As a consequence, the Northern and North-western upper levels have been
practically abandoned, and the high fliers have returned to the ignoble security of the Three, Five, and Six hundred foot levels.
The business was
practically settled from the moment I never followed him.
It came, as I later discovered, not from an animal, as there is only one mammal on Mars and that one very rare indeed, but from a large plant which grows
practically without water, but seems to distill its plentiful supply of milk from the products of the soil, the moisture of the air, and the rays of the sun.
"I'm
practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.
Of the "Oedipodea"
practically nothing is known, though on the assurance of Athenaeus (vii.
For when the dead-leaf butterfly is in danger, it clings to the side of a twig, and what it says to its foe is
practically this: "I am not a butterfly, I am a dead leaf, and can be of no use to thee." This is a lie which is good to the butterfly, for it preserves it.
Add to this the power of making herself
practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a Female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.
It was admitted that the medal contestants had
practically narrowed down to three--Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley, and Lewis Wilson; the Avery scholarship was more doubtful, any one of a certain six being a possible winner.
So great was the love of the people of Helium for the mate of John Carter it amounted
practically to worship, as though she were indeed the goddess that she looked.
My readings had taught me that it was
practically unknown outside of Asia, and that, so late as the twentieth century, at least, there had been no savage beasts outside captivity in England.
The breakfast over, and with
practically no attention given to the house, the whole family would, as a general thing, proceed to the cotton-field.
He could borrow with a breezy bluffness which made the thing
practically a hold-up.