There is no other curiosity in my chamber, if it be not the two partitions which, with the walls of the house, form the inclosure.
These partitions are but two yards in height, whilst the ceiling is more than five; they are generally arranged in this way, so as to give a free passage to the breeze.
You know I could easily move those partitions over in the lower row of the post-office, to make it hold another box like the upper row.
The chimney is carried out in three separate flues, sufficiently marked by the partitions above the roof.
B, hutches three feet long, with movable partitionsfor the young rabbits; the two lower hutches are used for the stock bucks.
Licquet and the commissary examined the partitions and had them sounded.
On the first floor as on the second, where the partitions have been removed, there are still traces of them, with fragments of wall-paper.
I didn't want to play eavesdropper, Froode, but these thin partitions are only soundboards for the voice.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thinpartitions do their bounds divide.
The seared and pock-marked face set in a sort of placid leer, the dacoit adjusted the sliding partitions to Smith's recumbent form, and I saw the purpose of the graduated arches.
It seemed to be made in five sections, or to contain four sliding partitions which could be raised or lowered at will.
I did not know then, what I learned later, that the partitions throughout this entire row had been removed, the material serving to fill up one of the houses at the farthest extremity of the row.
As I have said, the dividing partitions had all been removed, so that the long interior practically was open, save as the apartments were separated by curtains or grilles.
These partitions do not quite reach the bottom of the vessel, so that there is a means of communication between all three chambers.
Imagine a large oblong vat divided by vertical partitions into three separate chambers.
Between the partitions it passes blades upon which it acts just as already described.
Try as I would, I could not possibly manage to get alongside of her, the stalls being very narrow, and consisting of wooden partitions hung up by a chain fixed to the ceiling.
However, a burly American ran a hotel where the bill for supper and lodging was only $15, and if the partitions of my room were bare they were of mahogany, as were also the springs of the bed.
They divided their dwelling by transverse partitions into three apartments, each with its wooden door,--a wondrous novelty in the eyes of their visitors.
In this case, there were partial partitions for the several families, and a sort of loft above.
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
The size of the casing, the number of partitions and their perforations, and the manner of disposing the partitions have much to do with the result to be obtained.
External vaporizers are generally formed by a cylinder with partitionsconstituting two series of chambers.
Retaining one salon for the general, who is to winter here, the rest of this wing of the palace is to be cut up by light partitions into lodgings and offices for the staff.
It is already divided by light wooden partitions which may be removed without difficulty if ever the Empress thinks of returning, but which, for the time being, cut it up into rooms and offices.
Their work is confined to repairs to the house, such as partitions and covers.
Her closing-plug is made of a stout concrete, consisting of fair-sized bits of gravel sunk in the green paste; but for the inner partitions she employs only unalloyed putty.
The Chinaman partitions his house with paper screens; Latreille's Osmia divides hers with disks of thin green cardboard perforated with a serving-hatch which remains until the room is completely furnished.
At the back are large cells with plentiful provisions and widely-spaced partitions; in front, small cells, with scanty provisions and partitions close together.
Basing my calculations on the respective lengths of the cocoons of the two sexes, on the thickness of the partitions and the final lid, I shortened some of these to the exact dimensions required for two cocoons only, of different sexes.
A few of the Osmia's partitions are damaged, a few cocoons receive slight injuries; and then, worn out with vain struggles, the captives abandon hope and perish behind the impregnable wall of earth.
Is the gathering of the cement too wearisome a task to leave the Bee any strength for making the numerous partitionswhich she would need if she utilized the spacious final whorl?
The partitions and the closing-plug of the Horned and of the Three-horned Osmia are made, as we have seen, of a sort of mud which water instantly reduces to pap.
Then a thick plug of the same green material of which the partitions are formed closes the home and keeps out marauders.
The Osmia therefore supports these ceilings with longitudinal partitions; and the unequal chambers resulting from the introduction of these partitions receive females at one time and males at another, according to their capacity.
The transversalpartitions become more and more slanting and the work grows irregular, but always with a sprinkling of large chambers for the females and small chambers for the males.
Here, the work of building is reduced to its simplest expression and consists in dividing the tube by means of earthen partitionsinto a straight row of cells.
The edifice ends with two transversal partitions and one longitudinal partition, which mark out, on the same level, chambers twelve and thirteen, both of which contain males.
While Ailie and Tammy were collecting the price of his ransom Bobby was exploring the intricately cut-up interior of old St. Giles, sniffing at the rifts in flimsily plastered partitions that the Lord Provost pointed out to Mr. Traill.
When these partitions are tak'n down Bobby would be vera useful in ridding our noble old cathedral of vermin.
The spore-surface is yellow, the tubes arranged in radiating rows, some being more prominent than others, the partitions often assuming the form of gills which branch and are connected by cross partitions of less prominence.
But what--what are these little things hung against the partitions of the shelves?
Though this be not every where so, the intercurrent partitions in some places being very much thicker in proportion to the holes.
That was the whole place, a real cardboard box, with rooms like little drawers separated by partitions as thin as paper.
Bit by bit, such parts of the partitions as had remained unoccupied had become covered with inscriptions and drawings, a constantly rising flotsam and jetsam of scrawls traced there as on the margin of an ever-open book.
For though some partitions were seen, from space to space, which made it look like the latter, a multitude of shoals rendered a nearer approach to it exceedingly dangerous, if not impracticable.
Upon the whole, their houses are better calculated for a cold than a hot climate; and as there are no partitions in them, they can have little privacy.
The ice, in most part of it, lay close packed together; in other places, there appeared partitions in the field, and a clear sea beyond it.
A current in steady irrotational movement may be conceived to be divided by insensibly thin partitions following the course of the stream lines into a number of elementary streams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
