The Amar is placed in a vessel, and mixed with water until it gains a proper pudding-like
consistency, when, without further preparation, t is in readiness for use.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties; and it has been observed in every arrangement connected with the establishment of Lowood: plain fare, simple attire, unsophisticated accommodations, hardy and active habits; such is the order of the day in the house and its inhabitants."
For it is manifest that the tie, moderately straightened, while adequate to hinder the blood already in the arm from returning towards the heart by the veins, cannot on that account prevent new blood from coming forward through the arteries, because these are situated below the veins, and their coverings, from their greater consistency, are more difficult to compress; and also that the blood which comes from the heart tends to pass through them to the hand with greater force than it does to return from the hand to the heart through the veins.
In the next place, the consistency of the coats of which the arterial vein and the great artery are composed, sufficiently shows that the blood is impelled against them with more force than against the veins.
After a toilsome search, he found it at the foot of a sand-bluff, a little east of the Wind River Mountains; where it exuded in a small stream of the color and
consistency of tar.
"Sir," said Athos, "permit me to tell you, that your reasoning, though specious in appearance, nevertheless wants
consistency, as regards me.
She indulged in a vague movement or two, as if to look for something; then again found herself near her friend, on whom with the same abruptness, in fact with a strange sharpness, she conferred a kiss that might have represented either her tribute to exalted
consistency or her idea of a graceful close of the discussion.
Consistency would demand that you talk like a man, and like a man listen to man-talk.
For
consistency, too, is the growth of time; and some of the greatest creations of the human mind have been wanting in unity.
To prevent which, I presently made a large orifice in the vein of the left arm, whence I drew twenty ounces of blood; which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints; but, to my surprize, it appeared rosy and florid, and its
consistency differed little from the blood of those in perfect health.
His want of spirits, of openness, and of
consistency, were most usually attributed to his want of independence, and his better knowledge of Mrs.
And if thou wouldst prove it, touch them, and feel them, and thou wilt find they have only bodies of air, and no
consistency except in appearance."
Jenkinson, in ushering into the House of Commons a bill for regulating the temporary intercourse between the two countries, should preface its introduction by a declaration that similar provisions in former bills had been found to answer every purpose to the commerce of Great Britain, and that it would be prudent to persist in the plan until it should appear whether the American government was likely or not to acquire greater
consistency.[1]
