"Layer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seized and thrown out of the window, and I was told to get my money of Nicodemus. I then returned with all the old magazines and novels I had not been able to sell, thinking perhaps this would be too much for them. I was small and thin, and the layer reached above my head, and was all I could possibly carry. I had prepared a list, and knew the amount in case they bit again. When I opened the door, all the passengers roared with laughter. I walked right up to the young ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... half metres in thickness at its base, which was constructed in rough stone, frequently of small size, and sloping to a height of two metres. On this was erected a wall of dressed stones, each successive layer set back, like a step, so that at the top it was only some two metres in width. It might be thought that this manner of building offered considerable ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton
... bottom, and supposing this to be a coast-line; from the washing action of the sea upon the rock, wearing and grinding it down into a sediment of mud, the mud will be carried down, and at length, deposited in the deeper parts of this sea bottom, where it will form a layer; and then, while that first layer is hardening, other mud which is coming from the same source will, of course, be carried to the same place; and, as it is quite impossible for it to get beneath the ...
— The Past Condition of Organic Nature • Thomas H. Huxley
... just look!" begged Prescott, lifting some jute bagging from the top of the box, then digging down through the top layer of cracked ice. ...
— The High School Boys' Fishing Trip • H. Irving Hancock
... Corncockle, lying in their original place with a dip of about 33 degrees to the westward, and separating with great cleanness and smoothness, present impressions of such liveliness, that there is no possibility of doubt as to their being animal foot-tracks, and those of the tortoise family. A thin layer of unctuous clay between the beds has proved favourable to their separation; and it is upon this intervening substance that the marks are best preserved. Slab after slab is raised from the quarry—sometimes a foot thick, sometimes only ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 - Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 • Various
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