"Permeable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... barrels, it is essential that they be cut radially in the log, in order that the staves be as non-permeable to ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes
... advantage of it to enter the casket. The mother foresees the risk. She blocks the breathing-hole with a plug made of the ravelled vegetable fibres of the Cow-dung, a stopper which is eminently permeable. It is an exact repetition of that which the various modellers have shown us at the top of their calabashes and pears. All of them are acquainted with the nice secret of the felt stopper as a means of ventilating the egg in a ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre
... closely to the porous shell, and the extent of which will be appreciated by looking at Figure 5, Sheet 24, where the allantois is shaded. Allantoic bloodvessels ramify thickly over its walls, and aeration occurs through the permeable shell. ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells |
