Essays Tagged: "damp"

..., / And laid her soiled gloves by, untied / Her hat and let the damp hair fall"). She is likely married and has dashed away from a...

... know the 'foul ways' are most likely to createterror into such cold, damp, dark and dreary nights. One is reminded of witches inMacbeth with their...

... few days have made them swell more than usual. The cold and damp has had one advantage though, the lice tend not to like it... now. But after the heavy rain of today the usually cold and damp trench seems much, much worse, in fact I'm not sure if...

... confidential managers little, though. "The normal disgust of the mother" for a damp nurse was frequently, in the vocabulary of one doctor, "an insuperable obstruction...., 1991). Chicago is a chiefly apt backdrop to learn the history of damp nursing - and the concomitant altering attitude in the direction of caring breastfeeding... their wet nurses "a great approval," Presbyterian physicians employed and ablaze eight damp nurses flanked by July 1914 and November 1916. The straight term was...

... house I was taken aback by the initial smell of damp and I noted some damp patches and mould on the carpet in the corners...

... excited-picked-nodamp.wav which isfinger plucked string excitation signal without initial damping. We define the sample frequency = 44100 Hz. The numerator and denominator of... the waveguide, the two delay lines can becombined into one, and the damping values at the terminations can be lumpedtogether in the feedback loop The... effect in the digital waveguide. To attenuate theoutput we simply add a damping factor at the ends of the delay lines so that thevalues are...

... to the family. From October to April, Limerick is constantly wet and damp. The McCourt family downstairs flat is flooded, as the whole lane seems... for most of Frank's childhood, it lacks sensations of smell, the dampness and the discomfort. When the McCourt's first move in, they discover... the insight as to what it would feel like living in constant dampness. Frank McCourt grew up in a dysfunctional family whose plight was made...

... to cut prices also for domestic steel producers to stay competitive. Also damping and subsidized imports were taking place to win market share. US government...

... than carbon dioxide. Methane sources are animal wastes, microorganisms that live in damps soil, and occur in the action of mining the coal. The most...

... belongs to the biological class Crustacea. The slaters studied were found in damp, cool, humid conditions. They are most easily found in spring and autumn... left in shaded, moist conditions. They may also be found in deep, damp soil litter under the shelter of bushes or trees. So that they... lot of light and there is protection from predators such as blowflies and centipedes, sufficient food and damp. The ground was mostly made up of...

... satire, in which Fortunato perseveres with his ill health through the,“insufferably damp,” vaults that are, “incrusted with nitre,” just for the promise of tasting... are also important in this tale. Words such as, “excessive warmth, insufferably damp, drops of moisture trickle among the bones, and succession of loud and... Fortunato’s cough will worsen as a result of the cold and dampness of the catacombs, yet he has no intention of turning back. Responding...

... know that it is set in summer because of: "...the irritation of damp in the office this summer..." The author does not expand on this... significant at the time, but come to nothing at the end. The damp is an example of this. "...the peculiar smell (not the smell of... built up slowly. In The Axe there are subtle mentions of the damp smell and many references to death that may not be picked up... ordinary damp)..." The damp is frequently mentioned in The Axe, but is never explained at the end. Perhaps it was a dead body buried underneath...

... a garden. Owned properties are less likely to have problems such as damp and cold (Macintyre et al 2000). It has been suggested that areas...

... of summer also mix in the air. Sitting on the morning dew damp chairs and listening to the wind as it brushes with softness. Bright...

... that designed the tower utilized many innovative engineering concepts such as supplemental damping, the outside design and internal structural system design, the bracing, and the... placed as part of the perimeter bracing system. The engineers achieved maximum damping for the building by "placing them between two lateral systems comprised of... no awareness of the earthquake (Post 2003). The overall concept of supplemental damping and damper placement helps make the design of a tower in a...

... a reflection of his current mood, unhealthy and isolated. “Unsunn’d and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves ne’er tremble still” draws the reader...

... the liberty of cleaning Mrs Jones with her permission. I used a damp disposable wipe which Clair handed over to me and wiped away from...

..., which live in warmer climates and whose breeding-grounds are often in damp areas. Three countries in the European region covered by the WHO - Azerbaijan...

... hand slipped from the tree. I got up and brushed away the damp torn leaves and dirt from my jeans . I could taste the gritty... tall, thin grassy patch behind me. I slowly sat down on the damp ground against a tree, in fearing what was behind me in the... my way along the path, I stumble and fell to the cold, damp forest ground. It smelled like mildew and wet dirt. I tried to...

... screamed in anguish as I shot him. A sickening thud on the damp earth. Blood welling around my feet. All around, the smell of decaying... were old. For they have seen many things. I could smell the damp earth as the wheels of my chair sunk into the soft mud... a moment, cursing the throbbing pain. -Thundering across the sodden earth. Damp bodies, damp spirits. We huddled against the gunfire and chaos. Old sores reopened...