Does it convey an adequate idea of the subject-matter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Methods of instruction must be as varied as the subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

It brought with it a new set of data, and a new subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference

State in a single sentence the subject-matter of the whole poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

The style is forcible because (1) the +subject-matter+ is +easily grasped+.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

England had exactly the opposite fortune in regard to verse and subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Other lists for older boys and girls are classified according to subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Somehow or other we drift away from the subject-matter of our evening lessons, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

We had a great debate, however, the following evening about the subject-matter of the sermon.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Gegenbaur to be entirely distinct sciences, with different subject-matter and different methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

But surely this difference lies in the subject-matter, not in the nature of our mental faculties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

It deals with its subject-matter, man, in precisely the same way as the astronomer with the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

The book is in no way radical, either in the subject-matter selected or in the method of treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Much, indeed, of the subject-matter here is, we shall find, somewhat similar to that of the Phædrus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

For convenience, they are classified in a general way, according to the subject-matter of which they treat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

A systematic process of enquiry would shew that, as in geology, so here, the subject-matter lies in layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Still, 28% of students didn't score high enough on even one subject-matter exam to ensure college readiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scores Stagnate at High Schools] Reference

My self-imposed scheme of classification by subject-matter becomes no easier as the end of my task approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference

English dealing with its subject-matter, and hardly any which dealt with the question of Manuring at any length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

I shall refer only to one group of these expressions that is directly relevant to the subject-matter of this book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

You are now in comprehensive touch with a subject-matter that ought to lead you with your family into ease and prominence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

Some books can be calculated to appeal more to one section of the country than to another because of their subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

The Code itself was carefully and logically arranged and the order of its sections was conditioned by their subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

With copies of the few letters referred to, and which seem necessary to illustrate the subject-matter, I close this chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

One reason for this neglect of the theistic argument may be readily found in the subject-matter of the treatises themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference

It should be sufficient only to cover the various divisions of the subject-matter, and to prevent the confusion of subtopics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference

Such a sketch will be interesting, not only in its subject-matter, but also as a chapter in the general history of human progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

This is the original unity; it is here, in a limited, easily comprehensible subject-matter, that the lines are first clearly drawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

"History" in the subject-matter group, and a French book in green cloth would be placed in subclass "French" in the language group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Classification of Patents] Reference

The subject-matter was contributed by employes on the road, and young Edison was the proprietor, editor, publisher and selling agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

General Grant, after his great illness in April, and the present arrangement of the subject-matter was made by him between the 10th and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It has the attitude, this performance, almost of diffidence to one's subject-matter, except as the intellect judges clearly and coolly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

The only possible method of classifying ballads is by their subject-matter; and even thus the lines of demarcation are frequently blurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference

Hence it would be of no avail to pick out one chapter or another for first reading, perhaps because of some special interest in its subject-matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The division into chapters has been regulated by the subject-matter, and will, it is hoped, aid in the survey of the contents of the book as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

Let government keep its hands off -- do nothing in the way of creating the subject-matter of speculation -- and things naturally fall into this channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

What is objected to, is an agreement to receive a certain part or proportion of the sum, or subject-matter, in the event of a recovery, and nothing otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference

Mr. Sabine gives us in his introductory essay a most admirable analysis of the whole subject-matter, with an accurate and instructive array of all the facts bearing upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference