Crossword clues for perform
perform
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perform
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band performs/plays
▪ The band is performing live on Saturday night.
act/perform/appear in a play
▪ She acted in many plays on the London stage.
carry out/perform/do a task
▪ I don't think we have enough resources to carry out this task.
conduct/perform an examination
▪ The doctor will perform an examination in order to assess the problem.
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
▪ No similar analysis has been done in this country.
do/perform penance
▪ We prayed and did penance together.
perform a calculationformal (= do one)
▪ Computers can perform calculations very quickly.
perform a dance
▪ We watched the group perform some traditional Spanish dances.
perform a play
▪ The play was performed by Brighton Youth Theatre.
perform a song (=in public)
▪ He doesn’t like performing his songs live.
perform an act (=do something, especially something difficult or useful)
▪ The nurses performed many small acts of kindness.
perform live
▪ I love their music, but I’ve never seen them perform live.
perform/accomplish/achieve a feat
▪ the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone
perform/carry out a choreformal (= do a chore)
▪ It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.
perform/conduct a ceremony
▪ The Bishop of Louisiana performed the ceremony.
perform/conduct an experimentformal (= do an experiment)
▪ The laboratory began conducting experiments on rats.
perform/fulfil a function
▪ In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
▪ The church fulfils a valuable social function.
performing arts
perform...mime
▪ They will perform a short mime later.
perform/play to an audience
▪ The band played to huge audiences in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
performs...ritual
▪ The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles.
perform/work a miracle (=achieve something very good which no one thought was possible)
▪ The new coach has worked miracles, and the team have won their last four games.
play in/perform in a concert
▪ I'm playing in a jazz concert on Saturday night.
play/perform an essential role in sth
▪ Antibiotics play an essential role in controlling infection.
rites...performed
▪ These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
▪ When faced with familiar letter-strings in novel combinations, skilled readers perform better than less skilled readers.
▪ They tended to come from a slightly less disadvantaged background and to have performed better, often much better, in school.
▪ Quality networks within the hotels encourage employees to make suggestions which will help them perform better.
▪ The study claimed that the same applications performed better in the Macintosh models and that Macintosh offered better price performance.
▪ We do know that at present males perform better than females at spatial visualisation tests.
▪ But just because a flour is organically grown does not guarantee that it will perform better.
▪ As would be expected, own solicitors are less available than duty solicitors and rota schemes perform better than panels.
▪ Klatsky found that some subjects preferred trackballs or Glidepoint pads even though they actually performed better with mice.
well
▪ I told him that he had six months and if he performed well I'd buy him a company car.
▪ Yet these stocks performed well in both.
▪ Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.
▪ On top of her usual lack of self-confidence, Eddie feels more than usual pressure to perform well during this game.
▪ In comparison to those sectors, supermarkets performed well year on year.
▪ On winding grades, it also performed well.
▪ Britain had always performed well in this competition and we had a strong team once again.
▪ As an adult, you know that self-consciousness only inhibits your ability to perform well.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Whiners are pretty insecure about their ability to perform, Rhoads said.
▪ Trans World's ability to perform so well during this period raised eyebrows.
▪ The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience, but agreed to do it.
▪ Play instinct is redirected into working ability and willingness to perform tasks.
▪ Another big difference has to do with speed and the ability to perform in real time.
▪ I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself, not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations.
▪ A few years after revealing her diagnosis, Collyar said, she became aware of rumors questioning her ability to perform.
act
▪ Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis, while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic.
▪ He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.
▪ There's always a reason why a person performs the murder act.
▪ The Goddess who performs this act is Kubaba, the Hittite name for Cybele.
▪ Instead he will, in best bib and tucker, be performing his last official act as the Masters champion.
▪ Kronos performs an equally strange act.
▪ It is used in respect of sacred trees, shrines, etc., and is performed as an act of reverence or respect.
▪ I never saw any one perform an act of cruelty.
action
▪ To perform higher actions, to serve the imagination with special distinction, it seems essential to be histrionic.
▪ Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks.
▪ In young children, construction occurs almost exclusively when they perform actions on objects.
▪ If state officials perform a particular action, the elite must have had a goal which that action helps.
▪ First, highlight the text, then perform the action.
▪ In active clauses, the subject is the agent responsible for performing the action.
▪ The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
activity
▪ A person may be unable to perform a major life activity which an average person could perform.
