Strips Sentence Examples

Let me have some more strips of linen.

Using a ruler and a craft knife, cut the aluminum into strips that are one centimeter wide.

The true love-birds (Agapornis) may also be said to build nests, for they line their nest-hole with strips of pliant bark.

Many of the gumtrees throw off their bark, so that it hangs in long dry strips from the trunk and branches, a feature familiar in " bush " pictures.

In essence it strips the game of wandering and gives you a distilled game with all the good bits intact.

The three of them walked abreast along a narrow road consisting of no more than two bare strips of dirt in the grass.

In the earliest telephone switchboards the lines were connected to vertical conducting strips, across which were placed a series of similar horizontal strips in such a manner that any horizontal could be connected to any line strip by the insertion of a plug into holes provided in the strips for the purpose.

Besides the delta of the Po and the large marshy tracts which it forms, there exist on both sides of it extensive lagoons of salt water, generally separated from the Adriatic by narrow strips of sand or embankments, partly natural and partly artificial, but havin openings which admit the influx and efflux of the sea-water, and serve as ports for communication with the mainland.

The males are very small, free-flying insects with the prothorax, mesothorax and elytra greatly reduced, the latter appearing as little, twisted strips, while the metathorax is relatively large, with its wings broad and capable of longitudinal folding.

Structurally, the folds of this region are of ancient date; but the area is crossed by a series of depressions formed by faults, and the intervening strips, which have not been depressed to the same extent, now stand up as mountain ranges.

Many of them end in small lakes, which are separated from the sea by narrow strips of land, through which the water escapes by one or more outlets.

The meadow-land was also divided into strips from which the various holders drew their supply of hay.

They were bound to the soil and occupied holdings of scattered strips (amounting usually to a virgate or 30 acres) in return for a payment partly in labour and partly in kind.

A portion of the manor, generally about a third, constituted the lord's demesne, which, though sometimes separate, usually consisted of strips intermingled with those of his villeins.

The greater part of the land has always been held by small independent farmers (only about 15% of the farms are worked by tenants), but until late in the 18th century a curious method of parcelling the land resulted in each man's property consisting of a number of detached plots or strips, the divisions often becoming so minute that dissension was inevitable.

Strips of paper bearing a manifold repetition of the words "The Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," are wrapped round cylinders of all sizes - from hand-mills to windor water-mills.

This outer cuticle, cut into thin strips, is one of the most durable and beautiful materials for basket-making, and both in China and Japan it is largely so employed.

Strips are also woven into cages, chairs, beds and other articles of furniture, Oriental wicker-work in bamboo being unequalled for beauty and neatness of workmanship. In China the interior portions of the stem are beaten into a pulp and used for the manufacture of the finer varieties of paper.

Standing isolated on their narrow strips of plain, these towns were always exposed to the raids of pirates issuing from the recesses of the north coast of the Corinthian Gulf.

But except for these infrequent wooded strips, the mountains are even more bare than the valleys, because their shrubs are dwarfed from exposure.

In the valleys also are strips covered with a fertile alluvial deposit.

West Africa.-Cotton has long been grown in the various countries on the west coast of Africa, ginned by hand or by very primitive means, spun into yarn, and woven on simple looms into " country cloths "; these are often only a few inches wide, so that any large cloths have to be made by sewing the narrow strips together.

Let -I- B, - B, be two smaller trunnions which project out from the sides of the two strips connecting together a pair of rings CC. The rings and the connecting strips constitute the circuit which is to be rendered movable.

The soap is now milled in the form of ribbons with the perfume and colouring matter, and the resulting strips are welded into bars by forcing through a heated nozzle.

A simple plan is as follows - draw an outline of the country of which a map is to be produced upon a board; mark all points the altitude of which is known or can be estimated by pins or wires clipped off so as to denote the heights; mark river-courses and suitable profiles by strips of vellum and finally finish your model with the aid of a good map, in clay or wax.

The strips (inae, philyrae), which were cut with a sharp knife or some such instrument, were laid on a board side by side to the required width, thus forming a layer (scheda), across which another layer of shorter strips was laid at right angles.

But the material was also subject to other defects, such as moisture lurking between the layers, which might be detected by strokes of the mallet; spots or stains; and spongy strips (taeniae), in which the ink would run and spoil the sheet.

The best quality, formed from the middle and broadest strips of the plant, was originally named hieratica, but afterwards, in flattery of the emperor Augustus, it was called, after him, Augusta; and the charta Livia, or second quality, was so named in honour of his wife.

The tough but flexible coarse grey paper (German Fliesspapier), upon which on the Continent specimens are commonly fixed by gummed strips of the same, is less hygroscopic than ordinary cartridge paper, but has the disadvantage of affording harbourage in the inequalities of its surface to a minute insect, Atropos pulsatoria, which commits great havoc in damp specimens, and which, even if noticed, cannot be dislodged without difficulty.

