Below the small number of steep furrows which the glaciers have carved, and usually up to the top of the mountain, there spreads what has been called, very expressively, "the zone of rubbish.
In the mountain land of Colchis, Jason carried off the golden fleece, and Cadmus reaped a harvest of armed men from sowing serpent's teeth in furrows turned by the fire-breathing bulls of Vulcan.
And now they began to bring white hairs, and scatter them over the head of Ernest; they made reverend wrinkles across his forehead, and furrows in his cheeks.
When ready to plant, draw furrows the same as for corn, two and a half or three feet apart.
The folds resulting from these furrows indent the yolk more and more as development proceeds and tend to approach each other at a central point, the future umbilicus.
There were meadow-larks and robins without as well as within, and it was no subjective plough that turned the earliest furrows in those opulent fields.
Deep furrows gathered on Raven's brow as he stood thinking.
Barely a year his companion's senior, and yet to all appearances an old man, with the grey head and stooping form of advanced years, and a face deeply lined with the furrows of care and suffering.
Raven was, to all appearance, unmoved; the ashy paleness of his countenance and the deep furrows of his knitted brow alone betrayed that some unusually disturbing influence had been at work.
The frown on his low forehead deepened into threatening furrows and he began to strike his boots with the whip he carried.
He dropped his chin to his breast and closed his eyes, his forehead showing deep furrows beneath the straight black locks of overfalling hair.
Between these furrows we burnt the grass, an operation that required great care and yet must be done as expeditiously as possible to save time, labour and expense.
After measuring and laying off, with a plough I ran furrows for boundary lines, stuck in the goalposts, filled up the dog-holes, etc.
Our attention is next engaged by the wonderful arrangement and curving of the minute furrows connected with the organ of touch[4] on the inner surfaces of the hand and foot, especially on the last phalanx of each finger.
After numberless observations, I have thus far met with nine principal varieties of curvature according to which the tactile furrows are disposed upon the inner surface of the last phalanx of the fingers.
Its thickness must be less than half the elevation of the ridges, for when the finger is pressed down, the crests displace the ink immediately below them, and drives it upwards into the furrows which would otherwise be choked with it.
Tears rolled down the parallel furrowsof his thin face; where he should go now to tell his troubles he did not know; Juley was no good, Hester worse than useless!
The furrows upon her cheeks were no longer mere disfigurements; they raised her from the ordinary level of the ignorant and the ugly into some bond of sympathy with his dead mother.
The people were plain, poor, and kindly, and the farmer followed Dan into the field with entreaties that he should leave the furrows and come in to meet his family.
Here in a darkened land the great Demeter moved, bereaved and childless, bidding the vine be barren, and the fig-trees fruitless, and the seed of the sown furrows strengthless to multiply and fill the sickles with ripe increase.
Away we tore down towards the outlet, the boat cuttin' and plowin' through the water, pilin' it up in great furrows ten feet high on each side.
The body will be seen to be divided into some 218 rings by circular furrows which run right round the body.
The septa are in fact inserted on to the body-wall along the furrows which mark the divisions between adjacent segments.
Lucia perceived many new furrows on the brow of her husband; but soon her whole attention was absorbed by the peculiar expression of his eyes, which glowed upon her with implacable passion.
She was terrible to view in her witless old age; her face drawn into furrows and dull as lead, her bleared eyes empty of sight or conscience, and her thin hair scattered before them.
It is providence for the earth-born that their mother's lap soon takes furrowsin which they may run.
Then he chuckled softly to himself, and a broad smile spread itself among the furrows of his somewhat severely featured countenance.
This earthy mass, with its concretions and mammiferous remains, filling up furrows in the underlying gravel, certainly presents a very striking resemblance to some of the sections (for instance, at P.
Furrows and inequalities in the gravel, where such occur, are filled up and smoothed over with sandy earth.
Gregorio, the Pampean deposit, as we have seen, overlies and fills up furrows in coarse sand, precisely like that now accumulating on the shores near the mouth of the Plata.
The sandy covering sometimes fills up furrows in the gravel, as does the gravel in the underlying tertiary formations.
This deposit fills up hollows andfurrows in the underlying sand; appearing as if water charged with mud had invaded a sandy beach.
But early that afternoon his heart was delighted by the sight of a little figure skipping joyously over the furrows toward him.
But the day wore on without sign of his young friend, and the furrows which he had turned so joyously at nine were dragging leadenly at eleven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
