Below

Examples

• They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Still, said Maurice pertinently, the sun is still below the eastern side of the mountain, yet the air is quite warm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Thus the enemy, with a vastly superior force, was strongly fortified to the east, south, and west, and commanded the river below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The roots radiate a short distance below the surface of the ground and there is no stabilizer in the shape of a tap root such as in other woods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hearing voices on the terrace below, I looked out of window, and saw the two gentlemen walking up and down together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A little below us stood the Holy Thern on watch upon his balcony. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The conversation, thus turned on Adele, continued till we reached the light and cheerful region below. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• These hammers are inked from a pad, and at a central point deliver a printing blow on the paper below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Yes, there was a sound of bells at the door below, a cry from Hannah, and then Laurie's voice saying in a joyful whisper, Girls, she's come! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Plain and hill, stream and corn-field, were discernible below, while we unimpeded sped on swift and secure, as a wild swan in his spring-tide flight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Pilar took her knife and slit his trouser leg down below the lefthand pocket. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It's abominable, to be sure; but St. Clare will have high life below-stairs, and they every one of them live just as they please. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I go close below with the small _m醧uina_ of mine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In many regions, especially in the neighborhood of streams, water can be found ten or fifteen feet below the surface. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Omean lies perhaps two miles below the surface crust of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I had had this explored before, as well as the east bank below to ascertain if there was a possible point of debarkation north of Rodney. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The ice in the can is then loosened by warm water, and the block dumped through the door into a chute, whence it passes into the storage room below, seen in Fig. 298. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It lay in a direction precisely opposite to that of the little window in the vale below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. Plato. The Republic.
• To the astonishment of my clerk, I at once decided on granting an interview to the gentleman below. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But all mines must be ventilated by forcing air through them with a fan, and this air must be in sufficient quantity to keep the percentage of gas below a dangerous standard. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her memory had an aristocratic bias, and was very treacherous whenever she tried to recall any circumstance connected with those below her in life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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