In-front-of Sentence Examples
The little car pulled out in front of them.
The one in front of him passed out.
He parked the truck in front of the house and headed down the hill.
Did you chew her out in front of everyone?
So you kissed me in front of her.
It was like standing in front of a bonfire.
A car was parked in front of me, an old Ford.
The man with purple eyes knelt in front of her.
Two large men stood in front of the door across the hall.
On Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.
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Jonny stopped in front of him and stared.
Darkyn moved in front of him.
How could he do such a thing in front of Jonathan... and where was Jonathan?
I told him a big fat lie in front of you this past weekend.
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I was surprised to notice the vehicle lent to Howie was no longer parked in front of his door.
Henri nodded, his fingers flying over the keyboard in front of him.
When they finally got on the plane, she and Jonathan had a window seat - Jonathan in front of her.
I know you would stand beside me - maybe even in front of me with the intent of protecting me.
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He parked the truck in front of the courthouse and turned to her, dragging a paper from his pocket.
She looked away fast for fear of the sizzling blue gaze and dropped to her knees in front of Darian, pulling his hands from his face to see the wound.
He sat on the ottoman in front of her, reaching out to tuck her hair behind her ear.
Two more people came into the room and Alex gently pulled her in front of him to make room for them.
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Wodan promised to give victory to those whom he should see in front of him at sunrise.
She was pacing the hall in front of the dining area when Hannah emerged a short time later carrying a large tote.
Kiera rose and turned away, wondering how her friend was so clueless while standing in front of her painting of A'Ran.
He snapped his fingers in front of her eyes.
Restless, she rose and paced in front of the safe.
Brady paused in front of her, meeting her gaze.
He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block. He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell. She was curled up on the bed, sobbing. When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why. Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood. The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.
The vision disappeared in a moment, after someone stepped in front of Dean and helped him steady his legs and rise to his feet.
He was standing in front of the mirror in his jeans and an athletic undershirt, shaving with a disposable razor.
He watched her all the while, and when she leaned forward to place his plate in front of him, his sultry gaze lifted to hers.
Jenn stared at them numbly then dug a hole in front of the monument with shaking fingers.
His eyes went to the still man in front of Jenn.
They Traveled to see Jonny pacing in front of Jenn's window.
Snow fell heavier, until she could barely see the next tree in front of her.
After a short search, she found a small cave and scaled the boulders in front of it.
When he didn't move, she approached and stopped in front of him, looking up at him.
Not in words, but how do you think it made me feel when you defied me in front of everyone?
The large basin of drinking-water in front of the exedra was fed thence, and served to associate the name of Herodes with a benefit of the highest practical value.
By the development of a ciliated ring just in front of the mouth the embryo becomes a trochosphere.
Unlike Java, Sumatra has a series of considerable islands (Nias Islands, Mentawi Islands, &c.) arranged like outworks in front of the west coast, which faces the open Indian Ocean.
The perforated pharynx terminates some distance in front of the atriopore.
She bit her lip, not wanting to make yet another scene in front of the waiting warriors.
She whirled away and paused in front of the bathing basin, a sigh robbing her frame of tension.
They stopped in front of a wooden door in the earth.
The iron wall was open in front of Sirian's cell.
Finally he kneeled in front of her so that their eyes were on the level.
Wren also designed a colonnade to enclose a large piazza forming a clear space round the church, somewhat after the fashion of Bernini's colonnade in front of St Peter's, but space in the city was too valuable to admit of this.
A steep slope, vineyards, low stone walls and abatis had all to be surmounted, under a galling fire from the Bavarian musketeers, before the Army of France found itself, breathless and in disorder, in front of the actual entrenchments of the crest.
Layer upon layer of clay is deposited by the sea in front of the dikes, until new fringe has been added to the coast-line on which sea grasses begin to grow.
The South Beveland (1862-1866) canal connects the East and West Scheldt; similarly in South Holland the Voorne canal unites the Haringvliet with the New Maas, which does not allow the passage of large vessels above Brielle; whilst owing to the banks and shallows in front of Hellevoetsluis the New Waterway was cut to Rotterdam.
On the west bank of the huge colossi of Memnon marked the entrance of his funerary temple, a magnificent building which was afterwards destroyed, and the great lake of Birket Habu was dug and embanked in front of his brick palace at the extreme south.
But the way in which they usually diverge just over and in front of the eye has suggested the more probable idea, that they serve to guard these organs from thorns and spines while hunting for fallen fruits among the tangled thickets of rattans and other spiny plants.
The little square in front of the church is surrounded by Gothic palaces of the Doria family.
The Piazza Ferrari, a large irregular space, is the chief focus of traffic and the centre of the Genoese tramway system; it is embellished with a fine equestrian statue of Garibaldi, unveiled in 1893, which stands in front of the Teatro Carlo Felice.
Most of these animals were of small size, and many had long upper canines, like those of the existing Hydrelaphus; while in all there was no depression for a gland in front of the eye.
At a given moment one of these compartments is burning and at its full temperature; the air for combustion is drawn in through one or more compartments behind it which have just finished burning, and is thereby strongly heated; the products of combustion pass away through one or more compartments in front of it and heat their contents before they are subjected to actual combustion.
The shores are for the most part low, with few islands in front of them, and culti vation comes down almost to the tide-line.
Vast vertical walls of rock shoot up to a height of 600 ft., cut by their perpendicular joints into quadrangular piers and projections, some of which stand out alone as cathedral-like islets in front of the main cliff.
He is generally naked; his right leg rests on a rock or the prow of a ship; he carries a trident in his hand, and is gazing in front of him, apparently out to sea; sometimes he is standing on the water, swinging his trident, or riding in his chariot over the waves, accompanied by his wife Amphitrite, the Nereids and other inhabitants of the sea.
Here the metacarpals and metatarsals have partially united to form cannonbones, the skull has assumed the elongated form characteristic of modern camels, with the loss of the first and second pairs of upper incisors, and the development of gaps in front of and behind each of the next three teeth, that is to say, the third incisor, the canine and the first cheek-tooth.
These separate enclosed seats are properly reserved for the clergy, and more usually the choir are seated in open benches in front of the stalls.
On its south side stands the walled town of Ting-hai, in front of which is the principal harbour.
On the northern side of this terrace, between the second temple and the Cyclopean supporting wall, a long stoa or colonnade runs from east to west abutting at the west end in structures which evidently contained a well-house and waterworks; while at the eastern end of this stoa a number of chambers were erected against the hill, in front of which were placed statues and inscriptions, the bases for which are still extant.
The dwelling-places of the natives are usually small huts of the simplest constuction, used chiefly as sleeping apartments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves.
Tufa is also found in the lowest part of the city towards the sea in front of the few houses that have been discovered; and in the very high banks that surround them, as also in the lowest part of the theatre, there are plainly to be seen earth, sand, ashes, fragments 3 C.I.L.
This square is distinguished for a uniform and nearly completed line of colonnades in front of the buildings surrounding it.
In 1899 the Uruguayan government entered into a contract for the dredging of the bay, the construction of two long breakwaters, the dredging of a channel to deep water, and the construction of a great basin and docks in front of the city.
The line chosen by Krauss ran from south of Rovereto in front of Col Santo to the Borcola Pass; thence along the rim of the Arsiero plateau, north of the Posina and east of the Upper Astico; thence north-eastward across the Val d'Assa to Monte Mosciagh, and thence northward to the old frontier.
These images would be short lines of light; but a plano-cylindrical lens is placed with its axis horizontal just in front of the recording surface.
Along the south-eastern margin, in front of the Taurus, stands a line of great volcanoes, stretching from Kara-Dagh to Argaeus.
The ridges in front of it rose steeply, and were strongly held by the Italians, whose position, however, suffered from two grave drawbacks.
