The windows, from the floor to the ceiling of each stately apartment, were composed, respectively, of but one enormous pane of glass, so transparently pure that it was said to be a finer medium than even the vacant atmosphere.
Cut the crust from eight slices of bread of medium thickness, spread some butter thickly on top, and a little mustard, then some grated cheese and ham, very little chopped shallot, and some cayenne pepper.
His wife was a comely lady both in form and in feature, rather above than below medium height.
He looked younger than his years, was not large, but had a well-knit, compact frame of medium height.
I had the honour to write to you twice by the medium of this Government.
Surely Englishmen, even if they want to bet, need not invent a medium for betting which combines every description of noxious cruelty!
Clarke cannot find a medium between orthodoxy and Arianism.
And once more, on the Personality of the Holy Ghost, he writes: 'The general and constant language of Scripture speaks of the Holy Ghost as a power or medium of divine operation.
As the sadly diminished trade with Egypt began to revive, natural products, which had been the former wealth of the Sudan, were again made the medium of commerce.
He also rejoiced that a medium of communication had been found with his relatives, whereby he eventually hoped to regain his freedom.
Rather above the medium height, and of finely formed frame, it needed not the smallness of her perfectly shaped hands and the artistic regularity of her features to stamp her as thoroughbred.
This method keeps all hands occupied and furnishes a medium for a little competition, which is a very helpful thing in training of this sort.
Dumoulin showed all these mountains, which then appeared to us gigantic and equal to the Alps and Pyrenees at least, to be after all of very medium size.
A slim, graceful figure of medium height, with a face that in some towns would have attracted more attention than the attire.
Barely medium size, though he was not yet twenty, refined and with a quiet dignity, he rather disarmed the critical eyes, and Gaspard experienced a touch of sympathy for him.
It is neither too hot nor too cold, but a delightful medium which I enjoy as I sit this second September Sunday in my room at the St. Charles Hotel, with its windows opening upon the broad and beautiful Willamette.
The founding of The Revolution was totally unexpected and its editors accepted it only because of the great need of a medium through which the cause of woman might be thoroughly advocated.
Reindeer form their principal wealth, and are emphatically the circulating medium of the country.
We engaged two rooms, one large, and the other of medium size.
To my single countrywomen I will whisper that General Korsackoff is of about medium height, has a fair complexion, blue eyes, and Saxon hair, and a face which the most crabbed misanthrope could not refuse to call handsome.
In some parts of Chinese Tartary it is the principal circulating medium of the people.
The cabs of Pekin are little carts, just large enough for two persons of medium size.
If the thing has been irretrievably consumed, the estimation of damages must be made, according to a medium between the highest and the lowest value.
But it is plain that from such an acceptance, let the condition of the person be what it will, the promise is complete: because consent may be given and signified through the medium of another.
For the ruler of every state must exercise his authority either in person, or through the medium of others.
They afford an opportunity to the inquiring reader to study the characters of Rulers, Statesmen, Writers, and Artists through the medium of their chirography.
But the condition of a burden annexed to a favour intended to be conferred upon a third person, through the medium of any one, may be revoked before the person has confirmed it by his acceptance.
Dark woolen cloth is the best medium on which to catch and observe snow crystals.
They had been placed by Cardinal Azzolino in Cristina's hands through the medium of her "Major-Domo," with the knowledge that the Cardinal had already seen their infamous contents.
The pure white light of truth, seen through the medium of the flesh, is composed of many coloured rays.
He returns again and again, exciting her disgust at his appearance; and he starts off on another path, only to return coloured by the medium in which he has lived, as before.
If it comes out the Shakers' Hymn in G, that is the defect of the means or medium by which the master has been driven to express himself.
Before the light reaches the young man the imperfection of the medium which conveys it, or of his soul which receives it, breaks up the white light into its constituent coloured rays.
A carpet web may illustrate the meaning: the sage has asked the weaver how it is that apart the fiery-coloured silk, and the other of watery dimness, when combined, produce a medium profitable to the sight.
There was reason why he wrote both: he painted the world as it was, mankind as they lived and walked, not human nature as seen though the medium of the student's closet.
The medium holding converse with the spirit of Beethoven, not being much of a musician, is, of course, only able very imperfectly to express the composer's musical soul.
Although no medium ever reasoned with such skill and subtlety as Sludge, the main arguments used by this impostor are precisely those put forward by spiritualists.
The artificer replies that the medium was what he aimed at.
He becomes the medium which has been required of him.
The understanding perceives through the medium of the will.
I compare this," he says, "to the spirit's efforts to rise out of the medium which sustains it.
I believe their medium guns can beat any others of the same class in the world.
He was about thirty, medium in height, his face covered with much black beard, and John saw that he was staggering from weakness.
Words are a free mediumfor thought, for the very reason that they are capable of shifting their meaning and taking on greater extension or intension.
Two years previously a scientist had claimed that animals and plants could be generated in a medium of artificial air or oxygen, from which all atmospheric air and all germs of organized bodies had been precluded.
Aristotle had held that two moving bodies of the same sort and in the same medium have velocities in proportion to their weights.
The paint itself may be mixed with oil or gum and water, or any medium which will temporarily attach it to the glass and disappear in the kiln; for the real fixing of the paint is done solely by the action of the fire.
He can scarcely be said to prefer one medium to another; he uses both to equally workmanlike purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
