I perceived that the design was to drop a bullet from the left eye of the skull, and that a bee-line, or, in other words, a straight line, drawn from the nearest point of the trunk through 'the shot,' (or the spot where the bullet fell,) and thence extended to a distance of fifty feet, would indicate a definite point - and beneath this point I thought it at least possible that a
deposit of value lay concealed.
It became the great interior mart and place of
deposit, and some of the regular merchants who prosecuted the trade in person, under their licenses, formed establishments here.
I can mail the
deposit on the purchase money to-morrow morning, and we can have the thing completed in a fortnight or three weeks--if you say so.
If, for example, there should be a deposition of moisture upon the silk, and the machine begins to descend in consequence, there will be no necessity for discharging ballast to remedy the increase of weight, for it is remedied, or counteracted, in an exactly just proportion, by the
deposit on the ground of just so much of the end of the rope as is necessary.
My young lady accompanies me to town, where I shall
deposit her under the care of Miss Summers, in Wigmore street, till she becomes a little more reasonable.
Now, if that surmise be true--and I do not see why not--there must be a
deposit of valuable clay--possibly of immense depth.
The freaks of cyclonic storms are the rule of cyclonic storms, demolish giant trees, and in the same gust they transport frail infants for miles and
deposit them unharmed in their wake.
His first thought was that this precious
deposit enclosed some newly imported bulbs from Bengal or Ceylon; but he soon reflected that Cornelius de Witt was very little addicted to tulip-growing, and that he only occupied himself with the affairs of man, a pursuit by far less peaceful and agreeable than that of the florist.
Massacres are to be sternly forbidden as heretofore; but any citizen or subject of either country disobeying the injunction is to detach the scalps of all persons massacred and
deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof.
The savings bank
deposit is simply a piece of the loaf put back on the shelf to be eaten next day.
Helped by the kindness of my friend, I have arranged to have a cabin kept in reserve, on payment of a small
deposit.
In examining the latest
deposits of various quarters of the world, it has everywhere been noted, that some few still existing species are common in the
deposit, but have become extinct in the immediately surrounding sea; or, conversely, that some are now abundant in the neighbouring sea, but are rare or absent in this particular
deposit.
The red earth, like that of the Pampas, in which these remains were embedded, contains, according to Professor Ehrenberg, eight fresh-water and one salt-water infusorial animalcule; therefore, probably, it was an estuary
deposit.
The fellow had a pretty fancy in names: the "Orb"
Deposit Bank, the "Sceptre" Mutual Aid Society, the "Thrift and Independence" Association.
For he certainly does not mean, as we were now saying that I ought to return a return a
deposit of arms or of anything else to one who asks for it when he is not in his right senses; and yet a
deposit cannot be denied to be a debt.
