His wrist bent improbably as he tried to aim down through his head instead of aiming straight across the brain, transecting it. ❋ Ann Rule (2010)
The landscape is relatively flat with flooded plains and many small rivers transecting the region. ❋ Unknown (2008)
However, the dry riverbeds transecting the area are the lifelines of the desert. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Look at a profile of “clean” temperature records transecting, for example, from Morro Bay to Death Valley in an ideal world, where such a thing might actually exist. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a strange way, from the king ` s angle, the English Channel was more like a river, constantly transecting across it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They had taken that path, and eventually came to another transecting it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But the closed shutters on the houseboats and the lines of ducks and geese transecting the sun made something sink in my heart, as though I were the last man standing on earth. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)
In transecting the upper lobe of the left lung, it was found considerably hollowed out, (to the degree of holding a large orange,) and containing a small quantity of semi-fluid carbon, resembling thick blacking, with the superior divisions of the left bronchus opening abruptly into it. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)
He called it so, when he sailed round it in 1520, from the fact of the natives lighting watch-fires in every direction as soon as his ship was perceived nearing any of the channels transecting the archipelago, as if to give warning of his approach, a practice still pursued by the Tierra del Fuegans up to the time present, as all voyagers round Cape Horn well know. ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)
A water-starved bantustan of a neighbour will fail to develop a viable economy, and will hence remain corrupt, donor-dependent and undemocratic; Israeli religious settlements transecting its territory will provide a focus of nationalist bitterness, fostering terrorism. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Samples of breccia mineralization were taken along three converging lines of sampling roughly forming a "Y" pattern transecting the diameter of the breccia as exposed in a creek as well as two isolated two-metre samples (refer to figure on Kiska's website www. kiskametals.com). ❋ Unknown (2010)
It is a complicated prostate surgery procedure that involves dropping the bladder, transecting the medial and posterior bladder neck and dissecting the seminal vesicle. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To date, 9,098 metres have been drilled in twenty-six holes as part of a 15,000 metre program of approximately thirty nine 39 holes aimed to test the new grade model on the Fayolle deposit and to explore the entire deformation corridor transecting the property along a strike length of more than 2.5 kilometres. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Indeed, the border going westward comes in three stages: the Indus; the unruly crags and canyons that push upward to the shaved wastes of Central Asia, home to the Pashtun tribes; and, finally, the granite, snow-mantled massifs of the Hindu Kush, transecting Afghanistan itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr. Hawkins further identified three quartz filled fractures systems within the sedimentary rocks transecting the central area of the property (referred to as the north, central and south veins). ❋ Unknown (2009)
