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This means that the total heat remains practically the same, no matter at what pressure. This is James Watt's discovery, and it led him to the use of high-pressure steam, used expansively.
His was an original and exuberant nature, expansively open to all new impressions. "In my country," he says, "we pass within twenty-four hours from cold to hot, from calm to storm, and this changeability of climate extends to the persons. Thus, from earliest infancy, they are wont to shift with every wind.
"In fact," Percival went on expansively, "I shall expect the wedding to be arranged for the day after my arrival, whenever that takes place. So get your white gown and lace veil ready, and we will have Brian Luttrell as best man, and Dino Vasari to give you away."
They walked along without any hurry, expansively admiring the new leaves of the trees and the pretty dresses of the little girls who went by: they said proudly: "Only in Paris can you see children so well dressed as that." Christophe made fun of the famous upheaval that had been predicted.... Such nice people!... He was quite fond of them, although a little contemptuous.
The inventor claims that, as his engine works the steam expansively, even better results would have been obtained had the engine been furnished steam at 100 pounds per square inch. The Harrington Rotary Engine Company, 123 Clinton Street, Chicago, are the owners and manufacturers.
"Curious!" echoed Rebecca, finding the term vague even while suggestive. "Yaas," she said, expansively, "she's cur'us, kinder onsosherble 'n' notionate. Now Dusk is cur'us. She's so still and sot, 'n' Nath Dunbar and Mandy they think a heap on her,'n' they do the best they kin by her, but she don't never seem to keer about 'em no way.
"I was meaning" waving her hand expansively "big things." "And when you've got your own house, my dear," retorted Joan, "you'll find those commonplaces of existence assume alarmingly big proportions." Soon after Stair had finished his after-breakfast pipe, the chiming of the bells announced that it was time to prepare for church.
He remarked of some particularly large Spanish onions that there was 'a globular wholesomeness about them which was very gratifying; and after eating one he observed expansively that he felt 'as if he had swallowed the earth and the fullness thereof. His easy, good-humored exaggerations and his odd comments upon the viands made him a pleasant table companion: as when he described a Parker House Sultana Roll by saying that 'it looked like the sanguinary output of the whole Crimean war.
As Cameron and Joyce moved to follow, Marthasa waved a hand expansively and started out the other way. "I can see you're going to be set for a while. I'll just leave you here, and send the car back after I reach the house. Don't be late for dinner." They nodded and smiled and turned to Zlenon. The Markovian was watching them with pin-point eyes.
Voltaire, at his leisure in Brussels or the Old Palace and its spider-webs, writes much more expansively; not with insincerity, he either; with endless airy graciosities, and ingenious twirls, and touches of flattering unction, which latter, he is aware, must not be laid on too thick. As thus: This is a strongish trowelful, thrown on direct, with adroitness; and even this has a kind of sincerity.
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