Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 25, 2025
He delved a huge port for his paper fleets with an old shed door that served him as a spade, and, no one chancing to observe his operations just then, he devised an ingenious canal that incidentally flooded Lady Wondershoot's ice-house, and finally he dammed the river.
I little dreamed a week since that I should be able to visit this beautiful country under the best conditions without giving a thought to the cost." Poor Helen! Had she delved in many volumes to obtain material that would condemn her in the eyes of the tuft hunter she was addressing, she could not have shocked so many conventions in so few words. She was poor, unknown, unfriended!
The life into which he had been thrown with men of vaster ambition and much more selfish ends than his own, had stirred him to prodigies of activity in those strenuous, wonderful, electric days when gold and diamonds changed the hard-bitten, wearied prospector, who had doggedly delved till he had forced open the hand of the Spirit of the Earth and caught the treasure that flowed forth, into a millionaire, into a conqueror, with the world at his feet.
I left him to his opinion, and delved my way through the smoke, until I began to think I had lost myself, and instead of Mr. Pierce on the grindstone found a lower region of unlimited extent so murky and dismal was the place. They said it didn't use to be so! Such fritter frying; such johnny-cake baking; such chowder making, and flounder frying!
Some secrets of inner earth are not good for mankind, and this seemed to me one of them. My hand shook perceptibly, but still I delved; after a while standing in the large hole I had made.
This is the product of some solution of a carbonate and sulphuric acid, and I suppose, eventually, I'll work out something on that order. But I hope I may get something better." "You haven't delved much into chemistry, have you?" "No. And I wish now that I had. I see my limitations and realize my weakness. But I can brush up a little on my chemistry.
That one had a broken thigh, and he seemed to bend over it in pain. "Holy saints," said Werbode, in a whisper, "they were buried alive!" So they must have been; but who shall know when? They had delved in the chalk for the flints they needed for their weapons, and their mine had fallen in at the mouth, and they could not escape. The stones had, doubtless, broken the leg of that one in falling.
His fingers delved into the box again, and the transformation of Jimmie Dale, member of New York's most exclusive social set, into a low, vicious-featured denizen of the underworld went on a little wax applied skilfully behind the ears, in the nostrils and under the upper lip. It was all there all except the proof. And the proof he laughed aloud suddenly, unpleasantly.
He delved into natural history, collected plants, rocks, animals, and made studies of the practical workings of economic schemes. He sought to divest the Platonic teaching of its poetry, discarded rhetoric, and tried to get at the simple truth of all subjects.
Henderson delved more in the mysteries of astronomy and practical mechanics. The doctor's letter to Professor Henderson read as follows: "Dear Professor: "I am urged to write to you again because of something that has recently come to my knowledge regarding a subject we once discussed. In our age, when mental and nervous diseases are so rapidly increasing, aphasia victims are becoming more common.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking