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Sentences starting with surface

Surface measures will not avail. [4]

Sentences ending with surface

But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
Her sarcasm was well veiled, but I could feel the sardonic touch beneath the smiling surface. [11]
However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
The tears lay very near the surface. [5]
You may spade up the ocean as much as you like, and harrow it afterwards, if you can,--but the moon will still lead the tides, and the winds will form their surface. [6]
Once again she took it out of the ivory casket in which it was kept; but so long as George sat imprisoned in the cave of the evil spirit, nothing was to be seen on its smooth surface. [10]
Angele had come to feel what he was beneath the surface. [11]
For the first time all that pure, spiritual, inward travail through which she had lived appeared on the surface. [2]
She had been thrown off her balance, or poise, as Charley had, for an unwonted second, been thrown off his pose, and her thought could not pierce beneath the surface. [11]
She had felt this vibrating life beat beneath the frozen surface. [11]

Sentences containing surface two or more times

It maps the whole surface of the body into an arbitrary number of regions, and studies each region successively from the surface to the bone, or beneath it. [3]
Lastly, Westring states that in Omaloplia brunnea the rasp is placed on the pro-sternum, and the scraper on the meta-sternum, the parts thus occupying the under surface of the body, instead of the upper surface as in the Longicorns. [1]
Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears. [1]
One of the nervures (a) on the under surface of the former is finely serrated, and is scraped across the prominent nervures on the upper surface of the opposite or right wing. [1]
Millions of wild ducks and sea-gulls swim about the surface, but no living thing exists under the surface, except a white feathery sort of worm, one half an inch long, which looks like a bit of white thread frayed out at the sides. [5]

More example sentences with the word surface in them

How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
A puff of wind comes and ruffles the surface, so that he cannot see the fish. [4]
They went away when the surface diggings gave out. [5]
As, for instance, when a fault or sin showed on the surface of a man, whether, if you dug down, you would find that it ran back and into the original organic bunch of original sin within the man. [4]
Some households there were, indeed, which maintained a precarious though seemingly miraculous footing on the surface, or near it, going under for mere brief periods, only to rise again and flaunt men-servants in the face of Providence. [9]
He and Anne went for a walk along the river, the surface of which was broken by lumps of yellow ice. [9]
Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? [7]
I knew there was something troubling me,--and the thought which had been working through comes up to the surface clear, definite, and articulates itself,--a disagreeable duty, perhaps, or an unpleasant recollection. [6]
But when it was out, the weight gone, and my conscience rising to the surface, I glanced at her face to see the result. [5]
The waxing moon was mirrored in the almost unruffled surface and where a ripple curled it the tiny crest glittered like white flame. [10]
The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
Three months it was from the day Biatt first spoke to me to the day when, with an expert diver, we brought the box to the surface and opened it. [11]
Presently the cloud-rack was flooded with fiery splendors, and these were copied on the surface of the sea, and it made one drunk with delight to look upon it. [5]
A Presidential year was coming on, but if there was anything political in the project there were no surface indications. [5]
The lava surface was all alike in the lantern light. [5]
It was a vast exposed surface rising at a slight angle out of the grass and undergrowth. [4]
The boat came up to the surface, broken in twain, splintered, a load of firewood for those who raked the river lower down. [6]
It was not until morning that I beheld my retreat, when little wisps of vapour were straying over the surface of the lake, and the steep green slopes that rose out of the water on the western side were still in shadow. [9]
A week or two ago an assay of just such surface developments made returns of seven thousand dollars to the ton. [5]
Drowning men come to the surface three times they say. [12]
It was piteous to see the anxious look of the hunted, half-drowned creature as--it came to the surface and caught sight of the dog. [4]
It is impossible to doubt that colour has been gained by many fishes as a protection: no one can examine the speckled upper surface of a flounder, and overlook its resemblance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives. [1]
It is hard to believe that the cellar floor was once the sun surface of the smiling earth. [6]
Sometimes a greenish tint was seen upon its surface, which might have been taken for vegetation, but it was thought not improbably to be a reflection from the vast forests of South America. [6]
One or two thought they discerned something like a track; the others shook their heads and confessed that the smooth hard surface had no marks upon it which their eyes were sharp enough to discover. [5]
The explanation of this is on the surface, and it is the key to half the unhappiness in domestic life. [4]
The stone from this David's sling falls into the ocean and is lost beneath the surface. [11]
The reasons for this are on the surface. [4]
It grieved her, these troubled days, to be so hindered and delayed and baffled, and at times she was sad and the tears lay near the surface. [5]
When you transfer these sketches, many times enlarged, to a broad surface, you will learn more than in years of copying plaster-casts. [10]
In low water these neat narrow-edged dikes project four or five inches above the surface, like the comb of a submerged roof, but in high water they are overflowed. [5]
As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. [5]
First a discoloration, then a stain, and at last a rich, glowing, umber tint spreading over the whole surface. [6]
When you let them go, they pop up to the surface as dry as a patent office report, and walk off as unconcernedly as if they had been educated especially with a view to affording instructive entertainment to man in that particular way. [5]
The monotony of the yellow walls broke in change of color and smooth surface, and the rugged outline of rims grew craggy. [13]
If wanting in the variety of surface which many other towns can boast of, it has at least a vision of the distant summits of Monadnock and Wachusett. [6]
Again and again the two men seemed to sink beneath the sea, and again and again they came to the surface and battled further, torn, battered, and bloody, but not beaten. [11]
So clear was the sweet evening air that the irregular surface of the desert showed for a score of miles as plainly as though it were but a step away. [11]
A flood under the surface, a tidal river-what? [11]
What showed upon the surface was a serene and lofty contentment and a dignity of carriage and gravity of deportment which compelled the admiration and likewise the wonder of the company. [5]
The pasturage covering the surface of the Kimberley crater was sufficient for the support of a cow, and the pasturage underneath was sufficient for the support of a kingdom; but the cow did not know it, and lost her chance. [5]
Its maps of the surface of the head are, I feel sure, founded on a delusion, but its studies of individual character are always interesting and instructive. [3]
I fled to the surface and told the awful news. [5]
Venus should traverse the sun's surface, not the earth's. [5]
When Ledscha heard the strokes of the oars she stopped again and, with glowing cheeks, gazed after the boat and the glimmering silver furrow which it left upon the calm surface of the moonlit water. [10]
Did she visit the spring to admire her own image in its mirror-like surface? [10]
She appreciated fully the skilful duel that had kept things on the surface, and had committed neither of them to anything personal. [11]
Striking out for the shore, he swam with bold, strong strokes, his judgment guiding him well past rocks beneath the surface. [11]
Dr. Gruber takes the same view, and has shewn that rudimentary teeth are commonly found on the inferior surface of the right wing. [1]
Flying half-way across the room, it alighted on the table, and a little mud from the heel dropped on the clean scoured surface. [11]
It takes all the nonsense out of everybody, or ought to do it, to see how fairly the real manhood of a country is distributed over its surface. [6]
