单词 | frangible |
例句 | A frangible bullet breaks into smaller pieces when it strikes an object harder than it. A fortified bonanza of white men and manhood: What the hell was I doing at the biggest gun trade show in the world? 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z You know how flexible, frangible and febrile language is; you recognise it as both combatant and friend. The monster in my mouth: Maggie O'Farrell on fighting her stammer 2013-02-27T20:00:01Z The smile of someone with Alzheimer's is private, inscrutable, while that of his or her spouse and children is frangible, see-through. Maps of the mind: The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T20:46:00Z Among other “neglected” words it wants to revive are “couth,” which means cultured, refined and well-mannered, and “frangible,” referring to something that’s fragile. University: It’s ‘couth’ to use neglected, expressive words 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Among other “neglected” words it wants to revive are “couth,” which means cultured, refined and well-mannered, and “frangible,” referring to something that’s fragile. University: It’s ‘couth’ to use neglected, expressive words 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z As many of these frangible moments tend to do, it became a rather expensive decision, trying not to be late for the dinner. How To Drive Europe Slowly: Theory And Practice Of The World's Heaviest Speeding Fines 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z To minimise danger to passers-by, he says his gun is loaded with frangible ammunition, which would be of no danger after exiting an assailant's body. Guide dogs and guns 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z At the Olympic site in Greenwich, only three of the some 40 fences on the cross-country course will be fitted with frangible pins. Equestrian Eventing: The Olympics' Most Dangerous Sport? 2012-07-30T19:35:32Z The Archbishop of Cologne exposed, in his rashness, the waning sanctity of the Church; the Neo-Catholics have exposed its frangible condition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The GBTA’s report paints three possible scenarios: With the frangible European crisis far from being resolved, McCormick fears a “very concerning environment” is on the immediate horizon. Euro Debt Crisis Could Cripple U.S. Business Travel 2012-02-17T18:20:17Z If it become frangible, add a sufficient quantity of mercury, and it will be perfect. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z There is, first, work in baked clay, which contracts as it dries, and is very easily frangible. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Fifthly, these same rules of good society are contrived to be flexible or frangible in extreme cases: otherwise there would be no living under them; and good society would be bad. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II There is, first, work in baked clay, which contracts, as it dries, and is very easily frangible. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 For, your meerschaum is a fragile thing, and eminently frangible. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The women bore crockery and other frangible articles, and helped Fessenden's drive the cow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 The shells found in the country of the Ojibwa are of rather delicate structure, and it is probable that the salt water shells are employed as a substitute chiefly because of their less frangible character. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Fortunately there was nothing frangible inside, and so no damage was done. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont It would be too stiff, and too frangible or brittle, if it were made of one single bone: and in such a case man could never bend or stoop. The Existence of God The estates have been back and forward so often between the Brandons and Wylders, I always fancy there may be a screw loose, or a frangible link somewhere, and he's deeply interested for Mark Wylder.' Wylder's Hand Fabricate, fabulous, facetious, factitious, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatuous, feasible, feculence, fecundity, felicitous, felonious, fetid, feudal, fiducial, filament, filtrate, finesse, flaccid, flagitious, floriculture, florid, fluctuate, foible, forfeiture, fortuitous, fractious, franchise, frangible, frontal, froward, furtive. The Century Vocabulary Builder Why should I tell you how all the rivers are frozen and solid, And from out of the lake frangible water is dug? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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