For all men admire the body, both for its manner of building, and the curious way of its being compacted together.
And I will add, it was not only thus magnificent for length and breadth, but for terror; it was compacted after the manner of a castle, or stronghold, as was said before.
They were the fervid affirmations of his own convictions, compacted into reasoned unison, out of the indivisible constituents of his very manhood's honor.
Upon this one plain question, and upon his one convinced determination he massed and compacted his first Congressional address.
Where the sand had been scooped cut into hollow beds, and the water of the lake had been permitted to flow in, evaporation had left a bed of crystal salt of rocky hardness, compacted and cemented together like coarse quartz.
Immediately behind this greenness of plants and bush, the precipitous slopes rise in a series of horizontal beds of grey compacted deposit, whitened at various places by thin incrustations of salt.
Remarkable is the intellectuality and compacted thought which he fuses in emotional expression.
There is compacted in the story of Francesca all that can be thought or felt over unhappy love.
Hence it is well to keep the materials from becoming compacted together, as do ashes when moistened.
Things are compacted in their causes, and lie hid within the virtue of them.
Whether pleasant unto God, or refreshing unto men, they are all virtually in this root of love, all the streams are compacted in this fountain.
The discursive novel gives a more extensive, and thecompacted novel a more intensive, view of life.
They formed themselves into a loosely-compacted society to protect their interest.
Nature doses us, by no means against our will, with many sweet boluses of delight, berries compacted of acidulated, sugary spiciness.
The fertile threads are not compacted into a true hymenium.
When placed in the beds the mass should be compactedagain by beating with the back of a spade or trowel.
Loose earth is better than compacted earth, and clay offers the least resistance to penetration.
It describes the means by which the Church of Christ, compacted in its general framework by those larger ligatures which its ministry furnishes (vv.
For this end Jew and Gentile are being gathered into one and compacted into a new humanity.
Not all clay soils are "fine clay soils," totally compacted and airless.
A compacted subsoil or even a thin compressed layer such as plowpan may function as such a barrier.
The first time around, I had to break the century-old plowpan--forking compacted earth a foot deep is a lot of work.
On a garden-sized plot, plowpan or compacted subsoil is easily opened with a spading fork or a very sharp common shovel.
Every gardener has tilled the soil, gone out the next morning, and noticed that his or her compacted footprints were moist while the rest of the earth was dry and fluffy.
With each subsequent plowing the plow sole rides at the same 7-inch depth and an even more compacted layer develops.
I've also pulled one wheel of a garden cart or pushed a lightly loaded wheelbarrow down the row to press down a wheel track, sprinkled seed on that compacted furrow, and then pulled loose soil over it.
Compacted soil also acts as a mechanical barrier to root system expansion.
On a fist-sized spot compacted to restore capillarity, sow a little pinch of seed atop a well-and deeply fertilized, double-dug patch of earth.
Those people who affect to despise the sage are the same to whom stones are stones instead of compacted histories of the world's youth, and clouds are clouds instead of legions of angels.
Nest: a bulky compacted structure of twigs, plant-fibers and tree-moss with warm lining of fine mosses and feathers, placed well up in fir tree.
The brim of the nest is strengthened by bark-strips, the inner fiber of cedar bark being exclusively employed for this purpose; while the finishing coat consists of moss, compacted and flawless.
In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.
From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.
In so doing, it roughens the surfaces of the particles of sand, and renders the soil less liable to be compacted by rains.
This roughening of particles of the soil prevents them from moving among each other as easily as they do when they are smooth, and thus keeps the soil from being compacted by heavy rains, as it is liable to be in its natural condition.
The soil is compacted around seeds after sowing in such a manner as to exclude light and to touch them in every part, both of which are essential to their germination and to the healthfulness of the plants.
The soil is so compacted at the surface, that it is less frequented by grubs, etc.
There is no reason to doubt, therefore, that shale is merely compacted silt and mud--the sediment deposited by water.
