tenuity

1 The bar that has been tilted into the most perfect compactness, has now to acquire the utmost possible tenuity.

2 This is the simplest type of nebula; it is characterised by extreme faintness, and seems composed of matter of the utmost tenuity.

3 The so-called Gothic architecture had expressed its uttermost of aspiration and tenuity; and painting had fulfilled its utmost accommodation to the ever more slender wall-spaces and forms which this architecture necessitated.

4 The long arm of coincidence stretched to aching tenuity by the dramatist and the novelist!

5 It is whether the nucleus of a comet is an opaque solid body, a cluster of such bodies, or a mass of particles of extreme tenuity.

6 In practice the average degree of tenuity to which the gold is reduced is not nearly so great as the last example quoted above.

7 All, therefore, concurs to prove the extreme tenuity of the substance of irregular nebul�.

8 With this in his hand, the workman carefully traces the outlines of his drawing, which the tenuity of the saw-blade allows the tool to follow into every curve and angle.

9 The first and best assured was that the matter composing them is in a state of extreme tenuity.

10 The golden panicles of the great Quake-grass, so curiously compacted and hanging in stalks of so hair-like a tenuity as to nod and tremble with the slightest motion, how beautiful are these!

11 "Quick be the play," was their motto: "Lively our elbows, and nimble all our tenuities."

12 Smoke, on the contrary, is an actual substance existing independently in the air, a solid opaque body, subject to no absorption nor dissipation but that of tenuity.

13 The heads, in some cases, may consist of separate solid fragments, though on this astronomers are by no means agreed, but the tails at any rate are in fact of almost inconceivable tenuity.

14 If the figure about "cups which cheer but not inebriate" had not been worn to the finest tenuity, I might at once give it, here, application and illustration.

15 This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”

16 Coexistence of the rational and elegant prose has brought on interflowing of the two style and therefore facilitated prosperity and tenuity in this field.

理性散文与通俗散文并存，形成了雅俗合流的创作格局，共同促成了当代散文创作的繁荣与苍白。

17 With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.’

18 Perfumes were next subjected to examination, and, notwithstanding their extraordinary tenuity, they were found vastly superior, in point of absorptive power, to the body of the air in which they were diffused.

19 In some cases of acknowledged inflammation, the fluid effused is found to vary greatly in its degree of tenuity, so as to be sometimes of quite a viscid nature.

20 The ARACHNOID, so called from its extreme tenuity, is the serous membrane of the brain and spinal cord, and is, like other serous membranes, a closed sac.

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