Cape Bugel in Japara to the coast of Jokjakarta, narrowing towards the middle to about 55 m.
It is customary and obvious to divide Java into three divisions, the middle part of the island narrowing into a kind of isthmus, and each of the divisions thus indicated having certain structural characteristics of its own.
From the end of Sunk Island to Spurn Point the Humber takes a wide bay-like sweep inward and southward, the peninsula narrowing considerably as Spurn Point is reached.
But the ledge looked full upon the Mermaid's Rock and the heave of black water surging past it to gurgitate between the narrowing walls of rock.
I saw them toiling in the blistering sun, Their dull, dark faces leaning toward the stone, Their knotted fingers grasping the rude tools, Their rounded shoulders narrowing in their chest, The sweat drops dripping in great painful beads.
Motherhood often becomes extremely painful and dangerous through the narrowingof the pelvis produced in early years of so much uncomfortable sitting.
The heir and hope of a family which had been narrowing down as if doomed to extinction, he had been surrounded with every care and trained by the best education he could have in New England.
She threw her head back, her eyes narrowing and her forehead drawing down so that Dick thought her head actually flattened itself.
At 40 feet from the opening these disappear, owing to the narrowing of the cavern.
It had a width of 35 feet at the mouth of the cave, gradually narrowing inward for a distance of 75 feet, where it terminated at the level of the water.
One is merely a round opening 5 feet in width and height, soon narrowing to a crevice; it would not be mentioned except that in it was a sandstone slab such as mortars are made of.
This skirts a thin deposit of damp earth, which lies along the southern wall, gradually narrowing as it extends inward, until at 50 feet it runs out at the edge of a shallow pool reaching nearly across the cave.
His eyes glowered with hate as he peered across the narrowing strip of waves and surf.
You could see that weariness in the tired frown of the black brows, the narrowing of the dark eyes, the downward tug of the lips.
The slope grew sharper, narrowing as it descended, and the cattle moved down it in a sinuous, living line, until the leaders were out of sight far around a bend at least a mile distant.
He peered close at Lawler, his eyes narrowingwith suspicion, and then, finally, with savage amusement.
The face is broad, flat, and round, with high cheek bones and rather low forehead, broad across the brow and narrowing above, while the head is somewhat pointed toward the crown.
Most of the way it stretches like a slender, dark ribbon, gradually narrowing upstream.
Its greatest width on the steep slope of the mountain must be four or five miles, narrowing towards its extremity to about a mile and a half; its length can be scarcely less than ten miles.
For nearly a mile these continue, leaving a gradually narrowing lane of clear ice between them.
Not a soul within the room stirred, not even Long Pete; but the narrowing lids closed until they were mere slits, and the unshaven jaws tightened.
It was but a repetition of a thousand similar scenes enacted on the swiftly narrowing frontier, a fraction of the price civilisation ever pays to savagery, inevitable as a nation's expansion, as its progression.
She expanded with the sorrow of poor Hagar, whose tears refreshed her, and parted her from her recent narrowing self-consciousness.
Meanwhile, in the chill obscurity that surrounded this centre of warmth, and light, and savoury odours, the lonely disowned man was walking in gradually narrowing circuits.
I have escaped that; I saw very early that authorship is a narrowing business, in conflict with the liberal art of the razor, which demands an impartial affection for all men's chins.
Lance-shaped, broadest above the base, gradually narrowing to the apex.
One and two and three and four, Counting and narrowing o'er and o'er; Knit and rib and seam and purl.
One and two and three and four Counting and narrowing o'er and o'er; Knit and rib and seam and purl.
For game like the rhinoceros or eland antelope, it is dug of six feet in length and three in width at the top; gradually narrowing to the bottom, where it ends in a trench of only twelve inches broad.
The general outline of the leafy part of the frond is lanceolate, tapering to a point, broad in the centre and narrowing slightly at the base.
At the tip the frond ends in a point, whilst towards the middle the leaf swells out again, narrowing once more towards the base and finally expanding again into a couple of ear-shaped projections.
Like so many of the spirits of that time, spirits thirsting for liberty, choking in the narrowing circle of the hostile nations, he sought a corner of the earth in which he could stand above Europe and breathe freely.
But ruthless necessity was at their heels, and the circle was slowly narrowing about them.
As they pass up the narrowing spaces the waves become compressed--that is, an equal volume of moving water has less horizontal room for its passage, and is forced to rise higher.
Thus the growth of coral reefs in southern Florida, and, in general, the formation of that peninsula, by narrowing the exit of the great current from the Gulf of Mexico, has probably increased its velocity.