Where, as in private herbaria, the specimens are not liable to be handled with great frequency, a stitch here and there round the stem, tied at the back of the sheet, or slips of paper passed over the stem through two slits in the sheet and attached with gum to its back, or simply strips of gummed paper laid across the stem, may be resorted to.

When a number of specimens have to be submitted to pressure, ventilation is secured by means of frames corresponding in size to the drying paper, and composed of strips of wood or wires.

Of the Characeae many are so exceedingly brittle that it is best to float them out like sea-weeds, except the prickly species, which may be carefully laid out on bibulous paper, and when dry fastened on sheets of white paper by means of gummed strips.

Opposite to the promontory of Sabbioncello, and at the entrance to the Bocche di Cattaro, the frontier of Herzegovina comes down to the Adriatic; but these two strips of coast do not contain any good harbour, and extend only for a total distance of 141 m.

Next, proceeding from this region in an easterly direction, are the Neogene freshwater formations, filling up the greatest part of the north-east of Bosnia, as also a zone of flysch intermingled with several strips of eruptive rock.

Gurgling water, strips of sward and tall forest trees, backed by green hills, make a scene completely unlike the usual monotony of Persian landscape.

Vortigern is said to have granted Hengest as much land as an ox-hide could encompass, and the hide being cut into strips the site of Tong Castle was accordingly marked out.

The sample, arranged as a bundle of rectangular strips, is caused to rotate about a central horizontal axis between the poles of an upright C-shaped magnet, which is supported near 'its middle upon knife-edges in such a manner that it can oscillate about an axis in a line with that about which the specimen rotates; the lower side of the magnet is weighted, to give it some stability.

An oblong coil about an inch in length is suspended from each end by thin strips of rolled German silver wire, one of which is connected with a spiral spring for regulating the tension, the other being attached to a torsion-head.

There are special manufactures of chauris, or flappers, with handles of sandalwood, ivory or silver, and tails also made of strips of ivory or sandalwood as fine as horse-hair.

If now we suppose the aperture AB to be covered by a great number of opaque strips or bars of width d, separated by transparent intervals of width a, the condition of things in the directions just spoken of is not materially changed.

They were supplied with simpler weapons and adornments, but even so their clothes had hundreds of stamped gold plates and strips of various shapes sewn on to them.

The head of the stopper is fastened in a chuck and the peg is ground to the size of the mouth of the bottle by means of sand and water pressed against the glass by bent strips of thin sheet iron.

The parent chamber and the ambulatory were ceiled, sometimes with interlacing strips of bark or broad laths, so as to produce a plaited effect sometimes with plain boards.

Depending on the fact that the electrical conductivity of a metallic conductor is decreased by heat, it consists of two strips of platinum, arranged to form the two arms of a Wheatstone bridge; one strip being exposed to a source of radiation from which the other is shielded, the heat causes a change in the resistance of one arm, the balance of the bridge is destroyed, and a deflection is marked on the galvanometer.

The platinum strips are exceedingly minute, being in some cases only 2 5 p in.

The floor of the sluice is laid with riffles made of strips of wood 2 in.

In the former, which is also known as " post and stall" or "bord and pillar " in the north of England, " pillar and stall " in South Wales, and " stoop and room " in Scotland, the field is divided into strips by numerous openings driven parallel to the main rise headings, called " bords " or " bord gates," which are again divided by cutting through them at intervals, so as to leave a series of pillars arranged chequer-wise over the entire area.

The ground between the hills and the marshy valley of the Danube forms a defile through which the main road from DonauwOrth led to Ulm; parallel streams divide the narrow plain into strips.

The Dene (Tinneh) peoples used strips of hide for snowshoes and game-bags, sewed their deerskin clothing with sinew thread, and embroidered in split quill.

The northern Algonquin and Iroquoian tribes practised similar arts, and in the Atlantic states wove robes of animal and bird skins by cutting the latter into long strips, winding these strips on twine of hemp, and weaving them by the same processes employed in their basketry.

The yard scales were on detachable strips, so that fresh strips could be inserted for variations in velocity.

The first moment of a plane figure with regard to a line in its plane may be regarded as obtained by dividing the area into elementary strips by a series of parallel lines indefinitely close together, and concentrating the area of each strip at its centre.

This also holds for higher moments, provided that the edges of the elementary strips or prisms are parallel to the line or plane with regard to which the moments are taken.

If there are m of these strips, and if the breadth of each is h, so that H =mh, it is convenient to write x in the form xo+Oh, and to denote it by x 0, the corresponding value of u being ue.

There are two classes of cases, according as m is even or odd; it will be convenient to consider them first for those cases in which the data are the bounding ordinates of the strips.

The general formulae of § 54 (p being replaced (i) by 2m) may in the same way be applied to obtain formulae giving the area of the trapezette in terms of the mid-ordinates of the strips, the series being taken up to b 2f ul m or /th 2J ug m at least, where u is of degree 2f or 2f + I in x.

