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The progressive rusting of the iron is in strictness the sum of the effects of many particles of air acting in succession upon corresponding particles of iron.
She threw him a look which might mean little or much. Cai took it to mean much. "Ma'am, " he began, but she had turned and was appealing to 'Bias. "Captain Hunken and I were at that moment agreeing that a man of your abilities a native of Troy, too and, so to speak, at the height of his powers ought not to be rusting or allowed to rust in a little place where so much wants to be done.
This is mere sentiment, you may say, instead of fact about arms and battles; yet the hardest fact that rings beneath your stamp is no more real than poor, flimsy sentiment, which is a living force in the world, and will remain to be reckoned with when pom-poms and Creusots are rusting in archæological museums monuments only to the mechanical and political clumsiness of the nineteenth century.
And there's just one place where you can get wholesale, nation-wide notoriety to-day out of the jaws of a printing press. "We call baseball our national pastime granted! But let the newspapers, all of them, during one month of this coming spring, quit printing a word about baseball, and you'd see the parks closed up and the weeds growing on the base lines and the turnstiles rusting solid.
"Has any one discovered our secret and taken the watch?" I wanted to make sure with my own eyes. I did not care for the watch, which was rusting in the damp earth, but I didn't want any one else to have it. So the next day I got up early, went into the garden equipped with a knife, found the place beneath the apple tree, and began to dig.
A large, expensive, but highly competent foreign staff was engaged, and worked for a few years; but suddenly the whole survey department was swept away, and the valuable instruments are, or were recently, lying rusting in a warehouse in Tokio. The same story may be told of scores of other scientific or educational undertakings in Japan. An able and careful writer, Col.
You must know, they are a family of singular characteristics, humorists, sometimes developing their queer traits into something like insanity; though oftener, I must say, spending stupid hereditary lives here on their estates, rusting out and dying without leaving any biography whatever about them. And yet there has always been one very queer thing about this generally very commonplace family.
Perhaps he wouldn't.... He's a singularly fine chap, finer than I knew.... I noticed a short essay in your stand that contains a sentence I cannot forget. It was about a rare man who 'stooped and picked up a fair-coined soul that lay rusting in a pool of tears." "Browning," she said excitedly. "Yes.... Good-by and thank you.... To-morrow?" "Yes." He left her in the whirl of this new conception.
Bernard thought of the tools Lucilla had bought; they were lying, no doubt, rusting in a corner. "'Oh, Lucilla! he cried; and bursting into tears, he laid his hands on the table, and stooped his face upon them: the board was quite wet with his tears when he looked up again. "He was startled by the sudden ringing out of the bells.
The rumor spread across the hall and up the elevators by the time Alona was weaving through the cars that stalked the parking lot for open stalls. It seemed nearly everyone in the building had heard a whisper by the time Alona reached her father's rusting Gremlin.
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