As the earth turned round its axis, during their ascent, every part of its surface came successively under view.

To illustrate the movement of torsion in the spine, or its rotation round its own axis.

In front were carried the axes and the other symbols of office which had belonged to him as dictator.

They fought with their lances, one on each side of the barrier, and gave such tremendous strokes that the lances were soon broken to pieces; after this they took their battle-axes, which each of them had hanging by their sides, and dealt each other great and terrible blows.

The center line of this slot lies in the plane which contains the axes of the journal, J, and of the shaft, O. A block, E, is fitted to slide in the slotted arm, G; and in this block is fixed a pin, P. A bridle-rod, R, connects P with the pin, A, of one of the eccentric-rods, prolonged for that purpose as shown in Fig.

In such a typical moss as Funaria, we have the following cycle of developments: The sexual generation is a dioecious leafy structure, having a central elongated axis, with leaves arranged regularly around and along it.

They use small narrow-edged axes for felling, but for lopping they invariably use the Nepaulese national weaponthe kookree.

1.] A.By flying out until they assume a vertical height answering to the velocity with which they rotate round the central axis.

Gradually approach the card toward the eye, keeping the axis of vision fixed on the cross.

On the first creation of the dictator at Rome, when they saw the axes carried before him, great awe came upon the people, so that they became more attentive to obey orders.

Presently, the guides faced right about, and grounded their axes on the frozen snow-slope.

The whole force of carpenters was put to work building a bridge across the creek, the smiths sharpened the axes, and the bakers baked a prodigious number of little biscuits for us to carry on the march.

In September I wrote in the Athenaeum against a notion of Sir H. James on the effect of an upheaval of a mountain in changing the Earth's axis.

The sun grew hotter and poured down sheaves of fiery rays, but the toilers disregarded it, swinging the axes with muscles that took no note of weariness.

The mapping we see of Lake Tanganyika, one of the longest lakes in the world, has been in use for seventeen years since missionary Hore made his boat journey of one thousand miles around its coasts, but the new map of the Moore expedition now being introduced gives the main axis of the lake a more northeast and southwest direction.

We spoke, and Sohrab kindled at his taunts, And he too drew his sword; at once they rushed Together, as two eagles on one prey Come rushing down together from the clouds, One from the east, one from the west; their shields Dashed with a clang together, and a din Rose, such as that the sinewy woodcutters Make often in the forest's heart at morn, Of hewing axes, crashing treessuch blows Rustum and Sohrab on each other hailed.

" "The ship which grounded on Paiow, was driven on a sandy beach, and the natives came down and also discharged their arrows into her; but the crew prudently did not resent the aggression, but held up axes, beads, and toys, as peace-offerings, upon which the assailants desisted from farther hostilities.

ThenRudolph and the captain kicking the bonfire off the stairsthe whole company hurried down and safely over her gunwale: first the two women, then the few huddling converts, the white men next, the compradore still hugging his pole-axes, and last of all, Heywood, still in strange apathy, with haggard face and downcast eyes.

If he did incline the axis of the mirror to the right or left, he makes no allowance for the error thus introduced.

"A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

By hinges he means the axis of the earth, on which it turns as on a hinge.

He was asked what he would like for the return present, and named axes and nails, which were given him with the request that he would distribute them amongst his people; this he at once did, to the apparent satisfaction of all.

In this way the strains on the fibres nearer the axis are progressively increased until finally all of the elements are sheared apart.

The greater the resistance a material offers to deformation the steeper or nearer the vertical axis will be the line.

At length the natives appeared anxious to get rid of us, after obtaining about seventeen axes and a few knives, in return for 368 pounds of yams, which cost us little more than a halfpenny per pound.