Still, if the cut is only a very short one (say one or two millims.
A minute radial cut (only just long enough to sever the tissues of the extreme margin) introduced between each pair of adjacent marginal bodies completely destroyed the physiological connection between the tentacles.
Yet this is not the case; for even in a specimen of Aurelia so severely cut as the one here represented, the contraction waves, starting from the ganglion, continued to zigzag round and round the entire series of sections.
For instance, if such a cut as that represented at a (see Fig.
Aurelia aurita is pervaded transversely by a number of nutrient tubes, which have all been cut through by the section.
I found, however, that no matter how small a portion of this organ I used, and no matter from what part of the organ I cut it, this portion would do its best to bend over to the side which I irritated.
Having made a circular strip, I removed all the lithocysts save one, and then cut the strip as represented in Fig.
But we have seen that the limits as regards severity of section within which these gradations of localizing ability occur, are exceedingly restricted--a cut of only a few millims.
It will be seen that the effect of this cut is almost completely to sever the mass of tissue at z from the rest of the umbrella, the only connection between them being the narrow neck of tissue at z.
The cedar ties and pilings cut at the camp were floated down the Little Missouri, but many became snagged in sand bars or scattered over the river flood plain, and few reached their destination.
For a first violation the saddle and bridle of the offender were cut up; for a second, his coat was destroyed; and for a third, he was flogged.
On a level, circular summit almost completely cut off from the surrounding benchland, its eastern side was well protected by a ditch, still visible, and a wall.
He established a woodyard there, and also became the first postmaster of the settlement; the post office was a hole cut in the trunk of an oak tree.
Today ruts cut into the prairie by heavily laden wagons, plodding ox teams, and flying hoofs of couriers' horses are still visible in many places along the road.
Logs were cutand floated down the river to Winnipeg.
A furrow some three inches deep was plowed into a tough sod containing many grass roots, and the broken sod was cut into lengths the width of the wall, up to two and a half feet.
One of the Sioux, however, observed that an eagle flying into the trees carried in its mouth what appeared to be a piece of meat cut with a knife.
In crossing the stream here the route descends into the valley over terraces cut by glacial waters thousands of years ago.
Nettie Baldwin couldn't cut the buck, or was it the mud?
The scouts' headquarters and the laundry were built of cottonwood logs cut along the river, while most of the other buildings were of lumber.
The deep ruts cut in the prairie by the military wagons of the expedition, and later by those traveling over the same trail to Fort Keogh, Mont.
The Leinster King would risk no open battle so long as he could thus cut off the enemy in detail.
He marched into the territory of the offender, defeated him in battle, cut off his head on the threshold of the Church of Faughard, and marched back again, his host chanting a war song composed by their leader.
After a long interval, and when they were greatly increased in numbers, they were cut off to the last man, by a dreadful pestilence.
Twice the besieged beat back the assailants, until Raymond perceiving at an angle of the wall the wooden props upon which a house rested, ordered them to becut away, on which the house fell to the ground, and a breach was effected.
Not often have three generations of Princes of the same family been cut off on the same field; yet at Clontarf it so happened.
His beardless face had the sharply cut features which are the result of much exercise of the facial muscles, characteristic of actors and one other class.
He tried to work himself up to views which he did not hold; he tried to awaken some sort of emotion in his heart for the dead queen, but her plain, dull features, cut into the wood, made no more impression on him than he on the block.
The first notary, who had cut too deeply into the table, had come across a nail and damaged an Eskilstuna No.
You must cutyour coat according to your cloth, you see--according to your cloth.
I could have killed Isaac, not because he had had the trees cut down, but because I had not thought of it first.
To cut my tale short, she gave herself to the president, and Pierre Clement was happy and could be married.
He would cut the meat or blubber, whatever it might be, into small pieces, and reach them to us on the end of a stick, for us to take them, or bite them off as a dog.
All access to the deck by the cabin doors was thus cut off.
The oil is afterwards extracted from the blubber and junk, being cut into small pieces by the "mincing knife," and exposed to the action of fire in large pots, the skinny portions which remain serving for fuel.
Colors were set for the boats to return to the ship; the dead whale was brought alongside, cut in, boiled out, and seventy-five barrels of sperm oil were stowed away.
Perceiving at this moment that they were pursued by only one man and a couple of servants, they turned upon him and cut him down with their swords.
His army, therefore, cut off all possibility of Waverley's escaping into Scotland in that direction.
The jolly yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which Cicely soon broiled, and her father added a swingeing tankard of his best ale.
He uttered on the occasion so many incoherent blessings in Gaelic and English that Mac-Ivor, rather scandalised at the excess of his acknowledgments, cut them short by exclaiming, Ceud mile mhalloich ort!
The balustrade was broken down, the walls destroyed, the borders overgrown with weeds, and the fruit-trees cut down or grubbed up.
