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There was evidently much to be understood; vacuums that the fancy could easily fill; and, before Julia had left the summer-house, the letter was extended, in her imagination, to the promised six sheets.

Man, feeling suddenly the torment of his incompleteness, embraced woman. He was inspired by the mania to transform his desires into possessions. "His heart taunted him. His brain filled with despairing vacuums. And he said to himself, 'I have become a deserted room. A woman will enter. Her beauty and desire will be gifts that will furnish me once more.

Enveloped in its folds, Verman sat up, corkscrewing his knuckles into the corners of his eyes. Slowly he became aware of two important vacuums one in time and one in his stomach. Hours had vanished strangely into nowhere; the game of bonded prisoner was something cloudy and remote of the long, long ago, and, although Verman knew where he was, he had partially forgotten how he came there.

"Is there anyone else?" she asked the Doctor. "I suppose we really ought to tell the General." "Certainly not." "But Bronson ? Derry will want him." "If he can keep a secret yes." Jean and Derry, arriving after dark, were swept into a scene of excitement. Florists on the stairs! A frenzied dressmaker waiting with Jean's wedding gown! Maids with mops and men with vacuums!

But here and there in the streets of cities walk the damned creatures denied the miracle of sanity and who move bewilderedly through their scene, staring at the flying days as at the fragments of another world. They are conscious of themselves only as vacuums within which life is continually expiring. "Alas, the damned!

"Is that living? I've been wondering lately. I thought I thought it's so poor and sad!" I remonstrated. "Poor! Oh, no, it's rich," he replied quickly, "rich in everything worth while. Anyhow, only lives that are vacuums are free from sadness." "Are lives that are vacuums free from happiness, too?" I enquired. He took my question as if it was a statement. "That's true, too, I suppose," he agreed.

It is so subtle or imponderable that solid bodies are as vacuums to it, and so pervasive that all conceivable space is filled with it; "so full," says Clerk Maxwell, "that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space, or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity."

If she hadnt balked unreasonably about putting the stuff on lawns, I'd have prospects right at hand. I was suddenly lawnconscious. There was probably not a Los Angeles street I hadnt covered at some time magazines, vacuums, old gold, nearnylons and I must have been aware of green spaces before most of the houses, but now for the first time I saw lawns. Neat, sharply confined, smoothshaven lawns.

Continuing his experiments upon vacuums and atmospheric pressure with his newly discovered pump, he made some startling discoveries as to the enormous pressure exerted by the air.

You could plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles and shaped like semispheric capsules. Sometimes these suckers fastened onto the lounge window by creating vacuums against it. The monster's mouth a beak made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot opened and closed vertically.