Thus we find from (i) that Simpson's second formula, for the case where the top is a parabola (with axis, as before, at right angles to the base) and there are three strips of breadth h, may be replaced by area = 8h(3u i + 2U 1 + 3us).

Hence, for the case of a parabola, we can express the area in terms of the bounding ordinates of two strips, but, if we use mid-ordinates, we require three strips; so that, in each case, three ordinates are required.

This means that, if the minor trapezette consists of k strips, v will be of degree k or k - I in x, according as the data are the bounding ordinates or the mid-ordinates.

Then we can take the strips in pairs, and treat each pair as a parabolic trapezette.

The formulae become complicated when the number of strips in each of the minor trapezettes is large.

If m is a multiple of 6, we can obtain an expression for A by applying the rule to each group of six strips.

The fundamental assumption is that each group of strips of the trapezette may be replaced by a figure for which differences of u, above those of a certain order, vanish (§ 54).

If QD is the bounding ordinate of one of the component strips, we can calculate the area of Qdbl in the ordinary way.

Valleys are deeply sunk in the plateau, the largest with bottom lands of sufficient width to give rise to strips of fertile farm land.

Rich strips of alluvial soil, however, seam a cold clay-marl, needing intensive cultivation to become highly productive.

With the exception of narrow strips of woodland along the courses of the larger streams, the rest of the state consists of treeless prairie-lands, which are usually covered with valuable grasses.

The armature is immersed in a shallow vessel filled with mercury, which is insulated from the vessel and the armature, except at the ends of the copper strips.

They do not form one continuous bog, the tract of the country to which the name is given being intersected by strips of dry cultivated land.

In practical work, the low resistances take the form of certain strips of metal which have on them two pairs of terminals, one termed " current terminals," and the other " potential terminals."

These resistance strips, as they are called, are carefully adjusted so that the resistance between the potential terminals has a known low value.

The pressure to which the Sheffield plate was submitted produces a definite colour and texture which is absent from the surface produced by the deposit of silver in a liquid medium by electrical means, and the coat of silver is spread by the latter uniformly over the whole surface without a break, while in the former the junction between the embossed ornaments and the silver strips covering the cut edges may often be detected on careful examination.

In the embayment of the coastal plain some low cuesta-like belts of hills with associated strips of lowlands suggest the features of a beltedcoastal plain; the hillybeltordissected cuesta determined by the Grand Gulf formation in western Mississippi is the most distinct.

The holdings were probably not compact but consisted of scattered strips in common fields, changed perhaps from year to year, the choice being determined by lot or otherwise.

He introduced a pattern having four or five parallel straight strips of magnetized steel fixed under a card, a form which remained the standard admiralty type until the introduction of the modern Thomson (Kelvin) compass in 1876.

They are sometimes regulated by forming artificial "joints" in the structure by embedding strips of wood or sheet iron at regular intervals, thus forming "lines of weakness," at which the cracks therefore take place.

In the Western Alps the outer border of Molasse persists; but it no longer forms so well-defined a zone, and strips are infolded amongst the older rocks.

The shelves are of deal strips, 2 or 3 in.

Strips of turf are sometimes used for the rearing of early peas, which are sown in a warmish house or frame, and gradually hardened so as to bear exposure before removal to the open air.

Trees must be fixed to the walls and buildings against which they are trained by means of nails and shreds (neat medicated strips are now sold for this purpose), or in cases where it is desired to preserve the wall surface intact, by permanent nails or studs driven in in regular order.

The more expeditious method is of course to lay down turf, which should be free from weeds, and is cut usually in strips of i ft.

The tails when split into two or three, with small strips of narrow tape so as to separate the otherwise dense fur, formerly made very handsome sets of trimmings, ties and muffs, and the probabilities are, as with other fashions, such use will have its period of revival.

It is cut up into strips by comparatively low parallel.

Long narrow alluvial strips called Nehrungen, lie between the last two haffs and the Baltic. The Baltic coast is further marked by large indentations, the Gulf of LUbeck, that of Pomerania, east of Rugen, and the semicircular Bay of Danzig between the promontories of Rixhoft and Brusterort.

The Phoenician, whether from old Phoenicia or from Carthage, came from lands which were mere strips of sea-coast with a boundless continent behind them.

Even small strips of the muscle of the heart, if taken immediately after the death of the animal, continue, when kept moist and warm and supplied with oxygen, to "beat" rhythmically for hours.

Besides the principal tracts of low-lying ground in the Highlands already alluded to, there occur long narrow strips of flat land in the more important valleys.

The strips of alluvial land bordering a river are known as haughs, and where in estuaries they expand into wide plains they are termed carses.

On the west the coast is mostly either a steep rocky declivity or a sea-wall, though strips of lower ground are found in the bays.

Near the hills and along the streams are strips and patches of jungle; the villages are usually surrounded with picturesque groves of tamarind, mango and other shadegiving trees.

