Unable to
detect a weak point in this scheme of mutual advantage, the financier gave the promoter in disguise an order for the money, and wrote a note to his wife directing her to count out the girl.
Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who have to regard not only present troubles, but also future ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because, when foreseen, it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because the malady has become incurable; for it happens in this, as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to
detect, but in the course of time, not having been either
detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to
detect but difficult to cure.
"Heart" was intended for a much longer tale, and is unavoidably incomplete; but it is unnecessary to point out defects that even the juvenile reader will soon
detect. The author only hopes that if they do no good, her tales will, at least, do no harm.
Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice, and Miss Vernon shall be consigned to unrelenting contempt; but by all that I can gather Lady Susan possesses a degree of captivating deceit which it must be pleasing to witness and
detect. I shall be with you very soon, and am ever,
It is nowhere muddy, and a casual observer would say that there were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not properly belong to it, a closer scrutiny does not
detect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or white, but only a few small heart-leaves and potamogetons, and perhaps a water-target or two; all which however a bather might not perceive; and these plants are clean and bright like the element they grow in.
I for my part noticed by the sense of sight, before I entered your Kingdom, that some of your people are Lines and others Points, and that some of the Lines are larger --" "You speak of an impossibility," interrupted the King; "you must have seen a vision; for to
detect the difference between a Line and a Point by the sense of sight is, as every one knows, in the nature of things, impossible; but it can be
detected by the sense of hearing, and by the same means my shape can be exactly ascertained.
And often, from the side of my eye, I could
detect her raising a hand, and brushing something off her cheek.
At a public meeting in the Town-hall yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing myself insulted by the speaker opposed to me in the question under discussion, by allusions to my private affairs; by cant about monsters without natural affection, family despots, and such trash; and when I rose to answer, I was met by a shout from the filthy mob, where the mention of your name enabled me at once to
detect the quarter in which this base attack had originated.
The girl stood pointing in the direction from whence we had come, and as I arose and looked, I, too, thought that I could
detect a thin dark line on the far horizon.
The projectile had been
detected, thanks to the gigantic reflector of Long's Peak!
In that position, he not only
detected you in taking the Diamond out of the drawer--he also
detected Miss Verinder, silently watching you from her bedroom, through her open door.
Before they died the brilliant one was
detected in seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the Bureau of Statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of tabulated information relating to the domestic hog.