Submerged Sentence Examples

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  • The submerged stems are slender or hollow.

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  • She grimaced and submerged her arm to the elbow to reach the twinkling gem.

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  • The city was completely destroyed and partly submerged by the great earthquake of the 28th of October 1746, in which about 6000 persons perished.

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  • It resists the action of water, salt or fresh, very well, and is therefore useful in situations where the work is likely to be submerged immediately after it has been put in place.

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  • The last-named species spends most of its time in water, where it may be observed not infrequently among the reeds with all but its head and horns submerged.

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  • The trestles of this weir are, as usual, hinged to the apron, so that in flood-time they can be completely lowered into a recess across the apron by means of chains actuated by a winch, leaving the channel perfectly open for the discharge of floods and for the passage of vessels when the lock is submerged.

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  • An optical tube replaced this cupola in the "Gustave Zede," and comprised a short tube (on top of the submarine) with a lens to close the top end, which was kept just above the surface when running submerged.

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  • A typical yeast is able to develop b new cells by budding when submerged in a saccharine solution, and to ferment the sugar - i.e.

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  • Consequently the beast can lie submerged in the water, with only the nostrils exposed, and with the mouth open, and breathe without water entering the windpipe.

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  • The mature pollengrain is, like other spores, a single cell; except in the case of some submerged aquatic plants, it has a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose, the endospore or intine, and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or extine.

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  • It swims with most of the body submerged, and dives with perfect ease, remaining long without coming to the surface to breathe.

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  • They are submerged landvalleys, and as they run down the whole western coast they show that this side has subsided to a considerable depth beneath its former level.

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  • About the same date (573) the king of Cymric Strathclyde summoned, from exile in Wales, St Kentigern, the patron saint of Glasgow, who restored a Christianity almost or quite submerged in paganism, Celtic and English.

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  • All the bordering country on both sides is of the same description, and for a long distance inland extensive areas of swampy country are submerged during the rainy season.

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  • The wood is placed in a running stream and so tied or chained down as to be entirely submerged.

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  • A partially submerged range of mountains, which has been termed the Vancouver Range, runs parallel to the coast of British Columbia; a portion of this range forms Vancouver Island, and it again rises above the level of the sea farther north, forming the Queen Charlotte Islands.

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  • Hottonia (water violet) is a floating water plant with submerged leaves cut into fine linear segments.

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  • In early and middle Tertiary times, when the Indian peninsula was an island, and the sea which stretched into Europe washed the base of the Himalayan hills, Sokotra was in great part submerged and the great mass of limestone was deposited; but its higher peaks were still above water, and formed an island, peopled mainly by African species - the plants being the fragmentary remains of the old African flora - but with an admixture of eastern and other Asian forms. Thereafter it gradually rose, undergoing violent volcanic disturbance."

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  • At present the oyster is one of the cheapest articles of diet in the United States; and, though it can hardly be expected that the price of American oysters will always remain so low, still, taking into consideration the great wealth of the natural beds along the entire Atlantic coast, it seems certain that a moderate amount of protection would keep the price of seed oysters far below European rates, and that the immense stretches of submerged land especially suited for oyster planting may be utilized and made to produce an abundant harvest at much less cost than that which accompanies the complicated system of culture in vogue in France and Holland.

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  • Consequent on the rise of the water-level several islands have been wholly and others partly submerged, among the latter Philae.

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  • At this time the rice fields to the extent of many hundreds of square miles are submerged.

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  • Large areas of fertile marshes are situated at the head of the bay, and the remains of a submerged forest show that the land has subsided in the latest geological period at least 40 ft.

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  • It is, however, now more generally believed that it exists in the breccia of some of the valleys on the west side of the lake, which is washed into the sea and submerged, till the small stones by which it is sunk are loosened and fall out, when the bitumen rises to the surface.

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  • In some places you can see ancient amphora littering the seabed, in others long submerged cities sleeping beneath the waves.

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  • All timer contactors that we offer are sealed to IP65 rating ie, completely waterproof even when totally submerged in water.

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  • The draining and tilling of submerged or uncultivated land on a large scale, the promotion of agriculture in every way, in particular by the digging of channels, and the regulation of the system of taxation, were carried out on his initiative.

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  • Oysters are found in large numbers in the estuaries and fixed to the submerged parts of the mangroves.

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  • The phenomenon of a raised beach may be seen here, but indications of a submerged forest have also been discovered in the neighbourhood.

