Half an hour later the mountains sank back in a golden glow, and long before noon had utterly vanished in quivering heat-haze and the atmospheric fantasies of infinite space.
The east wind and fog continuing a whole week, though we tried all we knew, every effort was frustrated by atmospheric obstruction.
Thus from that celestial altitude he spies out the country and all terrestrial dangers, finally disappearing afar amidst the wastes of atmospheric space.
In Egypt the god Khnumu was "Kneph" in his character as an atmospheric deity.
As a solar and corn god, the Persian Mithra links with Tammuz, as a sky and atmospheric deity with Anu, and as a god of truth, righteousness, and law with Shamash.
Another terrible atmospheric demon was the south-west wind, which caused destructive storms and floods, and claimed many human victims like the Icelandic "corpse swallower".
In addition to water and atmospheric deities Babylonia had also its fire gods, Girru, Gish Bar, Gibil, and Nusku.
A characteristic atmospheric deity was Ramman, the Rimmon of the Bible, the Semitic Addu, Adad, Hadad, or Dadu.
Robert publishes his observations on diphtheria of the skin and of wounds, which he attributes to an atmospheric contamination in crowded wards of hospitals, and looks upon it, with Delpech and Eisenmann, as a form of hospital gangrene.
Hence the barometer falls as the quantity of atmosphericmoisture approaches saturation.
Under these circumstancesatmospheric impregnation is conclusive.
Elevation of a locality above the general level of the earth reduces atmospheric pressure, sensibly as well as measurably.
On the other hand, I know of no observations which prove that the disease is ever communicated by food or drinks, or through any other vehicle than atmospheric air.
With humidity must be considered variations in atmospheric pressure.
The disease is most probably due to some atmosphericagency that is capable of acting at the same time upon widely separated localities.
Observations have thus far failed to establish any connection in the atmospheric conditions of temperature or moisture and the type of scarlet fever.
They may even be able to travel and carry the disease to distant places, and so appear to justify the erroneous and irrational doctrine of the atmospheric or spontaneous origin of cholera.
Then decided shiverings with chattering of the teeth come on, and the patient asks for blankets to be heaped upon him and hot applications to be made, even though the atmospheric temperature may be decidedly elevated.
Many facts are patent which sustain the generally accepted opinion that yellow-fever poison gains admission to the system through the medium of atmospheric air.
When he first conceived this opinion he was ignorant of the nature of atmospheric air, and of the existence of oxygen gas.
His discovery of oxygen gas had been anticipated by Priestley; but his analysis of atmospheric air was new and satisfactory--was peculiarly his own.
This discovery altered all his views, and speedily suggested not only the nature of atmospheric air, but also what happens during the calcination of metals and the combustion of burning bodies in general.
They are as atmospheric phenomena, to be observed, taken advantage of, or provided against, and are extremely interesting to the individuals immediately affected by them.
This was inevitable in a political microcosm having neither diversity of interest nor atmospheric space to soften the perspective.
An architecture of atmospheric galleries strong enough to hold up worlds.
Then the auditorium of atmospheric galleries will be melted.
Not that we suppose all these tales to be atmospheric myths; we adopt this only as the provisional hypothesis which appears at present to cover the largest amount of facts.
They still form part of the faith of these simple people--not at all, we need hardly say, in the use of mythological or atmospheric allegory, but as narratives of veritable fact.
As a system they are effective and do not lead to accidents; nor are they any more subject than telegraph wires to derangement from atmospheric causes.
It is now a much more perfect appliance than it was in 1871, for it was then simply atmospheric and continuous in its action, whereas it has since been made automatic and self-regulating.
The strain under which it yielded was not a particularly severe one, even taken in connection with the great atmospheric pressure of the storm then prevailing.
No barometer was ever more sensitive to atmospheric variations than the feelings of a sick person; no magnet was ever attracted to steel more suddenly than their nervous sensibilities to an agreeable or disagreeable object.
This point appears to be a favored place for the stimulus of thought, where inspiration can be gathered from atmospheric influences, and not the heat of youth or the vapor of strong drink.
It would seem, however, that the color is dependent on the soil upon which the plants are grown, as well as upon atmospheric influences.
