| 单词 | upthrust |
| 例句 | The sea stone dominated the approaches to the outer harbor, a massive grey-green upthrust looming fifty feet above the waters. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It looked like an enormous auger shell, or a unicorn’s horn upthrust from the earth, and was said to stand at over six hundred feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Sam sprang in, inside the arches of her legs, and with a quick upthrust of his other hand stabbed at the clustered eyes upon her lowered head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that’s encircled by rugged river canyons. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The crescent lines with which their lowered arms answer their upthrust legs are terrific, like the long, slanting curve of the two legs. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There is the “Rescue Team, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, UK,” standing atop the upthrust prow of a rescue boat while a yellow copter hovers overhead, dangling a rescued man on a wire. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Brass players stood like sentinels along the edge of an upthrust triangle of grass against the backdrop of a New York cityscape gilded by the late sun. John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza The dark hair is short, upthrust, much toyed with – a grown-out version of Salander’s punky undercut, which suits her but which the actor isn’t so enamoured of: “I’ve just got to patiently wait it out.” Claire Foy: ‘My anxiety was a tool to survive’ 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z One of the first emojis to be released is called "The Headbanger" - an image of a person with arms upthrust, making a rude sign with the fingers of both hands. Fancy a sauna? Or a headbang? Finland launches national 'emojis' 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Then look up to where the horizon line should be to find the Himalayas towering like upthrust fangs, each snowy crag or escarpment crisply articulated, every draped and drifting cloud bank ethereal. Far Cry 4 Review: The Best Far Cry Yet 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z A “flagpole” or sharp upthrust is seen on June 19. Technical Trading: Gold-In-Short-Term-Holding-Pattern-Ready-For-A-Breakout 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The statue’s upthrust arm holds a sword, representative of justice; behind her back she hides a set of scales. Damien Hirst's Verity: Would You Want a Vivisected Pregnant Woman on Your Seaside? 2012-10-17T07:50:29Z She slapped the lovingly upthrust muzzle with all her feeble force. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The trail wound about upthrusts of rock, where other streams ran to fall down the sides of the ravine, causing it to widen as it needed more space to carry the added waters. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z At a recent forum on human population at Columbia University, Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs celebrated the upthrust in population as "a pivotal global moment" while calling it a threat to human existence. U.N. Calls for Investment to Prepare for More Crowded World 2011-10-28T11:15:02.307Z The trees their mournful branches lift aloft: The oak with knotty twigs is full of trust, With bud-thronged bough the cherry in the croft; The chestnut holds her gluey knops upthrust. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z There were upthrust seams of rock, boulders, stones, and instead of rich grass, only brush and small trees. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z Rent asunder, as it were, by the upthrust of some mighty subterranean force, their tribes rolled down like lava-streams to the south, east, and west of their original home. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The inflated neck was arched from the center of the coil and the heart-shaped head, with red tongue out-thrust, waved slowly as the upthrust tail vibrated angrily. Unexplored! There was something like defiance in that sudden upthrust. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life He flew blindly, not looking down at the neat domed houses and the gardens and the people, but ahead, to the eastern sky and the upthrust scarp of the hills. Homo Inferior Beneath them was a blur of whirling white; ahead was an upthrust mountain range upon which they were driving. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 In that fashion, in the upthrust arms of the jungle, twisting, turning, sometimes doubling, but following always a path the objective of which was straight ahead, Hawk Carse soared soundlessly for miles. The Passing of Ku Sui I can show you places over there on the East wall of the Sierras where the mountains have been upthrust that way. Unexplored! Once Sorenson almost had him on his knees, but by a quick powerful upthrust of his legs he regained his upright position. In the Shadow of the Hills The shoulder of a hill upthrust beneath the jungle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 He felt the upthrust of the R. A. Effect; he felt, too, the pull of a body that had coiled about his ship. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 And there was a certain air about her that contrasted strangely with the scene upon which she now gazed intently, with her head bent forward, and her hands clasped round her upthrust knees. The Heart of Thunder Mountain They were skirting the very edge of it where it rose abruptly from the plain; a very great gray upthrust of granite wall beside them was like a gray blade slanted out of the plain. