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Sentences ending with structure

I knew it was a prodigious structure. [5]
A story is told of a condemned man, whom his cruel executioner cast into a prison of ingenious structure. [10]
Is man subject to similar malconformations, the result of arrested development, of reduplication of parts, etc., and does he display in any of his anomalies reversion to some former and ancient type of structure? [1]
Drive the pegs tighter you fellows out there or the whirlwind will tear down the slight structure. [10]
He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
Some naturalists believe that the voice is thus strengthened, but various other uses have been assigned to this extraordinary structure. [1]
We thus see that in the different coleopterous families the stridulating organs are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure. [1]
These columns have stood through one fire, and perhaps the recent one, which swept away the rest of the structure. [4]
Thus F. von Schlegel writes: "In those languages which appear to be at the lowest grade of intellectual culture, we frequently observe a very high and elaborate degree of art in their grammatical structure. [1]
She had thought of the temple at the Corner of the Muses, but the house occupied by Didymus stood in the way of a larger structure. [10]

Short sentences using structure

Is the fairy structure growing? [5]

Sentences containing structure two or more times

When a structure is arrested in its development, but still continues growing, until it closely resembles a corresponding structure in some lower and adult member of the same group, it may in one sense be considered as a case of reversion. [1]
So that the correspondence in general structure, in the minute structure of the tissues, in chemical composition and in constitution, between man and the higher animals, especially the anthropomorphous apes, is extremely close. [1]

More example sentences with the word structure in them

If Berthold Vorchtel would make up his mind to join me, it might be different, but he summoned the Council as a complainant, and if he is the one to overthrow the reeling structure, who can blame him? [10]
It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and the weakening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. [6]
The monument, overgrown with blossoming vines, before which she paused, was a singular structure, that had been built of brick between her own and her uncle's garden. [10]
Result: the gate was only a flimsy structure of wood--we would break it down. [5]
The great structure was a-tremble from the assault, its footpaths and its roadway overrun with workers, dodging between trolleys and trucks,--some darting nimbly, dinner pails in hand, along the steel girders. [9]
One of the waiters had profited by Lindau's posture to lean over him and put down in the middle of the table a structure in white sugar. [8]
It was a very venerable structure, very strong, and very ornamental. [5]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
The triumphal arch under her, and the garlands which decorated the wooden structure, had caught her before she touched the pavement. [10]
He had often told her that she could read his soul like an open book, but she did not conceal from herself that there were certain sides of that complex structure whose meaning she was incapable of comprehending. [10]
They both belonged to the temple of Baal of Kariotis, a small structure of solid stone, which faced the sea, and which the Emperor had yesterday visited. [10]
And now, on to the structure builded by these two, comes Germany to be welded, to strengthen or to weaken. [9]
She listened eagerly to the blows of the battering-engine; each one sounded to her like a shock to the very structure of the universe. [10]
Genius is willing to lay the foundations of her structure unobserved. [9]
Corporeal structure appears to have little influence, except so far as vigour of body leads to vigour of mind. [1]
The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel--half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. [5]
It was impossible to apply to business an individual code of ethics,--even to Perry's business, to Tom's business: the two were incompatible, and the sooner one recognized that the better: the whole structure of business was built up on natural, as opposed to ethical law. [9]
He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth. [9]
At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music. [2]
I have been thus detailed in sketching his early years because upon these strange foundations the structure of his great fame and service was built. [7]
The cost of this structure would soon be recouped by the saving in labor, and with perfect certainty, if only the transport-ships were laden at Clysma with a profitable return freight of Alexandrian manufactures, instead of returning empty as they had hitherto done. [10]
Pontius had erected this slight structure expressly for Hadrian's nightly observations. [10]
We cannot do this if we see the author set them up as if they were marionettes, and take them to pieces every few pages, and show their interior structure, and the machinery by which they are moved. [4]
What an impious thing it seemed to them, this trembling structure across the chasm! [4]
Behind curtains of thick faded brocade was her bedstead, a heavy structure of enormous width. [10]
Some people, when they get an idea, it pries the structure apart. [5]
The nature of these differences is unknown, but they relate more especially to the reproductive system, and much less so to external structure or to ordinary differences in constitution. [1]
Besides the cathedral there were the very lovely cloisters, the noble chapter-house with its central pillar,--this structure has been restored and rejuvenated since my earlier visit,--and there were the peaceful dwellings, where I insist on believing that only virtue and happiness are ever tenants. [6]
Once in place, the workman cools the hot iron; and as it shrinks with a force that seems like a hand-grasp of the Omnipotent, it clasps the fitted fragments of the structure, and compresses them into a single inseparable whole. [6]
The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building. [10]
The last of the three was of wood, and of no great size--a severely plain but dignified structure, looking like some council-hall of a past era. [11]
It came from the Temple of Nemesis--a pretty little structure belonging to the time of Alexander the Great, which he had often examined with pleasure. [10]
The connection between the science of life and that of intimate structure on the one hand, and composition on the other, is illustrated in the titles of two recent works of remarkable excellence,--"the Physiological Anatomy" of Todd and Bowman, and the "Physiological Chemistry" of Lehmann. [3]
This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself. [6]
The display of the fibrous structure of the brain seemed a novelty as shown by Spurzheim. [3]
The fact of the feathers in widely distinct groups having been modified in an analogous manner no doubt depends primarily on all the feathers having nearly the same structure and manner of development, and consequently tending to vary in the same manner. [1]
In saying that the exterior of Salisbury Cathedral is more interesting than its interior, I was perhaps unfair to the latter, which only yields to the surpassing claims of the wonderful structure as seen from the outside. [6]
Marco Compioni was the architect who designed the wonderful structure more than five hundred years ago, and it took him forty-six years to work out the plan and get it ready to hand over to the builders. [5]
This lava is the accumulation of ages; one torrent of fire after another has rolled down here in old times, and built up the island structure higher and higher. [5]
Is it likely that you should finish so beautiful a structure with such care only to destroy it? [10]
We know, however, that many strange and strongly-marked peculiarities of structure occasionally appear in our domesticated productions, and if their unknown causes were to act more uniformly, they would probably become common to all the individuals of the species. [1]
I am aware that Gratiolet, relying on the structure of the brain, does not admit the existence of this sub-group, and no doubt it is a broken one. [1]
Vast wealth has temptations which fatally and surely undermine the moral structure of persons not habituated to its possession. [5]
A wide, lofty structure, composed of masses of stalactites and unhewn blocks of stone, formed a deep grotto at the end of the hall, whence peered the gigantic head of a monster whose open jaws formed the fireplace of the chimney. [10]
So that mediaeval structure, all tower, growing out of the rock, is Stedman's Castle--just like him, to let his art spring out of nature in that way. [4]
To raise a structure without first securing a solid foundation would be an act of rashness and folly. [10]
If this vast structure of brawn and muscle and vanity and foolishness seemed to have a libelous tongue, what of it? [5]
But each organism still retains the general type of structure of the progenitor from which it was aboriginally derived. [1]
The degrees of sterility do not coincide strictly with the degrees of difference between the parents in external structure or habits of life. [1]
It is a square stuccoed structure, stained light green, and covered by a dome,--a tasteless monument, embellished with stucco medallions, inside, of the poet, of Virgil, of Brunetto Latini, the poet's master, and of his patron, Guido da Polenta. [4]
I would as soon begin in that way as any other, with a student who had already mastered the preliminary branches,--who knew enough about the structure and functions of the body in health. [6]
The Aymaras present some other singular points of structure, for instance, the very small projection of the heel. [1]
With the higher social animals, I am not aware that any structure has been modified solely for the good of the community, though some are of secondary service to it. [1]
This structure was so roughly and inartistically heaped together that it looked as if formed by nature rather than by the hand of man. [10]
I even went so far as to indulge in, a fling at the State House, which, as we all know, is in truth a very imposing structure, covering less ground than St. Peter's, but of similar general effect. [6]
It was half-past six, and we were tired and hungry, when the domain of Egger towered in sight,--a gaunt, two-story structure of raw brick, unfinished, standing in a narrow intervale. [4]
The temple of Seti proper was a massive structure of limestone. [10]
Mr. Ault had set himself to find out whether this vast structure stood upon rock foundations. [4]
I observed the same rudimentary structure on the under side of the right wing-cover in Phasgonura viridissima. [1]
This "cottage," a roomy, gabled structure, stood on a cliff, at the foot of which roared the wintry Atlantic, while we danced and popped corn before the open fires. [9]
You have a right to do so, for, if I am not mistaken, few will visit the finished structure more frequently than my Iras. [10]
It was half relined, half buried in desert sand when an enterprising inn-keeper had bought the elegant structure with the adjacent grove for a very moderate sum. [10]
I do not refer to strongly-marked deviations of structure, which occur only at long intervals of time, but to mere individual differences. [1]
The tavern had recently been enlarged to meet the new demands for entertainment and is a roomy structure, fresh with paint and only partially organized. [4]
Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land-snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together. [1]
What was the probable value of this stately structure, this aristocratic imperial abode? [10]
We visited the principal church, also--a curious old structure, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of grotesque images. [5]
No one will pretend that so perfect a structure as the abnormal double uterus in woman could be the result of mere chance. [1]
Even were the presence of the temporo-occipital, or external perpendicular, sulcus, a mark of distinction between the higher apes and man, the value of such a distinctive character would be rendered very doubtful by the structure of the brain in the Platyrrhine apes. [1]
Over the great portal of St. Lawrence--a magnificent structure, with lofty twin spires and glorious rosewindow is carved "The Last Judgment. [4]
In the first place, the minute structure of all the organs has been made out in the most satisfactory way. [3]
I had always perceived, that rare and strongly-marked deviations of structure, deserving to be called monstrosities, could seldom be preserved through natural selection, and that the preservation of even highly-beneficial variations would depend to a certain extent on chance. [1]
The accounts from Paris were accompanied by report after report from the rest of Germany, shaking the old structure of absolutism like the repeated shocks of a battering-ram. [10]
We can, in our ignorance of most of the lowest animals, only say that their bright tints result either from the chemical nature or the minute structure of their tissues, independently of any benefit thus derived. [1]
The most humble organism is something much higher than the inorganic dust under our feet; and no one with an unbiassed mind can study any living creature, however humble, without being struck with enthusiasm at its marvellous structure and properties. [1]
The upper structure on the top of the brigade-mess also fell in. [5]
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. [1]
Could the whole of this hideous structure, tier resting upon tier, have been reared without something of a foundation? [9]
The minute structure of the viscera lay in the mists of an uncertain microscopic vision. [3]
While these studies of the structure of the cord have been going on, the ingenious and indefatigable Brown-Sequard has been investigating the functions of its different parts with equal diligence. [3]
The outer end of the spokes is received into the deep mortise of the wooden fellies, and the structure appears to be complete. [6]
The structure, too, of the Nebraska Bill is very peculiar. [7]
In festal illuminations of the harbor pitch cressets on the roof, and long rows of lamps that accumulated architectonic features of the noble structure, were always kindled; but inside it, no blaze so brilliant had ever lighted it within the memory of man. [10]
The whole structure of the government is firm and stable. [7]
Besides, a perception of the comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure. [6]
The free use of the arms and hands, partly the cause and partly the result of man's erect position, appears to have led in an indirect manner to other modifications of structure. [1]
On a platform of rocks and mighty masonry rose a structure of wonderful magnificence and beauty, so brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun that its noble proportions and gorgeous colors showed in dazzling splendor and relief. [10]
But the principle of reversion, by which a long-lost structure is called back into existence, might serve as the guide for its full development, even after the lapse of an enormous interval of time. [1]
In the transfer of his remains the curiosity of men of science and artists would have been gratified, if decay had spared the more durable portions of his material structure. [6]
Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations. [5]
An unexplained residuum of change must be left to the assumed uniform action of those unknown agencies, which occasionally induce strongly marked and abrupt deviations of structure in our domestic productions. [1]
These horns consist of an excrescence of bone covered with a smooth sheath, forming part of the general integuments of the body, so that they are identical in structure with those of a bull, goat, or other sheath-horned ruminant. [1]
On each side of a large structure, which contained the state rooms and banqueting hall, three rows of pavilions of different sizes extended in symmetrical order. [10]
But if the occasional development of this structure in man is, as seems probable, due to reversion, it is a return to a very ancient state of things, because in the higher Quadrumana it is absent. [1]
But were they not, he asked himself, franker than many of these others, the so-called pillars of the spiritual structure? [9]
Its condition does not in the least imply a similar one of the stomach, which is a very different structure, covered with a different kind of epithelium, and furnished with entirely different secretions. [3]
The next morning not even the foundations of this structure were visible. [4]
Perhaps it was not an American structure, although one could find in it all the rare woods and stones of the continent. [4]
They are also much more liable to vary, both in structure and in the period of their development, than the other teeth. [1]
Why the hotel-keeper's mind along the coast regards this grotesque structure as a summer attraction it is difficult to see. [4]

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