In this visible decrease of size we get a revelation as to what takes place impossible in the case of the canals, the tenuous character of which precludes more than inference as to the process.
No less the subject of transformation than the large dark regions was the network of tenuous lines that overspread them.
That the spots, although wider than the canals, remained longer hidden from human sight, is due to the optico-physic fact that a tenuous line may be perceived owing to its length when a dot of the same diameter would be invisible.
The temperature of the exceedingly tenuous air outside was so close to absolute zero that it provided very little energy.
At one end of the scale we have the excessively tenuous nebulæ, the luminosity of which, mysterious in its origin, resembles the electric glow in our vacuum tubes.
They reached the garret,--feebly lighted here and there by a few very tenuous rays of sunlight which filtered through the cracks in the tiles.
An ungloved hand stirred from her lap and for the merest instant rested lightly above his own, or hovered rather, barely touching it with a touch tenuous and elusive, no sooner realised than gone.
Obscure impulse made him change his mind, some premonition so tenuous as to defy analysis.
Between the poles of the galvanometer was stretched a slender thread of fused quartz plated with silver, only one one- thousandth of a millimetre in diameter, so tenuous that it could not be seen except in a bright light.
You know in the gas- mantle there is matter in a most mobile and tenuous state, very sensitive to heat and sound vibrations.
She saw human beings in tenuous and disjointed outlines suggestive of a daddy-long-legs.
She could see nothing but the soft darkness, sometimes massed in the thickness of the yew-hedges, and sometimes tenuous and spread out over the empty spaces of the lawns.
The physicist proclaimed the conservation of energy, reduced seeming solidities to underlying force and resolved force itself into ultimate and tenuous unities.
The differing vibratory rate from most tenuous gas to most substantial solid is all that we can perceive in this physical world of ours.
From the mosttenuous gas, to fluids to solids--throughout all the different states of matter the only fundamental difference is the rate of vibration.
To us, by comparison, a more tenuous world, a shadow realm.
And this, one need hardly say, is especially true in such regions of thought as present the most tenuous media for the progress of thought by the comparatively clumsy means of syllogistic locomotion.
In soaring above the region of phenomena and entering the tenuous aether of noumena, her present wings, which we call her methods, would in such an atmosphere be no longer of any service for movement.
They staunched Henderson's graver wounds with a rough but not undeft speed, and when they had forced white liquor between his lips the faltering heart began to beat with less tenuous hold on the frayed fringes of life.
So it seemed likely that his rocket nose would be heated to incandescence by the tenuous Lunar atmosphere and burn to ash long before it touched the surface.
The crater's other wall was maybe a dozen miles away, but the thin air--the almost indetectably tenuous air that clustered at the bottom of this crater made the distance seem nothing.
In that almost unnoticeable belt of tenuous air there would be no winds that could deflect it.
But contrariwise, when such a tenuous film Of outside colour is thrown off, there's naught Can rend it, since 'tis placed along the front Ready to hand.
And therefore, since The canvas hangings thus discharge their dye From off their surface, things in general must Likewise their tenuous effigies discharge, Because in either case they are off-thrown From off the surface.
Now then, learn How tenuous is the nature of an image.
Oh, tenuous light of purity which, once quenched, kindles no more!
He brought me flowers--wonderful orchids the color of amethyst, tenuous contorted blossoms that looked as if they had bloomed in some garden of dreams.
I had not then seen Schiaparelli's original memoir in which his wonderful map presents the canals in light and tenuous lines, which are, however, as clear cut as the lines of a steel engraving, to use his words.
The song of the women dancing about the feast fires within arose into a high and tenuous minor of yearning, filling up the momentary gap in the story like a chorus.
Thy strange, sharp, ice-like, tenuous complaint, As though the spirit of this frozen waste Pinched with the cruel frost yearned summerward!
The circle broadened; became a sphere; and then they were plunging through clouds more tenuous than any vapors of Earth--thick layers of gas that reflected no rays from the distant sun.
But such is the coercive power of gold, albeit in the abstract, that this tenuous vision of wealth had its fascination.
When day came again and the mushrooms sent their columns of fatal dust into the air would they gasp and fight for breath in the red haze that would float like a tenuous cloud above the forest?
To right and left the mountains melted into the tenuous haze, but ahead they were firm and stalwart, rising and losing their heights in the cloud-banks.
If like a tenuous smoke he can get in, the probability is that he gets out in precisely the same fashion.
The closer each battalion was to Umurbrogol, the more tenuous was its hold on the shallow beachhead.
The report he received from Colonel Puller, on the left, did not afford an adequate perception of 1st Marines’ tenuous hold on the Point.