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Then, thinking that I must be close to the spot from which the calls had come, I climbed an upthrust of rock, searched the openings among the trees near by, and listened intently. A Mountain Boyhood He slid off the boulder and, walking on a rock shelf that jutted out from the huge upthrust rock, examined the place very thoroughly. Rim o' the World His cabin, which was practically a citadel, stood on a steep cone of rock, upthrust from the bed of the wild little river which worked the mill. The Backwoodsmen Here, steadying themselves by upthrust branches, they turned and looked back, half apprehensive and half defiant, at their mighty pursuers. In the Morning of Time Waves of dusk and green and gold, circle across the ripening barley, and long leaves upthrust, at intervals, like spears. A Son of the Middle Border A band of mountain sheep started up from their shelter behind an upthrust rock and ran ahead of me. A Mountain Boyhood Instantly he turned aside and flattened himself against a stony upthrust. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain In front, the cleared ground sloped away gently to the woods below, a snow-swathed, mystically glimmering expanse, its surface tumbled by the upthrust of the muffled stumps. The Backwoodsmen Slowly the mystic waters fell away, sinking with slightly rolling action into the valleys, and out of the wool-white waves sudden sharp dark forms upthrust like strange masters of the deep. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Quarter after quarter they left behind them, slowing up only for steep descents or for patches of lengthwise road-mending whose upthrust branch ends are liable to snag a horse's legs. A Tar-Heel Baron Thus one day, with sunshine overhead and peaceful murmurs below, I stood upon a rock spire upthrust from the slope of Mount Chapin, watching a band of Bighorn sheep above timberline. A Mountain Boyhood Will drew back behind a stony upthrust, sat up and used his glasses, searching everywhere among the rocks and bushes down the pass. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain They were trying frantically to bring down the being that was so effectively thwarting their plans, jabbing viciously with their upthrust beaks. The Judas Valley He pointed his finger at a foaming upthrust of tossing water. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 He came to a huge tree, blown down by the wind, but yet projecting above the snow, and sitting down on the trunk he leaned against an upthrust root. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Later, with the wind in my face, I peeped over a rocky upthrust near a large snowbank. A Mountain Boyhood The words should rise like a shaggy crag upthrust from the surface of silence, under the pressure of river power and yearning, contrition and wonder. An Interpretation of Friends Worship At length a heavy, straight upthrust encountered no obstacle of bone, and the blade bit deep and deeper into living flesh. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Across the plain which was colored a yellowish tan by a short, grass-like growth, a lone figure plodded toward the upthrust bulk of the spaceship that had never flown. Exile The country is rugged, broken here and there by upthrusts of gray rock. Followers of the Trail When his presence was announced, neither the cony nor I could see him because of an intervening upthrust of rock. A Mountain Boyhood All thine isle showed me, Venus! was upthrust, A symbol calvary where my image hung. Silverpoints Just a little upthrust of the tail-elevators and ailerons brought them again into the horizontal in a huge swoop. Around the World in Ten Days The match burned down, and dropped from his upthrust fingers. Phantom Wires A Novel Across a snowy pasture, broken by clumps of juniper and bay and steep upthrusts of rock, he saw the rude but substantial buildings of a backwoods farm. Followers of the Trail True, on terribly stormy days they sought the shelter of giant upthrusts of rock, towering cliffs or sky-piercing spires that faced eastward, away from the prevailing winds. A Mountain Boyhood The two men were still sitting on the logs and leaning lazily against upthrust boughs. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky The ravine ended against an upthrust face of ice, at right angles to the ridge he had just crossed; there was a V-shaped notch between them. The Keeper The beast had aimed for his throat; his long fangs met the upthrust arm and sank into it, crunching it to the bone. The Boss of the Lazy Y Also, figure 121 is a plain arch approximating a tented arch as the rising ridge cannot be considered an upthrust because it is a continuous, and not an ending, ridge. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses The principle of loyalty is the life-force of virtue; it is like the power that sends the tree toward the heavens, the upthrust of life. Religious Education in the Family Mr. Pennypacker leaned with an air of satisfaction against the upthrust bough of a fallen oak. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky Boiling upthrusts of the current, caused by some hidden unevenness on the bottom, shouldered it horridly from beneath, threatening to tear it apart, and unbridled eddies twisted it this way and that with sickening lurches. Children of the Wild You shall sooner draw out leviathan with a hook, or bind Arcturus and his sons, than baffle the upthrust of Opportunity's many heads. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales An upthrust is an ending ridge of any length rising at a sufficient degree from the horizontal plane; i.e., The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses The other victims were humped or sprawled upon the sand in postures of exaggerated abandon; all but one, a blonde young girl whose upthrust arm seemed to be reaching for something just beyond her grasp. Success A Novel He let the fire burn on, after his food was cooked, while the column of smoke grew thicker and mounted higher, and ate the savory steaks, lying comfortably between two upthrust roots. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi He felt a momentary fear lest he slip and fall into the dark stream, and he clung tightly to an upthrust bough. The Rulers of the Lakes A Story of George and Champlain By day it is an ugly thing, a preposterous iron finger upthrust by man's vanity against God's serene sky; but the haze of evening drapes it in a merciful semi-obscurity and it is beautiful. Jason This pattern is a tented arch of the upthrust type. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses "By the Eternal!" he exclaimed, with a sudden upthrust of the chin. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts A long pendulous nose came down over it and almost met an upthrust lower jaw. True Tilda He heard the light rustlings of other animals coming to comfort and safety, and flutterings as birds settled on upthrust boughs, many of which were still covered with leaves. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods Huge stumps upthrust like beacons in a ruffled harbor, grim, massive butts. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest In other words, there would be no means of knowing that there was sufficient rise to be called an upthrust, so that it is safe to classify the print as a plain arch only. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses It sprang from the ruddy strand, leaped the crimson tide, and dropped three miles away upon a precipitous, jagged upthrust of rock frowning black from the lacquered depths. The Moon Pool General Thomas was sitting on the huge, upthrust root of an oak, and he was writing dispatches by the light of a flickering candle held by an aide. The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis It was the upthrust into consciousness of the mingled ideas and passions on which her life was founded, piercing through the intellectualism of her dogmatic belief. The Case of Richard Meynell "But," said Professor Jeremiah Moses, "the upheaval of which you speak may produce a complete revolution in the surface of the earth, and if new lands are upthrust they may appear at unexpected points." The Second Deluge This, however, is not necessary for a short upthrust or spike, or any upthrust which rises perpendicularly. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Mac Tavish, honoring the combat code of Caledonia, required presumption to excuse attack, needed an upthrust head to justify a whack. All-Wool Morrison From the offing, also, we note how the later formations, granite and syenite, seamed with a network, and often topped by cones, of porphyritic trap, have upthrust, pierced, and isolated the older Secondaries. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Brodie had just clambered up the ridge and came into view only when his head and bulky shoulders were upthrust beyond a boulder. The Everlasting Whisper "It is plain," he said, "that the basalt monadnock on which we stand is a carboniferous upthrust of metamorphosed schists, shales and conglomerate, probably Mesozoic or at least early Silurian." The Cruise of the Kawa The dot at the center is not elongated enough to be considered an upthrust. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Low and rambling, without being squat, the square upthrusts of towers and of towers over-topping towers gave just proportion of height without being sky-aspiring. The Little Lady of the Big House The gloomy peak, which had long appeared capping the heights ahead, proved to be the culmination of a huge upthrust of porphyritic trap. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Beyond the lake a peak upthrust its rocky front into the sky. The Everlasting Whisper The scow was riding the bore, that ridge of water upthrust by reason of the pressure from above; between it and the exit from the chute was a rapidly dwindling expanse of tossing waves. The Winds of Chance The tented arch is directly beneath the innermost loop, and is of the upthrust type. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Twenty minutes—subconsciously I had gone on counting—twenty minutes— About the cratered girdle of the upthrust shields a glimmering mistiness was gathering; a translucent mist, beryl pale and beryl clear. The Metal Monster The difference is caused by the great upthrust in the earth's crust, which detached Powell's Plateau from the Kaibab Plateau. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it He pressed closer to the swayingly kneeling man, and with upthrust muzzle sought to kiss the blubbering face. His Dog The man did not see him, but passed so close to the dog's hospitably upthrust nose that he all but touched it. Further Adventures of Lad This pattern must be classified as a loop, as a dot may not be considered an upthrust unless elongated vertically. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Could it be that the impulses released by the Keeper's coilings passed through the Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields? The Metal Monster There were grim rock isles and islets beyond counting, dim snow-covered ranges beyond, and everywhere upstanding cliffs too steep for snow, outjuts of headlands, and pinnacles and slivers of rock upthrust from the boiling sea. The Jacket (Star-Rover) He ran, although at decreased speed, for about two hours more, and then he sat down on the upthrust root of a great oak. The Scouts of the Valley The ending ridge at the center cannot be considered an upthrust because it does not deviate from the general direction of flow of the ridges on either side. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses The rising ridge at the center is curved at the top forming no angle, and does not constitute an upthrust because it is not an ending ridge. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses Rectangular, upon their outlines no spike of pyramid, no curve of globe showing, uncompromisingly ponderous, they upthrust. The Metal Monster I remember, oh, long ago when human kind was very young, that I made me a snare and a pit with a pointed stake upthrust in the middle thereof, for the taking of Sabre-Tooth. The Jacket (Star-Rover) They were like a border of gigantic, upthrust shields; and within each, emblazoned like a shield's device, was a blinding flower of flame—the reflected, dilated face of the sun. The Metal Monster Crouching, forgetful of our juxtaposition to these two unhuman, anomalous Things, we watched the play of the tentacles upon the upthrust rods. The Metal Monster |
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