In the next place, if streams did meander level with their founts, no two motions can be less like each other than that of meandering level and that of mounting upwards.
Also fragments of variously-ornamented pottery, one of which showed something like the Greek pattern or meander line.
Development of a Meander The dotted line in a, b, and c shows the stage preceding that indicate by the unbroken line] =Meanders.
Before separating from the parent stream the meander had begun to silt up, especially at the ends.
This so-called meandering of a stream is accompanied by a transfer of sediment from one bend or meander of the river to those below and from one bank to the other.
The scour upon the convex side of a meander causes the river to swing ever farther in that direction, and through invasion of the silted flood plain to migrate across it.
The Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel in the same district penetrates a larger mountain included in a double meander of the river.
As the meander swings toward its extreme position it becomes more and more closely looped.
The cutting off of a meander within the flood plain of a river yields a lake which is of horseshoe (ox-bow) outline and lies generally with low banks within a plain composed of river silt.
It is log jams thus acquired which so generally block the main channel of a river and turn the current across the neck of the meander when cut-offs occur with the formation of ox-bow lakes.
Once more flowing upon a low grade, it again meanders, and so produces new walls at a lower level, but formed, like the first, of intersecting meander scars.
We kep it in a little warm shed offen the wood house for quite a spell, but still I used to find it considerable cold when I would meander out there in a icy night to feed it.
Identical treatment of the meander is found upon a mug brought from Zuni and illustrated by Mr. Stevenson in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.
This is nearly obliterated, but enough is left to show that it consists of a highly elaborated rectilinear meander pattern, the idea being developed apparently in the light ground color.
A narrow zone of ornament based upon the meander encircles the exterior margin of the rim, and a broad, carefully drawn design, consisting of two parallel meanders, Fig.
The painted figure consists chiefly of a rectangular meander in white bordered by black and forming a wide zone about the body of the vessel.
If we trace out the figures, however, we will see that there are no new motives, the meander forming the basis of all.
The meander is developed in the white color of the ground, and consists of two charmingly varied threads running side by side through a field of black, bordered by heavy black lines.
I shall now present a small group of handled vessels of varying characters upon which we have some illustrations of a peculiar treatment of meander motives.
Beds dip to left and right away from Colorado River, which here is followed by axis of Meander anticline.
Origin of the Meander anticline, Cataract Canyon, Utah, and basement fault control of Colorado River drainage [abs.
Others believe that removal of the salt and gypsum occurred by plastic flowage toward the Meander anticline (see p.
Erosion of both saddles has been hastened by the facts that the axis of the Meander anticline (see p.
As mentioned earlier, this is about the south end of the Meander anticline, and an intruded chunk of the Paradox Member, mostly gypsum, occupies part of the mouth of Lower Red Lake Canyon, as shown in figure 79.
Next to which there was upon it a meander of a cubit in height; it was composed of stones of all sorts of colors.
A disconnected meander of incised lines encircles the rather high neck, and parts of the body and its attached features are painted red.
A meander pattern of incised lines encircles the neck and the body is rudely decorated with broad red stripes.
Ef ye'd hark to me, and meander on a little, I'll tell ye HOW it war.
I reckon to stand between you and both the Davises till the cows come home--only--mind YOU give him the go-by when he happens to meander along towards you.
We'll just meander across and take that there Kingfisher right away, so savin' a heap o' trouble in the long run.
You might by economy and frugality, secure an available point on the route with your mass meeting of household gods and goddesses, where you could sit on the fence and see the elephant meander by.
Two men meander up to him and ask him where he got it.
A mighty nation, whose numbers are as the sands of the sea, can afford to let its medicine men fool around with its people and experiment with them till they meander up the flume, but the Ute nation is not large.
On the fallen plaster of one of the walls of a corridor, too, was a repeated meander pattern, painted in red on a white ground, very suggestive of a sort of maze (Fig.
The meander on the door-post has been thought to symbolise the Labyrinth, but there is more reason to suppose that it is purely decorative.
There is, however, a suggestion of the latter in the meander pattern painted on one of the walls, to which reference has been made above.
They portray on one side the Minotaur and on the other a symmetrical meander pattern which, it needs very little imagination to see, has reference to the labyrinth in which the monster was alleged to dwell.
It portrayed the combat between Theseus and the Minotaur, within a framed square, the remainder of the mosaic consisting of a complicated interlaced meander representing the labyrinth.
Here some small perennial streams, exuding from springs by the base of these hills, meander through the valleys, and keep all vegetable life in a constant state of verdant freshness.
He saw a round apple face, eyes of extraordinary brightness, a thin-lipped mouth which seemed to meander half-way round the head as if uncertain where to stop.
Is it for a straight scrapping with Boers, or is it to meander about as a town garrison?
But it is suicidal, reckless, to allow convoys to meander about the veldt in this inconsequent manner.
Mr. Meander fell into another rhapsody over those classic cups and shallow little bowls of absinthe-coloured jade.
The river Meander is perhaps the most celebrated of all antiquity, and has been made a generic term, in most languages, to designate a winding stream; poets and historians equally commemorate it.
Our illustration presents a view of it, with Mount Thorax rising behind it, and the ridges of the Messogeis before it−-the wooded plain of the Meander lying between, and spread out under the city.
The ridges of Sipylus afford no perennial snows like those of Olympus, to refresh the inhabitants below; nor is there any solution of the frigid element, to ripple in copious currents through the streets, or meander through the fertile plain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
