Lithologically it represents varied composition having coarse and fine grained sandstones, limestone, dolomite and compact,
splintery and fissile shales [1,2].
Most year before sleepaway camp began, I'd pack my
splintery wooden trunk without putting up too much of a fight, but I wasn't exactly counting down the days until the first session began.
me 45-degree bevel cuts will leave sharp,
splintery edges, so crank the table saw blade back to zero degrees and shave 1/8 in.
Which fence-sitting Scot might be lured to our side of his
splintery throne by Gyles Brandreth, a plummyvoiced failed Tory MP and knitwear enthusiast?
Its like you took a painting of a lush forest and put it in a
splintery old woody picture frame, then hung it on the wall on a rusty railroad spike.
Today it had a blueberry smear across the skirt where a toddler had reached for me with a sticky hand, and a catch in the fabric where it caught the
splintery edge of a wooden table.
At places it is
splintery with well developed laminations.
This wasn't Proustian, elegiac and nostalgic; it was more
splintery, more Swiftian.
Its benches tend to be
splintery, dirty and broken, discouraging rather than encouraging sitting.
It is characterized by thin laminae breaking with an irregular curving fracture, often
splintery and usually parallel to the often indistinguishable bedding plane.
prepare your floorboards When preparing wooden floorboards before painting them, you may find that patches are
splintery and can't be sanded smooth.
A young vampire has a "vonderful" time at the beach--once he learns to avoid the sun, the
splintery boardwalk, and the garlic laced clams at the snack shop.
Prior to this renovation, back in 2004, the
splintery wood floors that had to be sprinkled with water before every class were replaced by Arlekino linoleum floors.
When Sammy first meets Tracy Bacon, the Christian actor who will ultimately become his one real lover, he feels deeply inadequate: "big, radiant, confident fellows with string-bass voices always made him feel acutely how puny, dark, and Jewish he was, a goofy little curlicue of ink stamped on a sheet of
splintery paper." (15) Chabon here explicitly recognizes the written-ness of Sammy's Jewishness, of course, acknowledging his own play with renditions of the Jewish body.
