The more fully analysed movement, that which proceeds downward from less determinate to more determinate universals, is named Division.
On the fifth circle when I stood at large, A race appear'd before me, on the ground All downward lying prone and weeping sore.
From the time of Tyson and Tulpius downward the habits of the young Chimpanzee in a state of captivity have been abundantly reported and commented upon.
The bats pass the winter in caves, the attics of houses, and barns, or in hollow trees, hanging downward by their hind claws.
Downward anon to the valley rebounded the boulder remorseless” (Sandys, in Jebb’s Rhetoric of Aristotle p.
For the poet has represented the return of the rock from the summit and its rolling downward in quite another fashion; he quickens and abbreviates his composition.
Roy's fingers scarcely grasped the wheel of his machine as he saw the downward drop.
Instantly they swung their machine around in time to see the Golden Butterfly make her sickening downward swoop.
Barby and Jan were standing far forward, close to where the cabin top curved downward to the forward deck.
At the same instant, Rick was aware of bubbles in the water, a trail of faint phosphorescence shooting downward past his mask.
When the pinnated leaf of a hickory was shaken loose by the wind puff it had hardly floated from its stem before he caught sight of it, and followed it in its downward course until it fluttered slowly to the ground.
The flaming point swung over until it pointed toward the ground, when it shot downward with ever increasing swiftness until it vanished.
The first item of the battle worthy to be described, is the downward movement of the noble saints from their high position.
When I sing this tone it is accompanied with a sensation as though the tone were being reflected downward from the voice box over to each side of the chest just in front of the arm-pits and then downward into the abdomen.
Like the transparent golden floor of heaven, His charmèd waters lie as in a dream, And glistening wings, and starry robes unfolding, And serious angel eyes far downward gleam.
Through the windows, flowery with blossoming geranium and heliotrope, through the downward sweep of crimson and muslin curtain, one watches it as the wind whirls and sways it in swift eddies.
How shall the disposition of the weight be altered so as to press the spirit upward towards God, instead of downward and away?
When his footsteps had died away, Gerelda flung herself face downward on the divan, sobbing as if her heart would break; and in this position, a few minutes later, her mother surprised her.
Hubert Varrick, on the other side of the street, saw the slender figure suddenly reel backward, whirl about, and then fall face downward in a huge snow-drift that swallowed her from sight.
With a bitter cry she fell face downward on the floor in a deep swoon.
Then, for eight miles, this pin, falling perpendicularly through a greater distance than any object on this earth had ever fallen perpendicularly, went downward with a velocity like that of light.
At about eight feet above the ground was the opening through which the Artesian ray would pass perpendicularly downward whenever the lever should be moved which would connect the main electric current.
As she beheld at her feet a great lighted well, extending downward beyond the reach of her sharp eyes, Professor Tippengray stepped back with a scream which caused nearly everybody in the audience to start to his feet.
Clewe now announced that he would take those present, one at a time, inside the enclosure and show them how light could be made to penetrate miles downward into the solid earth and rock.
When the conical top of the car had descended below the surface, a steel grating, with orifices for the passage of the chains, was let down over the mouth of the shaft, and the downward journey was begun.
The electric light streamed downward through a deep orifice, which did not fade away and end in nothing; it ended in something dark and glittering.
The downward passage of Rovinski had occupied a great deal more time than he had calculated for.
As it was important to get back to the brig as soon as possible after provisions and grog had been served out, the boats recommenced their downward passage.
Their keen appetites and the recollection of the merchant's promised repast made them hurry on their downward way.
Theos lightly, as he sauntered arm in arm with his host on thedownward path leading to the garden and palace-- "And I have yet to learn the true meaning of his message!
Wazir, and quick as thought he made a tremendous downward cut at the young officer.
Dick kept his seat, but received a blow from a man on his right, who rose in his stirrups and struck downward at the lad's head.
The hammock was within ten feet of him; in a downward direction.
So saying, the daughter of Jacob Jessuron turned towards the downward path, and had disappeared from the platform before Kate could command words to express either her astonishment or indignation.
In front, the roof trended downward from the main trunk of the tree-- following the slope of the spurs to a height of some six feet from the ground.
In less than ten seconds the craft entered the embouchure of the gorge, gliding downward with the velocity of an arrow.
At last Claude, having finished his photographing, departed downward to get some new view from the road below, and Lucia returned to the rest of the party.
He inclined it downward a little, so that the tar might easily run though it and fall into the deeper pit.
Charley took the oar, pushed it through the roots of the grass, and then, with scarcely an effort, plunged its whole length straight downward through the soft mud.
Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.
Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.
He plunges downward and seizes the prey from underneath by the throat.
The prey tries to rear up on its hind legs to throw off the leopard--but then the leopard pulls downward with a sudden jerk.
Nor should thy wings have weighed thee downward to await more blows, either girl or other vanity of so brief a use.
Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Suiting to such words the act, upon Estout's bright casque {043}he then let fly so fierce a downward stroke, that fire issued therefrom.
Illustration: 186] Drawn downward by the great weight of his arms, Sir Jaufry disappeared with those two dames.
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