It continued to repose in placid flatness on the pillow.
She pushed her nose into flatness against the window and gloated.
Even the characteristics of a brute afford matter of comment amid the Sahara-like flatness of ordinary camp life.
The Doctor did nearly all of that part of the talking which was done in words; and his observations, if they were noted at all, probably seemed to the other two mere flatness and irrelevancy.
Next in flatness to the ordinary talk of two lovers comes, I think, the ordinary talk of two young persons of the opposite sexes.
Nothing could be less like the Holland of the earlier days of my wanderings--nothing, that is, that was around me, but with the farther bank of the river the flatness instantly begins and continues as far as one can see in the north.
The main points to be noted are the characteristic flatness of the details, and the line of dentil-moulding, which defines all the leading architectural features, originally invented for borders of incrustations at S.
And the same conditions which enforced this flatnessare grateful because they involved the charming balconies which are so peculiarly Venetian, and gave a breadth and simplicity to the outline which has its own artistic charm.
There is a flatness about the carving, too, which gives the impression of a [Illustration: 5.
No wonder, that from the stifling crowd and desperate flatnessof it all she cried, Hidden is my way from Jehovah, and from my God my right hath passed.
But from the flatness and the crowd the stars are visible; and it was upon the stars that the prophet bade his people feed their hearts.
The flatness of the roofs, which the Italians never abandoned, was always found difficult to reconcile with the Gothic tendency to height and steepness.
I do not find this intensity of feeling in his other works, they are apt to cool one's ardour after the landscapes, and we are brought to think of design per se, and confronted with a flatness of handling that is not nearly so intriguing.
The romantic method of Dumas, for instance, and even of Walter Scott, appealed to her as a mode of escaping to dreamland from the flatness and vulgarity of life under the "miserable reign of Mammon.
Still Life, by Mr. Coria, is a painting of note, despite its cold flatness of texture.
With them it should never drop down to the too-common flatness and banality.
I might have shot as many as I pleased, but was sparing of my ammunition, rather choosing to kill a she-goat, which I did with much difficulty, on account of the flatness of the country.
The hill from which the river derives its name is a small, insignificant mound, and owes its importance to the flatness of the surrounding country.
The banks of Hayes River are formed of clay, and they improved a little in verdure as we ascended; but still, wherever the eye turned, the same universal flatness met the gaze.
At any rate the next development was the introduction of a little shading to relieve the flatness of the line-work and suggest modelling.
A plate having a true flat surface to test the flatness of work by.
The flatness of his voice, the pallor of his face, startled Hilary and Peggy.
The characteristic of the district is its extreme flatness and the consequent slight fall of the river-beds, the current being mainly tidal, with not much difference of level at that.
Yet this flatness is not monotonous; for, in addition to the ever-varying and ever-pleasing cloudscapes seen to best advantage in flat regions, there are beauties on the marshes and river borders of no common order.
There is a similar flatness in the work of all the early schools of painting, which had no reference whatever to the destination of the picture.
Its flatness was applauded because it had to be shut up in a book, and was therefore the only appropriate way of making a picture for such a purpose.
Proof staff, a straight-edge used by millers to test the flatness of a stone.
Defn: Characterized byflatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
After all, we drove out five miles to Broek, the clean village; across the Y, up the canal, over flatness flattened.
The reader will please to notice the flatness of her floor in the drawing of her midship section on p.
He went back to the drawing-room with that faint feeling offlatness which comes of parting with lively guests; and yet it somehow gave him a pleasant sense of being at home.
It amounted, in fact, to little more than a return to the old discarded viol shape of the middle ages, with its flatness of face and back, and its less indented outline.
By this time they were crossing to a gate in the direction of the school, which, standing on a slight eminence at the junction of three ways, now rose in unvarying and dark flatness against the sky.
He is Teniers on a large scale: his handling is of the most sparkling kind, owing much of its dazzling effect to the flatness of the ground it is placed upon.
Above all, I thoroughly disbelieve in the cant of mural decorations preserving the flatness of a wall.
When at the edge of a plane which you have accurately marked, you have a little more light than at the centre of it, you give so much more definition of its flatness or projection.
Whether the addition be -d or -t depends upon the flatness or sharpness of the preceding letter.
