Pores

Examples

• Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The buffing will hit the high spots but the proper process turns the minute edges, closes the pores and makes the silver hard and compact, vastly increasing the wearing quality. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The plant makes use of the carbon but it rejects the oxygen, which passes back into the atmosphere through the pores of the leaves. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The pieces of cork are flattened out by heat or by weights, and are slightly charred on the surface to close the pores. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Chadband, expressing a considerable amount of oil from the pores of his forehead and the palms of his hands, says aloud, Yes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The pores of the wood are thus closed to the entrance of air and moisture, and decay is avoided. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If impure water filters through charcoal, it emerges pure, having left its impurities in the pores of the charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is certain that the skin has _imbibing_ as well as _discharging_ pores; witness the effects of a blistering-plaster, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The skin, pores, muscles, and nerves of a day-labourer are different from those of a man of quality: So are his sentiments, actions and manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In the _biscuit_ or _bisque_ form pottery is bibulous, the prepared glaze sinks into its pores and when burned forms a vitreous coating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The sand choked and blinded him; its fine thin grains entered the very pores of his skin, and irritated him almost to madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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