| 单词 | tenuity |
| 例句 | That they should be completely transparent through such enormous dimensions shows their extreme tenuity. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The sublime tenuities of Henry James, like the black music of Michael Artzibashef, are questions largely temperamental. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z An example of different degrees of purity will be found in washes of water-colours of different tenuity. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z With this in his hand, the workman carefully traces the outlines of his drawing, which the tenuity of the saw-blade allows the tool to follow into every curve and angle. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z No better evidence of the tenuity of his connection with business is required than his outbreak in 1920, "I won't have the international bankers write the platform and nominate the candidate at Chicago." Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.” Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The natives, as a rule, estimate the value and symmetry of this stone by the brilliancy and tenuity of the beam which it emits, and the clear olive-coloured ground upon which it shines in relief. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Birch branches are to be preferred on account of their tenuity. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind? The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Histologically, the perisarc or test in the Graptoloidea appears to be composed of three layers, a middle layer of variable structure, and an overlying and an underlying layer of remarkable tenuity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z In practice the average degree of tenuity to which the gold is reduced is not nearly so great as the last example quoted above. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z His gums were toothless, his eyes bleared, his figure shrunken to a pitiful tenuity. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z If this be so, the action of the Himalayas must be counteracted by subterranean tenuity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Its two cardinal defects are lack of simplicity of treatment, and tenuity or triviality of the subject, or plot. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z The further idea that this transcendently glorious apparition is due to mere words, to a breath—our symbol of tenuity, evanescence, impotence to influence material bulk—heightens enormously the impression of absolutely immeasurable power. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z To speak philosophically, there is continuity and correspondence; but spirit and matter are not degrees of the same substance, differing only in tenuity, as is commonly supposed. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebul�. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z The tenuity of the atmosphere on Mars has another consequence. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z The travelling organs, moreover, increase in size in proportion to the tenuity of the fluid to be acted upon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z If the figure about "cups which cheer but not inebriate" had not been worn to the finest tenuity, I might at once give it, here, application and illustration. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z "Quick be the play," was their motto: "Lively our elbows, and nimble all our tenuities." Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z How can we imagine such powerful resilience combined with such extreme tenuity? Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The atmosphere, because of its great tenuity, mobility and comparative imponderability, presents little resistance to bodies passing through it at low velocities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z These are living threads of microscopic tenuity, each extending from a receptive organ to a central nervous mass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The bar that has been tilted into the most perfect compactness, has now to acquire the utmost possible tenuity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. She had never created for herself an ideal whose tenuity would one day envelop a human being. Carnival The bond between the States is of amazing tenuity. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The golden panicles of the great Quake-grass, so curiously compacted and hanging in stalks of so hair-like a tenuity as to nod and tremble with the slightest motion, how beautiful are these! The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Around the Lamasery rise, numerous and without order, towers or pyramids, slender and tapering, resting generally on huge bases, little in harmony with the tenuity of the constructions they support. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The chief principle of the water-frame was the drawing out of the yarn to the required degree of tenuity by sets of gripping rollers revolving at different speeds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" The tenuity and contempt of Clergy-men will soon let them see, what a poor carcasse they are, when parted from the influence of that Head, to whose Supremacy they have been sworn. Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings Another and yet more remarkable observation is on record which goes far to prove not only the tenuity, but the transparency of a cometary nucleus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" All the spines are of excessive tenuity and sharpness; they are straight, long, and not plumose. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. She should have kept her nerves to herself, rasped, as they were to a treacherous tenuity. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur The structure is exceedingly delicate, the peridium between the ribs and reticulations reduced to the last degree of tenuity, with the iridescence of the soap-bubble, here and there lapsed entirely. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The ARACHNOID, so called from its extreme tenuity, is the serous membrane of the brain and spinal cord, and is, like other serous membranes, a closed sac. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) It is whether the nucleus of a comet is an opaque solid body, a cluster of such bodies, or a mass of particles of extreme tenuity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Smoke, on the contrary, is an actual substance existing independently in the air, a solid opaque body, subject to no absorption nor dissipation but that of tenuity. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) He disliked the squalor of the political game and the glibness of tongue and tenuity of thought of the mere politician. War Letters of a Public-School Boy In some cases of acknowledged inflammation, the fluid effused is found to vary greatly in its degree of tenuity, so as to be sometimes of quite a viscid nature. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 Let her pursue some manual employment for several hours, and the extreme tenuity, or thinness of the cuticle, will not protect the nerves and parts below from becoming irritated and inflamed. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The so-called Gothic architecture had expressed its uttermost of aspiration and tenuity; and painting had fulfilled its utmost accommodation to the ever more slender wall-spaces and forms which this architecture necessitated. Holbein Instances in particular pictures.sometimes sponginess, softness, flexibility, tenuity, and occasionally transparency. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) As might be gathered from their extreme tenuity, comets are so exceedingly small in mass that they do not appear to exert any gravitational attraction upon the other bodies of our system. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language Comets consist of cosmical matter which exists in a condition of extreme tenuity, and especially so in the coma and tail. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' The space now occupied by the solar system is supposed to have been filled by a rotating spheroid of extreme tenuity and enormous heat, due perhaps to the collision of two originally separate bodies. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In The first and best assured was that the matter composing them is in a state of extreme tenuity. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The long arm of coincidence stretched to aching tenuity by the dramatist and the novelist! The Dop Doctor This is the simplest type of nebula; it is characterised by extreme faintness, and seems composed of matter of the utmost tenuity. The Story of the Heavens We had long regarded the wanderers as vapoury creations of inconceivable tenuity, and as altogether incapable of doing injury to our substantial globe, even in the event of contact. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The heads, in some cases, may consist of separate solid fragments, though on this astronomers are by no means agreed, but the tails at any rate are in fact of almost inconceivable tenuity. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In It was the incorruptible spirit that cried aloud; but there was no shrill tenuity in its cry. The Creators A Comedy Sunlight is but the same, in form of extreme tenuity. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces They are fragile and hollow, for all the play of colour on them, like a soap bubble that breaks of its own tenuity, and is only a drop of dirty water. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The exceeding tenuity of the object of our dread was apparent; for all heavenly bodies were plainly visible through it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. By boldly diffusing in space a medium of the requisite tenuity and elasticity. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Above the gentle undulations of the western horizon splendours of rose-crimson sunset were outspread, veiled, as they flamed upward, by indigo cloud of the texture and tenuity of finest gauze. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance When taken in connection with its tenuity, these features show a highly developed potter's technique. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 The extreme tenuity of these constituent molecules, which represent the last term of inorganic matter, allows it to pass through the walls and partitions of apartments. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Let him at once conceive, as intensely joined, the two permanent characters of tenuity and mythological displacement, and take this compound for the nucleus of the unity he seeks. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Perfumes were next subjected to examination, and, notwithstanding their extraordinary tenuity, they were found vastly superior, in point of absorptive power, to the body of the air in which they were diffused. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 On the whole, the most plausible supposition as to their composition, is that which regards them as watery vapour or cloud, of great tenuity. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 It may be condensed to any extent by pressure, or expanded to an infinite degree of tenuity by pressure being removed from it. The Ocean and its Wonders Both appear to have fretted themselves to the utmost degree of tenuity from disappointment in love: as for the nose it had a pearly round tear hanging at its tip, as if it wept. Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Brother Copas admitted that the tenuity of the Wayfarer's Ale had not always escaped the Wayfarer's criticism. Brother Copas But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose, for with each successive whiff the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity and seemed to take denser substance. Short Stories of Various Types These are composed of very fine atoms, but, in spite of their tenuity, they are able to maintain for a considerable time their relative form and order, though liable after a time to distortion. A Short History of Greek Philosophy They may go along with various degrees of imperfection in particular respects; faults of diction, either tenuity or extravagance of phrasing may accompany this central imaginative power. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose; for, with each successive whiff, the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity, and seemed to take denser substance. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II The meaning, to be sure, was still vague enough; and whenever some commonplace truth or plausibility protruded from the general washiness, it was seized upon and beaten and stretched to the last degree of tenuity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 The Christ, too, must be accounted but as modernized Byzantine; here is none of the severity or of the tenuity of the early periods. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers This structure of exceeding tenuity and nimbleness was the source of the motion characteristic of living creatures, and provided that elastic counteracting force to the inward-pressing nimble air, whereby were produced the phenomena of respiration. A Short History of Greek Philosophy It is called Primal Ether, but not void Space … The Light of the Vestige still remains in the place it occupied, and adheres there, like somewhat spiritual, of extreme tenuity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It seems to combine the enduring lustre of a precious metal with the tenuity of gold-leaf. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan In the endeavor to increase the manufacturing output and to find new markets German credit has been stretched to a dangerous tenuity. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View The incidents recited are of extreme interest, and are not drawn out into noticeable tenuity. The Four Feathers If we get over this difficulty, by attributing to this medium a degree of tenuity almost spiritual, we shall run upon Scylla while endeavoring to shun Charybdis. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Hearing it, one divines the extreme tenuity and the amplitude of the vibrating membranes. Social Life in the Insect World While the smallest examples, from their delicacy, tenuity, and superficial resemblance to rills, are termed rill-valleys, the larger and more conspicuous assume the appearance of coarse chasms, gorges, or trough-like depressions. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features It was a meal of some tenuity, not calculated to lie heavy on the stomach; for, said Charlotte, 'If we have to begin high thinking and plain living, we can't begin too early.' The Quest of the Simple Life The author of the Mécanique Céleste supposed, like Newton, that light consists of material molecules of excessive tenuity and endued in empty space with a velocity of 77,000 leagues in a second. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men And from the extreme tenuity of its upper layers, is probably forced into immense waves, which will observe to a certain degree, a general parallelism north and south. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence The tenuity of the film increases; its cohesion is overcome; lakelets are formed, and they merge into each other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 The bedding consisted of a hard straw mattress and a single woollen coverlet which, judging by its tenuity, had already seen service with generations of sleepers. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow The greater the tenuity the greater the creative results. Among the Forces There was something of the pallor of the sick-room left with him—a slight tenuity in his hands and brightness in his eye which did him yeoman’s service. The Claverings And he, too, first of men, realizes the wonderful tenuity of the ring, along which he saw those satellites travelling like pearls strung on a silver thread. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work A few large, thin mosquitoes, cold and portentously hungry from their all-night's fast, came swooping at the professor with shrieks of dismal tenuity, intending to get a warm breakfast out of him. Bressant The first thing that arrests our attention in these creatures is the extreme delicacy and tenuity of their substance. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Now, when earth and oceans are "changed" to this sort of tenuity creations will be more easy. Among the Forces And here at its moment of most shivering tenuity, when the perfected and purified material seemed reduced to an extremity of weakness, came the magic change. The Spinners But Dehmel's more strongly-built nature, and perhaps the downright vigour of the German language, broke through the tenuities of la nuance. Recent Developments in European Thought In Architecture, everything has three dimensions; and the artificial foliage is carved with leaves, etc., of a suitable thickness: in Natural foliage the tenuity of leaves, etc., is such that it cannot be reproduced. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 It was twenty inches in length, and of such tenuity that when the shell-lac lever and attached ball, &c. were connected with it, they made about ten vibrations in a minute. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 When we reduce it to a tenuity of one millionth of the normal density we get the possibility of the X rays by vibrations of itself without any platinum wire. Among the Forces Keats was not a poet of definite and deliberate plans, which indeed are incident to a certain tenuity of soul; his decisions were taken not by the intellect, but by the being. Aspects of Literature There were moments of her vigil when she tried to reassure herself with the very tenuity of her reasons for alarm. The Inner Shrine The gown increased her tenuity and pallor to the eye, and, after a long moment of painful consideration, Cuckoo resolved to abandon these green glories. Flames But we must not quarrel with richness of subject-matter at a time when tenuity of purpose and meagreness of motive seem to be becoming the dominant notes of contemporary fiction. Reviews The possibility of rare creation depends on rare material, on spirit-like tenuity. Among the Forces He can hold the attention longer than any poet of an equal tenuity of matter. Aspects of Literature The Hermetists teach that this Ethereal Substance is of extreme tenuity and elasticity, and pervades universal space, serving as a medium of transmission of waves of vibratory energy, such as heat, light, electricity, magnetism, etc. The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Julian held her in silence, felt her heart beating, the piteous tenuity of her little body, the weak grasp of her arms round him. Flames What cause and compulsion did they obey that they never varied, and what frail tenuity held the little globules intact? Widdershins Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations. Among the Forces The air seemed what we call “hollow” and had apparently hardly enough tenuity to convey sounds. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Our metal is better, and its greater cost has united with the scarcity of labor which so stimulated ingenuity in other departments of industry to enforce tenuity of form. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 He loved those weary, tender lips, those faded limbs, the sacred tenuity of the ascetic figure, the wonderful posture of benign familiarity that was more majestic than any reserve. Flames Dr. Blake, the physician, on the other hand, caught a certain languor in her movements, a physical tenuity which, in a patient, he would have considered diagnostic. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant This curtain, of fairy-like tenuity, was transparent, and did not interrupt the view. The Man Who Laughs Both appeared to have fretted themselves to the utmost degree of tenuity from disappointment in love: as for the nose, it had a pearly round tear hanging at its tip, as if it wept. Snarleyyow The examples in virtue of which I saw the errors of my masters, unanimously proclaimed the tenuity of the voice to be in proportion to its acuteness. Delsarte System of Oratory It scarcely needs demonstration to prove that extreme tenuity can alone account for the extraordinary velocities recorded by observers of solar phenomena. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 These fibers are so close together as to draw up water by capillary action, and, indeed, a great deal in the value of a sponge depends upon the fineness and tenuity of these fibers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 From this did Paganini comb the fierce Electric sparks, or to tenuity Pull forth the inmost wailing of the wire?— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 The law-reporters were as little able to follow him from the extreme rapidity of his utterance as from the tenuity and evanescent nature of his reasoning. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits It is delicacy mixed with abundance; tenuity supported by generosity. Delsarte System of Oratory "No, sir, he is not well shaped; for there is not the quick transition from the thickness of the fore-part to the tenuity—the thin part—behind, which a bulldog ought to have." Samuel Johnson The bond between the States is of an amazing tenuity. American Notes It certainly does possess uncommon strength and consistency, notwithstanding its tenuity, and the difficulty of tearing it is remarkable. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose; for, with each successive whiff, the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity and seemed to take denser substance. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories He felt that the real Lily was still there, close to him, yet invisible and inaccessible; and the tenuity of the barrier between them mocked him with a sense of helplessness. House of Mirth Such agates, when cut transversely, exhibit a succession of parallel lines, often of extreme tenuity, giving a banded appearance to the section, whence such stones are known as banded agate, riband agate and striped agate. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 There is the least possible moisture in the atmosphere, all being dried up, or congealed, and it is of such extreme tenuity and elasticity, that it becomes a source of delight. Excursions The tenuity of this veil is such that it admits of our seeing the stars through the auroral plates. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Looked at with the scientific eye it is sheer gyneolatry,—the chivalrous sentiment inflated with poetic wind, like a bubble, to the utmost possible degree of iridescent tenuity. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Having at length wearied myself with gazing, and feeling chill and weak from the coldness and tenuity of the atmosphere, I subsided into the comfort and companionship of the cabins below. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 This tenuity was the only hard word that I heard him use during this interview, and it will be observed, he instantly put another expression in its place. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 If it were an object to rival the tenuity of the finest India muslin, machinery could easily accomplish it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 He was a small, aged man, very thin and meagre in aspect — so meagre as to conceal in part, by the general tenuity of his aspect, the shortness of his stature. Nina Balatka In the photographs of the Egyptian eclipse of last summer these streamers can be traced back of each other where they cross; no better proof of their extreme tenuity could be given. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 A later writer on astronomy said that the substance of the nebulosity and the tail is of almost inconceivable tenuity. Remarks Air, in every degree of tenuity, refuses to act as a conductor of electricity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 In weight, size, and number of its constituents this exterior armour is altogether disproportionate to the extreme tenuity of its foundation. My Tropic Isle Rarity -- N. rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases The extreme tenuity of his frame, I suspect, set him upon it. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia STRAWBERRY.—Among the Greeks, the name of the strawberry indicated its tenuity, this fruit forming hardly a mouthful. The Book of Household Management Each of these had a body shaped like a pear, the small end being slightly incurved and produced into a long curved filament, or cilium, of extreme tenuity. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays As to the tails, not withstanding their enormous length -- some have been more than a hundred million miles long -- there is reason to believe that they are of extreme tenuity, ``as rare as vacuum.'' Curiosities of the Sky A little less and it could not have run at all, water could not stretch out to greater tenuity. The Life of the Fields Besides the tenuity of the atmosphere, there are other conditions which would cause life to be much different on Mars. Marvels of Modern Science Owing to the extreme tenuity of these radicles, it was very difficult to attach the square to the actual apex. The Power of Movement in Plants In specimens taken with the tow-net the spines are very usually absent; but that is probably on account of their extreme tenuity; they are broken off by the slightest touch. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays Animals a hundred thousand times smaller than any visible with the naked eye have been discovered; these animalculae, however, move, feed and multiply, establishing the existence of organs of inconceivable tenuity. The Physiology of Taste They were new forms of matter, but of an extreme tenuity of substance; and with intellects much like our own, though scarcely of so high or powerful an order. Caesar's Column He shows that the conception of spirit, as we mortals hitherto have framed it, is itself too gross to cover the exquisite tenuity of nature's facts. Pragmatism A Shelley-like tenuity at times wings his thought, and he is the creator of a new thrill within the thrill. Chopin : the Man and His Music But the grounds on which this assertion is based are wonderful in their tenuity. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science Next to this charming tenuity, perhaps her paleness was her most noticeable trait. The Pit These differences Homer knew, since he represents women and boys with treble voices, by reason of the tenuity of their breath; men, he makes with bass voices. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Let the grace of the narrative, therefore, and the concern we take in each other's matters, make amends for its tenuity. Redgauntlet Considering the extreme tenuity of these tendrils, the action of the light on them is remarkable. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants Half an hour out of London the fog grew thinner, breaking into lace-like shreds in the woods as the train sped by, or expanding into lustrous tenuity above him. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories What wonder, then, that the lath-like tenuity of my acquaintance, and his altitude, which has grown into a proverb, should have met with all due estimation in the eyes of Mrs. Lackobreath. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 From this a passage runs to the Representative Chamber, passing between those tell-tale windows, which, looking to the right and left, proclaim the tenuity of the building. North America — Volume 2 Otherwise we are likely to feel chilly: we grow too fine where tenuity of stature is necessarily buffetted by gales, namely, in our self-esteem. The Egoist Science can now educe threads of such exquisite tenuity that only the feet of the tiniest infant-spiders can ascend them; but up the filmiest insubstantiality Shelley runs with agile ease. Shelley; an essay Presently the sudden transition from daylight to darkness which, owing to the tenuity of the air upon Barsoom, occurs almost without the warning twilight of Earth, would occur. The Chessmen of Mars There was no doubt left to me; the atmosphere of the moon was either pure oxygen or air, and capable therefore—unless its tenuity was excessive—of supporting our alien life. The First Men in the Moon |
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