My own lurked in the waist of the shipa tiny little airless hole.

" Both men leaned from the window into the hot, airless night.

With July came heat, intense, oppressive, airless; and Jeanie flagged again.

Within a few feet of them was an airless kennel where Louisa, the chambermaid, slept.

The bank sloped steeply; a fringe of stunted aspens and willows sprang from the frozen sand: it was a sickening, airless place in summer,it was damp and desolate now.

After the endurance of terrors that came very near turning her hair gray, she had pushed the last one out on the balcony, shut the window, and was gasping away in the airless room, her first momentary sense of security, when there struck upon her agonized ear a fiendish buzzing, and three of them came whirling back through a crack about as large as a knitting-needle.

The moon however, having only one-eightieth the mass of the earth, cannot retain any gas, hence its airless and waterless condition.

We left the Calcutta we knewthe European shops, the big, cool houses, the Maidanand drove through native streets, airless, treeless, drab-coloured places, until we despaired of ever reaching anywhere.

what sound in airless space?

It penetrated even to the small airless chamber where she struggled for her first breathone of a "flat" in the poorest tenement in the worst slum in Chicago.

Perhaps she did not like the smell that oozed in around the tightly closed window to combat the foul odours of the airless room.

She lay upon the floor in a little dark room, and through the window in the airless air-shaft, high up in one corner, she could see a three-cornered spot of light.

Such a view was possible only in airless space.

The brilliant orange of superheated rock had quickly cooled in the near-absolute zero of airless space.

They opened the airlocks to pass through the manufacturing center, and then into the airless launching pad.

The Tempest maneuvered carefully through the gaping orifice left when Kimball's ship had blown the massive airlock, and set down inside the airless docking arena of the asteroid.

It was a wonderful sight, never to be forgotten, and in some degree a realization of the picture that astronomers conjure to themselves when the moon is nearly full, and they look down into the great plain which is called the Ocean of Storms, and watch the shadows of sterile and airless peaks follow a slow procession across its silver surface.

In the orchard under the low plum-trees it was as airless as in a tent.

It is not unbearably cold in winter, and tho hot in summer, is not so, we think, airless as either Paris or London, a fact accounted for by reason of its many open spaces, its height above sea-level, and comparative nearness to the North Sea.

LVII To-day was oppressively hot, brooding, airless; or rather, not so much without air, as that the air was thick and viscous like honey, without the thin, fine quality.

After the airless evening a wind had sprang up in the east; it thrashed among the lilac-stems as he came through them and across the turf, silent-footed as an Indian.