Indeed, volcanic action was constantly at work altering the shapes and sizes of the different rocky mountain-tops, and bringing now one, now another, into closer relations than before with its neighbours.
The stone is ancient error, the grass is human nature borne down and bleached of all its color by it, the shapes that are found beneath are the crafty beings that thrive in the darkness, and the weak organizations kept helpless by it.
He gives no description of the shapes of furnaces, but frequently mentions the bellows, and speaks of the cadmia and pompholyx which adhered to the walls and arches of the furnaces.
This powder, like that used by smelters, is sprinkled with water and moistened before it is put into the crucible, so that it may be fashioned by the hands into shapes similar to snowballs.
If a vein is soft and the rock of the hanging and footwalls is weak, a closer structure is necessary; for this purpose timbers are joined together, in rectangular shapes and placed one after the other without a break.
E--Moulds by means of which the shapes are produced.
This mighty barrier, the work of coral polyps, is of special interest not only on account of the curiousshapes and varied kinds of sea life it presents, but because of the commercial value of its products.
Jugs with pointed bottoms also became common, though there was a great variety in the shapes of jugs.
The clay was well cleaned, theshapes distinctive (see Fig.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Often too she shapes the career of husband or brother or son.
Now before we start let us for a moment pray to the Power whoshapes the destinies of men, and who ages since has marked out our paths, that it may please Him to direct our steps in accordance with His will.
Under this declining reef were the rarest shapesand colors of fish.
Fish of a score of shapes and of all colors of the spectrum wove in and out the branches and caverns of this wondrous parterre.
They were of all sizes and shapes and tints, from a pear-shaped, brilliant, Orient pearl of great value, to the golden pipi of inconsiderable worth.
We sang and danced, and the tossing torches stirred the shadows of the black wold, and brought out in shifting glimpses the ominous shapes of the monstrous trees.
Nature was in vast luxuriance, in a revel of aloofness from human beings, casting its wealth of blazing colors and surprising shapes upon every side.
Must I die here in all the frights[, the] terrors, The thousand several shapes death triumphs in?
The Bright Powers are always beautiful and desirable, and the Dim Powers are now beautiful, now quaintly grotesque, but the Dark Powers express their unbalanced natures in shapes of ugliness and horror.
France; but I shrunk from that as a tale of horror, the work of demons in the shapes of men.
This being the disposition of Count Sobieski, he found it more difficult to bear calamity, when viewing another's poverty he could not relieve, than when assailed himself by penury, in all its other shapes of desolation.
An utter unconsciousness must have followed this state, and a dreary blank, with flitting shapes of suffering, is all that remains to my recollection.
With what shapes and forms of military splendour did our imaginations people the space behind that sombre curtain!
The dreadful shapes of the avenging Furies close in upon him: the fancies of incipient madness thicken on his mind: he is hounded out, his only hope of rest being Apollo's sacred shrine.
But yester-night I pray'd aloud In anguish and in agony, 15 Awaking from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortur'd me!
Skiddaw is behind us; to the left, the right, and in front mountains of all shapes and sizes.
I kept the secret--and the glass; By day across its surface pass The transient shapesof common things Which chance within its oval brings.
All nature grows unearthly; all things seem To break and waver off in shapes of dream, And through the chinks of matter steals the dawn Of skies beyond the solar road withdrawn.
These shapes have no angles: a caryatid in marble is almost as flexible; a Phidian goddess is not more perfect in a certain still and stately sort.
Round them shapes of gloom and sorrowful faces were gathered, Voices of women were heard, and of men, and the crying of children.
He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war.
To Cut Unusual Shapes Any odd shapes having straight lines may be cut by the following method: Make a sample of the shape and size required; then take a piece of No.
We see trees, houses, fields, living beings in our own shape, and in shapes more or less analogous to our own.
The shapes of the famous persons who once sat in the chair will be more apt to come back, and be seen among us, in this glimmer and pleasant gloom, than they would in the vulgar daylight.
These children complained of being pinched and pricked with pins, and otherwise tormented by the shapes of men and women, who were supposed to have power to haunt them invisibly, both in darkness and daylight.
