One evening at sunset he came out upon a plain that sloped upward to a black and towering scarp, notched with a single pass.
He stood beneath a scarp of black rock, notched with a single pass.
Thus, dormant wood may be layered in the fall, in which case the cane is usually notched or ringed at the joint to induce the formation of roots.
Of birds the white vulture, Alauda cristata et alia, with a notched beak, a partridge which I had not previously seen, Motacilla alia.
Its summits were almost wholly devoid of shadow, and their notched and jagged outlines rested flatly against the sky, like ivory inlaid on a table of lapis-lazuli.
During the last part of our way, the path was notched along precipitous steeps, where the storm was so thick that we could see nothing either above or below.
Long lines of walls crowned with a notchedparapet and strengthened by towers; a few domes and spires above them; clusters of cypress here and there; this was all that was visible of the city.
The chief invention of the late Solutrean is the 'shouldered point' (pointe a cran), a single notched and very slender dart.
Tongue ovoid, about twice as long as wide, shallowly notched posteriorly, barely free behind.
Tongue nearly round, free posteriorly for about one-fourth its length, barely notched behind.
In some sets the ends are notched like arrows, which probably adds to the numerical value of the card.
They are clearly derived from arrows, and sometimes havenotched ends, and are still used for divination, although also for games.
Rods with notched ends, and also some on which figures of men are cut, have been lately found in the tombs at Abydos.
The sea swings around the projecting cape of the citadel into a deeply notched bay, small and still, and on its edge which meets the town you find pavilions and beach-chairs and their usual accompaniment of idling humanity.
From the creature's head protruded two little bits of wood, notched saw-like on top, which just conceivably stood for the antlers.
The spear-head on either side show a notched and a stem-base.
Access is obtained by means of a notched pole, and to permit the entrance of domestic animals, a tree trunk, split and hollowed out to form a trough, slopes gently up from the ground to door or window.
There is a hind axle-tree bed formed of two pieces of timber, clipped together, between which the wings are notched in; these wings meet together above the perch to which they are united by a strong iron pin.
Then the top-socket-piece was set on the other end for a handle, and the bow was drawn back and forth, the notched piece being held in place under the foot of the operator.
The notched piece of wood was now placed on a flat rock, the drill was inserted in place and the string of the bow looped tightly over it.
V] The proboscis of the carpenter-bee differs from that of the honey-bee, possessing a curious notched sheath, as represented in the lower cut.
In England the custom of using wooden tallies, inscribed as well as notched in the public accounts, lasted down to the nineteenth century.
The under side of the point is notched by a small circular saw to receive the iridium point, which is selected with the aid of a microscope.
He was beginning to worry, to grow restive down here in the wilderness, seeing nothing, doing nothing save kill time between those short, surreptitious flights across to the notched ridge and back again.
In the moonlight the notched ridge showed clear, and toward it the Thunder Bird went booming steadily, as ducks fly south with the first storm wind of November.
James Adair writes of the Southern Indians "They count certain very remarkable things by notched square sticks, which are distributed among the head warriors and other chieftains of different towns.
There are two timber arches to each truss, and the truss is supported on them by connecting them to the verticals by short cross pieces notched into the posts, and resting on the upper surface of the arches.
These ties should benotched on the string pieces 2 or 3 inches--without cutting the stringers.
At the extreme end of the tail there is a broad, notched fin which aids the tail in propelling and steering the body.
In many cases it is here, on the hub and the notched zone, that the spider waits for its prey; and it is obvious that sticky silk in this place would be objectionable.
Between the notched zone and the spiral zone, the part furnished with the sticky spiral thread, there is a clear space, the free zone, crossed only by the radii.
Then it had to be notched and rolled into place, which was not easy after the structure was two or three tiers high.
