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...ENA Oh, yes, certainly. SULLA Don't go back on the Amelia, Miss Glory. The barometer is falling steadily. Wait for the Pennsylvania. That's a good, ...

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...the ulterior productions that they should offer an actual substance of the barometer of the value. It is true that there is a “pragmatism” of this ...

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... of the North. Northerners tended to believe that they controlled their own lives. They were far more likely to listen to the news and watch a barome...

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... might question that. And the skin on the back of his neck prickled, always a barometer of danger. So he remained flat in the straw, curbing his sne...

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...circumstances, abstract, easily transformable into tangibles - in short, a perfect barometer of the chances of survival at any given gauging moment...

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...circumstances, abstract, easily transformable into tangibles - in short, a perfect barometer of the chances of survival at any given gauging moment...

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...e on hand and ready, in case of avalanches up there, but I did not know it then. We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye ... ...uring the whole time. Words cannot describe the comfort that that friendly, hopeful, steadfast thing was to me in that season of trouble. It was a def... ...had no hand but the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward. If I should be in such a situ- ation again, I should not wish f... ...metric observation, to get our altitude, but I could not perceive that there was any result. I knew, by my scientific reading, that either ther- momet... ...ow which it was, so I boiled them both. There was still no result; so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed radical blemishe... ...inter and the ball of the thermometer was stuffed with tin-foil. I might have boiled those things to rags, and never found out anything. I hunted up a... ...f an hour in a pot of bean soup which the cooks were making. The result was unexpected: the instrument was not affecting at all, but there was such a ... ...ead cook, who was a most con- scientious person, changed its name in the bill of fare. The dish was so greatly liked by all, that I ordered the cook t... ...d had his corns tested and regulated at the government obser- vatory in Heidelberg, and one could depend upon them with confidence. So I transferred t...

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...city, he renders thanks “after supper in the little room where he kept his barometers.” To the last Lavalle was a Catholic of the old school, ac- cept... ...S AIR CUR- RENTS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 5s. 6d. REDMAYNE’S DISEASE AND THE BAROMETER. 7s. 6d. WALTON’S HEALTH RESORTS OF THE GOBI AND SHAMO. 3s. 6d. W...

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...omplete, without being signally to blame. Men of talent are as variable as barometers; genius alone is intrinsi- cally good. For this reason unalloyed... ...living death of untold miseries. Lemulquinier be- came to her a species of barometer: if she heard him whistle as he laid the breakfast-table or the d...

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...e chart-room of the steamer Nan-Shan, he stood confronted by the fall of a barometer he had no reason to distrust. The fall — taking into account the ... ...us disdained by destiny or by the sea. II OBSERVING THE STEADY FALL of the barometer, Captain MacWhirr thought, “There’s some dirty weather knocking a... ... an air of superiority. “We’re going to catch it this time,” he said. “The barometer is tumbling down like anything, Harry. And you trying to kick up ... ...ke anything, Harry. And you trying to kick up that silly row… .” The word “barometer” seemed to revive the second engineer’s mad animosity. Collecting... ...unmen- tionable instrument down his gory throat. Who cared for his crimson barometer? It was the steam — the steam — that was going down; and what bet... ...mbals, the loosened books toppled from side to side on the shelf, the long barometer swung in jerky circles, the table altered its slant every moment.... ...the probable bearing of the centre, the shifts of wind and the readings of barometer. He tried to bring all these things into a definite relation to h... ... bears eight points off the wind; but we haven’t got any wind, for all the barometer falling. Where’s his centre now?” “W e will get the wind presentl... ... had he not been called? The lamp wriggled 30 Typhoon in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment; a pai...

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...st wind, with pouring rain, and yet my spirits are not going down with the barometer. All the same, the said barometer will probably soon recover hims... ...e and comfort to me. In harbour I live in the cabin. It is hung round with barometers (aneroids), sympie-someters, fixed chest for chronometers, chart... ...opical thunder- storm, after having been well warned by the sinking of the barometer through the whole of the day, the 27th of April. ‘At 7.30 the bre... ... rope, and with it and the recoil was borne in again upon the deck. Lowest barometer, 28° 65’! We were startled yesterday at about 4 P .M. with the ne...

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...e temperature of springs or any matter in a state of fusion. 2. An aneroid barometer, to indicate extreme pressures of the atmosphere. An ordinary bar... ... pressure would increase during our descent to a point which the mercurial barometer* would not register. 3. A chronometer, made by Boissonnas, jun., ... ...the Interior of the Earth “Are you sure of that?” “Quite sure. Consult the barometer.” In fact, the mercury, which had risen in the instrument as fast... ...ur atmosphere, and I shall be glad when the aneroid takes the place of the barometer.” And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as th... ...d his instruments, and recorded: “Monday, July 1. “Chronometer, 8.17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.; thermom- eter, 6 deg. (43 deg. F .). Direction, E.S.E.”... ...les Verne simple answer, that in the sixteenth century there was nei- ther barometer or aneroid and therefore Saknussemm could not tell how far he had...

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...t, both with our eyes and ears. Next day , I found that the mercury in the barometer, which had risen steadily since we cleared the ice, remained stea...

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...tual duel goes on between the heavens and their terrestrial interests. The barometer smooths, saddens, or makes merry their coun- tenances, turn and t... ..., stood in the space between the two windows. Above this table was an oval barometer with a black border enlivened with gilt bands, on which the flies... ...ifty francs to give him. What are fifty francs to a dandy who looked at my barometer as if he meant to make firewood of it!” In thinking over the cons...

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...ocks of stone, with green moss on them in places. A handsome, but not new, barometer hung on the middle of one of the walls, as if to accentuate the v...

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...le Gamard usually sat in this room, which boasted of two pier tables and a barometer. Before the chair of each abbe was a little cushion covered with ...

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...the thermometer, which gives the internal temperature of the Nautilus; the barometer, which indicates the weight of the air and foretells the changes ... ...nd the instruments, which consisted of a chro- nometer, a telescope, and a barometer. While crossing, I saw numerous whales belonging to the three kin... ... arriving at the summit Captain Nemo carefully took the mean height of the barometer, for he would have to consider that in taking his observations. A... ...res of America. The intensity of the tempest increased with the night. The barometer, as in 1860 at Reunion during a cyclone, fell seven-tenths at the...

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...that 84 The Mirror of the Sea it will deceive a scientific instrument. No barometer will give warning of an easterly gale, were it ever so wet. It wo... ...e it ever so wet. It would be an unjust and ungrateful thing to say that a barometer is a stupid contrivance. It is sim- ply that the wiles of the Eas...

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...ike those on the counter of a restaurant. Above the other sideboard hung a barometer, excessively ornate, which seems to play a great part in their ex... ...table, of the dampness which was coming out in spots upon the plaster. The barometer was Rogron’s most useful bit of property. He consulted it at all ...

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...weather record. This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer. Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this mor...