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Called also Fanonga, or destruction, the name of a god worshipped at the eastern extremity of the group during that month. Called Aununu, or stem crushed, from the crushed or pulverised state of the stem of the yam at that time. Others say it was so named from multitudes of malicious demons supposed to be wandering about at that time.
In a gateway the turf has been worn away by waggon wheels and the hoofs of cart horses, and the dry heat has pulverised the crumbling ruts. Three hen pheasants and a covey of partridges that have been dusting themselves here move away without much haste at the approach of footsteps the pheasants into the thickets, and the partridges through the gateway.
It will be good plum broth, however!" Dr. Kirwan, the celebrated Irish chemist, having one day at dinner with him a party of friends, was descanting upon the antiseptic qualities of charcoal, and added, that if a quantity of pulverised charcoal were boiled together with tainted meat, it would remove all symptoms of putrescence, and render it perfectly sweet.
Having pulverised the will-power of his guest, the merchant of antiquities hands him over to his myrmidons who conduct him round the shop for it is only a shop after all. Taking accurate measurement of his purse and tastes, they force him to buy what pleases them, just as a conjurer can force a card upon his audience.
Deftly extracting the volume, she struck up her scales and began to read. This was the day on which, after breakfast, Mrs. Gurley pulverised her with the remark: "A new, and, I must say, extremely interesting, fashion of playing scales, Laura Rambotham! To hold, the forte pedal down, from beginning to end!" Laura was unconscious of having sinned in this way. But it might quite well be so.
Cash, completely pulverised, departed as bidden, desolated over this renunciation of eleemosynary votes; and Robin, Champion, and I finished our supper in peace, if one can call it peace when there is no peace. Champion was leaving by the night mail, for he had promised to address a meeting two hundred miles away next day.
Only Wedderburn never attended the debating society to be pulverised, because nauseous affectation! he "dined late." You must not imagine that these things presented themselves in quite such a crude form to Hill's perception. Hill was a born generaliser. Wedderburn to him was not so much an individual obstacle as a type, the salient angle of a class.
In finely pulverised platinum, and even in spongy platinum, we therefore possess a perpetuum mobile a mechanism like a watch which runs out and winds itself up a force which is never exhausted competent to produce effects of the most powerful kind, and self-renewed ad infinitum.
In one hut, the floor of which was swept with particular care, a number of white balls, as of pulverised shells or lime, had been deposited the use of which we could not divine. A trench was formed round the hut to prevent the rain from running under it, and the whole was arranged with more than ordinary attention.
If all our churches were pulverised to-morrow, and every formal creed of Christendom were torn in pieces, and all the institutions of the Church were annihilated if there was a New Testament left they would all be built up again. 'I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace. II. Secondly, notice the possible benefit of the silencing of the human voice.
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