▪ Design and perform some activity that uses the instrument.
▪ In complex learning such as problem-solving, it can mean having the opportunity to perform further activities within a particular class of problems.
▪ It does, however, provide an excellent centrepiece for performing all those other activities which are so useful for coronary patients.
▪ We begin to perform activities with greater efficiency and therefore have much more energy at the end of the day.
▪ The ability of members successfully to perform practical activities in collaboration with others is what makes the social world possible.
▪ Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.
acts
▪ Does she perform several different speech acts with the word, questioning, commanding, wishing, stating?
▪ He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.
▪ The hygienic bee performs two acts.
▪ Scrapbooks and bottles of paste and cutout articles of the young Dove braving gales in canoes, performing heroic acts.
▪ In many areas, the state has stepped in to perform such acts.
▪ Just in case, Thérèse performed as many acts of mortification daily as she could think of.
analysis
▪ To explore the mode of inheritance further we performed a complex segregation analysis.
▪ A major problem with the approach adopted is that there is not enough detail to allow you to actually perform the analysis.
▪ The first approach is to perform syntactic analysis first then have a second pass convert the syntactic tree to a semantic representation.
▪ It is therefore important to be able to perform discrete sensitivity analysis and to handle lower bounds.
▪ Moreover, to be able to perform a reliable statistical analysis the sample size must be considerably larger.
▪ Unfortunately this method has a number of drawbacks, notably the time taken to perform the analysis.
▪ I Charreau, who prepared the randomisation list and performed the intermediate analysis.
ceremony
▪ Read in studio A bishop has performed the opening ceremony at a pub which is owned by the church.
▪ I stood in back of Polly and Eddie while the minister performed the marriage ceremony.
▪ Besides, Mait has decided to perform his ceremony tonight.
▪ He also has written a piece that 100 percussionists will perform at the opening ceremonies for the summer Olympic Games.
▪ The teenage boy sits in silence, without anaesthetic, as the elders perform the ceremony.
▪ Baroness Masham of Ilton, a member of all-party committees on the disabled, will perform the opening ceremony.
dance
▪ He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
▪ Hopis perform their Snake Dance surrounded by Anglos armed with tripods, in 1897.
▪ Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
▪ In the procession from Athens, as the mystae came over a bridge, people impersonating BAubo performed lewd dances before them.
▪ Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
▪ The female of the species performs her mating dance.
▪ She performs a ritualised dance that tells the other bees the distance, direction, and quality of the food.
▪ Verrucas Children now perform dance and gymnastics lessons in bare feet.
duty
▪ But, as hostess, she had duties to perform.
▪ Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control.
▪ The chapel had important liturgical and ceremonial duties to perform.
▪ One of the instruments by which this duty may be peaceably performed, is the judicial department.
▪ But he knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his craving for rest.
▪ They each had their own duties to perform to keep their household running smoothly.
▪ The duty to perform a contract can not be derived from the principle of respect for autonomy.
▪ Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform.
experiment
▪ Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.
▪ In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments.
▪ Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment.
▪ We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness.
▪ We design and perform an experiment, or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.
▪ I merely want you to perform an experiment.
▪ She performs unnatural experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps.
▪ Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
feat
▪ Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season, and was able to perform great feats for Wellington.
▪ The traders performed astonishing feats of gluttony never before seen at Salomon.
▪ After all, here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats.
▪ The sports literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to perform extraordinary feats view reality in this way.
▪ In 1882 and in 1883 he performed the feat of taking the half-mile, one-mile, four-mile, and ten-mile championships.
▪ Latterly Dad had sobered much when he was no longer able to perform his old feats of strength and daring.
▪ How they perform such amazing navigational feats is unknown.
▪ And it may perform this stupendous reproductive feat annually for thirty or forty years.
function
▪ Sometimes this function was performed by castle towns, but some centres of the commodity economy were separate from domain administration.
▪ These and other functions not performed by doctors are carried out by people trained or supervised by doctors, the lawsuit alleges.
▪ However, before going to Budapest I had one more evangelical function to perform.
▪ Their conceptual framework is based on two central questions: What functions must be performed if the state is to persist?
▪ What role will the human resources function perform?
▪ Here total income is distributed according to the function performed by the income receiver.
▪ Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner, basically in response to the need that various functions be performed.
