What is "rises"

Usage examples of "rises".

Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London, where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill, and where wild flowers grow of their own accord.

In this species, however, as in the others, the firstformed leaf, which is simple or not trifoliate, rises up and sleeps like the terminal leaflet on a mature plant.

Unable to walk, she is transported to the pink by her males, where she recovers in a minute, rises up and rejoins the orgy.

In that square he would pause to drink in the bewildering beauty of the old town as it rises on its eastward bluff, decked with its two Georgian spires and crowned by the vast new Christian Science dome as London is crowned by St.

From hidden springs it rises, and to subterranean grottoes it flows, so that the Daemon of the Valley knows not why its waters are red, nor whither they are bound.

The wharves of Baharna are of porphyry, and the city rises in great stone terraces behind them, having streets of steps that are frequently arched over by buildings and the bridges between buildings.

Hatheg, for which it is named, and rises like a rock statue in a silent temple.

Of that land there is no bound, for beyond each vista of beauty rises another more beautiful.

After a time the apex is drawn out of the empty seedcoats, and rises up, forming a right angle, or more commonly a still larger angle with the lower part, and occasionally the whole becomes nearly straight.

When the cotyledons are hypogean, that is, remain buried in the soil, the hypocotyl is hardly developed, and the epicotyl or plumule rises in like manner as an arch through the ground.

The main petiole rises a little at night, and the three leaflets rise till they become vertical, and at the same time approach each other.

The large terminal leaflet sleeps by sinking vertically down, whilst the petiole rises up.

The main petiole sinks downwards during the day till late in the evening, and rises until very early in the morning.

The pinnae move forwards and at the same time sink downwards, whilst the main petiole rises considerably.

Moreover, the petiole as a whole commonly either rises or sinks at night.