He put the oblong note-book carefully in his pocket, and stood by the table in an attitude of 'any further instructions, please?
Minks subsided, flattening out his oblongnotebook and examining the points of his pencil sharpened at both ends as though the fate of Empires depended on it.
These have fine skins, are oblong in shape, and of a transparent yellowish-green hue tinged with red, are very sweet and juicy, and as a rule ripen late.
Its original shape seems to have been an irregular oblong bar, which was stamped with the figure of a sheep, ox or sow.
During the commonwealth and empire aes grave was used to denote the old as in contradistinction to the existing depreciated coin; while aes rude was applied to the original oblong coinage of primitive times.
Over the door was a large oblong slab of freestone, elaborately carved, representing "Our Lady of Light" rescuing a human being from the jaws of Satan.
The court room was a small, oblong apartment, dimly lighted by two narrow windows; a thin railing keeping the bystanders from contact with the functionaries.
From his neck he always wore suspended a perforated bullet, with a large oblong bead on each side of it, tied in place by a single thread of sinew.
Oblong iron rods are both drawn more quickly to a loadstone and cleave to it with greater obstinacy than round or square pieces, for the same reasons which we have proven in the case of the loadstone.
A much weaker office, however, does a plane or oblong stone perform, when the length is extended according to the leading of the parallels, and the pole stops neither on the apex nor in the circle and orbe, but is spread over the flat.
An oblong piece of iron of three or four digits' length[196], when skilfully rubbed with a loadstone, quickly turns north and south.
Friction between an oblong piece of iron and a loadstone imparts to the former magnetick virtues, which are not corporeal nor inherent and persistent in any body, as we showed in the discussion on coition.
Caryopsis oblong or flattened, usually trapped between the boat-shaped paleæ: if otherwise, with an awn.
The modern building is a small, unpretentious, oblong structure.
The loculus is an oblong tomb, with sides about two feet high, also large enough conveniently to contain a body.
The hot sulphur stream which issues from the pool we first visited turns a mill and then flows into the long, oblong pond I first saw from above.
It lay in crystal purity in a still, oblong pool, beneath the perpendicular black rock.
In the centre of it was an oblong hole, about two inches by three, the sides of which had been worn smooth by the curious or superstitious, who had probably visited the spot for ages.
Du Bousquier went to look at himself in a little oblong mirror, placed above the "Deserter," but he saw nothing strange in his appearance.
A single oblong mirror is placed above the fireplace; the top of its frame represented the Dawn led by the Hours, and painted in camaieu (two shades of one color).
Group Process After a series of interactions, comments, suggestions and personal observations by group members, the therapist will ask the group to stand back and look at the pattern of their communication.
The family is the basic source of health or sickness.
The nave is groined in square, the aisles in oblong compartments.
Here the pavement has a large oblong compartment, which seemed to me to suggest the original position of the altar to have been much nearer the east wall than it now is.
The tympanum has a representation of the Crucifixion;[121] and below this, in an oblong panel just over the recumbent figure, is a representation of the service at a funeral.
The patio or quadrangle is oblong in plan, and on the first-floor the passage is open to the air, with delicate arches all round.
The bull-boat is made upon a framework of willow withes roughly woven into an oblong shape, using long poles for the bottom to give the necessary firmness.
Lengthwise of this oblong are drawn six lines, with seven spaces between.
Having examined the coffins shaped like mummies, the visitor should next direct his attention to the massive oblong cases which lie upon the ground on either side of him.
Then with a reflex action I threw an empty galley--an oblong metal tray used to put the set type in--square over the hole.
She suited the words to action; took the mallet and smoothed the edges of the oblong she had cut.
The Jack fruit is a large, handsome tree, with leaves from 4 to 6 inches in length, which on the old growth are obovate-oblong and on the young branches are narrow.
It contains from 1 to 3 large, oblong seeds, which are said to be deleterious.
The peculiar rough, grey, oblong fruits hang from a long stem, and present an odd appearance.
The oblong fruit has a deep yellow pulp, with very little fibre.
The oblong fruit grows in large clusters, ripens from September until November, and varies in size from a cherry to a pigeon's egg.
The fruit is oblong with a short, thick stem, and is covered with short, hard projections.
This is an erect dwarf shrub growing to a height of from one to two feet, having stiff, crowded branches with leaves varying in form, from oblong to obovate, and in color from green to green tinged with yellow and red.
Its leaves, which are either lanceolate or oblong and pointed, are glabrous above and rough beneath.
The leaves are alternate, and abruptly pinnate; the oblong leaflets are not quite opposite.
In shape, it is either oblongor conical and blunt.
Its thick leaves are oval, oblong and entire, and have a short, sharp point.
Its pinnate leaves are green and glossy; the leaflets are oval-oblong and opposite.
The oblong fruit attains a size from 5 to 9 inches in length, and in color is a pale, yellowish green.
This should be from two to two and a half inches wide, and an oblongspace or opening (B B) is to be left at each end.
It is simply an oblong box made of tin or any piece of thin metal you may have, and should be one inch and a quarter wide by five inches long, and about three-quarters of an inch deep.
All that remains of the Priory is an oblong structure of stone buttressed with red brick, looking on the outside like a barn, and, indeed, used as such.
The turret is an oblong mass of stone-work, some twelve feet in width by six in depth, rising to a height of about twenty feet, and topped with a singularly graceful hexagonal cupola.
If the under surface of a leaf be examined, it will be found to be studded, particularly on its basil half, with minute yellowish-white specks of an oblong form.
It appears like a dense interlaced mesh of fibres, each made up of a single series of minute oblong vesicles applied end to end.
The eggs are of an oblong shape, of a pale flesh colour, and perfectly smooth.
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The entrance from the Round to the oblong portion of the Temple Church is formed by three lofty pointed arches, which open upon the nave and the two aisles.
The oblong portion of the church, which extendeth eastwards from the Round, was consecrated on Ascension-day, A.
The effigies are no longer inclosed "within a spacious grate of iron," but are divided into two groups environed by iron railings, and are placed on either side of the entrance to the oblong portion of the church.
First were put on a pair of blanketing or duffel socks, which were merely oblong in form, without sewing or making-up of any kind.
These caps were of the simplest construction, being pieces of cloth cut into an oblong shape, and sewed together at one end.
The plan shows that the eastern half contained, in its centre, a great, oblong enclosure, surrounded by a high wall.
An oblong space is marked out about sixteen feet long and twelve broad by stouter reeds, which are driven firmly into the ground close together, and then tied with strong cord.
It consists of an oblong plaque, the narrow ends of which are cut out so as to simulate two air pyramids with steps.
The open window showed as a greenish oblong set in black, and William knew that in a little while there would come through the stillness of that window the distant sound of violins.
Then, with a pair of scissors, he trimmed an oblong of white cardboard to fit into the box.
It usually had a portico, was oblong in form, and ended in an apse for ornament.
At the same time he engaged Michael Angelo to convert the great oblong hall of the Baths (Calidarium) into a church.
The front of Sant' Agnese opens upon the Piazza Navona, a vastoblong square on the site of the ancient Circus Agonalis, decorated with three fountains.
Behind the two churches is an oblong space, ending in a fine mass of ruin, which is best seen from the valley below.
Beyond this, against the escarpment of the Palatine, a part of the Walls of Romulus has been discovered, built in large oblong blocks.
There must be holes in that part of the box which is over the lantern, to let the smoke out; and over this must be placed a chafing-dish, of an oblong figure, large enough to hold several lighted coals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oblong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
