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The pores are at first round, then broken into contorted or gill-like labyrinthiform sinuses, with obtuse edges of the same color as the pileus, sometimes with a slight shade of pink.
Gyromitra Pileus covered with rounded and variously contorted folds.
When the contorted bands are continuous we have another important type, founded apparently upon the endless varieties of banded agate and other native stones that have been formed by slow deposition in the hollows of rocks.
[55] To one of these a fantastic decoration has been given by a contorted streak of blood-like tint in the midst of the glass-caused by the perhaps accidental presence of a fragment of copper-oxide; we have here at any rate one of the earliest instances of the use of this valuable pigment to obtain a transparent red.
PLATE XXXI PLATE XXXI VENETIAN GLASS FLOWER-VASE OF COLOURLESS GLASS WITH BLUE THREADING AND STUDS There is little change or development to be observed in the glass of this character made at Murano during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, nor is it always safe to regard contorted shapes and elaborate decorations as necessarily a sign of a late origin.
We find imitations of both classes of the Roman millefiori-the tints, however, are generally crudely matched-and especially several varieties of marbled glass with contorted veins of many colours.
In the eighteenth century the contorted forms, imitating leaves and flowers, were replaced by pendent discs of colourless crystal, cut, polished, and often facetted.
John's "senile iterations and contorted metaphysics"; but, when a clergyman read St.
They heard the whistle and thump of flying fragments about them, and Billy Simson yelped as he fell, rolled over, and sat up with his hand reaching over and clutching at the back of his shoulder, his face contorted by pain.
I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.
Right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching.
The WSJ highlights in its "World-Wide" column (as opposed to its story) Bradley's accusation that Gore contorted his health care plan by claiming it would hurt minorities.
" The paper says Clinton, "his face contorted in anger, raged at the crowd to get back.
" One is lulled into thinking that these contorted bathers are mere exercises in the handling of pastel, and not the work of, in the poet Paul Valéry's words, "a supremely cruel authority on female contours and poses.
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