| 单词 | interstice |
| 例句 | And one pleasant summer afternoon, deep in the interstices of one of his interminable lectures, he was visited by a revelation that was to alter radically the future of astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Listen to this: “The dynamic interstices of the Harlem sub-culture have been oversimplified and distorted by Malcolm X to meet his own needs.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A very soft place would also appear poorly reflective because of the many interstices between individual sand grains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods were lit with lanterns, and far below in the bay, through the interstices of trees, she could make out the deck lights of moored pleasure boats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There were not many interstices, just discrete units — and a smaller number of them. The Unending Anxiety of an ICYMI World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The historical thriller is thus drawn to the unexplored interstices, the dank crevices of history. Imagining the World of Nazi Hunters 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Some critics regard this as Achebe's greatest achievement, with its complex structure and characterisation, and its interrogation of the interstices between subjective desire and external forces in the making of history. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z "Any reader who scours this opinion's interstices for implied sentiments about any context beyond the narrow parental consortium question presented undertakes a fool's errand," he wrote. The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the daughter of the late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray can sue a doctor for the loss of her father's companionship, even though she was still a fetus when he died 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But it is there — in the interstices between the limited real and the spiritual perhaps — that the masterpieces of Louisiana literature unfold. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z He was also credited with sound design and additional music, presumably referring to some brief interstices of sound effects and light arranging. A confusing but striking ‘Firebird’ comes to life at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z This seems right: The gaps in his surreal fables are the dark interstices in which new sympathies may fester. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z This slim, striking novel recounts the bizarre story, in poignant shimmering flashes and the subtle interstices separating those flashes, of the Ertl family as imagined by Hasbún. Notebooks From an Argentine Master, and Other Works of South American Literature 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The group complicates the harmonies and fills the interstices of the songs with improvisation, often with Mr. McCaslin’s saxophone chasing Mr. Bowie’s voice. Review: ‘Blackstar,’ David Bowie’s Emotive and Cryptic New Album 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The film makes another argument: that hatred can fester even in the interstices of liberal democracies. The Tragic Lessons of Cinema’s First Gay Love Story 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z But it is in the interstices of the action, in the darkness and confusion of Kelly's conflicted consciousness, that Row finds his most radical honesty and insight. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Single long bursts of sound occur, like a slow conversation among a harbor siren, an alarm clock and a road drill — with equally long interstices of silence. Review: From Trisha Brown, Three Last Dances (Maybe) in Brooklyn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Fiction is their occupation — a premise that allows this playwright, whose micro art finds drama in the interstices of stories, to slyly comment on a culture that fetishizes epic escape. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Once in France, he fitted into the interstices of Parisian life. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z There were enormous rock buttresses, crescents of sand in the interstices. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z You get some of this in the interstices, on roofs and terraces and outside, during the summer, and also in the video installation by Katie Mitchell, which features the marvel that is Michelle Terry. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z Sensational as the unfolding tale is, “Harry Clarke” is even more compelling in the interstices of the drama. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s a handful of clever comedic contrivances in the movie’s interstices, as when Maggie outfits Fred for a banquet in Stockholm, or when Charlotte, in Paris, has to defuse an international crisis while high. “Long Shot,” Reviewed: A Timid Political Rom-Com with the Politics Removed 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The interstices of pop are always intriguing when some DNA from one variety migrates over to another; when an artist is not quite flesh nor fowl. Aiden Grimshaw – review 2012-08-25T23:05:57Z Like many artists before her, Rosso and Brancusi among them, Ms. Shirreff knows that the interstices between sculpture and photography are strange, mystical places. Art in Review: Erin Shirreff: ‘Day Is Long’ 2013-06-20T18:10:02Z In a crowd, the body tries to be smaller, contracting in odd ways to find clear passage, shaping itself to the interstices of precious empty space. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Price herself was well aware of racial interstices. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z And, of course, the sport’s lifeblood, the consuming lava that boils up through all the interstices: money, money, money. A Life in Football, From Glory to Pain 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Morgan was among the most prolific of modern poets, yet until his retirement from the university, his literary activity had to take place "in the interstices of life". Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z Riis loved the interstices—the alleys with no names, the rickety wooden structures hidden behind large buildings, and all the people with no fixed abode. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z In the interstices of their quarrel, we get to the main event. Beauty and the Beast - review 2010-12-02T00:20:00Z Poetry can be written between the interstices of other parts of your life. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z That’s where these works live –House of Leaves, The Raw Shark Texts , and digital literature too – at the interstices. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z Yet the unspoken interstices of the story, to which Mackintosh delicately draws the reader’s attention with haunting, oblique prose, emphasize just how much hogwash the parents are feeding their daughters. Three Sisters, an Island and an Apocalyptic Tale of Survival 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z So did the poignantly bright piccolo runs that fill the interstices in the final pages of Beethoven’s Fifth. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z He describes him as “a model for the artist as explorer of the liminal, a miner of the interstices of aesthetic trends, and a creator of a distinctly Caribbean form of Modern art.” Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In the interstices between work and motherhood, she began turning her short story into “The Bluest Eye.” Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The work ignored the old boundaries separating art from dance from music from architecture, and instead found fresh ground in the interstices between art and life. Abroad: When Art and Energy Were SoHo Neighbors 2011-04-29T18:01:57Z The main problem, as Djama sees it, lies in the interstices between legal and social morality in her country. New Africa: the film-maker exploring feminism in Algeria 2012-08-24T23:05:17Z They were living in the interstices, and interstices are inimical to security regimes. Against security 2012-09-02T18:00:00Z “Yet the unspoken interstices of the story, to which Mackintosh delicately draws the reader’s attention with haunting, oblique prose, emphasize just how much hogwash the parents are feeding their daughters.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In his famous dictionary Samuel Johnson notoriously, and gloriously, defined the word “network” as “any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.” ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z These slow games, as the Davidson College professor and video game researcher Mark Sample told me, “fit into the interstices of our lives.” The Slow-Game App Is the New Smoke Break 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z All of that is here, as well as his signature way of working in the interstices of art and commerce, and assembling solo shows that look like group outings. Art in Review: Roe Ethridge: ‘Sacrifice Your Body’ 2014-03-06T22:14:26Z But the plays take place between these shattering events, in the interstices of the drama, where time quietly registers its ultimate authorial presence. Commentary: Annie Baker chases nexus of pain and desire in hypnotic observational odyssey, ‘Infinite Life’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z On the roof, a 28½-foot travertine bench is installed along one side of a long pool that’s horizontally bisected by five thick concrete walls; Kalach, 63, calls the resulting interstices “cubicles.” In These Houses, It’s What’s Outside That Counts 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Today cornfields stretch to the horizon, but crowded into their interstices are fragments of the prairie that once covered this part of the state. Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Given how much executive authority lies tucked away in the interstices of federal law, just waiting to be exploited, it’s remarkable that presidents have not abused it more blatantly. Opinion | The U.S. should not let national emergencies become an emergency 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z This narrative fills the interstices of the show. Review: Mentalist Vinny DePonto plays benevolent mind games at the Geffen Playhouse 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “I used to sit and scratch off my own blood and brains from the interstices of the Leicas,” Mr. Page wrote in a 1988 autobiography, “Page After Page,” “though they never looked really clean again.’ Tim Page, storied Vietnam War photographer, dies at 78 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z It appears that the fibers of the dispersing medium form a complex three-dimensional network, the interstices being filled with the liquid medium or a dilute solution of the dispersing medium. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z The Guardian's Lyn Gardner described it as an "engrossing spectacle", adding: "The success of a disturbing evening lies in Churchill's ability to raise big moral issues through the interstices of close human encounters." Lennie James: Walking Dead star demands debate over gay and disability roles 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Or spirits that kind of inhabit interstices or secret spaces? Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo have the antidote for the erasure of East L.A. