Diagrams

Examples

• The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He drew diagrams combining an a tom of oxygen with an atom of nitrogen and an atom of aqueous vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But the content of this outline that we have drawn here in a few diagrams and charts cannot but touch the imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But this explanation does not account for the failure to use block printing in the case of illustrations and diagrams. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The phonograph is in reality a development of the phonautograph, which was an instrument invented by Leon Scott in 1857 to automatically record sounds by diagrams. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Reference to the following diagrams will elucidate this principle more clearly than words alone can do. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The accompanying diagrams represent sections of a gas meter, as seen in front and edgewise. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The distance of the principal focus from the lens is called the focal length of the lens, and from the diagrams we see that the more convex the lens, the shorter the focal length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Hideous coloured diagrams of the ravages of hideous diseases decorated the barren buff-coloured walls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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