 6� Fahr. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The equable climate of the coal era had passed away. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science He looked as though he suffered for it even now, but when he spoke his voice was equable. Man and Maid Like Mich'l, he wore the light robe that was universal among the civilians in the equable climate of the caverns. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 The English market gardeners find their moist, equable climate favorable to outdoor culture, and abundant crops are grown by them in the open air, chiefly, however, for the home market. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous The Carboniferous rocks of the centre form a soil which produces rich pasture under the heavy rainfall and remarkably mild and equable temperature, forming a great cattle-raising district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" The fair varieties of man occur only in the northern temperate zone, and chiefly in the equable climates of that zone. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science “And if it is true, I don’t see what earthly business it is of mine,” he answered, in so perfectly equable a voice as to astonish his hearers. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance He became moody and taciturn, at times strangely irritable for one of his equable temperament. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War “That reminds me that it’s high time you were in bed, George,” returned Beryl, equable and smiling. A Veldt Vendetta His unruffled smile, pleasant manners, generosity and equable temperament, though at times somewhat severe, all tended to enhance the popular idea of him. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Would that I could exchange my half celebrity—and it can never be other than a half celebrity—for a temper as equable and a fortitude as unshrinking as yours! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Corsini, in spite of his equable temperament, was a little disturbed by the interview. The Intriguers The feeble rays of this pale light show in the shadow the outlines of two little beds with very white curtains from behind which proceeds the sound of equable breathing. Peasant Tales of Russia “But even then, what can one do against a number, and that one a—” “A woman, you were going to say, Mr Holt,” supplied that equable, resolute voice, that had already begun to charm me. A Veldt Vendetta He had at the time, expressed his sorrow and regret in shamefaced tones, but Blachland had met him with the equable reassurance that it didn’t matter. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland It is never heated, but it is never dull: the cool and equable flow brings down thought enough from scholarly and well-spent years to exhilarate and satisfy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 “It shall be given you now,” answered the Count in an equally equable voice. The Intriguers On his return home, he resumed the equable course of life associated with that happy place, though political consultations intruded:— Sept. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Could this be the face whose sunny, equable sweetness had captured my heart, and held it? A Veldt Vendetta He had much knowledge of men, and constantly lived in a certain equable atmosphere of his own; and the impulsive, changeable traits of Annette were therefore repugnant to him. Waldfried A Novel The great desideratum in the successful argument of disputable points, is the possession of an equable temper. Every-Day Errors of Speech As we shall then have fewer disappointments, we shall also enjoy a more equable frame of mind, to combat with the world's chances.' Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The sheltered bays near Fiume enjoy an equable climate; but in all other districts the temperature in mid-winter falls regularly below zero, and the summer heats are excessive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The climate is more equable, but also more humid, along the coasts. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Bertha, four years before, had been full of unrest; but now, her calm, equable disposition manifested itself in all its beauty. Waldfried A Novel He stood and meditated on the passages of his own life, whose tenor had, till now, been so equable, but whose fortunes seemed already to participate in the eventful fate of a distracted country. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Wave follows wave with equable gainings and recessions, the one sliding back in fluent music to be mingled with and carried forward by the next. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The prose is soft and rhythmic, infused with the atmosphere of the country-side, while the lyrics scattered throughout the volume reflect a temperament that has remained equable under the most severe trials. Tourcoing His negligent lines, which are often imputed to haste, have been thought by good writers to be intended to avoid the surfeit of an equable strain. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The climate is mild and singularly equable, but the rainfall is very heavy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" A silk or wash-leather vest will keep the body at a more equable temperature than the best fire. Maids Wives and Bachelors Later he might put it to the test of equable judgment. Rose MacLeod Owing to its healthy, equable climate, the archipelago is well suited for European settlement; but the dangerous fringing coral reefs render it difficult of access, and it suffers also from the absence of good harbours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Loyd was reading to them; at least so the continuous and equable tone of his voice indicated, as it rose in the thin and silent air. A Rent In A Cloud I maintain, first, that only in the mode described is it conceivable that Matter could have been diffused so as to fulfil at once the conditions of irradiation and of generally equable distribution. Eureka: A Prose Poem Dr. Croll says: "The warm and equable conditions of climate which would then prevail, and the enormous quantity of intertropical water carried into the Southern Ocean, would soon produce a melting of the ice." Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The climate is equable, damp, and hot, thus forming a paradise for ferns and orchids, which revel in their very opposite styles of beauty. The Pearl of India Hoping by a change of topic to induce a more equable tone of thinking, I asked about Ireland. