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Example sentences for "funicular"

Lexicographically close words:
fungoid; fungous; fungus; funguses; funicle; funiculus; funk; funked; funking; funky
  1. The little stem by which the seeds are attached to the placenta; -- called also funicular cord.

  2. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

  3. Half way up the hill, we paused to rest, and I quite clearly remember growling that if the confounded thing belonged to me I'd build a funicular or install an elevator without delay.

  4. The directions of the tangents to this funicular curve at the ends of the span are the same for all statically equivalent systems of (fictitious) load.

  5. The funicular polygon for the fictitious loads can thus be drawn, and the direction of the central-line at the supports is determined when the bending moments at the supports are known.

  6. Only while the man threw the rope from the deck, and the other man of that place mechanically tied it, a woman appeared on the landing-place coming from the little funicular station.

  7. Even Vitznau, with its group of denuded trees on its gloomy bank, its two closed hotels, and its solitary funicular station, did not seem different to the other stations touched at.

  8. At the top of the ascent, on the little piazza by the funicular station stood the crowd of those whose duty it was to receive with propriety the luggage of the Gentleman from San Francisco.

  9. Ten minutes later the family from San Francisco disembarked into a large boat; in a quarter of an hour they had stepped on to the stones of the quay, and were soon seated in the bright little car of the funicular railway.

  10. So probably I gave less attention to the details of the scenery through which my funicular was passing than to the stupendous prospects of sea and shore which it varyingly commanded.

  11. We shipmates were all going to the station of the funicular railway, but our tickets did not call for bullock-sleds and so we took a clattering little horse-car, which climbed with us through up-hill streets and got us to the station too soon.

  12. Then, at noon, we take the funicular railway to the top of the world for lunch.

  13. Within the rail was the funicular terminal, a souvenir stand, a tiny post office, and a large open-air restaurant.

  14. He found a taxi parked near the Cathedral, and they rode to the funicular railway terminal at the base of Monte Azul.

  15. The conductor of the light railway had gathered a bunch of rosemary en route, and he now approached the funicular and bestowed his offering upon Peachy, who happened to be sitting nearest to the end.

  16. Those who like to come up by the funicular can do so.

  17. Irene might have apologized further, but the funicular gave a mighty jerk at that moment, and the carriage started.

  18. To scale the tremendous incline to the summit there was a funicular railway, to which our party now transferred themselves, sitting on seats raised one above another as in the gallery of a theater.

  19. Funicular railways up nearly all the mountains--Pilatus, Rigi, and the rest.

  20. A funicular railway takes a visitor to the top of the Pic de Gers, whence he can obtain a fine comprehensive panorama of the mountains.

  21. The products are brought down by a funicular contrivance worked by electricity, taking the place of the zigzag road by which oxen formerly conveyed the slates below.

  22. The northern line from Perpignan leads to Prades and Villefranche de Conflent for Vernet, whence the visitor will be able to ascend the Canigou by a funicular railway in course of construction.

  23. The funicular to the top of the Stanzerhorn makes one feel goose-pimply all over; it is not only steep, but when you get near the top you look out of the car window over a sheer precipice of two thousand feet.

  24. The Guetsch is much higher than the De Pivarts' villa, and you reach it by a funicular which creeps straight up the side of the hill like a lift.

  25. The funicular torc was undoubtedly in use in the latest Pagan period, and the whole Cairnmure hoard may very consistently be assigned to it.

  26. A golden funicular rod made of three pieces twisted together, and with a solid hook at each end, was dug up in County Antrim in 1808.

  27. The annexed woodcut represents a remarkably fine example, greatly reduced, of what may be designated the knotted funicular torc.

  28. Two funicular bracelets, discovered apparently on draining the same lake in Galloway previously referred to, are described and engraved in the Reliquiæ Galeanæ.

  29. In this historic example of the torc, it is funicular with bulbous terminations, resembling one seen on the Sarcophagus of the Vigna Amendola, representing, as is believed, the exploits of the Romans over the Gauls or Britons.

  30. The torc as well as the funicular armilla and other relics of corresponding type, though known to the Romans, were regarded by them as barbarian decorations.