On other occasions also Vamacharis commonly offer animal sacrifices, usually one or more kids; the head of the victim, which has to be severed by a single stroke, being always placed in front of the image of the goddess as a blood-offering (bali), with an earthen lamp fed with ghee burning above it, whilst the flesh is cooked and served to the guests attending the ceremony, except that of buffaloes, which is given to the low-caste musicians who perform during the service.
Section in front of mouth; the right and left sides are transposed.
Usually the sides of the carapace are strangely produced into a mock rostrum in front of the ocular lobe, be it oculiferous or not.
Finland was on the whole prosperous and progressive, and his statue in the great square in front of the cathedral and the senate house in Helsingfors testifies to the regard in which his memory is cherished by his Finnish subjects.
It consisted of a fixed horseshoe armature wound over with insulated copper wire in front of which revolved about a vertical axis a horseshoe magnet.
If there be refraction at a collective spherical surface, or through a thin positive lens, 0' 2 will lie in front of O' 1 so long as the angle u2 is greater than u 1 (" under correction "); and conversely with a dispersive surface or lenses (" over correction ").
The thyroid gland, which is situated in front of the neck, yields a secretion which passes into the blood and there tends to maintain a state of moderate dilatation in the blood-vessels and of oxidization in the tissues, so that the circulation remains good and the body-heat and muscular activity remain well maintained.
The " crowd of lights " described by Paulinus as crowning the altar were either grouped round it or suspended in front of it; they are represented by the sanctuary lamps of the Latin Church and by the crown of lights suspended in front of the altar in the Greek.
When the second division of the nerve is affected the pain is chiefly in the cheek and upper jaw, the painful points being immediately below the lower eyelid, over the cheek bone, and about the upper lip. When the third division of the nerve suffers the pain affects the lower jaw, and the chief painful points are in front of the ear and about the chin.
The coast is lined with low dunes or sandhills, in front of which lie the large littoral lakes or lagoons named the Frisches Haff and the Kurisches Haff.
It is clear, then, that in front of the Himalaya there is a great depression, but as yet there is no indication that this depression was ever beneath the sea.
After a time a new fault originated at the foot of the sub-Himalayan zone thus raised, which now became part of the Himalaya themselves, and a new sub-Himalayan chain was formed in front of the previous one.
In the case of water the whole of the surface in front of the needle moves with it, while on the other hand the dust floating on alcohol is scarcely disturbed until the needle actually strikes it.
The waves then travel along with the body at a constant distance in front of it.
In front of this is a double series of stationary waves, the gravitation waves forming a series increasing in wave-length with their distance in front of the body, and the surface-tension waves or ripples diminishing in wave-length with their distance from the body, and both sets of waves rapidly diminishing in amplitude with their distance from the body.
Beyond them a road branches to the right, sweeping round in a broad curve to the space in front of the temple of Apollo.
To the east of the space in front of the temple was an oblong building of two chambers, with a colonnade on each side but not in front; this may have been the Prytaneum or some other official building; beyond it is the most interesting and characteristic of all the monuments of Delphi.
Leaving only a few troops in front of Verria and of the Greek 5th Div.
On the 22nd the first serious engagements took place in front of Adrianople.
The fine bay in front of the city, affording a safe and commodious harbour, is formed by an island stretching along the south of it.
The " growing point " of the trunk is, in fact, situated in front of this region, and, when the full number of somites has been reached, the unsegmented part remaining forms the telson of the adult.
Sometimes they are applied, as in the Copepoda, to the limb-bearing and limbless regions of the trunk, while in other cases, as in the Phyllopoda, they denote, respectively, the regions in front of and behind the genital apertures.
In the nauplius larva they lie rather at the sides than in front of the mouth, and their basal portion carries a hook-like masticatory process which assists the similar processes of the mandibles in seizing food.
At successive moults the somites increase in number, new somites being added behind those already differentiated, from a formative zone in front of the telsonic region.
Even in those which have most fully retained the primitive order of development, as in the Penaeidea and Euphausiidae, the last pair of abdominal appendages make their appearance in advance of those immediately in front of them.
His political career was by no means so creditable, and it has been said of him that he had character only in front of the enemy.
Yet the scene continued in front of her.
It may be necessary to cut out a small trench in front of the constructional hearth to allow the air pipe to be fitted.
The next six miles were truly horrendous you couldn't see more than ten foot in front of you due to the blizzard.
A large hummock or ridge of ice lay in front of the man, blocking his view of the horizon in that direction.
Anyway I'm driving home along a typical new suburban road when a fox suddenly runs across in front of my old jalopy.
There is a 5 min transfer bus journey which will drop you right in front of the terminal.
Wandering Swan was on the stage in front of us, but when were awoke from our afternoon kip, it was gone.
They left slippery trails under her white knuckles, which grasped the drink in front of her.
Later we stand together in front of a battered leather suitcase, filled with small luggage labels.
Perhaps he needed to " save face " in front of my now hysterically laughing fiancee.
The images were taken using a small magnifying lens in front of the camera lens held in place with putty.
We sat down in front of a pair of incredibly lifelike full size statues.
There was also a pair of electric locos running light just in front of us to get out of the way too.
With my carefully manicured lesson plan in hand, I stood in front of a sea of pupils, all demanding my attention NOW!
Hardware - All the stuff you have physically manifest in front of you, or which sits inside these components.
We plan to relocate the war memorial in front of the new building.
You'll see the miller turn the wheel on the right to open the sluice gate in front of the waterwheel.
Nothing breaks the monotony of a long day in front of the computer like a wad of paper falling through a cheering basket.
With his hands inside a fur muff, he squatted all day in front of a map of Western Australia.
A substantial stone bridge, bearing the name of Coronation Bridge, was erected across the Wear in front of Newhouse in 1839.
It was a very nerve-racking experience standing in front of the Girlguiding picture boards waiting to be presented to Her Majesty.
I found three blackish nightjars sitting on the track in front of our huts and was able to approach them within a few meters.
All contracts are drawn up in front of a public notary, where the buyer's lawyer must be present.
She throws herself in front of a van and fakes another orgasm, er, sorry, I mean injury.
Your whole concentration centers on a piece of white parchment that comes to life in front of your eyes.
Pull the belt until the first round is in front of the bottom pawls.
A bust on a small pedestal above an inscription, set in a niche in front of a marbled background with stone drapes.
The penult peel goes through to 2 yds in front of rover.
As you inscribe pentagram see it forming in the air in front of you.
The gals from an New England village dealing with a visiting sex pervert getting his willy out in front of their kids.
A hen pheasant flew off some ten feet in front of me.
There was also a grand piano on the floor in front of the stage, which someone was playing.
The Palace of the prince must have a piazza in front of it.
She waved her band in front of the access pad to her room and entered, crossing to grab her sketch book.
He crossed to the seat in front of Damian's desk and propped his feet up on the desk.
The only part of his life that had been good lay beyond the gateway in front of him. No, he told himself.
Damian crouched in front of her, his hand on her stomach.
She stopped in front of one at last, taking in the cuneiform writing.
She sat in front of the obelisk, staring at all that remained of her family history.
He paused in front of her and turned to face the walls.
He closed the door and crossed to her, kneeling in front of her.
I don't always agree with his views on how to raise children either, but we don't contest each other in front of the children.
There was nothing unusual about him kissing her goodbye or calling her sweetheart, but he had never done so in front of guests.
Carmen placed a cup of coffee in front of Felipa and then settled into a chair opposite her.
Without warning, a peccary and her two babies burst from the brush and darted immediately in front of Ed.
Now they were arguing in front of family as well as guests.
If she openly admired him in front of her prospective employer, what would she do when she was alone with him?
Maybe he thought she looked too good to be gallivanting around in front of the guests – particularly Rob.
I'm not doing that much and … she paused as he stopped in front of her and looked up at him.
Actually, he had done a pretty good job of humiliating her in front of her guest and hired help.
He picked the pieces up and laid them on the counter in front of her.