As previously mentioned, by exposure to the atmospheric air all volatile oils undergo a change, whereby they thicken and are finally converted into substances possessing the character of resins.
Now beyond measurableatmospheric pressure, the shell cooled rapidly and he applied full touring acceleration.
As the lifeboat tore upward through the air at the highest permissible atmospheric velocity Bradley and Clio peered over Costigan's shoulders into the plate, watching in absorbed interest the scene which was being kept in focus upon it.
Watching the pyrometers which recorded the temperature of the outer shell, he drove the lifeboat ahead at the highest safe atmospheric speed while Bradley went to inspect the damage.
Finally a measurable atmospheric pressure was encountered, the needle prow dipped downward, and the Silver Sliver shot forward upon her tiny wings and vanes, nose-rockets now drumming in staccato thunder.
For a comb she uses a jagged rock, or cruel coral; for her vanity there is no semblance of pardon; and for her seductive plaint, has it not degenerated into a gulping unmelodious sigh, as she fills her capacious lungs with atmospheric air?
Some atmospheric phenomenon, altogether beyond idle concern, lifted the islands afar off out of the water, suspending them in the sky.
The solution of the question--How far and in what manner are storms connected with atmospheric waves?
The more important objects of observation having especial reference to atmospheric waves are those points which have been termed crests and troughs.
Its range, under ordinaryatmospheric conditions, was about twenty-five miles.
Or atmosphere, or the atmospheric fluid which we breathe.
Difficult as it is to foretell weather accurately, much useful foresight may be acquired by combining the indications of instruments (such as the barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer) with atmospheric appearances.
The tides are affected by atmospheric pressure, so much that a rise of one inch in the barometer will have a corresponding fall in the tides of nine to sixteen inches, or about one foot for each inch.
When the atmospheric pressure is lessened on the vacuum box, a spring acting on levers, turns the hand to the left, and when the pressure increases, the spring is affected differently, the hand being turned to the right.
The atmosphericcirculation thus deflected influences the circulation of the ocean.
He refers to the mountains as condensers of the atmospheric moisture, and shows that the largest rivers rise among the loftiest high grounds.
The formation of a stratum of turf protects the soil and rocks underneath from being rapidly disintegrated and washed away by atmospheric action.
Though a long range of such cliffs resembles a coast that has been worn by the sea, it may be entirely due to mereatmospheric waste.
It is to this cause that the easting and westing of the great atmospheric currents are to be attributed, as is familiarly exemplified in the trade winds.
Where, on the other hand, ordinary atmospheric action has been more rapid, the sides of the river channels have been attacked, and open sloping glens and valleys have been hollowed out.
So balmy and exhilarating is it that it is so much atmospheric wine.
And it came, from the north-west, a blast of wind, a blow, an atmospheric impact that bewildered and stunned and again made the Elsinore harp protest.
If we allow the gas to escape in a copious stream, and set it on fire, it will form an explosive mixture with the atmospheric air, and will no longer burn with a white flame, but will emit a bluish and reddish light.
If we put a bell in a receiver containing a mixture of hydrogen gas and atmospheric air, the sound of the bell can scarcely be heard.
These parts, on account of their increased density, absorb the oxygen of atmospheric air less copiously than the surrounding portions.
The Captain was the only man who seemed to ignore the sublime and appalling atmospheric conditions.
Air at the normal atmosphericpressure is then introduced into the ballonettes until the weight of the airship is slightly heavier than air.
No wonder there used to be so much talk about "holes in the air" and all the other atmospheric difficulties that beset the pioneers.
His machine was brought from Hammondsport to Albany ready for a start, and on May 31, after a long wait for favorable atmospheric conditions, he was on his way.
You'll get all kinds of lines from a spectrogram of atmospheric dust.
Vickers was the teaching fellow in the chemistry department whom Professor Maddox had planned to assign to help the boys when they first suggested atmospheric analysis.
The first effort to identify any foreign substance in the atmospheric dust was a failure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atmospheric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aerial; aery; airy; atmosphere; breezy; ethereal; exposed; light; pneumatic; roomy