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  • In the middle of the 19th century a sudden rise submerged several places on the banks, including Arjish Kale, and the waters did not again.

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  • The Cyamidae afflict the giant whale by nibbling away its skin; the Chelura terebrans is destructive to submerged timber.

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  • The rippled stalks are tied in small bundles and packed, roots downwards, in the dams till they are quite full; over the top of the upper layer is placed a stratum of rushes and straw, or sods with the grassy side downwards, and above all stones of sufficient weight to keep the flax submerged.

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  • Beginning with the province of Aconcagua the coast elevations crystallize into a range of mountains, the Cordillera Maritima, which follows the shore line south to the province of Llanquihue, and is continued still farther south by the mountain range of Chiloe and the islands of the western coast, which are the peaks of a submerged mountain chain.

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  • Much nearer the Chilean coast (396 m.), lying between the 33rd and 34th parallels, are the three islands of the Juan Fernandez group, and rising apparently from the same submerged plateau about 500 m.

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  • This occurs as a membrane on the surface of the medium, or as irregular clumps or branched masses (sometimes several inches across) submerged in it, and consists of more or less gelatinous matrix enclosing innumerable " cocci," " bacteria," or other elements of the Schizomycete concerned.

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  • The submerged "bells of Aberdovey" (since Seithennin "the drunkard" caused the formation of Cardigan Bay) are famous in a Welsh song.

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  • Ravenspur, once an important town of Yorkshire, where Bolingbroke, afterwards Henry IV., landed in 1399, is now submerged; and Dunwich and other ancient ports in East Anglia have met with the same fate.

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  • The Aleutian Islands, like the Alexander Archipelago, are remnants of a submerged mountain system.

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  • This opinion about the site of Palaeopolis has been based on the very considerable alterations which are known to have taken place in the level of the land, and the extensive submerged foundations of buildings off the southern extremity of Posilipo have been identified with those of the old city.

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  • A portion of the original Holland was submerged by a great inundation in 1421, and its modern appellation of Biesbosch (reed-forest) is descriptive of what must have been the condition of the entire district in early times.

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  • The researches of Renan have refuted the once popular idea that a great part of the original island has disappeared by natural convulsions, though he believes that the remains of a submerged wall at the south end indicate that about 15 additional acres were once reclaimed and have been again lost.

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  • Apart from damage to shipping and buildings, the low-lying lands along the coast were completely submerged, and in many villages half the inhabitants were drowned.

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  • From this point the land slopes westward towards the central plain, a low-lying tract, which before the construction of the embankment known as the Hornby Vellard, used at high tide to be submerged by the sea.

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  • The submerged leaves are long and grasslike, the floating leaves oblong or rounded, while the aerial leaves are borne on long, thin stalks above the water, and are often heartor arrow-shaped at the base.

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  • According to others, the ancient inhabitants were, at worst, only submerged for a time, and their direct descendants are the Rumans of to-day.

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  • Rice is grown to a very limited extent, though it is a common article of diet and the partially submerged lowlands are naturally 12,000 16,000 12,000 11,000 15,000 13,000 16,000 20,000 15,000 adapted to its production.

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  • On the beach towards Prestatyn can be seen the remains of a submerged forest.

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  • Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.

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  • Vast areas of it are submerged at high water, above which only the upper part of the trees of the sombre forests appear.

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  • The coast of the Baltic is rocky only in the island-studded region at the head of the Baltic basin proper - a submerged lake-districtand the littoral generally is a typical morainic land, the work of the last great Baltic glacier.

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  • This low range, which most probably separated the lowlands of the AralCaspian region (submerged during the Post-Pliocene period) from the higher plains which had emerged by the end of the Tertiary period, now divides the Transcaspian steppes from the somewhat different higher plains.

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  • A number of species of Lycopodium are epiphytic and those of Isoetes live submerged in water.

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  • William Gascoigne's invention of the filar micrometer and of the adaptation of telescopes to graduated instruments remained submerged for a quarter of a century in consequence of his untimely death at Marston Moor (1644).

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  • The order contains about fifty species in fifteen genera, twelve of which occur in fresh water while three are marine; and includes both floating and submerged forms. Hydrocharis floats on the surface of still water, and has rosettes of kidney-shaped leaves, from among which spring the flower-stalks; stolons bearing new leafrosettes are sent out on all sides, the plant thus propagating itself in the same way as the strawberry.

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  • It is a small, submerged plant with long, slender branching stems bearing whorls of narrow toothed leaves; the flowers appear at the surface when mature.

