According to the alternations of temperature, this process goes on with varying activity until the sheet of ice is so thick that it becomes itself a shelter to the water below, and protects it, to a certain degree, from the cold without.
The regular alternationsof day and night, summer and winter, dry seasons and wet, are adapted to those alternations of organic functions which belong to the economy of life.
In such convulsions of the soil, such alternations of temperature, and such plays of light would she manifest the extravagance of her might with the beauty of her eternal smile.
It is inserted here in the hope that it will impress the reader with a sense both of the fact of these alternations and of the deeply rooted nature of the causes from which they spring.
Even in those alternations of good and bad trade, which spell so much unemployment and misery, there is discernible a rhythmic regularity like that of the process of the seasons, or the ebb and flow of the tide.
Nicola Tesla made an alternator (to give the alternating current dynamo its short title) which could produce 1500 alternations per second, while Mr W.
The alternations of a hundred or so per second, which are quite the common thing with alternators, are just what is needed to excite an induction coil.
And all the while the alternations in the primary coil will be pumping currents, as it were, round and round the ring of molten iron.
The decay commences under alternations of moisture and drying, and hence the fungoid attack.
The alternations of its light put twenty different meanings, one after another, into the settled dismal and rueful expressions in the faces of my companions.
Consider the alternations of hope and bitter despair which had been crowded into that night!
Then followed sleepless nights, alternations of rage and hope, of exaltation and despondency.
Then the stack fell in a huge burning pile to the ground, and a shower of sparks flew out of it, while fiery waves floated above the red mass, which presented in its alternations of colour parts rosy as vermilion and others like clotted blood.
Sudden alternations are very characteristic of him.
Wylie preceding, leading one of the horses, myself following behind and driving the others after him, through a country consisting still of the same alternations of scrub and open intervals as before.
Various alternations of strata, and especially those of the coal measures, have been ascribed to successive local subsidences of the earth's crust, caused by the addition of loads of deposit.
Varying winds may drive currents this way and that, causing alternations in sedimentation.
The air is either too bleak, or it is impure; generally the peasants are exposed to alternations of both.
Synchronously with these rhythmical clonic alternations of adduction and abduction occurred tonic contractions of the masseters and clonic contractions of the palate, tongue, and forearm.
Temporary remissions have been known, however, and alternations with other tics or with psychical affections.
All these accidents might occur again and again at the mouth of any river, and give rise to alternations of fluviatile and marine strata, such as are seen at Menchecourt.
Slight alterations one way or another might render the earth almost uninhabitable, through its being liable to alternations of too great heat or excessive cold.
The mere succession of sounds is rhythm, but music also has at command the varying stresses or accents of notes, alternations in volume of sound, alternations in pitch and quality of sound.
It has been supposed that the earth may have at different times traversed more or less heated zones of space, giving alternations of warm and cold temperature.
Perhaps the first great question which it raises is that as to the causes of the alternations of warm and cold climates in the north, apparently demanded by the vicissitudes of the vegetable kingdom.
The beginning of the trouble, the alternations which characterized it, and its occasional interruptions also bear out the result of my examination.
Though I was confounded with so many alternations of joy and grief, I yet persisted to go forward, in hopes that these fugitive delights would in time be overtaken.
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