What could I do without making a scene in front of our customers?
Of course, Clarissa was careful about what she said in front of the boss.
It was tempting to denounce him in front of everyone, but that would be childish.
A young boy stopped his bicycle in front of the store and his thongs slapped bare heals as he entered.
As she climbed the porch steps she noticed something lying in front of the door.
Do you know there was a huge snake waiting for me right there in front of the door yesterday when I came home?
Megan watched as he stood in front of the mirror and shaved.
He arrived in the kitchen with his shirt on and smiled as he sank to the bench in front of the plate she had filled for him.
She glanced at the book in front of her, an idea forming in her mind.
Justin stopped in front of him, still holding her hand captive.
I wouldn't say that in front of Megan if I was you.
They exited into the hallway, and she closed the door behind her, standing protectively in front of it.
It's been my experience that watching people get killed in front of you tends to leave you more traumatized than functional, and I need you functional.
A janitor was mopping down the hall, and she stood once more in front of the closed door to Ashley's room.
Jessi rang the doorbell four times, nervously pacing in front of the closed door.
The woman rolled out of bed, unconcerned with being naked in front of a stranger.
Xander dropped his feet from the other chair and hauled her in front of him, then yanked her belt to bring her into his lap.
The spiraculum is median and opens far back, in front of the vent.
But the condition was attached that he should walk in front of her and not look back until he had reached the upper world.
One end of the hippodrome was semicircular, and the other end square with an extensive portico, in front of which, at a lower level, were the stalls for the horses and chariots.
Many birds possess a more or less well developed cross-joint in front of the frontals and lacrymals, perhaps best developed in Anseres and Psittaci.
In the Russian Orthodox Church the term "ambo" is used of the semicircular steps leading to the platform in front of the iconostasis, but in cathedrals the bishop has an ambo in the centre of the church.
The anchorage at Monrovia is safe, and with some expenditure of money a smooth harbour could be made in front of Grand Basa.
Workmen are killed and injured in this way, both while on duty and when going to and from their work; passengers, with or without right, go in front of trains at stations and at highway crossings at grade level; and trespassers are killed and injured in large numbers on railways everywhere, at and near stations, at crossings, and out on the open road, where they have no shadow of right.
These engines have a pole projecting horizontally in front of them, or are attached to a " polecar " having such a pole.
The method of working is for the pole to be swung out behind a number of wagons; one engine is then started and with its pole pushes the wagons in front of it until their speed is sufficient to carry them over the points, where they are diverted into any desired siding.
Yahweh now becomes the supreme deity of the Hebrew people, and an ark analogous to the Egyptian and Babylonian arks portrayed on the monuments' was constructed as embodiment of the rumen of Yahweh and was borne in front of the Hebrew army when it marched to war.
The spectra of the stars he obtained by using, outside the object-glass of his telescope, a large prism, through which the light passed to be brought to a focus in front of the eye-piece.
In Acanthobdella, however, the testes of each side of the body have grown together to form a continuous band, which extends in front of external pore.
There are large lacunae in the head in front of the ganglia.
Hohenlohe had determined to drive the French into the ravine at daybreak, but had no idea as to the numbers in front of him.
Soult's army (about 79,000), in three entrenched lines, stretched from the sea in front of St Jean de Luz along commanding ground to Amotz and thence, behind the river, to Mont Mondarin near the Nive.
Directly west of the town hall is the new Stadthaus, the chief police station of the town, in front of which is a bronze statue of the burgomaster Karl Friedrich Petersen (1809-1892), erected in 1897.
But it is necessary to remember, in the light of recent discoveries, that the sixth prosomatic pair of appendages is carried on the seventh somite of the whole series, there being two prosthomeres or somites in front of the mouth, the first carrying the eyes, the second the chelicerae; also that the first mesosomatic or genital somite is not the seventh or even the eighth of the whole series of somites which have been historically present, 1 See the article Arthropoda for the use of the term " prosthomere."
The Composition of the Head (that is to say, of the anterior part of the prosoma) with especial Reference to the Region in Front of the Mouth.
The single pair of palpiform appendages in front of the mouth has been found in one instance to be antenniform, whilst the numerous post-oral appendages in the same genus were bi-ramose.
This telson may enlarge, it may possibly even become internally and sternally developed as partially separate somites, and the tergum may remain without trace of somite formation, or, as appears to be the case in Limulus, the telson gives rise to a few well-marked somites (mesosoma and two others) and then enlarges without further trace of segmentation, whilst the chitinous integument which develops in increasing thickness on the terga as growth advances welds together the unsegmented telson and the somites in front of it, which were previ ously marked by separate tergal thickenings.
The meeting of the coxae of all the prosomatic limbs in front of the pentagonal sternum; the space for a genital operculum; the pair of pectens, and the absence of any evidence of pulmonary stigmata are noticeable in this specimen.
Like most other young animals, fox-cubs are exceedingly playful, and may be seen chasing one another in front of the mouth of the burrow, or even running after their own tails.
The oak and sycamore in front of Birnam House, the famed twin trees of Birnam, are believed to be more than 1000 years old, and to be the remnant of the wood of Birnam which Shakespeare immortalized in Macbeth.
A fountain, after the original design of that in the quadrangle of Linlithgow Palace, was erected in front of the entrance by the prince consort.
In experiment under ordinary circumstances it makes no difference whether the collecting lens is in front of or behind the diffracting aperture.
One of these, of width equal, say, to one-tenth of an inch, is inserted in front of the object-glass, and the telescope, carefully focused all the while, is drawn gradually back from the grating until the lines are no longer seen.
At other parts of the field the effect is the same, in accordance with the principle known as Babinet's, whether the imaginary screen in front of the object-glass is generally transparent but studded with a number of opaque circular disks, or is generally opaque but perforated with corresponding apertures.
If a telescope be employed there is a distinction to be observed, according as the half-covered aperture is between the eye and the ocular, or in front of the object-glass.
If, however, the half-covered aperture be in front of the object-glass, the phenomenon is magnified as a whole, and the desirable relation between the (unmagnified) dispersion and the aperture is the same as without the telescope.
Obelisks were usually raised on pedestals of cubical form resting on one or two steps, and were set up in pairs in front of the entrance of temples.
The west end was formed by a wall, on which stood four columns between antae; but the main entrance to this western compartment was through a large and very ornate doorway on the north; and a large Ionic portico, consisting of four columns in the front, and one in the return on each side, was placed in front of this door.
As the Scots were forced back, a part of Dacre's force closed upon the other flank, and finally Dacre himself, boldly neglecting an almost intact Scottish division in front of him, charged in upon the rear of King James's corps.
About the same time, the force in front of De la Rey and Kemp in the west being depleted to find the troops for larger operations, the Boers made a fierce surprise attack on Colonel Kekewich's column at Moedville, in which Kekewich was wounded and his troops hard pressed for a time.
The helm bar is a roll of cloud that forms in front of it, to leeward.
When the object was only to hold up the hair from the neck, the o-¢Evbovn was used, which, as its name implies, was in the form of a sling; but in this case it was called more particularly 67reQBov¢EVbovrt, as a distinction from the sphendone when worn in front of the head.
Then when once across the stream it was discovered that unlike the normal slopes in the district the hillside in front of them showed a slight convexity under cover of which they were able to re-form in regular order.
News had now been received of the arrival of Austrian reinforcements by rail at the capital both from Hungary and Italy, and of the preparation of a strong line of provisional defences along the Florisdorf position directly in front of Vienna.
Ventral fins below or in front of the pectorals, the pelvic bones posterior to the clavicular symphysis and only loosely attached to it by ligament.
Below London Bridge the river is embanked for a short distance in front of the Tower of London, and above Westminster Bridge the Albert Embankment extends for nearly 1 m.
The Marble Arch was intended as a monument to Nelson, and first stood in front of Buckingham Palace, being moved to its present site in 1851.
Provision was made in the design, by Sir Aston Webb, for the extension of the Mall to open upon Trafalgar Square, through gateways in a semicircular range of buildings to be occupied by government offices, and for a wide circular space in front of the Palace, with a statue of the Queen by Thomas Brock in its centre.
A statue of the duke of Cambridge, by Captain Adrian Jones, was unveiled in 1907 in front of the War Office, Whitehall.
The defeat suffered by the Suvla troops on the 9th was in reality decisive in so far as the new area was concerned; but, even so, the invaders who had set foot there tried yet again on the 10th to wrest the heights in front of them out of Osmanli keeping.
This workman stands upon a platform in front of special furnaces which, from their shape and purpose,.
A full account of the process of blowing crown-glass will be found in all older books and articles on the subject, so that it need only be mentioned here that the glass, instead of being blown into a cylinder, is blown into a flattened sphere, which is caused to burst at the point opposite the pipe and is then, by the rapid spinning of the glass in front of a very hot furnace-opening, caused to expand into a flat disk of large diameter.
The width of the sheet or plate is regulated by moving guides which are placed in front of the roller and are pushed along by it, while its thickness is regulated by raising or lowering the roller relatively to the surface of the table.
The rolled sheet is left on the castingtable until it has set sufficiently to be pushed over a flat iron plate without risk of distortion; meanwhile the table has been placed in front of the opening of one of the large annealing kilns and the slab of glass is carefully pushed into the kiln.
The anomalous position of the stamens in front of the petals is explained by the abortion or non-development of an outer row of stamens, indications of which are sometimes seen on the hypogynous disk encircling the ovary.
By this means they were enabled to capture the island of Giglio, and, attacking the Pisan harbour, carried off its chains, bore them in triumph to Florence, and suspended them in front of the baptistery, where they remained until 1848.
If we hold a common reading lens (a magnifying lens) in front of a lamp or some other bright object and at some distance from it, and if we hold a sheet of paper vertically at a suitable distance behind the lens, we see depicted on the paper an image of the lamp. This image is inverted and perverted.
After discussing the structure of the eye he gives an experiment in which the appearance of the reversed images of outside objects on a piece of paper held in front of a small hole in a darkened room, with their forms and colours, is quite clearly described and explained with a diagram, as an illustration of the phenomena of vision.
He discloses as a great secret the use of a concave speculum in front of the aperture, to collect the rays passing through it, when the images will be seen reversed, but by prolonging them beyond the centre they would be seen larger and unreversed.
There is good anchorage throughout the entire channel separating the island from the mainland, except in the Ly-ee-mun Pass, where the water is deep; the best anchorage is in Hong-Kong roads, in front of Victoria, where, over good holding ground, the depth is 5 to 9 fathoms. The inner anchorage of Victoria Bay, about a m.
With 12,500 men of all arms the Marshal held in front of him over 40,000 of the enemy.
On the piazza in front of the church is Donatello's magnificent equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni, the Venetian general (1438-1441).
His forces on the Marchfeld were drawn up in front of the bridges facing north, with their left in the village of Aspern (Gross-Aspern) and their right in Essling (or Esslingen).
In the meanwhile nearly all the French infantry posted between the two villages and in front of the bridges had been drawn into the fight on either flank.
Hence, if a prism is placed in front of the eye with its base towards the nose, a ray of light falling upon it will be bent inwards, and seem to come from a point farther out from the axis of vision.
In hypermetropia the retina is in front of the principal focus of the eye.
In appearance tsetse are somewhat narrow-bodied flies, with a prominent proboscis, which projects horizontally in front of the head, and with the wings in the resting position closed flat one over the other like the blades of a pair of scissors.
A number of fine sculptures were found in the square in front of the cathedral in 1890, and architectural fragments belonging to some public building.
In some all the teeth are nearly of the same size; others possess in front of the jaws (Lycodonts) or behind in the maxillaries (Diacrasterians) a tooth more or less con spicuously larger than the rest; whilst others again are distinguished by this larger posterior tooth being grooved along its outer face.
Doliophis intestinalis of Indo-China has enormously developed poison glands, which extend down the whole anterior third of the body, in front of the heart.
After passing the altar, it turns to the left again at right angles, and so enters the space in front of the temple.
On the 14th of May 1861 he was appointed colonel of the 13th U.S. Infantry, a new regiment, and was soon assigned to command a brigade in General McDowell's army in front of Washington.
All the space behind the mirror will become dark, and all the space in front of the mirror will acquire an exalted illumination.
She was a celebrated dancer and courtesan, who, in the full flower of her beauty and guilty sovereignty over the youth of Antioch, was suddenly converted by the influence of the holy bishop Nonnus, whom she had heard preaching in front of a church which she was passing with her gay train of attendants and admirers.
This Pirene originally had a two-storey facade of Roman fashion made of limestone, but, before the time of Pausanias, it had received a covering of marble which has now fallen off, but has left traces of itself in the holes drilled into the limestone, in the rough hacking away of the half columns, and in the numerous marble fragments which lay in front of the facade.
It was built up in front of a more simple Greek fountain-structure which consisted of seven cross-walls placed under the edge of the stratum forming the upper terrace.
Public monuments are few, but include a statue of Queen Victoria (1903) and a South African War memorial (1905) in front of the city hall; the Albert Memorial (1870), in the form of a clock-tower, in Queen Street; a monument to the same prince in High Street; and a statue in Wellington Place to Dr Henry Cooke, a prominent Presbyterian minister who died in 1868.
The image was made of felt and cloth, and similar images of his wife and children were set on his left hand and in front of him.
Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.
The advanced guard of the Allies under General (Lord) Cadogan promptly crossed the Scheldt and annihilated an outlying body of French troops, and Cadogan established himself on the ground he had won in front of the French centre.
He had been in communication with Monk for some time, and on Monk entering London with his army (3rd February 1660) Lenthall met him in front of Somerset House.
An arrangement, afterwards described, has been fitted in modern heliometers for placing the screen in front of either segment by a handle at the eye-end.
Gill introduced a powerful auxiliary to the accuracy of heliometer measures in the shape of a reversing prism placed in front of the eye-piece, between the latter and the observer's eye.
If Struve had employed a properly proportioned double circular diaphragm, fixed symmetrically with the axis of the telescope in front of the divided lens and turning with the micrometer, it is probable that his report on the instrument would have been still more favourable.
In 1876 a statue of Servetus was erected by Don Pedro Gonsalez de Velasco in front of his Instituto Antropologico at Madrid; in 1903 an expiatory block was erected at Champel; in 1907 a statue was erected in Paris (Place de la Mairie du XIV e Arrondissement); another is at Aramnese; another was prepared (1910) for erection at Vienne.
In medieval architecture the term is applied on the European continent to that portion of a chancel, which, enclosed with a railing or balustrade in front of the altar, is devoted to the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; this in England is generally known as the presbytery.
The plan of the temple may be supposed to have included a colonnaded court in front of the present facade, and pylon towers at the entrance; but these were never built, probably for lack of funds.
On either side of this centre was the cavalry in two long lines, while in front of the centre and close to the right at Liitzen were the two batteries of heavy artillery.
In certain species of mylodon the front pair of teeth in each jaw is placed some distance in front of the rest and has the crown surface obliquely bevelled by From Owen.
The atmosphere of the whole town is, indeed, dominated by the memory of Goethe and Schiller, whose bronze statues, by Rietschel, grouped on one pedestal (unveiled in 1857) stand in front of the theatre.
Thereafter, whatever befell, the allied armies would resolutely press forward towards Paris, affording each other mutual support, and with the tremendous weight of troops at their disposal thrust back Napoleon upon his capital, force him to fight in front of it, and drive him when defeated within its works.
The frontier in front of Leuze and Binche was watched by the DutchBelgian light cavalry.
The frontier in front of Binche, Charleroi and Dinant was watched by the Prussian outposts.
He was in front of a force of unknown strength which appeared resolved to stand its ground, his men were tired, and the cannon-thunder to his right rear proclaimed clearly that Grouchy had not made much headway on the Fleurus road.
Meanwhile two long hours had been wasted on the right whilst Grouchy and Vandamme deliberated over their plan of action in front of the Prussian brigade at Gilly; and it was not until the emperor himself again reached the front, about 5.30 P.M., that vigour replaced indecision.
The right wing, under Grouchy, had come to a halt in front of Fleurus.
He at once wrote to Ney saying that these could only be some of Wellington's troops, and that Ney was to concentrate his force and crush what was in front of him, adding that he was to send all reports to Fleurus.
Napoleon ordered Ney to master Quatre Bras, and added that the emperor would attack the corps which he saw in front of him.
The two chiefs, surveying the French army in their front, considered that no serious force was in front of Quatre Bras, and Wellington terminated the interview with the conditional promise that he would bring his army to Blucher's assistance at Ligny, if he was not attacked himself.
Immediately afterwards, hearing that Ney had 20,000 men in front of him, he sent the "pencil-note" by General La Bedoyere which directed Ney to detach D'Erlon's corps to Ligny.
He used a low ridge to screen his main June defensive position, exposing comparatively few troops in front of the crest.
As D'Erlon's troops advanced the Dutch-Belgian brigade in front of the ridge, which had been subjected to an overwhelming fire from the 80 French guns at close range, turned about and retired in disorder through the main position.
The lex parieti faciundo, an interesting inscription of 105 B.C. relating to some building works in front of the temple of Serapis, shows that Puteoli had considerable administrative independence, including the right to date such a public document by the names of its own magistrates.
A common called the Stray, of 200 acres, secured by act of parliament from ever being built upon, stretches in front of the main line of houses, and on this account Harrogate, notwithstanding its rapid increase, has retained much of its rural charm.
If a second card with a narrow slit in it is held in front of the first, the slit running from the centre outwards, the wave motion is still more evident.
Stationary waves are formed in the air in the dust-tube if the length is rightly adjusted by the closely-fitting piston, and the lycopodium dust collects at the nodes in little heaps, the first being at the fixed end and the last just in front of the piston on the sounder.
On the other side the ist Army was at Feng-hwang-cheng with one brigade detached on the roads on either hand, the left being therefore in front of the Takushan division and facing the Fenshuiling.
Oku renewed the attack next day, but found only a rearguard in front of him, and without following up the retiring Russians he again halted for six days before proceeding to Haicheng to effect a junction with the 4th Army (Nozu), which meantime had won a number of minor actions and forced the passage of the mountains at Fenshuiling South.'
Wire entanglements were disposed in repeated lines in front of the defences, but they were not of a strong type.
The Russian line in front of Mukden from the Hun-ho, through the Putilov and Novgorod hills on the Sha-ho, to the mountains, was 47 m.
Here the larger houses had platforms in front of them forming terraces at different levels descending towards the river.
In addition to the statues in Juneau Park there is a statue of Kosciusko in the park of that name; one of Washington and a soldiers' monument on Grand Avenue; a statue of Henry Bergh in front of the city hall; one of Robert Burns in the First Ward Park, and, in Washington Park, a replica of Ernst Rietschel's Schiller-Goethe monument in Jena, given to the city in 1908 by the Germans of Milwaukee.
According to an alternative explanation, the heavenly Ram, placed as leader in front of the flock of the stars, merely embodied a spontaneous figure of the popular imagination.
He was accorded a public funeral, and a statue was erected to his memory in front of the Rostra.
Within this circuit there are various open areas - the spacious Ippodromo in front of the citadel, the public gardens in the north-east of the city, the Piazza Grande in front of the cathedral, and the Piazza Reale to the south of the palace.
Bartholdi, stands in front of the castle; and in the Place d'Armes is the bronze group "Quand Meme" by Antonin Mercie, in memory of Thiers and of Colonel Pierre Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878), commandant of the place during the siege.
The German batteries, as more guns arrived, were extended from left to right, and on the 13th of December the Bosmont was captured, ground being also gained in front of Bellevue.
Here Stonewall Jackson lay with a small force, and in front of him at the outlet of the valley was Banks, while Fremont threatened him from West Virginia.
Butler and the Army of the James at the same time won some successes in front of the Richmond works.
Grant lay in front of the Army of northern Virginia with 125,000 men, and when active operations began Lee had no resource but to try and escape to the southwest in order to join Johnston.
The larva for a time swims freely in the sea-water, having a circlet of cilia round the body in front of the mouth, forming the velum.
This peculiar little inhabitant of the steppes and desert regions of Turkestan and Persia, by rubbing the imbricating scales upon each other, produces a shrill cricket-like noise, whilst sitting at night in front of its hole in the ground.
As in all Arachnida there is only a single pair of appendages in front of the mouth, and these were onebranched, long and filiform and acted as antennae.
Those genera, like Paradoxides, Olenus, Asaphus, Phillipsia and others, in which this groove cuts the posterior edge of the head-shield on the inner side of its angle are referred to the Opisthoparia; those, like Dalmanites and Phacops, in which it cuts the lateral border in front of the posterior angle, belong to the Proparia.
On the north side, in front of the high altar, is another somewhat similar throne for the use of the king.
When the ice of the last glacial epoch had retreated so far that Its front lay on a northward slope, belonging to the drainage area of the Great Lakes, bodies of water accumulated in front of the ice margin, forming glacio-marginal lakes.
The ether three sides are occupied by the episcopal and municipal palaces, and the Palazzo Piccolomini; the last, resembling the Palazzo Rucellai at Florence, is the finest, and in front of it is a beautiful fountain.
In addition the church of the Rosary, a rich building in the Byzantine style, was erected in front of and below the basilica from 1884 to 1889.
His house still exists, and his tomb, a sarcophagus supported by four short columns of red marble, stands in front of the church.
To the left of the vena cava is the Spigelian lobe, which lies in front of the bodies of the tenth and eleventh thoracic vertebrae, the lesser sac of peritoneum, diaphragm and thoracic aorta intervening.
The special gland of the musk-deer, which has made the animal so well known, and has proved the cause of unremitting persecution to its possessor, is found in the male only, and is a sac about the size of a small orange, situated beneath the skin of the abdomen, the orifice being immediately in front of the preputial aperture.
That end of each which lies in front of the ovary is called the fimbriated extremity, and has a number of fringes (fimbriae) hanging from it; one of the largest of these is the ovarian fimbria and is attached to the upper or tubal pole of the ovary.
Cavity of body Cavity of cervix elevation in front of the pubic bones caused by a mass of fibrofatty tissue; the skin over it is covered by hair in the adult.
A little above the globus major a few scattered tubules are found in children in front of the cord; these form the rudimentary structure known as the organ of Giraldes or paradidymis.
In common with all other Coelomata, the Mollusca are at one period of life possessed of a prostomium or region in front of the mouth, which is the essential portion of the " head," and is connected with the property of forward locomotion in a definite direction and the steady carriage of the body (as opposed to rotation of the body on its long axis).
The teeth are secreted by a small number of cells at the closed end of the caecum, the basal membrane by a transverse row of cells in front of these.
It now passes to the veliger phase, a definitely molluscan form, in which the disproportion between the area in front of the ciliated circlet and that behind it is very greatly increased, so that the former is now simply an emarginated region of the head fringed with cilia.
On the 23rd of September Wellesley supposed himself to be still some miles from the enemy; he suddenly found that the entire forces of Sindhia and the raja of Berar were close in front of him at Assaye.
Massena followed, but was checked completely in front of the lines.
Soult had to move southwards to live, and the English were again more than a match for the enemy in front of them.
Both revolts were in progress when the Bab, with one of his devoted disciples, was brought from his prison at Chihriq to Tabriz and publicly shot in front of the arg or citadel.
