The receptacle rests on the skin cover, having no feet, as has the Greenland one.
He brought with him from Delphi, Praxo, the woman whose house had served as a receptacle for the assassins; and Lucius Rammius, a Brundusian, who was the bearer of the following information.
The wardrobe, for instance, seemed to challenge her with the thought that it was no longer the receptacle of her skirts and petticoats: it seemed to be asserting its essential "wardrobishness" for being the receptacle for anything it liked.
The cavity closed by the rabbet of the glass frame affords a good receptacle for this necessary article: put some roughly powdered into each side, and be careful to renew it when evaporated.
In some cases cast-iron boxes are cast with a receptacle for some soft metal, such as the various compound metals known under the general name of Babbitt metal.
The whole of the machine is carried upon an open-top cast-iron water tank, serving as a receptacle for the tongs and tools heated in withdrawing the iron from the furnace.
I went to see Middleton's receptacle of water at the New River, and the New Spa Wells near.
There was a receptacle for strangers at the port of Ostia, called Xenodokium, St. Jerome renders this justice to the Romans.
It is at once the receptacle of all the dreadful ills to which mankind are subject and the temple of true virtue, which consists in relieving them.
Appleby started as he watched him, for that drawer was shorter than the rest, and there was a hidden receptacle behind it.
He had, however, taken the contents of the receptacle away with him.
The best place to keep cheese, particularly the soft varieties, is in the refrigerator, where it should be placed in a closedreceptacle and kept as far as possible from foods that are easily tainted.
Such butter should never be returned to the original supply, but should be kept in a separate receptacle and used for cooking.
The city that cares for the charter which its King has given it will prepare a fitting, golden receptacle in which to treasure it.
She was cast into a bare and miserable dungeon, in that receptacle of woe, where there was not even a bed.
This loathsome receptacleof crime was filled with the abandoned who had been swept from the streets of Paris.
Thus is formed a satin receptaclethe rim of which is gradually raised until it becomes a bag about a centimetre deep.
The capacity of the receptacle has been so nicely calculated that there is room for all the eggs, without leaving any space unoccupied.
As a receptacle for the eggs, she weaves a mere pill of silk.
When the receptacle is filled to the top, I withdraw the reed, which leaves a yawning, perpendicular shaft.
When the eggs are laid, the mouth of the receptacle is hermetically closed with a lid of the same white silk.
In this way, at the least breath, the seeds of the dandelion, surmounted by a tuft of feathers, fly from their dryreceptacle and waft gently in the air.
And that, to complete the resemblance, his long and massive nose, a feature grossly disproportionate to the rest of his diminutive face, might equally well have passed for the spout of the receptacle indicated.
As we have seen that a suitable receptacle is sometimes provided outside of the body, so now a receptacle is needed, and is provided in the interior of the body of the female.
This receptacle is called [Footnote 3: Curious examples of internal development sometimes occur in animals which usually deposit eggs.
By the fact that a new channel has been found in the rapid rise of Newgate market, the great receptacle of country-killed meat brought up to town by the railways.
The cartridges are dipped about an inch deep into a receptacle of this liquid kept fluid by the heat of gas.
The receptacle below, which contains all this refuse together with that at the bottoms of barrels, the publican either returns to the brewer, or empties it himself into half-filled casks.
It often resembles a chalice, except that instead of the bowl there is a covered receptacle for the Host.
To this darling child a receptacle of lead might have been allotted, though many other relatives of the same house were left to putrefy in wood.
His name must be reserved as the exclusive receptacle of all the excellence and beauty, the majesty and tenderness, the purity and justice, of which our minds can gather together the ideas.
Some of their pipes are made of brass and attached to the pipe is a receptacle for water, so as to cool the smoke before it passes into the mouth.
The War pipe is a true tomahawk of ordinary size with a perforated handle the tobacco being placed in the receptacle above the hatchet the handle serving as a pipe-stem and used for either pipe or tomahawk.
I am not sleepy; but there is one thing I will do; and Bobby drew from his secret receptacle his roll of bills.
As he passed the gate, he secured his money, and placed it in the secret receptacle of his jacket.
Under this head comes that style of receptacle known as the Hadley Chest, and the Connecticut chest shown in Chapter V.
They were too useful to be abandoned by a people who were obliged to be often on the move, and who needed some stout receptacle in which to carry their household and personal goods.
It was evidently intended as a receptacle for valuables, as both drawer and chest are made to lock.
So a receptacle which could be quickly locked was quite necessary.
This spacious receptacle was populous with merry maids and merry bachelors, merry girls and boys, and merry old folks, all alive with fun, and grinning to the full width of their mouths.
How much more so must they have been when, from the uncleanly habits of the Indians, they were the common receptacle of all kinds of filth, and were constantly stirred up to their very bottoms by the setting-poles of the navigators?
The space between the termination thus formed and the original apse went by the name of "Purgatory," as a receptacle for human bones, some thousands of which were found to have accumulated when it was cleared out in 1836.
Obviously built at the same time as the chapel, it is supposed to have been used originally as a receptacle for the bones exhumed from time to time in the neighbouring canons' cemetery.
