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These are the glasses that tested poison, by being shattered into fragments at its touch.
Still, there are all the other things I couldn't say anything about at the time. If you must know, I've been up "over the top" three times now since I came out in February. So, you see, one gets through all right. Well I tried ages ago to tell Dorothy what it was like. It'll be like that again next time, I know. Because now I've tested it.
Had the "Cosmopolitan Window Fastener" been his own invention, and disposed of for his own behoof, he would have abandoned it long before its merits had been fairly tested, and tried some other of the myriad schemes that floated through his brain. This was his plan of operations: In the first place, from the funds supplied by Marcus Wilkeson, he procured a patent for the invention.
And in the great silence the deep, faint booming of the big guns being tested at Shoeburyness hangs about the Nore a historical spot in the keeping of one of England's appointed guardians.
But could any man make such demands upon her? For himself, he would not. So he answered, doggedly, "We shall hope she need never be tested." And Petronella's heart sank like lead. But presently she began to talk about the little tree. "We have always had it in uncle's lookout tower. That was another of dear Aunt Pet's thoughts for the sailors.
If tested with a thermometer the water should be from 100 to 105 degrees Fahr., but the hand is a safer guide, as it prevents any possible danger from a thermometer out of order, or mistaking a figure in a poor light.
As a young man he had tested the new teaching in his own internal struggles; he had prayed to Christ as to God, but had not been heard. When he had lamented his plight to the devout Eusebius, the latter had answered, "Be patient in hope! Continue constant in prayer." But the youth answered, "I cannot be patient." Then Eusebius said, "The deliverance comes, but not in our time.
However, the engine proved to be a well-made one, and except that I had to tighten a joint here and there and to repack the piston I had nothing to rectify; and what still more pleased me was to find that my cage answered to keep the screw from fouling, and that my plan for sawing a way through the weed which I tested by running a little distance from the steamer through the thick of it worked well too.
The condemned portion was cut in junks and tested, until the faulty junk was discovered. This was untwisted until the core was laid bare, and when about a foot of it had been so treated, the cause of evil was discovered, drawing from the onlookers an exclamation of horror rather than surprise, as they stood aghast, for treachery seemed to have been at work! "An enemy in the ship!" murmured one.
Captain Len Guy tested the direction of the current by heavy lead lines, and discovered that it was beginning to deviate from its former course. “Whether it is a continent,” said he, “that lies before us, or whether it is an island, we have at present no means of determining. If it be a continent, we must conclude that the current has an issue towards the south-east.”
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