It was pecked all over by voracious little beaks, and was quite thin in places.
Goat's hair was of no use to me, as I could not weave or spin; so I made a shift for two years with a thin kind of stuff, which I had brought from the ship.
Mr. Carsdale walked briskly toward the Brownies, accompanied by a tall, thin man.
Instead, they walked on to the tent of the thin man and the fat lady.
She was a tall, thin woman with long black braids which hung down over her bright scarlet robe.
Across the table from Veve sat the Thin Man from the side show.
The autopsy showed a thin extravasation of blood on the surface of each of the bulbi, much coagulated blood in the heart, congested lungs, and a bloody mucus covering the tracheal mucous membrane.
This extract is, after a few hours, again filtered; both the filtrates are mixed and evaporated in the water-bath to almost the consistency of a thin syrup.
The substances are placed in a capacious flask, diluted if necessary with water to the consistence of a thin soup, and tartaric acid added to distinct acid reaction, and distilled.
The organic substance is divided finely and digested with dilute hydrochloric acid, and from time to time crystals of potassic chlorate are thrown in until all the fluid is very thin and capable of passing through a filter.
The substances are placed in a porcelain dish and diluted with a sufficient quantity of water to form a thin soup and 20 to 30 c.
The zinc is put into a combustion-tube, the tube being drawn out into a thin capillary extremity, and a combustion made, the mercury collecting at the capillary part.
The brown spot on porcelain produced by contact with a flame of arseniuretted hydrogen is not a thin film of As, but one of the brown solid hydride AsH, formed by the decomposition of AsH{3}.
High cliff of Wingate Sandstone on left is capped by thin protective layer of the Kayenta Formation.
Some weak or thinslabs have weathered away, leaving the stronger or thicker ones as towering fins, particularly in the Fiery Furnace and Devils Garden areas.
The prehistoric inhabitants of the Plateau learned that effective and enduring designs, called petroglyphs, could be created simply by chiseling or pecking through the thin dark layer to reveal the buff or tan sandstone beneath.
Dark cliffs on upper right and left are of Wingate Sandstone capped by thin protective cover of resistant sandstone beds of the Kayenta Formation.
Both nearly flat but slightly irregular beds of sandstone and relatively thin walls or fins of sandstone are prime targets for this differential erosion.
All the arches in this section of the park were eroded through thin fins of the Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone, and some, like Broken Arch, figure 16, are capped by the Moab Member.
Cappy Ricks sprang into the air and got one thin old arm round Matt Peasley's neck; with the other he groped for Skinner, for there were tears in his fine old eyes.
Here evidently applied to something of a very thin texture, as gauze; see l.
But no wonder that you are growing thin and pale; for I do believe, you foolish Shenac Bhan, that it sometimes comes into your mind that Allister may never come home.
But, while Shenac was rosy and strong, the very picture of health, her brother was thin and pale, and often of late there had been a look of pain on his face that it made his mother's heart ache to see.
He was thin and dry as a match, and tall as a Norwegian spruce, with a face covered with hair; he smoked, and tossed off glass after glass of brandy, like a Dutchman.
Père Séguin was tall as an obelisk, strong as a Hercules, vif as gunpowder, thinand sinewy as any wolf in his beloved forests.
Mousqueton had become so thin in two days that his clothes moved upon him like an ill-fitting scabbard in which the sword-blade dances at each motion.
And he felt, inert as it was, the thinarm of the old nobleman hanging round his neck.
First, Jack found that the bow was much too strong, and he had to thin it.
He was tall, thin, and apparently past forty, with a bald forehead and thin grey hair.
They were made of very thin cloth, and the boys raised them to a wonderful height in the air by means of twine made from the cocoa-nut husk.
Having reached the spot, which was so darkened by overhanging trees that we could see with difficulty, a small kedge-anchor attached to a thin line was let softly down over the stern.
Porteous states that he once watched a man for more than an hour fire repeatedly at a Loon on a pond in Maine, the bird being frozen in by thin ice, a small circular space being kept open by its movements.
It seems never to have occurred to us that grain left to shift for itself through the winter is just as well off and little likely to sustain injury when the husk is thin as when it is thick.
Tis made of a thin round plate of window-glass, seventeen inches diameter, well gilt on both sides, all but two inches next the edge.
If so, there must be a great quantity in glass, because a great quantity is thus discharged even from very thin glass.
If one of thesethin bottles be electrified by the coating, and the spark taken out thro' the gilding, it will break the glass inwards at the same time that it breaks the gilding outwards.
Let a ring of thin lead or paper surround a bottle (i), even at some distance from or above the bottom.
