Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the ❋ Unknown (2006)
Did not DAN O'CONNELL, in his famous vituperative contest with a Dublin washer-woman, triumph in the long-run by calling her an unprincipled parallelopiped? ❋ Various (N/A)
The desirable portions of the shells were first broken out into small pieces of the form of a parallelopiped; these were then drilled and afterwards ground and polished. ❋ Ashbel Woodward (N/A)
His first balloon was a small parallelopiped in very thin taffeta, containing less than seventy-eight cubic inches of air. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
You cannot write a text-book of geometry without reference to a hypotenuse and triangles and a rectangular parallelopiped. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Pretty, dainty, inconsequential little Rosalie was preëminently fashioned for romance; it clung to her golden hair and looked from her eyes, She might be extremely hazy as to the difference between participles and supines, she might hesitate in her definition of a parallelopiped, but when the subject under discussion was one of sentiment, she spoke with conviction. ❋ Unknown (1911)
The parallelopipeds may then be cut apart along one common face and spread out in like manner, forming when rectangular a single right prism (parallelopiped). ❋ Unknown (1910)
We seated ourselves some distance from a table on which was a huge, plain, oblong contrivance that reminded me of the diagram of a parallelopiped which had caused so much trouble in my solid geometry at college. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Antoinette, who disapproves of the amorphous British lumps of sugar, has found some emporium where she can buy the regular parallelopiped of the Continent, and these she provides for my afterdinner coffee. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
My carpets have been altered to fit all sized odd-shaped apartments from parallelopiped to hexagons. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
This has the form of a parallelopiped, about 3.5 metres long, 2.2 metres broad, and 1.8 metre high. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
A bit of the usual close-grained trap had been cut into a parallelopiped seven and a half inches long with a flat head one inch and a half in diameter and a bevel-edge of two inches and one-third along the slope. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
This limestone appeared to me identical (1) with the limestone of the Morro de Barcelona and the Chimanas Islands, which contains small layers of black kieselschiefer (slaty jasper) without veins of quartz, and breaking into fragments of parallelopiped form; (2) with the whitish grey limestone with smooth fracture of Tisnao, which seems to cover the sandstone of the ❋ Unknown (1851)
He assumes, indeed, that equal bodies, at the ends of the equal arms of a lever, will balance one another; and also that a cylinder or parallelopiped of homogeneous matter, will be balanced about its centre of magnitude. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
This limestone appeared to me identical (1) with the limestone of the Morro de Barcelona and the Chimanas Islands, which contains small layers of black kieselschiefer (slaty jasper) without veins of quartz, and breaking into fragments of parallelopiped form; ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
The thinner walls are composed of a single depth of the parallelopiped, while the thicker ones consist of two or more depths. ❋ Unknown (1805)
Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the Gothic; of the Venetian music of the gondolier originating in the habit of the fishers 'wives of the Lido singing to their husbands on the sea; of the Amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street; of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese, which one may verify in the common daylight in Venice every afternoon; of the Carnival at Rome; of the domestic rural architecture in Italy; and many the like examples. ❋ Unknown (1832)
(essentially the reciprocal of the least measure of an parallelopiped in the lattice). ❋ Unknown (2009)