▪ In most contemporary states, virtually every political function is performed by a variety of political structures.
job
▪ His doubts only increased when he performed another job, midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play.
▪ Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs.
▪ Ultra-violet light sterilisers perform a similar job to ozone without so many possible side effects.
▪ Since they learn to perform more jobs, they are more valuable to their company because they are more flexible.
▪ His wife was the chairman of a health authority and she performed that job excellently for many years.
▪ Everyone seems to know how to perform every job and is willing to do so.
▪ The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job.
▪ They were anxious about how much they would like and how well they would perform the new job.
miracle
▪ Having performed a healing miracle, she is packed off to a remote convent.
▪ Tony Freeman prays that he can perform a miracle.
▪ Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
▪ People actually believe he performs miracles.
▪ Stalls were out and there were mummers performing miracle plays.
▪ She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.
▪ Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles.
▪ He even performed a miracle to prove his innocence.
music
▪ She performed her hit Music, looking more muscular than ever.
▪ Meanwhile, he obtained a medical degree, but has been performing music exclusively since 1978.
▪ Unfortunately, slow music and fast music altered how they performed the tests so music is now forbidden during testing sessions.
▪ It will be always a great pleasure to remain in contact with the spirit of Olivier Messiaen every time I perform his music.
▪ Mr Gregory will also perform harpsichord music of the baroque period.
▪ The Gabrielis specialize in performing music in historic churches, compiling actual or possible programs originally heard in those venues.
operation
▪ Two surgeons will perform all the operations.
▪ You can sort these tables and even perform mathematical operations on them.
▪ There are instructions to move strings, to compare them, and to perform the usual logical operations.
▪ My doctors performed a bypass operation to clear away a blockage in the blood vessels that supply my heart.
▪ They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing.
▪ To prevent certain paralysis they needed to perform a series of operations to graft a spinal vertebra.
▪ A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the new operation.
▪ Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papa performed operations.
patient
▪ Preoperative radiotherapy with 30 Gy was performed in 52 patients.
▪ The operation has been performed on 10 patients so far, with inconclusive results.
▪ Intestinal resection was performed in 36 patients during the period of follow up.
▪ Most of the time, x-rays are performed to reassure patients or doctors, according to the researchers.
▪ The procedure, Incidentally, can and has been performed on patients undergoing brain surgery.
▪ Endoscopic sphincterotomy was performed in 16 patients with successful removal of all calculi in seven.
▪ Intervention trials were performed in normotensive patients with insulin-dependent diabetes and microalbuminuria.
▪ Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.
play
▪ Now, some children are performing plays with very different themes.
▪ The actors perform scenes from the play both in costume and in informal attire.
▪ By his retirement in 1955 he had performed in over 200 plays.
▪ There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences.
▪ I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay.
▪ If you think your acting is good enough, perform the play for your Pack.
▪ The performed plays, and the acting, were in conscious competition for prizes.
▪ The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years.
procedure
▪ Anthropometry is the most frequently performed child health screening procedure.
▪ I performed 39 procedures without diathermy, and contamination occurred in four.
rite
▪ They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden, and perform the rites of the perception of beauty.
▪ I imagined a sorceress inside performing her rites behind the window, with a red kerchief.
▪ Upstream and downstream, and on the far bank other villages were performing the same rites.
▪ She spoke for me: No one performed the proper rites of the dead.
▪ Finally, they perform rites to obtain children, preferably male, and for the safety and health of their children.
▪ Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.
▪ Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite.
ritual
▪ For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds.
▪ Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.
▪ The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals.
▪ He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.
▪ So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.
▪ My only recourse was to perform the Elimination Ritual.
▪ Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.
▪ It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.
role
▪ Men perform an instrumental role, women an expressive one.
▪ After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
▪ He performed that unglamorous role for Cleveland early in 1998, then was traded to San Francisco in mid-season.
▪ Procedural rights perform an instrumental role in the sense of helping to attain an accurate decision on the substance of the case.
▪ On your behalf they may perform: 1 a role, or 2 a task.
▪ They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.
service
▪ In October 1990 he pleaded guilty in the Crown Court to handling, and was ordered to perform 90 hours community service.
▪ He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service.
▪ And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords.
▪ Trappers perform a service that very few urbanites are aware of.
▪ Ewias had performed that service for Osbern, and he did not forget it.
▪ United Behavioral Health began performing administrative services for King County in the spring of 1995.
