I have a flat greenstone pebble from |247| Scamridge, Yorkshire, worn away at one end to a curved ridge somewhat oblique to the faces of the pebble, one of which is slightly polished as if by constant rubbing.
A portion of the edge at the narrow end is worn away as if by scraping bone or something equally hard.
The irregular, flat greenstone pebble, worn away at both ends, shown in Fig.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
An anticlinal fold is attacked by erosion as soon as it begins to rise above the original level, and the higher it is uplifted, and the stronger are its slopes, the faster is it worn away.
The inner bank of bends is thus built out while the outer bank is worn away.
In our study of historic geology we shall see more clearly how short is the life of mountains as the earth counts time, and how great ranges have been lifted, worn away, and again upheaved into a new cycle of erosion.
At the same time the bar may be worn awayat the upper end, a, and thus slowly advance down stream.
In both these examples, the polished surfaces of the teeth, worn away by mutual action, afford striking evidence of the lapse of time.
Its crown is crossed by about eighteen enamel-plates; of which the anterior ones are much worn away, while the hinder ones can scarcely be counted with precision, as they have not wholly cut their way through the gum.
But when the outer lamina is worn away, as is always the case with the upper part of the walls in C.
From steadfastly following after the means of Yoga, until impurity is worn away, there comes the illumination of thought up to full discernment.
When that condition of consciousness s reached, which is far-reaching and not con- fined to the body, which is outside the body and not conditioned by it, then the veil which conceals the light is worn away.
Second, the causes of the danger to be escaped are worn away; they need not be worn away a second time.
At the same time the bar may be worn away at the upper end, a, and thus slowly advance down stream.
Or was not this rather the fatal denouement of an ended life, worn away by labour and privation?
That of course means that one foot would be worn away in six thousand years.
In this case the softer rock is worn away faster, and the hard layer forms a kind of ridge at a higher level; the result is a waterfall.
This is only what might be expected, for hard rocks are not easily worn away; a river must cut its way through them, leaving cliffs on either side that cannot be wasted away by rain.
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