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It should also be remembered, in duly regarding Gay Lussac's remarkable record, that this was not his first experience of high altitudes, and it is an acknowledged truth that an aeronaut, especially if he be an enthusiast, quickly becomes acclimatised to his new element, and sufficiently inured to its occasional rigours.
That is one of the mysteries to the solution of which no moral or physical or psychical research has ever brought us an iota nearer. I am giving here an account of the first impression my future wife made on me. I had no thought of wooing and winning her, for, as I have said, I was not in a position to marry. Meanwhile she was becoming acclimatised to Florentine society.
Kerr so ill as to be glad to avail himself of Captain Hume's kind offer to take him back to Auckland in the 'Cordelia. Probably all were acclimatised by this time, for we hear of no more illness before the 'Sea Breeze, with Mr. Dudley, came, on the 10th of October, to take the party off. He says: 'The Bishop and Mr. Pritt both looked pale and worn.
The sun came up and it grew hot, and at a convenient halt the men would remove the cardigan they had put on in the shivery hours of darkness. Hotter and hotter but not so thirsty these days, for we were more acclimatised and this was winter.
Mr Trunnion expressed himself much shocked at Captain Rig's death. "Poor fellow! he used to boast that he was acclimatised, but it is a proof of the old adage, `that the pitcher which goes often to the well gets broken at last. We might have lost a worse man;" and with this remark Mr Trunnion passed into his room, in which he sat to receive visitors on private business.
No English lexicon as yet seems to justify the use of this word in one of the senses of the French positif, as when a historian, for instance, speaks of the esprit positif of Bonaparte. We have no word, I believe, that exactly corresponds, so perhaps positive with that significance will become acclimatised. A distinct and separate idea of this particular characteristic is indispensable.
So high had they climbed, so acclimatised to the mountains did these soldier-trees seem, that I named them for myself the Chasseurs Alpins of the forest. "We shall have fine weather to-morrow," said Joseph, as we left the snow and came to what he called the "terre grasse," which was greasy and slippery under foot.
It was not mere grief, it was the sense of desolation; he felt that he was not in his own sphere, and but for the thought of the chaplain would willingly have returned to the outlaws in the greenwood. No boy at a strange school feels as out of place as he, and the worst was, he did not get acclimatised in the least. He had not found his vocation.
These were store bullocks, Jim explained, a draft recently arrived from Queensland, and hardly yet acclimatised. "It takes a good while for them to settle down," Norah said, "and then lots of 'em get sick pleuro and things; and we inoculate them, and their tails drop off, and sometimes the sick ones get bad-tempered, and it's quite exciting work mustering." "Dangerous?" asked Wally.
A few caresses and a saucer of milk allay all their apprehensions; and, by the next day, the mother Cats are acclimatised. It is a different matter with the Tom.
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