487 examples of metallic in sentences

There was a flash of something bright, a metallic clicktwo of them, in factand the ticket seller tried to break away.

It is now thought by high scientific authorities that tall trees around a house are safer conductors in a thunder storm than metallic rods; but his invention was universally prized most highly for more than one hundred years, and his various further experiments and researches raised his fame as a philosopher throughout Europe.

And while this pleasant intimate silence persisted, the noises of the market-place made themselves prominent, quite agreeablyin particular the hard metallic stamping and slipping, on the bricked pavement under the window, of a team of cart-horses that were being turned in a space too small for their grand, free movements, and the good-humoured cracking of a whip.

In that dim Niflheim, for instance, with its well-springs of the waters of the upper world confusedly bubbling, and its metallic ore-veins, and dusk, vaporous atmosphere, whence issued the old Nibelungen heroes of the great Teutonic epos, there is much that is suggestive.

The monastery bell, the only one that still hangs in its ruined Byzantine tower, begins to call to prayers, and one near and one afar, some with sharp metallic notes, and some with solemn, muffled tones, the other bells of the hillside towns reply....

A brash or metallic instrument for the sprinkling of holy water.

At times the silence is broken by a loud, metallic, bell-like cry, very like the yodel you hear in the Alps.

Pat got a fine jack snipe, and I shot a Jheela, a very fine waterfowl with brown plumage, having a strong metallic, coppery lustre on the back, and a steely dark blue breast.

The earthy parts were silex and magnesia, in which were interspersed small grains of metallic iron.

"Stand fast!" The last two words, directed to Calder came, with a metallic hardness, for the marshal started as a great black dog slipped from behind a tree and slunk towards him.

It is rather a golden chestnut with a regular metallic sheen as of burnished metal, showing more especially on the head and face and everywhere where the hair is short.

Men were singing in three parts, in that rich metallic temper of voice, and that perfect time and tune, which is the one gift still left to that strange Cymry race, worn out with the long burden of so many thousand years.

The sun is up at last, and Colonel Pennant's grim slate castle, towering above black woods, glitters metallic in its rays, like Chaucer's house of fame.

In the spotlight there is a square young man dressed in a metallic coat and conical helmet, so as to suggest the famous forty-two-centimetre shellthe shell which makes a hole like a cellar and smashed the Belgian forts as if an earthquake had struck them.

Edwards, always more or less of a wag, proposed to call it "Morse's Patent Metallic Double-headed Ocean-Drinker and Deluge-Spouter Valve Pump-Boxes.

The sun hung high, a brazen ball in a white sky, darting down metallic shafts on the dust-enveloped plain and the serene white figure under its umbrella.

On the rare occasions when they are received, a member of the family (one of the sons, or a brother-in-law who has "studied in Algeria") usually acts as interpreter; and perhaps it is as well that no one from the outer world should come to remind these listless creatures that somewhere the gulls dance on the Atlantic and the wind murmurs through olive-yards and clatters the metallic fronds of palm-groves.

" "Two years from now, and long before, I shall be married," said Carlotta with a sharp little metallic note in her voice.

Railway Society to LONG ISLAND Race Stand Trotting Match Metallic Coffin American Horse Hack Cabs and Drivers Omnibuses City Railway Cars Travelling Railway Cars Tickets for Luggage Locomotive Suggestions for Railway Companies CHAPTER IV.

Watery Highways and Metallic Intercourse.

Among the extraordinary fancies of this extraordinary racewho are ever panting for something new, even if it be a new territorythe most strange is the metallic coffin: the grave is no protection against their mania for novelty.

Nevertheless, I cannot believe that such aberrations of human intellect are sufficiently frequent to make the Patent Metallic Coffin Company a popular or profitable affair.

SEE BEAUCHAMP, WILBUR L. CRANE, EDWARD H. Plastic working of metals and non-metallic materials in presses.

SEE CRANE, EDWARD V. CRANE, EDWARD V. Plastic working of metals and non-metallic materials in presses.

"It is hollow, and contains some soft non-metallic substance.

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