All the chief materials for the work of the various crafts were produced at home.
Necklaces were very common, from the cheapest kind up to those with the studs made of gold, pearls, and other gems, all of which materials were found native.
The materials carried in mechanical suspension are clay, sand, and vegetable matter.
Of course in the infinite varieties of use and the numberless variations of personal taste, there are, and should be, innumerable differences in application of both colour and materials to interiors.
Difference of surface is secured by the use of materials which are permanent and durable in effect, such as wood, plaster, and leather.
The materials used in curtains, portières, and screens should be of cotton or linen, or some plain woollen goods which are as easily washable.
In the meantime one should carefully avoid the violently coloured papers which are made only to sell; materials which catch the eye of the inexperienced and tempt them into the buying of things which are productive of lasting unrest.
Other materials have been used, such as zirconium, yttrium, and thorium oxides, and osmium and tantalum among the metals, but they have been displaced entirely by the materialsmentioned above.
The materials are derived from the waste of till or boulder-clay, and their arrangement took place probably in water flowing in channels beneath ice-sheets, the escar becoming exposed as the ice finally melted away.
He found the different corps in good order, considering the irregular materials of which they were composed, in great force of numbers and high confidence and spirits.
When words can represent all that is evident and all that is conjectural--the works of Omnipotence, and the fabrications of man--we need to seek no further for the necessary materials of thought.
They perform important offices, although they are not the materials to rear and consolidate the edifice of thought.
Words, thus impregnated with definite meaning, become the floating currency of the mind, are the efficientmaterials of Thought, and of its perspicuous expression.
Knowledge supplies the materials for thought, and every thought must be a distinct proposition, or sentence composed of words.
It should be recollected that such is the amazing inclosure of language, that it comprehends all the living and inanimate materials of this world, all that perception can detect, memory recall, or thought elaborate.
These are the materials out of which scholastic metaphysicians have fashioned their unresembling model, and deserted Nature.
He reached out for the cigarettematerials laid convenient to his hand.
These materials are not uniformly disseminated in the deposits; their precipitation being regulated both by their specific gravity and the velocity of the current.
In some cases conflicting accounts are given of an event which seem to rest on equally good authority; in other cases, there is a sudden failure of materials just where the thread of the story becomes most complicated.
The period treated of by Professor Maspero in these volumes is one for which there is an abundance of materials sucli as do not exist for the earlier portions of his history.
We are further told that this 'gum' was applied to the sizing of cotton cloths with good results, and that it might prove equally useful for the sizing of other materialssuch as paper.
Having all our materials at hand, let us set to work.
Only the best materials are used in its production--pure cream of tartar and tartaric acid, derived from grapes, bicarbonate of soda and corn starch, all scientifically blended and perfectly balanced.
It is important to have all materials and utensils cold.
If Stanley works this case well, he will make a great affair of it, for his materials are ample and excellent.
Footnote 75: He told Martin that he had carefully and elaborately got up the case, but he could not make the speech, and he begged him to find a man who would use his materials and speak for him.
However, in matters of this sort, Lord John is tolerably dexterous too, and he may have better materials than I am aware of to employ.
It was a very ugly case, and afforded George Bentinck and Disraeli materials for much triumph and abuse, of which they largely availed themselves.
Sugden accepted the Great Seal, and the Duke of Northumberland the Admiralty, for which nobody imagines that he has any qualification whatever; and it shows what slender materials Derby could command when he applied to such a man.
He gave me an outline of his case, and told me several facts, very important and available, and I am sanguine as to his coming well out of it, if he can manage his materials adroitly.
I thought it very bad, and I was disgusted at doing it so ill, and making such bad use of the good materials I had.
If he had had more artistic power, he would have made his excellent materials much more effective than they were.
He required stronger materialsto work with, and did not hesitate to use them.
I am not going to repay her majesty's condescension so ill, or so much to abuse the privileges of a guest, as to draw upon my recollections of what passed for the materials of a cynical critique.
But a far greater difficulty lay in the labor (absolutely insurmountable to myself) of bringing together from so many quarters the scattered materials of the collection.
He threw off his hat and overcoat, struck a light and looked about for materials with which to rebuild the fire.
It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible all over the world the materials of wealth and prosperity.
The coating of the inner surface of a boiler by incrustation and the collection of salt sediment in its lower parts, are attended with effects highly injurious to the materials of the boiler.
The brickwork, or other materials forming the flue, must therefore be non-conductors of heat, that they may not absorb any considerable portion of heat from the air passing in contact with them.
The materials of this pyramid would be raised from the ground to their present position by the combustion of about four hundred and eighty tons of coals.
The power of such a machine would depend entirely on the magnitude of the piston; and being independent of highly elastic steam, would not expose the materials to the destructive heat which was necessary for working Savery's engine.
He was made of more yielding materials than Reynolds; assumed more the airs of a courtier--humoured the king.
In this way I have felt myself bound so to select my materials as to avoid more travelling over familiar ground than seemed absolutely necessary.
As time advanced islands and mountain-peaks arose from the ocean, vomiting forth the molten and igneous materials of the interior of the earth's crust.
They now afford at once the materials of improvement in the arts and of comfortable subsistence in extreme climates, and subjects of surpassing interest to the naturalist.
It is true we can furnish the materials for philosophical speculations which may be built on scientific facts and principles; but these are in their nature uncertain, and must constantly change as knowledge advances.
The materials of old rocks were comminuted and mixed to form fertile soils,[96] and stores of mineral products were accumulated to enable man to earn his subsistence and the blessings of civilization by the sweat of his brow.
That the materials of our existing continents are of secondary origin, as distinguished from primitive or coeval with the beginning.
At the period now under consideration the two former had not been called into existence, and the latter was in process of elaboration from the materials of the primeval deep.
In the case of such a deposit as this breccia, however, the precise time when its materials were finally laid down in their present form, or the length of time necessary for its accumulation, can not be definitely settled.
These alternatives we may shortly consider, though the materials for their full discussion can be furnished only by facts to be subsequently stated.
That the real extent of the risk is not known does not make it any the less important that persons who have opportunity to handle materials in which this may occur should be subject to frequent sanitary inspection.
For this reason the work of the day must be systematically divided so that at stated intervals the clay and other materials held in suspension by the disturbed water may be allowed to settle and the water be made comparatively clear.
It is always well to try on once, as materials differ in texture and a slight change may be necessary.
Sidenote: Satin Stitch] (10) The satin stitch is an over and over stitch and is used on materials of all kinds for marking linen, etc.
In making up these simple materials nothing better can be suggested than the plain, straight waist, fitting easily, to which a full skirt is fastened.
What materials are best suited for infants' garments?
Finer thread may be used when the materials demand it, but no coarser than No.
The mat, robe, or blanket had tribal outlines and proportions and was made according to the materials and the use of common forms that prevailed among the tribes.
Miss Jinny, who had been out scouring the town for the materials for Sinbad's beard, broke in on them breathlessly.
A blue-aproned girl who had been packing her materials in an adjoining locker turned civilly.
The author of the tale in its present form, whenever he lived, composed it, having before him original books which he collated, using his judgment at times upon the materials to his hand.
Fifthly--All transient or prismatic effects can be imitated with such colouredmaterials as are of the Three Primitive Colours, but only in the same degree of comparison as white bears to light.
Compare the shadows thrown on different colours with each other, by placing a number of coloured materials in a dark place, the colours of shadows being regulated by the objects giving and receiving them.
Sir Joshua, speaking of the great examples of Art, says, 'These are the materials on which Genius is to work, and without which the strongest intellect may be fruitlessly or deviously employed.
