Deposits

Examples

• The Swiss deposits contain clear evidence of such catastrophes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From such deposits, potash is obtained. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In alluvial deposits it is extracted by washing, in dust grains, lamin? or nuggets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Silver, besides, being the standard metal, the state, it has been said, wishes to encourage more the making of deposits of silver than those of gold. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As the other metals, gold, silver, copper and lead often occur together, and in the same deposits with iron, the same general modes of treatment to extract them are often applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But the amount of potash thus obtained is far too limited to supply the needs of agriculture; and to-day the main sources of potash are the vast deposits of potassium salts found in Prussia. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And they made exceedingly solid and heavy bread, because round flat slabs of it have been got out of these deposits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The softened stationer deposits another half-crown on the table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Formerly, the supply of soda was very limited because man was dependent upon natural deposits and upon ashes of sea plants for it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I knew it was a commercial problem to produce high-grade Bessemer ore from these deposits, and took steps to acquire a large amount of the property. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Of course the oldest deposits are the most distorted and changed and worn, and in them there is now no certain trace to be found of life at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The deposits thus left by the evaporation of the sea water gradually became hidden by sediment and soil, and lost to sight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We kept minute records of these indications, and when the survey was finished we had exact information of the deposits in every part of each State we had passed through. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The receipts which are given for deposits of gold ducats fall to it yet more frequently, because a higher warehouse rent, or one half per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the United States the largest deposits of salt are found in the states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Utah, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas and California. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is commonly found in reefs or veins among quartz, and in alluvial deposits; it is separated, in the former case, by quarrying, crushing, washing and treatment with mercury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our magnetic needle indicated the presence and richness of the invisible deposits of magnetic ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Deposits of salt formed in this way are found scattered throughout the world, and in our own country are found in greatest abundance in New York. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The reports stated that the Mexicans had been panning gold for a hundred years out of these deposits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is organized in principle after the Bunsen burner, whereby a perfect combustion of the carbon is obtained with maximum heating effect and without smoke or deposits of lampblack. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One of my laboratory assistants went out with me and we visited many of the mines of New Jersey, but did not find deposits of any magnitude. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A divining rod is a wand or twig of hazel or willow used especially for discovering metallic deposits or water beneath the earth’s surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Deposits of bullion are most commonly made when the price is somewhat lower than ordinary, and they are taken out again when it happens to rise. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Come, flame of gas, burning so sullenly above the iron gate, on which the poisoned air deposits its witch-ointment slimy to the touch! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those surfaces were neither so steep as to be destructible by weather, nor so flat as to be the victims of floods and deposits. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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