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...will bring you near a comprehension of what it is. A luminous body imparts vibration to the luminiferous ether. The vibrations generate similar ones w... ...e second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which... ... long hours of horror more than mortal, during which I counted the rushing vibrations of the steel! Inch by inch—line by line—with a descent only ap- ... ...ere were demons who took note of my swoon, and who could have arrested the vibration at pleasure. Upon my recovery, too, I felt very—oh, inexpressibly... ... ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile—an idiot. 153 V olume Two The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length. I saw that the ... ...wn—still unceasingly—still inevitably down! I gasped and struggled at each vibration. I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep. My eyes followed its o... ...ned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition. I saw that some ten or twelve vibrations would bring the steel in actual contact with my robe, and with t...

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...le wholly confounded him. At last she said, “Have you ever realized what a vibration is?” “No,” said Cashel, after a blank look at her. “I am glad to ... ...o hear you make that admission. Science has reduced everything nowadays to vibration. Light, sound, sen- sation—all the mysteries of nature are either... ...ibration. Light, sound, sen- sation—all the mysteries of nature are either vibrations or interference of vibrations. There,” she said, throwing anothe... ...er the hundreds of writers of text-books on physics, who talk so glibly of vibrations, realize them any better than I do.” “Not a bit of it. Not one o... ...be dis- tinguished from the noise of the sea; then you recognize it by its vibration; one moment smothered in a deep cutting, and the next sent echoin...

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...h Not being; he has no idea of progression by antagonism, or of the Hegelian vibration of moments: he would not have said with Heracleitus, ‘All thing... ...ly be described as an alternation of opposites or figured to the mind by the vibrations of a pendulum. Even in Aristotle and Plato, rightly understood...

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...terruption of every wonted movement, the sudden cessation of any prolonged vibration, brings on. As on the return from Vaubyessard, when the quadrille... ... on their souls sonorous, crystalline, and that reverberated in multiplied vibrations. When the night was rainy, they took refuge in the consult- ing-... ... they uttered the final adieu, Emma gave a sharp cry that mingled with the vibrations of the last chords. 193 Flaubert “But why,” asked Bovary, “does... ...t filled with long strips of iron passed by, and made a deafening metallic vibration against the walls of the houses. She slipped away suddenly , thre...

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...erwards, when they had gathered way Up through the point, giving it that vibration The tongue had given them in their passage out, 101 Dante We h... ...a pleasant medicine; And as good singer a good lutanist Accompanies with vibrations of the chords, Whereby more pleasantness the song acquires, So...

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...ince precision is such a concern, a fully assembled bow radiates almost no vibration when shot. The riser can withstand extreme temperatures and has b...

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... could not hear the music. It was not a physical defect. Her ears felt the vibration that came from the wind that rushed through the majestic brass pi...

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... could not hear the music. It was not a physical defect. Her ears felt the vibration that came from the wind that rushed through the majestic brass pi...

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..., can never utter a note at variance with the ten sions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is compos...

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...e surface. The effect produced by the firing of a cannon is that of simple vibration. This may either loosen the corpse from the soft mud or ooze in w... ... between the finger and thumb, hung without the possibility of detecting a vibration. However, as the captain said he could perceive no 208 Poe in Fi...

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...eard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a... ...ond as I drifted in the gentle night breeze, now and then feeling a slight vibration along it, in dicative of some life prowling about its extremity,...

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...ine was given to me by that divine image. And as a good lutanist makes the vibration of the string accompany a good singer, whereby the song acquires ...

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... But when they had taken their course up through the point, giving it that vibration which the tongue had given in their passage, we heard say, “O tho...

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...ell asleep easily. (Thinking of Paris.) … Awakened by a conversation whose vibrations I clearly felt through the left wall: T urnkey-creature: “What?”...

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... in a desperate effort to force the crate from its ground, I felt a strong vibration in the side next me. I thrust my hand eagerly to the edge of the ...

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...protecting and developing local interests and individual welfare; and if the vibrations of authority have occa sionally tended too much toward one or...

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...This quivering of his left leg was a thing Napoleon was conscious of. “The vibration of my left calf is a great sign with me,” he remarked at a later ...

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...s, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and, in so doing, gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it. This vibration was indefini...

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...nor of a drop of water; our ears deceive us, for they trans- mit to us the vibrations of the air in sonorous notes. Our senses are fairies who work th... ...y skin. I was never tired of hearing her disdainful, petulant voice, those vibrations which sounded as if they proceeded from clear glass, whose music...

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... should have said that what was happening was a certain kind of transverse vibration in the aether. But it is not necessary or desirable to be so ex- ... ...al object—ac- cording to the old orthodox theory, it would be a transverse vibration in the aether. Like the different appearances of the table to a n...

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...with their abdomens threat- eningly compressed, and producing by the rapid vibration of their wings an aerial living sound, the only reply is a discon...

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...re was a tremulous swelling about the hinder part of his breeches— and the vibration of his coat tail was a palpable fact. Judge, then, with what feel...

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...is quivering of his left leg was a thing Napoleon was con- scious of. “The vibration of my left calf is a great sign with me,” he remarked at a later ... ...with their abdomens threateningly com- pressed, and producing by the rapid vibration of their wings an aerial living sound, the only reply is a discon...