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The configuration of the mountains brings about misleading optical conditions and illusions of perspective; a pine-tree a hundred feet in height looks to be a mere weed; wide valleys look as narrow as meadow paths. The lake is the only one where the confidences of heart and heart can be exchanged. There one can live; there one can meditate.
That a grub destined to live in the darkness, under the shelter of a corpse, should avoid the light is only natural; the strange part is its very perception. The maggot is blind. Its pointed fore part, which we hesitate to call a head, bears absolutely no trace of any optical apparatus; and the same with every other part of the body. There is nothing but one bare, smooth, white skin.
From that day at the sight of knives or razors, not only in his hands or his direct neighborhood, but also in a store and finally in a picture, stirred up at once the optical image of that carving knife cutting into the skin of the wrist, only with the difference that it seldom was found in both arms, usually in the one or the other.
The upper surfaces of these clouds are not uniformly level, like the under sides seen from the earth, but they are of a conical or pyramidal shape. These imposing masses seem to precipitate themselves upon the earth, as if to engulf it, but this optical illusion was due to the apparent immobility of the balloon, which at the moment was rising at the rate of about twenty feet per second.
Poor poet! a deadly cold seized on him when he saw de Marsay eying him through his glass; and when the Parisian lion let that optical instrument fall, it dropped in so singular a fashion that Lucien thought of the knife-blade of the guillotine. The caleche went by. Rage and a craving for vengeance took possession of his slighted soul.
"Sorry to have been forced to disregard that optical S.O.S. of yours, Dad, but I realized that we had to strike now or never." "Whew-w-w!" The Laird whistled again. With the license of long familiarity, Donald knocked at the front door of the Brent cottage to announce his arrival; then, without awaiting permission to enter, he opened the door and met Nan in the tiny hall hurrying to admit him.
A strange emotion filled their hearts as they went from one window to the other. Their observations, reproduced by Barbicane, were rigidly determined. To take them, they had glasses; to correct them, maps. As regards the optical instruments at their disposal, they had excellent marine glasses specially constructed for this journey. They possessed magnifying powers of 100.
Natural shrewdness, a sentiment of optical laws, and a great intensity of consideration led him to just conclusions; but to calculate the necessary formulae for the instruments he had conceived was often beyond him, and he must fall back on the help of others, notably on that of his cousin and lifelong intimate friend, EMERITUS Professor Swan, of St.
"I shall ask Rochester about him the first thing to-morrow; and unless he is an optical illusion which I vow I half believe is the case I will come at the truth in spite of your demoniac friend, La Masque!" "Then you do not mean to look for him to-night?" "Look for him? I might as well look for a needle in a haystack. No!
"Miss Sissie has cracked it." "I'm very sorry my daughter should be so clumsy." "It was not exactly clumsiness. I offered her the eye-glass to do what she pleased with, and she pleased to break it." "Surely an impertinence?" "No. A favour. Miss Sissie did not care for my eye-glass." "You must be considerably incommoded." "No. The purpose of my eye-glass was decorative, not optical."
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