They were a large kind of "chaluts," like those on the Normandy coasts, great pockets that the waves and a chain fixed in the smaller meshes kept open.
Then it moved away two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent track, like those volumes of steam that the express trains leave behind.
In other places, like those at Reunion and at Maurice, they raise fringed reefs, high, straight walls, near which the depth of the ocean is considerable.
My flocks, like those of Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies of the ocean.
They extend horizontally in opposite directions, and form a beautiful glossy ground, over which the one large down-looking flower is swung from a simple stem, the petals being strongly recurved, like those of Lilium superbum.
The first part of the way lies up the Nisqually Canyon, the bottom of which is flat in some places and the walls very high and precipitous, like those of the Yosemite Valley.
This situation, like those of the past, was not of his own making.
The first churches, like those of Corinth and Ephesus and Rome, were democracies: no such thing as a priestly line to carry on a hierarchy, an ecclesiastical dynasty, was dreamed of.
I suspect the plains of Patagonia, like those of Australia, are traversed by many watercourses, which only perform their proper parts at certain periods.
The country on both sides of this part of the Strait consists of nearly level plains, like those of Patagonia.
In appearance and habits it resembles in many respects our peewits; its wings, however, are armed with sharp spurs, like those on the legs of the common cock.
The ancient strata of which the continents are largely made are composed chiefly of material thus worn from still more ancient lands--lands with their hills and valleys like those of to-day--and carried by their rivers to the ocean.
The heavy gold is apt to be found mostly near or upon the solid rock, and its grains, like those of the sand, are always rounded.
The head shield carries a pair of large, crescentic, compound eyes, like those of the insect.
They are not affected by acid, and their broken surfaces are irregular like those of broken glass.
For you, my young friend, may the sun always shine as brightly as at this moment; may your own conduct always give you the sunshine of benevolence and reason united!
St. Aubert now retired to rest, and Emily to her little chamber, but not to immediate repose.
Soon after his arrival, he ordered his gondola, and, with Cavigni, went out to mingle in the scenes of the evening.
It deserves notice that only two or three of the London-crossed plants produced dark crimson flowers like those of their fathers, and only a very few of a pale pink like those of their mothers.
Amongst these plants a single one appeared having purple flowers like those of the grandmother, but with the petals slightly streaked with a paler tint: this was thrown away.
Nevertheless some few of the flowers produced by the grandchildren of Hero were slightly monstrous, like those of the ordinary self-fertilised plants of the later generations.
The employments, too, in which people of some rank or fortune spend the greater part of their lives, are not, like those of the common people, simple and uniform.
The leading men of America, like those of all other countries, desire to preserve their own importance.
The emoluments of offices are not, like those of trades and professions, regulated by the free competition of the market, and do not, therefore, always bear a just proportion to what the nature of the employment requires.
His attire was a doublet of russet leather, like those worn by the better sort of country folk, girt with a buff belt, in which was stuck on the right side a long knife, or dudgeon dagger, and on the other a cutlass.
Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
The members of the mystical body, like those of the natural body, must mutually cherish one another.
Cooper says, "The country consisted of peninsulas and islands, like those of the present East Indies; resembling them also in climate and productions.
The laws of the Mexicans, like those of most barbarous people, are apt to strike us as being very severe; but good reasons, according to their way of thinking, exist for such severity.
Some were constructed on three sides of a court, like those on the Rio Chaco, in New Mexico.
The curved fingers of the hand were long, and the flesh projected at the side beyond the finger-nails, like those of antique statues.
The tempest of infidelity, like those freshets of the Loire which bury the meadows for all time in sand, had torn its way through her soul, leaving a desert where once the verdure clothed the fields.
They were to me, I dare not say to her, like those fissures in a dam through which the water finds a vent and avoids disaster.
If they drive her out of here, she'll still want fun wherever she is; she'll go to a town and end up like those girls I saw in Bristol.
The toes terminate in sharp, hard claws, much curved downwards, like those on a bird's foot.
With the majority of tendril-bearing plants the young internodes revolve in more or less broad ellipses, like those made by twining plants; but the figures described, when carefully traced, generally form irregular ellipsoidal spires.
Alisma and of a Linum are continually performing slight movements to all points of the compass, like those of climbing plants.
All the reduced leaflets have branching nerves, and terminate in little spines, like those of the fully developed leaflets.
Not that his crown, like those of the old Greek games, is a mere useless badge; on the contrary, his robe of state is composed of his fellow- servants.
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