And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.

The bottom of the storm is broken up into innumerable waves and currents that surge against the hillsides like sea-waves against a shore, and these, reacting on the nether surface of the storm, erode immense cavernous hollows and cañons, and sweep forward the resulting detritus in long trains, like the moraines of glaciers.

Should some stimulus, local, or in the blood, arouse the gland to growth, a good deal will depend upon whether it has room to grow in, or it will make room by eroding the bone.

The ideal sella turcica for the ideal pituitary type is a large room in which the gland may grow and reach its maximum size and so its maximum function, without needing to exert pressure or destroy and erode bone in front of it, to the side of it or behind it.

But it will rush across a bed of rock, and will be unable to erode its channel.

Instead we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

Its volcanic cone has been sharply eroded by snow and ice.

The Glen, eroded in vertical silurian slate, is less than a mile long.

The Glen, eroded in vertical silurian slate, is less than a mile long.

A great isosceles of precipitous walls formed a long, natural gallery, which the heaving of the earth's crust had rent and time had eroded.

There was the gigantic, lonely pine he knew well, and, yeshe could just make it outthere was his own ramshackle little pier, which stretched in undulating fashion, like a long-legged, wading caterpillar, from the abrupt shore-line of eroded coquina into deep water.

His attention was drawn to a protected spot below an eroded bank.

It was twenty feet wide and thirty yards long, narrowing as it approached a circular grotto eroded into the base of the cliff.

This, of course, indicates that the articular cartilages have become greatly eroded by the inflammatory process, and so left what we may term 'raw' surfaces of bone to rub together.

Under a process, which we may term 'dry ulcerative,' the cartilage covering the ridge on the lower surface of the bone commences to become eroded, and in appearance has been likened, both by English and Continental writers, to a piece of wood that has been worm-eaten (see Fig. 161).

The alternative terms descriptive of the different meanings are ice covered and ice eroded.

down the lane from the hill dashes another squadron that has eroded the chord of the arc and comes in fresher.

The great valley must once have been a plateau of red rock from which the softer strata had eroded, leaving the gentle league-long slopes marked here and there by upstanding pillars and columns of singular shape and beauty.

In a humid, temperate climate these stone-cut and painted records would have been eroded, overgrown and obliterated long ago.

Sindbad the Sailor carrying the Old Man of the Sea; Giant Despair scowling from a make-believe window in a fictitious castle of eroded sandstone; a roc with wings eighty feet long, poising on a giddy pinnacle to pounce upon an elephant; pilgrim Christian advancing with sword and buckler against a demon guarding some rocky portal, would have excited no astonishment here.

In these channels the waters have chafed, ground, abraded, eroded for centuries which man cannot number.

The endless rocks, not only denuded, but eroded and scraped by the action of bygone waters, could furnish no support for animal life.

The layer of sandstone immediately over this shelf was evidently softer than the general mass; and in other days (centuries ago), when it had formed one level with the bed of the river, it had been deeply eroded.

The eroded, disintegrated plateau descended to the river in a huge confusion of ruin, and they had to pick their way for miles through a labyrinth of cliffs, needles, towers, and bowlders.

The footing was of the ruggedest, a débris of confused and eroded rocks, the pathway of an extinct river.