With these triangles a child can make a more exact analytical study than he made when he was observing the triangles of the plane insets used in the "Children's House.
Furthermore, he has used a series of iron insets reproducing some of the geometric figures which he previously had learned through the use of wooden geometric insets.
With our insets we were able to reproduce some of the classic decorations found in our masterpieces of art, such as decorations by Giotto.
Illustration: The triangular insets fitted into their metal plates.
When the children try with the insets to reproduce these classic decorations from photographs they are led to make most minute observations, which may be considered a real study of art.
Find among the plane insets a rectangle as broad as half the square.
I learned all these hard names very easily because the insets are so amusing!
By moving the small pieces or by combining them in different ways on the white background, these very insets produce various decorations.
I have also some solid insets of wood into which I fit little cylinders of different dimensions.
These calculations and measurements are repeated with all the different sectors of this series of insets where the circle is divided into from two to ten parts.
The use to which these modified insets may be put is most varied.
The added weight and bulk of the insetscause inconvenience and expense to the newsdealer, as two or three insets printed upon cardboard are equivalent to at least sixteen additional pages.
This system of insetting has the grave inconvenience that the advertiser finds himself compelled to print as many insets as the publisher asserts that he can use.
The power to distinguish form is developed by wooden insets of all shapes which fit into holes in a thin board.
All the geometrical insets are self-corrective in exactly the same way.
The red insets were now tamped in with the trowel-handle, the unique round edges appearing without a touch of stain.
Our idea was to carry out and make perpetual the affinity of the red gleams as insets in a grey pebble walk.
The insets which we present simply call the attention to a given form.
I had great numbers of these insets made in graduations of colour and in an infinite variety of form.
With the second set of solid insets she proceeds in the same way.
The analogy between these metal insets and the plane geometric insets of wood is complete.
Until now, he has only placed the geometricinsets above the figures delineated on the three series of cards.
The metal insets are in dimension and form a reproduction of the series of plane geometric insets in wood already described.
Thus the knowledge of the forms given him in the plane geometric insets will be for him a species of magic key, opening the external world, and making him feel that he knows its secrets.
After three or four successive lessons, the child recognises the geometric figures with extreme facility and places the insets with a security which has a tinge of nonchalance, or of slight contempt for an exercise that is too easy.
In the school for deficients I had made and applied these insets in the same form used by my illustrious predecessors.
Learning the difference between rough and smooth by running fingers alternately over sandpaper and smooth cardboard; distinguishing different shapes by fitting geometric insets into place; distinguishing textures.
When, on the other hand, the insets are exhibited before his eyes, he feels the desire to draw them all one after the other, and the number of exercises is increased.
Corresponding to every form reproduced in the plane insets there are three white cards square in shape and of exactly the same size as the wooden frames of the insets.
For instance, if, instead of arranging the ten metal insets in a row, the teacher distributes them among the children without thus exhibiting them, the child's exercises are much limited.
The insets are held by the buttons and taken from their places.
In each of these is inserted a blue geometrical figure similar to the geometrical insets and provided with a small button for a handle.
They themselves have invented the exercise of blindfolding their eyes so as to recognize the forms by touch only, taking out and putting back the insets without seeing them.
The children make a special point of touching the outlines of the plane insets with accuracy.
The northern face of the Wall is continuous, but the southern has numerous outsets and insets measuring from four to twelve inches, at the points, doubtless, where the sections of the different companies joined.
Much of it remains of very various thicknesses, the whole of the perpendicular outsets and insets being on the south side.
The teachers were beginning to despair of producing order in this case, when the child began to take an interest in the solid insets and in one of the frames.
The stools I like best for the drawing-room are the fine old ones, covered with needlework or brocade, but there are many simpler ones of plain wood with caneinsets that are very good for other rooms.
Green painted wood with cane insets seems most suitable for the small rooms, and the marbles of the old trellised Temples d'Amour may be replaced by cement benches in our modern trellis pavillions.
The amazing farce-insets of Lyndsay's Satire of the Three Estates could be paralleled, and were no doubt suggested, by French farces of older date.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