The harbour, which has been improved by the Federal government, is formed by two narrow strips of sandy land, known as Minnesota and Wisconsin Points, which extend several miles across the head of the lake from the Minnesota and Wisconsin shores respectively and almost meet in the centre.

Wampum was also used for personal adornment, and belts were made by embroidering wampum upon strips of deerskin.

In the United Kingdom, under the name of "coir" matting, a large amount of a coarse kind of carpet is made from coco-nut fibre; and the same material, as well as strips of cane, Manila hemp, various grasses and rushes, is largely employed in various forms for making door mats.

Alluvial deposits brought down by mountain streams, and strips of floodplain along larger streams on the plains are very fertile and well repay irrigation.

With this view he made a small cross of two small light strips of cedar, the arms being sufficiently long to reach to the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief when extended.

Volta also gave his pile another form, the couronne des tasses (crown of cups), in which connected strips of copper and zinc were used to bridge between cups of water or dilute acid.

The platen was screwed on to the under surface of the spindle; the table or bed had slides underneath which moved in, and not on, ribs as in the older form of press, and was run in and out by means of strips of webbing fastened to each end and passed round a drum or wheel.

Another method of removing grease is to immerse and remove strips of paper by which the surface available for the contamination is in effect increased.

Bast mats are now made chiefly in Russia, the bark being cut in long strips, when the liber is easily separable from the corky superficial layer.

They are expert navigators, and construct curious charts of thin strips of wood tied together with fibres, some giving the position of the islands and some the direction of the prevailing winds.

They were built from overlapping strips of American pine, planed smooth and covered with glued canvas.

In the wars of 1151-J3 and 1163-68 he led his troops into Hungary but failed to maintain himself there; in 1168, however, a decisive victory near Semlin enabled him to conclude a peace by which Dalmatia and other frontier strips were ceded to him.

In order to obtain the cultivated bark as economically as possible, experiments were made which resulted in the discovery that, if the bark were removed from the trunks in alternate strips so as not to injure the cambium, or actively growing zone, a new layer of bark was formed in one year which was richer in quinine than the original bark and equal in thickness to that of two or three years' ordinary growth.

Plans were at once made to pull down all the worst slums, and as these lay between the centre of the town and the railway station, a wide street was constructed from the centre of the town to the eastward, and on each side of it wide strips of ground were cleared to afford building sites for shops and offices.

Parallel to this in the latter locality, and lying also along the Mississippi near by to the north, as well as in the intervening country between the two rivers, are strips of Devonian.

In the Sandwich Islands the nuts are strung upon strips of wood and used as torches.

These strips pass FIG.

A card prepared for the purpose is introduced through a slit in the frame between the punch and the strips.

The bottom of the Bay of Bengal, of the northern' part of the Arabian Sea, of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and of the narrow coastal strips on the east and west sides of the ocean, are chiefly covered by blue and green muds.

The red clay covers a nearly square area in the eastern part of the basin bounded on two sides by the Sunda Islands and the west coast of Australia, as well as two strips extending east and west from the southern margin of the square along the south of Australia and nearly to Madagascar.

On clearing the land south of the Cape the waters of the Agulhas current meet those of the west wind drift of the Southern Ocean, and mingle with them in such a manner as to produce, by interdigitation, alternate strips of warm and cold water, which are met with at great distances south-west and south of the Cape.

The outermost layer of the cell-wall of the ripe spore splits along spiral lines, giving rise to the elaters; these two long strips of wall, attached by their middle points to the spore, tend to straighten out in dry, and close round the spore in damp air.

Rather the bogs of the plain are intersected by strips of low-lying firm ground, and the central plain consists of these bright green expanses alternating with the brown of the bogs, of which the best known and (with its offshoots) one of the most extensive is the Bog of rAllen in the eastern midlands.

Both in the east and west of the continent the bordering highlands are continued as strips of plateau parallel to the coast, the Abyssinian mountains being continued northwards along the Red Sea coast by a series of ridges reaching in places a height of 7000 ft.

A good sandy loam is common in the Heath division; a sandy loam with chalk, or a flinty loam on chalk marl, abounds on portions of the Wolds; an argillaceous sand, merging into rich loam, lies on other portions of the Wolds; a black loam and a rich vegetable mould cover most of the Isle of Axholme on the north-west; a well-reclaimed marine marsh, a rich brown loam, and a stiff cold clay variously occupy the low tracts along the Humber, and between the north Wolds and the sea; a peat earth, a deep sandy loam, and a rich soapy blue clay occupy most of the east and south Fens; and an artificial soil, obtained by "warping," occupies considerable low strips of land along the tidal reaches of the rivers.

In these valleys are narrow strips of very advanced cultivation, the dates of Panjgur being generally reckoned superior even to those of the Euphrates.

In the German mythology the army of darkness is led by Hel, the personification of twilight, sunk to the goddess who enchains the dead and terrifies the living, and Loki, originally the god of fire, but afterwards "looked upon as the father of the evil powers, who strips the goddess of earth of her adornments, who robs Thor of his fertilizing hammer, and causes the death of Balder the beneficent sun."

