The natives, asserting their ancient territories, were fast enclosing the English in narrower bounds, while the English were at variance amongst themselves.
He drew up all his waggons and carts in a circle, enclosing his troops, leaving an opening at each end, where he posted his archers in great force.
St. Martin-cum-Gregory boasts of ten windows of Decorated work, mostly small brassy canopies enclosing coloured figures, all placed upon a background of quarries.
Yet this tremendous, enclosingpresence was a presence of love.
If you do not care for that name, and have a better one to suggest, you may write to me, giving your choice, and enclosing postage stamps as a guarantee of good faith.
The show ground is behind a high board fence enclosing a couple of buildings and a little race track.
We preferred, however, when enclosing the leaves in our letters home, to send them in all their native beauty, and with no clumsy human attempts at improvement.
Yet in spite of all the trouble and money spent--and enclosing is one of the heaviest of all expenses incurred in starting a new farm--our birds were continually getting away.
But in most of them there is also a peculiar construction, by which, at the base of the sheath, or enclosing tube, each leaf articulates itself with the rest of the stem at a ringed knot, or joint.
Ming Period Chinese Porcelain of the XVII and XVIII Centuries Detail of the Cartonnage Enclosing the Mummy of the "Lady of the House, Tesha".
Dynasty XXII-XXV] Detail of the Cartonnage Enclosing the Mummy of the "Lady of the House, Tesha".
Within this enclosure there is, on the four sides, an open space one mile in breadth, where the troops are stationed, and this is bounded by a second wall, enclosing a square of six miles.
The blade of the leaf often becomes so much inflected that it forms a cup, enclosing any object placed on it.
They are formed of two (as I believe) layers of delicate angular cells, enclosing eight or ten larger cells with thicker, zigzag walls.
After nine days the lobes opened spontaneously a little at the end enclosing the cheese, but hardly any or none was dissolved, though it was softened and surrounded by secretion.
Same experiment as the two last, and here again the leaf at the end enclosing the cheese opened before the [page 304] opposite end with the albumen; but no further observations were made.
In all cases, however, the process resolves itself into boring a hole, and enclosing a cartridge in it, which is afterwards made to explode.
The slate enclosing them presents vegetable impressions of reeds or analogous plants.
In order to confine the heat, there is in the enclosing walls of the outer kiln a cylindrical hollow space d, where the air is kept stagnant.
The under part of the shaft from the fire to the hearth, is 7 feet, and the outer enclosing wall is constructed of limestone, the lining being of fire-bricks.
The shafts here shown, are excavated in the line of the vein itself,--the rock enclosing it being seen in the second figure.
The particles consist of a strong membranous skin, enclosing stearine and elaine, or solid and liquid fat, which may be extracted by trituration and pressure.
This property has led to falsifications; which are detected by enclosing weighed portions of the suspected silk in a wire-cloth cage, and exposing it to a stove-heat of about 78 deg.
Next they threw out a short gable-ended wing to the east, and another to the west, enclosing a pleasant courtyard on the south.
A square Tudor building with two short, gable-ended wings, thrown out at right angles to its front; three friendly grey walls enclosing a little courtyard made golden all day long with sunshine from the south.
The letter to Mr. Pilkington enclosing the cheque for twelve hundred had been written and posted at least twelve hours before his arrival.
Then the lamps; a little light in the centre where they sat, and the thick enclosing darkness round about them.
With the first and second, reporting progress and enclosing despatches to be forwarded to Prescott, we have nothing to do.
At the right is the imposing Tour de la Ligue (1648) and to the left the Tour des Archives, each enclosing a large spiral stairway and surmounted by a dome terminated with a lanternon.
But he may be absent, and it will be necessary for you to write not only to Mr. Van Buren, but also to Richmond, enclosing copy of my declining and of such parts of this letter as will put them in full possession of the subject.
These are three to four inches in diameter, and exhibit a scaly involucre, enclosing what much resembles a fleshy receptacle with achenia.
Outside the lofty wall enclosing this park is a kind of common interspersed with marshland through which a small stream flows, and there I have bagged as many as ten couple of snipe in an afternoon, with an occasional wild duck.
Hammond wrote from Carisbrooke Castle to the two Houses of Parliament, informing them of what had happened, enclosing a copy of Fairfax's letter, and signifying his intention of obeying it.
Then the obelisk required to be protected from the accidents of carriage, which was done by enclosingit in a wooden case.
In hopes of alluring and conciliating them, the Bascha ordered those traders who had accompanied the army to establish a bazaar outside the fence enclosing the camp.
For defraying the expenses of this Act and enclosing the said ground, the inhabitants were permitted to borrow a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds at four per cent.
A few miles north of Valparaiso is the pretty residential suburb of Vina del Mar, beyond which the rocks come down to the sea, here and there enclosing stretches of sandy beach on which the great green rollers break.
So far as we can tell, the great Sun Temple at Cuzco consisted only of lofty walls enclosing courts, with no decoration but plates of gold attached to the walls.
