They were more in the nature of successive grunts, not much more definable than the noises of animals.
If the design is too much obscured after successive dippings, the drawing should again be transferred.
In batik decoration by successive dyeings the craftsman is constantly mixing the new dye with that already in the fiber.
Building up the pattern by dyeing in successive baths, beginning with the lighter and passing to darker values, and before each dipping stopping out with wax the parts to be retained in the completed work.
The crackle caused through successive dyeings, the soft edges of the outlines and the blending of the background with the shapes freed the piece from the criticism often invited where colors are painted in large areas.
Thus any assailants would have most formidable obstacles to encounter on attacking either the eastern or western faces, two moats and three successive lines of walling being opposed to their efforts.
Inside this ward stood the Keep, forming the fourth successive line of defence to be overcome.
It shows the fivesuccessive floors of Hedingham Keep, Essex, which dates from about 1140.
The resemblances thus worked out through successive generations attest the astonishing plasticity of bodily forms, a plasticity which would be incredible were not its evidence under our eyes in every quarter of the globe.
New species have come on the stage slowly and at successive intervals; and the amount of change after equal intervals of time, is widely different in different groups.
The accumulation of each great fossiliferous formation will be recognized as having depended on an unusual occurrence of favourable circumstances, and the blank intervals between the successive stages as having been of vast duration.
We may very well be dealing with the work of more or less contemporary and different races when we think we are dealing with successive ones.
We have now reached the nineteenth century, and from the early Church to the present time we find successive if sporadic attempts to incorporate into the Church the active diaconate of women.
She had fainted under the intolerable pain, and lay for many successive hours, too exhausted even to raise to her parched lips the pitcher of water lying near her.
The nobleman reaping his reward, at the end of life ascended up to heaven, leaving to sons and grandsons a good foundation, through successive generations, to plough the field of merit.
After the mouth came into the family, luck also came; and still as the mouth had increased with successive generations, just so had riches increased.
In the second generation, moreover, instead of being softened or diluted away, the mouth rather increased; and so it had done in every successive generation since that time.
Five successive generations of selected Crenata seedlings have been grown since 1904, quite a number producing their first nuts the year succeeding germination.
Empathy can be traced in all of modes of speech and thought, particularly in the universal attribution of doing and having and tending where all we can really assert is successive and varied being.
In the meantime they continued to be personal friends of successive Popes, encouraged in every way, aided in their work and looked upon as ornaments of the Church.
The successive editions of it are almost innumerable; and no other book save the Bible has had an equally large circulation.
For five successive days from that day Cæsar drew out his forces before the camp and put them in battle order, that if Ariovistus should be willing to engage in battle, an opportunity might not be wanting to him.
I have always wanted to study the successive psychological evolutions of a woman in love.
She broadens, expands, develops, concentrates; and her successive evolutions are a perpetual source of delight and absorbing study.
This was beaten back, as were successiveattacks by fresh relays of troops, until the Confederates, exhausted and out of ammunition, were forced back three or four hundred yards, their line broken and a part of the force cut off.
The enemy began to advance in a number of successive lines.
If this rate is so low that the colors do not tend to merge, they are much enriched by successive contrast.
This critical frequency or rate at which successive colors blend decreases with the brightness of the components.
This type of distribution builds up the illumination at distant points between successive street lamps, which is very desirable in street-lighting.
And from these successive approximations the final form of the thought may be more easily and surely distilled than if it had to be all formed in one's head before it could get even an approximate expression.
A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number.
Successive Archbishops had known of this Crypto-Protestantism, and in remote periods had made occasional slight attempts upon it; but none at all for a long time past.
If a legislature could not in this respect control the successive legislatures of its own State, could it control the successive Congresses of the United States?
Nor would this explain the decrease in '34 only, for it is well known among sugar planters that a neglect of planting, either total or partial, for one year, will affect the crops for two or three successive years.
Suffer us to recall to your recollection the majorities by which the successive attempts to crush the right of petition and the freedom of debate have been carried.
If he is committed for ten working days, he must give the master ten successive Saturdays.
For slight offences the slaves were thrust into these prisons for several successive nights--being dragged out every morning to work during the day.
Each successive Congress would still have gone to the Constitution for its power, brushing away in its course the cobwebs stretched across its path by the officiousness of an impertinent predecessor.
The man employed a large number of apprentices, and accomplished the job on three successive Saturdays.
She could not forgive the rich retail druggist, ex-president of the Commercial Court, for his successive elevations as deputy, member of the Government, count and peer of France.
But we may imagine them to be merely the result of successive improvements.
From these Mr. Acres had had the successive coats of whitewash carefully removed, and, though they were several centuries old, the colours were but little faded.
