498 adjectives to describe materials

He brought along in his precious chest, besides the radium, some sort of raw material: also, as near as I could make out, a sort of cage or guardianship scheme for his concentrated essence of cussedness, when he should get it out of the volcano.

EXERCISE E The following list of synonyms is given for the convenience of those who wish additional material with which to work.

First comes a kitchen and next a bathroom, then an out-of-doors playground with abundant material for gaining ideas through actionsand, pebbles, pine-cones, moss, shells and straw.

The answer is simple and expressive: "Not half has ever been told;" yet the German newspapers contain more than sufficient materials to prove that the floodgates of barbarism were opened wide.

In the case of fur-bearing animals, however, it is somewhat different; for these continue to supply the wants of civilization with one of its most valuable materials of commerce.

The miniature verandahs and overhanging roofs of the houses, the latter approaching so close to one another as nearly to permit of shaking hands across; an occasional bright costume appearing at the window or on the verandah; the old church higher up the street, and the battered "Castilio" at the top, furnished ample materials for a very pleasant sketch.

Man is made, you know, of very combustible materials, and may be kindled as effectually by a spark falling at the right time, in the right place, as when within reach of a great conflagration.

The clothes were of a cheap material and not very new, so that, in life, he must have presented an appearance somewhat shabby.

The mention of it now seemed to shake his faith in Geissler's big words, and he put in anxiously: "But suppose the King says no?" Said Geissler: "In that case, I send in my supplementary material, a full account of the whole affair.

There is little more to be said in the way of direction than, "Provide suitable material, give freedom, and help, if the child wants it."

Summer dresses of barège, muslin, mohair, and other light materials, simply require shaking; but if the muslin be tumbled, it must be ironed afterwards.

We see him not merely defeating but annihilating army after army more numerous than his own and composed of better raw material.

Firdusi was not the first, as he was not the only one, to collect the old epic materials of Persia.

Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae is noteworthy, not as literature, but rather as a source book from which many later writers drew their literary materials.

A rich tract of country on the South Side of the Gulph will be settled and improved, and a port or ports furnished with every material requisite to repair ships.'

That sounds queer now, used as we are to exactness in dealing with historical and literary material; but it expresses the general spirit of the age in which he lived.

Be thankful, therefore, that fashion says that woollen cloth is the most costly material that may be used.

To the east of these hills the dress of the common people is of coarse materials, as in our country of Ts'in, but here also there were among them the differences of fine woollen cloth and of serge or haircloth.

It is an inflammable material, burning with a bright flame and having much the consistence and appearance of oat-cake, which, I am informed covers a considerable area.

Yonder is a structure, for instance, of beautiful proportions, and, at this distance, apparently of a precious material, and yet it seems better suited to heathen worship than to domestic comfort.

Cups of dry material are filled to overflowing by putting the material into the cup with a tablespoon, and are then leveled off with a knife.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, 'Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.

Chemistry, a science so essentially requisite to explain the phenomena of known and unknown substances, was studied chiefly by jugglers and fanatics;their systems, replete with metaphysical nonsense, and composed of the most crude and heterogeneous materials, served rather to nourish superstition than to establish facts, and illustrate useful truths.

Not simple nutriment; 1/4 oz. of the most nutritive material cannot nearly replace the daily wear and tear of the tissue in any circumstances."

In this were some wads of fibrous material used for wicks.

498 adjectives to describe  materials