Below the lakes are filled basins that are still spongy swamps, or substantial meadows, as they get down and down.
Dipping over banks in the inlets of the creeks, the fortunate find the rosy apples of the miniature manzanita, barely, but always quite sufficiently, borne above the spongy sod.
Spongy curd" is produced by at least five organisms, and one of these is responsible for a disagreeable taint found in curd.
But besides this, when the top of the spongy peat is raised above the water level and dries by evaporation, then heath, ferns and other plants and at last trees grow on it, until accident submerges it all again.
The soft, sensitive ground of their sorrow constantly spongy with the wellsprings of grief beneath, but the surface bubbles showing less and less, and ultimately a hard dryness setting in.
In a vague, inchoate sort of way, Lilly at sixteen was visualizing nature procreant as an abominable woman creature standing shank deep in spongy swampland and from behind that portentous curtain moaning in the agonized key of Mrs. Kemble.
The root, which is the part used in medicine, is tough and flexible, scarcely branched, and of a brownish colour and spongy texture.
The vascular system is not extensive, the arteries soon ending in the well-marked spongy tissue which builds up the muscular foot, parapodia, and dorsal body-wall.
Middle tibiae with spongy fossa; fore tibiae convex above; neck with a small tubercle on each side.
Apical portion of anterior tibiae angularly dilated beneath, the spongy fossa being preceded by a small prominence.
Middle tibiae without spongy fossa, head long, no lateral tubercle on neck.
Tibiae not dilated as in "f"; spongy fossa elongate; metapleural sulci close to the margin.
The track that was parched and spongy has now become soft and slippery.
Often the spongy portion may adhere to the partitions.
This may apply also to the case in which the under-surface only is spongy and soft.
The pull between the free upper portion and the adhering lower edge causes splitting and tearing of the coagulum, with marked porosity (spongy appearance).
The coagulation will be practically complete, and the coagulum, apart from a spongy appearance, is normal in character.
She presently went on an errand for her grandmother, and came back with sausages and fresh pulpy bread and large spongy crullers from the grocery.
With the knife she cut a spongy crust from a loaf of bread, without fairly withdrawing it from the bag, and subtracting a thin pink slice of ham from some oiled paper in another bag, she folded it into the crust and began to eat it.
The grass grew tall and coarse, the soil it sprang from was spongy and frequently soft and wet.
At sundown they made a perilous crossing of a prairie stream on water-covered, spongy ice, that threatened at every step to go down under them, and reached a clump of willows.
The sun was drying up the excess of moisture that had turned the prairie into ponds and spongy expanses and had converted the rambling paths and cart tracks of Pembina into sticky mud.
The bark is of a somewhatspongy nature; and if left in the water for a length of time, would become soaked and heavy, and would not run so well.
It is still eaten; but for this purpose the common sheep is preferred, as the flesh of the llama is spongy and not very well flavoured.
Walter bent down and pressed his finger against the spongy mass.
Over the centre of the wick, and standing about the eighth of an inch above it, a small ball of spongy platinum is placed, maintained in its position by being fixed to a thin glass rod, which is inserted into the wick.
Shortly after the discovery of the peculiar property of spongy platinum remaining incandescent in the vapor of alcohol, the late Mr. I.
Very often the shell contains a spongy substance that is tasteless, instead of the kernel the patient nutter has a right to expect.
So much less trouble than walnuts, in their spongy husks, that never part regularly, but wait until they are torn off by impatient boys or squirrels, or until they dry and gradually crumble away.
The separation of the sequestrum takes place more rapidly in the spongy bone of the ossifying junction than in the compact bone of the shaft.
It presents on section a layer of articular cartilage on the convex aspect and a variable thickness of spongy bone beneath this.
In the shafts of the long bones, owing to the excessive absorption of bone, the cortex becomes porous, the spongy bone is rarefied, and the bones readily bend or break under mechanical influences.
The scorbutic ulcer occurs in patients suffering from scurvy, and is characterised by its prominent granulations, which show a marked tendency to bleed, with the formation of clots, which dry and form a spongy crust on the surface.
The term rarefying ostitis is applied to any process that is attended with excessive absorption of the framework of a bone, whereby it becomes more porous or spongy than it was before, a condition known as osteoporosis.
The extremities, which include the ossifying junctions, consist ofspongy bone, the spaces of which are filled with red marrow.
Tuberculous infiltration of the marrow in the surface cancelli breaks up the spongy framework of the bone into minute irregular fragments, so that it disintegrates or crumbles away--caries.
Two varieties are recognised--the spongy or cancellous, and the ivory or compact.
This rarefaction of the spongy bone is the earliest change seen with the X-rays.
The marrow and spongy bone first disappear, the compact tissue then becomes thin, and pathological fracture may result.
The infection not only spreads along the medulla, but it invades the spongy bone surrounding this, and then the cortical bone, and is only prevented from reaching the soft parts by the new bone formed by the periosteum.
The bone is spongy in character, and its development takes place along similar lines to those observed in ossification from the periosteum.
These gummata may appear in the spongy portion of the bone, sometimes in the shaft, or in the epiphysis.
The spongyportion and cortical layer are both crushed.
It causes a thinning of the cortex of the shafts and of the trabeculae of the spongy portions of the long and short bones.
The negative plate consists almost entirely of spongy lead, and the hydrogen is mechanically occluded in that spongy lead.
Roasting takes the place of fine crushing, as the ore from the roasting furnace is either found somewhat spongy in texture or the grains of silica in which fine gold may be incased are split or flawed by the fire.
The support of the plates inclusive of the terminals above referred to weighs more than the active material, which consists of peroxide of lead and spongy lead; so that the plates of one cell weigh actually 26.
Books printed on very thick, spongy paper must be sewed very strongly and receive special reinforcements that are not necessary on paper which is more suitable for binding.
A larger number of leaves can be taken in books printed on thin paper than in those printed on thick, spongy or heavy papers.
In fact when the soft, spongy papers are used the loose backs are obviously stronger.
If the book is printed on thick, spongy paper it will increase flexibility if the paper is creased along the line of perforation.
The light is produced by throwing a jet of hydrogen or a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases upon recently prepared spongy platinum, when the metal instantly becomes red-hot, and then sets fire to the gas.
The action depends upon the readiness with which spongy platinum absorbs both oxygen and hydrogen.
The larger the intralamellar spongy growth becomes, the more do the original gill-filaments lose the character of blood-holding tubes, and tend to become dense elastic rods for the simple purpose of supporting the spongy growth.
The young are nourished by a substance formed by the cells which cover the spongy interlamellar outgrowths.
The hard palate is composed of spongytissue that fills with blood when the horse is feeding, which causes the ridges to become prominent, and they then help to keep feed from dropping from the mouth.
The continued fever and impaired function of secretion result in the production of a horn deficient in elasticity, somewhat spongy in character, and inclined to crumble.
As an organ it is spongy and loose in texture, and attracts and retains the superfluities of the black-bile, expelled from the liver for its own cleansing.
