What is thecontinuous relation of the universe to the mind from which it derived its power?
There is the best of reason for believing that a continuous succession of such bodies might have gone far toward rendering the earth uncomfortable as a place of residence.
Drake might have written, in the continuous present as well as in the past, "Freedom mingles with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldrick of the skies, And stripes its pore celestial white With streakings of the morning light.
Remove the clamp and set the nut into one of the blocks, so that the hole will be continuous with the hole in the wood.
If it is found difficult to plait the cord on the handle as in the illustration, wind it around in a continuous line closely together, and finish by fastening with a little glue and a small tack driven through the cord into the handle.
The motor must run continuous if the coil is used for writing code signals, wireless, etc.
Should we now slip over this electromagnet a paper tube upon which has been wound with regularity a great and continuous length of No.
Instead of approaching or receding from the center in a continuous line, as in the case of a spiral, you will find the pencil returning to the point from which it started.
The more uneven and twisted the grain the better for the purpose, [Illustration: Lamp Globe as an Aquarium] it is then less liable to develop a continuous crack.
Usually the orbit was too irregular to show a continuous and closed circular path, but at times the circular motion became very pronounced.
When cut and laid in one continuous length, each piece of tin-foil must overlap the adjoining piece a half inch, so as to form a continuous electrical circuit.
This motor turns a brass cylinder over which runs a continuous roll of perforated paper similar to that used on a pianola.
The ends of these tubes should be so adjusted that the continuous drops of water from the upper will fall into the tube below.
If the gate is raised slightly, it will permit a continuous flow of liquid of the desired amount.
Where such a joint is made with pivots for its bearings, one pair of pivots are very liable to have more friction than the other, which retards the movement and causes the harmonograph to undergo a continuous change of axis.
None of these forest types is continuous across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Eastward from this low divide the land rises to form the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, which is continuous with the highland masses of Guatemala.
The structure of this forest differs from that on the Gulf Coastal Plain in that there is no continuous upper canopy and there is a dense undergrowth (Pl.
In the course of bio-climatic fluctuation the semi-arid environments (scrub forest and/or savanna) were continuous at times from the Pacific lowlands across the isthmus to the Gulf lowlands.
But hitherto they have always been continuous territories.
But Shetland and Westminster, though not parts of one continuous territory, are parts of one geographical whole.
Waxing louder and louder, the pealing of the music shook the rocks with itscontinuous reverberations.
It was night when we got to the three huts of the camp, and the river could not be seen, but it was heard, a continuous low thundering.
The forest beside the falls seemed to be tremulous with continuous and profound underground thunder.
But order came as Sandy talked, and presently I found the continuous thunder, that deadening bass of the crank throws, seemed to lessen as we conversed, sitting together on a tool chest.
Yet nothing but a continuous effort of will kept the panic suppressed, and me in that box, till the feeling of anxiety had passed.
The voyage down the river would be one continuous pleasure.
Bibelot kept up a continuous barking, which added to the tumult.
These are good roads; in some instances because they have been extraordinarily well located, but in most instances because of their continuous enlightened management.
They stand out like a thin line of light in the distant darkness, a line continuous at first, but afterwards resolvable into individual units of lamps as he walks further along the straight road.
Oh no," she said, making as good an attempt at continuous speech as the quick beating of her heart allowed; "it is only that your visit is a little surprise.
After a year of continuous fêtes, he returned to Germany, where he remained two years, during a portion of which time Beethoven was his pupil.
The cocoon is placed in a cup of warm water, after the loose outward silk has been removed, and then, an end being taken, the whole continuous filament may be wound off on a piece of card.
A strip of tinfoil, arranged with pins over the hollow part of the mast, will show how a continuous conductor will convey the discharge safely away.
Now place any common bright light exactly in front of the knife edges, and while looking through the telescope arrange the knife edges until a bright and continuous spectrum is visible.
Feebly and interruptedly the terrified boy began; the wild continuous noises of the moaning voices from without sounding their awful accompaniment to the infidel philosophy of his song as he breathed it forth in faint and faltering accents.
It is always urged by religious teachers that it must be very earnest and continuous to be successful.
Having for family reasons to spend some time that spring in the west of England, I was in a manner out of earshot of the great oceanic rumble (I mean of the continuous hum of Saltram's thought), and my nervousness tended to keep me quiet.
Next tocontinuous employment, among methods of increasing the value of wages, is the policy of making promotions from the ranks.
We have come to see that imitation is the greatest factor in the education of the young and a continuous process with all of us.
An organized and continuous campaign of education along this line should prove an inexpensive means of increasing loyalty and efficiency among the men.