The custom-house occupies a considerable part of the shore-line in front of the old city, and has a protected basin for the discharge of lighters.
On the other hand, the American forms, which have one pair of large chisel-like incisors in the lower jaw, also possess a lower canine, and show no marked gap in front of the cheek-teeth, nor any indication of the characteristic rodent backwards movement of the lower jaw.
Eight or more slivers are put behind the first drawing head, conveyed through the fallers and made into one sliver in front of the machine.
Turenne's advanced guard appeared from the Glotter Tal only to find a stubborn rearguard of cavalry in front of the abbey.
The clergy, now Roman officials, vested in the robes of the civil dignitaries, took their seats in the apse of the basilica where the magistrates were wont to sit, in front of them the holy table, facing the congregation.
Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.
Maintaining its eastern course from the Apure, the main stream finds its way along the southern side of the delta, where it is called the Corosimi river, and enters the sea at the Boca Grande; but in front of the Tortola island, at the beginning of the Corosimi and too m.
The thing cannot be done unless we adopt in some form Faraday's ingenious solution, by causing the current, in some part of its course, to divide into two channels, one on each side of the magnet, in such a way that during the revolution of the magnet the current is transferred from the channel in front of the magnet to the channel behind it, so that the middle of the magnet can pass across the current without stopping it, just as Cyrus caused his army to pass dryshod over the Gyndes by diverting the river into a channel cut for it in his rear.
Horizontal rays of light entering at the top were reflected by a prism down the tube and focussed on to a sheet of paper in front of the helmsman inside the submarine.
The most remarkable feature of Laraish is its fine large market-place inside the town with a low colonnade in front of very small shops.
Under this hall is a chamber, which, as an inscription on its walls shows, served as a treasury in the 2nd century B.C. In front of this temple an obelisk was erected in the reign of Claudius, fragments of which still exist.
This armature plate revolved in front of a field plate carrying two pieces of tin-foil backed up by larger pieces of varnished paper.
The studs on the armature plate were charged inductively by being connected for a moment by a neutralizing wire as they passed in front of the field plates, and then gave up their charges partly to renew the field charges and partly to collecting combs connected to discharge balls.
As in other molluscs the coelom is represented by a large pericardial cavity, situated above the intestine posteriorly, and a generative sac which is single and median and situated in front of the pericardium, except in the Nuttalochiton hyadesi, where the gonads are in a similar position, but are paired.
Both the openings are close together, the external opening being just in front of the principal gill near the posterior end of the body.
The labial commissure gives off a subradular commissure which also bears two ganglia, these being in close relation to a special sense-organ called the subradular organ, an epithelial projection with nerve-endings, lying in front of the radula and probably gustatory in function.
The antennae are straight, and inserted upon the head just in front of the eyes; they are 11-jointed, and serrated or toothed in the inside.
The elytra, however, are comparatively long narrow structures which occupy a position in front of the wings, of which they may be regarded as forming the anterior parts.
Models on the aeroplane screw type may be propelled by two screws, one fore and one aft, rotating in opposite directions; and in the event of only one screw being employed it may be placed in front of or behind the aeroplane.
The king's army was grouped in front of the village, facing in the direction of Milan, with a small stream separating it from the oncoming Swiss.
A little in front of the tomb, on the left and right, are smaller mounds over the graves of his son and grandson, from the latter of whom we have the remarkable treatise called The Doctrine of the Mean.
He was killed in the fighting in front of Marietta, while reconnoitring near Pine Mountain, Georgia, on the 14th of June 1864.
The eastern crescent includes by far the largest as well as the oldest portion of Naples - the ports, the arsenal, the principal churches, &c. The best-known thoroughfare is the historic Toledo (as it is still popularly called, though the official name is Via Roma) which runs almost due north from the Piazza (Largo) del Plebiscito in front of the Palazzo Reale, till, as Strada Nuova Di Capodimonte, crossing the Ponte della Sanita (constructed by Murat across the valley between Santa Teresa and Capodimonte), it reaches the gates of the Capodimonte palace.
In the Celtic tonsure (tonsure of St John, or, in contempt, tonsure of Simon Magus) all the hair in front of a line drawn over the top of the head from ear to ear was shaven (a fashion common among the Hindus).
In the time of Aristotle the names of the enrolled ephebi were engraved on a bronze pillar (formerly on wooden tablets) in front of the council-chamber.
Mecca in fact lies in the heart of a mass of rough hills, intersected by a labyrinth of narrow valleys and passes, and projecting into the Tehama or low country on the Red Sea, in front of the great mountain wall that divides the coast-lands from the central plateau, though in turn they are themselves separated from the sea by a second curtain of hills forming the western wall of the great Wadi Marr.
His deep chestnut head and throat are diversified on either side by a line of buff, which, springing from the gape, runs upward to the eye, in front of which it forms a fork, one prong passing backward above and the other below, enclosing a dark glossy-green patch, and both losing themselves in the elongated feathers of the hind-head and nape.
When drafted to an adjoining field they run in front of their mothers and get a little crushed oats and linseed cake meal, the ewes receiving kail or roots and hay to develop milk.
The normal process of writing the larger numbers on the left is in certain cases modified in the Roman system by writing a number in front of a larger one to denote subtraction.
A mixed number, the fractional part of which is a decimal fraction, is expressed by writing the integral part in front of the point, which is called the decimal point.
In 9 4 2 the work, as here shown, a o is inserted in front of the 859, on the principle explained in § 106.
Those of the first class were pedestals, so small and low that the suppliant could kneel upon them; these stood inside the temples, in front of the sacred image.
The second class consisted of larger tables destined for burnt sacrifice; these were placed in the open air, and, if connected with a temple, in front of the entrance.
Spinoza is further commemorated by a monument in front of the house in which he died in 1677.
Other public edifices include the county buildings in the Tudor style, in front of which stands the monument to George, 8th marquess of Tweeddale (1787-1876), who was such an expert and enthusiastic coachman that he once drove the mail from London to Haddington without taking rest; the corn exchange, next to that of Edinburgh the largest in Scotland; the town house, with a spire 150 ft.
But the earls Edwin and Morcar refused to fight for him, and when William appeared in front of the gates of London.
It may be observed that when the mouth is closed, especially when the opposed surfaces of the teeth present an irregular outline, the corresponding upper and lower teeth are not exactly opposite, otherwise the two series could not fit into one another, but as a rule the points of the lower teeth shut into the interspaces in front of the corresponding teeth of the upper jaw.
The charging machines travel on lines in front of the retort bench, and the power is transmitted by connexions made with flexible hose.
Guides are placed in front of the retort to direct its course to the coke hoppers or conveyer below, and to prevent scattering of the hot material.
At the battle of Poitiers on the 19th of September 1356 he took his stand in front of the English army, and after fighting for a long time was severely wounded and carried from the fight.
Erskine is commemorated by a statue in front of his church and a sarcophagus over his grave in the abbey churchyard; Gillespie by a marble tablet on the wall above his resting-place within the abbey.
The two armies were facing each other, when Basil galloped forward, seeking a personal combat with the usurper who was riding in front of his lines.
The Strategion, devoted to the military exercises of the brave little town, stood close to Sirkedji Iskelessi, and two artificial harbours, the Portus Prosforianus and the Neorion, indented the shore of the Golden Horn, respectively in front of the ground now occupied by the station of the Chemins de Fer Orientaux and the Stamboul custom-house.
Not only was the wall of Anthemius restored, but, at the distance of 20 yds., another wall was built in front of it, and at the same distance from this second wall a broad moat was constructed with a breastwork along its inner edge.
Beyond Sunium, on the eastern coast, were two safe ports, that of Thoricus, which is defended by the island of Helene, forming a natural breakwater in front of it, and that of Prasiae, now called Porto Raphti ("the Tailor"), from a statue at the entrance to which the natives have given that name.
About 1870 the question arose for discussion whether the somites in front of the mouth are to be considered as derived from the prostomium of a Chaetopod-like ancestor.
I, Coelom of the first somite It also shows us that the neurowhich carries the anten meres, no less than the embryonic nae and is in front of the coelomic cavities, point to the existmouth.
Diprosthomerous in the adult condition, though embryologically the appendages of somite II and the somite itself are, as here drawn, not actually in front of the mouth.
A character of great diagnostic value in the more primitive Arachnida is the tendency of the chitinous investment of the tergal surface of the telson to unite during growth with that of the free somites in front of it, so as to form a pygidial shield or posterior carapace, often comprising as many as fifteen somites (Trilobites, Limulus).
A gnathobase is developed (in the primitive stock) on every pair of post-oral appendages; two prosthomeres present, the second somite as well as the first having passed in front of the mouth, but only the second has appendages.
According to older views the increase of the number of somites in front of the mouth would have been regarded as a case of intercalation by new somite-budding of new prae-oral somites in the series.
In fact, we have to suppose that the actual somite which in grades 1 and 2 bore the mandibles lost those mandibles, developed their rami as tactile organs, and came to occupy a position in front of the mouth, whilst its previous jaw-bearing function was taken up by the next somite in order, into which the oral aperture had passed.
A similar history must have been slowly brought about when this second mandibulate somite in its turn became agnathous and passed in front of the mouth.
On the whole the facts seem to be against this supposition, though we need not suppose that the gnathobase was very large or the rami undeveloped in the buccal parapodia which were destined to lose their mandibular features and pass in front of the mouth.
On the esplanade in front of Macduff Castle, still called the Playfield, took place in 1552 one of the first recorded performances of Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits (1540); his Tragedy of the Cardinal (1547), referring to the murder of Beaton, being also performed there.
The mouth (o) is in front of the tentacles, on the ventral side, and is overhung by a mobile praeoral hood, in which is the principal part of the nervous system.
At one corner of the picturesque square in front of it is a Roman sarcophagus with a representation of the hunt of Meleager, with an inscription in honour of the fair Galiana, to win whom, it is said, a Roman noble laid siege to Viterbo in 1135.
On the occasion of famine the druids advised that the son of a sinless married couple should be brought to Ireland to be killed in front of Tara and his blood mixed with the soil of Tara.
Of polarimeters for the study of rotary polarization there are three principal forms. In Wild's polaristrobometer, light from a soda flame, rendered parallel by a lens, is polarized by a Nicol's prism, and after traversing the space into which the active substance is to be inserted, falls on a Savart's plate placed in front of an astronomical telescope of low power, that contains in its eyepiece a Nicol's prism, which with the plate forms a Savart's analyser.
The light is finally received in a Galilean telescope, containing an analyser and carried at the centre of a circular plate, that is graduated on its rim and can be turned in front of a vernier by means of a rack and pinion.
At one end of the instrument is placed a polarizer and the biquartz, and at the other a Galilean telescope, that must be focused on the edge of biquartz, having in front of its object-glass the compensator and an analyser that is regulated for producing the sensitive tint, when the plates of the compensator have the same thickness.
In his own words, he went in front of the Unionist army as a pioneer, and if his army was attacked he would go back to it; in no conceivable circumstances would he allow himself to be put in any sort of competition, direct or indirect, with Mr Balfour, his friend and leader, whom he meant to follow (October 6).
No depression exists in the skull in front of the eye.
The skull generally shows a slight depression in front of the socket of the eye, which, although now serving as the attachment for the muscle running to the nostril, may represent the face-gland of the extinct Hipparion.
Many of the dark-coloured horses of Europe have Barb or Arab blood in their veins, this being markedly the case with the Old English black or Shire horse, the skull of which shows a distinct depression in front of the eye-socket.
The lachrymal occupies a considerable space on the flat surface of the cheek in front of the orbit, and below it the jugal does the same.
The hemispheres are rather elongated and subcylindrical, the olfactory lobes are large and project freely in front of the' hemispheres, and the greater part of the cerebellum is uncovered.
In all the species except the African species there is a globular receptaculum seminis opening by two short ducts close together into the oviduct, and in the neotropical species there is in addition a small receptaculum ovorum, with extremely thin walls, opening into the oviduct by a short duct just in front of the receptaculum seminis.
On the 16th the Union army deployed in front of him, again over-lapping his left flank, and although a frontal attack was repulsed, the extension of the Federal right wing compelled Hood to extend his own lines more and more.
The Ramsden eyepiece is the most convenient for this because this plane lies in front of the collective lens, and the objective image has not yet been influenced by the eyepiece.
It =; L 1 = front lens is simpler to place an illuminating O of microscope; lens in front of the source of light so PP =diaphragm.
He drove the Spaniards in 1529 from the rocky island in front of Algiers, where they had a fort, and was the founder of the Turkish power.
A cartilage in the median line in front of the precoracoids, sometimes supported by a bony style, is the so-called omosternum; a large one behind the coracoids, also sometimes provided with a bony style, has been called the sternum.
Immediately in front of the foremost row of seats a hood or sloping screen of wood covers a part of the orchestra, and another hood of similar shape starts from the front of the stage at a slightly lower level.
At the end of 1626, the Swedish fleet, with 14,000 men on board, anchored in front of the chain of sand-dunes which separates the Frische-Haff from the Baltic. Pillau, the only Baltic port then accessible to ships of war, was at once occupied, and Konigsberg shortly afterwards was scared into a unconditional neutrality.
The allied Argentine Onohippidium, which is also Pleistocene, has still longer nasal bones and slits, and a deep double cavity in front of the orbit, part of which probably contained a gland.
The skull, which is relatively short, has a large depression in front of the orbit, commonly supposed to have contained a gland, but this may be doubtful.
A cold gust of wind ripped brittle brown leaves from the limbs of old oak tree, tossing them carelessly in front of the headstone below.
Completely undressed in front of me while we were talking.
As much as she didn't want to be embarrassed in front of his father, she didn't want him to be either.
It wasn't something Carmen would normally discuss, especially in front of hostiles, but Felipa should know there was a difference between excitement and love.
Finally he stopped in front of her.
Well, on Christmas Eve, we sit in front of the fire and take turns reading Christmas stories.
The other side knew it would be futile and rude in front of everyone.
As important as it was not to quarrel in front of the children, it was apparently even more important to apologize in their presence.
Davis rolled sluggishly with the sway of his mule, staring disinterestedly at the mule in front of him.
Howie stood in front of his modest hotel waiting for us.
They were killing people in front of me, and his girlfriend bit him, and now he's going to be a vampire.
His direct look warmed her body on the inside in a way she knew wasn't appropriate for the time, place, or man in front of her.
He didn't appear out of thin air to stop her, and she made it from the mansion to the Tucson airport's arrivals drop-off area, where she stopped in front of the Delta curbside check-in sign and handed Jake the keys.
Czerno motioned her out of the car as it stopped in front of the Georgian-style manor house.
Vamps jammed both directions of the hall, and Damian sensed Czerno making a beeline for the room behind the wall in front of them.
Czerno disappeared as chunks of stone ceiling piled in front of the doorway.
Her daily debate about drinking blood made her pace in front of Damian's room until he wrenched the door open and stared at her, bleary-eyed and bare-chested.
He sat down in front of a computer and pulled up a satellite image with the stash houses marked.
Self-conscious in front of Gabriel's closest friend, Deidre faced him, tilting her head back to meet his liquid silver eyes.
Caleb began to hurry, and in her haste to keep up with the halo in front of him, she stumbled, falling to her knees and rolling to her side in the wet mud.
Each misdirected spray scattered the attendees, often in front of those more favorably positioned.
Fate dropped him in front of the door to Deidre's exam room, a twisting of the knife in his heart.
