Ordinarily, nothing but live things are ever Inverted in Surgery and you wouldn't think of doing it to an inanimate object, especially in a Place where the Doc's a drunk and the Surgery hasn't been used for hundreds of sleeps.
So that the end of the fire line was not a thin edge of scattered fire that could be fought and stamped back but was a whirling inverted funnel of flame that leaped and danced ever outward and onward.
Only these few bare rocks and this inverted bowl of lurid, hot, cinder-laden air out of which she must get the breath of life.
There were various tricks performed by jugglers, and we find there the old cup or shell game, in which a little ball or pea is rolled about on a board from one inverted cup to another to guess under which it finally rested.
On the contrary, it is often a symptom of an inverted self-consciousness.
Perhaps you will be tempted to see in this invertedworld an inverted civilisation.
I had certainly seen through those spectacles as clearly as if they had been plain window-glass; and they had certainly given an inverted reflection of the candle-flame like that thrown from the surface of a concave lens.
The inverted position was not a mere temporary accident, as it might have been if the frame had been stood on a shelf or support.
The way in which it came to be inverted is pretty obvious and also rather suggestive.
Rub slowly and patiently until you have taken off every bit of the paper and left only the black lines and touches of your picture on the wood, in an inverted direction.
The roof is a square pyramid about fourteen feet high, formed of stones which overhang each other like inverted steps.
Much abridgment has been requisite: the passages between inverted commas are however literal translations from the native writings; and those so distinguished, subsequent to the arrival of the Dutch, are from the original histories.
It may be known by five stars forming an inverted dipper, often called “the Milk-dipper.
Page 733, Asterism: the printed book shows two asterisms; possibly one of those was intended to be an inverted asterism.
The copperhead (Agkistrodon contortix) is light chestnut in color, withinverted Y-shaped darker blotches on the sides, and seldom exceeds three feet in length.
Miss Plympton changed her expression from the Moving Finger to "That inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help--for It As impotently moves as you or I.
So high you are--you did not realize it--that the rim of encircling mountains is only a tiny wave of purplish green sky-line like the edge of an inverted blue bowl.
For this purpose they are kindled at the apex and set on an inverted saucer or a penny piece to burn.
On the large scale, the evaporation is generally conducted in a shallow earthen dish, and as soon as the mass becomes dry a second dish is inverted over it, and the calcination is continued, without disturbance, until the process is concluded.
On the small scale, pewter plates are generally used, and they are invertedone over the other.
The solution of the sugar in question (previously inverted if it is required to determine crystalline sugar) is then placed in contact with an excess of Fehling's liquor, and reduced in the water-bath.
Mr Shuttleworth[3] says that an efficient dialyser may be made out of one of the flat hoops of an ordinary flour barrel, a bell jar, or even an inverted glass funnel.
The lime kilns are usually of the form of an inverted cone, and are packed with alternate layers of limestone and fuel, and the burnt lime raked out from the bottom.
This was the strong grey head of laurelled name, And in his bosom an inverted Sage Mistook for light of morn the light which sank.
In appearance the jellies resemble umbrellas, dinner plates, or inverted bowls, from which depend streamers or tentacles of various kinds and shapes, often richly colored, especially the very minute forms.
They have a long stem, with rootlike branches to support it, and are capped with what appears like an inverted starfish, and is literally a starfish perched upon a stem.
He had a strange invertedidea that Massinger intended Sir Giles for a comic character.
This practice so completely inverted the natural order of things that the officers, though possessing chronometers, did not know night from day.
But some instrumentalists inverted the position of the hands.
A remarkable pile of rocks called the Cheese-wring, somewhat resembling an inverted pyramid in form, is seen on the moor north of Liskeard.
Thus, in order to construct an electrical machine, he once inverted a four-legged stool to serve for the stand, and took a white glass bottle for the cylinder.
While the Welsbach mantles have been constantly improved in quality, and given new and inverted forms of special value, the inventors in the field of electric lighting have not stood still.
Arches inverted are used in many places as gulleys for drainage.
An inverted cone, duly supported on a frame allowing motion upward and downward, and dipping into a cylinder partly filled with water, is a simple means of extracting cube root within say one and ten as limits.
Dig a hole about five feet deep and four feet wide at the lower side of your intended bed of roses: in this hole place an inverted barrel, with the head knocked out; or, what is better, an old oil cask.
