Citations:sparry

English citations of sparry

1. • 1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea‎^[1]:

     It would appear that, when the Indians see any sparry substance projecting above the surface, they dig there, but they have no other rule to direct them, and have never found the metal in its original repository.

   • 1876, William Wordsworth, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth‎^[2]:

     Thine are all the coral fountains Warbling in each sparry vault Of the untrodden lunar mountains; Listen to their songs!

   • 1903, Lord Byron, The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6‎^[3]:

     CLXXXIV. And thus they wandered forth, and hand in hand, Over the shining pebbles and the shells, Glided along the smooth and hardened sand, And in the worn and wild receptacles Worked by the storms, yet worked as it were planned In hollow halls, with sparry roofs and cells, They turned to rest; and, each clasped by an arm, Yielded to the deep Twilight's purple charm.

   • 1927, Various, Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories‎^[4]:

     They are flashing down from the mountain brows, They are flinging spray o'er the forest boughs, They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves, And the earth resounds with the joy of waves.

   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion‎^[5]:

     Thus swell'd it forth: "Descend, Young mountaineer! descend where alleys bend Into the sparry hollows of the world!

   • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society‎^[6]:

     "Now in vast shoals beneath the brineless tide, On earth's firm crust testaceous tribes reside; Age after age expands the peopled plain, The tenants perish, but their cells remain; Whence coral walls and sparry hills ascend From pole to pole, and round the line extend. 320 ] ] ] "Next when imprison'd fires in central caves Burst the firm earth, and drank the headlong waves; And, as new airs with dread explosion swell, Form'd lava-isles, and continents of shell; Pil'd rocks on rocks, on mountains mountains raised, And high in heaven the first volcanoes blazed; In countless swarms an insect-myriad moves From sea-fan gardens, and from coral groves; Leaves the cold caverns of the deep, and creeps On shelving shores, or climbs on rocky steeps. 330 As in dry air the sea-born stranger roves, Each muscle quickens, and each sense improves; Cold gills aquatic form respiring lungs, And sounds aerial flow from slimy tongues.

   • 1997 August 8, Ben A. van der Pluijm et al., “Paleostress in Cratonic North America: Implications for Deformation of Continental Interiors”, in Science‎^[7], volume 277, number 5327, →DOI, pages 794–796:

     This unit is a flat-lying, locally sparry limestone that preserves a horizontal E-W fabric.