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Updated: June 15, 2025
Many volcanic rocks are commonly spoken of under names denoting structure alone, which must not be taken to imply that they are distinct rocks, i.e., that they differ from one another either in mineral or chemical composition.
* A colonial expression denoting heavy labour i.e., to work like bullocks in a team. When Denison reached the landing-place he was met by a number of the old whaler's whitey-brown descendants, who told him that Jack was dead had died three months ago, they said. And there was a letter for the supercargo and captain, they added, which the old man had written when he knew he was dying.
But when, suddenly awaking from that profound meditation, she started from her seat with flashing eyes heaving bosom and an expression of countenance denoting a fixed determination to accomplish some deed from which her better feelings vainly bade her to abstain: when she drew her tall her even majestic form up to its full height, the drapery shadowing forth every contour of undulating bust and exquisitely modeled limb while her haughty lip curled in contempt of any consideration save her own indomitable will she appeared rather a heroine capable of leading an Amazonian army, than a woman to whom the sighing swain might venture to offer up the incense of love.
Rows of eagles on niches of tower, symbol of American initiative. Decorative vase on wings of tower, Italian. Use of ram's head below bowl. Wreaths of laurel under eagles, rewards of courage, suggesting triumph of building canal. Prows of triremes, at corners on third lift, denoting worldwide commerce.
I recognised his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty; his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake.
It was just where they had met at the beginning of the year, but many changes had resulted since then. The flower-beds that had used to be so neatly edged were now jagged and leafy; black stars appeared on the pale surface of the gravel walks, denoting tufts of grass that grew unmolested there.
On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler.
One high authority thinks that Kuma and So were the names of two tribes inhabiting the extreme south of Japan; that is to say, the provinces now called Hyuga, Osumi, and Satsuma. Others regard the term as denoting one tribe only. The question is not very material.
It had four sides, each marking three months, large notches denoting Sundays, small ones showing week-days. Saints' days were marked by the symbol of each saint. He had seen some of these old calendars in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, when he had been in England, which were relics of Danish government there.
Wasil felt a chill of apprehension as the door opened and Scar Balta strode in. He was fully armed, dressed in the military uniform; but the former colonel was now wearing on his shoulder straps the concentric rings denoting a general's rank. Giant Against Giant
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