The
density of the weed gave me a reassuring sense of hiding.
In reality the column of water would be shorter, as we are speaking of sea water, the
density of which is greater than that of fresh water.
Their
density would not en- able them to understand his sharper point of view.
Suddenly upon the beach he saw what at first he imagined must be an optical illusion - a long shaft of light, invisible in itself except that it seemed to slightly change the
density of the mist.
"I did not mean," he said over the soup, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch, "mere
density of population alone, but in conjunction with fundamental ideas, and not by means of principles."
If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument, we ought in imagination to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing slowly in
density, so as to separate into layers of different densities and thicknesses, placed at different distances from each other, and with the surfaces of each layer slowly changing in form.
Rarity and
density, roughness and smoothness, seem to be terms indicating quality: yet these, it would appear, really belong to a class different from that of quality.
If this planet has any atmosphere at all, it is one of no great
density, and its orbit being without our own, we can easily trace on its surface the outlines of seas and continents.
At the height of six thousand feet, the
density of the atmosphere has already greatly diminished; sound is conveyed with difficulty, and the voice is not so easily heard.
"The moon, gentlemen, has been carefully studied," continued Barbicane; "her mass,
density, and weight; her constitution, motions, distance, as well as her place in the solar system, have all been exactly determined.
"But if it did not fail, Michel, your
density being less than that of the projectile, you would soon be left behind."
A whirlwind had apparently collected its force in our vicinity; for there were frequent and violent alterations in the direction of the wind; and the exceeding
density of the clouds (which hung so low as to press upon the turrets of the house) did not prevent our perceiving the lifelike velocity with which they flew careering from all points against each other, without passing away into the distance.