The one who returned is described as an "explorer of uncommon courage," who managed to get back by the help of a clue of packthread which he took with him, and was thus able to retrace his steps.
It became a post-office packet-station for the Atlantic ports in the last century, and Byron in his day described it as containing "many Quakers and much salt fish.
In King John's reign the garrison of this castle so harassed the neighborhood that it was described as the "nest of the devil and a den of thieves.
So completely had rubbish excluded the air that his dress, which was described as superb, and a prayer-book lying before him on the table, were entire, but soon after the admission of the air the body is said to have fallen into dust.
In the town several large manufactories attest the presiding genius of Lancashire, and the inn is the comfortable and old-fashioned King's Arms describedby Dickens.
Gilbert White hasdescribed it in his Natural History of Selborne.
He wasdescribed as "nearly six feet high, strong and lusty made, jolly and ruddy in the face, with a large nose.
Southey rapturously described the East Lyn Vale as the "finest spot, except Cintra and Arrabida, that I ever saw.
In the fifteenth century the city-walls were describedas lofty and massive and protected by twenty-five embattled towers, some round and some square.
This great man, once the primate of England, has had his downfall pathetically described by Shakespeare.
The law of landlord and tenant was originally substantially the same as that described for England is.
Dresser, in whose Birds of Europe it is described at length.
Theorems and formulae are appropriated wholesale without acknowledgment, and a production which may be described as the organized result of a century of patient toil presents itself to the world as the offspring of a single brain.
He described in 1878 the eruptive rocks of the district of Saar and Moselle.
His tract Improvements in Education described the gradation of ranks, the system of signals and orders, the functions of the monitors, the method of counting and of spelling and the curious devices he adopted for punishing offenders.
The invention of the magic lantern is usually attributed to Athanasius Kircher, whodescribed it in the first edition (1646) of his Ars magna lucis et umbrae, but it is very probably of earlier discovery.
The French system just described is in force in its entirety in Belgium (Code Civil, Arts.
At this date (1815) he sent two pictures to the Royal Academy, and was described in the catalogue as "Master E.
It is described as a cornelian encased in a silver coin.
He described their life there until they were taken off by a trading schooner from Auckland, and how for three months they cruised with her among the islands.
He described his afternoon's ramble at such length that it was getting late by the time they had finished.
You even described how you did it," she said, slowly.
He sat, as Miss Vickers remarked, like a wooden image, and was only moved to animation by a picture of cirrhosis of the liver, which he described as being very pretty.
So that this tract of ground looks as if it had been the scene where the giants had fought with huge stones against the Gods, as is described by Hesiod in his {Gk: theogonia}.
Until the "Natural History of Wiltshire" was briefly described in my own "Memoir" of its author, very little was known of it beyond the mere fact of the existence of the two manuscripts.
Chelsey- garden is very minutely described by Aubrey, but our limits forbid its insertion, especially as it is irrelevant to a History of Wiltshire.
He particularly commends "The History of Malting, or the method of making Malt, practised at Derby, described for R.
It isdescribed and illustrated in my "Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages".
The lines quoted are at the commencement of a dialogue between Collen and Thenot; which is described as "an Eglogue on the noble assemblies revived on Cotswold Hills by Mr. Robert Dover".
The gardens at Wilton, described in the last chapter, were completely in the style referred to.
The gardens at Lavington, which are described in the present chapter, were evidently of the same character with those of Wilton.
The church of Broad Chalk isdescribed in Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Chalk, p.
Beatrix now experienced the love so brutally but faithfully described to the Duchesse de Grandlieu by Maxime de Trailles.
On the contrary, before you came, I described you in such glowing colors that you hardly realize the portrait, although you are, it seems to me, more beautiful than ever.
To a gentleman endowed with a nature such as Mademoiselle des Touches had described it in a few words to Calyste, such wealth was happiness enough.
Some, however, take the circumference as meant, and this agrees with the computation of sixty English miles as the girth of the greater Niniveh described below.
So travellers have described the effect of locusts.
