Uppermost Sentence Examples

The new town hall and post-office are near the uppermost bridge.

Mortality had been uppermost on his mind during the flight back – first his own and then Carmen's.

He led her to the uppermost floor of the castle, to a hallway with magnificent views of a green valley with towering trees.

Both to the east and to the west of this depression the Archean and Palaeozoic rocks which form the greater part of the island are strongly folded, with the exception of the uppermost beds, which belong to the Permian system.

The uppermost is a purely muscular cell from the sub-umbrella; the two lower are epidermo-muscular cells from the base of a tentacle; the upstanding nucleated portion forms part of the epidermal mosaic on the free surface of the body.

The original Tirol consisted of part of the middle Inn valley and of the uppermost portion (the Vintschgau) of the Adige valley.

The uppermost portion of the Coal Measures consists of red sandstone so closely resembling that of the Permian group, which are next in geological sequence, that it is often difficult to decide upon the true line of demarcation between the two formations.

The Exe, Barle, Lyn and other streams, traversing deep picturesque valleys except in their uppermost courses, are in favour with trout fishermen.

If the coin is light the rod S fits into the uppermost step and the shoot stops over the right-hand slot.

At Phylakope, a "megaron" appears only in the uppermost Aegean stratum, the underlying structures being more in conformity with the earlier Cretan.

The uppermost lock is St John's, below Lechlade; the lowest is Richmond, but this is a half-tide lock, keeping the water above at a level corresponding to half that of flood tide.

The most important buildings of which we have any remains are to be found in the lower part of Achradina and in Neapolis, a quarter of which we hear first in the time of Dionysius, and which at first was confined to the lower ground below Temenites, but in Roman times included it and the theatre also (Lupus 168), though it did not extend beyond the theatre to the uppermost part of the plateau.

If the blowing iron is held vertically with the bulb uppermost the bulb becomes flattened and shallow, if the bulb is allowed to hang downwards it becomes elongated and reduced in diameter, and if the end of the bulb is pierced and the iron is held horizontally and sharply trundled, as a mop is trundled, the bulb opens out into a flattened disk.

Beyond the limits of New England the progress of the denomination as such was, as we have seen, a good deal hindered for a long period by the willingness of New Englanders going West either to join the Presbyterians, with whom they were substantially agreed in doctrine, or to combine with them in a mixed scheme of policy in which the Presbyterian element was uppermost.

The floor of the church, built partly on the rock, partly upon foundations, and, at the east end, over a crypt, is on a level with the uppermost storey of the monastic buildings.

The exumbral surface is uppermost, the subumbral surface, with the manubrium and mouth, is facing downwards.

It lies in the uppermost part of the valley of the South Tyne, among the high bleak moors of the Pennines.

There is in some places an unconformity between the Richmond beds (or their equivalent) and underlying formations, and this unconformity, together with certain palaeontological considerations, has raised the question whether the uppermost part of the system, as outlined above, should not be classed as Silurian (Upper Silurian).

The posterior or attached border is uppermost.

In Holland, as in Belgium, the education question has been uppermost.

Throughout the Teutonic region of the Alps the word Alp is used specifically for the upper pastures where cattle are fed in summer, but this region is held to include the whole space between the uppermost limit of trees and the first Alpine p pp appearance of permanent masses of snow.

Only the Muschelkalk, which does not reach so far as England, and the uppermost beds, the Rhaetic, contain fossils in any abundance.

To the east of this is a large space, now open, but once very possibly roofed, and forming a basilica in two storeys, built against the rock on the north side, and there decorated with pilasters also; and to the east again is an apsidal hall, often identified with the temple itself, in which the famous mosaic with scenes from the Nile, now in the Palazzo Barberini on the uppermost terrace, was found.

The hole for its reception should be of sufficient depth to allow the base of the ball of earth, or of the roots, to stand so that the point whence the uppermost roots spring from the stem may be 2 or 3 in.

By this means the ascus cell is brought uppermost, and after the fusion of the two nuclei it develops enormously and produces the ascospores.

On the uppermost terrace, defined by the great Cyclopean supporting wall, exactly as described by Pausanias, the excavations revealed a layer of ashes and charred wood, below which were found numerous objects of earliest date, together with some remains of the walls resting on a polygonal platform - all forming part of the earliest temple.