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  • Halophila, Enhalus and Thalassia are submerged maritime plants found on tropical coasts, mainly in the Indian and Pacific oceans; Halophila has an elongated stem rooting at the nodes; Enhalus a short, thick rhizome, clothed with black threads resembling horse-hair, the persistent hard-bast strands of the leaves; Thalassia has a creeping rooting stem with upright branches bearing crowded strap-shaped leaves in two rows.

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  • Stratiotes has similar flowers which come above the surface only for pollination, becoming submerged again during ripening of the fruit.

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  • The sandbanks have arrested the encroachments of the sea, which submerged a former site of Aldeburgh.

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  • Ormarah, Khor Kalmat, Pasni and Gwadar are all somewhat difficult of approach by reason of a sand-bar which appears to extend along the whole coastline, and which is very possibly the last evidence of a submerged ridge; and they are all subject to a very lively surf under certain conditions of wind.

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  • In Electrolytic cleaning, the metal is made the anode or cathode and is submerged into an electrolytic acid solution.

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  • Able to remain submerged for months at a time, conventionally armed nuclear powered attack submarines can cover a vast distance unseen and unheard.

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  • It may be useful to place a colander, sieve or other device over the pan to keep the artichokes submerged.

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  • The top of the submerged dam of Garreg-ddu can be seen under the bridge on the right in the picture above.

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  • Placed into this is a platinum electrode surrounded by a gas tube submerged in the solution, with hydrogen at 1 atm inside.

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  • The region is equally famous for cave diving and includes some of the most extensive submerged networks in Europe.

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  • It all gazes out on to a permanent lagoon inhabited by hippos that loll submerged, emitting plumes of water and deep guttural snorts.

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  • Becoming part of a group who're similarly impassioned could cause submerged parts of you to come alive.

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  • The species are marine perennials, rooted in the substratum, having leafy stems either submerged or partially submerged.

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  • Row out to see the Amerindian petroglyphs, submerged in the river.

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  • These consisted of a small amount of Canadian pondweed, which grows completely submerged in the water.

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  • Production is now normally carried out by submerged culture in stirred tank reactors.

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  • Entire islands were created, perhaps starting from a mangrove base or a submerged reef.

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  • This Annex I habitat is defined as " Sublittoral sandbanks, permanently submerged.

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  • Air is a commodity in short supply in a submerged submarine.

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  • An old boat lies half submerged in the Fleet near Wyke Regis training camp.

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  • In 1873 the Atlantic ran into a partially submerged rock off Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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  • The line of the railroad is now partly submerged beneath Kielder Water.

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  • The reason is that the temple had been totally submerged under the desert except for the very top of the pylon entrance.

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  • For effective propulsion, the fins must be entirely submerged.

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  • A submerged jet of aerated effluent produces a highly turbulent condition in a tank.

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  • The larvae are aquatic, feeding below the surface on the submerged parts of emergent vegetation.

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  • The " Mediterranean region," as a geographical unit, includes all this area; the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora are within its submerged portion, and the climate of the whole is controlled by the oceanic influences of the Mediterranean Sea.

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  • Some of the most profound changes that have taken place on this globe occurred in Mesozoic times, and a great portion of Australia was already dry land when vast tracts of Europe and Asia were submerged; in this sense, therefore, Australia has been rightly referred to as one of the oldest existing land surfaces.

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  • Those which are only partially submerged bear stomata on their exposed portions, so that their environment approximates towards that of a terrestrial plant, but the communication even in their case is much less easy and complete, so that they need amuchlarger reservoir of air in their interior.

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  • Hemi-hydrophytes (swamp plants, marsh plants, &c.).Plants riose vegetative organs are partly submerged and partly aerial; lucheria terrestris, Philonotis fontana, Sca pan-ia undulata, Maria spp., Salvinia ivatans, Azolla spp., Equisetum limosum, Typha rgustifolia, Phragmites communis, Scirpus lacustris, Nymphaea tea, Oenanthe fistulosa, Bidens cernua.

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  • An absorption apparatus as applied to the cooling of liquids consist s s of a generator containing coils to which steam is supplied at suitable pressure, an analyser, a rectifier, a condenser either of the submerged or open type, a refrigerator in which the nearly anhydrous ammonia obtained in the condenser is allowed to evaporate, an absorber through which the weak liquor from the generator continually flows and absorbs the anhydrous vapour produced in the refrigerator, and a pump for forcing the strong liquor produced in the absorber back through an economizer into the analyser where, meeting with steam from the generator, the ammonia gas is again driven off, the process being thus carried on continuously.