This great reduction of the extent of the territory has been brought about by the cession on successive occasions of strips of territory to Sarawak and to the British North Borneo Company on condition of annual payments of money.

There are narrow strips of rich alluvium along many other rivers.

In this instrument the periodic current, the time variation of which is being studied, passes through a pair of fine wires or strips, going up one wire and down the other.

Using a heavy frying pan gently cook 2 rashers of streaky bacon cut into strips.

Cut a cold boiled beef into strips, add six radishes, two hard-boiled eggs chopped up, and one small sliced cucumber.

Includes a section on bimetallic strips, with a video clip of a bimetallic strips, with a video clip of a bimetallic strip being dipped into liquid nitrogen.

He pulled out a sack and tore it into thin strips and tied a few to each of half a dozen crossbow bolts.

Now, you need to cut the celeriac into the finest of strips.

They comprise two layers of moisture-resistant chipboard separated by visco-elastic sound damping strips.

Momma is a comic strip written by Mell Lazarus, also known for authoring the Miss Peach series of comic strip written by Mell Lazarus, also known for authoring the Miss Peach series of comic strips.

I get them to draw strips onto blank paper the width of their ruler and then make a concertina.

You can transport the strips in an empty thermos flask, as this protects them from sudden temperature changes.

It involves cutting pieces of galss to form a pattern followed by wrapping the edges with thin strips of metallic foil.

It is a soft non abrasive cotton gauze cut into strips about 1/4 inch wide this allows more surface contact area.

This cooling breeze, these strips of bitter gourd filled with fish paste, this ice-cold soy milk - they are real all right.

The reed was attached to the purlins under strips of split hazel, which were then tied down with hemp twine.

Note the copper strips which are soldered to the lead cames, and which are used to secure the lead to the supporting ironwork.

In winter, fluorescent jackets with reflective strips help you to be seen.

These little self-adhesive strips help to define the area of the nail tip for an immaculate French manicure.

A new set of strips was purchased which consisted of an all white strip with two blue bands round the middle of the jersey.

It presents nineteenth century comic strips with decidedly modern punchlines.

Strips of Ham, Cheese and Sliced Onion marinated in a classic Vinaigrette Dressing of Olive Oil, Vinegar, Chopped parsley and Seasoning.

Design examples Park and ride schemes -- uses permeable pavements, swales, filter strips and ponds to treat diffuse pollution.

With a vegetable peeler, remove 2 thin strips from the rounded side to create a flat surface.

The soft pith from inside the tough stems was cut into long strips.

The testing strips and tiny needles for the finger pricker can be got on prescription.

I use raw silk and chenille with gold threads and lots of color; often strips of fabric too, " she explained.

It requires three air strips to yield a relative variation smaller than 1% in the values of the apparent resistivity.

The added stress that this placed on the thin brass rivets, which secured the brass connecting strips, would often lead to failure.

These are fixed by four narrow strips of double sided sellotape, applied around the inside of each window with a pair of tweezers.

I made the harvest stook by cutting lots of narrow strips of dough.

Behind the factory on the hill you can see the long strips of finished flannel stretched out to dry on frames called tenters.

Of the three conservation measures tested, bench terraces are the most effective in erosion control, followed by ridge tillage and grass strips.

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It also strips some material away from Io which forms a torus of intense radiation around Jupiter.

The nylon ' brush ' draft excluder strips fitted to the rear of the sliding wheelhouse to reduce the drafts.

One side of a sheet of paraffined paper is covered with a sheet of conducting substance, say tinfoil, and over the other side narrow strips of the same substance are arranged gridironwise to form a continuous circuit along the strip. The breadth and thickness of the strip and the thickness of the paraffined paper are adjusted so that the relative resistance and capacity of this arrangement are the same as those of the cable with which it is intended to be used.

Before reaching the paper the light passes through perforations in two iron plates which are, in fact, the pole pieces of a strong electromagnet; between these is an aluminium shutter which is attached to two parallel wires or thin strips.

The ukaz of November 1906 had provided that the various strips of land held by each peasant should be merged into a single holding; the Duma, however, on the advice of the government, left this to the future, as an ideal that could only gradually be realized.

Lurin and Mala are smaller valleys, but the great vale of Caflete is one green sheet of sugar-cane; and narrow strips of desert separate it from the fertile plain of Chincha, and Chincha from the famous vineyards of Pisco.

These are received upon a railway made of two strips of angle iron of the proper gauge for the wheels, and are locked fast by a latch falling over their ends.

The data of a trapezette are usually its breadth and either the bounding ordinates or the mid-ordinates of a series of minor trapezettes or strips into which it is divided by ordinates at equal distances.