The stamens are diadelphous, nine of them being united by their filaments f, while the uppermost one (e) is free; st, stigma, c, calyx.

The virtue of the hazel wand was supposed to be dependent on its having two forks; these were to be grasped in the fists, with the fingers uppermost, but with moderate firmness only, lest the free motion of the opposite end downwards towards the looked-for object should be interfered with.

An uppermost series lies above the Olenus fauna in some areas; it is represented by the Tremadoc beds in Britain or by the Dictyonema beds or Euloma-Niobe fauna elsewhere.

Farther south, around the old lands of Languedoc, equivalents of the two upper divisions of the Cambrian have been recorded; and the uppermost members of the system appear in Herault.

In the Thiiringer Wald are certain strata, presumably Cambrian since the uppermost beds contain the Euloma-Niobe fauna.

The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.

Perhaps the most constant and obvious distinction between this species and the next is the arrangement of the stripes on the hinder part of the back, where there are a number of short transverse bands reaching to the median longitudinal dorsal stripe, and unconnected with the uppermost of the broad stripes which pass obliquely across the haunch from the flanks towards the root of the tail.

There is a strongly marked median longitudinal ventral black stripe, to which the lower ends of the transverse side stripes are usually united, but the dorsal stripe (also strongly marked) is completely isolated in its posterior half, and the uppermost of the broad haunch stripes runs nearly parallel to it.

The few sportsmen who have visited the higher parts of the great northern rivers have found excellent trout-fishing, with pike, perch, char and grayling, the char occurring in the uppermost parts of the rivers, and the grayling below them.

Such forms when undisturbed fix themselves to the bottom and rest with their mouths and tentacles uppermost.

The uppermost saucers of the pile become detached successively and swim off.

To the right, strobila condition of the scyphistoma, consisting of thirteen metameric segments; the uppermost still possesses the sixteen tentacles of the scyphistoma; the remainder have no tentacles, but are ephyrae, each with eight bifid arms (processes of the disc).

After fertilization, some of the uppermost bracts below each flower become red and fleshy; the perianth develops into a woody shell, while the integument remains membranous.

As the uppermost compartment fills, the weights end of the beam rises, and by means of a vertical rod suc - cessively operates on detents connected with the rotation of the two brushes, and stops them in turn.

The spikelets contain two or three flowers, of which the uppermost is usually imperfect.

The parapodium is represented with its neural or ventral surface uppermost.

At the base of each spikelet are two empty boat-shaped glumes or "chaff-scales," one to the right, the other to the left, and then a series of flowers, 2 to 8 in number, closely crowded together; the uppermost are abortive or sterile, - indeed, in some varieties only one or two of the flowers are fertile.

The ovary adheres firmly to the seed in the interior, so that on examining a longitudinal section of the grain by the microscope the outer layer is seen to consist of epidermal cells, of which the uppermost are prolonged into short hairs to cover the apex of the grain.

The Yellow Sandstone contains Archanodon, the oldest known fresh-water mollusc, and plant-remains; the Coomhola Grits are marine, and are sometimes regarded as Carboniferous, sometimes as uppermost Devonian.

The hind end of embryos B, C, D is uppermost in the figures, the primitive streak is the white patch behind the blastopore.

There is, however, a marked difference, as regards the floras as a whole, between the uppermost Palaeozoic flora of the northern hemisphere and such species as have been recorded from Lower Triassic beds.

Cycadean stems have been found also in the uppermost Jurassic, Wealden and Lower Cretaceous rocks of England, India and other parts of the world.

Instantly, access to the building was uppermost on her mind.

Mortality had been uppermost on his mind during the flight back – first his own and then Carmen's.

In short, we have degraded and sown confusion into the uppermost ranks of al-Qa'ida.

The little fish, now with a rather grotesque face, starts swimming on its side, with eyes uppermost.

The buoy was snared by the happy hooker, a line was attached to its uppermost part and we started to haul in.

The male inflorescence terminates on the uppermost spike branched arranged in a loose panicles.

Lithosphere is called the solid part of the earth, including the crust and the uppermost mantle.

The uppermost story is marked by a stringcourse decorated with chevron ornament and 2 of the original windows are preserved.

The fear of injury is always uppermost in an athletes mind at this late stage.

Thankfully, however, these philosophical worries are not usually uppermost in the average manager's mind.

