Their enthusiasm may put staleness to rout, and the group system of women land workers, already tested in the crucible of experience, may bring to the farm the needed antidote to isolation.

Among the great modern nations it was only Englandwhich in its political development had remained more independent of the Roman law and the Roman church than even the Teutonic fatherland itselfit was only England that came out of the mediæval crucible with its Teutonic self-government substantially intact.

He lifted the crucible from the furnace and walked with careful steps to the flask.

He lowered the crucible to the bottom of the furnace.

Its furnaces glowed like ardent eyes; its mighty puffing and snorting shook the ground: the molten metal, red and fuming, flowed from its crucibles like blood from its body.

Pain and suffering are the crucibles out of which come gold more fine than the pavements of heaven, and gems more precious than the foundations of the Holy City.

Holding the lip of the crucible over the flask, he tipped his body to one side.

It looked like a mighty crucible in which infernal things might have been manufactured in the days when the world was taking shape.