Personally I have always felt that the finished form of Leighton's diction tended rather to hide than to explain the real nature of the power which had this vitalising, elevating influence.
While elevating the temperature they bring more moisture into the air and produce a change not entirely desirable.
But in 1782, the year before the invention of the Montgolfiers, he succeeded in elevating soap-bubbles by inflating them with hydrogen gas.
When by any of these means he has arrived within shooting distance he fires without rising, elevating his piece by support of the elbows.
This elevating thought comes home to each one of us, bringing with it a peace of mind unutterable.
If the depressed portion is wedged then an opening should be made with the trephine and an elevating instrument called a spatumen used to relieve the pressure.
Perhaps the most striking expression, the word infect being italicized by Gurlt, is: "In elevating the cranium be solicitous lest you should infect or injure the dura mater.
There are many interesting things said with regard to depressed fractures and the necessity for elevating the bone.
True, he may be happy in slavery, but it is not slavery that makes him so--it is virtue and faith, elevating him above the afflictions of his lot.
We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated.
You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously.
Mr. Morris tells of a plough horse who was too tall for his little master to mount and who used to put his head down to the ground and allow the boy to bestride his neck and then by gently elevating his head help him to slide on to his back.
All the wildness of Guert's impulses could not altogether destroy his feelings tone, and tact as a gentleman; while all the soaring, extravagant pretensions of Jason never could have ended in elevating him to that character.
The great evil under which this country labours, in this respect, is the sway of numbers, which is constantly elevatingmediocrity and spurious talent to high places.
If aught could enhance its thrilling interest, it would be the elevating assurance that the invincible hero wars with bitter reluctance, and solely for the sacred interests of truth and justice.
Austrian, elevatinghis eyebrows with a supercilious smile.
Has God, who has given to art a universal mission in the development of man’s moral and intellectual nature, banished its elevating influence from the sphere of religion?
That's so," replied the driver stuffing the bill into his pocket and elevating his eyebrows as if inquiring what Grey wanted him to open his mouth for.
The process of elevating natives, of making them over in new pattern, is never a happy one for the native.
Our Congo reformers emphasize the fact that the Congo State was founded with many philanthropic assertions and with high-sounding promises of improving and elevating the native population.
It is a pulley within a pulley, the friction of the outer one upon the inner one--the latter being held by a ratchet and pawl-acting as a brake in lowering weights, while both would turn together in elevating weights.
The primary gear impels a pinion keyed to the shaft of a windlass, upon which is wound the elevating rope, whenever the clutch, A, is made to operate through the cord and lever, B.
The method most generally used for elevating hay is evidently not the most economical application of the power of horses for the accomplishment of the purpose desired.
Turkish sign: Throwing head back or elevating the chin and partly shutting the eyes.
Thence elevating the right toward the head, he thrust it downward in an oblique direction, fore and middle fingers extended and joined with the thumb--sinking.
Is it possible to imagine a doctrine more elevating than this, or more calculated to produce sensations of reverence, gratitude, and joy?
She is barely moving through the water, and has a strong list to port, which is so pronounced as to prevent her elevating her guns, whose projectiles all strike the water short of us, though we are at comparatively close range.
So also are the "trucks" or wheels, and the "quoins" or wedges for elevating or depressing the guns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elevating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
