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You might take the old Susan on lease for one-and-twenty year, and she'd be all solid at the end." "But suppose she was going down, Bob." "But she couldn't be going down, my lad," argued the old sailor; "she's got miles o' solid coral rock underneath her." "Never mind what she has underneath her.
Discovery That the Asteroid is a Solid Mass of Gold. Meanwhile our prisoner awoke. He turned his eyes upon those standing about him, without any appearance of fear, but rather with a look of contempt, like that which Gulliver must have felt for the Lilliputians who had bound him under similar circumstances. There were both hatred and defiance in his glance.
"Why, this seems pretty substantial," I said, wondering what the girl was driving at. "Oh, yes; I suppose the world looks solid from a balloon. I heard one man say to another just now, 'How long do you suppose Henderson will last? Probably we shall all come down by the run together by-and-by." "You seem to be on a high plane," I suggested. "I guess it's the influence of the earl.
Now in a much vaguer and more evolutionary fashion, there is something of the same idea at the back of the great American experiment; the experiment of a democracy of diverse races which has been compared to a melting-pot. But even that metaphor implies that the pot itself is of a certain shape and a certain substance; a pretty solid substance. The melting-pot must not melt.
"Something gets crowded out, with us all. It depends upon what, and how, and with what willingness we let it go." "Now we come to the superlative sort of people, the extra good ones, who let everything go that isn't solid duty; all the ornament of life, good looks, tidiness even, and everything that's the least bit jolly, and that don't keep your high-mindedness on the strain.
The assault was made with little vigor, the approaches to the breach were obstructed by abattis, and instead of rushing forward in a solid mass they occupied the great pit, and contented themselves with firing over the edge of the crater, where regiments and divisions were huddled together.
A well-known law of chemistry explains why similar matter should become aggregated; and thus the siliceous matter of the sponge forms a nucleus for the siliceous matter contained in the water, until at length the entire mass is converted into a solid flint.
The rain came down literally in torrents; it seemed as if the water descended in solid sheets rather than drops, and, no matter how bloodthirsty a man might have been, he could no more have continued the battle than if he had been neck-deep in the river.
After the fish food was passed to each, the broth was also liberally salted and then poured into several wooden bowls. At one fish feast platters of cooked rice and squash were also brought and set among the people. Handful after handful of solid food followed its predecessor rapidly to the always-crammed mouth.
Froude's figure, collapsed into a heap of incoherent sand, the ideas remained, and Greek art and Roman law are part of the world's solid possessions. Even those who question the value to the individual of what we call progress, admit, I suppose, the increase of knowledge in the world from age to age, and not only its increase, but its diffusion.
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