58 examples of leverrier in sentences

While I was looking at the instruments, Mrs. Airy came into the equatorial house, bringing Mr. Adams, the rival of Leverrier, [Footnote: See Chapter VII.]another short man, but bright-looking, with dark hair and eyes, and again the thick voice, this time with a nasal twang.

I am afraid I shall have no letter to Leverrier, for every one seems to dislike him.

It was the time when Adams and Leverrier were contending to which of them belonged the honor of the discovery of the planet Neptune, and each side had its strong partisans.

A little later Leverrier, the French astronomer, completed the same problem, and waiting for no authority beyond his own, flung his discovery out to the world with the self-confidence of a Frenchman.... "...

Adams, in his study at Cambridge, England, and Leverrier in his closet at Paris, poring over their logarithms, knew better the locus of that outside planet than all the practical astronomers of the world put together....

"Of course in Paris I went to the Imperial Observatory, to visit Leverrier.

Leverrier called at my hotel, and left cards; then came a note, and I went to tea.

"Leverrier had succeeded Arago.

Leverrier took exactly opposite ground, politically, to that of Arago; he stood high with the emperor.

"Both Leverrier and Madame Leverrier said hard things about the English, and the English said hard things about Leverrier.

"Both Leverrier and Madame Leverrier said hard things about the English, and the English said hard things about Leverrier.

"Both Leverrier and Madame Leverrier said hard things about the English, and the English said hard things about Leverrier.

M. Leverrier showed me the transit instrument and the mural circle.

M. Leverrier talked with me a little, and then talked wholly to one of the gentlemen present.

"Leverrier is very fine-looking; he is fair-haired full-faced, altogether very healthy-looking.

I was glad that I could understand when Leverrier said to the children, 'If you make any more noise you go to bed.'

I went to Leverrier's again last evening by special invitation.

"Except Leverrier, no one of them spoke to me.

"About ten o'clock M. Leverrier asked me to go into the observatory, which connects with the dwelling.

"With Leverrier's bad English and my bad French we talked but little, but he showed me the transit instrument, the mural circle, the computing-room, and the private office.

M. Leverrier said, 'I do not wish to have it for my room.'

"M. Leverrier said he had asked M. Chacornac to meet me, but he was not there.

"Leverrier has telegraphic communication with all Europe except Great Britain.

Leverrier said that they had to make science popular.

ST. (10), a town in Normandy, on a rocky eminence 60 m. SE. of Cherbourg; has textile manufactures; was the birthplace of Leverrier.

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