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II Both Tan and his companion then disappeared for two more days, after which Tan reappeared alone, apparently in an equable frame of mind, and satisfied that he had had his revenge. Dog Stories from the "Spectator" being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator" The climate was warm and equable; there were no fogs, no smoke, no railways, and no politics. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children The intervening mild periods, which almost certainly occurred during its earlier and later phases, may have been sometimes more equable than even our present insular climate, and severe frosts were probably then unknown. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Even in mild, equable southern California, its fruit-bearing branches are cut back annually to the main stalk, where the principal life is stored. The Pearl of India Continental Interiors.—The equable climate of the western coasts changes, gradually or suddenly, into the more extreme climates of the interiors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" If they continue serene in temper, equable in disposition, and generally healthy,—if the eyes are bright, the skin clear, the sleep serene,—the diet is proper and sufficient. The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery It was a question with me, whether or not the advantage of a thoroughly equable temperature was counterbalanced by the lack of circulation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 The gardens were stocked with fruit-trees and with the gaudy family of flowers which belonged to the Mexican flora, scientifically arranged, and growing luxuriant in the equable temperature of the table-land. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The equable and fruitful climate of the island is not produced, as is the case upon the west coast of California, by the influence of the ocean. The Pearl of India The climate of the ocean areas in the trade-wind belts is indeed the simplest and most equable in the world, the greatest extremes over these oceans being found to leeward of the larger lands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" But, as it was, his equable friendship kept alive the affection which she had always felt for him; only it seemed to make the remembrance of their love passages a little absurd. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons At last, an offence by the Prime Minister himself drove Elgin into a passion unusual in so equable a mind, and which, happily, he expressed in the best of all his letters. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 There is a variable velocity of existence, though the lapses of time may be equable. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The climate is equable and most delightful; though the temperature is exceptionally high, it is, in fact, perpetual summer, varied only by the rains of the monsoon months of May and June, October and November. The Pearl of India The equable character of the climate at this point is shown by the limited range between its summer and winter temperatures, the mean for January being 56.5° and the mean for July 45.9°. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" He was rather surprised to find himself in so equable a frame of mind. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons In Childe Harold, too, the writer is carried through his Spenserian stanza with the unweariness and equable fullness of accomplished eloquence; opening, illustrating, and heightening one idea, before he passes on to another. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Men were content with what had been done, and continued to amuse themselves with reconciling the celestial phenomena to a combination of equable circular motions. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition According to some he was a man of equable temperament; while others, who knew him personally, have told us that he was nervous and subject to terrible fits of depression. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries: gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. Manifesto of the Communist Party But for all that he grew calmer and more equable. Jena or Sedan? I have written a note to Senator Johnson, of Missouri, hoping to head it off there, or to so amend it as to make it equable and just. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital And our eagle-eyed blue sky droops its lid over the island, as the moisture gathers, with a more equable compassion than we know for all shrubs and blades and grazing cattle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 The weather, being governed by laws, p. 111ought always to be equable and normal, and yet you have whirlwinds, droughts, thunderstorms. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 The dutiful son looked disappointed, but did not lose his equable and not unpleasant manner. When Ghost Meets Ghost The only features which were noticeably not English were the equable heat which seemed to prevail everywhere and the fact that half-drawn porti�res were substituted for closed doors. Memoirs of Life and Literature Notwithstanding the want of superficial water, the air is always charged with moisture; the consequence being a most equable temperature all the year round, and an extreme luxuriance of all vegetation. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa Steele’s careful pieces, when warm with his subject, had a higher spirit, a richer flavour, than the equable softness of Addison, who is only beautiful. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The whole region is in truth a veritable garden of the Hesperides, where in the mild equable climate fruit and flowers ripen and bloom without a break throughout the rolling year. The Naples Riviera He was utterly taken aback when equable and easy speech, with a sound of relief in every word, came from lips which he thought must at least be tremulous. When Ghost Meets Ghost The week that followed the sending of his letter was, to Matravers, with his love for equable times and emotions, like a week in hell! Berenice She was serene, humble, kind, and equable through everything. Shirley I’m not having one of my most equable evenings.” Outside Inn His good looks came from his mother, together with the equable disposition that promised to be his as he grew older and learned better to control his emotions. The Monk of Hambleton No, it was no use!