superintendence

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• These apartments, under the best superintendence, cannot be made to afford proper accommodations for the inmates … and a portion of the rooms seemed more like those receptacles of crime, “to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,” than tenements prepared for the recipients of an awful visitation of Divine Providence, justly considered the worst “of all the ills that flesh is heir to.” The Mad Among Us
• Vignale in his sacerdotal robes, with young Henry Bertrand at his side, bearing an aspersorium; Doctors Arnott and Antommarchi, the persons entrusted with the superintendence of the hearse, drawn by four horses, led by grooms, and escorted by twelve grenadiers without arms, on each side; these last were to carry the coffin on their shoulders as soon as the ruggedness of the road prevented the hearse from advancing; young Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
• The Koreans, who were considered as vassals, or semi-vassals, came to Japan to present their congratulations on the accession of each new Sh [= o] gun; and some small trade was done at Fusan under the superintendence of the daimi [= o] of Tsushima. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
• State superintendence of fisheries shall operate under the principle of unified leadership and decentralized administration.
• I cannot set so light by all the invention, the art, the wit, the grave and solid judgment which is in England, as that it can be comprehended in any twenty capacities how good soever, much less that it should not pass except their superintendence be over it, except it be sifted and strained with their strainers, that it should be uncurrent without their manual stamp. Areopagitica
• He started slowly up the hill, his angular knees and high shoulders bent complainingly, his eyes fixed on his feet, yet, neat for all that, in his high hat and his frock-coat, on which was the speckless gloss imparted by perfect superintendence. The Man of Property
• Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
• The Niagara Railway Suspension-bridge was erected from the designs, and under the personal superintendence, of Mr. John A. Roebling, at a cost of 400,000 dols. The Great International Railway Suspension Bridge Over the Niagara River
• The women of the Laguna Pueblo remain unwashed and in bed for four days; very early on the fifth the puerpera is washed and dressed under the superintendence of a Sheaine or priest, who walks out, followed by the women, to see the sun rise and to render thanks for her safe delivery. Labor Among Primitive Peoples
• State superintendence of fisheries shall operate under the principle of unified leadership and decentralized administration.