A whirlwind having come on, the old rickcloth got inflated with the height of its position, and was soon carried away by the puffing it experienced.
The water was bitterly cold, and in a very curious way I suffered intense pain, because the inflated collar prevented me from dipping my head to the breakers and they caught me full on.
It is chiefly on this account that even Plato comes in for a large share of disparagement, because he is often carried away by a sort of frenzy of language into an intemperate use of violent metaphors and inflated allegory.
As the sheets of water were in places and at periods shallow, the rafts were made buoyant, though heavily laden, by means of inflated skins and bladders placed beneath them.
They brandished marlin spikes and oars to which were attached inflated goat- skins and bladders.
Those males with worn teeth seem to have a slightly longer and deeper rostrum with a larger, more inflated cranium than specimens of S.
UKMNH) from Northway has slightly more inflated auditory bullae than those from Kluane.
Note how the touch of its legs indents the inflated balloon.
No further literary production of his appeared until 1716, when a Latin oration, which he delivered on the foundation of the Codrington Library at All Souls, gave him a new opportunity for displaying his alacrity in inflated panegyric.
Fired with enthusiasm and inflated with limonade gazeuse, we left the chalet and strode vigorously up the hill in order to prospect the route and reconnoitre the rocks.
As it is, they are probably inflatedwith conceit at overcoming visionary difficulties.
When the skin is inflated (which is done quickly and without touching the skin to the mouth) it is exceedingly buoyant and can hardly be made to sink.
Owing to the inflated price of silver, a contemporary points out, the shilling now contains only ten-pence half-penny worth of silver.
More important however is the fact that, owing to the inflated cheek of dairymen, it only contains three pennyworth of milk.
The air-inflated quarry in the course of its wild career performed some curious antics which provoked roars of laughter.
I inflated my lungs, and replied fortissimo:-- "Plumstone!
The inflated sealskin floats, five or six in number, the whale harpoon, and whale spades, and ice picks were carried in the boats.
The harpoon line is fitted with two inflatedsealskin floats.
N346] Five or six floats are carried in each boat, and are inflated before starting out.
I have already spoken of the floats (apotu'kpun) of inflated sealskin used in capturing the whale and walrus.
The whole was then secured to the shaft by a lashing through the slot, and could be inflated at pleasure and corked up with the wooden plug.
This is effected by attaching an inflated bladder to the shaft, or else by attaching the line with a martingale so that the shaft is dragged sideways through the water.
I have observed the inflated lip most outrageously bruised, torn, and battered, and occasionally perforated by a large hole.
The other continued its course, and was descried by some mutineers on the opposite bank, who sent off men to the raft on massaks (inflated sheep-skins).
In doing this, draw the sternum well forward so that the ribs will spread out, and show a chest cavity of the right size for inflated lungs.
When the skins have beeninflated they may be mounted readily by being placed upon wires wrapped with green silk, or upon annealed aluminium wire.
Alcoholic specimens are liable to become shrivelled and discolored, and are not nearly as valuable as well-inflated and dried skins.
Two more men were rescued, one stark naked, save for an inflated swimming collar; the other wounded in half a dozen places by pieces of flying metal.
All wore either life-belts or inflated swimming-collars, although the possibility of gaining the shore seemed very remote in view of the mountainous seas breaking against the sheer wall of iron-bound cliff.
The inflated invocation of the ghost of Callimachus laid him fatally open to the quietly disdainful reference by which, without even mentioning Propertius by name, Horace met it a year or two later in the second book of the Epistles.
In literature, no less than in government and finance, a feverish period of inflated credit had brought it to the verge of ruin.
It seems an idle consequence that we may spend perhaps ten long weary years of hard times, of falling prices, declining business and sharp distress, paying for the orgy of inflated prices, waste and extravagance in which we are now indulging.
Inflated figures were offered for popular consumption and undoubtedly they were consumed and had their influence in securing a successful close to the struggle.
The order of the nations corresponds, in general, with the order in which the currency in those nations has been inflated by paper as well as with the order in which their monetary units have depreciated in the foreign exchange markets.
One of these ladies, more affable and less assuming than her sisters, who are haughtily inflated with the deep reverence and homage of thirsty crowds of men, actually condescends to favour us with a few words of conversation.
Then he turned to me, unbounded satisfaction visible in his beaming face, inflated breast, and gesturing hands.
Possibilities of an expansion of commerce practically boundless inflated hopes and stimulated energies.
Even in carrying his Reform Bill he had not stooped to inflated rhetoric, or held out promises of visionary millenniums.
They use theinflated skin of a goat or of a cow, and, supporting themselves on this, can rest on the deep, cool bosom of the river as long as they like without fatigue.
His feat was to bang, with an inflated bladder, the heads of gaping spectators.
The style of writing was inflated and bombastic, and that of art was what is termed “rococo.
