...Then the glass showed a face surrounded by a frilled cap, white as a woman’s, with a little mouth, a very short upper lip, and a receding chin...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...Few strain their eyes to catch parting glimpses of the receding highlands; it is only the green ones who do that...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...They could make out two people in it:a man, holding on his hat; a womanbareheaded, driving—driving so thatone wheel of the sulky spun the foamof the receding water...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...Narrow, long, graceful in line; neck rather long and slender;shoulders receding, well-sloped and deep; legs medium length,not thick nor clumsy; feet round and small...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...Frequently they chase a receding wave for the sake of recoveringa prize which has been swept from the beach: never venturingto swim, but showing no fear of wetting either feet or feathers...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...On its east it is hemmed in by extensivesand dunes, which also stretch to the north and west, receding from thevillage all the way from a few hundred yards to a quarter of a mile...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...This was to give a sufficiency of depthto the numerous concentric arches successively receding in the thicknessof the wall, which could not otherwise be well attained...
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 「The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.」
...Laterano, where heimitated the salient and receding angles of architecture; and still morein the grand Clementine salon, the most prodigious and exquisite work inperspective then existing...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...His huge barrel chest, the mightyarms, the receding forehead—the outward seeming of a giant ape...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...The Voice died out like the chiming of a great bell receding intoimmeasurable distance...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
...Ten minutes later Bell was driving onward through a gray obscurity,which now was no more than tinted pink by receding lightning-flashes...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
...Higher—higher—greenland and gray tea receding beneath them; Hackett and Fellows intentand eager as Norman kept the plane rising...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
...In 1889 Vogel, with the Potsdam spectrograph,actually found that the luminous star is receding before each eclipse, andapproaching us after each eclipse; thus entirely supporting Goodricke’sopinion...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...It was connected in the minds of the Egyptians with therising of the Nile, and is receding from the earth at the rate oftwenty miles a second...
William Tyler Olcott 「A Field Book of the Stars」
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