1586 examples of gravities in sentences

I took the precaution to move you, before you fell by your own gravity, from what was lately the bottom, to that which is now so, and to keep you in this place until you were retained in it by the moon's attraction; for though your fall would have been, at this point, like that of a feather, yet it would have given you some shock and alarm.

And now, being already close on the dolorous moment, which was fated to be the occasion either of a most assured death or of a life of such anguish that none before me has ever endured the like, prompted by I know not what spirit, I raised my eyes with decent gravity, and surveyed with penetrating look the crowds of young men who were standing near me.

"I haf come to be undisturbed," announced the doctor, with owl-like, Teutonic gravity, "and I will not be disturbed.

I HEAR AN OLD SONG XI. GRAVITY OUT OF BED XII.

He smiled, but his smile had a touch of gravity.

In former days no one thought of building ships of iron because iron does not float; yet now ships are seldom built of anything else, though the relative specific gravities of iron and water remain unchanged.

Almost with manhood he began to be an independent workman of letters; and as such, through ever-varying gravities and gayeties, tears and laughter, grimsicalities and whimsicalities, prose and verse, he labored incessantly till his too early death.

I found the greatest of these to be gravity.

I also found that the best flyers were not equal to the feat of keeping me company, when walking at my usual pace; hence I inferred that velocity was a necessary element in flight, and that gravity, so fatal to human attempts to fly, might be made a powerful auxiliary when rightly used.

[Footnote B: Endosmose is that operation by which gases of different specific gravities are enabled, or rather forced to come together through the pores of any membranous or other flexible covering by which it is sought to restrain them.

The buoyant power of such a machine, or the weight it would carry, supposing it inflated with gas of the same specific gravity, compared with that of the model, would be as the cubes of their respective diameters; or in, about, the ratio of 420 to one.

Speaking of the Prioress, who makes such a delicate figure among his Canterbury Pilgrims, he tells us, among her other accomplishments, that 'French she spake full faire and featously;' adding with great gravity, 'After the school of Stratford atte Bowe; For French of Paris was to her unknowe.'

Notings, selections, Anecdote and joke: Our recollections; With gravities for graver folk.

The strange title, too, has served to divert attention from the real centre of gravity.

Notings, selections, Anecdote and joke: Our recollections; With gravities for graver folk.

Specific Gravities of Wines, &c., 439.

* SPECIFIC GRAVITIES.

The editor is the Rev. W. Shepherd, the author of Clouds and Sunshine; and we quote an extract from one of his contributions: its gravities will blend with the gaieties of our sheet.

Gaieties and Gravities.

"Gaieties and Gravities.

They are all identical in appearance, and may be said to differ only in their specific gravities.

Egad, I thought for a time the beast had devoured my entire centre of gravity, and that I never should go on a steady perpendicular again."

"Upon my word, Curran," said I, "the mastiff may have left you your centre, but he could not have left much gravity behind him, among the bystanders."Sir

His determinations of the specific gravities of different varieties were as follows: Chalky tabasheer.

To explain it, when two volumes of air of different temperatures or specific gravities find themselves on opposite sides of a screen or other medium, of muslin, cloth, or some more or less porous substance, they diffuse themselves through this medium with varying rapidity, until they become of equal density or temperature.

1586 examples of  gravities  in sentences