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Emily Bernard’s “Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine” gathers 12 brilliant essays that explore the complexities and interstices of navigating white spaces as a Black woman. These 5 audiobooks recount American history as written and voiced by Black women 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Often, they depended on military-linked brokers who thrive in the shadowy interstices, allowing the Tatmadaw to acquire the tools of oppression indirectly from foreign companies. Myanmar’s Military Deploys Digital Arsenal of Repression in Crackdown 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z His characters frequently find themselves at the interstices of history, propelled by forces unknown to them. Sebastian Barry: ‘Family stories mean a whole different thing in your 60s’ 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “Escaped Alone,” a recent example, is a feat of reengineering so breathtaking that whole narrative worlds are imbued in the interstices of this talking mosaic. Review: Ethan Coen lifts the curtain on 'A Play Is a Poem,' but there's no rhyme, no reason 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It is vernacular in other words, not formal, asserting itself in the interstices, the houses and neighborhoods, the strip malls and restaurants we still use, where our ongoing heritage simply accrues. Op-Ed: L.A.'s history lingers at our fingertips. We just have to be willing to grab it 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Intellectual debt can accumulate in the interstices where systems bump into each other, even when they don’t formally interconnect. The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z When successful, these artificial materials are quickly covered by oysters and disappear into the interstices of the growing reef. Rebuilt Wetlands Can Protect Shorelines Better Than Walls 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z We may recount our lives as though they are a series of narrative climaxes, but it’s in the interstices that we mostly live. Review: Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy's 'Moscow' ingeniously spins Chekhov's 'Sisters' 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Allophones are caught in the interstices of power between the right of centre political party in power and the ongoing racism that remains unacknowledged by those in power. Québec’s push to ban the hijab is “sexularism” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit says the administrative state “has come of age in constitutional silence, or perhaps in the interstices of the document.” Opinion | Republicans should ask Brett Kavanaugh these questions 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He writes in the interstices of classical and jazz; his music is both composed and improvised. The Sounds of Music in the Twenty-first Century 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Plenty of women have learned to write in the interstices of days with children. The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z They subsist in the interstices of the new paradigm, or in some cases off its waste. Death in an Amazon dumpster 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He was drawn to the interstices of African life: worship services, concerts, funerals, civic activities and the workaday world. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z David Sedaris, on the other hand, revels in those moments, finding meaning and humor in life’s interstices. Steal a look: Diary entries offer glimpse into David Sedaris’ humor 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z “Food by Design” focuses on the interstices of food and design as related to food production, distribution and sales. Atlanta exhibit dishes out sustainable innovations 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The most exciting progress these days is happening in the interstices between those antiquated domains, in astrobiology or neurogenetics or geochemistry, and that is where the smart research grants are going, but not the Nobels. Bob Dylan Won. But in Science, the Times They Aren’t A-Changin’. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Through the minutiae of image and sound, Reichardt shows what we usually brush past in life -- its interstices, its feeling. The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Any reader who scours this opinion’s interstices for implied sentiments about any context beyond the narrow parental consortium question presented undertakes a fool’s errand,” he wrote. Court: Slipknot bassist’s child born after he died can sue 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Or maybe some sort of clay could be pumped into the ground that would ooze out and fill the interstices. Miami Underwater 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z His counterpart in those negotiations, Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, recalled that “in the interstices of the Iran negotiations, we would talk about climate change, and how we would approach it.” Kerry in Familiar Spot: Trying to Coax Deal in Meeting’s Closing Days 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z These were artists whose fame didn’t get in the way of their insight into the interstices of urban life. Chasing the traces of a vanishing Paris 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Which doesn't mean it was something I approached haphazardly or casually, without serious intent," said one of the few rock stars who can casually, but correctly, drop a word like "interstices" into a sentence. " Don Henley takes a solo flight out of the Eagles' nest with 'Cass County' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z But in the winter when the wind blew the fine snow would drift through the interstices between the boards of the roof. The Actual Hollister 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Yet new apartment blocks built into the interstices of the mikrorayons since then are still industrialised; still pieced together from concrete panels – albeit with silly decorative roofs to give a shallow impression of individuality. Moscow's suburbs may look monolithic, but the stories they tell are not 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z At the interstices of various political rallies, he issued bits of muted, mealy-mouthed boilerplate. Charles Krauthammer: Obama: Charlie who? 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z More hints can be found in the interstices of Stephanopoulos’s narrative of frustration and missed signals. Mario Cuomo: A Miscarriage of Justice 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z We fear these attackers because the psychopathological raw material is everywhere, in the interstices of every society. How to fight the lone wolf 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Where once McEwan sat in on brain surgery, here he has immersed himself in the rhetorical interstices of the law. Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z If an area of opportunity for the screwball exists in today’s game, it is in these interstices between success and failure. The Mystery of the Vanishing Screwball 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Think of it as a liquid battery interlaced through the interstices of the machine. How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real 2013-10-18T14:45:00.430Z "We look at interstices, at moments in history—transitional moments or those that are underrecognized," she explained. A Society Evolves 2013-09-04T01:10:07Z Dark in truck except for crack of light and fresh air coming through small interstice between back doors.” My Story: A Reunion With My Younger, Hitchhiking Self 2013-08-06T05:00:01Z Within the interstices of violence and chaos there will be money to be made. Futures market: Wall Street's thirst for water 2012-10-24T17:20:43.547Z Around two-thirds of the West Bank is policed and administered exclusively by Israel, and the Palestinian-run cantons float precariously in an interstice of Israeli settlements, military bases and roads. West Bank high life masks deepening economic crisis 2012-07-04T15:21:02Z The slats will be visible through the interstices. City Room: 1 World Trade Center Is a Changed Presence 2012-06-12T23:29:24Z It should be noticed, in connection with this figure, that the interstices between certain portions of the creature are filled by a knot. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The low conducting power of such materials is principally due to the presence of air in the interstices, which is prevented from forming convection currents by the presence of the fibrous material. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z They climbed inside this slatted prism, hung the interstices with sacking as a protection from the wind, and smoked and talked, while the stars peeped down on them. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Anterior wings subdentated, above brown, posterior margin with a pale stripe; posterior wings fulvous, margin black; body with black interrupted rings, the interstices white. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z Spire with carinated plaits, the interstices with slender, crowded, transverse grooves. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z The interstices between these unions had been garnished with many a love episode. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The large masses were first lowered, and then smaller stones, quarry rubbish, &c., to fill up the interstices. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z In making the truck and tender wheels of these early locomotives, the hubs were cast in three pieces and afterward banded with wrought-iron, the interstices being filled with spelter. Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works 2012-04-03T02:00:35.800Z The one end is given up to the fashionable doctors and the favoured dentists, handsome churches and prosperous chemists filling in the interstices. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The longitudinal stri� are crowded, thickened, and slightly elevated, giving a crenated appearance to the suture: the transverse stri� slender, and filling up the interstices. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z The white bones lengthen, and the black interstices between them, some of which is cartilage, shrink. Puberty Before Age 10: A New ?Normal?? 2012-03-30T15:30:25Z Any interstices through which steam or water, &c., might leak become filled by the subsequent rusting of the iron cuttings, the rust occupying considerably more space than the iron from which it was formed. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z We had no cabinet, nor curtains, nor darkness, for it was full moon at the time, and the dancing, sparkling waves were quite visible through the interstices of the venetians. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z When the men essayed to climb the high tower I waited below on the roof, and was idly leaning over the battlements when a stonecrop fast-rooted in the interstices of the wall attracted me. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Shell with elevated, longitudinal, obtuse, entire ribs, the interstices smooth, the base granulated; spire lengthened; pillar four-plaited; aperture short. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z Through its interstices he saw streaks of dim light from the fires burning within. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z At times the deposits and abscesses are deeply seated in the interstices of the muscles, and at other times the joints are enlarged by exudation. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z They give an old-fashioned and restful appearance to a garden, and in the interstices charming little plants like thyme, Ionopsidium acaule, &c., are allowed to grow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z "Speak low, look sharp!" whispered Van, pointing through the interstices of the trellis in the direction of the house. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z Blocks of large dimensions were used by preference; at first they were worked as little as possible, and fitted to each other, and the interstices between the great blocks were filled with smaller stones. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Grass was growing out of the interstices of the pavement, where once merchants most did congregate. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The entire arrangement will resemble nothing so much as a huge double gridiron, with many tiny interstices. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z The infinite presence of death, gloomy, hypocritically active, fills all the interstices of the poem. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z The mud with which they daub the interstices between the logs of their rude domicils, must be frequently renewed, as the occupants pick it all out in a very short time, and eat it. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z The beauty of the designs, whether in fretwork of wood 209 or stone, is remarkable, and the effect is enhanced by the filling in of the interstices with coloured glass, usually amber and pale blue. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Whortleberry, bayberry, and wild rose were growing out of the interstices. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z In the first of these attempts she was and could be but an assistant, and a subordinate one, filling the interstices left by Madam Carroll. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z The cranes at the water’s edge were many of them lifted out of the ground; and in several of the stores, streams of water bubbled up through the interstices of the pavement. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z It consisted of no more than a number of iron pegs driven into the interstices of the stone wall and hidden beneath a drapery of ivy. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z By following the sound we discovered at last between the great boulders an interstice, which would just allow a man to slip below ground. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z The interstices were cut through with a penknife, leaving the corners intact until the moment for action should arrive. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It had an unusually tinny sound, due to fact that it made its way through the interstices of a closed visor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z Full stops are a reminder that life is more than what happens in the interstices of business: They provide an opportunity not just to rest but also to change and grow. The Family Sabbatical 2012-01-24T05:01:00Z I remember that the sun gleamed of a sudden through an interstice of the cloud as he stepped into the open. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Through these masses of white cloud, there occasionally appeared large interstices, like deep caverns, opening into the blue profound!—long vistas through which we could seem to catch a view of the inmost heaven. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z The interstices of the network may be partly filled up by a later growth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z A little observation of the vicar, compared with the plates in Quain's "Anatomy," showed him precisely at what point in his clerical coat the most vulnerable interstice was situated. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Under the trees the ground was ploughed and rough; low stone copings, from whose interstices innumerable violets swung, ran hither and thither, and the paths followed the copings. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z The bristles are strong enough to hold lizards, as represented by our engraving, the points inserting themselves in the interstices of the scaly covering of the reptile. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z Broken stone is then rammed down around the fixed bolt; in the interstices cement wash is poured. 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 This was not the case in the open part of the raft, where the floor, formed of poles and sacks, exhibited a network of rounded interstices. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Could not these “interstices” be used by—others? The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The interstices of the coarse material are filled by sand, and the whole cemented into solid rock. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z The mountain-chains interlace, the interstices forming small enclosed basins, such as the plain of Boeotia and the plateau of Arcadia; the only plain of any extent is that of Thessaly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The gas passes through the grate or partition which supports the material filling the tower, and travels 241 through the interstices in a direction opposite to that of the water falling from the top. 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 But it is so congruent with parts of your system, fits so well into interstices thereof, that you will easily understand why I am so enthusiastic. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Were there not gaps and broken edges, pieces that no longer dovetailed, fitted as usual, interstices, in a word? The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The general slope of the mountain at this part was less than 40°, and snow had accumulated in, and had filled up, the interstices of the rock-face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting here and there. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z But in course of time the action of percolating water assisted by pressure tends to convert gravels into firm masses of conglomerate by depositing carbonate of lime, silica and other substances in their interstices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He left not the smallest portion of her skin untouched by the pepper,—from her scalp, and in the interstices of her fingers and toes, minutely over her entire body. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z This type of bin was formerly in great favour, but it has certain drawbacks, such as the possibility of dry rot, while weevils are apt to harbour in the interstices unless lime washing is practised. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The piles are bound together by strong cross timbers and iron clamps, and the interstices filled with stones. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z As we have seen, layers of wool had been employed; but the area of the interstices, or the gas-way through the material, was a matter of the merest accident. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z The great hamper stood without the heavy entrance with three little Nazarene children tying ropes to the interstices between the fibers to pull it after them like a wagon. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Between whiles we gave parties at home, and filled the interstices with drives. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Take from your earth its vital spirit, the energy that subjects matter, and your so-called adamantine rocks would disintegrate, and sift as dust into the interstices of space. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z After one row was set, others were placed behind it in such a manner as to shut up the interstices; or, as a carpenter would say, so as to break the joints. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Brooke, who had the case containing it slung round his back, was, however, looking down on the logs that stirred and heaved beneath him with the water spouting up through the interstices between. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Neither could its sculptured cornice; its clerestory windows; its upper range of columns, supporting demi-angels playing on musical instruments; its moulded roof crossed by transverse beams, enriched in the interstices with sculptured ornaments, be distinguished. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The mortar between the stones is very old, and in every interstice cling in bunches the bee-haunted bluebells. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Cloisonn�, partitioned—of a surface decoration in enamel, the outlines of the design formed by small fillets of metal, the interstices filled with coloured enamel paste, vitrified.—n. work of this kind. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z They were then all firmly staked into the soil, and the interstices between and below them were packed so as to perfect a dam or barrier to the water. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z As Belle clung on with her hands and her little pink toes, which she had stuck into the interstices of the shutter, she suddenly looked down. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z It was no easy matter to crawl through the interstices of barbed wire, and Billie, in her haste, tore a great gaping hole in her automobile coat. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z The boy watched them from top, and memorized as well as he could every step, as he studied all the cracks and interstices in the mammoth defence. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The edges of the fracture were rounded by use, and dirt was seen in the interstices. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z Splendid curtains fill up the interstices of the columns. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z Then the interstices were closely woven with branches—that is, wattled,—and were plastered with mud. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z She came to a halt abruptly, and stood still, and looked down at the sea which bubbled at her feet in the interstices of the rocks, and made a soft splashing sound amongst the weed. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Then her own house, strongly built, shook as with earthquake; the thatch of the roof sprang vertical, like hair that stiffens with fear, and between the interstices she saw the muddy sky stream by. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z The white runnels of foam which laced the contours of the piled boulders gave the barrier the appearance of being miraculously uplifted, as though one saw thin daylight through its interstices. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The courses are evenly laid, the interstices between the blocks small. Problems in Periclean Buildings 2011-08-26T02:00:29.353Z Then they filled the interstices with "wattle-and-daub," a basketwork of branches, twigs, and roots, coated on both sides with loam and lime, mixed with straw. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Little boys, holding three or four onions in their hands, creep between the people, wriggling their way through every interstice, and asking for custom in whining tones, as if seeking charity. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The interwoven hyphae fuse and branch copiously, filling up all interstices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Beneath their feet they saw to the bottom of the New Sea, and slender shapes of fish hovering over interstices of stones, now here, now gone. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Last time, however, that fifty thousand or so close-cropped heads obtruded themselves through the interstices of family cupboard doors it was at the beck of Lord Beauchamp, who is an Australian. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z But paper is very unlike a polished slab; it is a fine felt, full of minute interstices. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z They crowd up against the stones, get underneath them and behind them, enter every little creek and interstice, and are so jammed by their own numbers that they may easily be caught by hand. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z This case has not yet been fully worked out; but it appears probable that in many cases the jelly possesses a spongy framework of solid, holding liquid in its meshes or interstices. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The latter, high as his head, screened him completely; he peered through the interstices in absolute security. Helena's Path 2011-07-29T02:00:22.607Z He seemed to have looked at it as something to be tossed off lightly to make money in the interstices of honest work. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The verdant glades were lighted up at intervals by broad masses of red light from the setting sun, as they fell between the natural interstices of the trees. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z Through the interstices of the blind she could see that the white moonlight flooded the deck. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z Their clothes stayed on by some miracle of modesty, but every now and then a streak of shiny black flesh could be glimpsed through the interstices. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z They reach from the bottom of the ash-pit to a foot above the basin-stone, the interstice between them being rammed full of clay, and the whole measuring 18 inches across. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z With an agile motion, he planted his feet in the interstices of the logs, and reached the window. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Undeterred, however, by this warning, Rougemont placed the point of the lever between the interstices of the broken stone, and, exerting all his strength, speedily raised the fragments, and laid open the grave. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z It is ascertained, likewise, from the examination of these subjects, that the round, fluctuating, and smaller tumours, are indeed purulent gatherings, which occasionally find a passage into the layers and interstices of the muscles. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z They certainly do not represent interstices of true nerve substance through which lymphatic fluid can conveniently find its way. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In the interstices of this stunted trees grew, and just where it touched the cliff the latter was pierced by a small cavern. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z Its walls consist of gratings of bronze bars so disposed as to form lozenge-shaped interstices. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Here and there along the river the same light was penetrating the interstices and openings of this strange vault that arched above this sunless stream. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z On the same slope there stood two cottages, and over one of them a huge apple-tree spread its branches; the roots were supported by small props, whose interstices were filled with mould. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Then, through the leafy interstice, a gleaming and flashing, as if some one were throwing jewels to the earth, lured her on to the cause of the seeming enchantment—a tiny waterfall! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z And Jack slipped to his room and went supperless to bed, often during the night muttering, through the interstices of his sleep——"Bill's got me!" Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The walls were built of rough stones, the interstices between them being filled with moss, which had accepted the employment willingly, and grown and flourished. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.—Oats. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z The capsules are about equal to the interstices of the spike, which all together is about four inches long. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Or is the spirit all—the body nothing, Since every atom, particle of matter With its interstices of soul, divides Until there is no matter, only soul? Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Falling again, without being hit by the engine, he went tumbling down through an interstice of the iron beams into the muddy water below. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z Over east rose the stern wall, scarred and split, with cedars clinging in the interstices, their forms dark green against the saffron of the rocks. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z The interstices were filled with earth and stone, and it was in every part ball-proof. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z After the picture is finished, and the surface of the stones ground down to a level, and perfectly polished, the white cement is carefully scraped out of the interstices to a little depth. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z About half-way down the mountain, we could see through the interstices the opposite slope. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z I heard the people below talking in Gallegan for a considerable time, and could see the gleams of the fire p. 19through the interstices of the floor. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The smaller bits and finer particles, after filling the interstices between the larger rocks in the bottom of the chasm, are borne lakeward. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Several of our men were killed or wounded; and among the former, the gallant chief of our devoted band, Holloman, who fell from a shot fired through the interstices of the stockade. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Long Venetian blinds hang over the balconies, and through their interstices peer the charming Granadinas, displaying in lustrous eyes and jet-black tresses their Moorish ancestry. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Thrusting a forked stick down through the interstices I soon stopped his breathing. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Only now and then, through the interstices, she catches the glint of one of the numerous hornets, lizards, frogs, flashing in diamonds upon Betty's breast. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Take the hair in the hands, and press the softened soap through and through the interstices, and when rinsing do the same with the water, using a large sponge for the purpose. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Presently, through the interstices of the silk, he saw the gray bulk of the spider. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z A subdued light came through the interstices of marble lattices, carved in fantastic patterns, imparting a mystic solemnity to the vast interior. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The University is like a beautiful skeleton, with the wind and rain dashing through the interstices between her white frail bones. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z One must think of something; and there are many interstices in her thoughts which cannot all be filled up by the one topic—Prue. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z An asphaltic wearing surface three and one-half inches thick effectively waterproofs the wood, and the small interstices between the pieces will allow sufficient circulation of air to preclude any possibility of attack of dry rot. Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 2011-02-23T03:00:35.127Z Now, as he nears the house between the interstices of the hedge he catches the gleam of a white gown moving to and fro, that surely covers his divinity. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Through the interstices between the bamboos which formed the walls, I could see as through the wicker of a cage. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z They were but rude holes—the ragged interstices between the logs—but good enough for the purpose for which they had evidently been left in the fabrication of the dwelling. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The precipice Hath part, and parts in many an interstice Lurk of the tangled woodland—no light quest To find. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z A rough-surfaced, imperfect square with an average width of ten or twelve inches, the irregular interstices between it and its neighbors being filled with earth. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Through the interstices of a badly fastened shutter I heard two blackguards devising infinite devilry. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Xavier," resumed Loyola, "plant your candle in some interstice of that boulder. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Closing his jaws and forcing out, through the interstices of the whalebone, the water which he has taken together with his prey, he retains the captured animals, and swallows them at his leisure. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z The interstices of the country between these embanked heaths were occupied by water, rocks and marshes, producing abundance of firs intermixed with some birches, all covered with black and white filamentous Lichens. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z "I fear the porter has inserted some obstruction into the interstices of the aperture, sir," explained Master Woolley, in a loud and respectful voice. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z The frontage was dark save for narrow streaks of light which peeped through the interstices of the door and through the chinks of ill-fastened shutters on either side. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The sides were built of solid green logs of some eighteen or twenty inches in diameter, dove-tailed at the ends in the usual manner, and the interstices filled in with mortar. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z This was thoroughly protected from outside enemies by two feet in thickness of criss-crossed sticks, but air could freely pass through the interstices. The Chief Engineer 2010-12-20T17:11:56.320Z Indeed the town stands on a little eminence, which is a mere heap of stones, with sea-sand in their interstices. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Behind Madge as she sat a row of scarlet runners made a bright straggle of coral, and dwarf beans filled the interstices. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z It's actually a great interview conversation; I learn more about candidates in the interstices, in the "not business" moments, than when we are talking about SEM conversion or agile software development. The Power Of Personal Passion 2010-05-26T10:00:00Z The frost of the succeeding winter may, I think, or may not, according to circumstances, penetrate through this layer, and solidify the water which it still retains in its interstices. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Their faded flags hung in tatters from the broken masts; their decks had given way; and the moss was already growing in the interstices of the boards. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas In the interstices were deep holes filled with water by the heavy rains. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Once there, a section of the blue enameled tiles slid back and gave access to a small apartment with a grille floor, the interstices being invisible from beneath owing to the painted foliage. The Great Mogul Such a "hydraulic fill" is impervious to water, the thrust or "head" of which is very quickly lost in the minute interstices or pores of the material. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise The low stones, dark and black, were filled in their interstices with fine lines of greenish moss. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode The carbon acquired by the water combines with and dissolves the lime and other components of the rock, which then escape as gases through the interstices of the earth. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Then I find for certain that what I took for a man is but a singular shadow, formed by the falling of the moonlight on the interstices of some branches or their foliage. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Through the interstices between the hats, our cheeks glowing with the wind, we exchanged greetings, and I divined rather than heard that he wanted to see me. Woman To form the chert much of the silica has been in some manner dissolved, and deposited again in the interstices of sandstone strata. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight Down the hedge's thickness from his seat on his horse, Bulstrode could look into the dark tangled interstices of the thicket and its delicious browns and greens. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode By the draft thus created, the powder was drawn into all the interstices between the heavy doors and the frames of the safes. True Detective Stories From the archives of the Pinkertons A ploughman going to his work, along under the stone wall of Siddermorton Park, saw the Strange Bird flash over him for a moment and vanish among the hazy interstices of the beech trees. The Wonderful Visit The white glare streaming in through the interstices showed the girl her opportunity. Into the Primitive The cart-ruts in the rich clay soil shone as if they had been glazed; bottle-glass and rags from old besoms filled the interstices to prevent the accumulation of stones. