After enjoying my surprise for a moment, the Brahmin observed: "We have, while you were asleep, passed the middle point between the earth's and the moon's attraction, and we now gravitate less towards our own planet than her satellite.

Now, lead the way, please, because somehow, I seem to feel it in my bones that Bismarck will gravitate toward some place where there is an odor of cookery in the air.

That is why I am convinced that we should do everything that sympathy and honor and money can do to exalt the office, so that women of birth, breeding, culture, and genius shall gravitate to it.

They go to no place regularly; they gravitate at intervals to the church, mainly on the ground that their fathers and mothers used to go there, and because they were christened there; but they belong a cunning race; they can scent the battle from afar, and they generally keep about three-quarters of a mile from the Parish Church when a collection has to be made.

The more matured Quakers and Quakeresses generally gravitate hitherwards.

For, though I esteem it, for the gravity and sentiousness of it (which he himself concludes to be suitable to a Tragedy, Omne genus scripti gravitate Tragadia, vincit); yet it moves not my soul enough, to judge that he, who, in the Epic way, wrote things so near the Drama (as the stories of MYRRHA, of CAUNUS and BIBLIS, and the rest) should stir up no more concernment, where he most endeavoured it.

We gravitate into the other room, and presently she shows us, in the plush album, the portraits of various cousins, aunts and uncles.

In the case of the lower classes of workers who gravitate to London, it means putting them in a place where the chance of death in a given year is doubled for them.

It was a case of necessity, the Colonel told them; they must either marry or gravitate ultimately to the workhouse.

Great men always gravitate to the metropolis.

What was the Union to them, and who were Lincoln's soldiers that they should be so ready to gravitate to the Union army and bring the most reliable information to the American General?

Young men who have nothing worse to do with their time gravitate naturally and unawares toward them for amusement, and spin out the thread till they reach its end, without expectation, without surprise, without regret, without occasion for remorse.

She had seen in the corners of his mouth an inexplicable hidden imp of laughter as he gravely listened, cup in hand, to the remarks of the beautiful Mrs. William Winterton Perth about the inevitable promiscuity of democracy, and he continually displayed a tendency to gravitate into the background, away from the center of the stage where their deference for his name, fortune, and personality would have placed him.

Who needs be told that slavery is in antagonism to the principles of the Declaration, and the spirit of the Constitution, and that these and the principles of the common law gravitate toward each other with irrepressible affinities, and mingle into one?

Who needs be told that slavery makes war upon the principles of the Declaration, and the spirit of the Constitution, and that these and the principles of the common law gravitate toward each other with irrepressible affinities, and mingle into one?

Who needs be told that slavery makes war upon the principles of the Declaration, and the spirit of the Constitution, and that these and the principles of the common law gravitate towards each other with irrepressible affinities, and mingle into one?

The sludge is allowed to gravitate into wrought iron receivers placed below the floor, and of sufficient size to receive one charge.

It is as if in this muteness of nature, one could hear the motion of the earth on its axis; then, above his head, in the depths of immensity, the whirling of the celestial spheres and myriads of worlds which gravitate in space.

380-1, 383; Farmer Burnet, v. 77, 111; Gory, his black servant, v. 82; helping him downhill, v. 242; Home's Douglas better than Shakespeare, v. 362, n. 1; 'humour, incolumi gravitate,' v. 375; Johnson's Journey, receives a copy of, iii. 102; meets, in Edinburgh, v. 394; in London, iv.

The Heavens and the Earth, the Stars and Planets, move and gravitate by Vertue of this great Principle within them.

And Sterne incolumi gravitate asks: "Shall we forever make new books as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

That was surely a lesson that they learned of him; for as soon as he had gone they began to gravitate together.

" "Yes," replied Marie, "human beings naturally crave enjoyment, and if not furnished with good amusements they are apt to gravitate to low pleasures.

" Here are a couple of stately compliments to his Shah, from the kindred genius of Enweri: "Not in their houses stand the stars, But o'er the pinnacles of thine!" "From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, And the equipoise of heaven is thy house's equipoise!

And as men gravitate toward their leading grievance, he went off at a tangent, "What do you think my feelings must be, to see my son, my only son, spooning the daughter of my only enemy; of a knave who got on my land on pretense of farming it, but instead of that he burrowed under the soil like a mole, sir; and now the place is defiled with coal dust, the roads are black, the sheep are black, the daisies and buttercups are turning black.