41 examples of lia in sentences

Boat..........................Ba-lia.

F Fishing boat..................Ba-lia.

That rock runs in a broad belt across England, from Whitby in Yorkshire, to Lyme in Dorsetshire, and is known as Lias.

These freestones and clays abound in fossils, but of kinds, be it remembered, which differ more and more from those of the lias beneath, as the beds are higher in the series, and therefore nearer.

But now consider what this Lias, and the Oolites and clays upon it mean.

The thickness of the Lias and Oolites together cannot be less than a thousand feet.

This wise move had not long been accomplished, when a huge section of the ground occupied by the cottages slid down the great cliff and the next morning there was little to be seen but a sloping mound of lias shale at the foot of the precipice.

[Illustration: The E-mu in Aus-tra-lia's found, Where the wild bush spreads far a-round.]

He himself, indeed, he had said, ere now, had been probably a pterodactyle of the Lias, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, but crocodile and bat in one, able alike to swim, or run, or fly, eat anything, and live in any element.

In their lower part the beds of lias were shown with singular regularity.

Rows of little houses, some of them mere huts, were built against the side of the rock under the shelter of huge masses of oolite or lias projecting like the stories of mediaeval dwellings.

Mortar made with hydraulic lime, that is to say, lime with a considerable admixture of clay, such as the lias lime, sets under water or in contact with wet earth.

28 Hard stocks, lias lime, and sand 1 to 2, and six months old.

R56771, 5Jan50, Trotter Lias & Pitcairn (E) THE CLUE OF THE NEW PIN, by Edgar Wallace.

A Jéricho, il cite la maison de la courtisane Raab; dans la vallée de Mambré, les tombeaux d'Adam, d'Abraham, d'Isaac, de Jacob, de Sara, de Rébecca, de Lia; à Nazareth, l'endroit l'ange vint annoncer à Marie qu'elle seroit mère en restant vierge; à Bethléem, la pierre sur laquelle Jésus fut lavé à sa naissance; les tombeaux de Rachel, de David, de saint Jérôme, de trois des bergers qui vinrent à l'adoration, etc.

S'étant aperçu que j'étois chrétien, il se lia de conversation avec moi, et me conta beaucoup de détails, tant sur le pays et les habitans, que sur le soudan et ce Ramedang, seigneur de Turchmanie, dont je viens de faire mention.

Le granit remplaça la tente aux murs de toiles, On lia chaque bloc avec des noeuds de fer, Et la ville semblait une ville d'enfer; L'ombre des tours faisait la nuit dans les campagnes; Ils donnèrent aux murs l'épaisseur des montagnes; Sur la porte on grava: `Défense à Dieu d'entrer.

Ce jour-, sur les tours de la ville, on arbore Le menaçant drapeau du marquis Swantibore Qui lia dans les bois et fit manger aux loups Sa femme et le taureau dont il était jaloux.

"Ce-lia!" said the shoemaker, who feared sun-stroke.

One day, while in the woods, he discovers a company of nymphs resting by a stream, and overhears the song of the beautiful Lia.

In this company Lia proposes that each of the nymphs present, seven in number, shall narrate the story of her love.

These belong to the lias and lower oolite rocks.

The Poldens consist of lias; and the same formation constitutes the rising ground that bounds the plain on the S. and E. of the county.

Brent Knoll is a conspicuous eminence of lias, drowned with a cap of inferior oolite, about 450 ft. above sea-level and four acres in extent.

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