AA--Outer edge of the reef at the level of the sea. BB--Shores of the island. A'A'--Outer edge of the reef, after its upward growth during a period of subsidence. CC--The lagoon-channel between the reef and the shores of the now encircled land. B'B'--The shores of the encircled island. N.B.--In this, and the following woodcut, the subsidence of the land could only be represented by an apparent rise in the level of the sea. PLATE: WOODCUT NO. A'A'--Outer edges of the barrier-reef at the level of the sea.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
One turns to the woodcut from the words, and back again to the words from the woodcut with ever-increasing gratification. Then again, Thackeray's little initial letters are charmingly arch and playful. They seem to throw a shy side-light upon the text, giving, as it were, an additional and confidential hint of the working of the author's mind. To those who, with the present writer, love every tiny scratch and quirk and flourish of the Master's hand, these small but priceless memorials are far beyond the frigid appraising of academics and schools of art.英文原著 · 《The Library》
As he came out of the gloomy gate of trees into the full glow he saw a dark figure standing quite still in the dim bracken, on the spot where he had left the woodcutter. It was not the woodcutter.英文原著 · 《The Trees of Pride》
"Let us talk plainly," resumed the lawyer. "Treherne had all those mad motives you yourself admit against the woodcutter. He had the knowledge of Vane's whereabouts, which nobody can possibly attribute to the woodcutter. But he had much more. Who taunted and goaded the Squire to go into the wood at all? Treherne. Who practically prophesied, like an infernal quack astrologer, that something would happen to him if he did go into the wood? Treherne.英文原著 · 《The Trees of Pride》
If we hold a double-convex lens opposite any object, we find that an inverted image of that object will be formed on a paper held behind it. To illustrate this more clearly, I will refer to the following woodcut:英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
Upon this part of our subject, however, I am debarred entering. The following is from W. Westbrook, Mus. Doe., Cantab., and represents ravages with which I am personally unacquainted:
"Dear Blades,--I send you an example of the `enemy'- mosity of an ordinary housefly. It hid behind the paper, emitted some caustic fluid, and then departed this life. I have often caught them in such holes.' 30/12/83." The damage is an oblong hole, surrounded by a white fluffy glaze (fungoid?), difficult to represent in a woodcut. The size here given is exact.英文原著 · 《Enemies of Books》