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But the next instant a chill ran down his back, for a raven perched on the black doll and pecked so fiercely at it with its hard beak, that bird and image swayed to and fro like a pendulum. "What does this nonsense mean?" asked the baron, turning to the servant, a bold-looking fellow, who rode behind him. "It's something like a tavern-sign," replied the latter.
In some places and at some periods there has been too much of it it has been all experience; and now we have let the pendulum swing too far the other way. I think it is not only right, but exceedingly useful, that we should give our experience. This man bore testimony to what the Lord had done for him.
The quitted bed seemed the haven of a drifted wreck to reach. Victor tried the handle of a locked door in the dark of the early winter morning. 'The mother! the daughter! had swung a pendulum for some time during the night in him, too.
It is a case of the pendulum swing, of ebb and flow. For two thousand years the Teutons have been pressing on and, dominating the Celts. They started at the beginning of that time with the plebeian qualities and have evolved, generally speaking, a large measure of the patrician qualities.
He lapsed into silence, and awaited the effect of his words. Mrs. Pendleton pondered over them for some moments in manifest perturbation. There was sufficient resemblance between Austin's conclusions and the thoughts which had impelled her nocturnal visit to Flint House, to sway her mind like a pendulum towards Austin's view. But that only lasted for a moment.
Back I swept upon my trapeze, a sight to have induced any passing citizen to question his sanity. With might and main I sought to check the swing of the pendulum, for if I should come within reach of the window behind I doubted not that other knives awaited me. It was no difficult feat, and I succeeded in checking my flight.
"Woman," said Octave, "resembles a pendulum, whose movement is a continual reaction; when it moves to the right, it has to go to the left in order to return to the right again, and so on.
The ferry swings like a horizontal pendulum, and is propelled by turning its sides at an angle against the current. I crossed on this ferry in four minutes from bank to bank. There are many public carriages in the streets, to be hired at thirty copecks the hour; but the drivers, like their profession everywhere, are inclined to overcharge.
He remedied this by the invention of what is often called the gridiron pendulum, made of several bars of steel and brass, and so arranged as to neutralize and correct the tendency of the pendulum to vary in length.
Below the face, little metal sailing vessels connected with the clockwork swayed back and forth in the same sober rhythm as the pendulum. This was designed to make the tempest-tossed seafarer doubly sensible of the comforts of a solid hearth. "When was it," Frederick pondered, "that I listened to Mr. Garry's cutting remarks, Mr.
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