The employer (master) is rewarded in that he secures the continuous service of the boy for the period of years upon the payment of little or no wages.
Though under certain conditions the amount of muscle and brain energy stored in reserve is large, continuous or rapid activity of necessity expends the reserve and leads to exhaustion.
Just as managers are always looking for the steady worker, nearly all agree in assuring their employees that faithful and efficient service will be rewarded with continuous employment.
Management is as much a continuous process, organized and wasteproof, as the journey of raw materials through his plants.
But voluntary attention must not be depended upon to secure steady and continuous utilization of the improved method or rate of work.
If I am to stir myself to continuous and effective exertion, I must frequently stimulate my interest by proposing new problems and new aspects of my work.
Apparently, improvement should be continuous until the learner has entered into the class of experts or has reached his possible maximum.
A small fire is kindled for the purpose near the grave at sunset, where the nearest relatives convene and maintain a continuous lamentation till the morning dawn.
Accordingly in every case they made silken ladders, some of them five feet long, each ladder being formed of a single continuous thread, woven in elegant loops from side to side.
Their line of march is therefore marked by a continuous arch or tunnel, which is always being constructed by the van of the column.
Agassiz obtained what may be termed geological evidence of the truth of an opinion advanced by Mr. Morgan, that beaver-works may be hundreds if not thousands of years in course of continuous formation.
In all save one species the tube is unbranched; it is always lined with silk, which is continuous with the lining of the trap-door or doors, of which it forms the hinge.
The terza rima is, strictly speaking, a scheme of continuous verse rather than a stanza, each tercet being united by the rime-scheme to the preceding.
Continuous sonority must be maintained from the first phrase to the last.
The musical in sound is the sustained and continuous; the musical in thought is the sustained and continuous also.
The rhyme-emphasis is so distributed that any one, hearing the poem read, would hardly be sensible of any of the slightest checks in the continuous and even movement of the verse.
In modern English poetry this short couplet has rarely been used for continuousnarrative of a serious character, except by Byron and Wordsworth.
BLANK VERSE Unrimed five-stress verse early became the accepted form for English dramatic poetry, and in the modern English period has become the favorite form for long continuous poems, narrative and reflective as well.
The breathlessly continuous character of such long anapestic or dactylic lines may of course be interrupted, by way of relief, by the substitution of iambi or trochees.
With Chaucer we have the first deliberate use of the five-stress couplet, in continuous verse, known to English poetry.
More than that, it had anticipated Mexico and Guatemala in being the first of the Hispanic nations to witness the establishment of a presidential autocracy of the continuous and enlightened type.
This was the story told me by Mrs. Ocumpaugh; not in the continuous and detailed manner I have here set down, but in disjointed sentences and wild bursts of disordered speech.
But no stains were to be seen on those blackened boards now; or rather, they were dark with one continuous stain; and next moment I was examining with eager scrutiny the place itself.
We now discovered that the Rocky Mountains do not form a continuous chain, but that they run in detached ranges at unequal distances from the coast.
When seen from the coast, the mountains of the Buckland chain appeared to form a continuous line, extending from N.
They have mostly rounded summits, and they do not form continuous ridges; but are detached from each other, by vallies of various breadth, though generally narrow, and very seldom level.
It was, however, composed of pieces, and not a continuous field, for we could distinctly perceive that several of the hummocks it inclosed were in motion.
It has been generally held that a ticket for a single trip over a railway is good for any length of time, with the understanding that when the journey begins it shall be completed in a continuous ride.
Allowing continuous progress at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour on land and twelve miles on the water we could swing around the great circle inside of sixty-seven days.
The enemy's batteries seemed to have become aware of the movement; their fire was so rapid that the reports of the guns were blended in one continuous roar.
There were others again who maintained a continuoushowling and were comforted only when their burning, throbbing wound was sprayed with cold water.
A handful of French soldiers, posted at the mouth of a narrow lane, held them in check for nearly a quarter of an hour, with a fire so rapid and continuous that the dead bodies lay in piles.
What was that continuous rolling sound, like the rattling of thunder, that had aroused him from his slumber?
The neighboring battery was banging away as fast as the gunners could load the pieces; the continuous roar seemed to shake the ground, and the mitrailleuses were even more intolerable with their rasping, grating, grunting noise.
There was no cessation of the firing, which seemed to be advancing from west to east with a continuous succession of reports like peals of thunder.
He opened his eyes again, and began to feebly grope about him with his stiffening fingers, as if feeling for a covering that was not there, pulling at it with a gentle, continuous movement, as if to draw it up around his shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
