The lines of many of these natural temples or fortresses are still more lengthened and attenuated than those of the Temple of Isis, appearing like mere skeletons of their former selves.
The same with the skeletons in the invertebrates, from membrane to cartilage, from cartilage to bone, so that the primitive cartilage remaining in any part of the skeleton is considered a mark of inferiority.
Their outlines now stand out like skeletons from which the flesh has been removed--sharp, angular, obtrusive, but bound together as by ligaments of granite.
If you think of skeletons again, I'll give you a liver pill.
I imagine I'm at an Egyptian banquet, and that there are horrid, rattly skeletons sitting in all those high, covered chairs.
But I hope you haven't any more skeletons in the closet, my friend.
Twenty years before great forest fires had swept through, and the new growth was only pushing its way amid the standing skeletons and the charred down-timber.
It contained living limbs, loose or attached to skeletons in other respects bare, except that they were clothed with broadcloth garments, cut after the English fashion.
Of those neglected parts the skeletons alone remain, but all those organs which he has employed sufficiently continue unimpaired.
Here we received our freight from the six-mule wagon, loaded it with bleached skeletons and skulls of buffalo, and started it back to the post.
In 1886 there were still about twenty bleaching skeletons lying in a group on the edge of this plateau at the point where the road from the ferry reaches the level, but all the rest had been gathered up.
During all this time we shot antelope and coyotes whenever an opportunity offered, and preserved the skins and skeletons of the finest until we had obtained a very fine series of both.
When it started back, on November 3, we sent by it all the skins and skeletons of buffalo, antelope, etc.
Behold Denham in the Desert of Dead Bones, where his sick comrades were constantly disheartened by the sight of the skulls and skeletons of men who had perished on those sands.
During several days, they passed from sixty to ninety skeletons a day; but the numbers that lay about the wells at El Hammar were countless.
On either side stood four silver skeletonson pedestals, draped in black cloth, and holding large branch candlesticks, each with three lights.
He never said who was the real offender, though he smarted for it next day, and was imprisoned so many hours that he came forth with a whole churchyard full of skeletons swarming all over his Latin Dictionary.
After Traddles had got his daily caning he would cheer up somehow and get comfort by drawing skeletons all over his slate.
In a wild clearing of the forest he found the devil's altar, built of black cinders: and on it, in the moonlight gleamed the white skeletons of men and horses.
Footnote 2: That is, skeletons left on the gallows for the ravens to peck at.
No one gets wounded in the war against caricatures of belief and skeletons of opinion of which the German onslaughts upon 'relativismus' consists.
They have arrived at such a conclusion already; that is to say, they have, in a stratum which cannot be less than twenty thousand years old, unearthed some skeletons of a mammal resembling man.
But let these skeletons resemble ours ever so closely, I, for one, am not prepared to concede that these creatures, when they existed, were men in the sense that we are.
A faint sound seemed to come from the direction where the skeletons stood in their glass-framed cages.
Your object in coming here wasn't to interview theskeletons upstairs, was it?
Being alone in a dark room with nothing butskeletons for company is not a very pleasant experience for a woman.
On his first visit there had been at least a dozen skeletons in the room; now he counted only seven.
Wilkes," he directed, "pull that devoted pair apart and carry the young lady to the room upstairs where the skeletons are.
The efficacy of skeletons and like objects as means of moral suasion has been understood for a long time.
Each of these skeletonsrepresents a distinct criminal type.
The incident of the dancing skeletons is not given by Schoolcraft, and seems to indicate a lost sequel to the story.
He himself had opened it and found it to contain perhaps a thousand disjointed skeletons of both adults and children, the bones piled in successive layers, those near the top being least decayed.
Mrs. Fraser's account of a hidden chamber and of skeletons found therein is not the only one of the grim kind that has come to my notice.
In another place, the skeletons of a number of people were found in an underground room or cellar of a house, where were also found some mouldy bread and empty water flasks.
It was once believed that the coral polyps or animalculae from the hard, bony skeletons of which coral reefs are formed, could live at the greatest depths of the ocean.
The existence of cremation among the cliff-dwellers is offered as an explanation of the great scarcity of skeletons in their neighborhood.
When it is remembered that Cliff Palace must have had a population of several hundred, judging from the number of the buildings, and was inhabited for several generations, it otherwise would be strange that so few skeletons were found.
They peered furiously through the gates as one hundred skeletons were dug up.
Thirty skeletons were secretly dug up, but not identified.
The skeletons two rushed through the yard, They pushed the door they left unbarr'd, Laid by their skulls in the niched wall, And flew like wind from Calgarth Hall Where still the round porter sat sleeping.
To Calgarth Hall in the midnight cold Two headless skeletons cross'd the fold, Undid the bars, unlatched the door, And over the step pass'd down the floor Where the jolly round porter sat sleeping.
The Athenians found near their city skeletons measuring 34 and 36 feet in height.
It was a sad sight to see the strong and vigorous young men of a few days ago reduced to such straits; almost skeletons now, with no hope of nourishment to invigorate them.
Nothing was heard of these for seven years, but long afterward nine skeletons were found at the remains of a camp, and the other two were afterward seen in the gold fields.
He gave a thrilling account of passing through Mountain Meadows, where he saw, here and there little groups of skeletons of the unhappy victims of the great massacre at that place of men, women and children, by J.
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