So little disposed was he to thus use the work of others that a given device or idea which had been in previous use was often rejected and search made for another, different and original, even though it might involve only some relatively trivial part of the work.

He must lead or have none of it, and thus the fact that a device or expedient was in common use would furnish an argument against rather than for its adoption.

He passed an electric current through a circuit, which was located close to another circuit containing a galvanometer,a device for showing the presence of an electric current and measuring its strength,but failed to obtain any result.

It consisted of a simple device for measuring the amount of hydrogen and oxygen gases liberated by the passage of an electric current through water acidulated with sulphuric acid.

As is well known, this instrument is a device for raising or lowering electric pressure.

Faraday's early electric motor consisted essentially in a device whereby a movable conductor, suspended so as to be capable of rotation around a magnet pole, was caused to rotate by the mutual interaction of the magnetic fields of the active conductor and the magnet.

An important device, called the series-parallel controller, is employed in all systems of electric street-car propulsion.

It is probable that Hippocrates and many others after him carried the physical examination of the chest still further, for it is difficult to imagine, for example, that so simple a device as that of thumping a partition to make out the situation of a joist by the sound evoked should not early have been applied to the human chest.

Make out for the fellow That came with this device.

Sir Richard Huntlove, who longs to be among his own tenants and eat his own beef in the country; his lady, who loves the pleasures of the town, balls in the Strand, and masques; Device, the fantastic gallant,these are well-known figures in Shirley's plays.

Enter Monsir Device.

Friend Device, how does thy body?

Most pretious Alamode, Monsir Device!

He is one of my inamoratos, Sir; They call him Mounsir Device.

And myne Mounsieur Device.

Enter Device.

My compleat Monsier Device, this is a grace to us.

[Device. Sis.

Leave that to me: I weare not worth the name of him that serv'd you To loose my glorious hope for want of such A thinne device.

Enter Device, Sister.

Now you talke of the cold it puts me in mind of the new device of fire for brewing and bakeing.

Omitting this, therefore, and taking all the other vowels and consonants whether actually represented in the device or not, I now got the proverb in the form mens sana in ... pore sano.

In either case it is, be it remembered, not a part of the elective machinery designed by the legislature, but a political device to increase the chances of victory through unity of purpose and action.

Tiberius, however, got him in his hands by a clever device and through the agency of certain persons who pretended to sympathize with the upstart.

Sometimes he would fell his adversary at a blow; his sword, as Boswell said, would be through your body in an instant without preliminary flourishes; and in the excitement of talking for victory, he would use any device that came to hand.