  31. As this is usually a twisted iron rod, there can be little doubt that the Chesterlees relic was a funicular torc.

  32. Now and then comes a faint clank of metal from the funicular railway, but the tracks themselves are hidden among the trees of the lower slopes.

  33. While he is thus engaged, another man comes ambling along the terrace, apparently from the direction of the funicular railway station.

  34. The construction of a second funicular may be dispensed with by the employment of a planimeter, as follows.

  35. The result might of course have been inferred from the theory of the parabolic funicular in S 2.

  36. It is further of interest to note that if the weights be all equal, and at equal horizontal intervals, the vertices of the funicular will lie on a parabola whose axis is vertical.

  37. Hence the necessary and sufficient conditions of equilibrium are that the force-polygon and the funicular should both be closed.

  38. This theorem enables us, when one funicular has been drawn, to construct any other without further reference to the force-diagram.

  39. When this process of replacement is complete, each terminated side of the funicular is the seat of two forces which neutralize one another, and there remain only two uncompensated forces, viz.

  40. Draw a parallel through P to meet the sides of the funicular which correspond to OA, OB in the points H, K.

  41. The case of the funicular polygon will be of use to us later.

  42. He loves the wild natural beauty of his mountains, but will spoil any Alp with a staring hotel and a funicular railway for the sake of tourist gold.

  43. Each year there are constructed new funicular railways and tramways, until soon it will be hard to find a ten-miles' square in all Switzerland which has not a railway of some sort.

  44. Some of the peaks which once were difficult have now been made easy: funicular railways run to spots which were once inaccessible except to keen mountaineers.

  45. From the Bernese public gardens and from the Gurten (2800 feet high--reached by a funicular railway) there are marvellous views of the Alps.

  46. The funicular railways up the mountain sides are usually privately owned.

  47. This is especially the case on funicular railways, where space is very limited in the stations.

  48. The Muottas Muraigl funicular conveys runners up some 2,000 feet, when after an easy climb of one hour a really good run may be obtained back to Pontresina.

  49. Though the sun may not shine there for long hours, the fact that it lies at the junction of the Berner Oberland Railway, the Mürren Funicular and the Wengern Alp Railway seems to me to make it a very possible Ski-ing centre.

  50. For instance, on the Muottas Muraigl Funicular Railway above Pontresina 24 tickets single journey can be obtained for the sum of Frs.

  51. The first runs are tiring enough without the additional fatigue of climbing, and going up in a funicular or railway opens up numbers of runs which would be far too energetic for most people who are not in training.

  52. Can't you get aboard the funicular yourself and start your journey?

  53. Haven't you been on a funicular before--the real thing?

  54. What did you think about, Clary, when the funicular came jolting down the steps hewn out for it in the steep mountain?

  55. At the end of the funicular there was still more hill to climb, and one could either do it afoot or be carried up in a hammock.

  56. A little below that was the terminal station of the funicular railway from Montreux.

  57. But he survived to go with about half the Beau-Site guests to the funicular station to wish the Clutterbucks a pleasant journey.

  58. And she went, in an hour, down to Montreux by the funicular railway, and was lost to the Beau-Site.

  59. The party from the Metropole came with the news that he had not been seen at the hotel for dinner; it was assumed that he had been to Montreux and missed the funicular back.

  60. Among other things that self-respecting pilgrims cannot do, is to ascend a mountain by means of a funicular railway; better stay at the bottom, and look up with reverence.

  61. In any case, the hotel would close for the season in a few days now, and the funicular cease to run.

  62. They start along the terrace toward the station of the funicular railway.

  63. We found that we could take a little mountain road to a point in the hills called Les Avants, then a funicular to a still higher point, and thus be in the white whirl for better or worse, without being distinctly of it, so to speak.

  64. We understood then; all those bobsledders took their sleds up by funicular and coasted down.

  65. We took the funicular to Son Loup, and at the top found ourselves in what seemed atmospheric milk.

  66. But I could now, as the funicular railway drew us up like a bucket from the well, into the higher sunlit slopes of the island, account for both by one and the same explanation.

  67. But now they were talking of a funicular railway to connect the Marina with the town, and Giovanni the boatman had married, and they said his wife had already cured him of his habits.


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