United States or Cameroon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Action, however, may very appropriately be introduced into a conception of repose, its contrast heightening this emotion; the creeping baby, the frolicking kitten, the swinging pendulum, the distant toilers observed by a nearer group at rest.
Therefore the power which makes the pendulum swing is the same with the power which grinds the corn in the water-mill the attraction of the earth's vast mass for the mass of a smaller body placed near to its surface under certain peculiar conditions of position. But there is a very startling reflection connected with this consideration.
When Frederick lay on his bed, he could see the yellow brass pendulum gleam back and forth behind a small glass door. The dial was a curiosity. It was painted in garish colors in a primitive style and represented a chubby-cheeked sun wearing the Island of Heligoland as a crown.
There may be a false submission to His supposed will in some affliction; a not reaching out after all that He has for us. And at the other swing of the pendulum there may be a sort of logical praying for some desirable thing because a friend tells us we should claim it.
And the private truth is, Marrchal de Richelieu never turned his thoughts upon Magdeburg at all, nor upon any point of war that had difficulties, but solely upon collecting plunder for himself in those Countries. One of the most magnificent marauders on record; in no danger, he, of becoming monitory and a pendulum, like the 1,000 that already swing in that capacity to rear of him!
When within a few feet of the arch he caught the sparkle of the ring. His lance came up, and putting spurs to his broncho, he shot under the arch, driving the point of the peg full at the slender circle. The point struck the edge sending the ring swaying like the pendulum of a clock. A howl greeted his achievement. Tad said nothing, but riding slowly back, awaited his next trial.
The women grow silent. The breakers strike against the shore dully with the regularity of a great pendulum. The unknown city, wrapped with fire and smoke, is still being destroyed in the sky; yet it does not fall down completely; and the sea is waiting. Mariet lifts her lowered head. "What were you going to say, Mariet?" "Didn't he pass here?" asks Mariet in a low voice.
A dozen times the sled, swaying from side to side like a pendulum, tilted, hung in suspense a second, and then righted itself again. The boy fell back on the hay and slept, until Braisted, creeping up behind, startled him with terrific yells in his ears. Away then dashed the horse, down steep declivities, across open, cultivated valleys, and into the woods again.
"So you have all your meals here?" she ventured. "Ay," he said. "I have what I call my meals here." "Why," she cried, "don't you enjoy them?" "I eat 'em," he said. "What time do you have tea?" she inquired. "Four o'clock," said he. "Sharp!" "But it's a quarter to, now!" she exclaimed, pointing to a clock with weights at the end of brass chains and a long pendulum.
A woman's heart that is won easily is not worth fighting for. You shall see, old fellow things will be better." But he only shook his head, shrugged his great shoulders, and puffed doggedly at his pipe in silence. My tall clock in the corner ticked the louder, its brass pendulum glinting as it swung to and fro in the light of the slumbering fire.
Word Of The Day