He that can swim needs not despair to fly: to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler.

He carried with him a primitive vessel, filled with some mysterious fluid, upon the virtues of which he had implicit reliance.

This somewhat startling introduction did not disconcert the young man, who poured out a liberal dose of the fluid he had brought with him, and made the old chief drink it.

Here he slips us off the brink, and we collapse over head and ears in the fiery fluid.

Again we slide down to the eyes in the fluid heat, which wraps us closely about until we tingle with exquisite hot shiverings.

The ship seems to float in the air, and the spectator is often seized with vertigo, while he beholds through the crystalline fluid, submarine groves and beautiful shells glittering among tufts of fucus and sea-weed.

All the passions may be reduced to love and hate, desire and aversion, and depend upon temperament, on the individual mixture of the fluid parts.

She had come to think of Ann, not as a hard-and-fast, all-finished product, but as something fluid, certainly plastic.

I have some knowledge of the earth for only ten miles down: but she has eight thousand miles: and whether through all that depth she is flame or fluid, hard or soft, I do not know, I do not know.

Sometimes the coffee would come to the table a thin, amber fluid that tasted like particularly bad consommé.

The fluid pulp is carried by means of a helix, i, to a revolving perforated drum at e. From this, the milky starch flows into the jacket, N, while the pulp (ligneous fibers) makes its exit from the apparatus through the aperture, n, and falls into the reservoir, o.

Many of his earlier and some of his later speeches and addresses, though large in conception and stamped with unmistakable genius, want solid body of thought, and are, so to speak, too fluid in style.

Its most movable partthe fluid mass of the atmospheredilates twice daily, swelling its cavities; and this atmospheric suction, the work of universal attraction, is reflected in the tidal waters.

It is then taken into the system by the lacteals, and in this fluid, this soft stateand in this state onlymixes with the blood, and passes through the circulating vessels for the nourishment of the system.'

Fluid dynamics.

Fluid mechanics of turbomachinery.

Elementary fluid mechanics.

They danced madly, perfectly, the rhythm entering into them like something at once fluid and flaming.

Louis MacNeice in Ten Burnt Offerings describes a much-loved cat, Fluid as Krishna chasing the milkmaids.

The tuber is made up of little cells filled with starch granules, surrounded and permeated with a watery fluid containing a small percentage of the albuminous or nitrogenous elements.

The practice of washing down food by copious draughts of water, tea, or coffee is detrimental, not only because it introduces large quantities of fluid into the stomach, which must be absorbed before digestion can begin, but also because it offers temptation to careless and imperfect mastication, while tea and coffee also serve as a vehicle for an excessive use of sugar, thus becoming a potent cause of indigestion and dyspepsia.

A watery, milk-like fluid exuding from the freshly cut surface of butter, is evidence that insufficient care was taken to wash out all the buttermilk, thus increasing its liability to spoil.

I picked up an ink-horn, sniffed it, and spilled a drop of the fluid on my finger.

The fluid left no stain, but the odor I had noticed certainly came from it.

608. "To understand that the language of the Bible is fluid, passing and literary, not rigid, fixed and scientific, is the first step towards a right understanding of the Bible."Literature and Dogma.p.