Batson Reeves was just blanketing his horse, for in his vigorous courtship forenoon calls figured regularly.
VIII Louada Murilla opened the front door when the chief constable knocked, after an exasperatingly elaborate hitching and blanketing of horses.
They were already blanketing every frequency he could employ; using power through which he could not drive even a tight beam a hundred miles.
Thus it was that they approached Ganymede, ready, with blanketing screens full out, save for one narrow working band, and with a keen-eyed observer at every plate.
With two fields of force, set up from data 27 to 43, it will be possible actually to project a pure force of such a nature that it will react to de-heterodyne the blanketing frequency at any predetermined distance.
A light rain had fallen during the night and a heavy, obliterating fog arose from the wet earth, blanketing hill and valley alike.
He soon found that this was of no avail and at last, seeking something that might be of value, he climbed out of the earth-blanketing fog into the clear sunlight, encountering clear blue sky at some fifteen hundred feet.
His legs and feet were full of nettles and thorns; the gnats and mosquitoes pestered him horribly, for his piece of blanketing did not cover him.
When we find Craven, we'll find the contraption that's blanketing Jupiter and its moons.
Dost thou mean to say now, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that I did not feel when they wereblanketing thee?
The very air was frozen, blanketingthe snow with lurid frost clouds.
Dusk was blanketing the prairies when they drew up at Flynn's cabin, yet it was not too dark for Mrs. Flynn's sharp eyes to pick their secret.
Herman swore profusely (people did not do that around the barn when Master was home) as he rubbed me down rapidly with a coarse cloth before blanketing me closely.
Look ye to the thick thatch O’er the gable of the roof, Piled higher with a blanketing of snow; And shutters hang agape, to rattle Like the cackle of a crone.
A flank o’ daisy flowers and stones rolled o’er in blanketing o’ moss.
Her voice penetrated the uproar of his mind, stilling troubled waters, blanketing other sounds.
Then it was like coming out of the blanketing fog of horror into the sunlight of sanity; like rebirth, painlessly, into an eery other-dimension.
In the single tent are pieces ofblanketing which during the day are turned aside, but at night are let down so as to cover the entrance and fulfil the functions of a door.
Even a little water vapor augments slightly the blanketingeffect of the air and to that extent diminishes the diurnal and seasonal range of temperature and the contrast from zone to zone.
So great would be theblanketing effect of this that a minimum monthly temperature of 10 deg.
Now carbon dioxide and water vapor both have a strong blanketing effect whereby heat is prevented from leaving the earth.
Humphreys, in his excellent book on the Physics of the Air, calculates that a layer of carbon dioxide forty centimeters thick has practically as much blanketing effect as a layer indefinitely thicker.
It contained the elements essential to life, and its blanketing effect was such as to maintain temperatures not greatly different from those of the present.
When a constant supply of warm water is being brought from low latitudes this blanketing of the heat by the fog becomes of great importance.
At the same time evaporation from the ocean diminishes so that a decrease in water vapor combines with the previous depletion of carbon dioxide to reduce the blanketing effect of the atmosphere.
A diminution in the density of the other constituents of the air also decreases the blanketing effect of the atmosphere.
It was Jennie, dressed for warmth in every rag ofblanketing available.
