In a few minutes the half-breed had swum several cables’ lengths towards the boat in an oblique direction.
The oblique rays from the sun did not succeed in piercing it, and the red disk could hardly be perceived through the opaque mass.
In a few moments, the sky was clear to the extreme verge of the horizon, and the sea reappeared, illumined by the oblique rays of the sun, which now rose only a few degrees above it.
In the center, within these oblique flanks were the French lieutenant and Captain Prescott.
All could feel that the big ship had suddenly changed her course to a violent oblique movement to starboard.
But because the earth revolves from west to east, the course of the trade winds is oblique to the equator, those in the northern hemisphere blowing from northeast to southwest, those in the southern from southeast to northwest.
A little reflection will show the inquirer how these illustrations clearly account for the oblique though opposite sets of the trade winds in the upper and lower parts of the air.
The reason for this movement is readily found in the same principle which explains the oblique flow of the trades and counter trades in their passage to and from the equatorial belt.
And, further, how has it come about that in grass caterpillars, not oblique but longitudinal stripes, which are more effective for concealment among grass and plants, have been evolved?
And finally, how is it that the same Hawk-moth caterpillars, which to-day show oblique stripes, possessed longitudinal stripes in Tertiary times?
The root is oblique to the axis of rotation, and the extreme tip projects beyond that axis.
This kind of Wit was very much in Vogue among our own Countrymen about an Age or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique Reason, as the Ancients abovementioned, but purely for the sake of being Witty.
This oblique manner of giving Advice is so inoffensive, that if we look into ancient Histories, we find the wise Men of old very often chose to give Counsel to their Kings in Fables.
She parted from him with this oblique Permission to save a Life he had not Resolution enough to resign for the safety of his Honour.
The hole descends vertically to the depth of one or two feet, whence it continues in an oblique direction downward.
He then threw himself backward, into an oblique position, his back within about two feet of the soil, so as to depend with the greater portion of his weight by the cords.
Read Carlyle's account of the battle of Leuthen, and learn Freidrich's 'oblique order.
These Oblique Cuts demand great care and precision, as the Cuts should be precisely opposite each other, perfectly level and symmetrical.
Set the bevel to the oblique line at each side of the dovetails, and transfer this bevelled line to each side at points c c c c and d d d d.
Vertical and Horizontal Lines, with Oblique Lines drawn at various Angles.
Vertical and Horizontal Lines, withOblique Lines drawn at Angles of 45 Degrees.
Then apply Exercise 3 to the two Oblique Cuts shown from A to a in the figures 1, 2, and 3, of drawings No.
The company in line or in column of squads may be deployed in an oblique direction by the same commands.
If at half step or mark time while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1.
Each squad leader moves to the front; the members of each squad oblique toward and follow their squad leader in single file at easy marching distances.
At the second command the leading unit moves straight forward; the rear units oblique as indicated.
To oblique: Bring the staff to a horizontal position, the head of the staff opposite the neck, the ferrule pointing in the direction the oblique is to be made; extend the arm to its full length in the direction of the staff.
Oblique or flank fire will begin to have decisive effect when delivered at effective range from a point to one side of the artillery's line of fire and distant from it by about half the range.
At the second command, the right flank man in the front rank faces to the right in marching and marks time; the other front rank men oblique to the right, place themselves abreast of the pivot, and mark time.
The left file or files of the leading two or squad oblique successively to the right when disengaged and each follows the file on its right at the shortest practicable distance.
In the first drills the basis of the alignment is established on, or parallel to, the front of the squad; afterwards, in oblique directions.
Pores irregular, roundish, in the abdomen three to four times as large as in the thorax, disposed in oblique rows.
Cephalis subspherical, with an obliquecylindrical tubule of the same length, and numerous small pores.
Ring of the same oblique form, thick, with interrupted and distorted edges, armed with eight to twelve larger irregularly formed and branched acute spines; between them numerous conical smaller spines.
Cephalis subspherical, with a thinoblique horn of the same length.
Galea ovate, with a slender conical oblique horn, about as large as the cephalis, which exhibits a deep longitudinal furrow in the sagittal dorsal line.
Shell thorny, of the same form as, and similar structure to, the preceding species, but differing in the spiny surface and the smaller subglobular cephalis, which bears small circular pores and an oblique conical horn twice the length.
Cephalis spherical, hyaline, without pores, with an oblique conical horn of the same length.
