United States or Bahrain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I had shut my eyes perforce, I was making clumsy efforts to cover my head with my blanket, and this second lurch sent me helplessly off my feet. I fell against the bale, and opening my eyes had a momentary glimpse of the air just outside our glass. It was running it was boiling like snow into which a white-hot rod is thrust.
Accordingly, furnaces were placed beside the batteries in which heavy cannon balls were made white-hot. The guns, shotted with these glowing balls, were then turned on the ships. The enemy attempted to guard against the hot shot by continually pumping water into the layer of sand between the wooden sheathing of the ships, and for a time succeeded in extinguishing the fires.
To assure himself still further, he substituted a reflected image of one of the white-hot carbon-points for the sunbeam, with an identical result. The same ray was missing. It needed but another step to have generalised this result, and thus laid hold of a natural truth of the highest importance; but that step was not taken.
For grace, urbanity, and polish, Pliny yields only to Cicero; for realistic intensity directed to a satiric purpose, Juvenal yields to no writer whatever; for piercing insight into the human heart and an imagination which casts its characters as in a white-hot furnace, Tacitus well deserves the name of Rome's greatest historian. Chronologically speaking, Pliny is posterior to the other two.
Upon this mood there followed the sharpest violence of remorse; and to that again, as he recalled his provocation, anger succeeded afresh. So he was tossed in spirit; now bewailing his inconsequence and lack of temper, now flaming up in white-hot indignation and a noble pity for himself. He paced his apartment like a leopard. There was danger in Otto, for a flash.
Grim Hagen took his choice of our treasures. He stole our princess, and he killed millions. We are going after him, even if he drives to the edge of space. And I am going because of a promise I made long ago, and because of the love that I have for Maya. And because of you, Jack Odin. The sword is forged now. It is white-hot upon the anvil.
Bindabun what's-his-name was right. It is a talisman of the deadliest sort. I'll soon convince you, if you will only hear me out." And then, in white-hot wrath and indignation, Mr. Indeed, Paul's manner left him no room for further unbelief.
Parker's immense influence was due to the brain rather than to the heart. He possessed no grace of person, music of voice, or charm of manner, none of that fascination which is a part of the great orator. He was a white-hot flame which scorched and seared, an intellect pure and piercing, a self-made instrument to expose the shams of society.
Heaven, how my head ached! how my brain seemed to throb and boil within my skull! and surely it was not blood it must be fire that was coursing through my veins and causing my body to glow like white-hot steel!
"I'm letting the thing drop from my mind. However, if you've an idea, old chappie, let's hear it." "What do you say to taking up another partner?" "To what end? I fail to see what use a third would be. Still, give the proposed partner a name." "Taltavull." "Phew! I say, I rather bar meddling with politics, especially the white-hot explosive politics that he affects." "So do I. I hate 'em.
Word Of The Day