To illustrate the method, suppose that we use the chordal area C1, and that the trapezette is in fact parabolic. The difference between C 1 and the true area is made up of a series of areas bounded by chords and arcs; this difference becoming less as we subdivide the figure into a greater number of strips.

A curve came to be treated as a sequence of infinitesimal straight lines; a tangent as the extension of an infinitesimal chord; a surface or area as a sequence of infinitesimally narrow strips, and a solid as a collection of infinitesimally small cubes (See Infinitesimal Calculus).

Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots.

He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark tied together.

The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.

As he went along he looked with pleasure at the year's splendid crop of corn, scrutinized the strips of ryefield which here and there were already being reaped, made his calculations as to the sowing and the harvest, and asked himself whether he had not forgotten any of the prince's orders.

He was sitting on the seat the old prince used to like to sit on, and beside him strips of bast were hanging on the broken and withered branch of a magnolia.

Use light gear at different depths with thin Mackerel strips, rag worm or bread to tempt the smaller fish.

I use raw silk and chenille with gold threads and lots of color; often strips of fabric too, she explained.

The diabetes nurse specialist taught her to test her blood glucose using reagent strips.

Check paintwork on the doors; no rubbing strips means lots of scrapes potentially.

Most parties were able to keep some records on scraps of paper or on bamboo strips.

The meat was presented as strips of tender lamb, the sauce was thick with a glossy slick of oil on top.

In the case of an inkjet printer, this is the part that squirts ink, in strips, onto the page.

Reflective strips by door zips to locate your tent with a flashlight.

The Countryside Premium Scheme (CPS) included the option to fence off buffer strips along watercourses.

Trug maker Peter Marden was on hand, slaving away at shaving the thin strips of wood which form the pan of the basket.

Promotion of improved watercourse management has resulted in an increase in fencing off water margins to create buffer strips.

It is a long wooden rod, wielded with two hands, the upper half of which is covered with studded iron strips.

Simply pull off the strips, stick the mat on a table, and your little one has a clean area to eat on!

Remove the Velcro strips once your baby has gotten strong enough to hold his head more erect.

Milkscreen retails for $5.99 for a 3-pack of test strips at Walgreens, Babies R Us, and Target.

Cut the legs of the pantyhose into 18 inch long strips.

Choose from versions that feature the use of vintage diaper pins or more efficient models that have built-in snaps or Velcro strips.

Some shredders cut the paper into thin strips, while others cut it both horizontally as well as vertically into smaller pieces.

Over-the-counter whitening strips cost around $40 per month and add an extra step to your daily beauty routine.

If you cannot find appropriate litter, newspaper shredded into thin strips will work.

Analysis-While many people might believe that comics are shallow and basically empty of meaningful content, today's comic strips often tackle moral and ethical issues.

Alternately, the bark may be dried and cut into thin strips.

Light strips, surrounding the mirror, are popular, as are small crystal table lamps, which give your reflection a softer glow.

If your ceiling is a popcorn ceiling, cracked, or the paint is chipping, you'll need to use another process called furring strips.

You can learn more about furring strips and evaluate if you're up to the challenge here.

Finish your wreath with a big fluffy bow or cut ribbon into strips to tie around at various equal intervals and glue a nut and some berries in the center of each ribbon tie.

You may need to use Velcro strips or ties in order to secure the cushions to the bench and keep from slipping.

In addition to overhead lighting, consider installing sconces to flank the vanity mirror, or multi-bulb theatrical strips.

The full strips display several shades within the same color family.

Once they're in place paint the area between the paint strips black (this is assuming that the wall underneath is white, but you can really do this in any color of your choosing).

Hand-hooked rugs are a long-standing American artform that originally were created by recycling scraps of cloth and clothing strips.

These strips were pulled through another recycled item, old potato burlap sacking.

The material was cut into strips and then hooked through a potato sack and tied.

Small strips of wood are often used within the overall design that accentuated the larger pieces of the overall structure and size.

The Mirr.Edge system allows you to add acrylic or wood grain polymer strips and corner plates around the edge of your mirror while it is still on the wall.

The acrylic strips are made for mirrors in lengths of 36 inches 48 inches or 60 inches.

The wood grain polymer strips are made for mirrors in lengths of 36 inches and 59 ½ inches.

If you have a mirror over 60 inches long, seam plates are available that hide the seam where two strips are joined.

The strips are designed to fit over the clips that hold the mirror to the wall.

In addition to the framing strips, the kit also comes with four corner plates.

Although the kit comes with double-faced adhesive squares, these are only used to hold the frame strips in place while the glue dries.

Take the frame down and lay it on the floor so that you can remove the backing from the adhesive strips.

Runners are long rectangular strips of rug used to cover bare floors in hallways or stairs.

In the past, braided rugs were handmade by braiding strips of cloth and fabric together in bands to form a rug.

More natural looking than the strips, they tend to be smaller and shorter.

A halfway version between the longer strips and the individual lashes, they can be used to add a subtle flare to your lash line or combined for an allover eyelash extension.

