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"Then I am glad of that, too, for we have had some very disquieting hints from the East." "They were quite justified, as I shall tell you later on; but meanwhile, uncle, allow me to introduce to you Miss Baxter, who has done me the honour of promising to be my wife." Jennie blushed in the searching rays of the electric light as the old man turned quickly towards her.
Kettridge in the dimly-lighted jewelry shop after Sallie had been taken to the hospital. "What shocked her?" "The same electric wires on the showcase that shocked Miss Brill the other day. The electricians had been told to remove them, but had not yet done so." "But I thought those wires were dead cut after the other accident, Mr. Kettridge." "So they were.
That Volta himself was aware of this essentially new factor in the Galvanic production of electricity is shown by his own report to the Royal Society: 'The chief of my results, and which comprehends nearly all the others, is the construction of an apparatus which resembles in its effects, viz. such as giving shocks to the arms, &c, the Leyden phial, and still better electric batteries weakly charged; . . . but which infinitely surpasses the virtue and power of these same batteries; as it has no need, like them, of being charged beforehand, by means of a foreign electricity; and as it is capable of giving the usual commotion as often as ever it is properly touched.
The swift motion of the electric car was grateful. . . But at length the sight of familiar landmarks, old-fashioned dwellings crowded in between the stores and factories of lower Tower Street, brought back recollections of the days when she had come this way, other Sunday mornings, and in a more leisurely public vehicle, with her mother.
I have wondered for a week past what yeast was working in their brains. Of course, the seven-year-old Vanderveer boy on the Bluffs had an electric runabout for a Christmas gift, also a man to run it!
One of these in my own case was a little electric flash- light taken for the purpose of reading the verniers of a theodolite or sextant in star observations. It was used every night and for many purposes. As a matter of necessity, where insects are numerous one turns to the protection of his hammock and net immediately after the evening meal.
"If you're anxious for a long term you can have some of mine," he told the counterfeiter. "Maybe youse'll go up Salt Creek," said Shiny hopefully. Afraid the allusion might not be understood, he thoughtfully explained that this was the underworld term for the electric chair. Clay made no further comment. He found the theme a gruesome one.
Instinctively she shrank from him with a sensation almost of fear, but something in his gaze held her as though spell-bound. She looked into his eyes like one fascinated, scarcely knowing what he said or what reply she made. The waltz began, and as their fingers touched Kate's nerves tingled as though from an electric shock.
The electric discs shed a brilliancy of light which the British sun, oftener obscured by fogs than it ought to be, might well envy. Jack Ryan kept talking of these visitors, who passed them in noisy crowds, but Harry paid very little attention to what he said. "I say, do look, Harry!" cried Jack. "See what numbers of people come to visit us! Cheer up, old fellow!
He swept past her, shouldering her aside, pushing in an electric button as he sprang to the bed. She perceived then that the room had been almost in darkness. She recovered command of herself, and followed him. He was going through the usual rapid examination pulse, heart, breath hanging over the bed like some angry animal balked of its prey. Then he lifted the lids and bent close above the eyes.
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