Our ancestors built the accumulations of metaphor into structures of language and into systems of thought.
I may be reminded that at present, at all events, only finite accumulations have arisen, and that this is not consistent with an accumulation through a past eternity.
Wherever the beach has been swept bare, we see it floored with trap-dykes worn down to the level, but in most places accumulations of huge blocks of various composition cover it up, concealing the nature of the rock beneath.
At low ebb he had to work hard in clearing away the accumulations of stone and gravel which had been rolled in by the previous tide, and threatened to bury him up altogether.
The Londoners had then their reservoirs of filth, called laystalls, in various parts near the river; and the pestilent accumulations spread disease all over the city.
We have already stated and illustrated the general principle that the wages of labour are determined by the accumulations of capital, compared with the number of labourers.
Without extensive accumulations of capital, which produce enterprise, they could not be engaged in at all.
They are suffering from the effects of small accumulations and imperfect exchange; but these are far better than no accumulation and no exchange.
An almanac seems a common thing, but it is impossible to overrate the prodigious accumulations of science that go to make up an almanac.
Without security they could not have accumulated--without accumulations they could not have exchanged--without exchanges they could not have carried forward their labours with any compensating productiveness.
The credit rendered the labour of the Indians loss severe, inasmuch as it allowed them to work with the aid of the accumulations of others, instead of with their own accumulations.
They would have remained buried in the earth but for large accumulations of knowledge, and large accumulations of pecuniary wealth to set that knowledge in action by exchanging with it.
We will endeavour to trace what accumulations of skill, and what divisions of employment, were necessary to enable Tanner to clothe himself with a piece of woollen cloth.
Ages of accumulations pile up, covered with the dust of centuries which has gone through innumerable processes of sifting.
In process of time the gravel accumulations become quite thick; in Miller Creek, for example, they varied from three or four feet at the head of the valley, where I was, to fifty or sixty at the mouth.
The banks showed on the upper parts, deposits of black peat, twenty or thirty feet thick, and it was evident that the accumulations are going on at the surface yet.
These niggerheads are tufts of vegetation which grow upwards by successive accumulations till they are knee high or even more.
This is precisely what the geologists tell us has happened in past ages; the bodies of diatoms have accumulated through thousands of years, and finally the oil accumulations have been covered over with sediment of one kind or another.
The ashes and other accumulations within are removed by means of a bodkin-shaped instrument of bone or horn.
Fertile soil everywhere contains nitrates and other nitrogen compounds, and in certain parts of the world there are large accumulations of these compounds, like the nitrate beds of Chili.
But such incomplete fermentation is still going on in many parts of the world, and by its means vegetable accumulations are being converted into peat.
They are fed by springs, and are not accumulations of stagnant water derived from the melting snow.
Wonderful accumulations of fish remains are found at the base of the system, in the bone-bed of the Bristol coal-field, as well as in a similar bed at Armagh.
The formation of such accumulations of decaying vegetation would only be possible where the physical conditions of the country allowed of an abundant rainfall, and depressions in the surface of the land to retain the moisture.
Little attention seemed to have been paid to the fact, which has since so thoroughly been established, that the explosions were caused by accumulations of gas, mixed in certain proportions with air.
The accumulations of experience are practically accumulations of fatigue.
The local lesions are to be regarded as being of the nature of reactions against accumulations of the parasite, lymphocytes and plasma cells being the elements chiefly concerned in the reactive process.
They found Rum river blockaded at one place a distance of three-quarters of a mile, with drifts or rafts of trees, consolidated and held together by the roots of grasses and water willows, the accumulations apparently of ages.
The bees prefer to gather fresh bee-bread, even when there are large accumulationsof old stores in the cells.
In very large hives, I have seen large accumulations of honey which have been untouched for years, while on the same stand, stocks of about the same age, in small hives have perished by starvation.
All of these diatomous accumulations kept at a certain depth, about a yard below the surface of the water; in some of the small lanes they appeared in large masses.
There were large accumulations of them in nearly every little channel.
Under the microscope they all appeared to consist of accumulations of diatoms, among which, moreover, were a number of larger cellular organisms of a very characteristic appearance.
It was evident that these accumulations of diatoms and alga remained floating exactly at the depth where the upper stratum of fresh water rests on the sea-water.
The cellar of the log cabin is still visible, though partly filled with the accumulations of seventy years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accumulations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
