The walls are of earth, ten paces thick at the bottom, and gradually tapering to three paces thick at the top, with white battlements.

The internal shell of the fire box tapers somewhat upwards to facilitate the disengagement of the steam.

The blast pipe should not be regularly tapered, but should be large in the body and gathered in at the mouth.

Wherever the young trees are at all sheltered, they grow up straight and arrowy, with delicately tapered bole, and ascending branches terminated with glossy, bottle-brush tassels.

I had fortunately a wax taper with me, which I cut into several pieces and gave to my fellow-passengers.

This mouthpiece tapered all around inside, and terminated in a keyhole which was rubber-lined.

3 shows the part, B, of an internally tapered or coned form, and C of an externally coned form, wound on an iron wire bundle, I.

EARSPendulous, set well back, wide apart and low on the skull, hanging close to the cheek, with a very slight projection at the base, broad at the junction of the head and tapering almost to a point, the fore part of the ear tapering very little, the tapering being mostly on the back part, the fore part of the ear coming almost straight down from its junction with the head to the tip.

So we find that pituitary types have, when there is oversecretion, large bony, gross hands, spade-shaped, or when there is undersecretion, hands that are plump, with peculiarly tapering fleshy fingers.

In ranging over these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here and there of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonely herdsman, motionless as a statue, with his long, slender pike tapering up like a lance into the air; or, beholds a long train of mules slowly moving along the waste like a train of camels in the desert; or, a single herdsman, armed with blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain.

The 'elliptical' is what the oblong would be if its ends were prettily tapered off.

In youth, say up to the age of seventy or eighty years, no other tree forms so strictly tapered a cone from top to bottom.

If we may trust tradition, the race has undoubtedly been tapering down from century to century since the Creation, so that the original Adam must have been more than twice the size of the Webster statue.

In a free monarchy, a republic, or a democracy, the pyramid of political organism stands, not on its point but broad-based and four-square, tapering upward to its final apex.

In consequence, we do sentence you to make honorable amends, bareheaded and with a waxen taper alight in your hand, in the great court of the palace, crying for mercy to God, the king, and the law, for the offence by you committed.

The trunk is a smooth, round, delicately tapered shaft, mostly without limbs, and colored rich purplish-brown, usually enlivened with tufts of yellow lichen.

The more rapid drying of the ends causes local shrinkage, and were the material sufficiently plastic the ends would become bluntly tapering.

But Li Wan saw only the fingers, milk-white and shapely, tapering daintily to the rosy, jewel-like nails.