" "I will spare you all the obvious retorts," he said, "if you will tell me why you are gazing into that mirror so earnestly?" "I was thinking," she confessed, "what a remarkably good-looking couple we were.

Mirror Lakewell-namedwas asleep still, and dreaming of the mountains which imprisoned it as dragons used to imprison princesses in glass retorts.

" Johnson's retorts were fair play under the conditions of the game, as it is fair play to kick an opponent's shins at football.

" "Do not even the publicans the same?" "You will become a proficient chemist, converting the substance of my remarks to airy nothings through your gospel-retorts.

From this room we entered the laboratory, a large apartment, one side of which was given up to chemical research, as was shown by the shelves of reagents that covered the wall, and the flasks, retorts and other apparatus that were arranged on the bench, like ornaments on a drawing-room mantelpiece.

The master exhausts his store of abuse and violence upon the apprentice, and the apprentice, emboldened by the place, and provoked by the abuse, retorts in language which he would never think of using on the estate, and thus, whatever may be the decision of the magistrate, the parties return home with feelings more embittered than ever.

The more he thought of his wife's retort the less secure he felt in his own position, and he was very sorry he had spoken about boomerangs and solar-plexus retorts.

Her German was so patriotically rusty that she could think of no better retorts than "Nicht hinauslehnen," or "Bitte nicht zu rauchen," or "Heisses Wasser, bitte," or "Wacht am Rhein," or "Streng verboten."

I could not understand a word of the mid-Arabian dialect, but Abdul Ali's retorts were plain enough; and from the way that Grim pointed at me and Mahommed ben Hamza it was fairly easy to follow what was happening.

Suliman ben SaoudJimgrimwent on talking, and to judge by Abdul Ali of Damascus' increasingly restless retorts he was getting that gentleman's goat as promised.

Lovaina, in her bed just off the porch, was laughing at the retorts of Atupu, who by her native knowledge of the tongue was discomfiting the roisterers, who spoke it haltingly.

Gestures of frightful significance added to the insults, and these not producing retorts in kind from the second in command and the populace, a shower of limes began to fall upon them.

No other gas-consumer will suffer, as he is prepared to keep the apparatus inflated from his own retorts.

For the purpose of inducing a discussion on this subject, I will give you the result of the working of the bench of retorts which I erected three years ago on the Siemens system.

I was able regularly to produce 10,000 cubic feet of gas per mouthpiece in 24 hoursthe size of my retorts being 18 by 13 inches by 9 feet long, inside measure; and on a sudden dullness coming on, with an increase of first class cannel I produced from 33 retorts 357,000 cubic feet, or at the rate of 11,500 feet per mouthpiece in 24 hours.

I was able regularly to produce 10,000 cubic feet of gas per mouthpiece in 24 hoursthe size of my retorts being 18 by 13 inches by 9 feet long, inside measure; and on a sudden dullness coming on, with an increase of first class cannel I produced from 33 retorts 357,000 cubic feet, or at the rate of 11,500 feet per mouthpiece in 24 hours.

My oven would hold four retorts; and the same fuel would heat this number just as well as the three.

The gas company's own servant, however, only produced 80 cubic feet per gallon, which they attributed to his want of experience in knowing the proper heat at which to work the retorts.

Prescott, surrounded by his retorts, crucibles, burettes, and condensers, received us much more graciously than I had had any reason to anticipate.

They are awfully flat and flabbythey have all been rolled about in some one's mind, till they are as smooth as pebblessome bits of the crudest rudeness, not worked up tosome knock-down schoolboy retorts which most civilised men would have had the decency to repressand then we get back to the real Boswell again, and how fresh and lively it is!"

An open door gave a glimpse of a second apartment with bare, plastered wall, fitted with tables covered with sheet lead and cluttered with tanks, grotesquely swelling retorts, burners, jars and other things that make up a complete laboratory.

"The poor!" retorts the marchesa, defiantly"the poor!

mon vieuxyou first poison them with your dinner, and then provide photographs for the widows and children," retorts touter number one.

"Perhaps if I had no more brains than m'sieur, I should weigh as light!" retorts the damsel, with a toss of her high cap.

Ganelon Retorts in haste: 'If thus another dared To speak, we should denounce it as a lie.' Aoi" Chanson de Roland (Rabillon's tr.).