Elements

Examples

• Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sometimes she observed the war of elements, thinking that they also declared against her, and listened to the pattering of the rain in gloomy despair. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Uke causes still produce like effects; in the same manner as in the mutual action of the elements and powers of nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We have already glanced, in Chapter XII, at the elements of religion that must have arisen necessarily in the minds of those early peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By a process of cleaning and boiling the albuminoid elements of the animal matter are changed into gelatine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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