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Updated: May 2, 2025
It may be said here that the number of needles does not necessarily determine the difficulty of working on sewing-machines; two-needle machines are sometimes harder to run than five or even twelve-needle machines, because they are more cheaply and clumsily constructed and the material is held less firmly by the metal guide under the needle-point.
There were big chairs and little chairs, soft chairs and hard ones, chairs of velvet and chairs of silk, chairs of ancient needle-point and chairs that could not be sat upon. "I didn't tell any ghost stories yesterday," said Melissa. "I told 'em about robbers and kidnappers." "Get the ladder, Watson," said Diggs. "What are you standing there for? Do you think it's a pedestal you're on?"
But this "morning" for the first time the terrific energy of the laser beam would be brought to bear on the Greenland ice cap three hundred seventy-five million watts of infrared energy adjusted to a needle-point expected to be twenty-two feet in diameter at Earth's surface, delivering one million watts per square foot, that should put a hole a good way through the several thousand feet of glacier there in its fifteen minutes of operation, possibly even exposing the bare rock beneath, and certainly releasing a mighty cloud of steam.
I reckon God's got to leave the finish of this to me." To see a man's life go out and to stand by unable to help, unable to offer comfort or ease mortal agony, is a bitter experience. It brings the beholder close to the abyss of eternity, wherein the world shrinks to a speck of whirling dust and the sun is but a needle-point of light.
And then very gradually we became aware of a number of very faint and little lights going to and fro. For a time that stupendous gulf of mystery held us so that we forgot even our sphere. In time, as we grew more accustomed to the darkness, we could make out very small, dim, elusive shapes moving about among those needle-point illuminations.
Euglena viridis the dabbler calls them, which seems unnecessary information. In fact all the things he shows me are transparent. Even the little one-eyed Crustacea, the size of a needle-point, that discredit the name of Cyclops. You can see their digestion and muscle and nerve, and, in fact, everything. It's at least a blessing we are not the same.
"Did you ever try it?" he asked, preparing his little instrument to imbibe the solution. "No; but Mr. Landa did, and it 'most killed him; it made him sick." "Well, you're about as sick as you can be, now, Mrs. Lander, and if you don't die of this pin-prick" he pushed the needle-point under the skin of her massive fore-arm "I guess you'll live through it."
Here is a scale of gold; take it up on the needle-point. You have done it. Why? Because gold is a soft metal. Now take up this scale from your pyrites?" "I can't." "No, because iron is a hard metal. Here is another childish test a bloodstone, called by some the touchstone. Rub the pyrites on it. It colors it not a hard metal. Now rub this little nugget of pure gold I have just bought."
In an instant I recognized what it was, and how deadly. It was an old Florentine misericordia, a long thin, triangular blade, a quarter of an inch wide at its greatest width, tapering to a needle-point, with a hilt of yellow ivory, the most deadly and fatal of all the daggers and poignards of the Middle Ages.
And there is yet the first tooth, forcing its way like a needle-point through rosy gums; and there is also the first stammered word, the "pa-pa," the "mam-ma," which one is quite ready to detect amid the vaguest babble, though it be but the purring of a kitten, the chirping of a bird.
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