The transverse rows of square pits indicate the places of contact of these fibres and the cells of the neighboring pith rays.
These pits are in the nature of pores, covered by very thin membranes, and serve as waterways between the cells or tracheids.
Although the tracheids have their permeable portions or pits in their walls, liquids cannot pass through them with the greatest ease.
Shelter-pits for skirmishers were dug in all directions.
On the banks of the stream which flowed in this spot some deserted kraals were seen, with broken utensils, stone fireplaces, and smallpits where mealies were stored and still left.
Twice he tried to reconnoitre towards the scene of battle, but only blundered into sunken plots and pits in the Dutch garden.
Though the gun had a shell in it, it was merely a signal, and the guards came double-quicking up by regiments, going into position in the rifle pits and the hand-grenade piles.
They threw up a line of rifle pits around the Stockade for the infantry guards.
It is further to be mentioned that the refuse from the pits is washed at the upper end of the water-gutter, so that the sand adhering to the stones intended for pounding may deposit its gold in the gutter or on the washing-board.
The first coal pits in Cebu were excavated in the Massanga valley; but the works were discontinued in 1859, after considerable outlay had been made on them.
The pitsare twice as large as those excavated there, and the rock is lifted, up by a pulley to a cylindrical framework of bamboo, which is worked by the feet of a lad who sits on a bank higher up.
The want of apparatus for discharging water also accounts for the fact that the pits are not dug deeper.
His men lay in rifle-pits within thirty yards of the walls, the cannon of the fort being so mounted that they could not be trained upon them.
Pits with sharp upright stakes to defend the approaches to our enclosure.
Not a shot was fired from our line of battle, and as it gained on my skirmishers they melted into and became one with it, and all three of my brigades went over the rifle-pits simultaneously.
The lines of rifle pits at each place extended back from the water at least two miles, so that the garrisons were in reality only seven miles apart.
The enemy's line consisted of redans occupying commanding positions, with rifle-pits connecting them.
The outer line of rifle-pits was passed, and the night of the 15th General Smith, with much of his division, bivouacked within the lines of the enemy.
Our men drove the troops in front of the lower line of rifle-pits so rapidly, and followed them so closely, that rebel and Union troops went over the first line of works almost at the same time.
Wright's corps moving in two lines captured the outer rifle-pits in their front, but accomplished nothing more.
When I crossed the rifle-pits on the top the Confederates were still holding fast at Bragg's headquarters, and a battery located there opened fire along the crest; making things most uncomfortably hot.
The whole distance from there to Vicksburg and thence to Warrenton was also intrenched, with batteries at suitable distances and rifle-pits connecting them.
At the rifle-pits there had been little use for the bayonet, for most of the Confederate troops, disconcerted by the sudden rush, lay close in the ditch and surrendered, though some few fled up the slope to the next line.
He drove the rebels from their rifle-pits in front of the lines, extending from Fort Pringle, and pushed them vigorously.
By this time the enemy was seen coming down from their camps on the mountain slope, and filing into their rifle-pits to contest the crossing of the bridge.
The dim dark walls took up the words and echoed them again and again; and they rolled along the passages, like half-tamed thunder, and returned to us again from remote pits and recesses.
Let me desist, and escort the reader from the grandly dismal labyrinths, the yawning pits and frowning recesses, to the bright day again!
There was one large, bowl-shaped, grassy depression sloping down to the three pits of brown and brackish water.
II Work was struck at one o'clock at the coal-pits and the iron-works, and the fight was arranged for three.
Thursday was past in puddling and cradling, with rather better results than on the first day, still it was not to our satisfaction, and on Friday two pits were sunk.
An ovoid, glistening red berry, the minute achenes imbedded in pits on its surface.
This flat-topped receptacle, held erect, has its little round nuts imbedded in pits in its surface, ready to be picked out by aquatic birds, and distributed by them in their wanderings.
These cranes are for hoisting the heavy castings out of the pits in which they are formed.
These pits are filled with moulding sand--a composition of a damp and tenacious character, used in moulding.
In a pit, therefore, eighteen feet deep, as some of the pits at this foundry are, we should have a pressure at the bottom of fifty-four pounds to the inch.
Now we advanced our rifle pits and trenches and mines close up to the Rebel forts, though our main lines lay in the ravines and on the ridge a few hundred feet farther back.
Daylight found us there, two thousand strong, with rifle pits a mile in length.
We passed lines of infantry in rifle pits and batteries that were pouring a hail of shells into our exposed columns.
What were you doing with the Beetle we saw you with near the sand-pits this afternoon?
His appearance was very much what Stanley's had been when he had returned from the sand-pits after his encounter with Wyndham.
On the day Percival came to the sand-pits to meet the champion of the Beetles, he little knew whom he was to meet.
It was your turning away from Wyndham at the gravel-pits that so rankled in my mind, and--and your friendly meetings with him after.
A reconnoitering force of Federal cavalry had ridden too close to the rifle pits of the Confederates, and, as Morrison himself expressed it, "the hornets came out and began to sting.
Those gray devils in the rifle pits up there have formed the habit of shooting first and asking questions afterwards.
The pits were idle, for this was one of the recognized holidays.
Fifty years was a long time to live for a collier in those days of badly ventilated and poorly inspected pits and many men were in their graves at forty.
This was before the days of limited companies and coal syndicates, and the proprietor of the pitsin Lowwood, Mr. Rundell, lived about two miles out of the village.
They were the pits of darkness, the sty-pools, which his soul must either cross, or in which he must perish.
There was no escape, for they had not reckoned with the howitzers cunningly placed in pitson the islets beneath, and able to search the whole Russian position with high-angle fire.
The snow was soft, and the horse's hoofs left deep pits in the yielding surface by which the course of his flight could be easily tracked.
The visage it revealed was long and gray, with dark pits for eyes and a gaping, fang-studded, lipless mouth.
Many dead things in times past," Lur's scarlet nostril pits were extended to their widest.
Genie of terrible aspect, black as a solitary tree seared by lightning; his forehead ridged and cloven with red streaks; his hair and ears reddened; his eyes like two hollow pits dug by the shepherd for the wolf, and the wolf in them.
The colouring pits or "suspenders," perhaps a series of eight pits, consist of liquors ranging from 16 deg.
The top two handler pits are sometimes converted into "dusters," i.
As a concrete example let us take the six pits shown in the figure.
After deliming, the butts are scudded, rinsed through water or weak acid, and go off to the tan pits for tanning proper.
The light-leather maker does not want a hard, firm leather, but a soft and pliable product; hence he leaches his material fresh, and does not trouble as to whether the tannin deposits in the pits or not.
Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.
Kane touched Kleig on the shoulder, signaling, indicating that the atmosphere in the pits had been regulated to their new height, and that they could remove their helmets and oxygen tanks without danger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
