The letters in the pages of text are unusually large; they are clearly cut, but are so compactlyarranged that they frequently interfere with each other.
It is a thin folio of thirty pages, fifteen of which contain a text of very large, clumsily drawn and compactly arranged letters within a rule-bordered frame; the remaining fifteen pages have full-page illustrations.
Fish such as eels are cut up into pieces, and each piece after being compactly wrapped around with leaves is kept on the wood-fire for about half an hour.
The torch of this material is simply prepared by wrapping up compactly the powdered resin in a palm-leaf, which although outside answers the purpose of a wick.
As the stem of the branches elongates, these pairs of leaves are found scattered along its length, and it is only in the ears, or spikes of some genera, that we find them growing so compactly on the axis as to form a close head.
He swept past our artillery in splendid style, and the men marched steadily and compactly down the slope.
He encamped the greater portion of his army on the main land, as compactly as possible, and sheltered from view by a dense pine forest.
Take up two or three pieces at a time in a strong, clean cloth, and press them compactly together in the shape of balls.
More and more compactly it packed itself into the arched glass dome, the top layers finally resembling nothing so much as cloudy beef gelatin.
They filled the tunnel so compactly that the two men did not dare try to squeeze past them.
Contrary to what one might naturally think, the earth can be tamped more compactly with a bar or stick than with a heavy joist.
In setting up the pole dig a hole 3' or 4' deep and after placing the pole tamp the earth compactly down around it with a pointed bar or stick.
When you fill up the hole put in only a little earth at a time, "tamping" each layer compactly around the post with an iron bar or stick before adding more earth.
As far north as Central Park, five miles from the Battery, it is quite compactly built.
Charley took down his wireless and stowed it as compactly as possible.
When finally that last session was over, the two lads had only to strap their packs on their backs, sling their blankets into place, and pick up their little fishing-rods, unjointed and compactlypacked in cloth cases.
The head compactly built, short should indicate a high tailed, well balanced degree of intelligence and dog of medium station, should be in proportion to of brindle color and the dog's size; the body evenly marked with rather short and white.
The standard describes him as follows: "The general appearance of the Boston terrier is that of a smooth, short-coated, compactly built dog of medium station.
That seems to be the thing to do, but does not the standard call for a compactly built dog, finished in every part of his make-up, and possessing style and a graceful carriage?
And soon the little flotilla was lying compactly together, its presence all unsuspected, within a cable's length of the two battleships.
Now the mouth of the harbour was reached, and the little fleet gathered itself more compactly together, and the muffling of the oars was carefully looked to.
They thus developed compactly knit muscles, depth of lung and thickness of frame, which gave agility and endurance.
The well was guarded by a curb of stones which had originally been laid compactly together; but many of them had been removed, and used to hurl down from the walls of the citadel upon the heads of the Turks when they tried to scale them.
He was of light build but compactly knit, with ample forehead and generous, but scarred face; which, however, was more significantly seamed with the lines that denote thought and courage.
We were holding the herd as compactly as possible to prevent any straying of cattle, when our saddle horses were noticed abandoned in thick timber.
The herd was held back until sunset, when the cattle were turned into the creek bed and held as compactly as possible.
Today Euclid avenue is a compactly built thoroughfare for miles east of that Pennsylvania railroad crossing.
You may slip from one to the other without realizing that you have done more than pass down a compactly built block of houses or crossed a crowded street.
The colorless hypothecium is composed of very densely and compactly interwoven hyphæ.
Gregarious, rigidly andcompactly fleshy; habit almost that of Paxillus involutus.
Torneå is a plain Swedish town, more compactly built than Haparanda, yet scarcely larger.
He is of middle height, compactly built, with a fine head, with black hair and eyes, and small features.
It is built up compactly for about six miles, along the east side, and irregularly to Harlem, three miles farther.
It is built up compactly for about five miles, is paved and graded for about seven miles, and is lighted with gas along its entire length.
For cauliflower au gratin, cut the head into florets, lay them compactly in the baking dish, add a little water, with salt, pepper and butter.
Draining is much freer if the fruit is spread thin, rather than dumped compactly in a bag.
Thirteen years before this the United States of North America had drawn up their Declaration of Independence, and no doubt this inspired those who framed the more compactly worded document.
Dry the gathered crop, thinly spread out, and shaded from the sun; tie the herbs in small bundles, and keep them compactly pressed down and covered with white paper.
Lay the remainder compactly together, tie it carefully in small bundles, and boil it from fifteen to twenty minutes, according to its age.
Pindar states that nests found in Kentucky are compactly built, but not very thickly lined.
A nest sent me from Lee county, Texas, is compactly built of a cottony weed, a few stems of Spanish moss, and lined with fine grass stems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compactly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: close; closely; firmly; heavily; thick; tight
