The zoarium as a whole is either recumbentand adherent or at least partly vertical.
The zoarium is entirely recumbent and often appears to form an almost uniform flat layer instead of a dendritic body.
The zoarium is always entirely recumbent and branches sparingly; its method of branching does not approach the dichotomous type but is lateral and irregular.
It is often entirelyrecumbent but sometimes produces short, lax branches that consist of two or three zooecia only.
The whole colony isrecumbent but branches freely and at short intervals in a horizontal plane, so that the zooecia become crowded together and the branches sometimes overlap one another.
When growing on the stems of water-plants the branches are often parallel and closely pressed together but remain recumbent in this position.
In recumbent zooecia the main branches often radiate outwards from a common centre.
The polypides lie semi-recumbent in the mass and never stand upright in a vertical position.
Zooecia constricted at the base, deciduous, attached to a stem that is eitherrecumbent or vertical.
The polypides have the same semi-recumbent position as those of Lophopodella but are larger than those of any species of Lophopodella or Lophopus yet known.
Between the pillars that separate the nave from the side aisles, there are ancient tombs, most of which have recumbent statues on them.
It deserves to be mentioned that I saw one or two noses still unbroken among these recumbent figures.
In the central part is a monument; a recumbent figure, if I remember rightly, but it is not known whom it commemorates.
The listener rose from his recumbent attitude; he was stirred by this unwonted vigour in Decius, but not yet did resolve appear on his countenance.
He stepped to his place, over recumbent bodies and leggined and moccasined limbs, and seated himself on the carpet of spruce boughs.
Ay, meditates the recumbent cynic, more or less mad is not every mother's son?
Lady Blandish was recumbent upon the brown pine-droppings, gazing through a vista of the lower greenwood which opened out upon the moon-lighted valley, her hands clasped round one knee, her features almost stern in their set hard expression.
Lady Thistleton was large and recumbent and averse to sight-seeing, but after a heart-to-heart talk with her daughters had seen to it that Damaris had no time for moping.
She found a few moments' respite when she tripped and fell over the neck of a recumbent camel indistinguishable in the gloom of the side street into which she had turned as she headed for her own house.
A patient suffering from shock should be placed in the recumbent position, with the foot of the bed raised to facilitate the return circulation in the large veins, and so to increase the flow of blood to the brain.
The bandage should extend from the toes to well above the knee, and should always be applied while the patient is in the recumbent position with the leg elevated, preferably before getting out of bed in the morning.
Masanyatha, a female recumbent figure in stone on a masonry wall in an open plain near the village of Anaimalai, before which trial by ordeal is carried out.
The dead are either cremated, or buried in a recumbent posture.
The corpse is laid in the grave on a mat in the recumbent posture, with the head towards the east, and with split bamboo and leaves placed all round it, so that not a particle of earth can touch it.
The elegant winding lines of an Egyptian sphynx are opposed by a bloated, overcharged, recumbent Silenus.
On the south side of the nave there was formerly a recumbent wooden figure, in mail armour, supposed to have been the effigy of Anthony, the last Lord Lucy of Egremont, who died A.
The throne itself was of ivory with gold incrustation and with elbow-rests of gold, in the form of recumbent lions.
The room with its tightly-closed shutters and smoke-blackened walls is filled with recumbent men, in various stages of deshabille, all sunk in the sleep which the bamboo-pipe and the little black pellets of opium ensure.
Captain Kingdom looked up at the obstreperous mutineer on the bridge, and down at the recumbent Mr. Gates on the deck, and ground his teeth.
Oak went to the recumbent form of Matthew Moon, who usually undertook the rough thatching of the home-stead, and shook him.
Troy recumbent in his wife's lap formed now the sole spectacle in the middle of the spacious room.
The two recumbent figures under the arch leading into this same chapel are said to be those of Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, and his wife (4).
About the centre of the room is a recumbent figure of Silenus, with a wine skin under his arm.
The tiny infant stream issues forth under the protection of a recumbent statue of the river divinity.
In the chapel to the right of the altar is a small mausoleum with a recumbent figure illustrating the condition of even the fairest forms after death.
The statues, all of the finest Carrara marble, represent the duke in a half-recumbent posture and the duchess seated near him.
Just outside the Cappella del Santuario is a recumbentfigure of Ilaria del Carretto by Jacopo della Quercia (1444), unfortunately slightly mutilated, yet a beautiful imitation of the repose of nature transferred to statuary.
VII Outside in the porch he found the woman bending over the recumbent figure of his guide.
Swelling and pain of the external genitals and of the lower limbs are best relieved by the recumbent position.
When in bed in the recumbent position, the mother should lie on that side from which the infant is going to nurse; when up, the mother should sit erect.
To overcome this, the patient should lie down immediately after the bowel movement, and remain in the recumbent position for ten or fifteen minutes.
Rest in the recumbent position is the first essential; the diet must be plain and unstimulating, and attention must be paid to the condition of the blood.
In the outer building white robed, recumbent figures of priests and attendants lay here and there where they had chosen a resting place.
Rushing through the door, he dealt a blow from behind on the neck of the recumbent figure, and the head sunk to rise no more.
The sea-snake rose in glittering green folds to receive in his soft embrace the recumbent occupant; and ministering spirits of strange form, bearing harp and censer, were ranged in silence around.
Fifteen minutes passed on without a whisper--then a low whistle from the thicket proclaimed the success of Koorbo the Adel, who had recovered the wounded beast, recumbent in the darkest recesses of the tamarisk grove.
But the war of the elements was unheeded by the sufferer, and ever and anon, starting from his recumbent position, he paced in desperation the uneven floor of the slippery cavern.
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