The object was to prove or to disprove the theory of Sir Isaac Newton that the earth was flattened at the poles.
She threw her head back, her eyes narrowing and her forehead drawing down so that Dick thought her head actually flattened itself.
The pyramid is only the cone in which Nature arranges her heaped and sliding fragments; the cone with flattened Surfaces, as it is prefigured in certain well-known crystalline forms.
One of the soft, but unpleasant missiles just alluded to flew by the master's head one morning, and flattened itself against the wall, where it adhered in the form of a convex mass in alto rilievo.
The artisan whirls his rod, and his glass bubble becomes a flattened disk, with its bull's-eye for a nucleus.
Then she threw the light on the old chair, and, shuddering, caught up a shawl and flung it over the spiral-wound arms and legs, and the flattened reptiles on which it stood.
The Azilian layers yielded over one thousand specimens of flattened and double-barbed harpoons made of the horns of the stag, thus widely differing from the late Magdalenian harpoons which are rounded and made of the horns of the reindeer.
It is in the thin, flat, triangular blades and in the lance-pointed forms that the coup de poing reaches its culmination; but we still observe the development of the oval or almond-shaped forms and of the flattened discs.
All the ribs are remarkably robust and of large volume, and, whereas in existing races they exhibit a flattened section, in the Neanderthals the section is distinctly triangular in form.
They show a flattened surface with cross incisions too regular to be accidental and too far from the articulation to be the result of an inexpert attempt to sever the joint.
The artistic spirit entirely disappears; there is no trace of animal engraving or sculpture; painting is found only on flattened pebbles or in schematic or geometric designs on wall surfaces.
I have never seen any Pterodactyle teeth so flattened and shaped like the end of a lancet; and from this character the form was known between Mr. Fox and his friends as "latidens.
Pterodactylus suevicus differs from the typical Pterodactyles in having a rounded, flattened under surface to the lower jaw, instead of the common condition of a sharp keel in the region of the symphysis.
The beak also seems flattened and swan-like, and the teeth are limited to the front of the jaw.
Sometimes the head is depressed in front, with the beak flattened or rounded as in a Duck or Goose, and occasionally in some Wealden and Greensand species the jaws are truncated in front in a massive snout quite unlike any bird.
He heard them coming through the lot and flattened himself against the wall, his eyes full of fight.
The car had reached the flattenedtop of the lofty range it had been climbing all day.
At the call the old fellow's ears flattenedand he threw up his head, then he came running straight to Tommy.
Within the car he heard the voice of the woman, low, confidential, assuring, and his earsflattened with gratitude and trust.
His ears flattened with reverence, even while his eyes shone with comradeship.
And Tommy, into whose face he looked with flattened ears and eyes solemn with devotion, was suddenly pale.
As Bell brought her round in a wide circle, the Cora's sails were flattened in and she began to beat up toward the entrance of the passage in a series of short tacks.
Three-fourths of his flattened body is made up of head, mostly mouth, armed with hooks and curved knives.
Ferragut sought on the bottom of the tanks the fishes of the deep,--flattened animals that pass the greater part of their time sunk in the sand under a coverlet of algae.
The beast then contracted, and flattened himself out so as to rest on the ground.
The doctor withdrew his eyes from the sea in order to observe his flattened nose.
It was flattened and swollen out like a pot-bellied Chinese lantern, with a neck to it and an irregular veining over its surface that completed the resemblance.
The river banks sank and flattened out and ceased, and we were on Hotham Inlet with the long coast-line of the peninsula that forms it stretching away north and south in the distance.
They flattened into a level table-land, and then they shot up into pinnacles and spires.
Some trees appear with enormous roots, buttresses in fact like mangroves in the coast swamps, six feet high at the trunk and flattened from side to side to about three inches in diameter.
The genuine Africans of this region have flattened nose-bridges; the higher grades of the tribes have prominent nose-bridges, and are on this account greatly admired by the Arabs.
Savalai or saval thadi is the flattened paddle used for rowing boats.
Savalalai or saval thadi is the flattened paddle for rowing boats.
This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.
Nothing like it had occurred in the Polar regions since the world first became a little flattened at the poles!
A large Microtus montanus with a relatively short tail; short molar series; broad zygomatic arches well rounded in lateral outline when viewed from above; small and flattened bullae; raised basioccipito-basisphenoid suture.
On a flattened end of the ridge E of se[-l]tcindun, 300 yds.
On the flattened portion of a ridge, with southern exposure.
He had either a message or a missive for every one he met; and at the noise of our wheels house doors opened, and the noses and lips of youngsters were flattened in a whimsical manner against the window-panes.
The grandest effects are produced after a heavy north-east blow, when the waves assume the larger and more flattened form known as the ground-swell.
A large ball, weighing about three ounces, striking a piece of rock on which I stood, with a loud whirring, lodged perfectly flattenedin a small crevice under my feet; and at the same moment one of our men fell severely wounded.
The lips are thick and fleshy, and must be split open from the inside and flattened out so that the flesh in them can be pared off.
This is how to make it: Let us suppose we are to make a gelatine mould of a flattened meteorite, eight inches in diameter and about three inches thick.
The asteroids have orbits that are more flattened or elliptical and these orbits are in some instances highly inclined to the planetary orbits.
The earth is a spheroid flattened at the poles and its polar diameter is about twenty-seven miles shorter than its equatorial diameter.
Saturn is composed of layers of different densities and that the inner layers are more flattened at the poles and rotate faster than the outer layers.
On account of this rapid rotation and their gaseous condition both Jupiter and Saturn are noticeably flattened at the poles.
Astronomers have found as a result of their investigations that the sidereal system to which our solar system belongs is in the form of a flattened spheroid with its longest axis in the plane of the Milky Way.
By far the greater number of all the stars are crowded towards its plane in the form of an enormous flattened disk or lens.
His body flattened out upon the ground, and he lay there panting laboriously.
Ted wheeled his horse to face the black brute, which stood looking at him with wicked eyes, its ears flattened like those of a panther.
The next instant the battleplane flattened out, not under the influence of the pilot's guidance, but through some freakish aircurrent.
With admirable precision the airman "flattened out.
With a thud it struck the flattened part of the upperside of the envelope about fifty feet from the tail.
It was as well that the file cabinet behind the youth was nearly empty, because it slid a foot along the floor as his back flattened against it.
Meyers squinted at him, examining the slightly flattened nose and the meaty cheeks that gave Taranto a deceptively plump look.
The caterpillars of this family have all short and rather thick bodies, shaped very much like that of the wood louse--flattened beneath and very convex above.
The three pieces must be filed off at the proper angles, and the doubly bevelled end of the wider tube must then be flattened down to the width of the smaller ones before soldering.
