The hard outer layer is best adapted to withstand wear, and its density protects the deeper layers from evaporation.
The outer layers are the hardest and protect the deeper from injury.
The layers of the wall are hardest externally, becoming softer as they approach the inner surface--a condition due to the outer layers being exposed to friction and evaporation.
The blood, whose colour shows transparently through the layersof the epidermis, produces the various pinkish tones.
These three layers consist of cells that are not perceptibly differentiated from one another; but potentially each and every one contains its own special final cause.
The bottles are now put in cool cellars, corded in horizontal layers with thin strips of wood between each layer of bottles.
It is very generally agreed that plants from summer-layers not only do not give good plants, but that the parent vine is injured in taking an offspring from it in this way.
In these rooms the sweat boxes, filled with layers of new raisins, are stacked and left usually from 10 to 30 days, or long enough for the overdried berries to absorb moisture from the under-dried ones.
The work of layering mature wood usually begins in the spring, but the vines from which the layers are to be taken should have received preliminary treatment the preceding season.
Rock-salt is found in various layers of the earth's crust.
This device of fixed and stay-at-home workers and wandering egg-layers is of the greatest use to the species, as a little reflection will show.
Let us look at the layers of earth that filled it, these being intermingled with rude implements, broken bones, and charcoal, indicating that man at times had resorted to the spot.
The path is worn deep by centuries into the soft limestone, in the sides of which appear layers of petrified twigs and branches of the bushes of a bygone period.
In some cases no strata could be discerned in the clay, in others, layers of brick, stone, and mortar were clearly visible.
These layers are so thin that they cannot be perceived, but their presence is revealed by a change in the properties of the light reflected by them.
But it often happens, as in your case, that fantasy lies upon fantasy, and it is necessary to dig through great layers of them before uncovering the truth.
Below the skin, the surface layers of fatty tissue, the substance of the tissue changed from the dark red of the wounded tissue to a dark and greenish hue that spoke of deadly decay.
One circulates a blood substance in the outer layers of tissue that is almost normal.
The layers of lime were deposited around the cap like the layers of straw on a thatched roof, or hay on a conical stack.
Some of the mounds have been worn away so that sections are exposed, showing the great number and thickness of the overlapping layers of sediment.
One may now study the layers of deposit, sometimes thousands on a single mound, as he would the rings of growth in a tree.
Mr. Hayden describes one, a very curious mammiform mound of calcareous deposit, about forty feet high, built up by overlapping layers like those of Liberty Cap on Gardiner's River.
Ridge after ridge extends down the steep sides of the mountain like lofty walls, the intervening softer portions having been washed away, leaving the harder layers projecting far above.
The edge of the basin is bounded by a heavy fringe of rock, and stalagmite in solid layers is deposited by the overflowing waters.
Or, You can chop both kinds of meat fine, also the eggs, and pack in successivelayers within your mould.
Fresh layers are swiftly added to the dab of clay; and soon the tube is divided by a partition which has a circular opening at the side of it, a sort of dog-hole through which the Osmia will proceed to knead the Bee-bread.
Pretty often, but not always, there is added to these two layers an inner casing of shavings.
We sometimes receive them at Orange, layers of them, packed in baskets through which the air circulates freely and each contained in a paper wrapper.
The youngsters huddle up closer, lie one on top of the other in layers and room is found for all.
These green parcels were laid in a layer between two layers of the hot stones, and the whole then covered up with earth, so that no smoke or steam could escape.
The intervening spaces are concealed with layers of pumice, ashes and volcanic tuff.
The volcanic sandstone in which the trees were embedded, and from the lower part of which they must have sprung, had accumulated in successive thin layers around their trunks; and the stone yet retained the impression of the bark.
The sides of this ravine are very precipitous the head of it being formed of layers of rock, at an angle of about ninety-five degrees, over which a cascade precipitates itself, fed by the springs and melted snows above.
Very extensivelayers of melaphyre and andesite, as also of conglomerates and volcanic tuffs, cover the middle portions of the peninsula.
The layers from the different bales are laid upon the feed cloth which carries them up to the rollers, between which the layers are crushed and partly separated.
It is essential that the bobbin should have such a motion, because the delivery of the sliver and the speed of the flyer are constant for a given size of rove, whereas the layers of rove on the bobbin increase in length as the bobbin fills.
The knobs are so arranged that they force themselves into the hard layers of jute, and, in addition to this action, the heads of jute have to bend partially round the larger roller as they are passing between the rollers.
As the loom beam rotates, the threads are arranged in layers between the flanges of the loom beam.
The positions of the threads in these two layers are represented by the designs, see Fig.
When the ryot considers that the layers are separated from the core sufficiently easy, the work of steeping ceases, and the process of stripping is commenced immediately.
The layers of heads are often beaten with a heavy sledge hammer in hand batching, but for machine batching a bale opener is used, and this operation constitutes the preliminary opening.
Pack peaches in overlappinglayers with rounded side uppermost and blossom end facing glass.
When cool, split and put between layers the following cream filling.
When icing foams, put between layersand on top of cake.
The number and variety of these vertical layers is quite endless, and I can compare them to nothing better than the stripes on the leaves of a tulip.
The first, which is very characteristic, consists of layers of irregularly shaped stones and flat tiles embedded in mortar, generally arranged in alternate layers of tiles and stones in mortar, forming a kind of concrete (Pl.
Roman arch at Colchester Castle, Hampshire, showing alternate layers of tiles or flat bricks and stones.
We entered the courtyard of an old stone house, and after shaking off several layers of the white dust, went in to the bounteous feast prepared in our honour.
It was black, unhealthy ooze, generated after a month of rain in the aged layers of train soot.
An excavation in the centre gave four feet of peat, and under it was shell marl, whilst for a radius of about twelve feet around the island there were layers of regularly-placed stones, small and flat; also at the S.
Next were placed one or two layers of round logs, cut into lengths of about six feet, generally mortised into the upright piles, kept in position by layers of stone, clay, and gravel.
It was similar to the last described: a cruciform section of considerable depth threw little light on the internal construction; there were only layers of earth, sand, and sticks.
In some cases, where the foundation was soft, the superincumbent layers of timber were of great depth; in other cases, where the bottom of the lake was firm, the platform of timber was confined to a portion of the island.
Small piles were driven through the different layers to hold the mass together, whilst on the exterior, a number of much smaller piles were driven into the lake-bed, probably to protect the structure from wave action.
The Roman roadbed was constructed of several layers of stone, and it was one of the most resistant and permanent structures ever devised.
Under the pressure of the oxide of nickel the square tubes containing the nickel were frequently injured so that the powdered nickel oxide was sifted down on the pure nickel layers and insulated them.
In this battery the positive element, which consisted of nickel oxide interspersed with layers of graphite, was packed in perforated nickel tubes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "layers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
