tenuity

Designed to emphasize the waist, it was pulled in as required to achieve the desired tenuity.

It was strange how its shape now stood out sharply, and now faded almost to a ghostly tenuity.

The comet's exceeding tenuity was apparent; heavenly objects were plainly visible through it.

That tenuity in the comet which had previously inspired us with hope, was now the source of the bitterness of despair.

Faces of thin shadow, faces of gaseous tenuity.

The tenuity or narrowness of the veins about the brain itself contributes to its being kept cool, and to its not readily admitting the evaporation.

Such agates, when cut transversely, exhibit a succession of parallel lines, often of extreme tenuity, giving a banded appearance to the section.

Graydon felt rise around him a fine, impalpable dust, so fine that only by the millstones of'incalculable ages could it have been ground to such tenuity.

Presently the sudden transition from daylight to darkness which, owing to the tenuity of the air upon Barsoom, occurs almost without the warning twilight of Earth, would occur.

There was no doubt left to me; the atmosphere of the moon was either pure oxygen or air, and capable therefore--unless its tenuity was excessive--of supporting our alien life.

We had long regarded the wanderers as vapory creations of inconceivable tenuity, and as altogether incapable of doing injury to our substantial globe, even in the event of contact.

In other cases these two minerals are in graphic intergrowth, often forming radiate growths of spherulites consisting of fibers of extreme tenuity; this type is known as granophyric.

What wonder, then, that the lath-like tenuity of my acquaintance, and his altitude, which has grown into a proverb, should have met with all due estimation in the eyes of Mrs. Lackobreath.

Differences of a more serious nature occur when definers use words less familiar than the entry being defined: roasting-jack for "mechanical spit"; tenuity for "thinness"; invest for "award" are a few examples.

But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose; for, with each successive whiff, the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity and seemed to take denser substance.

These two dioceses continued to be separate from their foundation until 1678, when, owing to the extreme tenuity of the episcopal revenues, the bishopric of Leighlin was given in commendam by the Holy See to the Bishop of Kildare.

It was of such unthinkable tenuity that the pressure of sunlight itself - to be measured only in tons over the whole face of a planet - pushed the separate gas-ions of the mist away from Canis Lambda to make comets' tails of it.

As, however, the twist, spreading itself over the level thread, gives firmness to this portion, the thick and untwisted part yields to the draught of the spindle, and, as it approaches the tenuity of the remainder, it receives the twist it had hitherto refused to take.

Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or a tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasa or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena.

Chapter LXVI: Friendly Advice FOUQUET had gone to bed, like a man who clings to life, and who economizes as much as possible that slender tissue of existence of which the shocks and angles of this world so quickly wear out the irreparable tenuity.