Apparently the decrease in rainfall here was as striking as the increase in other parts of the world.
As soon as a snowfield became somewhat extensive, it would begin to produce striking climatic alterations in addition to those to which it owed its origin.
The distribution of lofty mountains has an even more striking climatic effect than the general uplift of a region.
In the southern hemisphere glaciation at low latitudes was less striking than in the northern hemisphere.
I had no alternative but to charge through their line, which I did, an officer striking my head with the sword, my lance hat saving my head except for a bad bruise.
What is striking in the effect of the Mississippi Valley upon France is the pronounced influence of the unity of its great spaces.
One of the most striking illustrations of this fact is the community of New Glarus, in Wisconsin, formed by a carefully organized migration from Glarus in Switzerland, aided by the canton itself.
But the moststriking development in the industrial history of the Middle West in recent years has been due to the opening up of the iron mines of Lake Superior.
The striking and peculiar characteristic of American society is that it is not so much a democracy as a huge commercial company for the discovery, cultivation, and capitalization of its enormous territory.
If the later West offers few such striking illustrations of the relation of the wilderness to idealistic schemes, and if some of the designs were fantastic and abortive, none the less the influence is a fact.
One of the most striking phases of frontier adjustment, was the proposal of the Rev.
That extreme and tragic form of sectionalism indeed has almost engrossed the attention of historians, and it is, no doubt, the most striking and painful example of the phenomenon in our history.
Nothing in our educational history is more striking than the steady pressure of democracy upon its universities to adapt them to the requirements of all the people.
The result is that to the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics.
New England's Ohio Company of Associates, which settled Marietta, had striking resemblances to town proprietors.
Still more striking is the fact that the friars threw themselves energetically into the cause of political reform, and that several of their leading brothers were the close friends and counsellors of Simon de Montfort.
But the rejoicings of 1887 were forgotten amid the more striking demonstrations ten years later.
But when Richard declared that he was the victim of plots and intrigues, and was striking down his enemies only to defend his own life and honour, he was for some time believed.
Scarcely less striking testimony to the constitutional temper of the English was given by the new attitude of the party under the new conditions.
It was not till 1346, when he adopted the new policy of trusting nothing to allies, and striking at the heart of France with a purely English army, that Edward found the fortune of war turning in his favour.
In 1842 he had succeeded, with the help of the striking report of a royal commission, in inducing parliament to prohibit the employment of women and of boys under ten years of age in mines.
After this striking confirmation of my conjecture, I think no more need be said.
There is a tinsel-like glitter about this poem which gives it a flashy attractiveness, in striking contrast to the easy grace of Chaucer's workmanship.
Ithecus and Panthasas; and the fact that he here actually turns Icelon into Ithecus is a striking example of the strange corruption of proper names in medieval times.
But the striking characteristic of Fragment B is the use in it of a Northern dialect.
After all, the most striking testimony to their authenticity is the fact that, in MS.
The story is open to the objection that the facts are not so; the sound varies according to variations in the anvil or the thing struck, not according to the variation in the striking implement.
It is meant only as a discription of the Money, and not of the Time of striking it, but includes the Idea of all Time as inseparable from the Continuance of the authority of Congress.
The clocks were striking nine, and Chalmers wanted to drop in at "Powersthorp" on his way home.
I should have no particular difficulty in stealing up behind you andstriking a fatal blow.
Was it the accident of his falling and striking his head on that same iron box, or was he attacked from behind?
They stand no longer in need of her protection; she will call upon them to contribute towards supporting the burden they have helped to bring on her, and they will answer by striking off all dependence.
On this point there is a striking answer made by Franklin in his crafty examinations before the House of Commons in February, 1766.
It's only a beaver striking the water with his tail," laughed Cyrus.
I'd give the biggest guide's fees I ever got if you fellows had been there to hear him striking the trees with 'em as he tore along.
His comrades followed in single file, carrying their rifles in front of their bodies instead of on their shoulders, so that there might be no danger of a sudden clang or rattle from the barrels striking the trees.
And loud above this inward din he heard the sound, so well remembered, as of an axe striking repeatedly against a tree, the terrible chopping noises of a bull-moose, not two hundred yards away.
The reparation of these arches, and the striking down piles for securing them, is continual, and men are kept on purpose to take care of it, and to do it.
Striking out from the shoulder was not in vogue then.
Given the two, the dog and the man, this dog was to show before the end characteristics equally striking and of scarcely less charm.
He picked up much, of course, for there was much to be told of such a wealthy and prominent man as Amos Hunter, especially one with such striking personal characteristics.
Many of Mason's views were striking in their insight, many were childish in their lack of it; they were curiously straightforward at times, at others astonishingly oblique.
And that man--that big, brutal man, throwing that woman down, and then striking that man in the face!
Glassford nodded to the clerk, who walked across the floor, his heels striking out sharp sounds.
He held a long stick in his hand and with it began to explore the row of stalagmites, striking them one by one, at first with a slow tempo and then faster and faster.
Her face was cold and serene, but sostriking that it commanded instant interest.
Like Sir Donald Wallace, I too could give instances of the Emperor's straightforward and generous action which show the essential right-mindedness of his nature in a very striking way, if it were possible to do so without breach of confidence.
Russia's great spaces--what a strikingimpression they must make, for the first time!
Catesby and Oldcorne kept aloof, and it was not until they came in sight of the little town which formed their destination that the former galloped forward, and striking into the path on the right, begged Viviana to follow him.
It was a solemn and striking sight to see this large group prostrated around that beautiful fountain, and covered by that ancient structure,--a touching thing to hear the voice of prayer mingling with the sound of the rushing water.
His petronels had both brought down their mark; and in striking a blow against a stalwart trooper his sword had shivered close to the handle.
A striking change had likewise taken place in his countenance, and these signs convinced Catesby he had not long to live.
Catesby needed no further exhortation, but, springing into the saddle, hastily murmured his thanks, and striking into a lane on the right, rode off at a swift pace towards Highgate.
Catesby, striking into a road on the right, and urging his steed to a rapid pace.
Picturesque and striking as was the scene in the nave, it fell far short of that now exhibited.
Enough," replied Catesby; andstriking spurs into his charger, he dashed off.
Striking into a street on the right, the party skirted the walls of Saint Saviour's Church, and presently drew near the Globe theatre, above which floated its banner.
Striking spurs into his steed, Catesby dashed forward, and dealing blows right and left, cleared the drawbridge of its occupants, many of whom leaped into the moat to escape his fury.
He also wrote a striking work on Primitive Christianity ('78), and endeavored to reproduce the lost work of Celsus.
These volumes include his most striking Freethought lectures and contributions to the Fortnightly and other reviews.
In '86 he published his striking work The Service of Man, an Essay towards the Religion of the Future, which shows that the benefits of Christianity have been much exaggerated and its evils palpable.
His personal appearance was striking and one of his portraits is not unlike that of James Thomson.
An elaborate scheme of decoration, both interior and exterior, was a striking feature of the occasion, while to accommodate the numerous dinner guests a large temporary saloon became necessary.
Its tent, with a text from the Koran on an orange ground, and a small green camel embroidered over the entrance, was the most striking on the ground.
She had been changing her frock, and was still imperfectly clothed; a striking figure before her glass.
The pulpit, the stalls, and other fittings, are also striking in many ways, and the triapsidal east end shows us a rather simple Romanesque style in all its purity.
He placed his home in a goodly land, on a spot whose first sight is striking at any moment; but special indeed is the good luck of him who for the first time draws near to Spalato at the hour of sunset.
Few sights are more striking than to see the huge mass of the amphitheatre at Pola seeming to rise at once out of the land-locked sea.
Nearer to the water, south-east from the cathedral, is another small Romanesque church, almost as striking without as Saint Barbara is within.
Its height and the tall stilts on its columns would, if the building were cleared out, make it one of the most striking instances of its style and scale.
Ragusan history then may either be taken in at a glance, and a most striking glance it is; or else it may be studied with the minute zeal of a local antiquary.
He thus loses the first sight of the city from the sea which he has had at Zara and Spalato, and which at Ragusa is, setting special associations aside, even more striking than at Zara and Spalato.
No doubt some striking differences would be perceptible.
The whole passage is a striking early instance of sarcastic vituperation, and the gradual piling up of the weight of abuse.
A soft cooing and a low chittering note produced by striking the mandibles together.
Bill long and slender; feet slender; wings large and pointed; tail exceedingly variable, often assuming the most striking shapes.
Like most gaily costumed birds the plumages of many Tanagers undergo striking changes in color with age and season.
A striking amount of expectant fear is characteristic of a nervous condition which I have named "anxiety neurosis," and which I group with the true neuroses.
At this point the question becomes pertinent as to whether the most striking regressions of the libido, those which hark back to very early stages in sexual organization, are not essentially conditioned by the hereditary constitutional factor.
In contrast to the paucity of this enumeration, it is a striking fact that the objects and subject matter of another sphere are represented by an extraordinarily rich symbolism.
Instead of an illustration from pathology take a striking example from everyday life.
It is moreover striking that the contrasts present in all psychological experience are so very sharply drawn in this condition.
In many instances this double meaning of symbols may be only apparent; the most striking of the symbols, such as weapons, pockets and boxes are excluded from this bisexual usage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "striking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
