Slits

Examples

• In the sights were parallel slits, right, left, upper, lower. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was lit within by slits under the eaves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Their noses were but longitudinal slits in the center of their faces, midway between their mouths and ears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• When the reflection is viewed in the looking glass through the slits, the figures rapidly passing in succession before the slits appear to have the movements of life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As the thern saw us his eyes narrowed to two nasty slits. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He went into the cave with her and brought out the two sacks, carrying them held together in both arms so that nothing could spill from the slits. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The light is thrown through the slits across to the hole at the center of the mirror and upon the needle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The disk has radial slits around its periphery, and is held with its figured face before a looking glass. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thurid turned toward Xodar, his eyes narrowing to two nasty slits. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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