Now a bronze-skinned artisan with slender limbs and narrow tapering hands was attracting attention.
She put her little foot slightly forward, and as he tied the string of her shoe she saw how slender was his hand, firm yet tapering down to the elegant finger-tips; the hand of a patrician even though he hailed from the barbaric North.
Long body, carried rather upright, deep at breast with back tapering sharply toward tail, which is long and carried rather low.
It has a barrel-shaped body, with a head in front bearing ten pairs of tapering tentacles, each with numerous suckers.
He squinted, halted, and on his tapering head grew a few white patches of starveling down.
The back is open, angular, andtapering toward the tail.
It is a tapering tower, always with an odd number of stories.
His tapering fingers with their carefully manicured nails fondled the roll of parchment, and then unrolled it, and held it so the other could read.
There was something like a purr in his breath as he stood interlacing his tapering fingers.
The tapering fluted foot which we associate with Sheraton is also shown in Figure 100.
His tables, with the delicate inlay and slender tapering legs, as also his sideboards, are frequently called by the name of his great successor, Sheraton, and even in England the two makers are frequently confused.
He was tapering off, building the crown of his good stack.
The Minnie Williams sat on the ways resplendent, her masts of yellow Oregon pine tapering into a blue sky.
As the two took the little bronzed path leading to the natural park-land dark with tapering cedars, he gave a puzzled look at the old farmer.
Sharp, and bright, and finely tempered it looked with its deadly, tapering point.
Early coffee-pot examples were tapering and cylindrical in form, and later matched the tea pots with swelling drums, molded bases, decorated spouts, and molded lids with finials.
He adds: These variations rapidly intensified, and at the commencement of the eighteenth century we find the body still less tapering and the lid has become a perfect dome.
The straight sides, so rapidly tapering from the base upward that in a height of only six inches the base diameter of four and three-eighths inches tapers to a diameter of no more than two and one-half inches at the rim.
Look at that tapering cape, shaped like a lady’s foot, projecting from Stamboul toward the shore of Asia, and dividing the bay from the sea of Marmora.
The “Golden Horn” is a curved arm of the sea, the broadest extremity meeting the Bosphorus and forming the harbour of Constantinople, and the other tapering away till it is lost in the “Valley of Sweet Waters.
It is 17 inches long and about three-fourths of an inch through, flattened to less than half an inch and tapering toward the end to be held in the hand.
The lax Archaic-Doric, slender, with more distinctly-tapering columns.
It consists of a little glass tube, tapering sharply at one end.
The grubs are white, tapering at both ends, sharply segmented and covered all over their bodies with a coat of fine, soft hairs which is invisible except under the lens.
In a week or so the cylindrical larvae, tapering at both ends (fig.
Her lines were very fine, tapering and beautiful, even to the eye of a land-lubber.
These trunks, three feet in diameter at the base andtapering smoothly and perfectly to perhaps twelve inches at the top, are in reality no more than pipes for conveying the water to the thirsty fronds.
Le Brunnec, the trader, was opening a roll of Tahiti tobacco five feet long, five inches in diameter at the center, and tapering toward the ends.
He was an upstanding fellow, of commanding height, and the tapering staunchness of a timber wedge.
Cochrane, an old cattleman whose carefully trimmed, pointed white beard and slender, tapering fingers set him apart from the others in the room, was rather far gone with liquor.
The broad pendant or "burgee" is a flag tapering slightly and of a swallow-tailed shape at the fly.
The Standard was a large long flag, gradually tapering towards the fly.
The first is a long, narrow, tapering flag--the usual length being twenty yards, while it is only four inches broad at the head.
Charlie pushed the doors back, and we ran out the trim little Golden Gull, beautiful with her slender wing and her graceful, tapering lines.
The bottom of the post should be filed a little tapering so it will fit into the base of the hole tight.
It is cut tapering and shaped over a round wood block in the vise.
Heat the copper end of the rod red-hot, and with a hammer flatten it to a four-sided tapering end about one inch long and ending in a blunt point.
Draw it out to a tapering octagonal shape, as shown in the sketch.
The ends can be made into a brace shank by squaring the end and tapering it to fit the jaws of the brace.
Do so by filing each end of the broken pieces, tapering to a very sharp edge 3/4 in.
Take your steel punch and file the end down, tapering so that the point will go into the smallest hole.
To do this, continue the tapering lines beyond the circle until the two lines intersect.
Illustration: Stake Pin] Directions: This sketch is made full size and it shows a round stake pin with a four-sided tapering end about 3 ins.
Repeat this in each hole until the draw plate is made up of a number of graduatedtapering holes.
Cut a tapering slip off each side so that one end will measure 3/4 in.
The mode in beaver hats was most varied; high straight crowns with small brims, others tapering at the top with larger curled brims, or crowns enlarging at the top with almost straight small brims; a top-hat of straw is shown on page 309.
Also full padded-out breeches tapering to the knee or just above, where a large tie and bow hung at the side, and full square breeches not tied in, are also a feature of these days, usually banded with wide braids at ends and sides.
There is also a rudely-built and dilapidated tower, tapering upward, and provided with loopholes, which is occasionally occupied by soldiers.
On both sides of the gate, and on the broad front wall, are pyramidical battlements with tapering ends.
That the root of the Hairs were pretty smooth, tapering inwards, almost like a Parsneb; nor could I find that it had any filaments, or any other vessels, such as the fibres of Plants.
