https://books.google.com/books?id=DJR0oqh8W9YC&pg=PA42 page 42 Flaps, however, ‘pin cushion’ and develop a convex form as they contract. For this reason, flaps are best used to resurface convex surfaces. A skin graft is best for planar or concave recipient sites. … https://books.google.com/books?id=DJR0oqh8W9YC&pg=PA282 page 282 As the flap contracts, it pin cushions. This trapdoor effect can contribute to a convex shape.
Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah’s room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
We are pleased to be sending off our hard working teams to go and represent the nation abroad, and fly the rainbow flag high.
