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This effect was produced by the natural porousness of the clay; but there were fissures also through which the water flowed away, no doubt to some distant source. "There are many souls like this," thought Veronique, stopping her horse after she had ridden at full speed for fifteen or twenty minutes.
But the porousness of the clay, which keeps the contents so deliciously cool, makes them very brittle. In these tanks sufficient water could be carried for twenty-four hours, which meant at the present rate of marching but ten miles. There came an occasion when, at the end of the first day's halt from the last well, an order was given to put men and horses on a half ration of the precious fluid.
"When milk is firmly frozen it is very solid indeed so solid that even hot water can only melt it on its surface. With a lump of sugar it is very different, as on account of its porousness the water at once forces its way through it, and thus is able to quickly dissolve it." Thus in pleasant chat the hour passed away in spite of the bitter cold.
She did but conjecture that sufficient allowance had not been made by our philosophers for the extreme porousness of the interior earth the vastness of its cavities and irregularities, which served to create free currents of air and frequent winds and for the various modes in which heat is evaporated and thrown off.
This applied all over the abdomen, in case of abdominal dropsy, will have a most beneficial result. The reason why we often say new flannel is simply that few know how to wash it so as to retain its soft and porous nature as it is when good and new. That softness and porousness may be retained in a very easy way.
In the course of time, the mortar has lost its strength, which has been sucked out of it by the porousness of the rubble; and so the monuments are tumbling down and going to pieces, with their joints loosened by the settling of the material that bound them together.
The high degree of smoothness of the old statues, as well as their mellowed whiteness, may give life; added to that wonderful deep cutting in all crevices and detail of nature, such as gives, in literature, the life to Balzac's endlessly studied facts of situation. The sugary porousness of much of the inferior marble of to-day arrests the eye, and troubles it.
Cotton is much softer and pleasanter to the skin than wool, is cooler in hot weather, is much cheaper, and is very easily washed without losing either its shape or its porousness. It can be so woven as to be almost as porous as wool, and to retain that porousness even when saturated with perspiration.
I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age. It will appear perhaps an observation somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have every characteristic of Spanish oak, if Spanish oak were distended by any unnatural means.
Now, the percolation of water may increase the porousness of that body which it pervades, but never can thus change it from a porous to a perfect solid body.
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