▪ The number of serfs performing labour services, always a minority, fell.
▪ Furthermore, he does not feel that he has performed a great service to humanity.
study
▪ Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women's studies rather than within feminist psychology.
▪ Individual characteristics that have been investigated are as varied as the researchers performing the studies.
▪ Genomecenter officials investigated, and found that Hughes was using government resources to perform genetic studies on test-tube embryos.
▪ An analysis of clinical parameters was not performed in either study.
▪ Wright and Burton performed a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 99 adults and children with atopic eczema.
task
▪ Women had many tasks to perform in the fields and in the home.
▪ In these classes there are multiple tasks to be performed, and they require the multiple talents children bring to school.
▪ When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks, which he performs at night.
▪ You can create similar macros to accomplish any task performed by a sequence of keystrokes.
▪ Baldwin had two immediate tasks to perform in opposition.
▪ In the course of designing work, the tasks to be performed would be broken down to their most fundamental level.
▪ It was just a difficult, demanding task to perform.
▪ In terms of the specific tasks he performs, he still is.
team
▪ In simulations, the teams perform similarly to their real counterparts.
▪ Akinbiyi and his team-mates then performed a strange goal celebration.
▪ The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team.
▪ So there's no way of telling how team members are performing.
▪ And finally the Red Arrows, one of fifteen air display teams performing at Fairford.We asked which plane do they fly?
test
▪ Comparisons between groups were performed with the Wilcoxon test for unpaired data and the Fisher test.
▪ Economists can not so easily divide the country into two districts to perform similar tests.
▪ Howard University will perform two sorts of tests.
▪ The patient performed the tests with no other comment-until the temporal lobe site was stimulated again without warning.
▪ Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney test and Spearman's rank correlation test as appropriate.
▪ They performed a series of tests and took an identical snack every 3 hours throughout the study.
▪ They also checked for a history of asthma or related allergies, and performed immune-system tests.
work
▪ But ministers want to tighten the rules to ensure only people unable to perform any sort of work would qualify for payment.
▪ He independently performed work that required about two minutes of his time.
▪ In return he performed clerical work for the secretaries themselves.
▪ Women have long performed police work.
▪ There are more awards for people who have performed charitable or voluntary work.
▪ Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.
▪ Exercise and its physical demands Can the body perform physical work equally well at all times of the 24 hours?
▪ They learned from their experiments that performing the actual work took in total only 90 minutes.
■ VERB
continue
▪ The guardian must continue to perform his other duties but can not give instructions to the child's solicitor.
▪ His music will continue to be performed for a very long time.
▪ Our life operations also continue to perform strongly.
▪ The pressure on Sainsbury will continue if it performs poorly, he said.
▪ Nowadays, apart from continuing to direct and perform, he heads the drama school of the Moscow Art Theatre.
▪ Alvin relented, however, and Moore continued to perform with the company through the tour.
▪ Cruises had continued to perform well.
▪ As might be expected, both films continue to perform well at the box office.
require
▪ The simplest involves racing down a mountain, while the most complicated requires you to perform tricks on an obstacle course.
▪ This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.
▪ Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.
▪ Then, the skills required to perform these tasks are identified.
▪ Timber cladding also requires the householder to perform regular maintenance, as described above.
▪ Finally, the Pennsylvania statute requires every facility performing abortions to report its activities to the Commonwealth.
▪ The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
▪ They seemed to require favorable weather to perform faithfully.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the performing arts
work/perform miracles
▪ We're relying on Foster performing miracles out on the football field today.
▪ A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
▪ And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles.
▪ Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
▪ Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
▪ If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
▪ People actually believe he performs miracles.
▪ Whereas for me she works miracles.
▪ Why should anyone mind a person working miracles?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Before every concert, she worries about how well she will perform.
▪ Perez is currently performing in "The Nutcracker."
▪ Rubin says he will resign when he is no longer able to perform his duties.
▪ Russell's one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, was first performed by Pauline Collins.
▪ She still gets very nervous about performing in public.
▪ Students perform increasingly difficult tasks as the course continues.
▪ Surgery was performed Friday to correct the heart defects.
▪ The children perform a Christmas pantomime every year.
▪ The opera was performed in over 100 cities.
▪ The operation was performed by a team of surgeons at Addenbrookes Hospital.
▪ The orchestra will be at the Festival Hall tonight, performing a selection of works by Russian composers.
