Sentence Examples:
He intercepted all communication between a poppy and the ambient air, by covering it with a bell; and between it and the earth, by covering the vessel in which it grew with a leaden plate.
And in the fiery ardor of their enthusiasm, hard concrete facts were dissolved and set floating as illusions in the ambient mist.
Besides, the reports were heard more distinctly, and the projectiles, laboring through the ambient water, were extinguished with a strange hissing noise.
There, in the upper atmosphere, they are condensed to mist, and gather into clouds, and float and swim around in the ambient air.
Ambient to be going into a novelist she had never appreciated, and who had simply happened to be recommended to her by a young American she disliked.
Looks may be carefully guarded, speech may be framed to mislead, yet that pervading ambient of affection is strong to betray where perception is sharpened by jealousy.
The merchants sat for some time in silence, while they puffed out before them the bluish, smoke-clouds, watching how they formed circle after circle, and at last were dissipated in the ambient air.
The motor cooling air is at ambient temperature and, therefore, does not add energy to or subtract energy from the flue gas analysis, it only adds volume to the flue gas.
The silent masses of dazzling white clouds were poised motionless in the ambient air, high above the valley and the misty expanse of the distant, wooded ranges.
It has the opaque glamour that comes from the dense vapors rising from a marsh, the tangible beauty of a giant curtain rather than the far glories of miles of ambient mountain air.
Our place of encampment this day was a grove of date-trees, where the atmosphere, at sunrise, was ten times hotter than the ambient air.
Above them the green heron perches on an overhanging branch, uncouth but alert, whether sentinel or scout, flapping his awkward way along the ambient bends and reaches.
I never had dreamed of such delicate motion, fluent, and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightning.
In this sob was so much compassion that Marta thought she felt the ambient air vibrate with a movement of sympathy and wonder.
The ambient blends admirably with the action and the characters to present a picture which is satisfying and which appeals to the eye as complete.
She rose in a radiant splendid atmosphere emitting, diffusing, and disseminating the ambient soft influence of her wondrous presence.
Situation of objects of sense, or their real relation to one another in ambient space, is invisible: what we see is variety in the relations of colors to one another: our supposed vision of real tangible locality is only our interpretation of its visual non-resembling Signs.
Being thus suddenly awakened, I did my best to repel boarders, and I fancy I shot a number of holes in the ambient atmosphere around here.
She must wish to preserve a certain liberty of behavior and the personal home of a woman unaccustomed to share the ambient air with another.
The crashing of twigs under foot died away in the distance; the clouds were all swept out of the heavens and the night seemed one vast ambient plain of loneliness.
It sucks in from the ambient air the news sent circulating from the central depot, and by a most ingenious contrivance it will record only such news as is demanded of it.
It was a Sunday morning, and the smile of a balmy spring day lay over every visible object, filling the ambient air with a translucent message that no human mind could interpret.
On the table burned a candle, which lent a sort of visible reality to this semblance of scenic fiction, because the little, flickering flame seemed to shed about it that vague horror which the actors in a drama diffuse in the ambient air with their great gestures of despair or menace.
"Oh," cried the unhappy lover, and tore at his hair with desperate fingers, filling the ambient air with flakes of powder which shone silvery in the moonlight.
In attempting to define that command we find it conveys an impression, wider than the heavens and more diffused than the ambient air, of generosity, benevolence, and paternity.
Hence, though the ambient atmosphere may hold in suspension, in the form of fog, water enough to obscure its transparency, and to produce the sensation of moisture on the skin, the air, in which the finely divided water floats, may be charged with even less than an average proportion of humidity.
The stillness, rendered poignant by the droning of wild bees and a dainty ambient rustle of fern, pressed against her heart.
In the vast open, with the ambient atmosphere enveloping me like a blanket, I can ponder over the psychology of merchandising peanuts better than when I am shut in.
The ambient world therefore furnishes to the animal and to the vegetable, whole or fragmentary, those materials of its organization which are at the same time the stimuli of its vitality.
The smoke rose lazily in the ambient air, and he saw a figure all fluttering rags and flying turban running down the slope away from him.
This warmth, taken from the ambient bodies at the time of evaporation by the steam, is again given out when the steam is condensed into water.