The fear of expensive damage was also uppermost in drivers ' minds.

The issue of the prevalent violence was probably uppermost in people's minds.

This is often uppermost in my mind tho the advances made are frequently only of the small step variety.

But whatever the cost, the romance of the Festival was still uppermost in the Irish drivers ' minds.

Each tower was three stories, with the uppermost story rising above the curtain wall.

The uppermost stage was reserved for the deacon who sang the gospel (facing the congregation); for promulgating episcopal edicts; reciting the names inscribed on the diptychs (see Diptych); announcing fasts, vigils and feasts; reading ecclesiastical letters or acts of the martyrs celebrated on that day; announcing new miracles for popular edification, professions by new converts or recantations by heretics; and (for priests and deacons) preaching sermons, - bishops as a general rule preaching from their own throne.

In shape roughly resembling an equilateral triangle, with base uppermost, Bosnia and Herzegovina cover an area of 19,696 sq.

In general structure they all closely resemble human beings, as in the absence of tails; in their semi-erect position (resting on finger-tips or knuckles); in the shape of vertebral column, sternum and pelvis; in the adaptation of the arms for turning the palm uppermost at will; in the possession of a long vermiform appendix to the short caecum of the intestine; in the size of the cerebral hemispheres and the complexity of their convolutions.

Prince Andrew introduced his protege, but Prince Dolgorukov politely and firmly pressing his hand said nothing to Boris and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew in French.

Five slim white fingers wait for the slop bucket, palm uppermost.

By using acids derived from sugar cane the skin is helped by removing the dry uppermost layer.

The uppermost deck running from the bow to the stern is called the weather deck.

The second fill was charcoal rich and formed a shallow bowl shape filled by the uppermost fill.

I 've climbed into your tree of thoughts, clinging like an ornament to your uppermost branches.

A rational quest for truth is not for everyone of uppermost importance.

Thankfully, however, these philosophical worries are not usually uppermost in the average manager 's mind.

The issue of the prevalent violence was probably uppermost in people 's minds.

Sealed A rescue operation was uppermost in the minds of everyone.

This idea was uppermost in everyone 's minds, agreed John Haines, one of the defense barristers.

Efficiency was also uppermost in the designer 's plans, as response speeds were critical on the new network.

The last point, although the most alien for journalists, was clearly uppermost in the thoughts of the proprietor at the time.

Some manuals require that all front facing children be placed in car seats using the uppermost slot for the harness straps.

The uppermost section of each pagoda condo is a 14-inch round pagoda with two entrances and two roof perches on top.

It is a large shrub, 8 to 10 or more feet high, variable in foliage, and with flowers densely crowded in globose heads peduncled in the axils of the uppermost leaves, and which vary in color from pink to pale lilac, with an orange throat.

The fingertip consists of the uppermost phalanx with surrounding muscle, tissue, nerves, and nail.

The person lies on his or her side with the affected ear uppermost.

Cervical spine-The seven bones of the neck that form the uppermost part of the spinal column.

Since freckles are only on the uppermost surface of the skin, a laser surgeon will be able to use the laser to easily remove them without having to go into the deeper layers of the skin.

This gel gently cleanses the uppermost layer of the skin, leaving it soft, refreshed, and ready for step two in the Natural Advantage regimen.

The older, belonging probably to the beginning of the 6th century B.C., appears, from an inscription on the uppermost step, to have been dedicated to Apollo.

This mountain mass is of flat-arched, dome-like structure, now well dissected by radiating consequent streams, so that the weaker uppermost strata have been eroded down to the level of the plains where their upturned edges are evenly truncated, and the next following harder strata have been sufficiently eroded to disclose the core of underlying crystalline rocks in about half of the domed area.

The Aristeia of Diomede ends in the middle of the sixth book; he is uppermost in all thoughts down to ver.

Among the most surprising features of cave scenery are the vertical shafts that pierce through all levels, from the uppermost galleries, or even from the sink-holes, down to the lowest floor.

Each tentacle is to the stem of a plant, and is repre sented with the base of attachment a glove-finger like outpush uppermost; the mouth, not actually ing of the whole wall of the seen in the drawing, is at the lower sac and contains typically extremity of the body, surrounded a prolongation of its internal by the circle of tentacles.

The seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack.