Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

`` With no strong men and no parliament to dispute his will, he was the government ''.

and a Jesus who, though lean, was strong even in death a look he remembered well from his experience in the dead room of Santo Spirito.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

Above all, he was a thorough believer in revelation and in a divine providence, and was a sincere, law-observing follower of rabbinical Judaism.

In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

' Onesimus is also referred to as ' one of you ' and an important helper of Paul who was the run away slave in the book of Philemon who became a believer.

The early believer considered heretic Marcion believed that Paul was the only apostle who truly understood Jesus's message.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

He was scathing about immorality, deceit and the exacting of tithes and urged his listeners to lead lives without sin, avoiding the Ranter's antinomian view that a believer becomes automatically sinless.

Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.

He was also a firm believer in balanced budgets, and was unwilling to run a budget deficit to fund welfare programs.

Although his ideas foreshadowed modern ones in many ways, in one way they do not: Rousseau was a believer in the moral superiority of the patriarchal family on the antique Roman model.

Newton was instrumental in converting Scott from a cynical ' career priest ' to a true believer, a conversion Scott related in his spiritual autobiography The Force Of Truth ( 1779 ).

He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.

Agassiz was specifically a believer and advocate in polygenism, that races came from separate origins ( specifically separate creations ), were endowed with unequal attributes, and could be classified into specific climatic zones, in the same way he felt other animals and plants could be classified.

Even though Agassiz was a believer in polygenism he rejected racism and supported the notion of a spiritualized human unity.

For example Nathaniel Shaler who had studied under Agassiz at Harvard was a believer in Agassiz's polygenism.

" She was also a believer and a practitioner of magic, performing curses against those whom she felt deserved it: as Ronald Hutton noted, " Once she carried out a ritual to blast a fellow academic whose promotion she believed to have been undeserved, by mixing up ingredients in a frying pan in the presence of two colleagues.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

His great-grandfather, a dentist, had been a mystic who had corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of Spiritualism, and who was a member of the Lily Dale Society.

* The sunflower was chosen as the symbol of the Spiritualist Church for many reasons, but mostly because it turns toward the sun as " Spiritualism turns toward the light of truth ".

Andrews was also considered a leader in the religious movement of Spiritualism.

The name " Pow-Wows " was only added to the book in late 19th century reprints in the wake of the sudden popularity of Spiritualism in the United States, in which " Indian Spirit Guides " were frequently seen during seances.

That Spiritualism was popular on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1850s contributed to this success.

By 1853, when the popular song Spirit Rappings was published, Spiritualism was an object of intense curiosity.

Spiritualism was equated by some Christian s with witchcraft.

Despite numerous instances of chicanery, the appeal of Spiritualism was strong.

Spiritualism was mainly a middle-and upper-class movement, and especially popular with women.

As the Spiritualism movement began to fade, partly through the bad publicity of fraud accusations and partly through the appeal of religious movements such as Christian Science, the Spiritualist Church was organised.

That Spiritualism was popular on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1850s contributed to his success.

The women's movement, free love and Spiritualism were three strongly linked movements at the time, and Woodhull was also a spiritualist leader.

Alfred Russel Wallace, the " co-discoverer " of evolution by natural selection, believed that the human mind was too complex to have evolved gradually, and began over time to subscribe to a theory of evolution that took more from Spiritualism than it did the natural world.

The New Religious Movement known as Spiritualism was among several that arose in the early 19th century burned-over district of western New York.

Spiritualism was at that time sweeping the English-speaking nations as well, and it readily appealed to those in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, as spirit contact, especially with the dead, is an essential part of many African religions.

Lily Dale became renowned for Spiritualism when members moved the home of its American founders, Kate and Margaret Fox, to the town after it was purchased in 1927.

He was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Oxford ( where he first became interested in Spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research — this interest remained with him throughout his life ).

He was raised in the Anglican Church but developed an interest in Spiritualism and the occult at about age 12, after encountering it from a Spiritualist uncle.

She was subsequently sent to Canada to work on a farm, where she stayed until she was 19 before moving back to East Ham to live with her aunt, who introduced her to Spiritualism and astrology.

She was a member of a Cambridge group who were early explorers of Spiritualism and automatic writing.