They will bring it near to Israel by famine, drought and the interruption of worship described in chap.
But in answer to this we may remember that the Messiah, after being described in ix.
Haggai should be described as the messenger of Jehovah; while the message itself, I am with you, seems superfluous here, and if the verse be omitted, ver.
Hitzig’s other reason, that the besiegers of Niniveh aredescribed by Nahum in ii.
Day of Jehovah, this time describedas a judgment upon the heathen enemies of Israel.
Still more destructive had been the social poisons which our prophetsdescribed as sapping the constitution of Israel for nearly three generations.
This old trader had taken part in the formation of the Astor Fur Company, and was in charge of one of the famous parties, which in 1811 crossed the continent, asdescribed by Washington Irving.
The first violence of the season is described by Lieutenant Pambrun, a most accurate writer.
The conception of Red River Settlement being an Idyllic Paradise was not confined to the writer, whose picture we have described as "Apples of Gold.
In other cases his roguery is successful, and he is describedas the greatest musician and "the biggest rascal in the world" (p.
In one case he is described as Annancy's son, but, according to most of the stories, he appears to be an independent neighbour.
It may bedescribed as dancing mixed with horse-play.
The digger has been described as an earth-chisel, and a very good description it is.
Duncan, of a very large family firstdescribed by Harvey Cushing, in which this abnormality has run for at least seven generations.
Many women of the characterdescribed undoubtedly exist, but they are better placed in some other occupation.
In the book of Genesis[24] Jacob is described as making use of it to get the better of his tricky father-in-law.
The defect was described as "optic atrophy associated with a pigmentary retinitis and choryditis" and "this condition," Dr.
It may be broadly described as a movement which seeks to remove all discrimination based on sex.
On the other hand, large families can be found, such as the remarkable family of New England office-holders described by Merton T.
The social heritage of the Negro has been described at great length and often with little regard for fact, by hundreds of writers.
Laws of this character have often been described as being eugenic in effect, but examination shows little reason for such a characterization.
To the best of my ability I described the appearance of the old crab, and aided my description with a slight sketch on the sand made with the point of my umbrella.
I was not angry; but as this was a person who might be described as so knowing that he actually believed nothing at all, I gave him plenty of opportunities to commit himself.
I describedthis animal to several people, but none had seen a creature like it.
She then gave a long history of the number of her great friends in England, and described the astonishment of these aristocrats were they to hear of her being in such a wilderness.
I would have given anything to have heard how this Nimrod described his day's sport to his comrades on his return home.
At last Lord Squib announced that he had discovered them by a new glass, and described them as a couple of diamond-claws most exquisitely finished.
Old Dacre,' as Lord Fitz-pompey described him, was a phantom enough at any time to frighten his youthful ward.
He described with power the peculiar injustice of the situation of the English Catholics.
They wandered in gardens like Calypso's; they rambled over a villa which reminded them of Baise; they partook of a banquet which should have been described by Ariosto.
He wrote, to gain time; but another billet, in immediate answer, only painted increased terrors, and described the growing urgency of her persecuted situation.
This exquisite specimen of English loveliness, compared by some to Musidora, as described by Thomson, was the most beautiful woman of rank in the kingdom.
The moment my brother described it my suspicions were confirmed; and Mr. Robinson did not even attempt to deny his infidelity.
He is described as "a parasite of Lord Lyttelton," and as "a fool of fashion.
Miss Trimmer is described as a "pleasing, not pretty" young lady, with great serenity of manner.
During the fifteen years following she remained in seclusion in her father’s house, and was never seen but once, and that exactly as described in this story.
It was busy and bustling, and had been described as “a place which makes so much noise, but is of so little account.
He did give them a king, but a king who was to exercise what, according to the perverse custom of the times, formed the royal right described in the sacred text just quoted.
Thierry--the only book where the motives, the inclinations, the impulses which actuate man in a social state bordering on barbarism, are felt and described with a truth really Homeric.
The talents and other qualities of the various innovators are described in the same way with more or less truth.
See, then, what we ought to think of barbarian society, as described by Roman historians.
