Do we say latter or ladder

latter 18161 occurrences

An affray was actually in progress between the Italian Ripaldi and the incriminated man Quadling, but the witness arrived as the last fatal blow was struck by the latter.

The third passenger in question had just been in conversation with Sinclair, and the latter was telling his wife of their curious meeting.

Sinclair asked Foster to join him in the smoking-compartment and tell him the promised story, which the latter did.

Sinclair joined the latter, and had a few words with him as the train moved on.

The latter whispered as he passed him: "Major, I found Arizona Joe, the scout, in the smokin'-car, and he's on the front platform.

He passed through the baggage and express cars, finding in the latter the agent sitting behind his safe, on which lay two large revolvers.

When Sinclair reached the latter and nodded, he rose and faced the men, and his fine voice was clearly heard above the rattle of the train.

The latter was a small, plump yellow woman, with large, gentle black eyes, and the soft voice so often found among Virginia "house" servants.

Now and then, in these latter days, he confuses things a little, always suffering the keenest mortification when he discovers his mistakes.

There was one shading from dark green through to red, only a drop of the latter color on the very tip of the arrow where blood would first kiss blood.

are you going out of town "in search of the picturesque"if so, bend your course to the classic, the consecrated ground of HAGLEY! think of LYTTLETON, POPE, SHENSTONE, and THOMSON, or refresh your memory from the "Spring" of the latter, as Courting the muse, thro' Hagley Park thou strayst.

It is from these latter that certain devices of peculiar construction take up the current.

The Trampler pyrometer is based upon the difference in the coefficients of dilatation for iron and graphite, that of the latter being about two-thirds that of the former.

F. ether is the liquid used, from thence to 680° it is water, and above the latter temperature mercury is employed.

It will be noticed that the temperature of the large heater is proportionally higher than that of the small heater, a fact showing that the latter, owing to its higher temperature, loses more heat by radiation and convection than the former.

W. Nageli maintains that granulose, or soluble starch, differs from amylodextrin in the former being precipitated by tannic acid and acetate of lead, while the latter is not.

If a mixture of filtered potato starch paste and erythrodextrin is dried in a watch glass covered with a thin pellicle of collodion, and a drop of iodine solution placed on the latter, it penetrates very slowly through the pellicle, the dextrin becoming first tinctured with red, and the granulose afterward with blue.

3 and 4, without any arms, but with slabs like arms fixed on its underside; and this latter is claimed to be the most effective.

If this current should enter the latter at too sharp an angle, it would carry it toward the mouth of the chimney before the chemical combustion of the carbon and oxygen was finished; and if, on the contrary, it should traverse it at too obtuse an angle, it would depress and contract it.

As it was of interest to see whether this increase in intensity was not due to a greater consumption of oil, a determination was made of the quantity of the latter consumed per hour.

This latter advantage is a great one, as, with the ordinary link motion, large cylinders are exceedingly difficult to design so as to get the requisite clear exhaust.

stroke, with coupled wheels 7 ft. diameter and leading wheels 4 ft. diameter, the latter being fitted with a radial axle on a somewhat similar plan to that previously described as adopted by Mr. Webb for the new North-Western engines; the frames are single, with inside bearings to all the wheels, and Joy's valve gear is used.

Mr. Stirling conducts his traffic at a higher rate of speed, and certainly with equal punctuality, with his magnificent single 8 ft. engines, as Mr. Webb on the North-Western with coupled engines, and the economy of fuel of the former class over the latter is very remarkable; this is, no doubt, owing, as has been previously pointed out, to their ample cylinder power, which permits of the steam being worked at a high rate of expansion.

The latter must have viewed with no little satisfaction the prospect of a Hohenzollern occupying the throne of Rumania at this juncture; and Prince Carol, allowing himself to be influenced by the Iron Chancellor's advice, answered the call of the Rumanian nation, which had proclaimed him as 'Carol I, Hereditary Prince of Rumania'.

He first resolved to submit it to the criticism of Lionardo Salviati and Scipione Gonzaga, the latter of whom had been a member of the unlucky committee for the revision of the Gerusalemme.

ladder 1728 occurrences

At last the youngest of thema Circassian girl of not more than fifteen or sixteen years of ageventured upon the ladder, clasping the hand-rail with one hand, while with the other she held together the folds of her cumbrous feridjee.

It is seventy cubits high, situated on a pedestal of twenty feet, to ascend which requires a ladder.

" "How did you get up there?" "Ladder.

He watched her nimbly climb the ladder.

Finally, when they had reared a tall ladder to the first gallery, and had crowded it with men, Quasimodo, by sheer force, pushed the ladder away, and it tottered and fell right back.

Finally, when they had reared a tall ladder to the first gallery, and had crowded it with men, Quasimodo, by sheer force, pushed the ladder away, and it tottered and fell right back.

Quasimodo tried to make out what it was the priest stared at, and then he recognised Esmeralda in the hangman's arms on the ladder, and in another second the hangman had done his work.

"And lastly, the hard-a-weather old quarter-master, stepping down the ladder, grunts out to the sentry at the cabin door, 'Turn the glass, and strike the bell!' "By this time the boatswain's call has been in his mouth for several minutes, his elbow in the air, and his finger on the stop, ready to send forth the glad tidings of a hearty meal.

Their mode of travelling is on horseback, and the only access to their huts, which are square, with open galleries on the top, is by a ladder, which is removed during the night.

A short ladder at the entrance enabled them to get in and out.

" He got his burden out of bed at last, and staggered to the foot of the companion-ladder with it.

Four times did the exhausted cook get his shoulder under his burden and try and push it up the ladder, and four times did it wriggle and fight its way down again.

" "Sitting," began the horrified cook; "sitoh, lor!" He stood with his writhing burden wedged between his body and the ladder, and looked up despairingly at the mate.

The cook placed his burden upon its feet, and running up the ladder stood by the mate shivering.

So saying, the young surgeon sprang down the companion ladder, leaving the old salt to smoke his pipe in solitude.

" Before this brief conversation came to a close, Fred Ellice and Tom Singleton sprang up the companion ladder, and stood on the deck gazing ahead with feelings of the deepest interest.

"That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face.

Jacob's ladder.

As we climbed in the ladder of the parallels of latitude, we began to notice a crispness in the air, and it was lovely to the lungs.

he cried, making a gesture to Trysail to descend from the ladder, in order that he might pass.

But Alida and her companion arose, like those who had more confidence in their visiter, and, arousing the negress from her sleep, they descended the ladder and entered the cabin.

Stepping lightly up the ladder, Ludlow saw that it was the veteran seaman who was rated as the captain of the forecastle.

Ludlow stood at one ladder and the free-trader at the other, in order to be certain that none proved recreant in so trying a moment.

Throwing himself on a ladder, he glided into the bows of one of the boats, and, holding by the ropes with a vigorous arm, he resisted the efforts of all the oars and boat-hooks, while he denounced destruction on him who dared to quit the ship.

Swinging off upon the ladder, the furious seaman saw the boat glide from his grasp, and depart.

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