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Updated: July 6, 2025
Only a narrow crevice separated the hotel wall from the next house, whose yard stretched below her, crossed with clothes lines, the plants and shrubs showing a pale green, elongated growth in their efforts to reach the sunlight. Her down-drooped glance ranged over it with disfavor, and she idly wondered what kind of people lived there.
In 1852 he patented improvements in the construction, propelling, and equipment of steamships, which have, we believe, been adopted to a certain extent by the Admiralty; and a few years later, in 1855, we find him presenting the Secretary of War with plans of elongated rifle projectiles to be used in smooth-bore ordnance with a view to utilize the old-pattern gun.
It's a continual preying of the stronger upon the weaker; each swallowing his neighbour, and then getting swallowed in his turn. Beware of the Fat, my friend." He relapsed into silence for a moment, still watching their two shadows, which the setting sun elongated more than ever.
With regard to butterflies of Celebes belonging to different families, they present "a peculiarity of outline which distinguishes them at a glance from those of any other part of the world:" it is that the upper wings are generally more elongated and the anterior margin more curved.
From these one might be led to imagine, that each plant at first consisted of a single bulb or flower to each root, as the gentianella and daisy; and that in the contest for air and light new buds grew on the old decaying flower stem, shooting down their elongated roots to the ground, and that in process of ages tall trees were thus formed, and an individual bulb became a swarm of vegetables.
Back on the platform the elongated medical gentleman, Mr. Hooker, was talking loudly, wrathfully to the station agent. His voice rang in their ears long after the 'bus rolled away on its "trip" to the big summer hotel. "You say old man Grover ain't dead yet?" Mr. Hooker was growling resentfully, even indignantly. "He ain't expected to live till night, sir, poor old man," replied the agent.
Horse cars tinkled along, and a peculiar form of elongated 'bus, with the word "Carette" painted upon it, rolled along noiselessly over the asphalt pavement. An old man in business dress, with rather aristocratic side-whiskers, came toward him, walking briskly through the crowd, an open hand-bag swung around his neck; and as he walked he chanted a peculiar cry
The eggs, in fact, give birth to more or less elongated larvae, which are always provided with three filaments at the end of the abdomen, and which breathe the oxygen dissolved in the water by tracheo-branchiae along the sides of the body. They are carnivorous, and live on small animal prey. The most recent authors who have studied them are Mr. Eaton, in England, and Mr.
The portions of coal that contain impressions of the bark of Sigillaria and Lepidodendron allow the elongated, suberose tissue characteristic of such bark to be still more clearly seen.
Awhile, I stood, trying to adjust my thoughts to this new problem. In time how many thousands of years, I know not I attained to some degree of quietude sufficient to enable me to pay attention to what was transpiring around me. Now, I saw that the elongated mound had sunk, collapsed, level with the rest of the spreading dust.
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