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Manured ground, that is, soil containing decomposing vegetable or animal matters, is constantly giving out this gas into the interstices of the soil, whence the roots of the growing crop absorb it. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools All projecting points are then broken off and the interstices or cracks filled with stone chips, and the whole structure wedged and consolidated into a solid and complete pavement. The Future of Road-making in America "He looks Frenchified," said Susan Hopper, peering through the interstices of that convenient veil on curiosity. The Wonderful Visit The substance actually then works its way into the interstices of the molecules. The Year When Stardust Fell It was unpainted, and the interstices were neatly filled with plaster. The Land of Strong Men In the dim light of stars they could look out between the interstices of growing things, seeing the many windowed bulk of stone rising four full floors above the neighboring terrain. The Return of Tharn The surface of the telford pavement should be as uniform as possible, all projecting points broken off, and interstices filled in with small stone. The Future of Road-making in America At last the garment lay on the ground, and through the frequent interstices of his reminiscences of a waistcoat, the drunken tinker displayed a fine hairy and muscular body to the Angel's observant eyes. The Wonderful Visit I looked earnestly out of the window, and I thought I could discern a moving object between the interstices of the trees. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. There are, for example, no interstices, or empty spaces between the particles of matter. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Beat all well together; fill chilled tumblers with pounded ice and pour in enough of the syrup to fill up the interstices. Civic League Cook Book On each course there should be applied a binding, but only sufficient to bind the metal together or fill up the small interstices. The Future of Road-making in America Food was passed to her through these interstices. Shadows of Flames A Novel Here and there, through the interstices of the trees, they fell upon the surface of the water, thus relieving the dark and sombre appearance of the stream. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. A few scantlings of wild thyme, and two or three other dwarfish plants, alone appear in the interstices of the scoriæ, while the Vesuvian lava of 1767 is already covered with a luxuriant vegetation. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology But the happy chickadees and nut-hatches would perch there, by relays, all day long, thrusting their bills through the iron interstices and drawing out, bit by bit, the finely broken nutmeats. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road In some places it would appear that they were built up wall-shape, liquid cement being poured into the interstices. The Towns of Roman Britain Like all the habitations in Kumasi, the prison in which he was incarcerated was built of wattle, woven roughly together, and plastered with mud to fill the interstices. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War The head-dress is horned, the hair secured in a reticulated caul splendidly embroidered, and with jewelled ornaments filling the interstices. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Subsequent tides extend the base of this high bank of shingle, and the interstices are then filled with sand blown from the beach. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The interstices, so to speak, between the different parts of the correspondence, are skilfully filled up by the editor, so as to connect the incongruous materials into a well compacted fabric. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 The moonlight was streaming in through the interstices of the wicker slab that constituted the door, throwing a fine silver network upon the floor of the hut. A Frontier Mystery This loose stuff, though deposited along the upper ends of the sticks where the flow was least violent, and swiftly packed down into the interstices, was mostly washed away in the process. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life This broken rock at the foot of a cliff provides interstices in which the animals live and store grass and herbs. A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha By this means most of the crushed husks and leaves fall through the interstices of the sieve. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products They supported themselves confusedly one against the other, leaving interstices like a heap of ruins. Toilers of the Sea The ends and sides of the vault are formed by ornamental cast iron grating joining the supporting pillars, and so closely made as to render it difficult to see through the interstices. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 An altar of beaten earth is raised in the centre of the reed-encircled enclosure, and the interstices of the walls well daubed with clay and soft earth, which speedily hardens. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Turning uneasily in the hammock, she discovered for the first time that the entrance to the bunkhouse was visible through the interstices of the wistaria. The Song of the Wolf But, though the perpendicular interstice be destroyed, the horizontal one extends entirely through the whole work. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 It is developed in the light ground tint by filling in the interstices with the dark color. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 It was not very popular in theme, a view of a famous Sixth Avenue restaurant showing behind the track of the L road, with a driving rain pouring in between the interstices of light. The "Genius" The mantelets rolled forward, veritable parapets of wood, through the interstices of which the bowmen shot. Sónnica Dark moss lined the interstices between the irregular and loosely placed stones. The Hills and the Vale The corium lining the capitulum is produced into narrow purple crests, which enter the interstices between the valves, more especially along the line separating the upper and lower whorls. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. The most striking feature of the decoration consists of a number of polished bands, extending in divers directions over the surface, the interstices being filled in with indented figures. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 Presently the rain took off, the fun was to begin in earnest, and the young bloods of Atuona came round the 123 house and called to my fellow-travellers through the interstices of the wall. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Great, square-hewn stones, chunks of masonry, broken columns, were laid with the regularity of blocks in a wall, and the interstices were chinked with fresh clay. Sónnica Captain Hamilton himself and Drew chocked the interstices between the larger blocks with broken lava. Doubloons—and the Girl All of the buildings, with the exception of the ranchhouse, which was constructed of logs, with a gable roof and plastered interstices–were built of adobe, low, squat structures with flat roofs. The Coming of the Law "It counts," she says, slowly, trifling with firm though slender fingers with the grasses that are growing in the interstices of the marble. Rossmoyne Underfoot, the ground was still a rockery of fractured lava; but now the interstices were filled with soil. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Between the spaces of the stage and the brushwood the sand was allowed to wash its way, and it soon filled the interstices of the stone. Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel He finally drew the skiff down to the paddle-box where the interstices of the gingerbread work enabled him to get a grip. The Deaves Affair About half way down the mountain, we could see through the interstices the opposite slope. A Year in the Fields When the snow begins to fall they catch and hold every flake that touches them, skewering the interstices of the crystals on their needle points. Old Plymouth Trails There were stone steps, in which poppies and wild geraniums filled the interstices; and rustic seats here and there, where they all sat all day during the pleasant weather. Home Life of Great Authors The blank interstices Men take for ruins, He will build into With pillared marbles rare, or knit across With generous arches, till the fane’s complete. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV Without this, the paper would neither sink into the interstices, nor receive the ink; besides which, it would be very liable to injure the Type. The Author's Printing and Publishing Assistant Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing; Preparation and Calculation of Manuscripts; Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c.; with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks Used in the Correction of the Press I place fragments of hickory-nuts in the interstices of the bark, and thus attract the nuthatches; a bone upon my window-sill attracts both nuthatches and the downy woodpecker. A Year in the Fields White cliffs stretched high above the camp, with pine-trees growing at all angles from the interstices of rock. Mystery Ranch Not an interstice in the roots of the trees escaped his eye and to Enoch, who could not imagine what he was looking for, his actions seemed without reason. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Listen to it and fill in the blanks if you can—with surmise of alleviation, with interstices of hypothetical happiness—however little warrant the known facts of the case may carry with them. When Ghost Meets Ghost The mass is one thing, and it is surrounded with air, and air goes through the interstices of it. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors In the interstices between the stones my eye caught a dull glitter. Gold The grate is made of flat bars set on edge, and with considerable interstices. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries Tintoret has laid in a brown ground which he has left for the roots, and painted the water through their interstices with a few mighty rolls of his brush laden with white. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The color is still left in every sheltered interstice of the foliage. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Then digging the fingers of one hand into the interstices of the sheets of copper, he raises one of the stirrups with the other hand, so as to make it catch a nail higher up. Happy Days for Boys and Girls At times the amazing amount of thought, feeling, and imagery which they contained—their wonderful continuity of idea, without gap or interstice—seemed to me most to distinguish them. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative He has noticed that during rain and before the arrival of the denser p. 97and lower clouds, or through their interstices, there exists, at a greater height, a thin light veil or a hazy appearance. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World Within the nucleus is a network of fibres, a sap fills the interstices of the network. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution Inside it was seen to be constructed of the branches of trees, twisted together or wattled, the interstices, or rather the whole surface, being covered with clay. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century These interstices are filled, during life, with a fluid resembling the serum of blood. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) As a contrast in descriptive style, we would quote Dr. Johnson on network: “Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.” Needlework As Art Pour into the jars enough of the stewed and strained tomato to fill all the interstices. Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin No. 203 Sylvie glanced in and out between them as a gleam of sunshine penetrates the interstices of a wood, and brings out all lights and tints, itself untouched by any. