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It must have been the last waggon of the train: since no other could be seen; and as it appeared at the very end of the valley in the angle formed by the convergence of the cliffs we concluded that there the canon opened into which the rest had entered. Whether the waggon seen was moving onward, we did not stay to determine.
This test may be made still more delicate by using the observing telescope, a, at as low an angle as possible, thereby bringing out with still greater effect any error that may exist in the surface under examination, and is the plan generally used by Alvan Clark & Sons. The telescope, a, is now focused very accurately on a celestial or other very distant object, and the focus marked.
"Because," I answered, "there is a part of it which I couldn't tell you and without that there is nothing to tell." "Will you tell me some other time when you know me better?" she inquired as naively as a little girl, pleading for a favorite fairy tale. At every turn she flashed a new angle of herself to view.
For the rest my ears would give me sufficient warning of any movements in the companion. "But in that way my angle of view was changed. The field too was smaller. The end of the table, the tray and the swivel-chair I had right under my eyes. The captain had not come back yet.
Hourigan's thumb had the genuine angle on the back of the book, but it did not escape Sam, who said, "You intend to kiss your thumb, Hourigan, but it's no go; here, sir, stand there, so that the book won't be a screen for you; turn round there now proceed." Hourigan, finding that the evasion in this instance was impracticable, gave it a strong, derisive smack that might be heard outside the room.
In consequence of the movement which is commonly called the precession of the equinoxes, though it might more accurately be described as a kind of second rotation of the earth, the angle between the equator and the ecliptic steadily but very slowly varies.
He said no more, but started the goats ahead of him and kept them moving in a straight line for Sunlight Basin. As before, Rabbit followed slavishly in his footsteps, nose dropped to the angle of placid acceptance, ears twitching forward and back so that he would lose no slightest sound. Helen May fell again under the spell of the desert and the moon.
As he crawled along, he noted each little bit of shoring-up and supporting planks, each rise and fall in the floor, each twist and angle in the direction, and recalled the infinite labour of certain sections, his glows of satisfaction at the speed of progress at the easy bits, his impatience at the slow and difficult portions.
Accordingly they believed that man to fly must have wings and flap them likewise. Not for hundreds of years did they observe that most birds flapped their wings only to get headway, or altitude, thereafter soaring to great heights and distances merely by adjusting the angle of their wings to the various currents of air they encountered.
Above and below the viewplate were the pointers and the swinging needles which indicated the speed and angle of vertical movement, the altimeter, the directional compass, and the horizontal speed and distance indicators. The manipulation of these levers I had found, with a very little practice, most instinctive and simple.
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