Modern buildings stretch along the whole course of the other eleven avenues branching from Place de l'Étoile.
A great chain of snowy mountains branching off south-east and north-west divides the drainage of the Chenab and the Jhelum rivers from that of the higher branches of the Indus.
Muhamrah and branchingoff to the left is a choked-up river bed called the "blind Karun," by which the Karun found its way to the sea in former days.
Kipling as "showing a gul dasta, or foliated pattern of a branching tree, each leaf of which is a separate piece of pottery.
He had to cross the other branching road, at the corner of which stood the shivering poplar, which shed its leaves as if with a perpetual shrinking of fear.
The base of the trunk lay flat on the ground, but the branching limbs supported the top to that extent that it was raised five or six feet from the earth.
As has been stated, it was what was known as the red oak, very large, with branching limbs at no great distance from the ground.
Gills= thick, distant, more or less branching and anastomosing, concolorous.
Warm perfumes rise; the soft unflickering glow Of branching lights sets off the changeful charms Of glancing gems, rich stuffs, dazzling snow Of necks unkerchieft, and bare, clinging arms.
Pink as coral's branching sprays, Orchard ways With the blossomed peach are fair.
The disposition of the renal system in the internally articulated vertebrates is very similar to this; but now complicated structures begin to appear, a pair of compact kidneys (renes), which are made up of a number of branching nephridia.
In all the larger cnidaria the body-wall becomes thicker, and is traversed by branching gastro-canals; these convey the nutritive fluid to all parts of the body.
But they lead not into tubes, but into a little cup lined with delicate pink tissues and the branching nerves of smell.
Every large mass of branching coral is full of lurking fishes, some of them often most brilliantly colored.
Each chromatophore consists of a central body from which a number of branching filaments radiate.
The pigment may contract into the centre of the chromatophore, forming a minute and hardly visible speck, or it may spread out into the branching filaments, forming a distinct spot of colour.
At the point where the short stalk enters the abdomen of the Crab, it gives off an immense system of fine branching roots, which penetrate throughout the body of the Crab, and even into its legs and other appendages.
The tendency of the soft earth of the banks to break into gullies, branching back into impervious scrubs, was such as to prevent me from either seeing much of the river during this day's journey, or pursuing a straight course.
There was also a branching Composite, which Sir W.
Branching to the southwest would be at least two important valley thoroughfares, the Banksville and West Liberty Roads.
Going south from the Glenwood bridge the first valley branching eastward from Streets Run leads to the high land at Lincoln Place.
From the Glenwood bridge one thoroughfare, destined to be of importance, follows the valley of Streets Run to Miller's Grove, branching there into lines feeding Snowden, Jefferson and the southern portions of Baldwin and Mifflin townships.
Every trail branching toward Granite Mountain had to be checked off my diagram, for we had seen no sign-board.
At four in the afternoon we came to a trail branching and leading to a large log house a half mile away.
On the white linen and silver, on her face and crimson gown, gleamed the light of many candles, standing in old-fashioned branching candlesticks.
He turned into the narrow lanes branching out of the great thoroughfare leading to the Bank, and proceeded without any difficulty to the banking-house of his brother Geoffry.
The complicated branching of the lines of affinities in extensive groups must also afford great facilities for giving a show of probability to any such purely artificial arrangements.
That is all the purpose they serve me, yet they look like branching antlers, and that also is something.
Make it among branching roots, with half a dozen entrances and exits, and I defy the weasel, let alone the stoat.
The flower-stalks rise from the centre of the leaves, and the branching or forked flower is curious; but the structure of the leaf is peculiarly so, and seems like a living fibrous skeleton rather than an entire leaf.
To Gallitzin was reserved the deep gratification of witnessing the branching off, from Loretto, of various Catholic parishes, which were formed in the very manner in which Loretto had been.
Stem is compound erect and subdivided or branching without any regular order.
The trunk of this tree is a simple branching diffused stem and not proliferous as the pines & firs usially are but like most other trees it puts forth buds from the sides of the small boughs as well as their extremities.
Commencement of Some one years groth which in Some instances are as far back as the third year The Stem of the Black Alder of this countrey before mentioned as ariveing at great Size, is Simple branching and defuse.
Stem Simple branching assending and proliferous; the bark of a redish dark brown and thicker than that of No.
The stem of the black alder of this country before mentioned as arriving to great size, is simply branching and defuse.
Next they were rushed through a labyrinth of small caves with walls of curious, branching formation, sponge-like and intricate.
In addition to these, there are numerous branching or plant-like Tabulate Corals, often of the most graceful form, which are distinctive of the Devonian in all parts of the world.
All thebranching and complex forms of the Arenig, the twin-Graptolites and Dicranograpti of the Llandeilo, and the double-celled Diplograpti and Climacograpti of the Bala group, have now disappeared.
These complicatedbranching forms, as well as the Tetragrapti, are characteristic of the horizon of the Arenig group.
Suddenly the verdure ceased, and we emerged upon a hideous scene, one of the many lava flows from Kilauea, an irregular branching stream, about a mile broad.
