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Prices of admission to ladies and gentlemen, one shilling. Back Seats for Children and Servants, six pence. Ladies and children may have a private performance any hour of the day, by giving previous notice. N. B. He displaces teeth or stumps so easily as to scarce be felt.
Without going into an extended discussion of how and why this motive asserts itself under the guidance of the law of expensiveness, it may be stated broadly that each successive innovation in the fashions is an effort to reach some form of display which shall be more acceptable to our sense of form and color or of effectiveness, than that which it displaces.
"How large a vessel is she?" asked Jack, greatly interested. "She has a complement Of 361 men," replied Lord Hastings. "Her armament, besides the ten 4-inch guns I referred to before, consists of eight five pounders and four machine guns. She is also understood to be equipped with two submerged 17.7 inch torpedo tubes. She displaces 3,6oo tons. She is 387 feet long and has a beam of 43 1/3 feet.
But in the case of a Cypriped there is no such substance, the adhesive side of the pollen itself is turned outward, and it clings to any intruding substance. But this is the fertilizing part. Therefore, an insect which by chance displaces the pollen mass carries it off, as one may say, the wrong side up.
And what were his first words? "Ah! triple brutes! quadruple idiots! quintuple boobies that we are!" "What is the matter?" every one round him exclaimed. "What the matter is?" "Speak, can't you?" "It is, imbeciles," shouted the terrible secretary, "it is the bullet only weighs 19,250 lbs!" "Well?" "And it displaces 28 tons, or 56,000 lbs., consequently it floats!"
Fontenette, taking her cue from me, spoke to him of his plant-and-insect lore as one of the many worlds there are within the world, no more displacing it than light displaces air, or than fragrance displaces form or sound. He made her say it all over again, and then asked: "Vhere vas dat?" His whole world was not really as wide as Gregory's island was to its gentle hermit.
But where no other tenure is prescribed, and officers hold their places at will, that will is necessarily the will of the appointing power; because the exercise of the power of appointment at once displaces such officers. The power of placing one man in office necessarily implies the power of turning another out.
The bubbles rose in the atmosphere, the gas which filled them being lighter than air. A certain proposition in physics, known as the "Principle of Archimedes," runs to the following effect: "Every body plunged into a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces."
Lately the conqueror and ruler of Italy, and now under men for whom he had no respect, and who saw in him a formidable rival, he said to me one day, "The people of Paris do not remember anything. Were I to remain here long, doing nothing, I should be lost. In this great Babylon one reputation displaces another.
The early ascents of Montgolfier had for their aim the establishment of the fact that any body lighter than the volume of air which it displaces will rise in the atmosphere; those of Roziers were undertaken to prove that man can apply this principle for the purpose of making actual aerial voyages; those of Robertson, Gay-Lussac, &c., were undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining certain meteorological phenomena; those of Conte Coutelle applied aerostation to military uses.
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