The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred yards distant from the centre.
At the centre of the island there is a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers descend into a large dome, which is therefore called FLANDONA GAGNOLE, or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of a hundred yards beneath the upper surface of the adamant.
It might be that the
upper surface of their characters was all that she had, thus far, plainly seen in Norah and Magdalen.
Hurriedly, therefore, she rose until presently her craft broke through into the glorious sunlight that transformed the
upper surface of the somber element into rolling masses of burnished silver.
The spindle turns on the knees of Necessity; and on the
upper surface of each circle is a siren, who goes round with them, hymning a single tone or note.
They had worn smooth the bark upon its
upper surface.
(15) The loaf is a flattish cake with two intersecting lines scored on its
upper surface which divide it into four equal parts.
It had been arranged for the purpose, early in the morning; its rich slabs of marble, all scratched by the heels of law clerks, supported a cage of carpenter's work of considerable height, the
upper surface of which, within view of the whole hall, was to serve as the theatre, and whose interior, masked by tapestries, was to take the place of dressing-rooms for the personages of the piece.
The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this
upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a one end, without an other end.
A two-dimensional element having six nodal degrees of freedom (three displacements of the lower surface and three displacements of the
upper surface) is used.
Caption: Figure 1: SEM photograph of (a) the
upper surface, (b) lower surface, and (c) cross section of a hydrocolloid dressing; (d) the
upper surface, (e) lower surface, and (f) cross section of hydrocolloid with a foam layer dressing; (g) the
upper surface, (h) lower surface, and (I) cross section of a calcium alginate dressing; (j) the
upper surface, (k) lower surface, and (l) cross section of a calcium sodium alginate dressing; (m) the
upper surface, (n) lower surface, and (o) cross section of foam with a polyurethane film layer dressing; (p) the
upper surface, (q) lower surface, and (r) cross section of foam with a hydrogel and polyurethane film layer dressing.