—- that equable deportment of Sir Hamilton and Philippa remained a mystery to her. When Ghost Meets Ghost It should be compact and the various passages and corridors as short as possible, these passages and corridors being provided with means for maintaining them at a suitable, and uniformly equable, temperature. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction She had not devotion to give such as that of the good Howard whom she revered, but the equable help and sympathy for others of an open-minded and kindly woman was hers. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen To equable, steady-minded Will, this state of matters was intolerable; and he determined, at whatever cost, to bring it to an end. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) He was extraordinarily prosperous and equable; he was undeniably self-sufficient. The Thread of Gold Even I should find it impossible to maintain an equable character, if I lived in the atmosphere of a stove and devoted my energies to a kettle. The Romance of a Plain Man The method adopted is to keep them in a moist, somewhat warm, but equable atmosphere, and with patience await the results. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Here these vegetables grow in great confusion, owing to the equable climate, and so the holly tree is within the reach of all. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) Such have rarely failed to realize more or less benefit from the mild and equable temperature. Due South or Cuba Past and Present In some moods, far from sustaining and encouraging us, the thought of his equable, impassioned life may only fill us with unutterable envy. The Thread of Gold In a benign psychosis false ideas do not appear with an equable mood unless the stupor reaction has already begun. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type He had great hopes of furnishing equable weather to all the Earth. Slaves of Mercury I have already mentioned separation of property and an equable division of the fruits of labor between conjoints as the only just basis in marriage contracts. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study We have been thus elaborate as regards this matter because it is of such general interest to all invalids who annually seek an equable clime. Due South or Cuba Past and Present This paper or cardboard is very strong and supplies a solid support; moreover, being a bad conductor of heat, it contributes to maintain an equable temperature within the nest. The Industries of Animals And by some fortune you were spared; you have grown up strong and sound and equable. The Man Who Wins The place has a most equable climate, for which reason many northern invalids suffering from pulmonary troubles have come hither annually. Aztec Land So equable, too, and without that bold speculation that we too often meet with, nowadays.' Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy An English physician, who, with a patient, passed a winter at Nueva Gerona, which has a population of only a hundred souls, says the climate is remarkably bland and equable, especially adapted for pulmonary invalids. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The temperature is much more equable, and therefore not so trying to weak constitutions. Six Letters From the Colonies Yet, in spite of these deficiencies, good crops are raised in many districts, capital soil and a most equable climate making up for the shortcomings of the planter. The Story of the Cotton Plant We are here some six thousand feet above the sea, but the place enjoys a most equable and temperate climate. Aztec Land As a rule she is a young woman of placid and equable temper, one who is likely in the future to have a soothing effect on her husband. The Red Hand of Ulster The action of the heart and capillaries is hurried during the papular and vesicular stages; but becomes more equable while maturation is going on. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 The title of this paper was Astronomical Observations on the Rotation of the Planets round their Axes, made with a view to determine whether the Earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works There isn't a person in the world that could maintain an equable temperament and expression, if every little outward vexation were suffered to penetrate him. The Elm Tree Tales A large part of this area lies within the temperate zone, with an equable and invigorating climate, free from extremes of either heat or cold. Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root On her side, the woman professed herself to have for her worshipper an equable, cordial feeling, which never went beyond sisterly friendship. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Her lightness of touch and bright, equable calmness were unfailing. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series Astronomical observations on the rotation of the planets round their axes, made with a view to determine whether the earth's diurnal motion is perfectly equable. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works There is a very good hotel, and the climate is most equable, neither cold in winter nor hot in summer, being quite free from the sudden changes so prevalent in other parts of California. Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina The broad acres of Virginia and its equable climate attracted thousands of such younger sons, and also others who had not been successful and sought opportunity in a new land. Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers One most disheartening circumstance appeared, viz. that when he made the circuit oval his law of equable description of areas broke down. Pioneers of Science Grief should be, Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate; Confirming, cleansing, raising, making free; Strong to consume small troubles, to commend Great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Whatever the sensibility or the peculiarity of invalidism, the equable climate is exceedingly favorable to the smooth working of the great organic functions of respiration, digestion, and circulation. Our Italy In these regions the equable climate, the constant and adequate moisture, the rich and well-drained soil, and the protecting forest shade afford the conditions under which the plant grows and thrives best. All About Coffee The mild and equable climate which at that time seems to have prevailed, was not likely to make a stringent demand on his mental resources. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Well, that rigorously proves that a planet is acted on by a force directed to the centre about which the rate of description of areas is equable. Pioneers of Science Three treasures—love, and light, And calm thoughts, equable as infants' breath; And three fast friends, more sure than day or night— Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul It may take a year or two to acclimate them to this more equable and more refreshing temperature. Our Italy This evening the temperature is equable,—not the sign of a brooding cloud: so put on your hat, like a good girl, and come over. Not Like Other Girls In woman, as in man, the curve of voluptuousness exhibits four phases: an ascending limb, the equable voluptuous sensation, the acme, and the rapid decline. The Sexual Life of the Child What is the meaning of the equable description of areas? Pioneers of Science In this way the provincial authorities hope to secure an equable industrial development of the province, while at the same time procuring ample revenues without resorting to heavy taxation. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference In 1890 there was rain beyond the average, and even on the equable beach of Coronada there were some weeks of weather that from the California point of view were very unpleasant. Our Italy We had hitherto experienced such equable, fine weather that I think we had taken for granted that it must continue. Hurricane Island The even virtue: the virtue that holds an equable and uniform tenor, always keeping the same high level. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar The fact that the force acting on each planet is directed to the sun, necessitates the equable description of areas. Pioneers of Science The brine that pours with an equable flow into the seething pan at Ebensee, is brought by wooden troughs from the salt mine at Hallein, a distance of thirty miles in a direct line. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France If, however, he is superior to this fever, and is willing simply to rest, to drift along with the equable days, I know of no other place where he can be more truly contented. Our Italy In Middle Germany, on the contrary, there is little of this struggle; the seasons are more equable, and the mild, soft air of the valleys tends to make the inhabitants luxurious and sensitive to hardships. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Instead of imparting to us an equable and cheering warmth such as might reasonably be expected from their matronly development ... to me they are painfully and consistently cold. McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Well, he tried the ellipse, and to his inexpressible delight he found that it did satisfy the condition of equable description of areas, if the sun was in one focus. Pioneers of Science Even the most equable disposition is liable sometimes to exhibit weakness. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months It has been said that this land of the sun and of the equable climate will have the effect that other lands of a southern aspect have upon temperament and habits. Our Italy He is the best being, the gentlest, most equable, industrious, simple-minded, and straightforward ever seen. Famous Women: George Sand "But what have we done for any one," Beth asked, in her equable way, "that we should be specially remembered?" The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Such identity is not always true or equable, but it nevertheless approximates truth, and is therefore the more readily accepted as such in practical affairs. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Villani, who lived till 1348, when the plague carried him off, seems to have been a man of an equable disposition and sober judgement. Dante: His Times and His Work Will Southern California be an exception to those lands of equable climate and extraordinary fertility where every effort is postponed till "to-morrow?" Our Italy Out-of-door life in a dry, warm, and equable climate has the most favorable influence upon the cause of chronic Bright's disease, and should always be recommended as a remedial agent when available. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) His education was not equable and not methodical. Jewish Literature and Other Essays He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,— The past unsighed for, and the future sure. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Lying nearer to the Antarctic Circle it is of course cooler than the continent, but the influence of the sea, which completely surrounds it, renders the climate more equable. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The more harmonious and equable the proportion of their union, the higher is the function resulting therefrom. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Harvey is a singular man—so silent, so equable, so cold in his manner, and yet he has a warm heart. Macaria There was something round and equable about this man's talk, and about his creeds. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Hence it is necessary for the preservation of health, that the temperature of school rooms should always be kept equable, and regulated by means of a thermometer. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease I have felt well and in an equable state of mind. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories This fact, however, does not prove that a moderate and equable climate predisposes to suicide. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 The climate is not hot and very equable. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific His equable temper and placid disposition served him in good stead amid the turmoil and excitement of political life. Lord John Russell A good, equable climate, a little society, and a club or two—ah!” Colorado Jim He is never below a certain decent level; he may return to earth from heaven, but he goes no lower, and reaches even his lower level by a quiet and equable sinking. A History of Elizabethan Literature The stones composing it, particularly above the line of the window, are laid in pretty regular horizontal courses; lower down they are not by any means so equable in size. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 That it results in a more equable distribution of the manurial constituents in the dung, by gradually and thoroughly incorporating the liquid portion of the manure with the soil-particles. Manures and the principles of manuring His tone is quiet, his manner equable, his air smiling, urbane, superior. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations It paid tribute as a subordinate creed, like Judaism, but had far more equable charters and greater respect among Moslems. Pan-Islam Wine is a sign to us how there is required a certain generous and sane intoxication, a certain large and equable friendliness in dealing with people and things and ideas. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The climate is delightfully equable, without extremes of heat or cold, but it is naturally humid, as Cornwall has to bear the first brunt of rain-storms that drive in from the Atlantic. The Cornwall Coast But the open air, the equable temperature, the rest, the simple fare, began to have an unexpected effect on his health. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands She was gracious and equable and gentle, a model young lady of the social-domestic type; but Hartman did not see much of her. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice This equable tension, this balance and elasticity in the very absence of fixity, give the vague but powerful feeling that we wish to describe. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory When it is durable, it is serene and equable. Pearls of Thought It is frequently stated, as a reason for its equable climate, that Scilly lies right in the course of the Gulf Stream. The Cornwall Coast But the slave question in Egypt was many-sided, and bristled with difficulties to anyone who understood it, and wished to mete out a fair and equable treatment to all concerned. The Life of Gordon, Volume II But she was a new and revised edition of the old Clarice, wonderfully sweet, and gracious, and equable; and her look when we met was like the benediction in answer to prayer, as Longfellow says. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice There is here an abundance of moisture, and the temperature conditions are more equable the year around. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. Nothing is more notable in the Roman 'than the calm equable temper,' the 'sweet reasonableness.' The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Tact, however, has a natural affinity to a calm, equable, and good-natured temper. The Map of Life Conduct and Character His temper, never a very equable commodity, got the better of his diplomacy. Antony Gray,—Gardener Shanks is a rogue," said Sir Philip Hastings, in a calm, equable tone; "and the two lawyers you have named bear the reputation of being learned and unscrupulous men. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Probably it is easier to maintain an equable temperature when the house is largely below ground. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. And what combination of pluck and courage is it which enables these fishermen to follow their constantly dangerous occupation with equable mind; which, indeed, enables so many working men to follow their dangerous trades? A Poor Man's House Here may a man learn to be brave, equable, temperate, patient, to look life—aye, and the end of life—squarely in the face, to make the most and best of his earthly portion. Marjorie At no other point along the coast is the climate so mild and equable. Stray Studies from England and Italy “That keeps the temperature about equable;” said August, “but I have another lamp, larger than this, to use in case my incubator grows too cool.” Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Eventually one of the group is seen heading the others, and breasting the water with calm and equable stroke in the old-fashioned style. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The revolutions of the satellites of Jupiter about the planet are more regular; for they describe circles concentric with Jupiter by equable motions, as exactly as our senses can distinguish. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science He seemed dowered with a disposition so equable and contented that it was a pleasure to be with him: and he radiated cheerfulness like a fire. Drolls From Shadowland Fortunately, Wren was an enthusiast in his great work, and the happy possessor of an equable temperament that nothing could seriously disturb. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch He met with the same equable serenity the pettiness of the German princes, the phlegm of the Dutch, the ignorant opposition of his officers, the libels of his political opponents. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 His movements were of a more irregular and erratic nature than comported with the well-ordered and equable gait of his companion. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 And so the satellites of Saturn are revolved about this planet with motions nearly circular and equable, scarcely disturbed by any eccentricity hitherto observed. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science With the equable climate and mild open winters of Central California, no bird need store up food; and this was shown by the great accumulations which had never been touched. A Tramp's Notebook These lessons serve the purpose of making the transition from the mild, equable climate which characterized the early part of the mid-Pleistocene period to the colder climate of the later part of the period. The Tree-Dwellers Built originally for the more equable weather of the trade-wind region in the South Atlantic, she was not so well fitted for the wilder seas and changing winds of the North. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima Hopes were entertained that electric lights might be introduced, but the great difficulty is to maintain an equable force, as the battery gradually declines in power. A Yacht Voyage Round England Is it a mind to be settled, equable, contented, and courageous in any circumstances? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics In winter the roof is covered with a coating of salt hay, to preserve an equable temperature and prevent the moisture from condensing on the ceiling and falling in drops on the beds. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure Hitherto the lawyer had not spoken, but now his repulsion got the better of his usually equable temper. The Green Rust No woman, however, the victim of chronic constipation, can preserve an equable temperament or an amicable disposition. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies At the time of which we speak political parties in England were trying in vain to re-adjust an equable balance. The Arbiter A Novel Sheltered from the blasts to which the lower plains are exposed, these parks enjoy an equable climate; and old hunters, who have camped in them for many seasons, describe life there as an earthly paradise. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America "What, indeed?" exclaimed several voices, for every one was anxious to propitiate the forewoman by bestowing upon her the flattery which was essential to keep her in an equable state of mind. Fairy Fingers A Novel It was a fair planet boasting an equable climate, at least in the tropic zone. Faithfully Yours The room should be kept quiet, and the temperature equable, so long as there is no interference with a plentiful supply of fresh air. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners But until the meeting of the two giant highways was effected, everything depended upon an equable balance of forces, of which a touch might destroy the equilibrium. The Arbiter A Novel Special features of Plain Zones.—The submontane zone has the most equable and the pleasantest climate in the plains. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir I remember to have heard good observers say that Lady Holland had more feeling than Lord Holland—would regret with livelier grief the loss of a friend than this equable philosopher was capable of feeling. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) The care shown in rearing insures a perfect straightness of stem, and an equable diameter of about an inch or an inch and a half. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The temperature of the room should be equable and high, and it seems of importance that the air should be kept moist as well as warm by the use of abundance of steam. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners The quail is a migratory bird, except in those countries blessed with an equable temperature, such as Italy, Portugal, etc., where it is to be found in all seasons. Mamma's Stories about Birds He had a level head and an equable temper, and the cowpunchers all liked him. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Difficult to tell the age of that type, so discreet and equable. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 The climate was declared to be unequalled, salubrious, equable, pleasant and bracing. Greener Than You Think Love makes an equable and constant motion, it moves swiftly and sweetly. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Pitt, engaging as a rival with Dryden, naturally observed his failures, and avoided them; and, as he wrote after Pope’s Iliad, he had an example of an exact, equable and splendid versification. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The liquid is thus thrown up in a gentle, equable stream, without any exertion on her part. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother The Leveretts were among the first to suffer, but Mr. Leverett's equable temperament and serene philosophy kept his family from undue anxiety. A Little Girl in Old Boston And yet nothing surprised those who knew her better than her equable physical poise during this time of trial and discomfort. The Squirrel-Cage I am sure all your experiences give a harmonious testimony to this, that there is no solid, permanent, constant, and equable heart-joy and contentation in all the fancied and imaginary felicities that this world adores. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning He enjoyed the glory of his earlier exploits, and the popularity secured by his equable temperament, undisturbed for eleven years. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 An equable climate throughout the year, a soft and balmy air, brilliant coloring on bush and tree, magnificent pictures of sea and sky, and of mountain and plain, make the islands a veritable paradise. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Mrs de Barral was an equable, unassuming woman, at that time. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The ardour of his feelings, tempered by benevolence, was equable and placid: his temper, though overflowing with generous warmth, seems almost never to have shown any hastiness or anger. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works The climate is more equable than in Gaul, the cold being less severe. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole His tall and vigorous frame, smooth and handsome face, joined to a smoother tongue, a calm and equable disposition, and a stout heart, made him the very man to rise rapidly in the Roman service. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Whatever claims they may have to equable treatment, they have no claim to be considered romantic. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales He is blessed with robust health, is industrious in his habits, and possesses an equable temper. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 Throughout the whole character, Mr. Wood preserved a very equable tenor of acting. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 During the more equable temperature of night the balloon's height is governed by the drag rope. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier The Natalians have, perhaps, become the less energetic in developing the natural resources of their country because thrice in their recent history the equable course of development has been disturbed. Impressions of South Africa The equable climate and the unstrained life of the young men produced something more rounded and fleshy than we see in the north. 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 It had rewarded his cares by colouring magnificently until it had grown a deep equable ebony everywhere. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) There is no experience in the world which really qualifies a man to take a broad, a sane, an equable view of life in such a degree as journalism. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Now the Tyro is a person of singularly equable temperament. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage They come and go in an equable stream, and the cargo of yesterday is sent abroad to the world with the same methodical indifference with which that of to-day is unshipped. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author The men were happy, not hilariously so, but in a placid, equable fashion. The Long Roll Thereafter, in the equable climate of Barbados—one of the most healthful of the West Indies Islands—his strength began to return. Plotting in Pirate Seas It is little wonder that our lungs should pay the heaviest penalty of our change from the warm and equable sea water to the gusty and changeable air. Preventable Diseases Now the Tyro's naturally equable temper had been disturbed by the other encounter, and this one loosed its bonds. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage A few minutes later: "Am I nowhere immune from interruption?" muttered Mr. Belford, with the nearest approach to irritability of which his equable temper was deemed capable. The Sins of Séverac Bablon He moves onward as stars in their courses move, obeying the equable impulse of the calm and conquering will of God. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms There is nothing, which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family, than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the housekeeper. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School He was sensitive to the charm of eager, high-spirited, and affectionate natures, but he had also the equable, just, paternal interest in boys which is an essential quality in a wise schoolmaster. Ionica Reed Opdyke accepted him in mirthful gratitude to the Providence which had arranged so equable a quid pro quo. The Brentons She was an equable, well-balanced woman in everything except the little matter of her nervous system. The Iron Horse All the terrors, and pains, and dangers of the weary years—the black fuel for the ruddy glow—melt into warmth too great for smoke, too equable to blaze. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Despite his surroundings, temptations, examples, trials, and worries, Angut was at all times unvaryingly urbane, kind, sedate, equable, obliging, honest, and self-sacrificing. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew The verse is in its general characteristics of the school of Tennyson, with its equable progression, its honied epithets, its soft cadences, its gentle melody. Ionica In wide sweeps, and with a swift and equable gallop, the ceaseless stream of water visits and makes green the fields. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The climate of England is milder and more equable than is indicated by the latitude, which is that of Labrador in the western hemisphere and of Prussia and central Russia on the Continent of Europe. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England It is a well-known fact that the wrath of a good-natured person is more to be feared than his who is of less equable temperament. Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them Of Sidney Blenheim he spoke with an equable, impartial composure. The Dictator His temper was singularly equable and, whatever the circumstances, he never gave way to anger, but kept his passions well under control. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem Otherwise the expectation of the ear—that the final ring should be led up to by regular and equable rhythm—is baulked. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Adenoid children are, as a rule, in better health during the warm, equable, summer weather than during the changeable, uncertain weather we have in the winter months. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Dryden himself was not always careful to distinguish between what material was fit and what unfit for verse; so that we can now enjoy his masterly prose with more equable pleasure than his verse. Figures of Several Centuries Hence the importance of an equable temperature and the free circulation of air through swell-boxes, as described on page 59, ante. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments He has the same equable spirit when abased and when abounding. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. It was easy to foresee a happy and a remarkably equable married life. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House In point of fact, it is a zone not unworthy of the designation, being equable, healthy, and with a beautiful and varied flora. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Why the air within the cave should be so fresh, pure, and equable, all the year round, even in its deepest recesses, is not so easily explained. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Here the weather is beautiful, a warm, equable, tropical sea climate with only three or four degrees difference between winter and summer. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Great heat and abundant light; white wainscoting, white marble statues, immense windows, nothing confined or close, and yet an equable atmosphere well fitted to encompass the existence of some delicate, over-refined, nervous mortal. The Nabob, Volume 1 "Oh, Lettie's a girl of singularly calm and equable temperament," answered Bent. The Borough Treasurer He is the Prophet shorn of his more awful splendour; burning with mild equable radiance, as the enlightener of daily life. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Once she had become a freshman at Overton College, Grace's equable disposition and love of fair play had attracted equally loyal allegiance to her standard. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer It is not that the marvel and wonder of life is less; but it is more equable, more intricate, more mysterious. Joyous Gard They are all the more epic, perhaps, on that account; more equable in their course, with this compensation for their quieter manner, that they have more room and more variety than the passionate heroic poems. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature To Elmore himself she appeared in better spirits than at first, or at least in a more equable frame of mind. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories They hardly knew the man, usually so equable and quiet as to be almost stolid. That Stick Therefore, these things did not surprise the calm, equable mind of Jem. My New Curate When, however, the channel was about one-third full and the water now beginning to cover Crewe's feet, the flood became more quiet and equable, spreading smoothly over freer spaces. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories But the rhetorical expansion of the older forms into an equable and deliberate narrative was counteracted by the still stronger affection for lyrical modes of speech, for impassioned, abrupt, and heightened utterance. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature In general, with regard to people who were liable to respiratory diseases, they insisted upon life in an atmosphere of equable temperature. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages It was impossible for him to do his work with the regular method, the equable temper, of a Southey or a Scott. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Under a sufficiently equable exterior Mrs. Morrissy's blood was pulsing with greater activity than had ever moved it before. Here are Ladies His mind seemed to possess an equable warm temperature, a temperature that it seemed impossible to lower or raise. The Beach of Dreams No accumulation of lays can alter the style from its trick of detached and abrupt suggestions to the slower and more equable mode. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Since the equable concrete is the natural colorless expression of unimpassioned thought, force applied to any part of it changes its character, and gives it a more or less significant emphasis. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable. With the British Army in The Holy Land The daily current of gossip in the streets no longer kept its cheerful, equable flow. The Mayor of Troy "Oh, there you are!" said his equable and tranquil voice, as he removed his hat. Phantom Wires A Novel There was practically no traffic to interfere with progress now, and Brodie had to maintain an equable rate of forty miles an hour in order to keep within sight of his quarry. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York The Loud Concrete is simply the equable concrete uttered with greater fulness of breath and loudness of tone. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 A hollow wall tends to keep the building dry internally and the temperature equable, but it has the disadvantage of harbouring vermin, unless care be taken to ensure their exclusion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The edict can not be revoked, that every child is entitled to an harmonious and equable development of all its human powers, or as Herbart calls it, a harmonious culture of many-sided interests. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Haps and mishaps alike they accepted with an equable spirit and the true philosophy of the trail—to take things as they come. North of Fifty-Three It was a day on which nerves get unstrung, on which the calmest, most equable people are apt to lose their tempers suddenly, unexpectedly. The Way of Ambition When the radical and vanishing movements are effected smoothly, distinctly, and without intensity or emotion, commencing fully and with some abruptness, and terminating gently and almost inaudibly, the result is the equable concrete. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Thus is insured an exactly equable amount of cut on the whole three rests. Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. But I would only point out that we are just beginning to wake to the truth of the converse proposition, that a sane, equable, easy-going mind keeps the body well. The Patient Observer And His Friends She also grew more cheerful and equable in temperament, and Mr. Lawrence was constantly congratulating himself upon having secured such a treasure for a governess. His Heart's Queen Praise be to God! we find this continent prosperous, the climate salubrious and delightful, the inhabitants genial and courteous, the government equable and just. Foundations of World Unity Exercise.—Exemplify generally the equable concrete, loud concrete, radical stress, and median stress, with upward and downward intervals, with clear, sharp openings, and with gradually attenuated vanishes, upon each of the tonic elements. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Firm and intrepid, he maintained, in each reply, the utmost perspicuity and justness both of thought and expression; mild and equable, he rose into no passion at that unusual authority which was assumed over him. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell In the comparatively level tracts, the equable step of the beasts has worn the soil into deep transverse ridges, called camellones, from their resemblance to the humps on a camel's back. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Poor Bessy's uncertain fits of tenderness had produced more bewilderment than pleasure in her sober-minded child; but the little girl's feelings and perceptions had developed rapidly in the equable atmosphere of her step-mother's affection. The Fruit of the Tree The climate in which these Indians live is warm and equable throughout the year. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 A medium rate of utterance is, with respect to time, the natural expression of an equable flow of thought. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 By affixing the tube to a vessel of water, and laying it on an inclined plane, the water ran through it in an equable current, making circulation with pulsation. Theory of Circulation by Respiration Synopsis of its Principles and History Mrs. Smith treats me with a serene, equable kindness which just suits me. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle It is time for you to know something else; deep and equable as a clear summer evening, without storm and tempest. How Women Love (Soul Analysis) It is more equable and certain; the summer average is 66°, and the winter 41°; while the lake wind and evaporation secure it from the rapid changes of the sea shores. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Exercise.—With the syllable pä exemplify the equable concrete and the several varieties of stress, using different degrees of initial or radical pitch, and the various intervals of the tone, semitone, third, fifth, and octave. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 |
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