Cephalis conical, with an oblique curved horn of the same length.
Cephalis spherical, with an oblique pyramidal horn twice the length.
Cephalis small, subspherical, with very small dot-like pores, and an oblique conical horn twice the length.
Cephalis spherical, with an oblique conical horn of twice the length and small circular pores.
It was this mighty structure, which, when the belt in question was given, overshadowed the greater part of North America, that was indicated by the rafters, shown as oblique bands.
There is a curious tradition, reminding us of the Chinese legend of the origin of writing, that the Corean characters were suggested by the straight and oblique lattice-work of the native doors.
He, however, made the shrewd observation that as the thick end of the supposed letters was never at the right but at the left of the oblique characters, the signs must have been written from left to right.
In non-Cetacean mammals these ridges vary in depth, and are arranged as a rule transversely, but with an oblique inclination.
As to osteological characters, it has a more obliquesymphysis of the mandible than in any other Carnivore.
Yet theoblique opening of the eye, which forms a good though not an essential characteristic of the Mongolian nations, is said to be characteristic of all the Guarani tribes in Brazil.
Reinhold Hensel says of the Coroados, that their features are of Mongoloid type, due especially to the prominence of the cheek-bones, but that the obliqueposition of the eyes is not perceptible.
His oblique glance seemed to be saying to Edwin: "What have I always told you about women?
Also, a little, she had married him for his bright untidy hair, and for that short oblique shake of the head which with him meant a greeting or an affirmative.
The meridians are vertical and east and west lines are horizontal, but oblique azimuths are foreshortened.
We thus conclude that the direct reflection of the sun produces a light figure, which we call a white cross; the oblique reflection gives a dark figure, which we call a black cross.
By a more oblique direction of the impinging luminous object through mediums with parallel surfaces.
That an oblique form of the pronoun should appear in the personal inflexion of verbs is no more than what the researches of the late Mr. Garnett, with which we are all so familiar, have taught us to expect.
The existence of a class of words of which sestertium was the type, where an oblique case, with a convertible termination, becomes a nominative.
Of the two pronouns it is only the latter that appears in an oblique case, and this necessarily; hence the Swedish form hvarsannars is illogical.
This was done by Stubberud, by fixing the door-frame into the wall in an oblique position just like a cellar-door at home.
The doors were extraordinarily thick and strong, and fitted into oblique grooves, so that they closed very tightly.
This rapid fall while exposed to obliquesunshine is quite in harmony with the rapid loss of heat during the few hours of darkness during an eclipse, both showing the prepotency of radiation over insolation on the moon.
Two of them are fragmentary; one of the entire specimens is very well made, and has a regularly beveled, oblique edge, while another is remarkable in having a curiously worn edge, which is deeply serrated by use or weathering.
These rays are ornamented with a series of oblique lines, arranged in couplets.
It will be seen, by reference to the accompanying illustration, that beside the two figures of men there are three oblique bands of dark wampum, one on the left and two on the right.
Woodward and Ray speak of these clefts, but in a confused manner; and they do not term them perpendicular clefts, because they thought they might be indifferently oblique or perpendicular.
Against this view of the fourth nerve is the fact, urged with great force by Marshall, that the superior oblique muscle is in front of the other eye muscles, and that the fourth nerve therefore crosses the third nerve to reach its destination.
The section is moreover somewhat oblique from side to side.
From these spaces there pass off oblique utero-placental veins, which pierce the serotina, and form a system of large venous sinuses in the adjoining uterine wall (fig.
The Echinoderm ring is oblique to the axis of the body, and, owing to the fact of its passing ventrally in front of the anus, must be called postoral.
The prominences, which do not contain prolongations of the iter, become first visible on the appearance of an oblique transverse furrow, while the anterior pair alone are separated by a longitudinal furrow.
It is possible that it is a segmental nerve comparable with the third nerve, and that the only remnant still left of the segment to which it belongs is the superior oblique muscle of the eye.
This lobe is the Prostomium, and all the organisms which thus develop a new main axis, oblique to the old main axis, may be called prostomiate.
Following the road cautiously in a south-westerly direction, oblique to the line of the camp, they struck the enemy's pickets in front of General Sherman's division.
The line of his march being oblique to the line of the camp, led him out beyond the front of Sherman's line.
The line of Johnston's advance being oblique to the line of Prentiss' front, Gladden arrived in front of Prentiss' left after Shaver had become engaged with Peabody.
