What is "consists"

Usage examples of "consists".

They rise from an almost woody axis, and their greatest peculiarity consists in their foliaceous green footstalks, which are almost as broad and even longer than the glandbearing blade.

My greatest treasure consists in being my own master, perfectly independent, and not afraid of misfortune.

At last she had to leave me, after a day which might be called delightful if happiness consists of calm and mutual joys without the tumultuous raptures of passion.

The ground floor consists of innumerable small rooms, a few large and lofty apartments, and an immense hall.

Those who stop at the outward crust of things imagine that the secret consists in words, in signs, or that the main point of it is to be found only in reaching the highest degree.

It was in the winter solstice, and the sun rose at the extremity of an immense plain at twenty-four minutes past nine, so I am able to state that the longest night in Russia consists of eighteen hours and three quarters.

The country in the direct line between Johannesburg and Pretoria consists of a series of rolling downs which are admirably adapted for cavalry work, but the detour which French had to make carried him into the wild and broken district which lies to the north of the Little Crocodile River.

A tentacle consists of a thin, straight, hairlike pedicel, carrying a gland on the summit.

Guncotton, which consists of cellulose, with the hydrogen replaced by nitrogen, was tried with the same result.

In Drosera the fluid within the cells of the tentacles at the bending place appears under the microscope thin and homogeneous, and after aggregation consists of small, soft masses of matter, undergoing incessant changes of form and floating in almost colourless fluid.

This matter, from its spontaneous movements, no doubt consists of protoplasm.

The prey, therefore, judging from these five bladders, consists exclusively of freshwater crustaceans, most of which appeared to be distinct species from those found in the bladders of the two former species.

The present consists of myself, such as I am, and with all my faculties.

I am satisfied that, whatever I may do, I shall never be able to recognize it any more than I can find out in what consists the bad Latin style so constantly alleged against Livy.

The charm of that style consists in the negligence with which the paint is applied.