Near the centre of this line of skirmishers a denser cloud was beginning to rise in spirals.
So, the two animals trailing cautiously behind, he felt his slow way on foot down the steep bluff, into the denser blackness of the valley.
The mist was denser down below, but to my joy it was warmer than on the summit of the wind-swept wall.
Below, and beyond this is a denser band of high forest, and again below this stretches the vast mangrove-swamp fringing the estuary of the Cameroons, Mungo, and Bimbia rivers.
Venus is known to be girdled with an atmosphere denserthan ours, and it seems to be always filled with dense clouds.
It seemed but a senseless glimmer of shadows, which merged in the denser twilight.
The window was overhung by heavy, dark-green draperies, even denser in tone than the green of the wall-paper.
Sometimes it appears only to make the darknessdenser and thicker.
But a cloud darker and denser than any of its predecessors was spreading itself over them both.
Next day the chaparral, in ascending the eastern rim of the basin, was, if possible, denser and more stubbornly bayoneted than ever.
Again he glanced upwards to ascertain his bearings, but in the hollow the mists were considerably denser and rose high above the ground.
Three ballonettes only were required to be emptied to allow the "Meteor" to drop rapidly, until the air, growing denser as she descended, her vertical course would be automatically retarded and eventually stopped.
Denser and denser grows this dome of vapours, descending lower and lower upon the sea, narrowing the horizon around the ship.
Only the wind is stronger, the clouds seem denser and more overwhelming, the waves appear to have grown bigger and more threatening during the night.
The undergrowth became denser as we advanced, and it was found advisable to abandon the ponies and forge ahead on foot.
Once more the signal was worked, this time sending up a denser cloud than before.
They are strong in solid singleness, and, by their denser combination, all things can be closely packed and exhibit enduring strength.
The cloud thus generated became denser as the light continued to act, slowing at some places vivid iridescence.
A bell, with its mouth pointed upwards or downwards, sends forth waves which are far denser in the horizontal plane passing through the bell than at an angular distance of 90° from that plane.
At sunset on Thursday the denser clouds were fiercely fringed, while through the lighter ones seemed to issue the glow of a conflagration.
The deposit is said to be denser if the solution be heated as directed; but the bath will gild, though not quite so freely when cold.
The blacker and denserthe precipitate the better is the solution.
The population was denser than he had seen anywhere else.
For when a luminous corpuscle enters any medium, assuming it to do so, it would have to overcome the pressure due to the increased elasticity of the denser aetherial envelopes, and as the two motions, viz.
In the case of the atmosphere, however, experience and experiment teach us that the atmosphere is denser nearer the earth than farther away.
At first this resistance is very feeble, owing to the decreased density of the Aether, but as it proceeds on its journey it is constantly passing into denser parts of the aetherial electro-magnetic field around the sun.
The process which took place as it approached the sun is now exactly reversed, as it is now passing out of a denser into a more rarefied medium, where its motions and vibrations are less intense.
That is exactly what it is, though Herschel failed to show why it should be the denser part of the Aether, as we have seen is the case, on account of its being gravitative.
But direct experiments prove exactly the opposite, as it is found that when light passes from a rare into a denser medium, the velocity of light in the denser or more refracting medium is less than it was in the air.
Even if no other objection could be urged to this view, the difficulty of explaining why the ether should be denser near the sun, would still remain.
In this case there may be a cylindrical ring, where the medium will be somewhat denser than outside.
It is now apparently satisfactorily determined, that Neptune is denser than Uranus, and the law being changed, we must look for transneptunean planets at distances corresponding with the new law of arrangement.
If there be a wave ofdenser ether cylindrically disposed around the vortex at the distance of Saturn, or between Saturn and Uranus, we see why the law of densities and distances is not continuous.
Taking the free ether of heaven; the vibrations in the denser ether will no doubt be slowest; but within a refracting body we must consider there is motion lost, or light absorbed, and the time of the transmission is thus increased.
But if the zodial light be the denser part of that medium, which astronomers now generally recognize as a resisting medium, how happens it that it should be confined to the plane of the ecliptic?
On account of the elasticity of the bell, the whole of the force is not instantaneously imparted to the surrounding air; but the denser the air the sooner it loses its motion.
As the forest is much denser in that direction I think a hundred men with you will suffice to beat off any attack on that side; you must get your men to cut down some trees and form a rough abattis.
The greater the storm of rain, snow, or wind, the denser the fog, or the darker the night, the more important it is to give the warning.
Valz, that this apparent condensation of volume has its origin in the compression of the same ethereal medium I have spoken of before, and which is only denser in proportion to its solar vicinity?
The central cell, whose contents are much denser than the outer ones, divides again by walls parallel to those first formed, so that the young sporangium now consists of a central cell, surrounded by two outer layers of cells.
On placing a cell into a fluiddenser than the cell sap (e.
The sexual reproduction takes place as follows: Certain cells of a filament become distinguished by their denser contents and by an increase in size, becoming oval or nearly globular in form (Fig.
If the specimen is not too young, a denser central portion can be made out, and in still older ones (Fig.
H), appearing in cross-section as oval openings surrounded by several concentric rows of cells, the innermost smaller and with denser contents.
The fact that, speaking generally, the denser planets are the nearer to the Sun, has been by some considered as adding another to the many indications of nebular origin.
Differences among them in respect of the quantities of matter they contain; for, other things equal, the mutual gravitation of molecules will make a larger mass denser than a smaller.
The medium from which the flocculi have been precipitated, and through which they are moving, must, by gravitation, be rendered denser in its central parts than in its peripheral parts.
Instead of being far denser than the nearest planet, it is but one-fifth as dense.
Neptune is denser than Saturn, which, by the hypothesis, it ought not to be.
Uranus is denserthan Saturn, and the Earth is denser than Venus--facts which not only give no countenance to, but directly contradict, the alleged explanation.
Uranus is denserthan Jupiter, which it ought not to be.
Differences between the quantities of matter; for, other things equal, the mutual gravitation of atoms will make a large mass denser than a small one.
The crowd grows denser every minute as the stream of Roman rank and wealth swells along the Via Borghese, across the Piazza del Popolo, and up the hill.
Then this man--this unknown hero disappeared as suddenly as he had arisen: night closed in round him, the darkness grew denser and denser, and an impenetrable mystery brooded over his birth and his grave.
The night was dark; heavy clouds laden with electricity coursed across the sky, and by intercepting the moonbeams rendered the gloom denser still.
The same phenomenon is produced on dark nights; the denser the gloom, the more vivid is the furrow traced by the tintorera.
Before them, at about a musket shot distance, a denser shadow was visible in the gloom, thrown out by the enormous mass of the fortress they were approaching!
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