A few resolute men might easily have cut off the detachment; but of the inhabitants some were favourable, many indifferent, and the rest overawed.
Mingling with the dismounted dragoons, they forced them, at the sword-point, to fly to the open moor, where a considerable number were cut to pieces.
But several of them, amongst others their brave Chieftain, were cut off and surrounded before they could effect their purpose.
The Lowlanders were cut off to a man, and their chief fell the last, covered with wounds by the sword of my ancestor.
The garden, which seemed to be kept with great accuracy, abounded in fruit-trees, and exhibited a profusion of flowers and evergreens, cut into grotesque forms.
Steep banks of wood were broken by corn-fields, which this year presented an abundant harvest, already in a great measure cut down.
They are followers of Bába Nának, cut their hair, and often smoke.
Schimper's map shows in the north-east of the area a wedge thrust in between the plains' desert and the dry elevated alpine desert cut off from the influence of the monsoon by the lofty barrier of the Inner Himálaya.
The country is not an ideal one for irrigation, being much cutup by ravines.
Allan and Bumpus might look back and wave their hands to the kindly surgeon, but Thad, as the pilot at the wheel, had his work cut out for him elsewhere.
Giraffe; “why, a shot must have cutit off like a knife near the base.
Had some cruel missile from one of the bursting shells cuthim down?
A fine young man," he thought, "but cutout and made up after the world's pattern.
On Monday I will give them a piece of my mind they won't relish as much as they will their cut of roast beef to-morrow.
Seeing their game I lowered my prices, then they cut theirs still lower, and so we went on till at last what we charged did not pay men's wages, let alone material and rent and all the rest of it.
He could cut or thrust or shoot if he chose as well with his left as with his right hand, and he smote so swiftly with his sword, that three seemed to flash through the air at once.
Then Kolskegg cut off Hauk Egil's son's head, and Gunnar smites off Otter's hand at the elbow-joint.
Grim cut off Skiolld's foot at the ankle-joint, but Helgi thrust him through with his spear, and he got his death there and then.
But when Egil sees this, he runs at Gunnar and makes a cut at him; Gunnar thrusts at him with the bill and struck him in the middle, and Gunnar hoists him up on the bill and hurls him out into Rangriver.
Then Skiolld cut off his hand, and he still kept them off with his other hand for some time, till Sigmund thrust him through.
After that they slew Kol, and Thrain cut off his head, and they threw the trunk overboard, but kept his head.
Then Gunnar cut both his legs from under him, and at the same time Kolskegg ran Karli through with a spear.
Then a hard battle arose; Gunnar cut with one hand and thrust with the other.
Kari cut at once at him, and then a man ran forward and threw his shield before Bjarni.
Thiostolf cut at him at once with his axe, and smote him on the shoulder, and the stroke hewed asunder the shoulderbone and collarbone, and the wound bled inwards.
We had another House pulled down, and our Spades cut to pieces.
We had a Cart and Wheels cut in pieces, and a Mare cutover the back with a Bill when we went to fetch a load of wood from Stoak Common, to build a house upon George Hill.
For if so be that Kingly Authority is set up in your Laws again, King Charles has conquered you and your posterity by policy, though you seemingly have cut off his head.
Another Cart and Wheels were cut to pieces, and some of our Tools taken by force from us, which we never had again.
The last-named fort was later cut away because of his insufficient force, but Fort Philip Kearney and Fort C.
The individual emigrant who had gathered together his family, his flocks, and his household goods, who had cut away from the life at home and staked everything on his new venture, was the unit in the great migrations.
Dakota had been created out of the country thus cut loose and in two years more shared in the fate of eastern Washington.
The boundaries were cut down from those which the territory had provided for itself.
Before it was cut off as the territory of Wisconsin in 1836 much had been done in the way of populating it.
The Central Pacific could cut its wood as it needed it, often within sight of its track.
Occasionally men were indeed cutout by the Indians, who in turn suffered considerable loss; but Carrington reduced his own losses to a minimum.
The territory of Washington had been cut away from Oregon at its own request and with Oregon's consent in 1853.
From a Cut belonging to the Historical Department of Iowa.
If they remained loyal to the United States, the confederate forces, adjacent in Arkansas and Texas, and already coveting their lands, would cut them to pieces.
If arms were cut down, the tribes were in danger of extinction; if they were issued, hostilities often resulted.
At will, the Mormon cavalry cut out and burned the supply trains, confining their attacks to property rather than to armed forces.
Was staying at Bayonne, and walked out to a mountain-gorge traditionally said to have been cut or kicked out by Roland, and there laid out the full plan of his twelve cantos, accurately carried out in the execution.
But through immense tracts of Browning the effect of the extra-distinctness of his images and thoughts, of the deep sharp lines cut by his graver, is not thus frustrated, but tells to the full in amazingly vivid and unforgettable expression.
But his schemes for a profession and an income were summarily cut short.
On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view.
