Subtle as the ideas were, they were yet clothed in the plain speech which the plain people understood: the tidings of the spring, of the winter, of the river, of the mountain; of gold, of silver, of electric fire; of blossom and fruit; of seed-time and harvest; of suns and stars and waters,these were the "speech" which "day uttered unto day.

" When he entered the main door he paused in a maze, gazing at the acreage of counters manned by clerks and the aisles swarming with shoppers under the glare of the big, electric globes, and listening to the babble of shrill talk, the calls of the elevator boys, the coughing of the pneumatic tubes and the clang of the elevator doors.

The sight of him to Jack was like the touch of a myriad electric needles that pricked sharply, without exhilaration.

He could turn from lace-buyer to floor-walker with the quickness of the swing of an electric switch.

"Yes, I saw them in their icy prison under the electric light bulbs.

How easily she might speak that word, with an electric and final glance of good-will!

His decision to go might easily have been the electric result of Jack's own decision to join him.

As he left it, he heard the door-bell ring, its electric titter very clear in the silence of the house.

Prather saw an electric spark in Jack's eyes, the spark of the high voltage that made his muscles weave and a flutter come in his cheeks.

Behind him was a long bench on which were scattered tools of various sorts, fantastically shaped chemical apparatus, two or three electric batteries of odd sizes, and ranged along one end of it, in a row, were a score or more metal spheroids, a shade larger than a one-pound shell.

From somewhere in the rear came the clatter of a small gasoline engine, and still farther away was an electric dynamo.

He was about to rise when, suddenly, with no other noise than that of the sharp click of the switch, the electric lights in the room blazed up brilliantly.

'O, ho!' says he, 'what you didn't see was the electric button under the table cover which rung a bell when the mouse was picked up.

It came at a time when steam navigation on land and water was yet in its infancy, and it is idle to speculate on the slow progress which this would have made had it not been for the assistance of the electric spark.

Hints of an electric telegraph.

" It is, of course, only a curious coincidence that these two sentences should have occurred in the same letter, but it was when travelling, many years afterwards, that the first idea of the electric telegraph found lodgment in his brain, and this certainly resulted in improvement to himself and society.

I never took an electric shock before.

It is also narcotic and very poisonous, one drop killing reptiles, as if by an electric shock: in this mode of action it is like prussic acid.

Decidedly, too, the virtuous Doge is worth having,really a Middle-Age electric telegraph,for he gives all about him such a dose of news as in this day would sell every penny-paper printed: and such bad news!Venice down everywhere, and a loan wanted.

Out of the exhaustless reservoir of his will he seemed to be injecting an electric strength into the other, a steadying and even flow of power that passed from his hands and into the body of Calamity.

Where sturdy oaks stood like sentinels guarding the forest folk from intrusion from the outside world now stand tall wooden poles with glaring white electric lights streaming from their tops.

Humboldt refers it to humidity, temperature, changes in barometric pressure, calmness or agitation of the air, amount of electric force, and transparency of the sky.

It was ugly; it interfered with the letting of proper-sized houses in the neighbourhood; it ruined the tone of the neighbourhood; it was unneighbourly; it was contrary to the Local Building Regulations; it infringed the right of the local authority to muddle about with a minute expensive electric supply of its own; it interfered with the concerns of the local water company.

There is a new hotel somewhere along the lake; but we left that, with its modern equipments and electric lights, and went where we had been directedto the Hotel Rhiner.

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