The sutural edges of the alae are smooth, or with a high power can just be seen to be crenated.
And, thirdly, the spaces between the radii and the plates on which the alae rest, being solidly filled up.
But the alae in all cases (as is obvious in Pachylasma) are nothing but the protuberant lateral edges of the compartments, rendered thin and modified during growth.
The summits of the alae are very oblique; their sutural edges are plainly crenated.
But the Alae counted the fishermen and refused to build a fire for the hidden one who was watching them.
The birds had kindled the fire and the bananas were almost done, when the elder Alae called to the younger: "Be quick, here comes the swift son of Hina.
Then Maui threw his magic hook into the sea, baited with one of the Alae birds, sacred to his mother Hina.
But again Maui caught the Alae and began to kill it, saying: "You gave me a plant full of water from which to get fire.
He was very angry and said, "If that lying Alae is caught again by me I will be its death.
Then drawing the magic hook, he baited it with the Alaeor sacred mud hen belonging to his Mother Hina.
The great birdAlae is taken, The sister bird, Of that one of the hidden fire of Maui.
She caught a wing of the bird, but could not pull the Alae from the sacred hook.
The Alae said, "Go up on the high land where beautiful plants with large leaves are standing; rub their branches.
Maui was impatient--and just as the old Alae began to select sticks with which to make the flames he leaped swiftly out and caught her and held her prisoner.
The medial ramus of the pterygoid does not articulate with the otic capsule, and the parasphenoid alae are laterally, rather than posterolaterally, oriented.
It arises, as does this latter, from the external surface of the maxilla, and goes also to terminate in the upper lip by blending with the internal elevator of this lip and of the alae of the nose.
So it went on, until finally the alae told him he would find it in a dry stick; and so, indeed, he did.
I supposed some man had the fire, and behold, it was not so; the alae are the proprietors of the fire, and our bananas are all stolen.
Before they were fully baked one of the alae cried out: "Our dish is cooked!
They did so, and when they went out to fish the next morning, the alae counted and saw four figures in the canoe, and then they lit the fire and put the bananas on to roast.
Soon the alae birds came circling overhead and Maui heard them say, "At last we can make our fire and have a good feast.
But to this day everyalae bird wears the symbol of punishment for telling its secret--a tuft of red feathers on the top of its head.
In the days that followed he devised many cunning schemes to trap one of the alae birds, but they, too, were cunning and carefully refrained from building any fire when Maui was near.
He could not understand what had been done to them until one day he came upon a group of little alae birds cooking bananas over a fire.
Helpless and exhausted, the poor alaetold Maui to take two hau sticks and rub them together.
The British diploma of 124, for example, which was issued to men from six alae and twenty-one cohorts, can hardly be supposed to contain the auxilia of only one of the three legions then stationed in the province.
The two Alae Flaviae Geminae, for example, which appear in Germania Superior at the end of the first century, would represent the salvage of the old Rhine army which went to pieces in 69.
In Germania Superior three soldiers of the Alae I and II Flaviae Geminae describe themselves as Baetasius, Elvetius, and Secuanus, and the Raetian diploma of the year 107 was granted to a Boian who had served in the Ala I Hispanorum Auriana.
Including all the alae with titles derived from proper names but no racial title.
The Alae Petriana and Sebosiana and two cohorts of Tungrians, which had formed part of the Rhine army in 69, appear later in Britain.
This was probably the origin of the title veterana or veteranorum, which was borne by five alae and five cohorts,[131] although its interpretation is much disputed.
From forty to fifty feet, divide the length by three and one half, and give the alae the result.
Their lintel beams should be placed high enough to make the height of the alae equal to their width.
Of these, let three on the right and three on the left be given to the smaller cellae, or to the alae if there are to be alae, and the other four devoted to the middle of the temple.
Valve having the appearance of Nitzschia, with inconspicuous alae (Stenopterobia).
It includes the Pteropega, Elytra, Tegmina, Hemelytra, Alae Superiores, and Tegulae.
The upper organs of flight of many of the homopterous section of the Hemiptera seem altogether membranous, and may almost be included under the term Alae Superiores.
The alae (c, c') are here at the middle of the sides; the one at the left served as a passageway between the two atriums.
The pilasters at the entrances of the alae and the tablinum are also unusually well preserved; the house is among the most important for our knowledge of the period to which it belongs.
The alae are at the middle of the sides, as in the house of Epidius Rufus and the smaller atrium of the house of the Faun.
The alae and several rooms were redecorated shortly before the destruction of the city.
One of the alae (h) at the time of the eruption was used as a wardrobe.
A careful study of the remains only deepens the impression that at Pompeii the alae served no definite purpose, but were a survival from a previous period, in which they responded to different conditions of life.
After the compluvium had come into general use, a conservative tradition still retained the alae whenever possible, though they no longer answered their original purpose.
THE ALAE The alae, the 'wings' of the atrium, were two deep recesses in the sides (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
