On the Power of penetratinginto Space by Telescopes, with a comparative Determination of the Extent of that Power in Natural Vision, and in Telescopes of various Sizes and Constructions; illustrated by select Observations.
This lacuna Herschel tried to fill up in 1799; such was the aim of the memoir entitled, On the space-penetrating Power of Telescopes.
His penetrating intellect discovered in them unknown treasures.
Edwin lifted up from his slate bright, penetrating eyes.
We may see these filaments wrapping themselves round their prey, sometimes even penetrating its substance, and effectually subduing the enemy.
Our ferocious Crustacean quietly continued its repast, when its companion seized it exactly as it had seized its prey, broke and tore it in the same fashion, penetrating to its middle, and tearing out its entrails in the same savage manner.
The message it contains is one to sink deep, penetrating and enriching whatever receptive soul it touches.
The mere circumstance, therefore, of a ship like ours penetrating into these regions, was sufficient to cause any reflecting mind to feel at least a little uneasy.
Upon informing the doctor of the result of the interview, he was greatly amused; and laughingly declared that the Vineyarder must be a penetrating fellow.
There is a moral wilderness which lies in the early part of our Christian course; but we must not hope to escape from it but by penetrating through it to its furthest side.
To the selections were added criticisms, which at once brought him the reputation of being one of the most subtle and penetrating critics who had ever touched the subject.
Even the comprehensive knowledge and the penetrating intellect of Aristotle failed to suggest to him that in holding the eternity of the world, within its present range of mutation, he was making a retrogressive step.
They have a wider range, a more delicate precision, a more direct and penetrating power than any other medium of expression.
Brown hair concealed a full and finely chiselled brow, and her hazel eyes bent upon you a bright and penetrating gaze.
With the twilight came the cold, first crisp, then bitter and penetrating to the vitals.
They have a commanding, a penetrating quality all their own.
At the same time, Tancred and the two Roberts made new efforts, and on their side, too, succeeded in penetrating into the town.
But the wit of Perez was as penetrating as Philip's, and had avoided the snare.
Mid-day arrived, and the Crusaders had as yet no hope ofpenetrating into the place.
Everything is new to me,' said she, penetratingand gladly joining the conspiracy to have him out of England.
As for Nevil Beauchamp, in particular, his case, this penetrating lady said, was clear: he ought to be married.
Penetrating and pervading them all with absolute efficacy.
In penetrating into these arcana, woman trenched upon that mysterious hidden knowledge of the church which it regarded as among its most potential methods of controlling mankind.
It came under the guise of a dull, yet penetrating throbbing coming from beneath the surface on which he lay.
Sounds came to them in the silence, penetrating faintly through thick walls--the same familiar wailing call that trembled and quavered and seemed to the listening men to be guiding them down through the mist.
Mist hung against them, but the early morning sunlight came down in shafts penetrating the mist and striking the oily surface of a spread of water left here in the depths of a cauldron.
They then returned to the Bristol Channel; and penetrating into the country by the Avon, spread themselves over all that neighbourhood, and carried fire and sword even into Dorsetshire.
David, King of Scotland, appeared at the head of an army in defence of his niece's title, and penetrating into Yorkshire, committed the most barbarous devastations on that country.
On August 24 the battalion operated with the New Zealand Division in the attack on Bapaume, the cars penetrating to the Arras-Bapaume road, where severe fighting took place.
El Arish redoubt and was penetrating the maze of trenches beyond, when owing to the darkness it was ditched; its crew then joined the infantry.
Meanwhile Vaudreuil was still at Montreal, where he says that he "arrived just in time to take the most judicious measures and prevent General Amherst from penetrating into thecolony.
Galissonière was a humpback; but his deformed person was animated by a bold spirit and a strong and penetrating intellect.
Clear and fairlypenetrating in tone, stirring and rousing in forte passages; in piano phrases the high notes are full and silvery, the low notes troubled, as though threatening danger.
The small clarinet in its highest register is more penetrating than the ordinary clarinet.
He must arm his arrows with a more penetrating point.
The difficulty which now confronted him was that of giving his shafts a penetrating point.
Just as he reached the alley, however, he stopped short, as the penetrating odor of burning wood made itself distinctly perceptible.
Indeed, instead of avoiding the penetrating eyes of Brunhild, Blandine sought to catch and mischievously to challenge them, all the while smiling with a confident mien.
He proved that electricity distributes itself entirely over the surface of a body without penetrating the mass of the conductor, and he showed by calculation that this result was a necessary consequence of the law of repulsion.
Indeed, his mathematics, far from being a hindrance to his penetrating outlook upon the hazier confines of science, rather seemed to help the penetrations it gave.
Daoud let his head fall forward, and his eyes met the penetrating black gaze of John Chagan.
The relentless pounding of rocks reverberated in the stone walls, punctuated by occasional screams penetrating through the arrow slits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penetrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
