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It will be proper to describe a species of these stones, which is remarkably regular in its form. It is that found at Aberlady, in East Lothian. The form of these iron-stones is that of an oblate or much compressed sphere, and the size from two or three inches diameter to more than a foot.
This identification of the earth, first as a globe, and next as an oblate spheroid, which, if the fact could have been seen, would have been called a description of the figure of the earth, may without impropriety be so called when, instead of being seen, it is inferred. But we could not without impropriety call either of these assertions an induction from facts respecting the earth.
Toward night the limits of my horizon very suddenly and materially increased, owing undoubtedly to the earth's form being that of an oblate spheroid, and my arriving above the flattened regions in the vicinity of the Arctic circle.
What tribute of admiration and gratitude do we not owe to the Oblate missionaries who lived and died with the wandering children of the plains, who have kept the fires of Faith burning, from the banks of the Red River to the Pacific Coast, from the winding shores of the Missouri and Mississippi to the everlasting snows of the Arctic.
Going down into the court with the oblate Durtal exclaimed, "The Father Abbot is charming, and quite young." "He is hardly forty." "He appears to be really ill."
Mother Mary Hilda did not answer, and a little aggressive glance shot out of the Prioress's eyes. "You don't like to have her in the novitiate. I remember when she returned from Rome " "It seems to me that it would be just as well for her to live in the convent as an oblate, occupying the guest-room as before." "Now, why do you think that, Hilda? Let us have things precise."
It was only consideration for his delicate wife that kept the band-master from pitching both cassock and harmonium into the street. The amateur oblate regretted his father's hostility; but he persevered with the manner of life he had marked out for himself, finding much comfort and encouragement in reading the lives of the saintly founders of religious orders.
Mr Wells' own sight of our blindness, our complacent acceptance of the sphere as an oblate or prolate spheroid, might be, he hoped, another of the marvels which we should come to accept through the medium of romance.
All panes of glass containing those oblate spheroidal knots familiarly known as "bull's-eyes" were ruthlessly destroyed, in the hope of obtaining lenses of marvelous power. I even went so far as to extract the crystalline humour from the eyes of fishes and animals, and endeavored to press it into the microscopic service.
"I ... I do not know myself;" and Durtal told him of the extraordinary conflict about the rosary which had been raging in him since the morning. "But this is madness," exclaimed the oblate; "it is ten beads the prior ordered you to tell; ten rosaries would be impossible." "I know it ... and yet I doubt still."
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