| 单词 | sounding line |
| 例句 | An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The slight inclination of the low lands of Georgia and Carolina is continued under water till the sounding line attains a depth of about fifty fathoms. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z If a sounding line be let down from the outer edge of the reef, it will be found that the wall of coral goes down hundreds of feet like a precipice. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight That important feature, the depth of the sea, is obtained by the ordinary sounding line or wire; all soundings are reduced to low water of ordinary spring tides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Here the sounding line concludes; a little further on, the well-knit sentence; and yet a little further, and both will reach their solution on the same ringing syllable. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) This chalk consists of the minute shells of Foraminifera, sprinkled with remains of small Entomostraca, and probably a few Pteropod-shells; though the sounding lines have not yet brought up any of these last. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Utterly discrepant values of the microscopic displacements designed to serve as sounding lines for the solar system, issued from attempts to measure even the most promising pictures. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition During a great storm, the sounding lines of the Fortune gave an ever-decreasing depth, first thirty, then twenty, and at last only fourteen fathoms. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The Japanese, who have been fishing along the West Coast and Panamanian waters for years, are the only fishermen who find it necessary to use sounding lines to catch fish. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare We must frequently throw out the sounding line into the shifting sea of possibility in order to find secure anchorage. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism When we let our little sounding lines out, and find that they do not reach the bottom, we begin to wonder even more at the transparency of the clear abyss. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Earth has no sounding line to fathom the depths of a mother's heart. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Wednesday, August 26, the sounding line forewarned the reefs of Sable Island. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The use of sounding lines by Japanese fishermen and the mysterious going and comings of their boats became so pronounced that the Panamanian Government could not ignore them. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare Then we've got to use a sounding line to find out in which direction the hull of the sunken derelict lies. The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep In fact, nothing delayed immediate departure but the consideration that two miles of sounding line were still to be hauled up from the ocean depths. All Around the Moon By his observations Franklin may be said to have converted the thermometer into a sounding line. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Creature so heavenly fair, May any mortal genius dare, Or less than tongue divine, To praise in lofty, rare, and sounding line? The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Many of the Japanese ships went there, sounding lines and all, when alien fishing was prohibited in Panamanian waters. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare In a moment more young Somers was in the conning tower, and Jack, sounding line in hand, was out on the platform deck, where Lieutenant Danvers followed him. The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep Indeed it was some time before its bottom could be reached by any sounding line. Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam The principal instruments used in navigation were the rudder, anchor, sounding line, cables, oars, sails, and masts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson The lieutenant wanted two men to keep it out in the current while he used the sounding line and recorded results. Overland A single bleached specimen, agreeing with this description excepting in having five instead of three or four plaits on the columella, was brought up by the sounding line. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 The buoy to which the sounding line had been lashed had not yet been recognized. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon As I was desirous to recover the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in '46, with compass and chain and sounding line. Walden Long sounding lines were sunk in the side walls, but after fifteen yards they were again stopped by the thick wall. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Wordsworth also thought the Pleasures of Hope "strangely over-rated; its fine words and sounding lines please the generality of readers, who never stop to ask themselves the meaning of a passage." The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Statius, perhaps, heats himself, as he proceeds, to exaggerations somewhat hyperbolical; but undoubtedly Virgil would have been too hasty, if he had condemned him to straw for one sounding line. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The operating of the sounding line and of the electric light was therefore entirely independent of that of the dredges. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 “That is easily seen,” answered the sailor, taking the sounding line, which measured fifty fathoms, and letting it down. The Mysterious Island Shorten your sails, said the pilot; fetch the sounding line; we must double that point of land, and mind the sands. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 We were speaking just now of the white clay brought up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean by the sounding line. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation The story told me in my boyhood does not say how much sounding line was brought. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Nevertheless, as the bottom might happen to rise sharply instead of following the slope of the coast, we did not venture to proceed out the sounding line in hand. An Antarctic Mystery Already at the Sydney Observatory photographs have shown that the southern portion of this Dead Sea of Space is not quite ``bottomless,'' although its northern part defies the longest sounding lines of the astronomer. Curiosities of the Sky They had many things in the boat but lost only two billies, two pannikins, a sounding line and Hamilton's hat, knife and pipe. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 In spite of the fine sounding lines you will perhaps never care to read Absalom and Achitophel save as a footnote to history. English Literature for Boys and Girls We hope to use this long sounding line in going across from the eastern to the western shore. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley All accumulated dissatisfactions, weariness of the world, ennui, vague disgust, a multitude of suppressed desires gush forth, like subterranean waters, under the sounding line that for the first time brings them to light. The Ancient Regime "And these are some new breed of sounding line?" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea And he cast a look at Madame Camusot as a sailor casts a sounding line. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life "They're thermometric sounding lines that report water temperatures in the different strata." Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea I could observe these strange walls quite closely: our sounding lines indicated that they dropped perpendicularly for more than 300 meters, and our electric beams made the bright limestone positively sparkle. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea These were the same waterways where Captain Denham, aboard the Herald, payed out 14,000 meters of sounding line without finding bottom. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
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