Leaves rigid, not collapsing when removed from the water =Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus circinatus.
Leaves soft, collapsingwhen removed from the water =Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus aquatilis var.
THE YOUTH [collapsing on the altar with a groan] Oh!
The burning of the magic book is found in version c, though the incident of the collapsing of the room or house is lacking in all our variants.
The doctor is now dead, and went to his grave under the delusive persuasion--that not any vile glass of brandy, but the stern refusal of all brandy, was the thing that saved his collapsing patient.
At the mention of the fly, he re-enforced the severe dignity of his attitude as one inflates a collapsing toy balloon with a great effort of breath.
Fortunately there were no signs of the hull plating collapsing under the weight of the obstruction.
It seemed as if the metal helmet was collapsing under the shock.
Then it suddenly wavered in the middle and broke, collapsing with a tremendous splash and commotion of the sea, the sound of which came drifting down to the brig with startling distinctness some ten or twelve seconds later.
The inevitable result of such collapsing during successive centuries, will have been the slow subsidence of the floor and of the walls, and their burial beneath the accumulated worm-castings.
From the collapsing of the old burrows the mould is in constant though slow movement, and the particles composing it are thus rubbed together.
The next thing he remembered was standing far from the collapsing building, with a dozen men and boys grouped about him.
Collapsing on the deck from sheer exhaustion, Penny and Sally gazed toward the warehouses and docks on the opposite shore.
He sees how the hands of Jesus convulse under the strain, extend agonizingly, how the wounds spread and suddenly the collapsing abdomen sinks below the ribs.
The hills were so dark, swift, and great, moving barely inferior to the clouds which travelled with them, the collapsing roof which fell over the seas, flying with the same impulse as the waters.
I shut my heavy teak door amidships, shut out the daunting uproar of floods, and the sensation that the night was collapsing round our heaving ship.
The room was very still; only the click of the knitting needles or the soft noise of the collapsing peat ashes broke the stillness.
Thus the framework could bend and curve and sway, moving with steady glide across the landscape, yet never collapsing nor losing its exquisite proportions.
Determined at last, warned by my fast-collapsing portmonnaie, to refuse to see any more deputations and keep ben-the-house strictly.
It was a woman; she did not speak any more, but looked, and that look drew out my fast collapsing purse.
Just as Temple was drifting off into a dream about complex machinery he did not yet understand but realized he soon would, Sophia joined him the hard way, collapsing alongside of him, unconscious and sprawling gracelessly on the floor.
He fell, collapsing first at the knees, then the waist, then flopping face down in the mud.
Mr Dolls, collapsing in the drowsiest manner after his late intellectual triumph, replied: 'Threepenn'orth Rum.
It was a race of endurance against a collapsing resolve.
A shower of sparks puffed out of the window and inside sounded a crash of collapsing timbers.
He extended his arms helplessly, and plunged dizzily forward, collapsing in a heap on the pavement.
Instead, he enacted it by giving a crazy plunge backward and collapsing in a heap, almost alongside the unconscious Joe.
The spectacle of collapsing carts and fainting women was frequently seen.
They recount the roar of falling structures and the groans and pitiful cries of those pinned beneath the timbers of collapsing buildings.
The valley beds were like deep graves, the sides of the mountains like the collapsing walls of a grave.
He himself had more or less escaped back to the old form; but as he came with me on to the hillside, looking down the high-road at Lugano in the distance, he knew that his old order was collapsing by a slow process of disintegration.
She dropped heavily, bounced clumsily, and smashed the hanging gallery into the fore-part, mortally injuring Von Winterfeld, and then came down in a collapsing heap after dragging for some moments.
