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As for this filament, it is easily extracted from its sheath and released down to its base, under the shield formed by the scale. Seen under the magnifying-glass, it is a round, stiff, horny thread, midway in thickness between a human hair and a horse-hair. Its tip is a little rough, pointed and bevelled to some length down.
"He forgets that all these chemical methods require pure chemicals. And you don't find them pure in the natural state. You've got to have fire to reduce them with." "What's your proposition, then?" from the doctor. "Optics!" enthusiastically. She produced a large magnifying-glass from her pocket.
But Paton set to work upon it with as much concentration as if it had been a recipe for the Philosopher's Stone; he reproduced the lines and angles on fresh paper, and labored over the writing with a magnifying-glass and a dictionary.
Did you go over every inch of the strip of carpet leading to the chair with a magnifying-glass?" "Hadn't got a magnifying-glass." "Then you'd better buck up and get one, if you're going to be a detective. Do you think Sherlock Holmes ever moved a step without his? Not much. Well, anyhow. Did you find any foot-prints or tobacco-ash?" "There was a jolly lot of dust about."
The philosopher drew from his pocket a small cup and dipped up a little water. He then handed it to the youth, and bade him look at it through a strong magnifying-glass, which he also gave him. Anthrops was surprised to find a white dust in the bottom of the cup. "Ah!" said his companion, answering his look of inquiry, "it is bone-dust; and now you may see where it comes from."
He had drawn a small magnifying-glass from his pocket, and held it between his hand and Ellen. "Why, it is not enlarged," said Ellen "it is only magnified." "What do you mean by that?" "Why, the glass makes it look larger." "Do you know how, or why?" "No." He put up the glass again.
Leslie's father, a few seals tied together by a shoe-string, a shagreen toothpick case, a tortoise shell magnifying-glass to read with, his eldest son's first copybooks, his second son's ditto, his daughter's ditto, and a lock of his wife's hair arranged in a true lover's knot, framed and glazed.
She produced a large magnifying-glass from her pocket. "All we have to do is to show Dulnop he's something of a mineralogist how to grind and polish a piece of crystal into this shape!" Van Emmon groaned. "Marvelous! Say, if you knew how infernally hard it is to find even a small piece of crystal, you'd never propose such a thing! Why, it would take years Mrs. Van Emmon!"
A scratch from any animal might turn out dangerous; there is nothing like being safe." I submitted; forthwith he began to dress my hand. He examined with a magnifying-glass the several parallel wounds, and compared them with the slip of blotting-paper, marked with Silvio's claws, which he took from his pocket-book.
With care he pieced them together, until he had several successive panoramas of the country taken from various elevations of the parachute. Then, with a magnifying-glass, he went over each section minutely. "Look at that!" he pointed out at last with the sharp tip of a pencil on one picture. In what looked like an open space among some trees was a tiny figure of a man.
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