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Example sentences for "watermark"

Lexicographically close words:
waterish; waterless; waterlilies; waterline; waterlogged; watermarked; watermarks; watermelon; watermelons; watermen
  1. There is a watermark and the words ‘English Manufacture’ stamped.

  2. After I had looked at the watermark I turned to young Creviss and looked him square in the eye.

  3. You remember I looked at the watermark on that first warning we received from these terrible demons.

  4. My bill will have a sufficiently high watermark to suit you," the judge chuckled.

  5. And what's more he never thought that my statement about the watermark might be worth verifying.

  6. Again do violence to the face of nature by digging with a stick a narrow inlet opening out of your miniature ocean, and the watermark will now look something like figure 8.

  7. Drop in a second clod, this time long and narrow, the watermark will be like figure 10, and the drawing of it, properly placed, will show another island of another shape.

  8. Sometimes the design covers the whole sheet and at other times several stamps, but usually there is a separate watermark for each stamp.

  9. On rare occasions the watermark is a thickening of the paper instead of a thinning.

  10. In such a case the watermark appears more opaque than the paper.

  11. The earliest known watermark bears the date A.

  12. The water will rush in and the watermark on the soil will now be shaped something like figure 7.

  13. Caddy Cuddle, at the conclusion of these verses, took possession of a vacant chair, by the side of old Cole, and soon forgot that there was such a being as Mrs. Watermark in existence.

  14. Later on I recognised the peculiar watermark of waving lines as the Government watermark in the first issue of Treasury war notes.

  15. Although the watermark was an unusual one, it seemed strangely familiar to Colwyn, who tried to recall where he had seen it before.

  16. It was once a Treasury note, sure enough--the watermark is unmistakable.

  17. King (Metropolitan Philatelist, June 1891), this watermark is given more attention.

  18. Most of them make a few speculative remarks as to the probable watermark and then drop the subject.

  19. So far as I am aware, no one has taken the trouble to ascertain what the watermark actually is.

  20. It has seemed to me that it would be of interest, probably of value, to know exactly what this watermark is.

  21. The watermark will thus fall on twelve stamps in each sheet of one hundred.

  22. For the determination of the character of the watermark we are indebted to Mr. John N.

  23. We might also expect to find stamps on watermarked paper showing, as is not uncommon, the imprint of the contractors above or below, if the watermark were marginal.

  24. But it cannot be argued from this that the stamps with watermark are only eight times as rare as those without, as we must take into consideration the proportionately large number of sheets on ordinary unwatermarked paper.

  25. They were also printed in the same colors on entire envelopes of white and buff laid paper with the POD over US watermark of the regular United States stationery.

  26. As to the position of the watermark in the sheets, I believe it to be central.

  27. Taking these in sequence we reconstruct the watermark [Illustration: E.

  28. A paper bearing vertical and horizontal watermark lines of a somewhat obvious character.

  29. The specimen is thus hinged to the album in such a way that its underside can be inspected easily--a necessary matter when the watermark or the quality of the paper requires examination.

  30. It is interesting to point out that the home authorities, seeing the possibility of such practices, have made it a rule to use one watermark for adhesives of low value and another for those of high value.

  31. Often the correct kind of paper and watermark are unobtainable by those who print them, and then the merest novice may detect their origin with the aid of a catalogue.

  32. The sixpenny value was provided with a watermark as a safeguard.

  33. As the watermark was not similarly turned round, the specimens in 50 per cent.

  34. In certain of the halfpenny and penny values the large crown watermark is found inverted.

  35. The watermark is another stumbling-block with the stamp faker of small means.

  36. If the suspected document be moistened with lukewarm water the spurious watermark disappears immediately, but if genuine, it becomes plainer.

  37. The detection of this watermark fraud is simple and infallible.

  38. Etym: [So called from the watermark of a fool's cap and bells used by old paper makers.

  39. In the absence of a watermark the paper may be either wove or laid.

  40. Some of my readers may have noticed that the watermark is not always very clearly shown in the Gambia stamps.

  41. In addition the stamps have been found with the watermark reversed, indicating that occasionally a sheet has been fed into the press the wrong side up.

  42. The watermark on this issue appears variously upright or sideways, varieties of each being inverted.

  43. The operators both at the guillotine and at the press seem to have taken the utmost care to arrange all the small sheets uniformly for passing through the press, as the varieties shewing the watermark from left to right are rare.

  44. The perforation throughout gauges 14; the watermark is Crown C.

  45. In some works a particular watermark has been used in paper made purposely for the book: thus the words 'Mecanique Celeste' appear in the watermark of the two first volumes of the great work of Laplace.

  46. I hate to be disturbed at meals, and I won't be at home to anybody.

  47. While saints and sinners were thus leaning against him, the Baron de Shurland was quietly eating his breakfast.

  48. Pen and ink drawing in black and red inks on a folded sheet of paper with the watermark "Ochsenkapf mit Krone" reportedly made in Southern Germany in 1480.

  49. The watermark in paper is produced by bending the wires of the mold, or by wires bent into the shape of the required letter or device, and sewed to the surface of the mold; -- it has the effect of making the paper thinner in places.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watermark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.