The deflector consists of a wall of stone, 2 feet high; its width is 3 feet 6 inches, thethickness 9 inches.
The masonry[31] of all secular rooms is practically identical and as a rule is inferior to that of kivas, their walls varying in width and having a uniform thickness from foundation to top.
The plastering not only varies in color but also in thickness and in finish.
When she was found, her deck was just on a level with the water, ropes of the thickness of a finger had become as thick as an arm with ice, and the men who were lashed to the rigging were shapeless masses of ice.
Plane one side and one edge at right angles, then gauge and plane to thickness and height, as shown in Fig.
Then gauge-mark for thickness of lath shown in Fig.
Apply the gauge to the straightened side, and mark the line for thickness along each edge.
Then take off the corners throughout until an octagonal rod is produced; then take off the eight corners so as to make the rod round and the same thickness throughout.
Plane the rough side and edge down to the respective gauge lines, thus producing a piece of equal thickness throughout, with the sides and edges at right angles.
Then gauge-mark all round for a thicknessof 3/4 in.
Several staircases lead to the vast terraces formed by the great roofs of the temple--staircases narrow, stifling and dimly lighted by loopholes that reveal the heart-breaking thickness of the walls.
The door which opens in the thickness of these walls is low, besides being half flooded, and gives on to depths already in darkness.
And I had to take away what you had in, not that I wanted to rob one who had done good by me, but because if I'd left it the double thickness would have surprised you and you would probably have pulled out my case to see what it was.
Cirri; the segments of the first cirrus and of the posterior arm of the second cirrus are highly protuberant, the protuberances sometimes equalling half the thickness of the segments themselves.
Its object in choosing this particular spot, I believe, simply is that the depth or thickness of the chitine is there greater, and sufficient for its imbedment, which would hardly be the case elsewhere.
From the aggregate thickness of the several component layers forming the cup, the old and mature animal rises a little in its burrow; for instance, the bottom of the cup in one specimen which I measured, was 4/10ths of an inch in thickness.
An imaginary section of this pouch (with the thickness of all the parts extremely exaggerated and in a reversed position) is given in Pl.
On this view, the males may be said to be lodged in pouches, formed in the thickness of the valves.
Spinose projections above the rudimental valves; at the bottom of the figure are represented, as seen through the whole thickness of the animal, the prehensile larval antennae.
Apex more or less acuminated; width and thickness variable; sides strongly furrowed.
I was in the loving mood of one's last days in Rome, and when I had nothing else to admire I admired the magnificent thickness of the embrasures of the doors and windows.
They weren't built with such a thicknessof wall and depth of embrasure, such a solidity of staircase and superfluity of stone, simply to afford an economical winter residence to English and American families.
The rubber "biscuit" is cut from the paddle with a wet knife when the desired thickness has been attained.
There are machines to split leather, to make the thickness absolutely uniform, to sew the uppers, to insert eyelets, to cut out heel tops, and many more.
This was in the form of a square, each side 15 miles long, with walls of such immense height and thickness as to constitute one of the wonders of the world.
The thickness of the sock protects the skin and helps prevent blisters.
The thickness of the traverse varies from 3 to 6 feet or more.
If the front is higher than the rear, less thickness is necessary; if the rear is higher than the front, more is required.
She drew up to the gate, and casting herself into a sympathetic reproduction of his attitude at a discreet distance down the rail, shaded a glance of gentle curiosity at him under her velvety thickness of lashes.
The great thickness of some of the formations is no indication of a deep sea, but only of slow subsidence during the time that the deposition was in progress.
The beds in which they occur have accumulated to the thickness of 2000 feet, containing throughout abundance of fossils, and divisible into eight zones, each of which exhibits a well-marked and characteristic fauna.
Count Rumford confined cakes of ice in the bottom of glass jars, and, covering it with one thickness of paper, poured boiling-hot water on the top of it, and there it remained for hours without melting the ice.
The "roller" should have a shouldered handle attached, the whole thickness of which should not be greater than that of the tile.
The electromagnets in American patterns of telegraphic apparatus usually have shorter cores, and a relatively greater thickness of winding upon them, than those of European patterns.
Hughes made a number of researches to find out what the right length and thickness of these pole pieces should be.
Newspapers pasted together and made of double thickness may be used for the ruffle, if more convenient, but be careful in handling the paper, as it tears readily.
Cut it three inches in length, remove the bark and scrape the wood until it is about the thickness of an ordinary match.
Keep your clay snake of an even size its entire length, be careful not to flatten any part, and continue to roll it with a light touch until it is about the thickness of your little finger.
If you find that you need more and a greater Variety of Candy manufacture it of strips of bright-colored paper rolled into the form of paper lighters about the length and thickness of ordinary stick candy.
Those inside, which are considerably smaller, increase the thickness of the sides and fill up the gaps left by the first.
The chambers presented by those old nests are more or less spacious according to the thickness of the coat of mortar which the Chalicodoma has laid over the assembled chambers.
To these crystal galleries, which might well inspire a certain distrust, were to be added more natural retreats: reeds of every length and thickness and disused Chalicodoma-cells taken from among the biggest and the smallest.
Basing my calculations on the respective lengths of the cocoons of the two sexes, on the thickness of the partitions and the final lid, I shortened some of these to the exact dimensions required for two cocoons only, of different sexes.
Fogs are almost unknown; frosts occur not until the middle of October; ice rarely forms of a sufficient thickness to be gathered; snows are light, seldom remaining on the ground more than two or three days.
This formation consists of the primitive rocks, broken down by natural agents, and subsequently deposited in beds of a thickness from a few feet to many hundred, and abounds in organic remains.
It likewise is without boughs or branches to the top, where its branches are the thickness of a man's arm, and twelve or fourteen feet long.
We preserved them by cutting their flesh into long slips, about the thickness of one's finger, and then sprinkled them with a small quantity of salt, not using more than four or five pounds to the hundred-weight.
On the 'post-mortem' examination, a remarkable thickness of the meninges was found on almost the whole of the left lobe of the brain.
By the admixture of some portion of soups it may be brought to any thickness requisite.
One of my principal objects, therefore, was to ascertain the thickness of the mass of ice, generally supposed to be from eighty to a hundred feet, and even less.
Eventually I succeeded in carrying up a thousand feet of line, and satisfied myself, after many attempts, that this was about the average thickness of the glacier of the Aar, on which I was working.
It measured one hundred and thirty paces in its longer diameter and eighty-five in its shorter, and its thickness I ascertained this morning was over five feet.
Its length was ninety-one feet six inches, its breadth fifty-one feet, and its average solidthickness eight feet.
Thickness of ice, averaging four feet to five feet eight inches; ice of the early part of last August.
As we walk along the edge of the open fissures, we see a wonderful variety in the thickness of the ice.
The thickness of the upraised tables is sometimes fourteen feet; and the hummocks are so ground and distorted by the rude attrition of the floes, that they rise up in cones like crushed sugar, some of them forty feet high.
There is no barrier between it and our vessels but the young ice, which has now attained a thickness of three inches.
The excessive thickness of the tables, the wave and tidal actions, the mildening temperature, and the probable continuance of winds, all point to this.
The disruption of January no doubt added to the thickness of the underlying tables; but our keel probably received its shock at the same time that we received our elevation.
Some of these blocks measured eight feet in thickness by twenty-two long, and of indeterminate depth, one side being obliquely buried in the mass.
When Allan forged ahead into the thickness of the whirling snow, and disappeared completely, the boy felt a strange dread of the unknown.
The outside walls of the sky-scraper vary in thicknesswith the height of the building and also vary in accordance with the particular kind of construction, whether cage or skeleton.
The German party have already established the claim of Herodotus as to the thickness of the walls of the city.
