The principal ores of titanium are sphene, common and foliated, rutile, iserine, menachanite, and octahedrite or pyramidal titanium ore.
Its fundamental form is an isosceles 4-sided pyramid; and the secondary forms have all a pyramidal character.
This sinks by degrees as the aggregation goes on above, till a pyramidal boat of considerable size is constructed.
The columnar pieces of pyramidal tin-ore from Mexico and Chile, are products of stream-works.
Crystals of it are often found in diluvial and alluvial sand and gravel, along with true sapphires, pyramidal zircon, and other gems, as also with octahedral iron ore, in Ceylon.
They are covered with a funnel-formed or pyramidal trunk of deals, ending in a square chimney, to carry off the steam.
Its crystalline forms are very numerous, and are referrible to the octahedron, and the pyramidal prism.
The Norman work is continued as far as the nave roof, and it is extremely probable that they were originally terminated at this height, in accordance with the Norman custom, with low pyramidal spires, probably of wood.
It must needs be of a very different character from the old Norman tower, of which no trace now remains; and was most probably of the usual type, low and square, and surmounted by a shortpyramidal spire.
The north and south ends of the transept are finished with the tall pyramidal pinnacles erected by Wyatt.
Each of these clusters assumes a pyramidal form, and produces a charming effect when lighted up on days of ceremony,--from their harmonizing with the rest of the decorations of the chapel, no less than from the elegance of their form.
A tall pyramidal Gothic edifice[8] of gilded and painted wood, rising to the full height of the ceiling, stands in front of a column of the second nave from the north side.
The most pleasing shape of roof, other things being equal, is the pyramidal or hipped, inclining from all sides towards the centre.
The vestiges of this little Indian city are almost obliterated, and the only very significant relics are the pyramidal edifice exhibited in the annexed plate, and a singular fountain, a drawing of which is given in the work of M.
The first is a building originally eighteen feet square, but having the addition of sloping walls to give it a pyramidal form.
A close inspection reveals the truth--that the Pierre de Couhard was in the form of a quadrangular pyramid upon a cubical base--the lower part faced with large blocks of sandstone, the pyramidal portion with limestone.
Cortez then expressed the wish that he might be conducted to the great pyramidal temple, which reared its lofty structure from the heart of the city.
The temples were generally pyramidal structures of enormous magnitude.
Advancing to the principal pyramidal temple of Tabasco, which was an enormous structure, with a vast area upon its summit, they wound around its sides in the ascent.
The capital was that night illuminated with great brilliance, and the splendor of the great pyramidal temple, blazing with innumerable torches, gleamed far and wide over the lake.
Fifty men ascended the winding stairs to the summit of the pyramidal temple, tore down the massive wooden idols, and tumbled them into the streets.
Two or four men load up a kind of flat hand-barrow without wheels till it is pyramidal and colossal with piled gear.
A pyramidal mound about four feet high forms a pedestal for the figure, which is about two feet six inches from crown to sole.
Immense bunches of snow-white limestone droop from the roof, and one unusually large conical mass tapers off until it connects with the apex of a pyramidal block on the floor.
The pillar was found to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind.
These chambers are all plain, but some are of very elegant proportions, with arched or pyramidal roofs, and arched recesses at the sides, containing sarcophagi hewn in the solid stone.
The principal remains consist of a massive wall, flanked with pyramidal bastions at regular intervals, and with the traces of gateways, draw-bridges and towers.
Its heavy, projecting cornices and tall pyramidal roof rested on a circle of elegant arches, surrounding a marble structure, whence the water gushed forth in a dozen sparkling streams.
They are of an irregular pyramidal form, and made up of about five stories or terraces.
The flower racemes spread in a broad, pyramidal panicle.
Its handsome pyramidal clusters of flowers are in evidence during July and August.
The pyramidalfaces make different angles than those of either apatite or beryl, both of which are somewhat like quartz in crystal form.
An oxide of aluminum of hexagonal crystallization, usually in six-sided prisms, capped by very steep pyramidal faces (see Figure 75n).
It was the genuine pyramidal sea of the true cyclone, of which vessels caught in these furious circular storms are even more apprehensive than the fury and strength of the hurricane.
The pyramidalroof has turned-up angles, to which are suspended bells, which when agitated by the wind give forth their music.
Very beautiful too is the pyramidal composition of the group.
It is adorned with bosses of filigree alternating with pyramidal projections.
One of the charms of this old jewellery lies in the setting of its stones, which are mostly table-cut, and fixed in squarepyramidal collets.
A few ornamental rings have high pyramidal bezels which were sometimes hollow, and were made to contain poison.
In Colymbus the patella is reduced to a small ossicle, its function being taken by the greatly developed pyramidal processus tibialis anterior; in Podiceps and Hesperornis the patella itself is large and pyramidal.
