Areas
['eərɪəz] or ['ɛrɪrz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Area
Typed by Eddie
Examples
- But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There remained throughout the whole period considerable areas in which the elaboration of the arts of life could go on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The elevation of the table is proportionate to the quantity of water injected, and the power proportionate to the receptive areas of the pump and the cylinder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They probably ranged over very wide areas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Belgium, Serbia, and Roumania, and large areas of France and Russia, were occupied by Austro-German troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So great was the commercial demand for dyestuffs that large areas of land were given over to the exclusive cultivation of the more important dye plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They probably grazed their flocks over great areas much as the sheep ranchers of California do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vast areas were exposed that are now again sea bottom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sometimes all India was a patchwork quilt of states; sometimes such empires as that of the Guptas prevailed over great areas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He did not agree with Wright that t hey, or the cloudy areas, would prove to be stars or small satellites, but rather that both co nsisted of vapor particles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Indeed, he is inclined to identify with the latter systems the small luminous elliptical areas in the heavens reported by Maupert uis in 1742. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Now, what does this remarkable law of the succession of the same types within the same areas mean? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Over some areas these Aryan peoples prevailed altogether, and became the bulk of the inhabitants and retained their Aryan speech. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They made it possible to carry out administrative work in areas ten times as great as any that had hitherto been workable under one administration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But over other areas the Aryans did not so prevail. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Over these northern areas there spread and receded and spread again a great ice cap such as covers central Greenland to-day (see Map, on page 77). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We see in these facts some deep organic bond, throughout space and time, over the same areas of land and water, independently of physical conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There was a point where it would not pay to raise it at all; and large areas of the country were thus of no value. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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