41 Metaphors for structure

The structure of his verse is the best, and a line of his is more musical than any other line can be made, by placing the accents elsewhere; but we are not quite certain, whether the ear is not apt to be soon cloy'd with this uniformity of elegance, this sameness of harmony.

In the observations that follow, he suggests, as not improbable, a very different view, founded on the supposed analogy with Araucaria, whose structure was then misunderstood; namely, that the inner scale of the female amentum is a bilocular ovarium, of which the outer scale is the style.

The structure, we presume, is a blend of the ADAM style with NOAH'S architecture.

Birds are killed by scientists that their structure and uses may be studiedjust as doctors must examine human bodies.

The high structure on the left is the accumulator, the manipulation of this and the number of wide weights which are ingeniously brought into action to act on the plunger determine the pressure which is applied to the fabrics between the bowls or rollers.

The tenth story is 17 feet in diameter, and, with the covering, 20 feet high, and the finishing on the top is 17 feet high; so that the whole structure, from the base to the top of the fleuron, is 163 feet.

It was built in the form of a T, of hewn logs, and the whole structure, both inside and out, was a combination of those soft grays and browns with which nature colors wood, and in its close setting of primeval forest, made a harmonious picture.

Indeed, if the structure of the church should be a criterion to judge of the opulence of the inhabitants, a stranger would certainly conclude, that they were most of them tenants at rack rent, and greatly burdened with poor.

As I have already mentioned, it has been known since the time of Vallisnieri and of Réaumur, that galls in plants, and tumours in cattle, are caused by insects, which lay their eggs in those parts of the animal or vegetable frame of which these morbid structures are outgrowths.

It must be confessed that this grandiose and picturesque structure is but a shell to mask an earlier Gothic edifice.

Mike advanced round the left-side edge of the curtain; he had perceived by now that it formed the back of some structure, though he could not yet see of what nature the structure was; nor was he now examining.

The grandest structure of this kind, is, probably, the station (Ger. Station or Bahnhof, Italian Stazione) of Stuttgart.

Consequently music and words were regarded as forming a unity, and the structure of the one should be a guide to the structure of the other.

This structure, then, part house, part barrack, part fort, as it is, must be our residence for the remainder of our days.

The structure being both weak and unsteady, it was the judge's habit to dismount on coming to the bridge and to cross it on foot, leading his horse by the bridle.

Its structure was fibrous tissue, almost as firm and hard as cartilage, and with no appearance of malignancy.

The structure erected on this foundation, however, is the product of man's social environment.

There were thus distinguished: (a) The Simple or Cutaneous Quittor, in which had occurred nothing more than necrosis of a portion of the coronary skin and the structures immediately underlying itthat is, the superficial portion of the coronary cushion.

These structures are immense tombs full of mummies; all the rooms are taken.

Her structure was the last word in size, speed, and luxury at sea.

We have already seen that the mere physical structure is not man, but only a part; the Idea of man including also an internal moral being.

Opinions differ as to whether the present structure was the monks' church, the choir of the monks' church, or the church of the lay brothers (for in Carthusian houses the clergy and the laymen worshipped in separate buildings).

Sometimes the structures which formed the village were wigwamsrude structures made by driving poles into the ground in a circle, drawing their tops near together, and then covering them with bark or skins.

"Such a structure of a sentence is always the mark of careless writing.

The Canada house and the Galena house, two small frame structures on Robert near Third, were the next hotels to be visited by the fiery element.

41 Metaphors for  structure