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He strolled down the lane in which the lone house was situated, revolving these matters in his mind, and when he arrived at its entrance, he was rather surprised to see a throng of persons hastily moving onward, with come appearance of dismay about them, and anxiety depicted upon their countenances. He stopped a lad, and inquired of him the cause of the seeming tumult.
Boileau took the only other chair, The Infant, by right of his bulk, the sofa; and Nevin, being a little man, sat cross-legged on the top of the revolving bookcase, and we all said, "Who'd ha' thought it!" and "What are you doing here?" till speculation was exhausted and the talk went over to inevitable "shop." Boileau was full of a great scheme for winning a military attach-ship at St.
Islands we beheld in plenty, but they were of 'such stuff as dreams are made on, and vanished at a wink, only to appear in other places; and by and by not only islands, but refulgent and revolving lights began to stud the darkness; lighthouses of the mind or of the wearied optic nerve, solemnly shining and winking as we passed.
The "digesters," as they are suggestively and appropriately termed, are huge revolving boilers, usually upright, which often have as great a diameter as eight feet, with a height of twenty-two feet and a digestive capacity of upward of five tons of rags each.
When the key was depressed, this would be instantly communicated to the electro-magnet, and cause the needle to oscillate, these oscillations being marked upon the smoked surface of the revolving drum. A number of successful tests were conducted by means of this apparatus. The instruments thus recorded a definite physical, intelligent force.
After leaving the spirally wound shoot for eleven hours, I quietly withdrew the stick, and in the course of the day the curled portion straightened itself and recommenced revolving; but the lower and not curled portion of the penultimate internode did not move, a sort of hinge separating the moving and the motionless part of the same internode.
Thus painfully revolving matters of fact and feeling, Sir William cantered, and, like a cropped billow blown against by the wind, drew up in front of Mrs. Lovell, and entered into conversation with that lady, for the fine needles of whose brain he had the perfect deference of an experienced senior. She, however, did not give him comfort.
Finally he turned he was seated in a revolving chair and placing his two hands together, palms inward, said abruptly: "Well, young man, what can I do for you?" "I believe you advertised in the Tribune this morning for a confidential clerk?" "Yes." "I should like to apply for the position, if it is still vacant." "We have not yet filled the place," said Mr. Locke.
But the Honorable Erastus was a born fighter, and his discovery had only dismayed him for a brief time. Already he was revolving ways of contesting this new activity in the enemy's camp, and decided that he must talk with "the boys" at once. So he hurried away from the breakfast table and walked down-town. Latham was first on his route and he entered the drug store. "Hullo, Jim."
Music, in the Middle Ages, was, for dialectical purposes, treated in accordance with the Pythagorean theory as interpreted by Cicero in his Somnium Scipionis, who represented the eight revolving spheres of heaven the Earth being fixed as forming a complete musical octave. Such celestial music forms the subject of the argument in Roswitha’s play, the music of Earth being merely touched upon.
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