He was just over six feet in height, his complexion was ruddy, though tanned by exposure to the sun, while his crisp, light brown hair and kindly blue eyes gave him a boyish appearance.
Want of sleep, exposure to the rain, and a surfeit of excitement tried them to a very great extent; but, thanks to their physical training, they were soon little the worse for the experiences they had undergone.
The exposure of the "Conway Cabal" had lessened her faith in him also, as it had that of many people.
He was a man of middle age, much bronzed by exposure to weather, but with a kindly gleam in his keen gray eyes.
Seven years of army life, with its exhaustion and exposure and military social usage, had initiated into dangerous drinking habits many of the most justly influential leaders of society, and the example of these had set the tone for all ranks.
His features were strong and regular, his complexion slightly bronzed, as though from exposureto the sun and wind.
Her face expressed ridicule, pure and simple, and, he was shocked to observe, the exposure was unconscious, therefore sincere.
Then he told of the queer exposure Dangloss had unwittingly made.
She passed from the room beside Halfont, proud and happy in the victory over despair, glorying in the exposureof her heart to the world, her blood tingling and dancing with the joys of anticipation.
He would have preferred active service, and finally his health broke down under the exposure and fatigue to which he was subjected, and he was compelled to return home to recruit.
The last argument bore no weight with Farragut, who replied that she would be the chief target anyway, no matter what the position, and exposure to fire was one of the penalties of rank in the navy.
He thought upon it for a half-hour, not contemplating a messenger or a cab direct to the house, owing to the exposure of it, but finding that time was slipping away to no purpose, he wrote the letter and then began to think again.
He could probably keep up his pretensions sufficiently long without exposure to make good, and then all would be well.
But the grand vicar, seeing that his crime was to be easily detected, found that the shortest way to escape exposure was to put an end to the inquest by murdering the poor bishop.
Ten thousand copies of this exposure of the depravity of the bishop were published in Montreal.
The exposure she had done for herself, and she has not had the art to frame her apology.
Exposure for a length of time make the rock easier to work than it is when it comes out of the mine.
The experimental fluid may be inoculated by simple exposure to air as well as by any fluids known to contain living forms; e.
The precautions to be taken against the intrusion of germs are innumerable: a slight exposure to the air, accidental contact of an unheated rod or tube, or neglect of some other particulars may inoculate the experimental fluid.
It is demonstrable, that inoculation of the experimental fluid with a drop of liquid known to contain living particles, gives rise to the same phenomena asexposure to unpurified air.
An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.
Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air.
The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; - so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.
To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.
Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, airĂslacked lime.
A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.
People who go out there with delicate lungs recover in the most surprising manner; surprising, because one expects the sudden changes of temperature, the unavoidable exposure to rain and even snow, to kill instead of curing invalids.
One after another, the men died of exposure and slipped into the peaceful sea.
Hunger and thirst and mirage and exposure must all be overcome.
I feel obliged to his reserve; for exposure would be ridiculous, and so long as you and he alone know me, I shall feel less awkward in the ship.
This estimable man had his weak points as well as another, and what is more, he was quite sensible of them, as was proved by a most jealous watchfulness of his besetting sins, in the way of exposure if not of indulgence.
My face and knees were still bronzed from the exposure attendant on a long course of Alpine climbing the year before.
Correct exposure and sufficient illumination of the copy are important factors in photographic reproductions of any kind, but they are of infinitely greater importance when applied to photo-process reproduction.
It was found that after exposure under the negative the transfer ink would only adhere to such portions of the gelatinous surface as had been acted upon by the light.
The former must of necessity be controlled by the latter; yet no amount of exposure will compensate for defective illumination.
The time allowed for such an exposure will, of course, vary according to the quality of the negative and the intensity of the light.
Print this paper under the negative in a diffused light until the design appears in a rich golden-brown colour, when the exposure may be regarded as sufficient.
Constant exposure to hardship and peril demanded a strong body and a level head.
He might remove him to one of the clean, white hospital cots on the Albert, but it would scarcely serve to make easier the impending death, and the exposure and effort of the transfer might even hasten it.
There is no penalty if the caller of a solo, misere, or abondance exposes any or all of his cards, the exposure being in this case to his own disadvantage.
It is so common for persons to play valueless or losing cards out of turn without remark, that many people forget that the fortunes of a hand may often be influenced by the premature exposure of the winning card or a trump.
Equally unsparing is his exposure of the reputed pillars of the Church, mollahs and mûshteheds, as illustrated by his excellent stories of the Mollah Bashi of Tehran, and of the mollah Nadan.
Another great force was that of Swami Vivekananda, alike in his passionate love and admiration for India, and his exposure of the evils resulting from Materialism in the West.
Huge fragments of rock, white and tempest-scarred from long exposure on bleak mountain-heights, were shivered by the lightning, and fell like fierce avalanches into the depths below.
The scant herbage round about had been lately disturbed, and the marble headstone looked as if it had not yet undergone a week's exposure to wind and weather.
Anna, dear, indiscreet girl, had already shown her letters, and her delicacy shrunk from the exposure of her curiosity to its object.
Julia saw the danger of an exposure if she interfered, yet she had the curiosity to go to the window, and see how Antonio would conduct in the mortifying dilemma.
But what the novice longs to know is simply how to take pictures--what exposure to allow for a portrait, what for a street scene, what for a panorama.
If it were a bright day you could take portrait heads outdoors through this sized aperture with an exposure of one twenty-fifth of a second.
Using this same amount of time, the size of the shutter aperture should be reduced to a mere pin hole of light to make a proper exposure for far-away mountain tops, clouds, or boats in the open sea.
So at "64," which is proper exposure for the most distant of land panoramas, you begin to take waterscapes.
Certain handbooks and exposure meters will be of service while you are learning the classifications of subjects.
You scarcely need to be cautioned that if an object is dark in color it will require proportionately more exposure than the same object if it is white.
The one great difficulty for the beginner in photography is that he does not know how to "time" the exposure of a picture.
