80 adjectives to describe canal

Across the narrow canal was a bare field.

In the Flemish territory the flat nature of the terrain, with its numerous canals and almost total absence of natural cover, made the losses especially severe.

And, lastly, (though many other causes might be referred to) the injudicious means occasionally employed to effect the removal of these animals, by the debility produced in the intestinal canal, favours not only their re-appearance but their increase.

The internal ear, or bony labyrinth, consists of three distinct parts, or variously shaped chambers, hollowed out in the temporal bone,the vestibule, the semicircular canals, and the cochlea, or snail's shell.

Sometimes, too, double canals are made there close to each other, running side by side, as if one were used for travel and transportation in one direction and one in another.

They make the milk and pour it out of the breasts through little canals into the mouth of the suckling.

E. [10] This is an obscure indication of navigable canals on each side of the paved road of communication to the south.

It was a fairly broad canal, and the water was nearly up to the towing-path.

The whole digestive canal, of which the stomach and bowels are only a part, is covered, from the lips, eyes, and ears downwards, with a thin glairy tissue, like the skin that lines the inside of an egg, called the mucous membrane; this membrane is dotted all over, in a state of health, by imperceptible points, called follicles, through which the saliva, or mucous secreted by the membrane, is poured out.

The external ear consists of an expanded portion known as the pinna or auricle, and of a passage, the auditory canal or meatus, leading inwards from it.

This letter announces the critical situation in which Nicaragua was placed and charges upon the Court of St. James a "well-known design to establish colonies on the coast of Nicaragua and to render itself master of the interoceanic canal, for which so many facilities are presented by the isthmus in that State."

The apparatus producing this secretion consists of the lacrymal or tear gland and lacrymal canals or tear passages (Fig. 136).

For the stagnant upper canals of this place are now mere miasmas of pestilence: and within two days I was rolling with fever in the Old Procurazie Palace, she standing in pale wonderment at my bed-side, sickness quite a novel thing to her: and, indeed, this was my first serious illness since my twentieth year or thereabouts, when I had over-worked my brain, and went a voyage to Constantinople.

There stood, then, on the grand canal, as there stand now, many palaces of scarcely less than royal magnificence.

Of the thirty miles to be traversed, about one-half lies in the course of this valley, along which an artificial canal has been made.

I surveyed it carefully several weeks ago and drew plans and contours of the work as though it were an inter-oceanic canal.

Palace after palace had been passed, and more than one of the principal canals, which diverged towards the different spectacles, or the other places of resort frequented by his master, was left behind, without Don Camillo giving any new direction.

" It appears, then, that Mr. Lowell has to face this dilemmaOnly if the whole surface of Mars is an almost perfect level could the enormous network of straight canals, each from hundreds to thousands of miles long, have been possibly constructed by intelligent beings for purposes of irrigation; but, if a complete and universal level surface exists no such system would be necessary.

In the middle of the isthmus which joins the two halves, is a very minute opening, the central canal of the cord.

At the ends of a long bone, where it expands, there is no medullary canal, and the bony tissue is spongy, with only a thin layer of dense bone around it.

The streets are tolerably broad, and are also kept clean, there is in each an underground water canal with openings at regular intervals for the purpose of dipping out water.

Where the canals are double, the spots (or 'oases' as Mr. Lowell terms them) lie between the two parallel canals.

In fact, all over the surface of bone are minute canals leading into the substance.

Here and there between the houses, a glimpse might be had of the low country beyond, with its sluggish canal choked with rushes, a dingy windmill here and there, and stretching away on either side the flat meadows crinkling with yellow grain, and the green pastures dotted with huge black-and-white cattle.

About his chequered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal: The mountains roundunhappy fate!

80 adjectives to describe  canal