Intervening

Examples

• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In 1862 the greater part of the country was covered with forest with intervening clearings and houses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It became at once evident that the dance was proceeding immediately within the surface of the door, no apartment intervening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The electric or etheric waves thereby set up are detected and received by another special form of apparatus more or less distant, without any intervening wires or conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He took the lamp in his hand, crossed the two intervening outer rooms, and opened it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In Mr. Thornton's case, as far as Margaret knew, there was no intervening stage of friendship. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody--Adele excepted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The principal applications of wireless telegraphy so far have been at sea, where the absence of intervening obstacles gives a free path to the electrical oscillations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It deserves to be pointed out that the phonograph has changed little in the intervening years from the first crude instruments of 1877-78. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What is the link that spans the intervening centuries? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But there will be no _visible_ motion of the intervening balls. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Compress t he large vein entering the heart, and the part intervening between the point of constriction and the heart becomes empty and the organ pales and shrinks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The disc of the moon exactly resembled that of the real luminary, and all around being so dark, the rays from its surface cast shadows of intervening objects. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The position of the two lines at that point were only about a hundred yards apart with a comparatively deep ravine intervening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A great change of spirit had gone on during the intervening years, a widespread realization of the need of unity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The opening of intervening passages permitted sounds from the interior of the palace to reach me; and I heard the clock strike one. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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