Thus far, he didn't know what it was he was supposed to need from the nun in front of him, and he was too cautious to set this bridge on fire.
Gabriel returned to the Sanctuary in the Caribbean and paced in front of the hourglass perched on the altar.
She couldn.t finish her thought in front of him, partly because it made no sense and partly because she didn.t want to admit her soul felt Rhyn.s absence like the draft from a cracked window on a winter.s night.
He broke free of attackers before reaching the camouflaged door and waved his band in front of what would look like just another boulder to someone unfamiliar with the path.
He placed the goblet in front of each vampire, handing them the knife. In turn, all six cut into the palm of their hands and collected their blood.
She paced in front of one wall, staring again at the map of the eastern U.S., where the attacks and their kill zones were marked with a running timeline beneath it.
Memories of almost being raped, of Brady killing someone in front of her … Her chest seized, and she dropped to her knees.
It was too early for the vamps to be in the gym, so she stripped down to her undershirt without changing into her sparring gear and began pounding into the dummy in front of her.
Maybe he thought she looked too good to be gallivanting around in front of the guests – particularly Rob.
I'm not doing that much and … she paused as he stopped in front of her and looked up at him.
She refused to give into the sex appeal that made grown women faint in front of him.
After a moment, she ventured into the dark with her hands in front of her, to keep from running into a wall.
Her rosary beads hang gently down in front of her.
Rogers then put Bath under pressure, which caused the visiting side to concede a penalty in front of their own posts.
An inclined channel feeds the silica abrasive to the surface of the test wheel about 2 cm in front of the test-piece.
His arms were in front of him, he had an airspace.
Performing three songs for fifteen minutes in front of a global audience of 3 billion is not altruistic.
Observe the prototype in line 4 where the second variable has an ampersand in front of the variable name.
In the shell, we place an ampersand in front of a file descriptor number when doing redirections.
It is intensely annoying to be told that the objects lying there in front of you are regrettably unavailable.
Two hours later she had near apoplexy when she came upon the same rogue again casting in front of her home.
Items are ordered so that operating resource appropriations in aid are listed in front of non-operating appropriations in aid.
You'll see the archway in front of you.
The large bar area features paneled walls, wooden tables and chairs and comfortable upholstered armchairs in front of an.. .
We had a kind of mutual armistice with the Germans in the trenches in front of us.
Soundtracks are not permissible unless played live in front of the cinema audience or at the time of filming.
The crank axle is in front of the loco.
Up front the three forward worked tirelessly and with more precision in front of goal could have had a bagful.
Where the terrace is in front of the center a glass balustrade is used.
He was shot near the rubble barricade in front of Rossville Flats.
In the fifth century A.D. a large basilica was built in front of these temples, incorporating them into its atrium.
With Lisa in front of me, and my camera in my hand, I let out a loud belch.
The recharge of material at the Hinge will be placed both in front of and behind the existing rock berm.
Starting at hoop 2 Richard scored 5 points using his last bisque, but failed to get position in front of the seventh hoop.
Not everyone slumps in front of their telly on a Saturday night or pops down to the pub to get blotto.
Once during a row, her mother's boyfriend hit her in front of her mother.
Nigel Farr and Paul Clark managed 17 bream between them and bits when they fished the area in front of the island.
The key to the front in front of 101st brigade was Greenland Hill.
I caught three little brownies out of that little spot in front of him, then gave him my fly.
Evidence suggested that the murderer hid among flowering bushes in front of the Simpson home waiting for the victim.
The whole caboodle is there in front of you just waiting to be enjoyed.
Poor Parreira proved less canny, agreeing to sip the water in front of the cameras.
This picture taken around 1928 shows Percy Read (on the right with flat cap) in front of the gasoline pumps.
She was 6-1 and 3-0 up when a naked man ran on to the playing area and performed a cartwheel in front of her.
There are also very filthy cesspools in front of the doors.
Aircraft that require hand starting by prop swinging must have chocks placed in front of the wheels.
For some reason, they always put a treble clef in front of every line of flute music.
Suddenly he saw the ghost city in front of him, and in some way became cognizant of its nature.
Whilst in our boat we almost collided with another vessel which loomed up in front of us.
Rusty was holding the cat comforter bed in front of him to keep them from jumping out at him.
These range from the most fundamental - giving the wrong speech - to losing composure in front of a live audience.
With a little more composure in front of goal they could have gone into the break at least two goals to the good.
It is now deemed to commence 5 feet in front of the popping crease.
The vines in the patch in front of the row were glowing crimson, purple and gold.
Harte 7 - Definitely plays better with Kewell in front of him, couple of decent crosses, looking more confortable on the ball.
One of my abiding childhood memories is sitting in front of the television with a plate of orange iced cupcakes, watching Scooby-Doo.
Wouldn't do to look daft in front of him.
A moorhen clucked, distant sheep bleated and bright blue damsel flies fornicated elegantly in front of me.
They included a new dashboard on which the most important instruments were grouped in front of the driver.
Just 10cm in front of them levels can reach 120 decibels which is the equivalent of holding a smoke alarm to your ear!
With Mr Galloway sitting in front of him, the judge said the MP had been seriously defamed.
The players are in front of us celebrating, Palace fans stand around looking dejected.
I was standing in front of him, staring the Magma Members out with all the coldness and utter detestation I could muster.
The following day a firework display was held in front of the palace.
Mystery text C Jennifer stood, watching the steady drizzle underneath the awning in front of the station entrance.
He entered a tacking duel with Bickford (Upper Thames) who eventually managed to cross the line about 2ft in front of Cook.
Firstly, start by holding a light dumbbell with both hands, and just let your arms drop down in front of you naturally.
It may be used for sealing in front of kerbs to prevent surface water egress.
Some kayakers do carry their flares on the deck of their kayak, typically under the deck elastics just in front of the cockpit.
Francesca Dow gave her speech in front of a brick wall, with a mysterious and perhaps emblematic number 3 at her shoulder.
A bronze equestrian statue in front of the Castle in honor of Field-Marshall Viscount Combermere erected.
Warren recovered to second after yet another off-track excursion as he took avoiding action when a backmarker crashed in front of him.
Suddenly, just in front of me, the air was split by two deafening explosions in rapid succession.
The tunnels at the sides and the open areas in front of the bases make for frantic firefights and nerve-wracking chases.
If you have children around, also keep a fireguard in front of the fire.
I have floaters in my eyes - which cause me to see black lines in front of my vision.
You will see the flyover in front of you.
In the center of the opening there were several small footstools in front of them the ground was wet with blood.
To avoid fraudulent he said quot in front of his alma mater.
Follow Iggy round the globe as he suffers stage fright in front of David Bowie, and single-handedly takes on Pepsi Cola.
Below, in front of the oven, is a pit full of water, into which they put the glass frit.
He finally dragged the dragon to the town, using the princesses girdle, and slayed it in front of all the towns people.
They originated in Egypt where they were erected in front of temples of the sun god.
The girl is shaking her stuff in front of them wearing a G-string.
The fly half added the two extra points from in front of the posts to make the score 24-10.
The two boys were playing in front of a large haystack.
His fear of looking incompetent in front of neighbors should get him into action.
When not sitting in front of his Mac he breeds llamas and dreams of owning a vineyard.
So they're getting paid a shitload to have adoring fans coo and preen in front of their latest masterwork?
There was also reported to be a powerful motorbike in front of the Mercedes at the time of the accident.
The route in front of the Woolwich Arsenal by the site for the ferry pier ought to be marked for cyclists.
A few weeks before Christmas, I had noticed a cute, pink piggy wandering around the area in front of my apartment.
I could choose any from the huge piles of letters in front of me.
I built a deck in front of the French windows which is bordered on two sides with raised wood planters.
A small, inscribed plaque is placed in front of the rose.
Next we came across Raffi and Anthea, asleep in front of the viewing platform.