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  • Along the rim of a submerged volcano, divers see trails of bubbles emitted from the ocean floor.

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  • As with all roll-top bags, these dry sacks are not designed to be submerged in water for any length of time.

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  • This Annex I habitat is defined as Sublittoral sandbanks, permanently submerged.

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  • Partially submerged caves around Thanet vary considerably in depth, height and aspect and hence in the algal communities present.

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  • The rock is submerged twice a day to a depth of several meters.

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  • Access to the island is via a causeway which becomes submerged at high tide.

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  • Trees and bushes normally on the bank of the river are clearly submerged by the flood waters.

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  • The tree was then submerged in the water of the pool of Bethesda.

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  • Take some of your household plants and leave them submerged in the bath or a pond for a year and see how they do.

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  • That means that small differences between two objects may be submerged in a sea of similar details.

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  • I was submerged in a hot pool of burning flesh.

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  • I had long heard of a statue submerged under the water somewhere off the coast of Italy.

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  • In Poole Harbor, the first glimmerings of such a harbor have been discovered, now mostly submerged beneath the sea.

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  • It contains harmless crystals which expand when submerged beneath the water.

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  • Nearly submerged by the swirling waters of the Trent on Monday were caravans parked near the Britannia Inn at Farndon.

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  • Where revolutions do not act, they are submerged in a welter of words.

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  • They also feel, for example, that a person is not a Christian until he or she has been completely submerged, and this should occur immediately after the confession of a belief in Christ as the Savior.

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  • Boil jars for several minutes, making sure the glass is completely submerged.

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  • Cover the seeds with water; be sure to include enough water so all of the seeds are completely submerged.

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  • Ten minutes after descending into the New York underground we submerged again.

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  • It may often be gathered from pools in spring, when it floats after being submerged in winter.

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  • It dislikes shade, preferring a warm sunny position, being especially happy when planted by the margin of a lake, pond, or stream, where cooling conditions obtain, but where the roots or crowns are not submerged.

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  • H. palustris is a pretty British waterplant, which, however, thrives better on soft mud-banks than when submerged.

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  • The top should be slightly "blouse-like" without looking like it's floating when submerged in water.

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  • This contact lens case, along with the solution, creates a special bubble action when your contacts are submerged in the lens case.

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  • The design prevents your contact lenses from sticking together and will keep them submerged in the lens solution as they soak.

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  • Since your lenses will be completely submerged in solution, there is no chance of them sticking together in this case.

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  • In 1964, the popular Coney Island park was submerged under 14 feet of water after a flood.

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  • The signs and symptoms of near-drowning can differ from person to person depending in part on how long the individual has been submerged, the person's age, and the temperature of the water.

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  • The comfort is one reason why a submerged birth has become popular among some midwives.

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  • Additionally, babies have what is called a "dive reflex," meaning that when submerged, they will hold their breath and open their eyes.

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  • Each figure is hidden inside a rock that easily dissolves when submerged in water.

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  • They promote learning how to swim as the children propel themselves with their feet submerged in the water below.

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  • The base should not be submerged in water, such as the dishwasher.

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  • Although the Dooney & Bourke Giraffe Drawstring Bag is water resistant, it should never be submerged in water and should avoid harsh conditions.

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  • Watches marked as 3ATM-5ATM will withstand rain or splashes but should not be fully submerged.

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  • Watches marked as 10 ATM are water resistant up to 330 feet and will hold up even when submerged.

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  • Place the mold in the tub and level out the pulp while the frame is submerged.

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  • Using an aqua belt floatation device which will keep your head above the water while you remain submerged from the neck down.

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  • Nor are they afraid to venture out of their depth, being excellent swimmers, and able, by means of their trunks, to breathe without difficulty when the entire body is submerged.

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  • A peculiar modification of periderm is formed by the phellogen in the submerged organs (roots or stems) of many aquatic or marsh-loving plants.

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  • The knees are of a soft spongy texture and act as breathing organs, supplying the roots with air,, which they would otherwise be unable to obtain when submerged.

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  • The numerous remains extant, of which the theatre and the buildings partially submerged by the sea are the most noteworthy, all belong to the Roman period.

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  • Water is drawn through tunnels from a submerged crib about 5 m.

