A very striking experiment illustrating the pressure of the air was made by a famous contemporary of Boyle and Mariotte, by the name of Otto von Guericke.
An excellent selection, illustrating the orator's public life chiefly, has been published by Professor Albert Watson.
In his later history the chronicler is chiefly bent on illustrating the frailty of man and the wrath of God.
The New English Dictionary quotes two examples illustrating the early connexion of the term with the law or lawyers.
Diagram illustrating Connexion between Kidney and Testis in Various Groups of Fishes.
D and E, Illustrating the developmental process in bony Actinopterygians and higher vertebrates.
From remote times the practice of illustrating texts by means of pictorial representations was in vogue.
Two other movements might be mentioned as illustrating the attempt to extend the opportunity for higher education to an ever increasing number of people.
For the purpose of illustrating lectures and aiding in discussions, prints and photographs may be shown either directly or through the medium of the reflectoscope.
Lord Mahon's attention has been mainly fixed on domestic story; it is in illustrating parliamentary contests or court intrigues, not military events, that his powers have been put forth.
The speedy relinquishment by Charles Collins of the illustrating of "Edwin Drood" caused something of a dilemma.
BUSS Illustrating an incident in the ninth chapter of "The Pickwick Papers.
It is said that the artist was so thorough and so persistent in illustrating the humours of boys' schools that he earned the sobriquet of "Dotheboys Webster.
Twelve etchings on steel, illustrating "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge.
The geranium is a good plant to use in illustrating this point, because it is so constructed that it cannot fertilize its own flowers.
The sacrifice of the parent for the child is one of the most universal and unselfish facts of life, and many stories illustrating it can be collected and told.
On one occasion when illustrating a story by Thackeray, the number had to be issued short of certain pictures that had been arranged for.
This refers to some drawings he had undertaken to do illustrating "Pollock's Course of Time," to be published by Messrs.
And the other, although certainly very beautiful, I do not care much aboutillustrating just now--it requires too much thought to be disposed of hurriedly.
In addition to the desire to satisfy your anxiety with respect to the illustration to Miss Mulock's poem, I write to speak of a friend of mine who I feel very strongly might be of great value to you in the illustrating of Good Words.
Immediately on the publication and instant success of this book, we were instructed to secure Watson's services in illustrating De Foe's "Robinson Crusoe" with a like number of pictures.
It was also through our connection with the Cornhill Magazine that we were introduced to George Augustus Sala, who was at that time contributing a series of papers and illustrating the articles himself.
Zwecker made a capital set of drawings illustrating "Old Mother Hubbard"; while J.
Jerome was printed in 1497, with upwards of one hundred and eighty such little cuts, many of them illustrating incidents of monastic life.
A Series of Thirty Etchings illustrating subjects from the Writings of Rudyard Kipling.
There are few artists illustrating books to-day whose work is more unified, imaginatively and technically.
Illustrating these subjects, though in varying degree, the vitality and importance of an artist's conception of life and of art is put to the test.
The reader cannot open a page of this volume, without being powerfully struck with Cobbett’s ability to handle any subject illustrating man’s duty to his neighbour.
You will want to study the antiquities, and the old Latin and Greek inscriptions, and the monuments illustrating ancient history; but we should not understand such things.
In most of the rooms there were men who had pictures for sale, illustrating the objects contained there, for visitors to buy, in order to carry them home as souvenirs of their visit, and to show to their friends at home.
It is accompanied by colored maps illustrating pictorially the results of statistical inquiries.
In conclusion I will cite an example, which I have myself observed, for the purpose of illustrating the capacity of the topochemical olfactory sense.
One of his contributions may be quoted as illustratinghow unintentional are the originals of some of Punch's jokes.
He then took to travel, writing books and illustrating them by himself, and commended himself still further by the cruise he made and illustrated with Lady Brassey in The Sunbeam.
Punch's candour in illustrating the title given him in this country of "The Shouting Emperor," so it is alleged, annoyed him.
Afterwards, under the direction of Vivant-Denon and Jeuffroy, he issued a large series of medals illustrating the great events of the Empire.
As illustrating these rumours these four potentates are represented as leaguing together against Christianity, the devil being a fifth conspirator.
We now have further evidence both of the extreme antiquity of the literary form of the Gilgamesh Epic and also of the disposition to make the Epic the medium of illustrating aspects of life and the destiny of mankind.
The works dealing with the volcanic phenomena of Central and Southern Italy are also written with the object, in part at least, of illustrating and supporting the same theoretical views; with these we have to deal in the next chapter.
For instance, let it be the throne of Wodin, illustrating some passage in Norse mythology.
As soon as the orchestra stopped, while the show rolled on in glory, I talked about the main points in this book, illustrating it by the film before us.
HENRY COPE has lately published in London a Ride across the Rocky Mountains, to California--a book abounding in striking adventure and description, and illustrating in its general tone the spirit of an English gentleman.
Reinick also had a great skill in the writing of story books for children, and illustrating them with his own drawings.
Furnivall, for the reading of papers, which have been published in a Series of Transactions, and also for the publication of collations of the Quarto Plays, and works illustrating the great Dramatist's times.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illustrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
