The site chosen for this curious mansion is usually some little rock-shelf within reach of the lighter particles of the spray of a waterfall, so that its walls are kept green and growing, at least during the time of high water.

There is something repugnant to a refined taste in the idea of eating flesh whose constituent particles partake largely of the nature of our own.

But the result of O'Flynn's action was that those particles of gold that that fallen through the paper were driven into the cracks and inequalities of the board.

He swept the particles into his pipe and applied to one of the fish-selling women for a match, lit up, and lounged back against the Leader, smiling disagreeably at the strangers.

It is now strong enough to move the heavier particles of sand, uphill.

Bread fightsso named because the ammunition is more likely to be potatoeswere extremely popular, and the dinner often came to an end with a pitched battle, in which coats were decorated from collar to hem with particles of that clinging vegetable.

Words, like bodies, are always throwing off some particles and absorbing others.

The tube, B, was then placed in tube, A, the joint being made with fireclay, and to prevent the steam from carrying small particles of solid carbon into ore in the upper tube, the anthracite was divided from the ore by means of a piece of fine wire gauze.

thick; the color of ore quite black, with small particles of reduced spongy metallic iron.

Whence come these small particles.

Time is thus given for the particles of lime to settle during the night.

I cannot think it a romantic idea, that the waters are impregnated with certain particles, on which they have been accustomed to feed; which is sufficient to allure them to where they were originally spawned; or that they are piloted there by some of the old fry.

Bombardments of minute charged particles from the sun gathered into the magnetic field of the earth.

"Walker's Particles, p. 205.

"But practice hath determined it otherwise; and has, in all the languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an interrogative mode, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar order of the words in the sentence.

"Will you let me alone, or no?"Walker's Particles, p. 184.

"Walker's Particles, p. 252.

"No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek.

"The last four parts of speech are commonly called particles.

"Walker's English Particles, p. 278.

Dry stamping may be said to be almost a necessity in dealing with these rich silver ores, as with the employment of water there is a great loss of silver, owing to the finer particles being carried away in suspension, and thus getting mixed with the slimes, from which it is exceedingly difficult to recover them, especially in those remote regions where the cost of maintaining large ore-dressing establishments is very heavy.

In dry stamping there is also a considerable loss of silver in the fine particles of rich ore which are carried away as dust and irrevocably lost.

This, however, is not surprising when we reflect upon the theoretical conditions upon which the construction of the new chimney is basedthe strong influx of air having the result of causing a more active combustion of the liquid, and consequently of raising to white heat the particles of carbon disseminated through the flame.

Everybody jumped to one window or another, and they saw in the gathering darkness a sudden blast of flame and white hot particles shooting into the air and spreading out like an umbrella of vast size.

Every oceanic creature is able to extract from the water the residuum from certain metals dissolved into particles so incalculably tiny that no chemical process could ever capture them.