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- A Spaniard of the Seventeenth Century
- A Spanish Captain
- A Spanish Captain of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Captain, Time of Philip II
- A Spanish Cavalier of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Flagellant
- A Spanish Gentleman, early Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish Gentleman, time of Philip II
- A Spanish Gentlewoman of the Sixteenth Century
- A Spanish King of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Merchant, Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Nobleman of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Noblewoman of the Fifteenth Century
- A Spanish Penitent of the Sixteenth Century
- A store of crossbow bolts, shafts and heads
The crossbowman is aiming at a target to the left of the picture. From a catalogue of the Arsenal of the Emperor Maximilian I. (6. 1459, d. 1519). - A Story from the Front
- A Street in Yedo
A Street in Yedo (From a picture by Settan, 1783–1843) - A strong and healthy boy has the ball at his feet
- A Sudden Emergency
- A Switchback
Another American invention is the switchback. By this plan the length of line required to ease the gradient is obtained by running backward and forward in a zigzag course, instead of going straight up the mountain. As a full stop has to be made at the end of every piece of line, there is no danger of the train running away from its brakes. This device was first used among the hills of Pennsylvania over forty years ago, to lower coal cars down into the Nesquehoning Valley. It was afterwards used on the Callao, Lima, and Oroya Railroad in Peru, by American engineers, with extraordinary daring and skill. It was employed to carry the temporary tracks of the Cascade Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad over the "Stampede" Pass, with grades of 297 feet per mile, while a tunnel 9,850 feet long was being driven through the mountains. - A tragic moment for Smyth
A tragic moment for Smyth (who married for a home) Mrs. S. (who has the money) objects to the size of his tailor’s bill. - A Turkish Pirate Ship of 1579
Observe the sharp ram, the tower-like forecastle, and the curiously perched cabin aft. Also the tail-like ornaments at the stern, possibly reminiscent of the sterns of the old "Dragon-ships" and "Long Serpents". The big and somewhat triangular openings are probably gun-ports, but no guns are visible. - A type of extemporised motor ambulance favoured by the French and Belgians
- A Viking Double-prowed 'Long Serpent' or 'Dragon-ship'
Observe the well-supported outer stem, the Dragon Head, the embroidered sail decorated with a variation of the "Swastika" design, which was much used by the Vikings on arms and ornaments; the vane at the masthead, the "shield-row" protecting the rowers, and the steersman guiding the ship by means of her "steer-board". - A Viper (or Adder) has this marking on his head and neck
- A Visitor
When a visitor calls, even the cushion is brought from the anteroom for him to sit on, and then a small cup of tea set before him and a brazier if it is cold and if warm, a tabako-bon. The cushion is round or square; that for summer is made of matting, hide, or a thin wadding of cotton in a cover of hempen cloth, while for winter use the wadding is much thicker and the cover is silk or cotton. It is about sixteen inches at the side if square. The brazier is of various shapes and makes. It may be a wooden box with an earthenware case inside or with a false bottom of copper, or it may be a glazed earthenware case alone; the wooden box may be plain with two holes for handles, or it may be elaborately latticed; and sometimes a brazier is made of the trunk of a tree cut with the outside rough-hewn or only barked and highly polished. The tabako-bon, or “tobacco-tray,” is a small open square or oblong box of sandal-wood or other hard wood, which holds a small china or metal pan, three-quarters full of ashes, with a few tiny pieces of live charcoal in the middle to light a pipe with, and beside it a small bamboo tube with a knot at the bottom for receiving tobacco-ashes. - A Voyage to India
Young girl looking out the window at the rain - A War-galley in the Days of King Alfred
The Dragon or other figure-head has been unshipped, possibly because the galley is going into port. - A warped Professional Sculler, imperfectly developed in Muscles not used in Rowing
The figure represents one of the swiftest and most skilful professional scullers of the country to-day. - A warped University Oarsman, imperfectly developed in Muscles not used in Rowing
With professional oarsmen, who for years have rowed far more than they have done anything else, and who have no especial care for their looks, or spur to develop harmoniously, the defects rowing leaves stand out most glaringly. The man in the figure is one of the most distinguished student-oarsmen America ever produced. - A well
Beside the sink are an earthen jar to hold water for washing and a wooden pail for drinking water, but there is really no difference in the quality of the liquid in the two receptacles as it has in either case been drawn from the well. The wells are either private or public; in the latter case, they are used by the whole neighbourhood, a small tax being levied for their maintenance, and are the favourite resorts for the exchange of scandals. As these wells have all wooden sides and a square wooden flooring where washing is done, they present a far from cleanly appearance, and the water is as often as not contaminated, especially in the crowded quarters of the city. The Tokyo municipality undertook some years ago to supply pure water, and as water-pipes have been laid throughout the city, the wells are rapidly disappearing in Tokyo. - A Whale Hunt
- A whanging of wings that lifted . . . Up . . . Higher . . . Swifter
- A widow
Little Sister: A widow? What’s a widow? Big Sister: A lady what’s had a husband and is goin’ to have another. - A widow and her friends
- A Woman's Doublet. Mrs. Anne Turner
- A young lady dressed for a visit
When she goes out on an informal visit, the Japanese woman usually puts on a crested haori; but if it is only for a walk, the haori may be plain. The kimono may on such occasions be of any pattern, only that when she makes a call, the band must be of the same cloth as the kimono. - A ‘Charron’ armoured car with machine gun
- A ‘Schneider’ armoured car with quick-firing gun
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AA - Aaron and Hur Holding Up the Hands of Moses
Ex. 17:11 - Aaron's Rod Changed to a Serpent
Ex. 7:10 - Aaron's Rod that Budded
Num. 17:8, 9 - Abraham Entertains Three Angels
Gen. 18:10 - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln
President-Elect - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Offering Isaac as a Sacrifice
Gen. 22:11, 12 - Abraham's Servant Meeting Rebekah at the Well
Gen. 24:17 - Abram Sees the Promised Land
Gen. 12:3-7 - Acadian Flycatchers
- Acanthus latifolius (lusitanicus).
Ornamental foliaged herbaceous Section; retaining its leaves till very late in the year. The leaves of this are bold and noble in outline, and the plant has a tendency, rare in some hardy things with otherwise fine qualities, to retain them till the end of the season without losing a particle of their freshness and polished verdure. In fact, the only thing we have to decide about this subject is, what is the best place for it? Now, it is one of those things that will not disgrace any position, and will prove equally at home in the centre of the mixed border, projected in the grass a little from the edge of a choice shrubbery, or in the flower-garden; nobody need fear its displaying anything like the seediness which such things as the Heracleums show at the end of summer. - According to Viollet-le-Duc
- Achan confessing his sin
- Acokanthera spectabilis
Acokanthera spectabilis - Acorn Divider
- Action by Andreas and Nanette (Stein), Streicher Viennese escapement (1794)
1. Key. 2. Jack. 3. Jack-operating spring. 4. Cushion limiting rebound of jack. 5. Button and screw regulating escapement of hammer. 6. Hammer-butt and operating face. 7. Hammer-butt pivot. 8. Hammer-shank. 9. Hammer-head. 10. Check. 11. Damper-lifter. 12. Damper-head. 13. Action-rails.