There is only one work, in my opinion, in which this character of barbarism is described with all its force, viz.
Thierry; there was a degree of brutality, of indolence, of apathy, which is not always faithfullydescribed in his pictures.
For Margaret would give an altogether different interpretation of the smile with which I describedmyself as struggling.
Over the moisture, as he facetiously described it, he grew friendliness itself.
A pleasant enough fellow when sober, but too much given to what Kit described as "his drop.
It came in low over the yawl, dipped its wings in salute, then described a long circle to head into the wind.
She then desired him to release Annette, and, having described the chamber in which the poor girl was confined, he promised to obey her immediately, and was departing, when she remembered to ask who were the persons just arrived.
I lean on the wall of the terrace, where we together watched the rapid current of the Garonne below, while I described the wild scenery about its source, but thought only of you.
Emily, having brought her some refreshment, now left her to the care of Annette, and went in search of Montoni, whom she found on a remote part of the rampart, conversing among a group of the men described by Annette.
An inquiry as to where the packet had been posted soon revealed the office, distinguished by a letter of the alphabet, and the postmaster described a servant-maid who had brought the letter and paid for it.
He had described all the circumstances without affectation, and if this unexpected accusation was wholly unproved, it yet rested on a possible fact, and did not appear absolutely incredible.
Homer, and Hippocrates, the Father of Physic, have both described it.
Children have been born with three legs, or joined together at various parts; but the race of men are nevertheless described as having two inferior extremities, and as being independent in their existence.
There are, however, cases in which none of the instruments hitherto described answer so well as might be wished.
When caries is present, the symptoms do not materially differ from those described as indicating the death of a tooth.
Having described it, the author will now proceed to state the times at which the different teeth appear, and the signs which they exhibit.
The process of recasing (described on page 184) can be used in the case of small-sized books which have covers showing little evidence of wear, and which do not receive hard usage.
All books should be lined on the back with canton flannel asdescribed in the chapter on Processes, except in a few cases where it may be advisable to use duck or a flesher.
If series are not to be kept together they should be treated as described in the following paragraphs.
They are formed by sewing the book differently from either of the methods described up to this point.
End papers and fly-leaves must be guarded with jaconet, as described in specifications for fiction and juvenile books, page 93.
So far as is known to the writer only the grade of cloth described on page 77 has the last qualification.
The way in which these specifications are carried out is described in the chapter on Processes.
Loose backs are those which, by means of folded paper or a piece of paper put in as described on page 37, are prevented from adhering to the back.
Having alreadydescribed these instruments, there is little to comment upon; he is excellently lucid in his explanations.
Meares lost his companion and leader, poor Brook, on the expedition which he described to us.
The floes have water pools as describedthis afternoon, and none average more than 2 feet in thickness.
Then again, what I have described as 'intrusive layers of blue ice' was a remarkable feature; one could imagine that these layers represent surfaces which have been transformed by regelation under hot sun and wind.
The method of securing and testing serum of patient was described (titration, a colorimetric method of measuring the percentage of substances in solution), and the test by litmus paper of normal or super-normal solution.
In passing I mention that there are practically no places where ponies sink to their hocks as described by Shackleton.
Dawson described as pinkish limestone, with a wedge of dark rock; this very doubtful!
Meares described a feast given to them in a barbaric hall hung with skins and weapons, the men clad in buckskin dyed red, and bristling with arms; barbaric dishes, barbaric music.
The chief idea in the two last described constructions was to confine the heat to the central portion of the globe by preventing the exchange of air.
For this purpose it is sufficient to surround a conducting electrode with a non-conducting material, as, for instance, in the bulb described before in Fig.
A perfect screen is of course out of the question, but I believe that with a screen such as I have just described telephony could be rendered practicable across the Atlantic.
These observations were the result of a number of experiments, of which one, showing the effect of the size of the bulb at a high degree of exhaustion, may be described and shown here, as it presents a feature of interest.
In this case the construction of the bulb is as shown and described before, when reference was made to Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "described" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
