They have also the habit of cutting out shallow, dish-like depressions in the heads of such figures, wherein to burn incense.
They ramify and push into the corresponding depressions that are formed by the tubular glands of the mucous membrane of the maternal womb.
As these little depressions had all the same depth and the same shape, and as the hand had neither to change its pressure nor to shift its position, it arrived with practice at an extreme rapidity of execution.
Their present appearance, I think, helps to explain the nature and origin of the many lakes or marshydepressions which occur in all parts of the valley.
The abrupt, broad, and shallow depressions between the different platforms are seemingly much too extensive to have been formed by the trifling streamlets which now run along them, without the assistance of volcanic action.
It seems to be a constant rule that the depressions of the ridges are bare and open, while the more elevated portions are covered with forest.
The principal of these depressions is that of lake Chumoreri; another is occupied by the little salt lake first visited by Trebeck, and called by him Thogji[30].
All the rivers had formed for themselves depressions in the platform of gravel which was spread over the plain.
Such mills, called "pot holes," are found in the rocky floors of rapid streams, where the eddying current or the water of a waterfall wears depressions in the bed.
Into these depressions stones are washed, and then by the whirl of the flowing water kept going round and round, grinding themselves away and grinding out the sides and bottom of the mill.
One of the most curious of these is that false perception in vision by which we conceive depressions to be elevations, and elevations depressions, or by which intaglios are converted into cameos, and cameos into intaglios.
It has been one of the secret causes of my occasional depressions ever since he went.
Except in the deep depressions between them, the dunes are everywhere sprinkled, to a considerable height, with brown oxydulated iron, which has penetrated into the sand to the depth of from three to eighteen inches, and colored it red.
They are found in depressions on the declivities of which they grew, and they lie with the top lowest, always falling toward the bottom of the valley.
Sand concretions form within the dunes and especially in the depressions between them.
But this occurs only in depressionsand on a very small scale; and the ice thus formed is so soon dissolved that no sensible effect is produced on the escape of water from the general surface.
Ponds of water are often found in the depressions between the sand hills of the dune chains in the North American desert.
Under the immediate lee of the fortress and of the outer walls, similar depressions in the sand were found, and it is owing to these that some portion of the city was still uncovered by sand.
We had a hearty laugh over it all when their identity and ours were established, and after a few minutes' halt we continued our journey on soft sand, rather undulating, with frequent depressions in places.
Make depressions in a pan of corn-starch and pour a little of the mixture into each depression.
Fill up the depressions or holes with jelly, marmalade or fondant.
The only tenable theory of age is the amount of accumulation in the depressions of the lodge sites.
Two such depressions were lined with a coating of gumbo half an inch thick, which, however, was not mixed with sand or shell.
As similar depressions are numerous in the vicinity, probably the combined inflow is greater than the cave can carry away.
Note is made of the similarity in the size, form, and general appearance of these depressions and earthen rings to those of the earth lodges of the abandoned Mandan towns along the Missouri River.
One hundred and fifty yards up the ravine from the dance platforms are two large artificial depressions in weathered bowlders.
There is another very large block just at the entrance, in which are one shallow and two deep circular depressions which were probably mortars.
Fill in depressions with soil and plant there and around the edges of the boulder Phlox subulata, sedum, arabis, etc.
Structurally, the folds of this region are of ancient date, but the area is crossed by a series of depressions formed by faults, and the intervening strips, which have not been depressed to the same extent, now stand up as mountain ranges.
Hundreds of smaller lakes and ponds occupy depressions either in the ancient lava flows or in basins of glacial origin.
It is accidented by shallow depressions and valleys of varied outline, the irregularities of lava flows adding much to the diversity of surface forms and features.
Cuticle distinctly marked by longitudinal striations which take the form of depressions and give to the body a characteristic melon shape.
These cirri are placed in depressions in the ventral surface and each one appears to come from a specific shoulder.
The colorless cells have frequently rounded depressions or pits upon their walls, and in the fibro-vascular bundle the difference between the two portions becomes more obvious.
The latter, if sufficiently magnified, show distinct striation of the walls, which are often penetrated by deep narrow depressions or "pits.
The rain from these intermittently fills the shallow, cup-like depressions in the underlying rock with water.
Such depressions are invariably choked with sand, but by digging at certain known spots a scanty supply of water may sometimes be obtained.
One day he took Caleb with him, and they went to a part of the down where there were certain depressions in the turf of a circular form and six to seven feet in circumference.
Burdon had observed these basin-like depressions and had thought it possible they marked the place where things of value had been buried in long-past ages.
There are, as has already been remarked, several depressions upon the hill which contain constant supplies of water.
It has been suggested that it owed its origin to artificial excavation; but it is incontestably natural, like several other smallerdepressions in the vicinity, which still contain water.
These depressions are of various dimensions, and are evidently artificial.
The tablets seem to have been originally painted of different colors: a dark red pigment is yet plainly to be seen in the depressions of some of the fragments; others had been painted of a dense black color.
Similar depressions are observed in the ancient beds of streams.
Previous to their erection, however, the soil was excavated to the depth of about two feet, and the ruins of their towns are designated rather by depressions than elevations.
They are only loosely connected with the mucous coat of the uterus, so that the whole foetal membrane with its villi can be easily withdrawn from the uterine depressionslike a hand from a glove.
It has the form in which we find it permanently in the fishes--a couple of simple depressions in the skin at the outer surface of the head.
In the second group the nerves spread out in the mucous coat of cavities which are at first depressions in or invaginations of the skin (organs of the sense of smell and taste).
The placenta is formed by the branches of the blood-vessels in the wall of the allantois growing into the hollow ectodermic tufts (villi) of the chorion, which run into corresponding depressions in the mucous membrane of the womb.
These, like the skull, and all the other bones, are characterized by their unusual thickness, and the great development of all the elevations and depressions for the attachment of muscles.
Enamel of the same hue and material once occupied the little saucer-like depressions which occur on the terminating snake-suggesting head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depressions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
