In Proto-Indo-European, the aorist appears to have originated as a series of verb forms expressing manner of action.

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.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

The door was answered by a slender man in his sixties -- straight-backed, somewhat clerical in manner, wearing rimless glasses.

He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.

Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.

This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

For exactly one week, she was able to continue in this manner.

He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.

The whole thing, his manner conveyed, was so far outside the normal routine of Hohlbein and Garth that it practically demanded being swept under the rug.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

Another weakness -- far more irritating than his manner of speaking, which he made only token effort to change -- was his devotion to that old horse of Tolley's.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

But the quest for such an index goes on ceaselessly, with all manner of investors and speculators participating, ranging from the sedate institutional type virtually to the proverbial shoe-string operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, daily -- and often nightly -- for the enchanting index that will foretell the eternal secret: Which way will the market move -- up or down??

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Ambitious persons often spent enormous sums in this manner to

All of these effects are often mentioned in conjunction with the term " compressibility ", but in a manner of speaking, they are incorrectly used.

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

Though herbicides are chemicals, they are often grouped with biological warfare and chemical warfare because they may work in a similar manner as biotoxins or bioregulators and also because the Army Biological Laboratory tested them and the Army's Technical Escort Unit which all chemical, biological, radiological ( nuclear ) materials.

The book could be seen as an allusion to the history as described by Moses ; for the minor Prophets, in promising God ’ s assistance to his people, must often remind how God in a miraculous manner brought up the Jews from Egypt.

Its purpose is to unburden the application software programmer from the often complex details of the particular computer being used, including such accessories as communications devices, printers, device readers, displays and keyboards, and also to partition the computer's resources such as memory and processor time in a safe and stable manner.

Although Confucianism is often followed in a religious manner by the Chinese, arguments continue over whether it is a religion.

Compactness, when defined in this manner, often allows one to take information that is known locally — in a neighborhood of each point of the space — and to extend it to information that holds globally throughout the space.

Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner ( although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music ).

It also focuses the researcher in formulating hypotheses in a precise and exact manner, whereas theoretical models often stay very vague.

Distinction is often made between erotica and pornography ( the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense reaction ) ( as well as the lesser known genre of sexual entertainment, ribaldry ), although depending on the viewer they may seem one and the same.

The reason for working with arbitrary vector spaces instead of R < sup > n </ sup > is that it is often preferable to work in a coordinate-free manner ( that is, without choosing a preferred basis ).

Similarly his plays often begin in a banal manner that undermines theatrical illusion.

The game has been referred to officially as just Fudge ever since, though fans often still refer to it in the old manner as FUDGE.

Some models in econophysics have shown that when agents are allowed to interact locally in a free market ( i. e. their decisions depend not only on utility and purchasing power, but also on their peers ' decisions ), prices can become unstable and diverge from the equilibrium, often in an abrupt manner.

These pieces are often harder to read by non-graffiti artists as the letters merge into one another in an often undecipherable manner.

In Insular Gospel Books ( copies of the Gospels produced in Ireland and Britain under Celtic Christianity ), the first verse of Matthew's genealogy of Christ was often treated in a decorative manner, as it began not only a new book of the Bible, but was the first verse in the Gospels.

Thompson would instigate events himself, often in a prankish or belligerent manner, and then document both his actions and those of others.

Due to the simplicity of the Gopher protocol, setting up new servers or adding Gopher support to browsers is often done in a tongue in cheek manner, principally on April Fools ' Day.

This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji (" cutting word ") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.

In the theatrical shorts, Huey, Dewey, and Louie often behave in a rambunctious manner, sometimes committing retaliation or revenge on their uncle Donald Duck.