An electrified bumper, is a small thin glass tumbler, near filled with wine, and electrified as the bottle.
I have a large prime conductor made of several thin sheets of Fuller's pasteboard form'd into a tube, near 10 feet long and a foot diameter.
With thin paste or gum-water, fix the border that is cut off on the inside of the glass, pressing it smooth and close; then fill up the vacancy by gilding the glass well with leaf gold or brass.
Other seven alsothin and blasted, sprung of the stalk: 41:24.
Then seven other ears sprung upthin and blasted, 41:7.
And the seven lean and thinkine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come: 41:28.
The name was afterward applied to heavy lace made with thin wires whipped around the silk, and with cotton thread.
Lace made of warp threads or cords of silk, or silk and cotton combined, with thin gold or silver gilt bands passing around it.
Guipure or passement, made with cartisane, which is vellum or parchment in thin strips or small rolls, covered with silk, gold thread or similar material.
When the book-rest is perfectly dry, rub on some thin shellac with a soft cloth: this will make the dull finish now considered so desirable.
Prepare the size by melting glue in warm water, add boiling water till thin and smooth, then add a spoonful of lime water.
The roof requires a piece of thin board, two and a half inches wide, and four inches long, so that it will project one inch beyond the sides.
This is the reason that fine work is done with brads better than with tacks, for tacks are wedge-shaped on all sides, and in driving them if the wood is thin it is very apt to split.
You remember, your sister will remember, the farm with those abominable guinea-fowls, and the hedge that the old woman never would cut properly, so that it all went thin at the bottom.
There is a great hedge of them over the lawn--magnificently tall, so that they fall down in garlands, and nice and thin at the bottom, so that you can see ducks through it and a cow.
They talked to each other and to other people, they filled the tall thin house at Wickham Place with those whom they liked or could befriend.
He regards the thin gold plates found on the breasts of the skeletons at Mykene as possibly the funereal representatives of metal sewn on to the chiton, and thus forming a prae-Ionic corslet.
The evening dew began to penetrate our clothes, and especially Eva's thin muslin dress.
Eva's thin dress was soon soaked with the cold flood.
Between the thin plates, or leaves, the polypier thrusts out its arms with little suckers at the ends.
Illustration] Very often, when the body had been a king or some great personage, its face was covered with a mask of thin gold, and its bandages were ornamented with pictures and inscriptions.
He swung the car free of the curb, leaving little red-headed, green-eyed Miss Jacobs in the process of gathering up her skirts and mounting into thin air.
We lay under cover of thin weeds, and beyond lay the meadow and stream and then the town.
To make assurance doubly sure, a thin coating of flour was scattered over the whole table, and still it moved, while the flour was unmarked.
A priest, linen clad, bowed himself over the table, balancing a ring tied to a thin thread.
And now to see her amid that crowd of ruffians from the Campagna, and unhappy women from the purlieus of the city, her splendid head uncovered, her thin hands crossed in the rough sleeves of the penitent's gown!
When the time came for his midday meal, he went as his custom was to the Lion's den; and there he found his friend the Lion, thin and sick.
Thus it happened, that very soon the Woodcutters' village was standing on a thin shell of earth, and underneath it was a great hole.
Heaven gave me a thin skin, but never gave me the natural and comforting affections.
She took up a thin captain biscuit and bit it absent-mindedly.
A thin string of very blue smoke went up from her faint fire and was tangled among the boughs of a flowering tree, but the coarse eye of a park-keeper could never have seen it.
Think of the knotted convulsions of traffic at the Bank, with a hundred thousand Boches goose-stepping on the wrong side of the road--think of poor thin Fleet Street, and the dam that would occur in Piccadilly Circus.
The world waved like a flower upon a thin purple stalk of smoke.
Sarah Brown absently unwrapped the little dinner which she had brought hanging by a thinstring from a strangled finger.
She hated to watch people feeding themselves, or to see her own thin body in the mirror.
London looked exactly like the maps you buy for sixpence from sad-looking gentlemen in the Strand, only it was sown with a thin crop of lights, and was chiefly designed in grey and darker grey, and the Tubes did not show so indecently.
Imagine the Stock Exchange under the shadow of an enchanted oak, and the consequent disastrous wearing thin of the metal casing in which all good business men keep their souls.
Sarah Brown and her hostess sat down on the counter without regret to a luncheon consisting of one orange, found by the guest in her bag and divided, and two thin captain biscuits from stock.
The ashes fluttered down from Richard's hand among the beans, and a thin violet stalk of smoke went up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
