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Example sentences for "this figure"

  • After dinner I ascended one of the sand-hills, and set the hill I had seen in the morning at W.

  • Wylie was ill too, but not to so great a degree; nor was I surprised at his complaining; indeed, it would have been wonderful if he had not, considering the enormous quantity of horse flesh that he daily devoured.

  • We had to sink through a loose sand for fifteen feet, which from its nature, added to the effect of a strong wind that was blowing at the time, drifted in almost as fast as it was thrown out.

  • This figure is arrived at in several ways.

  • Admittedly, this figure is rather speculative, but the best opinions I have been able to get grant that it is probably conservative.

  • This figure is supported by independent observation by Foster on the Round Valley Yuki (Cook, 1956, p.

  • This figure is represented independently only on the right of page 58.

  • In this figure, which occurs also in the Tro-Cort.

  • On page 50 where, differing from the other four pages, this figure is represented lying with the head to the right, it is plainly shedding tears.

  • This figure was so placed, that it turned with the wind, and answered the purpose of a weathercock.

  • Baimwaewae, is the sound of passing thunders, which will convey a just idea of the violence of this figure.

  • By the boldness of this figure he claims the omnipotent power of the sun to see and discover his enemies.

  • This figure gives a still higher temperature for the flame.

  • This figure is not only established by direct experiment (Van der Plaats confirmed it), but also by means of the determination of the vapour tensions.

  • Hanging by the head to each elbow of this figure is a seal, and opposite its thighs two of the usual conventional whale's tails, one on each side, with the flukes turned from him.

  • This figure is not new, and has probably connected with it some story which we did not succeed in learning.

  • This figure is probably meant to represent the "man with tusks," before referred to, who figures in several of the legendary fragments which we obtained.

  • This figure is even ruder in design than those from Siberia figured by Nordenskioeld.

  • This figure of himself and Soames was trying to find a way out through the curtains, which, heavy and dark, kept him in.

  • Near the archer is another combatant on the ground; the countenance of this figure is aged, the beard most minutely sculptured; it is of a square form, and descends to the breast; on the lip are long mustachios.

  • It will be observed that the left shoulder of this figure is shattered, and that there is a large hole drilled in the right shoulder.

  • This figure of the Primal Man can particularly be compared with that of the Gnostic Sophia.

  • The origin of this figure is not far to seek.

  • The meaning of this figure in the Gnostic speculations is, however, clear.

  • This figure afforded, as it were, a new point of crystallization for the existing Gnostic ideas, which now grouped themselves round this point in all their manifold diversity.

  • In this simplified diagram no attempt has been made to show the relative positions of the various parts, these having been grouped in this figure in such a way as to give as clear and simple an idea as possible of the circuit arrangements.

  • It is to be remembered that all of the battery symbols shown in this figure represent in reality the same battery, separate symbols being shown for greater simplicity in circuit connections.

  • This figure shows a section of the plug shelf which is bored to receive a lamp.

  • E, in this figure, represents the vessel containing the mechanism on which the new effect depends: and which I shall now describe.

  • This stand is indicated by the dotted lines of this figure 2, as situated under the arm D of the bar C D; but it is better shewn in fig.

  • So that a flat cutter placed at any angle, is parallel to the curve at one place only; whence the propriety of using a cutter of the kind represented in this figure.

  • In this figure, also, is shewn at c d, the edges (without the bottom) of the horizontal slide which carries the stand for the cutter frame represented in fig.

  • This figure is the portrait of Cosimo de'Medici, the most faithful and animated likeness of all now known of him.

  • The tunic and the mantle of this figure are of a deep red, the latter being fastened over the breast by a clasp, and falling down in ample folds over the feet.

  • I cannot quit the Apollo without making one observation on the character of this figure.

  • This figure appears to be of archaistic rather than of archaic workmanship, that is, the artist has consciously imitated the archaic style.

  • The front part only of this figure is preserved.

  • The head of this figure, the right arm and both feet are wanting.

  • At the left of this figure is a groove, suggesting that this was an interior angle stone.

  • The feet of this figure (as of all the other figures) are bare.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    history and; this action; this also; this animal; this figure; this first; this head; this history; this juncture; this letter; this marriage; this position; this proposition; this regard; this ship; this should; this side; this spirit; this stage; this story; this subject; this that; this they; this town; this trip; this woman