Beside the box lay a less damaged though still seriously injured object, in which I recognised the resemblance of a book of considerable thickness, and bound in metal like that of the case.

If this sauce is intended for an entrée, it is necessary to make it of a sufficient thickness, so that it may adhere to what it is meant to cover.

Trim off some of the fat of the above quantity of loin or neck of mutton, and cut it into chops of a moderate thickness.

This he opened, and I saw at once that it was of enormous thickness and solidity, to which and to favouring circumstances it owed its preservation in the general ruin he described.

The average thickness of the trunk is, perhaps, about ten or twelve inches.

He has a broad snout, short head, eyes bright and fiery, very small fine pink ears, wide cheeks, high chine, with a neck of such immense thickness, that when the animal is fat it looks like an elongated carcase,a mass of fat, without shape or form, like a feather pillow.

And I had to take away what you had in, not that I wanted to rob one who had done good by me, but because if I'd left it the double thickness would have surprised you and you would probably have pulled out my case to see what it was.

The strata being continually eaten away by the waves at low watermark, the upper layers break off; and thus the uppermost parts of the strata, which are of a tolerably uniform thickness, are cleft by vertical fissures, and look like the walls of a fortress.

Add to this, that the enormous basin (one thousand nine hundred square yards) is enclosed within granite walls of extraordinary thickness, formed of solid blocks of stone of tremendous weight.

They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply.

The thatched roofs, which were of unequal thickness, looked like brown velvet and could resist the fiercest gales.

No leafy thickness had yet clad the woodlands, but the budding leaves hung like a tender mist about the trees.

In some cases the face is made of extra thickness, and a rim not so thick runs round it, forming a step or recess for the reception of brass rivets, the heads of which are clear of the face.

I was, of course, aware that I was passing through a cloud, and one of very unusual thickness.

Such formations, more or less metamorphosed, are very familiar, especially to the student of palaeozoic geology, and they often attain a vast thickness.

In one species of oak this layerwhich is called the suberassumes a peculiar character and is of remarkable thickness.

I presume that 100,000 feet may be taken as a full allowance for the total thickness of stratified rocks containing traces of life; 100,000 divided by 100,000,000 = 0.001.

There were wrought-iron balconies, of which the window embrasures were so deep that the shutters folded sideways into the wall instead of swinging back as in houses of which the walls were of normal thickness.

It is merely a smear of infinitesimal thickness, easily removed by solvents of cupro-nickel.

" The Doctor stood at the foot of the bed to inspect, breathing forth a vapour of very fine old port, his hands in his pockets, speaking with a lazy thickness, and looking so comfortable and facetious, that Mrs. Julaper would have liked to turn him out of the room.

Although the price paid per pound was greater, the plates themselves were cheaper on account of their lesser thickness.

The massive 8 feet thickness of granite was pierced and battered till it looked like a ruin.

They had to pass the door, and through all its oaken thickness they could hear the curses and imprecations of someone inside, and the wood and iron shook with repeated blows and kicks.

Nothing but the pale thickness of her skin betrayed the fact that set Lois apart from even the poorest poor,the taint in her veins of black blood.

per square inch) = 6224.1379, and this, divided by 17,800, gives 0.349 as the thickness in inches, instead of 0.3125, or 5/16ths, the actual thickness.