Later he spread the lingam out till its surface was ten miles across. [5]
The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. [2]
Creaking and pausing, the goosequill made large, stiff letters on the white surface. [10]
For this reason the first diamonds were found on the surface of the ground. [5]
That portion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States is well adapted to be the home of one national family, and it is not well adapted for two or more. [7]
The surface of the earth is inhabited by human beings having a share in the three great cosmic kingdoms. [10]
Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies. [5]
At total--or about that--it was like a rich rosy cloud with a tumbled surface framed in the circle and projecting from it--a bulge of strawberry-ice, so to speak. [5]
The fact, however, that the other members of the order of Primates, to which man belongs, although inhabiting various hot regions, are well clothed with hair, generally thickest on the upper surface (88. [1]
She felt also that his letters were in a sense perfunctory, and gave her only the surface of his life. [4]
Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
You can not swim on your back and make any progress of any consequence, because your feet stick away above the surface, and there is nothing to propel yourself with but your heels. [5]
To her own surprise a power of life and hope of happiness rose to the surface and demanded satisfaction. [2]
Coming to the surface, he made straight for the boat faster than I could reel in, and evidently with hostile intentions. [4]
Caves indented its surface, and there were no detached ledges or weathered sections that might dislodge a stone. [13]
There was ample surface in which to look for it. [4]
Its conic shape--thickly-wooded surface girding its sides, and its apex like that of a cone, cause the spectator to wonder at nature's workings. [5]
Hence the lower surface generally affords to entomologists the more useful character for detecting the affinities of the various species. [1]
The blue sea spread before them, the full moon mirrored on its scarcely heaving surface like a tremulous column of pure and shining silver. [10]
The sea was spread abroad on every hand, its tumbled surface seeming only wrinkled and dimpled in the distance. [5]
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections! [6]
The car was speeding over the smooth surface of the boulevard; the swift motion, which seemed to her like that of flying, the sparkling air, the brightness of the day, the pressure of Ditmar's shoulder against hers, thrilled her. [9]
In some tropical species the lower surface is even more brilliantly coloured than the upper. [1]
The thinner this sort of thing is spread out, the more surface it covers, of course. [4]
And all the sorceress said tended to confirm the young woman's confidence in her magic art; she described Orion as exactly as though she saw him indeed in the surface of the ink, and said he was travelling with an older man. [10]
The water will soon float your feet to the surface. [5]
The atmosphere was so rarified, on account of the great altitude, that one's blood lay near the surface always, and the scratch of a pin was a disaster worth worrying about, for the chances were that a grievous erysipelas would ensue. [5]
Her colour, always so near the surface, rose a little as she regarded him. [9]
Oh, I am so glad, Ian, that our friendship has always been so much on the surface, so 'void of offence'--is that the phrase? [11]
Yet it was so crowded with historical interest, that if all the pages that have been written about it were spread upon its surface, they would flag it from horizon to horizon like a pavement. [5]
And they were so almost straight-up-and-down, sometimes, that one could not imagine a man being able to keep his footing upon such a surface, yet there are paths, and the Swiss people go up and down them every day. [5]
Lotus-blossoms, white as snow, lay on the surface of the river, rising and falling with the waves, and looking like eyes in the water. [10]
If Kansas should sink to-day, and leave a great vacant space in the earth's surface, this vexed question would still be among us. [7]
At last we sighted buoys, bobbing here and there, and then we glided into a narrow channel among them, "raised the reef," and came upon shoaling blue water that soon further shoaled into pale green, with a surface scarcely rippled. [5]
Right-hand figure, under side of part of a wing-nervure, much magnified, showing the teeth, st. Left-hand figure, upper surface of wing-cover, with the projecting, smooth nervure, r, across which the teeth (st) are scraped. [1]
It may not show on the surface, but the shyness is there. [5]
The setting sun shot slanting rays on the glittering surface of the glassy waters in which the numberless masts of the Nile-boats were mirrored. [10]
A web of shimmering silvery radiance covered the edges of every island, and suddenly the brilliant full moon was reflected in argent lustre like a magnificent quivering column upon the surface of the water, now rippled by the evening breeze. [10]
She believed that she clearly distinguished them sporting joyously up and down through the azure water, now plunging into the depths with their feet, and now with their heads foremost, anon floating gently on the surface of the waves. [10]
It is this shading which gives so admirably the effect of light shining on a convex surface. [1]
The parish house seemed to float precariously on its surface. [9]
They store up seeds, of which they prevent the germination, and which, if damp, are brought up to the surface to dry. [1]
All the blood sank suddenly out of his face; his hand quaked, and he gazed at the polished surface before him with the glassy stare of a corpse. [5]
The things he said were nothing more than surface sounds, as it were--the ejaculations of a mind, not its language or its meanings. [11]
His unconquerable optimism rose determinedly to the surface, even as he summed up and related the forces working against him. [11]
The surface of Roan is uneven, and has no one culminating peak that commands the country, like the peak of Mount Washington, but several eminences within its range of probably a mile and a half, where various views can be had. [4]
Each also had recognised in the other qualities of force and knowledge having their generation in experiences which had become individuality, subterranean and acute, under a cold surface. [11]
But in a rebellious state dissension is ruin, and the violence of an explosion in a strict ratio to the pressure on every inch of the containing surface. [6]

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