For a strip or flare, be sure to secure the edges of the strips within your own lashes.

If you haven't already tried Crest White Strips, this is a relatively inexpensive ($24.99 for box of 56) way to have whiter teeth.

Tooth whitening strips are an easy way to brighten your smile.

For maximum results, it's recommended tooth whitening strips are used daily for two weeks.

Tooth whitening strips cost between $20 and $30 per box and are available in most supermarkets and drugstores.

It should also be noted that strips only cover the front teeth, so teeth to the rear of the mouth won't be bleached.

Bleaching trays are a more awkward to use than white strips.

Once you're created a blindingly white smile through strips, bleaches, or creams, don't sabotage your own efforts.

This is significantly whiter than take home strips or trays that typically create a bleaching effect of four to six shades lighter after multiple weeks.

Applies the bleaching agent to your teeth with flexible strips you wear for 30 minutes a day.

The dreaded day came where I knew it was time to buy some Crest White Strips.

So I bought a box of the Crest White Strips at the grocery store for only $30.

The box came complete with strips for two weeks of wear.

Although it sounded complicated, the Crest White Strips were actually very easy to use.

When wearing the strips, you can go about your day, but you cannot eat or drink.

I took the 30 minutes to read or do chores, until the time was up and I could remove the strips.

The strips themselves felt a little awkward in my mouth, but not uncomfortable.

The strips are one size, which worked fine in my small mouth, but it may not cover enough teeth for a large smile.

The main problem with the Crest White Strips is their coverage area.

The strips also only cover the very front teeth, so if your smile is particularly wide, they will not be long enough.

It has actually been over a year since I first used the strips and I definitely feel it is time to do it again.

Yellowing is gradual and dependent on your lifestyle, but certainly Crest Whites Strips whitening effects lasted for a year on my teeth.

If you want a relatively natural looking brightener for just your front teeth, I would recommend Crest White Strips.

Tooth whitening strips apply the peroxide to one side of a sticky strip of tape.

Rembrandt Whitening Strips and Crest WhiteStrips are two popular brands.

Whitening strips usually cost $20-30, and they're widely available at drugstores, discount retailers, and grocery stores.

They're easy to use and typically cost about half as much as the whitening strips.

This is a more thorough bleaching solution since it reaches every single tooth, a feat strips can't accomplish and is difficult to achieve with brush-on products you must apply yourself.

Three panel lighted makeup mirrors typically offer two lights strips along the side of a central mirror.

Side lighting, which are strips of lights along the mirror's side.

The scents are typically promoted with great aplomb, with magazine advertisements, sample strips and plenty of attention showered upon them in the beauty world at large.

Once you're all wrapped up in strips of muslin, mud treatments are smothered all over your body to firm, detox and soothe aching muscles and joints.

Esca surround lighted makeup mirrors contain light strips around the diameter of the mirror for full even lighting.

Some makeup counters provide strips of white paper to test lipsticks on, but you may want to keep a paper pad in your purse if you know you're going to be shopping for cosmetics.

Tasso- Heavily smoked pork strips or cubes used to season meat, beans, or vegetables.

In Korea and Japan, they deep fry steak strips and add them to a plate of rice and vegetables.

The two most well-liked meat dishes are barbecued beef strips (pul kogi) and braised spare ribs in soy sauce and spices (kalbi-jim).

Cooked vegetables cut in thin strips or in Julienne style are often used to add color, flavor, and nutritive value to a soup.

Vegetables are washed, dried, and cut into strips about three inches long and 1/4-inches in width.

Using a very sharp pizza cutter, slice the dough into ¼ inch wide strips.

Clean the mushrooms and slice them thinly into strips.

Floating stickers look awkward, so avoid potential problems by mounting tiny embellishments onto small chipboard squares or cardstock strips.

Scissors help you cut tiny items such as strips of background paper or ribbon bows.

Alternate ribbon and patterned paper strips for a frame that is full of rich texture.

Make waves for a patterned paper background by cutting various shades of blue cardstock or watercolor print patterned paper with decorative scissors and layering the strips together.

Use scalloped strips horizontally to divide a page.

Trim sheets of coordinating patterned paper with decorative edged scissors, then layer the strips on your page to create a ruffled background.

For a little added dimension, you can try curling a few of the strips.

Thin strips of patterned paper can be gathered to use as a faux ribbon accent.

Scrapbook 12x12 paper is the perfect size to cut strips or borders.

You can use decorative scissors to make beautiful paper strips that will stretch across the length or width of the page.

Have the green sheets act as the grass, then cut strips from the white paper, and glue them on the green as the lines on the field.

Cutting an orange safety vest into strips and braiding them together will create a bracelet, anklet or hair accessory, which will surely attract attention at a high school prom.

One easy way to do this is to peel beets with a vegetable peeler and grate the flesh into strips to add to a salad.

If raw isn't for you, you can bake these strips into a cake or add to a casserole.

