The great pillars are ornamented in various wayssome with a great spiral groove running from bottom to top; others with two spirals, ascending in different directions, so as to cross over one another; some are fluted or channeled straight up and down; some are wrought with chevrons, like those on the sleeve of a police inspector.

They have their roots at the bottom of the Rhone, the flowers of the female plant float on the surface of the water, and are furnished with an elastic spiral stalk, which extends or contracts as the water rises and falls; this rise or fall, from the rapid descent of the river, and the mountain torrents which flow into it, often amounts to many feet in a few hours.

This Rove, yet very loosely twisted, is then received or drawn into a whirling canister, and is rolled by the centrifugal force in spiral lines within it; being yet too tender for the spindle.

First in its brazen cell reluctant roll'd Bends the dark spring in many a steely fold; 175 On spiral brass is stretch'd the wiry thong, Tooth urges tooth, and wheel drives wheel along; In diamond-eyes the polish'd axles flow, Smooth slides the hand, the ballance pants below.

The seed vessel consists of one cell with five divisions; each of these, when the seed is ripe, on being touched, suddenly folds itself into a spiral form, leaps from the stalk and disperses the seeds to a great distance by it's elasticity.

This parasite plant (the seed splitting without cotyledons), protrudes a spiral body, and not endeavouring to root itself in the earth ascends the vegetables in its vicinity, spirally W.S.E. or contrary to the movement of the sun; and absorbs its nourishment by vessels apparently inserted into its supporters.

Others turn their spiral stems west-south-east, as Convolvulus, Corn-bind, Phaseolus, Kidney-bean, Basella, Cynanche, Euphorbia, Eupatorium.

If the speed were greater it would leave us, if less it would wind up, falling to the earth in the form of a spiral.

espiral, f., spiral.

The Indian feathers the arrow for the same purpose, and also carves the arrow shaft with a spiral groove.

Nearby rose a thin spiral of smoke and back of it was a huddled figure, Firio, preparing the morning meal.

He turned and saw a tiny spiral, white as a mist, rise from a forest ridgenot from the one nearest him, but from the one beyond it.

The tiny white spiral of smoke grew to a thick white cloud which rolled over the edge of the ridge and sank toward the valley.

"Ladies first, even off the earth," came back from Jimsy gallantly, as he skillfully "banked" his machine in an upward spiral.

As the steamer raced onward, that aerial wonder had swung in a spiral, and was now seemingly hovering about, awaiting the arrival of the Silver Cobweb.

It was perhaps because, on that particular day, a spiral pain was twisting around in the back of his head, and digging in a little deeper with each twist, and because the figures on the balance sheet before him were hopping about like black imps in an infernal forward-and-back, that the picture hung there so persistently.

There were catwalks, elevators, and enclosed spiral staircases in strategic places.

Even as his hand rose, the concussor struck the outer side of his arm, between the shoulder and the elbow, on the exact spot where the musculo-spiral nerve turns round the bone.

Little spiral rods of iron beautified each of the seven peaks.

But yet I had the advantage, for there was so much in his performance that he could not account for: as for instance, that a piece of iron which falls through a spiral line, becomes magnetic,well, how is that?

it is just as with the human beings of this world, I think; our Lord lets them fall through the spiral line of time, and the spirit comes over themand there stands a Napoleon, a Luther, or a similar person.

he put all my puppets in the wooden chest, fastened it on my back, and then let me fall through a spiral line.

In an Autumn Garden TO-NIGHT the air discloses Souls of a million roses, And ghosts of hyacinths that died too soon; From Pan's safe-hidden altar Dim wraiths of incense falter In waving spiral, making sweet the moon!

E. F. Two separate Spiral Flights of Steps, leading to the Galleries, &c. G. H. I. Galleries from which the Picture is to be viewed.

The ascent to the second price gallery is by a spiral staircase under those already mentioned.