Again that elongated "A-a-ah!" Then, "Tell me of that five minutes," and he thrust a chair toward me.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
Their nest, which is a loosely woven twig lattice, made of twigs of trees, which the birds snap off with their beaks and carry in their beaks, is glued with the bird's saliva or tree-gum into a solid structure, and firmly attached to the inside of chimneys, or hollow trees where there are no houses about. Two broods in a season usually emerge from the pure white, elongated eggs.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Moreover, towards afternoon some of them broke, grew pale and elongated, and sank to the horizon again, while others of them changed to the likeness of white transparent fish-scales. In the east, over Maslovska, a single lurid mass was louring, but Karl Ivanitch (who always seemed to know the ways of the heavens) said that the weather would still continue to be fair and dry.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
AREAS, great extent of, interspersed with low islands. Of subsidence and of elevation. Of subsidence appear to be elongated. Of subsidence alternating with areas of elevation. Arru group. Arzobispo. ASCIDIA, depth at which found. Assomption.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
(Slarbuck.)
STONES transported in roots of trees. STORMS, effects of, on coral-islands. STUTCHBURY, Mr., on the growth of an Agaricia. On upraised corals in Society archipelago. SUBSIDENCE of Keeling atoll. Extreme slowness of. Areas of, apparently elongated. Areas of immense.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
This new series of figures, generally named after the great mathematician Jacobi, is at first only just stable, but as the density increases the stability increases, reaches a maximum and then declines. As this goes on the equator of these Jacobian figures becomes more and more elliptic, so that the shape is considerably elongated in a direction at right angles to the axis of rotation.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》