The steam-vents on the side and at the foot of these hills represent the dying stages of this once most active group.
Steam is constantly issuing from vents around the base and from the sides of these hills.
Near it are several vents in which the water boils constantly to the height of six feet, large streams running down the banks into the river.
The hot springs and the geysers represent the last stages--the vents or escape-pipes--of these remarkable volcanic manifestations of the internal forces.
Steaming vapor rushed hissingly from the fractures, and all around the natural vents large quantities of sulphur in crystallized form, perfectly pure, had been deposited.
The steam-vents are very numerous, and the chimneys are lined with sulphur.
These ventsor chimneys are richly adorned with brilliant yellow sulphur, sometimes as a hard amorphous coating, and sometimes in delicate crystals that vanish like frost-work at the touch.
Some of these vents have built up little cones, from four to twelve inches high, many of them sealed at the top.
They were embraced within a radius of 1,200 feet, which was covered with a strong incrustation, the various vents in which emitted streams of heated vapor.
Steam-vents are frequent, their orifices lined with sulphur, and the surrounding crust filled with crystals of a vivid yellow.
It might be called one vast crater, made up of a thousand smaller volcanic vents and fissures, out of which the fluid interior of the earth, fragments of rock and volcanic dust, were poured in unlimited quantities.
Along the first summit of the range west of Tahoe the greatest number of vents are found.
Reason indeed vents its rage that this tree was ever created at all, because by means of it we have sinned and fallen under the wrath of God and into death.
These waters probably derived their dissolved matter from a magmatic source, and worked up along vents near the rhyolite dikes soon after the eruption of this rock.
These are volcanic exhalations, in which jets of steam carrying boric acid and various borates, together with ammonium compounds, emerge from vents in the ground.
Sometimes, but rarely, the city seemed to awake; so a few cannon shots thundered amid the echoes from Quatre Vents to Mittelbroun and then all was silent again.
From time to time the cannon of the city thundered, and was answered by that of the enemy from Quatre Vents and Werhem; then all was silent again.
Those little friends of yours in the Rue des Quatre-Vents are great ninnies, it seems to me.
Lucien, your friends from the Rue des Quatre-Vents looked as dismal as criminals going to be hanged," said Coralie.
People were beginning to speak of the circle in the Rue des Quatre-Vents as a second Convention.
He had learned to set a higher value on the good opinion and the friendship of the circle in the Rue des Quatre-Vents since he had tasted of the delicious fruits offered to him by the Eve of the theatrical underworld.
He was enabled to examine a series of cases in which could be traced every gradation, from perfect volcanic cones down to the solidified plugs which had consolidated in the vents from which ejections had taken place.
How large are thevents through which the steam comes?
No, because with all those vents letting off steam, it must relieve the pressure from below, like so many safety-valves.
But the most surprising, perhaps, were the white vents just tinted with a delicate pink or cream.
Farther down the valley were some vents hot enough to fry bacon.
And therefore in a humble way He gives the Dog the time o' th' Day; Talks mighty complaisant, and vents A Waggon Load of Compliments Upon his being in such a Case, His brawny Flank and jolly Face.
And therefore in an humble way He gives the Dog the time o'th' Day; Talks mighty complaisant, andvents A Waggon Load of Compliments Upon his being in such a Case, His brawny Flank and jolly Face.
This series of volcanic mountains is much more broken and interrupted than the other two, and a greater proportion of its vents are extinct.
These fiery vents were frequent, some of them measuring ten, twenty, fifty or one hundred feet in diameter.
To this rule of the linear arrangement of the volcanic vents of the globe, and their accumulation along certain well-marked bands, there are two very striking exceptions, which we must now proceed to notice.
The remarkable linear arrangement of volcanic vents has a significance that is well worthy of fuller consideration.
The volcanoes of the eastern coast of Africa, with Mauritius, Bourbon, Rodriguez, and the vents along the line of the Red Sea, may be regarded as forming a fourth and subordinate band.
Three volcanic vents appear to exist in this region, and other volcanic phenomena have been stated to occur in the great plateau of Central Asia, but the existence of the latter appears to rest on very doubtful evidence.
Hot springs, mud-volcanoes, and vapour-vents abound all over the island, whilst earthquakes are by no means uncommon.
At the same time, the fancy that the immense abyss of darkness might be one of the volcanic vents diminished the comic and increased the serious feeling.
Of course the lava must have been poured out, and the ashes blown out from some vents or other, connected with the nether world of fire; probably from many successive vents.
But Snowdon, certainly, does not owe its shape to the fact of one of these old fire vents being under it.
West-north-west about 5 miles is the Pak Fai Mai, as the Laos call the two volcanic vents which, elevated at not more than 200 feet above the plain, are situated in a thin bamboo jungle.
The habitual sufferer utters his complaints in a voice raised considerably above the natural key; and agonising pain vents itself in either shrieks or groans--in very high or very low notes.
That laughter is a display of muscular excitement, and so illustrates the general law that feeling passing a certain pitch habitually vents itself in bodily action, scarcely needs pointing out.
There are even now to be met with occasions on which strong feelingvents itself in this form.
Again, it was shown that, from a like cause, mental excitement vents itself in the higher and lower notes of the register; using the middle notes but seldom.
Vents which tapped it far down the volcano's flanks prevented its filling with molten lava; absence of rain has preserved its walls intact and saved its pristine beauty from the defacement of erosion.
Several geysers spout vehemently and one or more roaring vents bellow like angry bulls in a nightmare.
A clogging or a shifting of the vents below sea-level, and Kilauea's lake of fire may become again explosive.
Its lavas have found vents through its flanks, which they have broadened and flattened.
But when enough thousands of centuries elapse for the rocks between the surface and the deep internal pockets to cool, the water will remain in many vents as water until, at regular intervals, enough steam gathers below to hurl it out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
