Slowly now, with even impulse, the silver disc swung right, swung left, like the pendulum of a clock.

May 9 On the Vibration of a Free Pendulum in an R. Astr.

so there is; the length of the second's pendulum at the level of the sea in London, is 39.1393 inches, and it is from the length of the second's pendulum that the space through which a body falls in a second has been determined.

Colonel Musgrave went to the mantel, opened the clock, and with an odd deliberation removed the pendulum from its hook.

Indeed, she had never felt younger, more thrillingly instinct with the power and the will to live extravagantly in one endless riot of youth unquenchable.... Reaction, of course: the swing of the pendulum to its farthest extreme.

This six years of vexatious swinging like a pendulum over the line between bondage and liberty was well calculated to spoil all the gratitude and glory of getting across.

In the brief pauses of his song the old clock, from which Rudolph had removed the pendulum on the night of Agatha's death would interpose an obstinate slow ticking; and immediately the clock-noise would be drowned in melody.

The hide-and-seek of the restless pendulum with its shining brass disc was a constant source of fascination in itself, and so were the strange operations performed by the father in front of the clock every Sunday morning, when diversions were particularly welcome on account of the extra restrictions on play.

"As early as Feb. 23rd I had been in correspondence with T. Jones, the instrument-maker, about pendulums for a repetition of the Dolcoath Experiments.

"It's the swing-back of the pendulum after a big dose of Pymeut and heathen tricks.