The central figure is an enormously fat woman, whose night-dress, drawn up to support a mass of crockery, displays her Rubensesque and redundant charms to the watermen, who turn their grinning faces to gaze upon the spectacle.
An admirable drawing, exhibiting hundreds of market-people disposed in groups, with the Town House in the central background and the 'Three Kings' inn on the right hand.
The entire central nervous system seems to be influenced favorably by its use; the appetite increases and assimilation and nutrition improve, showing an influence over the sympathetic and the solar plexus.
Central part of frontal bone so queer as to awaken me.
They have for their subject the early days of our Gracious Sovereign, and round that central theme they play with every variety of picturesque inventiveness.
The centralidea of the Eclectic Theosophy was that of a single Supreme Essence, Unknown and Unknowable; for "how could one know the knower?
The central thickest line, d d, is the Mineral Kingdom.
Buru Bonga, spirit of the hills worshiped by the Kolarian tribes of Central India.
Whatever a man might act, think, or feel, the irrepressible personality is sure to be the central figure.
The central light becomes dimmer and dimmer as curtain after curtain is placed before the observer; and as curtain after curtain is removed the light becomes brighter and brighter until it reaches its natural brilliancy.
The second historical wave appears about that time in Central Asia.
Its body was quite transparent, with the exception of the central canal, which was of a milk-white colour, and terminated in a small sac of the same hue.
There were no letters; but Bronckhorst said openly that he would rack Heaven and Earth until he saw Biel superintending the manufacture of carpets in the Central Jail.
This central block is made up of the dwelling-rooms, with the kitchen behind and our bedroom above.
The central part was evidently of a great age and shrouded in ivy, but the large windows showed that modern changes had been carried out, and one wing of the house appeared to be entirely new.
From a rock in the strait the central tower rises to a height of two hundred and thirty feet, and other towers are built on each shore at a distance of four hundred and sixty feet from the central one.
The great east window was even more elaborate than the western, but all of it has fallen excepting the central mullion and the stronger portion of the tracery which branches out on either side from it.
The vaulted roof and central tower are gone, but the arches which supported the latter remain.
The western towers are one hundred and eighty feet high, and the central tower two hundred and sixty feet, while the width of the cathedral's noble western front is one hundred and seventy-four feet.
Entering the cathedral, the strange spectacle is at once seen of singular inverted arches under the central tower, forming a cross of St. Andrew, to whom the building is dedicated.
He immediately ordered the march to Edgehill, a magnificent situation for an army to occupy, for here the broken country of the Border sinks suddenly down upon the level plain of Central England.
The "London Stone" on Cannon Street was the central stone or milliarium from which distances were measured and the great Roman highways started.
The cathedral is of considerable size, being four hundred and twenty feet long, and is surmounted by a much-admired central tower.
From this a passage leads to the Central Hall, an octagonal chamber seventy feet across and seventy-five feet high, with a beautiful groined roof.
The nave fell after a storm in the last century, and a similar cause threw down the central tower in 1830.
A smaller inner rampart as high as the outer one made the central citadel.
All these are now in picturesque ruin, the long corridor, with its vaulted roof supported by a central row of columns with broad arches, being considered one of the most impressive religious remains in England.
Lady Valeria right quickly discarded her terror of the casket, and very quietly appropriated the magnificent central gem.
On top of a hill I found an apparently abandoned village, from which I could overlook all central Santo.
The tides cause very nasty tide-rips in the narrow channels between the islands of the Central group; but inside, the sea is fairly good, and the reefs offer plenty of anchorage for small craft.
Tangoa is a small island, on which the Presbyterian mission has established a central school for the more intelligent of the natives of the whole group, where they may be trained as teachers.
They are divided into the Torres group, the Banks Islands, the Centraland the Southern New Hebrides.
In appearance these people do not differ much from those ofcentral Santo, who are by no means of a uniform type.
A rational demonstration of the existence of a primordial continent in the central tract of the Pacific Ocean.
In her present misery all she took note of was thecentral fact of his condemnation, and she could not understand why ordinary mortals should have the power so to dispose of a fellow-creature.
When she saw she was near one of the stations of the Illinois Central she stopped, a little confused.
At each corner rises a round tower furnished with small screened windows, or, rather, they are more like four charming kiosks, corresponding to the graceful cupolas on the roof which encircle the main central cupola.
But, so far as his Central American affairs were concerned, Mr. McKay was practically ruined, and he took steps to return to Queensland with the least possible delay.
Canute ruled England himself, not because it was regarded as the chief or central kingdom, but more likely because it could not with safety be entrusted to any one else.
Reaction consists of a central nodule surrounded by a halo of redness.
The central problem by which I have sought to illustrate method is the problem of the relation between the crude data of sense and the space, time, and matter of mathematical physics.
It is in this way that the study of logic becomes the central study in philosophy: it gives the method of research in philosophy, just as mathematics gives the method in physics.
On examining it afterwards, it was found that sixty dead Dervishes lay where thecentral squadrons had cut their way through.
The brunt of the fighting fell upon the two central squadrons.
Their gyrations are intended to symbolise the wheelings of the planets round their central sun and the attraction of the creature to the Creator.
At the age of twenty-one the young man quitted his relatives and his country, and went back to Balkh, then a centre of learning inCentral Asia.
The central point about which everything now revolves is the coming to maturity of the sexual system.
It occurred to him to get a close look at a wonderful piece of Mr. O'Neill's work that stood in the center of the beautiful lawn facing the central gateway.
In fact, they were so sleepy that the car had reached New York Central Station before they roused themselves.
And as long as we are at Alexandria or even at Souakim, the future ofCentral Africa will depend on us, or at least on our people.
Liberal as he was, tolerant as he was, broad as he was, the centraltruths of the Christian religion and of the Catholic Church were not merely articles of his creed, but guiding principles of his conduct.
In the cross-section of a young shoot, we might see around the central pith or medulla, a ring of wedge-shaped patches.
This is why palms can grow only lengthwise, or else by forming new fibers more densely in the central mass.
There was a letter from a correspondent on the subject of the watersheds of Central South Africa, and he was reading it with attention.
