How To Use Sounding line In A Sentence

• These geognostic relations of an instrument intended for the measurement of time -- this property of the pendulum, by which, like a sounding line, it searches unknown depths, and reveals in volcanic islands, * or in the declivity of elevated continental mountain chains, ** dense masses of basalt and melaphyre instead of cavities, render it difficult, notwithstanding the admirable simplicity of the method, to arrive at any great result regarding the figure of the Earth from observation of the oscillations of the pendulum. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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• Also installed was a gyrocompass system complete with master compass, steering and bearing repeaters and gyropilot for steering sounding lines.
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• If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . . News at Eleven: There is a unique steadiness about
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