Thin strips of raw beet are much easier to eat than cubes or chunks.

Grated beet strips add flavor, color, and moisture to a dish.

Candy sticks, chocolate candy sticks, lollipops, licorice strips, and other long candy can be paired or wrapped individually for a nice candy favor as well.

You can create a tassel using thin strips of fondant and secure it from beneath with a little buttercream.

Brush the cake free of crumbs and set it on strips of parchment paper on a serving platter.

Cut strips of white fondant to make the laces, securing with a little buttercream or royal icing.

Beavis vs. Butt-Head - As the Great Cornholio, Beavis sliced Butt-Head into meat strips to make "TP for his bunghole."

In addition to snowman and Santa ties, you'll also find ties for Christmas gift-giving featuring basketballs, soccer balls and even comic strips.

The sticky strips can fix ripped luggage, hem skirts, secure boxes, identify suitcases, and fill seams of an adjoining cabin, among other things.

To protect it against slugs, which are too fond of it, strips of perforated zinc, about 3 inches wide, bent so as to form rings round the plants, are used.

Where slugs and snails are a problem, put out non-toxic slug bait or traps or use copper strips around the plants.

Wrought iron is more flexible, making it easy to bend thin strips into complicated shapes.

If you are working with wood strips, lay the wood parallel to the longest wall in the room.

You can buy starter strips or make your own by trimming the cutout portions from standard shingles.

Install the hardware, including the header, track assembly and side-split jams or reinforcing strips.

Armstrong ceiling tracks can be attached with nails or screws and installed with up to fifty percent fewer nails than standard furring strips.

Plank ceilings are installed directly to furring strips or exposed joists with clips and screws.

If it is a small hole that isn't near a stud, you can add strips of wood to secure the sheetrock patch.

You'll also want to determine how to handle the joints of the vapor barrier strips.

Depending on the size of the job, this can be a fine mesh or tape, or involve bracing the area by adding strips of plywood to the studs on either side of the opening.

Large drywall repair jobs involve installing 3/4 inch plywood strips onto the wall studs behind the existing drywall.

The planks shouldn't have filler, and ideally they should incorporate layers that run crosswise in the middle to increase strength (bamboo floors are made by gluing strips together).

Set the laminate on top of the wood strips and align the sheet to where you need it.

Remove the wood strips one by one and press the laminate to the countertop as you progress.

You can either fill the gap with spray foam insulation or fiberglass insulation using strips of insulation and a putty knife.

If the measurements are off by an inch or more, add wood strips to even them out.

Which type of cord is used will help determine the type of bracelet - silk cords, for example, are best for more elegant designs, while leather or suede strips work well with thicker, more natural bracelets.

If you wish to use agitation to speed up the process time, then place the water in a canning jar with several strips of aluminum foil.

We do not perform mulesing, which is a surgical removal of strips of wool-bearing wrinkled skin from around the tail.

Farmers may use a variety of other methods including buffer strips, no-till farming, or release of beneficial organisms.

Use over the counter nasal strips that help to open the nasal passageways.

These strips are a good investment for those with a small nasal passage directly causing the snoring.

Nasal dilation strips are another tool to consider.

You place these strips on top of your nose to hold the nostrils open.

Many over-the-counter anti-snoring devices, such as special pillows and nasal strips, offer little to no help for those with moderate to severe snoring.

However, when snoring is mild and infrequent, these products can greatly improve sleep.Nasal strips are available in most pharmacies, and work by widening the nostrils to improve breathing.

These strips are placed on the back of your tongue when you go to bed.

The strips are able to open up the throat and allow your nasal passage to clear for easy breathing and reduced snoring.

Using a humidifier at night and wearing adhesive nasal strips may also be beneficial.

Nasal strips work by opening up the nasal passages to enhance breathing and relieve snoring.

Breathing strips are supposed to help open up nasal passages so that you can breathe better and consequently stop snoring.

As a long term solution to heavy snoring; however, breathing strips leave a lot to be desired.

In principle, nasal sprays work similarly to breathing strips.

It helps to begin with the least intrusive methods to address the breathing problem such as antihistamines to reduce nasal swelling or nasal strips on the outside of the nose to help open the nasal cavity.

Nasal strips can open the nasal passage without side effects or invasive surgery.

Some are strips that are placed across the bridge of the nose; others fit inside the nasal cavity to open the passage.

They come in strips and are not circular in shape.

Behind that, two thin metal strips seem to be held together by a sash as they taper back to the ear.

When Cecil openly questions his king, the monarch strips him of his command and asks him to commit an act so heinous that it ultimately sends the knight on his own personal quest for redemption.

The Troll King strips you of your transforming powers and you are required to retrieve them away from his servants, the Shadow Trolls.

Your visibility and control of the plane make it a challenge when trying to land on a battle cruiser or other short strips of rough terrain.

Along each shelf, tack on a series of 1/2-inch wood strips spaced approximately three inches apart.