Presently it began to snow, and the ice field became covered with a tattered sheet, the unevenprotuberances sticking through in dirty patches.
Finding a natural pathway we began scrambling down the rocks, clinging to the bushes and long grasses that grew in the crannies, and chipping occasionally at the craggy protuberances around us.
In the adult females and in the young of both sexes these protuberances are scarcely perceptible; and the naked parts are much less bright coloured, the face being almost black, tinged with blue.
Marshall has lately made a special study of the protuberances so common on the heads of birds (43.
These protuberances resemble, in their periodical appearance, the fleshy carbuncles on the heads of certain birds; but whether they serve as ornaments must remain at present doubtful.
In Buthus it takes place within follicle-like protuberancesof the wall of the ovary.
The jaws are formed at about the same time as the eyes as protuberances on the wall of the oral cavity.
In the case of this clear protuberance and of the similar protuberances which follow it, the protoplasm is not at first quite free from food-yolk, but only becomes so on being separated from the yolk-containing part of the ovum.
The limbs appear as small protuberances at the borders of their segments.
Sometimes these rootlets reduce themselves to one or more rounded protuberances towards the base of the sporangia-bearing threads.
The rayed divergent protuberances are the direct producers and bearers of the propagating cells, spores, or conidia, and are called sterigmata.
Two of these threads come into close contact through a considerable length, and clasp each other by alternate protuberances and depressions.
Some of the protuberancesare prolonged into slender tubes.
Towards its extremity it exhibits protuberances which resemble the rudiments of ramuli, or they terminate in a vesicle which gives rise to a slender filament.
In the adult females and in the young of both sexes these protuberances are scarcely perceptible; and the naked parts are much less brightly coloured, the face being almost black, tinged with blue.
These protuberances in their periodical appearance resemble the fleshy caruncles on the heads of certain birds; but whether they serve as ornaments must remain at present doubtful.
One organ forces itself upon our attention: it is the crop, which is very capacious, and dilated with irregular protuberances that put it out of shape.
Having two balls or protuberancesat each end; -- said of a cross.
Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; -- said of a cross.
The portion, for example, between b and c has probably not been altered; the protuberances which are fractured having been broken off by river action before the flint was chipped artificially.
It was a short, stumpy bowl or jar, upon which curiousprotuberances of all kinds clustered.
The protuberances encircled the jar in something like the way fungus circles a tree hole, in strange and various patterns.
Three feet of the abdomen hollow and fenestrated, representing direct protuberances or corner prolongations of the triangular shell-base.
The inner surface of the mucosa is rendered additionally uneven by the elevations or protuberances caused by the {799} proliferations in the submucous connective tissue.
Nodular tuberculous infiltration takes place beneath the mucous membrane, which becomes elevated in small, semiglobular, yellow protuberances of one or more millimeters in diameter, around which the mucous membrane is red and swollen.
The forehead is large, the frontal protuberances very prominent, as are also those of the parietal bones.
Then the strain of waiting on the best, but very questionable, protuberances for several tense minutes of motionless suspense, whilst the exigencies of the rope compelled Christian to climb down fifteen or twenty feet, and I could move again.
Fay, "rose this beetling face of dark rock, with little snow patches here and there revealing possible stations, between which only cracks and slight protuberances offered scanty holds for foot and hand.
These protuberances are formed and grow so rapidly as to almost suggest the presence of a steam generator within every cloud.
When penetrated by the rays of the sun, which they almost wholly absorb, these clouds are warmed up again in the interior, and budding protuberances are seen, which are especially developed on the upper parts of the cloud.
If you examine a spider, you will perceive in this part four or six little teat-like protuberances or spinners.
And it is a greatly younger beauty than the Cambrian and mica-schist protuberancesthat encroach on the sea on either side of it.
The majority of the Selenodontia possess horns, which are partly formed of solidprotuberances of the frontal bones.
Between the ridges are sometimes isolated, boss-like protuberances (whence the name of Mastodon), produced by a subdivision of the ridges.
It displays wrinkles and seams, due to the different courses of mortar, or else knotty protuberances distributed almost concentrically.
One or more subrotund protuberances of the footstalk in the genus Myrmica[1125].
His broad brow showed certain protuberances which Gall identifies with poetic genius.
On the sides and edges were some odd-looking protuberances wrought just as finely as any other portion of the coffer which had been sculptured by manifest design in the cutting of the stone.
But each and all of them had no protuberances or uneven surface anywhere.
As we lifted the casket from the sarcophagus, we noticed on its sides the strange protuberances which you have already seen; but we were unable at the time to account for them.
The edges of the broken icebergs are thus often rising and continually changing: these asperities and protuberances are called hummocks by English navigators; they give to the polar ice an odd, irregular appearance.
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