"Both of them run down as far as the car, and lose themselves in an iron receptacle of
cylindrical form, which is called the heat-tank.
The Melipona itself is intermediate in structure between the hive and humble bee, but more nearly related to the latter: it forms a nearly regular waxen comb of
cylindrical cells, in which the young are hatched, and, in addition, some large cells of wax for holding honey.
Immediately the operation of boring was commenced; and by the aid of powerful machines, a few weeks later, the inner surface of the immense tube had been rendered perfectly
cylindrical, and the bore of the piece had acquired a thorough polish.
These are minute
cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each.
I seemed to see the membraneous and
cylindrical tubes tremble beneath the undulation of the waters.
The peninsula is traversed by stern and barren mountains, and has many sandy plains, where the only sign of vegetation is the
cylindrical cactus growing among the clefts of the rocks.
The autumn sun, rising over the shire hills, disclosed a pleasant country; woods brown and mellow varied the fields from which the harvest had been lately carried; a river, gliding between the woods, caught on its surface the somewhat cold gleam of the October sun and sky; at frequent intervals along the banks of the river, tall,
cylindrical chimneys, almost like slender round towers, indicated the factories which the trees half concealed; here and there mansions, similar to Crimsworth Hall, occupied agreeable sites on the hill-side; the country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active, fertile look.
The ragged knight stole warily to a good position, then he unslung his
cylindrical knapsack--which was simply the common fire-extinguisher known to modern times-- and the first chance he got he turned on his hose and shot the dragon square in the center of his cavernous mouth.
I look in the glass sometimes at my two long,
cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous.
In a
cylindrical bracelet of gold about my wrist was my Barsoomian chronometer--a delicate instrument that records the tals and xats and zodes of Martian time, presenting them to view beneath a strong crystal much after the manner of an earthly odometer.
In their stiff, crackling dresses of black silk, with jet-bespangled jackets, and little rows of
cylindrical grey curls drooping down on either side of their black bonnets, they looked like two old fashion plates which had wandered off into the wrong decade.
By 'sweeps' were meant
cylindrical sweeping brushes, such as are employed by those who clean chimneys.