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  • Its level is subject to slight oscillations, and after a heavy five weeks' rain in 1869 it rose 7 ft., an immense territory at the mouth of the Selenga being submerged.

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  • Its upheaval above the great sea which submerged all the north-west of the Indian peninsula long after the Himalaya had massed itself as a formidable mountain chain, belongs to a comparatively recent geologic period, and the same thrust upwards of vast masses of cretaceous limestone has disturbed the overlying recent beds of shale and clays with very similar results to those which have left so marked an impress on the Baluch frontier.

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  • For a moment, when the tide of Western civilization swept over Japan, the NO seemed likely to b permanently submerged.

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  • In this tribe are included five or six families of aquatic Heteroptera which spend the greater part of their lives submerged, diving and swimming through the water.

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  • However, the deluge which shattered the opposition to Rome in the great national churches submerged for a time the papacy itself.

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  • In the North Sea, and usually, it might be said that once the boat is submerged, direct observation through the water is impossible.

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  • In fact, one quarter of the whole kingdom, consisting of the provinces of North and South Holland, the western portion of Utrecht as far as the Vaart Rhine, Zeeland, except the southern part of ZeelandFlanders, and the north-west part of North Brabant, lies below the Amsterdam zero; and altogether 38% of the country, or all that part lying west of a line drawn through Groningen, Utrecht and Antwerp, lies within one metre above the Amsterdam zero and would be submerged if the sea broke down the barrier of dunes and dikes.

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  • Between the dikes and the stream lie " forelands " (interwaarden), which are usually submerged in winter, and frequently lie 1 or 2 yds, higher than the country within the dikes.

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  • The gemmae formed on submerged Mucors may bud like a yeast, and even bring about alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine solution.

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  • The farther descent of the bucket being thus arrested, the special cable T is now slackened, so that the conical bottom of the bucket drops down, pressing down by its weight the the string of moulds, each thus containing a pig, moves slowly forward, the pigs solidify and cool, the more quickly because in transit they are sprayed with water or even submerged in L Winter Stock Pile .?t' S ..

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  • Submerged leaves, or leaves which are developed under water, differ in structure from aerial leaves.

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  • Hence, when the barbarians submerged southern Europe, theology alone survived.

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  • Under Wallasey Pool are remains of a submerged forest, in which various animal skeletons have been found.

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  • Then they bend to the south-west, and, abutting upon the lower Tapajos, merge ' Igapo is thus the name given to the recent alluvial tracts along the margins of rivers, submerged by moderate floods, whereas vargem is the term used for land between the levels of moderate and high floods, while for land above this the people use the term terra firma.

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  • The flowers of Halophila are submerged and apetalous.

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  • Static tubular aerator a system in which air is blown into vertical tubes submerged in a liquid, promoting mixing and oxygen transfer.

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  • During egg laying the female may be completely submerged under the water.

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  • The "Mediterranean region," as a geographical unit, includes all this area; the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora are within its submerged portion, and the climate of the whole is controlled by the oceanic influences of the Mediterranean Sea.

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  • The general elevation in the south part of the state is much lower, and large areas bordering the Paraguay are swampy, partially submerged plains which the sluggish rivers are unable to drain.

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  • It is the principal genus of the natural order of Monocotyledous Potamogetonaceae, and contains plants with slender branched stems, and submerged and translucent, or floating and opaque,.

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  • Many of the Frisian legends and folk-songs deal with the submerged villages and hamlets, which lie buried beneath the treacherous waters of the Wadden.

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  • They are without stomata on their submerged portions, and the entry of gases can only take place by diffusion from the water through their external cells, which are not cuticularized.

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  • Submerged leaves are usually filamentous or narrowly ribbonshaped, thus exposing a large amount of surface to the water, some of the dissolved gases of which they must absorb, and into which they must also excrete certain gases.

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  • This is due to the fact that it for the first time unfolded the true character of Yahweh, implicit in the old Mosaic religion and submerged in the subsequent centuries of Israel's life in Canaan, but now at length made clear and explicit to the mind of the 1 In Isa.

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  • The coastal plain consists in great part of sandy beaches, detritus formations, and partially submerged areas caused by uplifted beaches and obstructed river channels.

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  • The enemy's light guns, aided by effective searchlights, were offering a strenuous opposition to the small craft engaged on the all-important duty of clearing the channel of submerged defences.

