No liquid has nearly so wide a range of dissolving powers, and, taking things all round, no liquid exercises so slight an action upon the bodies dissolvedevaporate the water away, and the dissolved substance is obtained in an unchanged condition; at any rate, this is the general rule.

A slight cloudiness indicates a trace of chlorides, and a decided milkiness shows the presence of a larger quantity.

This I account for by the theory that when the rails are wet and the tubes moist the better contact made compensates for the slight leakage that may occur.

Their formation may be briefly described as follows: When Vaucheria has reached the proper stage in its life cycle, slight swellings appear here and there on the sides of the filament.

Any slight inaccuracy can be compensated by the cone and disk device.

Then adjust the cylinder part, with its partitions, allowing it to sink into the slight depth of molten matter.

This needle is also capable of slight movement in a vertical plane, so that when passing over or under a mass of iron it is attracted downward or upward, and completes a circuit by means of the stops, which operate so as to explode the charge.

Within the last few years the present shop windows facing the Groote Market have been put up and various slight alterations made to the lower part of the building to suit the requirements of the present occupiers.

Here we remark a slight increase in carbon, as should be the case.

One will remark here again a slight increase in the proportion of carbon, as was to be foreseen.

On the whole, however, these good people were not very inquisitive; and it was fortunate for them, for there was little chance and slight means of gratifying their curiosity.

Only one event of importance had occurred at Cherbury during these two years, if indeed that be not too strong a phrase to use in reference to an occurrence which occasioned so slight and passing an interest.

There was indeed in this, his milder moment, something very winning in his demeanour, and Lady Annabel deeply regretted that a nature of so much promise and capacity should, by the injudicious treatment of a parent, at once fond and violent, afford such slight hopes of future happiness.

This settlement of Mrs. Cadurcis and her son in the neighbourhood was an event of no slight importance in the life of the family at Cherbury.

'With his hair cropped, and in a Jesuit's cap?' inquired the Squire, with a slight sneer.

I wasin those daysrather a nice fellow, rather shy taste for grey in my clothes, weedy little moustache, face "interesting," slight stutter which I had caught in my early life from a schoolfellow.

I have already alluded to the slight stammer I had acquired from a schoolfellow in my youth.

I got up at eleven with a slight headache, read my notice in the Fiery Cross, breakfasted, and went back to my room to shave, (It's my habit to do so.)

An object-lesson on the subject of closed ports was given in our cabin, where the fair chatelaine was reclining in her berth reading, fanned by the genial air which floated in at the open port,a truculent Red Sea billow, meeting a slight roll of the ship, entered the cabin in an unbroken fall on the lady's head.

CRILLY You put a slight on us all when you go there to live.

A sharp rowel had picked through the skin, and, though it was probably only a slight wound indeed, it had brought a smear of red to the surface.

They saw that Grosvenor, Stuart and Cabell had escaped with slight wounds, and, slipping quietly into the forest, they circled about Fort Duquesne, seeing the lights where the Indians were burning their wretched prisoners alive, and then plunging again into the woods.

Her graceful head, with its slight and becoming touches of gray at the temples, rested like a fine cameo against the warm hue of the cushion.

" "He fancied," said Brown"he and the motherthat there was a slight resemblance between my looks and those of the son.

The heat of the oven for baking should be sufficient to form a slight crust over all sides of the bread before the air escapes, but not sufficient to brown it within the first fifteen minutes.

That's no way to run, not showing a masthead light or even blowing a whistle.

The light streamed out and showed the face of the man.

Bob had never looked at it in just that light, and he was pretty well ashamed of himself when he was allowed to go home, with an admonition that he must mend his ways or be liable to expulsion.

The captain, he knew, would make light of the prank.

That the sale of parliamentary seatsso shocking to our reformed eyeswas not regarded in the same light at the date of the Irish Union is certain, and in questions of ethics contemporary judgment is the first and most important point to be considered.

Although Catholics were excluded from sitting in Parliament the law which forbade their doing so did not preclude their being returned as members, and it had long been thought that policy required the election of some Catholic, if only that the whole anomaly of the situation might be brought into the full light of day.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE ANSWER WAS A BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT AND A SHOT.

His tone was light; but the woman, who seemed to labour under strong emotion, either failed to notice this or was content to put up with it.

His jaw fell at that, and had there been light by which to see him he would have looked foolish.

'Butmy charmer, let us parley,' he remonstrated, striving to maintain a light tone.

The lines of her head and figure too, half guessed and half revealed, and wholly light and graceful, had caught his fancy and created a desire to subjugate her.

Sir George could see so much by the light which shone from a window and fell on a group of five or six persons, who stood about the nearest door and talked in low, excited voices.

I would kill him!' Sir George tried to free his mind from the influence of her passion and her eyes, from the nightmare of the room and the body, and to see things in a sane light.

'Now perhaps you will walk into the next room, where there is a light, and we can be free from that scum.'

Eventually they presented themselves in that light to the person most nearly concernedby name Mr. Peter Fishwick; and moving him to grasp at the forlorn hope presented by a vacant stewardship at one of the colleges, brought him by coach to Oxford.

But she had neither smile nor blush for him; on the contrary, when the dim light that entered the dingy staircase disclosed who awaited her, she drew back a pace with a look of dislike and embarrassment.

Or the next knight-errant you light upon may prove something ruder thanCaptain Berkeley!'

She was the handsomest piece they had seen, they muttered, for many a dayas alien, from the other two as light from darkness; and it is not in man's nature to see beauty humiliated, and feel no unpleasant emotion.

Raising his half-filled glass to the light, and rolling the last mouthful on his tongue, 'I am afraid,' he said, 'that what I heard in town was true?' 'What was it?'

He rose and began to pace the room, choosing a part where his face evaded the light of the candles that stood in heavy silver sconces on the dark mahogany.

For a man who had descended the stairs an hour before, hipped to the last degree, with his mind on a pistol, it must be confessed that he went up with a light step; albeit, in a mighty obfuscation, as Dr. Johnson might have put it.

The yard was covered with a thin coating of light snow, which made the appearance of it very different from what it had been when they had left it.

But what the new apprentice heard about the mill and his predecessors was not encouraging; so the first night when it was his duty to watch in the mill he took care to provide himself with an axe and a prayer-book, and while he kept one eye on the whirring, humming wheels he kept the other on the good book, which he read by the flickering light of a candle set on a table.

Often they went by the name of the Judas Light or the Judas Candle; and sometimes small waxen figures of Judas were hung on them.

With the last yeeres brand Light the neiv block" And, again, in his verses, "Ceremonies for Candlemasse Day": "Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunne-set let it burne; Which quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next returne.