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But before he can expect to bring any reasonable person over to his opinion, he ought to shew that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating, that the lips have grown harder and more prominent, that the legs and feet are daily altering their shape, and that the hair is beginning to change into stubs of feathers.
This kind of Janthina is attached to its float by a sort of peduncle, which it has the power of elongating, so that the fish itself sinks, with its shell, and yet remains attached to the float, which continues at the surface. In one instance, I saw this peduncle elongated to a length of 0.9 inches. It may, of course, have the power of sinking itself much lower than I have seen it do.
The pool glittered like a dead man's eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water. All this Oak saw and remembered.
Before surprise permitted reply, the young lady had locked herself up in her own apartment. 'Why, Scythrop, said Mr Glowry, elongating his face exceedingly, 'the devil is come among us sure enough, as Mr Toobad observes: I thought you and Marionetta were both of a mind. 'So we are, I believe, sir, said Scythrop, gloomily, and stalked away to his tower.
It was broad daylight, and I was smoking in front of the window, yet to such an extent was I affected that it seemed to me that the tentacle was not only vibrating, which, owing to the peculiarity of its position, was quite within the range of probability, but actually moving, elongating stretching forward, that is, farther toward me, and toward the tip of my nose.
"But, signore, our home is very poor. Look, signore!" A turkey strutted out through the doorway, elongating its neck and looking nervously intent. "Ps sh sh sh!" He shooed it away, furiously waving his arms. "And what could you eat? There is only bread and wine." "And the yellow cheese!" said Maurice. "The ?" Salvatore looked sharply interrogative.
She brought her gaze indoors and bent a frowning glance on the two at the stove. A shade of vexation passed over her face, grotesquely elongating the downward-dropping lines. "Rita," she called, in what seemed warning, "you come here a minute. Ain't I dropped a stitch?" Rita responded at once, bending over the stocking ostentatiously displayed.
He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror. Now round dinner tables are generally of oak, or else of such new construction as not to have acquired the peculiar hue which was so pleasing to him.
He stretched and curled on the blanket, elongating his body in a mighty yawn which subsided into the solaced note of a groan. "There, that's better. I ache all over to-night." She made no answer, looking at the prospect from morose brows. More at ease he returned to the subject and asked, "Who's been telling lies?" "I," she answered.
Lord Rosse may say, even if to-day he should die, 'I found God's universe represented for human convenience, even after all the sublime discoveries of Herschel, upon a globe or spherical chart having a radius of one hundred and fifty feet; and I left it sketched upon a similar chart, keeping exactly the same scale of proportions, but now elongating its radius into one thousand feet. The reader of course understands that this expression, founded on absolute calculations of Dr.
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