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  • They are weighed and then dumped into a washing machine, consisting of a large horizontal cage, submerged in water, in which revolves a horizontal shaft carrying arms. The arms are set in a spiral form, so that in revolving they not only stir the roots, causing them to rub against each other, but also force them forward from the receiving end,of the cage to the other end.

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  • In time, however, and especially during the 12th century, high tides and north-west storms swept away the western banks of the Vlie and submerged great tracts of land.

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  • Another stimulus came from the biologists, Pacific. On the 1st of November 1876 a cyclone acting in this who began to realize the importance of a more detailed investigaway submerged a great area of the level plain of the Ganges tion of the life conditions of organisms at great depths in the delta to a depth of 46 ft.; here the influence of the difference sea.

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  • At Princess Marianne Straits tribes much wilder than those farther west, naked and painted, swarm like monkeys in the trees, the stems of which are submerged at high tide.

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  • Within a recent geological period, central Aragon was undoubtedly submerged by the sea, and the parched chalky soil remains saturated with salt, while many of the smaller streams run brackish.

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  • The mainland, opposite the western end of Long Island, is traversed by the lower Hudson and other channels - submerged valleys - which form a branching bay with several islands, the largest of which are Staten and Manhattan Islands.

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  • Owing to the pumping of the brine, large tracts of land have been submerged, and there is thus a constant danger to houses.

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  • A broad, low crustal arch extends southward at the junction of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains; the emerged half of the arch, constitutes the visible lowland peninsula of Florida; the submerged half extends westward under the shallow Florida.

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  • The end of the period was marked by the widespread emergence of the continent, and parts of it were never again submerged, so far as is known.

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  • Clew Bay, with its islets capped by glacial drift, is a submerged part of a synclinal of Carboniferous strata, and Old Red Sandstone comes out on the north side of this, from near Achill to Lough Conn.

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  • The causeway connecting the isle with the mainland was long submerged too deeply for use, but the reclamation operations already referred to almost brought it into view again.

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  • These sudden appearances of vast bodies of lemmings, and their singular habit of persistently pursuing the same onward course of migration, have given rise to various speculations, from the ancient belief of the Norwegian peasants, shared by Olaus Magnus, that they fall down from the clouds, to the hypothesis that they are acting in obedience to an instinct inherited from ancient times, and still seeking the congenial home in the submerged Atlantis, to which their ancestors of the Miocene period were wont to resort when driven from their ordinary dwelling-places by crowding or scarcity of food.

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  • The German conquerors of the Rhenish districts were singularly little affected by the culture of the provincials they subdued, and all traces of Roman civilization were submerged in a new flood of paganism.

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  • In the rainy season the barriers are submerged in succession, the reaches are filled and the plains of the lower Senegal are changed into immense marshes.

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  • In Spinoza's pantheistic theory of the world, which regards thought and extension as but two sides of one substance, the problem of becoming is submerged in that of being.

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  • It has been suggested that their separation did not take place until after the continent which once existed in the north Pacific had become submerged, and that the Malays wandered northward, while the Polynesian race spread itself over the islands of the southern archipelago.

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  • The States of the Church were of course submerged for a time by the groundswell of the French Revolution, but they appeared again in 1814.

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  • Aldabra, however, although situated in that region of the Indian Ocean which forms part of the site of the IndoMadagascar continent of the Secondary period, is not a peak of the submerged land.

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  • Riding past the pond where there used always to be dozens of women chattering as they rinsed their linen or beat it with wooden beetles, Prince Andrew noticed that there was not a soul about and that the little washing wharf, torn from its place and half submerged, was floating on its side in the middle of the pond.

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  • So uniform is the level over a great part of these plains that in the rainy season hundreds of square miles are submerged, and the country is covered with a network of connecting channels.

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  • In Utricularia bladder-like sacs are formed by a modification of leaflets on the submerged leaves.

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  • Her body remained submerged while her head and shoulders were free.

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  • The wood, of unknown age, found submerged in peat-bogs, and of a black hue, is largely used in decorative art under the name of "bog-oak."

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  • For instance, the difference between the long-stalked and finely-cut leaves of Anemone attacked with rust and the normal leaves with broad segments, or between the urceolate leaves occasionally found on cabbages and the ordinary formin these cases undoubtedly pathological and teratological respectivelyis nothing like so great as between the upper and lower normalleaves of many Umhelliferae or the submerged and floating leaves of an aquatic Ranunculus or Cabomba.

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  • The whole story was an imaginary embroidery of the facts that barnacles attach themselves to submerged timber and that a species of goose is known as the bernicle goose.

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