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The walls of the apartment were of unhewn tree-trunks, varied only by broad stripes of clay filling the interstices. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 The interstices between the different muscles are filled with adipose matter, or fat. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The material employed was the Spilsby sandstone, obtainable within five miles, cemented by course grouting poured into the interstices between the massive blocks. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The sides of the entrance had been built up with stones, with moss driven into their interstices. The Broom-Squire She threw on a heavy bathrobe and kept it on when she crept into the icy interstice between the all-too-snowy sheets. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The walls were constructed of the smaller boughs of the cotton-tree, with Spanish moss stuffed into the interstices. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 In distant effects of rich subject, wood, or rippled water, or broken clouds, much may be done by touches or crumbling dashes of rather dry color, with other colors afterwards put cunningly into the interstices. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners The ghostly haze about them now was paler, but through the interstices overhead came no glint of sunshine, nor even the glow of a clear dawn. The Pathless Trail On his bed in the darkened room he lay in a deep silence, broken only at intervals by the hurried scampering of lizards darting through the interstices of the dry walls. Carmen Ariza The individual actinomyces colonies are lodged in the spaces or interstices formed by the meshwork of the connective tissue. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle It aims largely at the filling of interstices. Five Stages of Greek Religion Yet there is considerable intricacy and glittering confusion in the interstices of those vine leaves of his, as well as of the grass. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners This whole transaction should be shewn between the interstices of a back scene: The less we see in such cases, the better we conceive. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The interstices between the strips were filled with mud, and the whole whitewashed. Carmen Ariza When the various parts have been arranged in their places, face downwards, paper is glued over them to keep the whole in place, and filings of the material rubbed in to fill up any interstices. Intarsia and Marquetry It was from the interstices of this door that the odor seemed to emanate; but he had no chance to make sure, for now the Rogan leader approached him. The Red Hell of Jupiter This became less and less necessary as the water froze round her and in the interstices in her sides. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The house was not built of adobé, as are most Mexican huts, but of stones, with the interstices plastered with mud. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers Truly it was her lover; through an interstice of the apple boughs she saw him distinctly, and he saw her—that smile, surely the gloomy old mirror had reflected awry. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 On the other hand, the edge of the bar turned away from the wind is always soft, often imperceptible, melting into the blue interstice between it and its next neighbor. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) As its name indicates, it prefers to frequent the walls of old buildings and finds a refuge in the interstices, hollowing out the mortar half disintegrated by time. The Industries of Animals The reckless riders paid little heed to their scowling looks, and rode carelessly on, sometimes even threading their way through the interstices of the straggling train. Japan I first aroused, and, through the interstices beside the curtains, perceived the gray light of morning. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Grouted, said of masonry or brickwork, treated with liquid mortar to fill up all crevices and interstices. Architecture Classic and Early Christian A tree fifty yards from us, taken as a mass, has a soft outline, because the leaves and interstices have some effect on the eye. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Like shining lances, they gleamed from the interstices in the leafy roof to the dew-bejeweled sward. The Strollers At the top a stone railway bridge, the interstices facing the sea full of parsley fern, wild maidenhair, hart's-tongue, and a beautiful species unknown to me. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Drinking-glasses of every size and hue filled up the interstices, and the thirsty German flagon stood side by side with the aërial bubbles of Venetian glass that rest so lightly on their threadlike stems. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The dead limbs she cut up into small sticks, and filled the interstices of the heap, and all the space between it and the wall of rock. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Through the interstices of these bars much of the now loosened seed and dirt present in the cotton passes into a suitable receptacle, which is afterward cleaned out at regular intervals. The Story of the Cotton Plant All soil is made up of varying proportions of mineral and vegetable matter in the interstices of which there are usually to be found more or less air, water, and watery vapor. Rural Hygiene Wilkie, in his representations of a crowd, excelled in introducing heads, and hands, and faces, and parts of faces into the interstices behind,––one of the greatest difficulties with which the artist can grapple. Leading Articles on Various Subjects There seemed to be no interstice, no crevice into which he might insert the keen probe of his marvelous deductive power. The Crevice Occasionally, however, it separates readily into laminæ, the interstices of which are often studded with sparkling crystals of the triple phosphate. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 This plan succeeded perfectly, the expansion of the copper tubes completely filling up all interstices, and producing a perfectly water-tight boiler, capable of withstanding extreme external pressure. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery Only the hardest rocks are entirely solid, the others containing a certain percentage of voids or interstices. Rural Hygiene The gills are pure white, unequal, some of them forked, adnate, the interstices venulose. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth The interstices are to be closed with cement, and all the little doors closed, except the lowest, through which the bees are to pass. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families I turn now to the literary work which filled every available interstice of time. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Through the interstices of this floor, the dissolved substance of the rock is carried into some deeper and yet undiscovered cavities beneath. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 It is pleasing, yea, soothing, 'midst the buffetting surges of later life, to be able to keep the anchor of one's vessel well bit in the interstices of granite. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance True percolation means to drip through fine interstices of china or metal. All About Coffee From the interstices of the limestone parapet grew a white bluebell—the only one Rue had ever seen. The Dark Star The photosphere consists of gaseous vapours or clouds, of irregular form and size, separated by less brilliant interstices, and glowing white with the heat derived from the interior of the Sun. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' It begins in the gums, which become swollen and spongy, growing on to the teeth and into the interstices. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. All are perfectly irregular; the projections of one do not fit into the interstices of another; they are heaped up loosely in their extraordinary top-heavy form, on slanting ground half-way down a steep hill. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Ralph dropped his other hold lightning-quick, thrust his hand into the interstice, pushed the door still further back, and precipitated himself forward across the floor of an empty box car. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail The rich yellow light streamed through the interstices of the tall hedge of forest-trees that encircles the eminence, once an island, and fell in fantastic patches on the gray tombstone and the graves. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Terra-cotta cones inscribed with prayers had been thrown into the interstices. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The chinks between the logs are open all round the hut—so, too, the interstices between the hewn planks of the door. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness It was a "stake-and-rider" fence, and the notches on the Holton side of it were filled with wild raspberry, elderberry, and weeds; but on the Montgomery side these interstices were free of such tangle. Otherwise Phyllis To have somebody behind whom one can fall back upon to fill up the interstices of thought—that makes all the difference, as Mr Wentworth found out, between a bright and a heavy life. The Perpetual Curate For many hours before her capture she had been compressed into an interstice behind a fireplace, and by the time she was drawn forth into the light she had been ominously scorched. A Little Tour of France The weapon fell from his relaxed clutch; and passing through the interstices of the timber, sank to the bottom of the sea! The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea New more boldly my eyes explored the dark interior of the hut—more freely roamed my glance along the interstices of the logs. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Since then, many summers and winters must have passed; and grasses and sedges, detached from the banks by the water, had filled up the interstices. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora When you grasp them firmly in your hand, they slip into the interstices of the fingers and plough up your skin so as to make you quickly loose your hold. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles This treatment, however, leaves the dead bodies of the bacteria upon the surface and blocking the interstices of the filter. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. This plan succeeded perfectly, the expansion of the copper tubes completely filling up all interstices, and producing a perfectly watertight boiler, capable of withstanding extreme internal pressure. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson “Who the hell air you?” came a voice through the interstices of the logs—a voice that more resembled the growl of a bear, than the articulation of a human throat. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The floor consists simply of the earth itself rammed down hard, or sometimes of rough pitching-stones, with large interstices between them. The Toilers of the Field Later on two of the doorways were found actually blocked up in this way—three jars in the lower tier, two more above them, and the interstices filled with mud. El Kab While through the interstices between the buildings I might see other structures, ranging from those of tolerable size to simple wall tents and makeshift shacks, eerily shadowed. Desert Dust When the sun's rays seep through the interstices of the carving it leaps into a brilliancy that is blinding. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China The interstices between the logs—where they had formerly been covered with skins—were now open. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The interstices between the logs are chinked with strips of wood and daubed with mortar both outside and in. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West In every one of the four corners is a wreath of roses, passion-flowers, and fruit in very heavy relief, and the interstices are filled by guns, arms, and accoutrements. Chelsea The Fascination of London The supposed difficulty—the thing which, at all events, it takes time to learn, is to cut the interstices neat, and each like the other. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving Between these, trailing vines had forced their way, their roots creeping like snakes over the stones and through their interstices, while giant, ill-smelling weeds had turned the once open court-yard into a maze. The White Mice An interstice left open between the two flaps permitted a fall view of the interior. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The old furrows were as they had been before—the stones, gray, weather-beaten, and covered with lichen, while heather and wildflowers grew in the interstices. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 And hand in hand the betrothed pair wandered under the fresh pendent ocean of leaves, where the rays of the sun gleamed through the interstices in lovely, changing hues. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales The true merit, then, of wood execution, as regards this matter of cross-hatching, is first that there be no more crossing than necessary; secondly, that all the interstices be various, and rough. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving I suspect that the interstices of this ancient silk string were the lurking-places of that delightful yeast microbe that gave the flavor to the bread. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The walls are constructed of reeds, the interstices being filled up with loam, and the roofs are of straw or palm leaves. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Then she brought the heaviest stones she could carry and laid them over the dead body, stopping up the interstices with moss. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales In the network thus produced, any kind of dots may be put in the severally shaped interstices. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving We only see them after all in glimpses; but what, I often wonder, do they do in their hushed and shrouded hours—in all the interstices of their lives?' More Trivia In distant effects of rich subjects, wood, or rippled water, or broken clouds, much may be done by touches or crumbling dashes of rather dry colour, with other colours afterwards put cunningly into the interstices. 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 Over the ends of these stakes are fastened strong branches of trees, the interstices are filled up with mud, and the whole is covered by a sort of matting composed of plaited branches and reeds. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests If lumber can not be obtained, a floor may be made, of small spars, the interstices filled with brush, and the whole covered with loam or clay; Figs. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition The interstices—space however having been left for a door—were filled up with willow or hazel saplings in the form of basketwork. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Then also dust and damp have ready access to the interstices of the crinkled pages, resulting in the disfigurement so well known and so deplored by all lovers of fine books. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians There is an infinitesimal influence of sympathy between mind and matter, which permeates all beings, and pervades all the delicate niches and interstices of human intelligence. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages It was only the little interstices of forgetfulness which enabled any one to read even a part of what was taking place in his thoughts. Children of the Desert The sticks are pressed more tightly together, all interstices filled up, and then a superstructure of leafy twigs is woven overhead and all around. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The filamentous hyphæ pass around and through these groups, filling up the interstices. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. The interstices of the palisade were twenty feet wide, filled with stone and lime compacted, the top being covered with earth, and planted with shrubs. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Sam could stick his finger anywhere through the interstices, yet it was warmer than a blanket, double its weight. The Huntress The sun was gleaming in golden needles through the interstices of his window shutters. Her Mother's Secret The matter that it bears along with it, and in the interstices of which it inserts itself, alone can divide it into distinct individualities. Creative Evolution Rank grass shoots up in what interstices it finds; but beyond this nothing grows. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol The interstices were generally daubed with clay to make them water-tight, and the roofs were covered with sheets of bark, kept down by logs laid upon them. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia Eggs, when being sent any distance, should be separately wrapped in cotton wool, and packed in a strong box, any interstices being lightly filled with wool also. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Nearer came the feet, and I peered between the interstices of the screening balustrade. Valley of the Croen The granite remains when the floods have swept away the light soil that filled the interstices of the rocks. John the Baptist They drive a number of stakes into the ground in a quadrangular form, fill the interstices with thin planks, and roof in the whole with the bark of trees. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 It is a giant bird-cage, whose interstices are filled with stone or concrete. American Sketches 1908 Inside, the cork should be glued down on top and bottom; on this a few small strips of the same cork running across with interstices left between them. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. The specimen shown me under the microscope indicated clearly that the warp and weft were not at right angles and that the interstices were not square but diamond shaped. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms In the second place it fills all interstices where sap would collect. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 The moth was very still now, exploring the interstices between tumbler and table with heavy, pectinated antennæ. Barbarians They had to be applied in melted form for filling interstices of wounds in which sap might collect and ferment. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 The entrance to the warm air inside promptly turned the crystals still adhering to the interstices of the knit garments into glittering drops of water. The Adventures of Bobby Orde Over these cables a platform was made of trunks of trees, with branches placed upon them to fill the interstices and level the surface. Xerxes Makers of History These ruins are large masses of brickwork, the bricks of which are joined by interstices of mortar, as large as the bricks themselves, and equally durable. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 When pattern and ground are fairly equally balanced in quantity the ground may be rich and dark, and darkest as the interstices, where the ground is shown, become less. Line and Form (1900) The inside of the walls has been constructed with small stones, and plenty of fluid mortar to fill the interstices. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Bobby shifted position and found that he could see quite easily through the interstices of the reeds. The Adventures of Bobby Orde But the noise of the distant camp, lounging out now from the night meal, crowded what small interstices of his attention remained from the beloved trestle. The Return of Blue Pete They crawl in through doors, ventilators, or other interstices, and are brought in with the manure, and find shelter about the woodwork, manure, or any bits of dry litter that may be around. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure Its source is not well understood, but Boussingault supposes it to have existed in the interstices of the plant, and to have escaped during the course of the experiment. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Stones that have flat beds like many sandstones and limestones can be laid upon layers of dry concrete and have the vertical interstices filled with dry concrete by tamping. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Through the interstices between the piles the wavelets went lap, lap, slap, lap! The Adventures of Bobby Orde Many of the houses here are built as in Switzerland; trees are just squared and notched, or dove-tailed at the ends; sometimes the interstices are filled with clay or mortar. A Journey to America in 1834 Presently thin tongues of blue flame begin to shoot up through the interstices, and four brand new coffee pots are wriggled into level positions at as many different points on the bonfire. Woodcraft These decorations of the walls and cupolas are richly gilded, and the interstices paneled with lapis lazuli and other brilliant and enduring colors. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 But if we fill the interstices with water, we diminish the reflection; a portion of the light is transmitted, and the darkness of the towel is due to its increased transparency. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Then he would pour in some good corn whisky, till all the interstices of that ice were filled plumb up; then he'd put some mint—" "Didn't smash the mint? The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) The interstices between the cells are filled in with rather coarse chippings made by the bee. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The solid camphor is found in cracks of the wood, and is obtained by cutting down the tree, dividing it into blocks and small pieces, from the interstices of which the camphor is extracted. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture His home was but a cabin of logs, with the interstices stuffed with moss. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago Looking down through the interstices of the wooden road, what a distance the thread of water in the hollow seemed to be below us! A Boy's Voyage Round the World They brushed against the sides, and scratched at the interstices of the beams, howling and yelping like a troop of demons. The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger The storm yet howled fearfully without, and the hard particles of indurated snow were sifting through the interstices of the crazy building. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman This hill was covered with wild evergreens, which clung to their sides, and to the interstices of the rocks; and mosses, green and brown, in long festoons, hung from their limbs. Caleb in the Country The interstices were filled with clay, which soon hardened, rendering the walls comparatively smooth, and alike impervious to wind or rain. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky The sun dropped down behind a range of hills, covered with pines, furs, and cedars, that were growing into a compact dark wall, the interstices being black. A Little Girl in Old Quebec The resin is melted only to such a point that it forms a fine grain all over the plate, leaving interstices of bare copper between. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing So having joined her, it was not long till we had the tarred cloth off, and, through the interstices of the iron bucket, the little blue and yellow flames began chirping and chattering. The Dew of Their Youth The stone walls of the mission were rarely dressed or carefully fitted, the interstices being filled in with loose rubble laid in adobe. 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 interstices between the logs were filled with moss or clay. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky Savignon drew some young saplings together and filled up the interstices with boughs, ordering smaller ones inside that a sort of bed should be raised off the ground. A Little Girl in Old Quebec Your accomplished chef can fill in the interstices. Flamsted quarries I searched through all the pockets and interstices of my coat with trembling fingers. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer “Nay, what is it, trow?” inquired Kate, who looked with deep interest through the interstices of the filagree, and saw nothing but a few inches of coarse linen thread. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Meanwhile, in the roof above him, a rafter here and there was gaping open, and fiery monsters, with blood-red eyes, were peeping down at him and puffing clouds of blue smoke through the interstices. The Day of Wrath The walls were built of unhewn stones, gathered from the bed of the river hard by; and the interstices were filled up with mud and straw. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication Professor Tartlet and he set to work to forage among the interstices of the stones, and beneath the carpet of sea-weeds, and not without success. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Several nuggets had been found in the interstices of the bedrock in the gully, so it was believed that the basin contained a rich deposit. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer In coarse gravelly soils, the principle may not operate perfectly, because the interstices are too large, the weight of the water overcoming the power of attraction, as in the cask of stones or shot. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles He must cautiously pick out the mortar from the interstices with a knife, and lift up the bricks one by one. The Day of Wrath At red heat, the little molecules can squeeze themselves through the crystalline interstices of quartz and steel. Unwise Child They crawled through narrow interstices, between detached masses of rock that had fallen from above. The Scalp Hunters They stood side by side like pickets in a stockade, so close together that the eye could scarce see through the interstices, still further closed by the thick beard of thorns. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico In a few seconds, I stood behind the last row that bounded the edge of a small opening; and peering through the serrate interstices of the leaves, I saw my betrothed and her cousin. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Numbers of different kinds of shell-fish were attached to the coral branches, or wedged into their interstices. The Island Home These he interwove between the bars of his cage, filling up the interstices with the carrots and apples which had been thrown in for his food. Stories of Animal Sagacity As our schooner was extremely small, we possessed no slave-deck; accordingly, mats were spread over the fire-wood which filled the interstices of the water-casks, in order to make an even surface for our cargo’s repose. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver She peered through the interstices of the green columns. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico The nest of the redstarts, when vacated, was immaculate, save for the quill and pin feather cases that filled the interstices. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State She looked down, as if rather embarrassed, and dug at the interstices of the rough stone pavement with her dainty, and altogether unnautical, sunshade. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Ancient jurisprudence, if a perhaps deceptive comparison may be employed, may be likened to International Law, filling nothing, as it were, excepting the interstices between the great groups which are the atoms of society. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society In the midst of these gigantic blocks, growing among them, or starting, as it were, from their interstices, arises wildly, and here and there widely scattered, a grove of dwarf oak-trees.... Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Nothing is so well adapted to fill up the interstices of business with rational enjoyment, to make even a solitary life agreeable, and to smooth pleasantly and honorably the downward path of age. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition The quality in all substances to have interstices, or points of separation, between the molecules. Practical Mechanics for Boys The quarters and the hours chimed, until the gray spring dawn crept through the interstices of the blinds, and fatigue grew more leaden than ever. Despair's Last Journey Beyond my reach there was this limitless thing called the Outside, of which flashes and sounds and scents used momentarily to come and touch me through its interstices. My Reminiscences He passed through, pistol in hand, and trod the matted floor stealthily, drawn and guided by the tiny beam of light which issued from the interstice between it and the doorway. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) He peeped through the interstices of the hedge, and saw Miss Blythe smiling in the light of the candle she carried in her left hand. Aunt Rachel Compressibility.—It follows from the foregoing statement, that if there are little interstices between the molecules, the various bodies can be compressed together. Practical Mechanics for Boys They lived in harmony with nature, and the interstices of their incomparable columns were portals, as it were, to admit the spirit of beauty which animates this glorious universe to visit those whom it inspired. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III The plants which we sowed in its interstices were cared for so excessively that it was only because of their vegetable nature that they managed to put up with it till their untimely death. My Reminiscences As Sakamata was up in the fort serving Eyes-in-the-hands they could talk freely, yet in low tones and with wary eyes for the interstices of the unfinished wall. Witch-Doctors They encamp in a square, and their grain-bags piled over each other breast-high, with interstices left for their matchlocks, make no contemptible fortification. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II A cross section of thin flat bricks with generous interstices of cement in the front wall of a greengrocer's opposite, indicated the line of the Roman fortification. Riviera Towns The hut had no window, but there were interstices between the logs through which the light gleamed redly. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Skeptical in attitude, a cold listener, obviously impermeable to mere verbiage and affected by the logic of facts alone, he had a ruthless finger ready to poke into the interstices of a loosely-woven argument. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Peering through the interstices Bakahenzie could see the gleam of the fire upon the bangles of the Son-of-the-Snake and the blue flash upon his spear as he melted into the forest wall. Witch-Doctors These are covered by flaps of stamped yellow goat-skin cut in triangular and half-moon patterns, the interstices between the flaps being filled with red cloth. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II If one were to consider future difficulties as well as deal with immediate ones, into what crannies and interstices were the affairs of the moment to be crammed? The Daughters of Danaus As the sand was scraped away they first saw the thigh bone of a skeleton, and soon the whole frame was laid bare, the interstices filled with sand. The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands Here we found a number of the natives assembled with spears, looking eagerly through the interstices of the hedges in expectation of the advancing herds. The Gorilla Hunters In another litter, as securely screened, was the son of the Lord-of-many-Lands, endeavouring to endure a perpetual bath of sweat in the sacred cause, peeking professorial eyes through the interstices, scribbling in a notebook. Witch-Doctors Some lye, containing the impurities from the fats used, remains in the interstices of the curd, unable to sink, and as the soap cools it is enclosed and forms the mottling. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture Smaller boughs were nailed across and across, and then bunches of heather were tucked and tied securely into all the interstices. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story The floor, as it showed through the interstices, was covered with a grass-green carpet, while the curtains and hangings were of a not very subdued crimson. When Patty Went to College "Pigot," he said, looking at the filigree basket he held in his hand as if he picked this word out from one of its many interstices. That Affair Next Door Numerous sand-wasps build in the interstices between the bricks of a pavement in front of my house. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Probably before the interstices of the black rock were filled up there may have been a decent harbour for small craft. Southern Arabia The rushlight had burned low down in the socket, and, through the interstices of its pierced shade, threw a feeble and alternate light and shadow over the room. The King's Own The interstices of these are also filled up with the same membrane. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) A square fence was then formed with stakes, the interstices being filled up by masses of bushes, making it perfectly impervious, so that even elephants would hesitate before attempting to break through it. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade As soon as the wasp had left her tunnel, I covered the surface of the bricks and the interstices between them, for several feet around the orifice of the tunnel, with sand. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals They have slaves, who live in little huts made of palm branches, with the interstices plastered with mud. Southern Arabia Dense volumes of smoke were coming through the interstices of the palisades, and the circle of flame which rose up round the fort showed that no time must be lost. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America As the interstices between the logs are filled up with hemp and other combustible materials, fires are very common, and whole villages are frequently burnt down. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar “By pressing it gradually down, as I have been doing, the water will have risen into the interstices and have frozen the broken pieces together.” Ernest Bracebridge School Days The walls were constructed of reeds, the interstices being filled up with loam; and the roofs were covered with palm leaves. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas The roof is formed of rough slabs of wood called shingles; the interstices being filled up with clay. Afar in the Forest The noises in the jungle increased; and as he lay with his cheek against the bamboo flooring, the sounds came up very plainly between the interstices. Middy and Ensign In the interstices grow brake and broad-leaved forest grass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 There is atrophy in spots of the capillary layer of the choroid, and the larger vessels of the deeper layer are exposed between the interstices of the pigment masses. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The sides were of cane, without any cement between the interstices, and the roofs were neatly formed of palm leaves. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas You mean at Denmark Hill?—Yes; that deterioration on pictures of the class I refer to is not to be afterwards remedied—the thing suffers forever—you cannot get into the interstices. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The mud, no longer brittle, yielded to pressure, and there was a trace of dampness in the interstices of the pavement bricks. Clayhanger The walls were of squared logs, the interstices between them being made as nearly frost-tight as possible. Three Boys in the Wild North Land The little building was made of poplar logs, the interstices of which were filled up with moss and clay. By Canoe and Dog-Train One end of each he sharpened, and drove in between the interstices of the stone, at a distance of some two feet and a half apart and four feet from the ground. On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War |
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