Bravely enough the dark, smudgy kitchen, with its scabby walls and its greasy, splintery floor, grew knots of violets.
The second his feet touched the splintery floor he made toward the table, caught up the teapot, went to lean his head over the sink, and poured upon his offending locks the whole remaining contents of the pot--leaves and all.
Worn pebbles of quartz, lydian stone, splintery limestone, and grauwacke, from the same spot.
A very compact, opaque limestone, of a smoke-gray colour, having a flat and slightly splintery fracture.
Fine-granular limestone, having a pale, wood-brown colour, and a splintery fracture.
At Point Deas Thompson the limestone re-appears, having reddish-brown and flesh-red colours, and a splintery fracture.
Brownish-red and fine granular quartz-rock, with a somewhatsplintery fracture.
A fine-grained dolomite, approaching to compact, having a flat and somewhat splintery fracture, and a brownish-gray colour.
A great portion of it, however, is compact, and has a flat conchoidal and slightly splintery fracture.
The bark is thick, grayish brown and the inside white, the root breaking with a short, splintery fracture.
The bark is thin, yellowish brown, with fine silky bast fibers and the wood is tough and pale yellow, breaking with a splintery fracture and showing numerous fine rays radiating from a small central pith.
The fracture is short, but shows some splintery fibers.
At the base of those hills I found, as elsewhere, pebbles consisting chiefly of a splintery quartz rock, in which the grains of sand or quartz were firmly embedded in a siliceous cement.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES A beggar through the world am I, A camel-driver, angry with his drudge, A heap of bare andsplintery crags, A hundred years!
It is very hard, but breaks easily, and affords very sharp-edged splintery fragments; whence it is a stone which strikes most copious sparks with steel.
It comes to us in large greenish-brown, semi-transparent lumps, having a conchoidal or splintery fracture, brittle and easy to pulverize.
The only use of the prop-wood is to prevent the seam, which forms the ceiling over the workmen's heads, from falling down and killing them by its splintery fragments.
Splintering tension,~ in which the failure consists of a considerable number of slight tension failures, producing a ragged or splintery break on the under surface of the beam.
In use for floors, some woods tend to compact and wear smooth, while others become splintery and rough.
A brittle wood breaks suddenly with a clean instead of a splintery fracture and without warning.
It is covered to a great depth with large splintery fragments of a rock entirely similar to that found at the base of the peak, except perhaps a little more compact in its structure.
It is not improbable that the splintery fragments, which occur in such quantities on all the higher parts of the peak, may owe their present form to the agency of lightning.
Its fracture is fine, granular, or even; and the rock exhibits a tendency to divide when broken into long, somewhat splintery fragments.
The greater part of the shore and the projecting points are rocky (where the soft splintery mica slate has been exposed) with occasional sandy beaches.
The rock on Pig Island, where exposed at some of the points, is mica slate, soft and splintery in many places, with frequent veins of quartz.
Before them and to the right and left rose a vast maze of ragged, splintery peaks and huge ramparts of mountain-walls enclosing plains so far below their summits that the light of neither sun nor earth ever reached them.
