The manner, however, by which he is finally educated into the mystery of suction, is by putting his allowance of milk into a large wooden bowl; the nurse then puts her hand into the milk, and, by bending her fingers upwards, makes a rude teat for the calf to grasp in his lips, when the vacuum caused by his suction of the fingers, causes the milk to rise along them into his mouth.

I feel as if I had a vacuum down about my middle all the time.

Now it could never be charged in a vacuum.

The slight vacuum in the left-hand casetwo shelves from the ceilingscarcely distinguishable but by the quick eye of a loserwas whilom the commodious resting-place of Brown on Urn Burial.

That is a question which cannot be answered by means of the vacuum tube or the spectroscope.

As the great secret in swimming is to keep the chest as full of air as possible, perhaps the great art of living is to keep the head a vacuum, a state "adapted to the meanest capacity."

He put the vacuum cleaner away and decided that the sensible thing to do was to take a walk.

A force, a power, an occult property or essence is made to dwell in things; the mysterious being which directs events is no longer called God, but "Nature," and invested with certain inclinations, with a horror of a vacuum, an aversion to breaks, a tendency toward the best, a vis medicatrix, etc. Here belong, also, the vegetative soul of Aristotle, the vital force and the plastic impulse of modern investigators.

Left too long without something to conquer, she feels in a vacuum, smothered.

In addition to the street car company the United States is represented by the Standard Oil Company, the Vacuum Oil Company, and the New York Export and Import Company.

Sylvia and her father stood as though in the vacuum of a great bell-glass which shut them away from the rustling, breathing, living world.

He was like a man set in a vacuum fighting for the air without which life is impossible.

In 1780, James Pickard patented what is no other than the present connecting rod and crank, and a fly-wheel, the second and last great improvement in the steam-engine, which enabled it to be of service in propelling vessels.[CI] In 1785, William Symington took out a patent, by which he obtained, with economy of fuel, a more perfect method of condensation of steam and a more perfect vacuum.

Indifference like hers often passes for amiability; and that sort of motionless silence conceals a vacuum quite as often as it covers a deep.

They induce a mood of last wills and testamentsa sense of dislocation, which, next to a vacuum, Nature abhorsand create a species of moral decomposition, not unlike that effected on matter by chemical agency.

The latter busied himself in trimming the lights, and in replenishing a bright wood fire; taking care, at the same time, that no unnecessary vacuum should occur in the discourse, to render the brief interval, necessary for the appearance of his superiors, tedious.

For cleaning the church, a vacuum plant has been installed, which sucks out every particle of dust and dirt.

This they would do in a vacuum, but you have already observed that one of them is lagging, and will evidently soon come to a standstill.

The figures at the top indicate pressures in atmospheres above a vacuum, the corresponding figures at the bottom denote pressures by the gauge.

Following this adiabatic curve until it intersects line No. 5, representing a pressure of five atmospheres above a vacuum (58.8 lb. gauge pressure), we see that the total increase of temperature on the zero heat curve is about 270 degrees, for the 60 degree curve it is about 370 degrees, and for the 100 degree curve it is about 435 degrees.

The milking was done with vacuum-suction machines run by electricity and took only a short time.

Vacuum cleaner salesman: "Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time-and-back saver, no well-appointed home should be without one."

Now our desire for freedom is not to vibrate in a vacuum, but to live more abundantly.

"Don't you think he's fine, Kate?" The truth was, there seemed to be a sort of vacuum in the air since he had leftas if he had taken the vitality of it with him.

CONDENSED MILK.Condensed milk is made by evaporating milk in a vacuum to one fifth its original volume; it is then canned like any other food by sealing at boiling temperature in air-tight cans.