▪ The ship's captain performed the wedding ceremony.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, the trio hits the stage tomorrow night to perform Sun, Moon and Feather.
▪ In Dianetics, a workmanlike job of clearing away the debris in and around the machine is performed.
▪ One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour.
▪ She performed her share of administrative duties efficiently.
▪ That language can perform varied functions or communicative roles is a commonplace of linguistic thought.
▪ Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.
▪ While we aren't ruled by the charts, we do want our songs performed by the right people.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perform
Perform \Per*form"\, v. i. To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.
Perform
Perform \Per*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Performed; p. pr. & vb. n. Performing.] [OE. performen, parfourmen, parfournen, OF. parfornir, parfournir, to finish, complete; OF. & F. par (see Par) + fournir to finish, complete. The word has been influenced by form; cf. L. performare to form thoroughly. See Furnish.]
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To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me.
--Ps. lvii. -
Great force to perform what they did attempt.
--Sir P. Sidney.2. To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.
To perform your father's will.
--Shak. -
To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
Perform a part thou hast not done before.
--Shak.Syn: To accomplish; do; act; transact; achieve; execute; discharge; fulfill; effect; complete; consummate. See Accomplish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perform
c.1300, "carry into effect, fulfill, discharge," via Anglo-French performer, altered (by influence of Old French forme "form") from Old French parfornir "to do, carry out, finish, accomplish," from par- "completely" (see per-) + fornir "to provide" (see furnish).\n
\nTheatrical/musical sense is from c.1600. The verb was used with wider senses in Middle English than now, including "to make, construct; produce, bring about;" also "come true" (of dreams), and to performen muche time was "to live long." Related: Performed; performing.
Wiktionary
perform
vb. To do something; to execute.
WordNet
perform
v. carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn: execute, do]
perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?"
give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"
get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do]
Wikipedia
PerForm
PerForm and PerForm PRO were electronic form programs, initially designed to work under GEM in DOS. Later versions were designed to work in Windows 3.1, at which point it was succeeded by FormFlow.
The initial version of PerForm was created in 1988 and was the first product released by Canadian software firm Delrina, which became best known for its later fax software program, WinFax.
The electronic forms division of Delrina was sold to JetForm in 1996. JetForm in turn was bought by Adobe, and the electronic forms products were officially discontinued in 2004.
Usage examples of "perform".
Porak, after giving some historical notes, describes a long series of experiments performed on the guinea-pig in order to investigate the passage of arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, phosphorus, alizarin, atropin, and eserin through the placenta.
Winterbones, when the above ill-natured allusion was made to the aroma coming from his libations, might be seen to deposit surreptitiously beneath the little table at which he sat, the cup with which he had performed them.
In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.
Boyle also did not scruple to perform his own experiments and, on one occasion in my presence, even showed himself willing to anatomize a rat with his very own hands.
Edgar, her uncertainty of his intentions, her suspicions of his wished secession, the severe task she thought necessary to perform of giving him his liberty, with the anguish of a total inability to judge whether such a step would recall his tenderness, or precipitate his retreat, were suggestions which quickly succeeded, and, in a very short time, wholly domineered over every other.
Tasker Road, Sheffield, when he got the idea of performing the song as a waltz, full-blown, anthemic, a celebration of sixties ideas of communalism, peace and smoking dope.
When the emperor failed to perform his ablutions, the local dignitaries hovering in eager anticipation outside were so infuriated that they pulled the plug.
This antiseptic and antidotal function of the theocentric is performed in a variety of ways.
He is said to dwell mainly upon the proper manner of performing the antiphonary and the graduale.
Demmet administered a small amount of curare to relax the stomach muscles, making the appendectomy that much easier for the surgeon to perform.
Athena Academy, which Christine Evans had e-mailed to Alex that afternoon, clearly stated that an emergency appendectomy had been performed on Rainy when she was fourteen.
The surgeon may perform an appendectomy only to find that the appendix is normal.
We observed first what essential services apperception performs for the human mind in the acquisition of new ideas, and for what an extraordinary easement and unburdening the acquiring soul is indebted to it.
The turns of music consist of the appoggiatura which is the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, together with the note above and the semi-tone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next and the semi-tone below, last, the three being performed sticatoly, or very quickly.
In fact, of course, he was simply an appraiser and could have worn an Armani suit for all the heavy lifting he was going to perform.