On stripping off the copper, it was found that a wood-end had indeed started, the inner edge of the plank having got as far from its bed as where the outer had been originally placed.

The light shall represent the sun, the outer edge of the circle of the table the earth's orbit, and its surface the plane of that orbit.

Putting the equator of a globe on the outer edge of the table, and holding it perfectly upright, causing it to turn on its axis as it passes round the circle, it would be found that the light from the centre of the table would illumine just one half of the globe, at all times and in all positions, cutting the two poles.

Let the globe be brought to the edge of the table, at its south side, and with its upper or north pole inclining to the sun, and then commence the circuit, taking care always to keep this north pole of the globe pointing in the same direction, or to keep the globe itself in what we have termed a fixed attitude.

I've known the most shiverin', smoke-dried hands in a large crew, hardened and brought to an edge, a'ter a little trouble, as a body would temper an axe with steel.

But his eye suddenly falls on a curtain, in the recess farthest from the doorthe edge of a curtain; for the object which this curtain conceals, is not visible from the chair in which he sits.

"I will tell you why," he answered, leaning towards me and tapping with his fingers upon the edge of my writing-table.

The women and children of the town clustered together to the water's edge, running shrieking up and down with terrour, waiting the event of the combat, till their party gave way and took to the water, to endeavour to swim over to the Barbary side.

They lacked the steel-like edge that the white man achieves.

In alarm she dropped the blind, but continued to peer between the edge of the blind and the window-frame.

On the edge of the crowd an old man, who had been trying to force his way through it, was being guyed by a gang of louts who had surrounded an ice-cream barrow.

Again, much love, S.G." The prim handwriting got smaller and smaller towards the end of the postscript and the end of the page, and the last lines were perfectly parallel with the lower edge of the paper; all the others sloped feebly downwards from left to right.

The woman was moving towards the faintly white edge of the sea.

Sarah made no response of any kind, and Hilda reached the edge of the foam.

Suddenly George Cannon stopped on the edge of the pavement, and turned towards the houses across the street.

That Iolaos had respect thereto seven-gated Thebes knoweth well, for when he had stricken down the head of Eurystheus beneath the edge of the sword, she buried the slayer beneath the earth in the tomb of Amphitryon the charioteer, where his father's father was laid, a guest of the Spartoi, who had left his home to dwell among the streets of the sons of Kadmos who drave white horses.

Each knight gave the other many sore buffets so that the armor was here and there dinted and here and there was broken through by the edge of the sword so that the red blood flowed out therefrom and down over the armor, turning its brightness in places into an ensanguined red.

" I gripped his legs, and turning upon his back he pushed himself slowly out over the edge of the passage till he was able to look up in front of the piece of rock that projected like the peak of a cap above the opening.

With the rope tied around his waist, he pushed himself out as he had done twice before during the preceding hour, then, gripping the edge of the shelf, dragged himself forward.

A yell came out of the place, then another and another, and Holman and I rushed back to the edge.

Maru was dragging the big savage with a strength that was surprising, but it was a certainty that if Soma went over the edge the Raretongan would keep him company.

It was a happy reunion we held upon the edge of the pit.

At the same time Mr. James Hardy, walking slowly home by the edge of the sea, pondered on further ways and means of ensnaring the affection of the ex-steward.

One day, as the little girl was playing by the river, a crab came to the edge of the water and said, "Beautiful art thou, More beautiful than any other,

The remaining four would be a shock to them and give him, Zimbardo, a powerful psychological edge.