It was easy to make a plume: you picked up a lot of feathers that the hens and geese had dropped; and you whittled a pine stick, and bound the feathers in spirals around it with white thread.
The mirror-like surface of the river was blurred with twisting spirals of mist, silvery and opalescent, through which the dim-seen figure of a duck in straight flight shot like a missile.
An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form.
A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
Furthermore, thespirals may be smooth or spinulose the elater uniform throughout or enlarged betimes by nodes and swellings.
Rex should differ in having spirals seven or eight, and spore only 6.
He blew out a puff of smoke and watched its soft spiralscurl upward.
Watching its spirals of smoke curl lazily upward, his eyes narrowed and he nodded toward them.
There was a crackling sound as if something broke and two spirals of white smoke began to blaze on the animal's neck.
She had laid down her cigarette with its blue spirals of smoke, and in a low voice that accentuated the words, giving them impassioned trembling, she sang, accompanying herself by the melody of the piano.
And she lighted one, following the smoke spirals with her greenish eyes which acquired a tremor of liquid gold as they refracted the light.
Let reverse spirals appear in your fixed pattern, and you improve the effect.
Paint the spirals any colours you please, providing that they are bright, and you get the results.
Iron wire wound in spirals can be used, or any of the many makes of special resistance wire on the market.
This resistance wire can be wound in spiralsand made to occupy a very small space.
The spirals of smoke were even rising on either side of the spur from Jason's cottage and his mother's home, and both high above were melting into each other and into the drowsy haze that, veiled the face of the mountain.
Over there the twin spirals of smoke no longer rose on either side of the ridge and drifted upward, for both cabins were closed.
The twin spirals of smoke were visible now, and where the path forked the boy stopped and turned, jerking his thumb toward her cabin and his.
Only, as a consequence of the shortness and the excessive twisting, the hair gets entangled and the spirals catch hold of each other, so forming glomerules or tufts.
When the hair is relatively long and the spirals sufficiently broad, the whole head looks like a continuous fleece, as with certain Melanesians (Fig.
The Melanesian race differs from the Negro race especially in having less woolly hair with broader spirals (see p.
All of thesespirals are receding from the plane of the Milky Way with enormous velocities.
Therefore the four-bladed propeller is only suitable for large pitch, as such pitch producesspirals with a large gap, thus offsetting the decrease in gap caused by the numerous blades.
Throttling down the power of the engine he spirals downwards, keenly observing the country below.
The spirals of the co-operating rays being invariably turned in the same direction (Fig.
Spirals occur that bewilder the eye, yet are so faultlessly perfect that only the magnifying-glass brings out the incredible accuracy of the drawing.
The coil and spiral are freely used as the groundwork, and the colours alternated as the coils or spirals change from front to back of the leaf.
Two other groups (6 and 3 pieces, respectively) have warps with left spirals crossed by wefts with right spirals and vice versa.
When at last the coffee and liqueurs were reached and six thin spirals of blue smoke were curling lazily up among the rafters of the low ceiling, the small upright piano talked under Tanrade's vibrant touch.
Lower down, skirting the velvet edge of the marsh, filmy rifts of mist broke into shreds or blended with the spirals of blue smoke mounting skyward from freshly kindled fires.
Yesterday got an Aviatik ten meters off; passenger shot dead by the first bullet; the plane, all in rags, went down in slow spirals and must have been knocked flat somewhere near Berlincourt.
Chapter 8 Three Generals and a Cook To get to the civic midriff of the ancient and honorable French city of Laon you must ascend a road that winds in spirals about a high, steep hill, like threads cut in a screw.
Just now two or three began down in the valley, tracing fine golden lines in spirals and circles.
A knobkerry is a stick with a heavy round knob for a head, overlaid, head and stem, with copper and steel wire, in ingenious spirals and patterns.
The handful of chimneys and the smoke-spirals rising here and there among the trees on the river-bank belonged to what was known as the Brier Neighborhood.
Beyond this, and farther back from the water, the trees apparently hid a cluster of other chimneys, for thin spirals of smoke ascended here and there.
Before leaving the subject of tendrils, it may be interesting to notice the queer corkscrew spirals in which they roll themselves up.
These spirals are formed after the end of the tendril has tied itself to the support and become woody.
It is strongly hygrometric: in wet weather it straightens itself, and it coils into corkscrew spirals in dry weather.
They were talking and laughing, the man I had sent the message to lightly fingering the stem of his wine-glass, and blowing thin spirals of cigarette smoke into the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spirals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
