And at that the tension of soul and mind on the Wolverine snapped, breaking into outcries and sudden, sharp imprecations.

On the plummet touching bottom, the tension in the cable between it and the anchor-chamber is lessened, and the windlass mentioned stops.

Below were other circles from which the observer could learn the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, the intensity of the sunlight, and the electric tension at the moment.

So great was the tension on my nerves that I could scarcely restrain a shout of laughter.

It was certainly the determination of Germany to build a great navy that led to the tension between her and England, and finally to the formation of the Triple Entente, as a counterpoise to the Triple Alliance.

The point is that Augier has justified Sarcey's confidence by making the scene thoroughly and specifically dramatic; in other words, by charging it with emotion, and working up the tension to a very high pitch.

Saturday was a day of considerable tension for all at the Quarter Circle KT.

It seemed as if every nerve was pulled to its utmost tension by the excitement in his soul.

Edith Morriston drew a great breath of relief from the painful tension with which she had listened.

"Red Head" began: "F" Since that day I have waited anxiously for many a turn of the wheel of fortune, but never under greater tension than when I watched for the order in which those letters would fall from "Red's" lips"o-u-r-t-h." A sigh of relief and disappointment went up from the class.

A piping hot breakfast was ready when Jackpine awakened him, and once more the exhilarating excitement of their swift race through the forests relieved him of the uncomfortable mental tension under which he began to find himself.

What answer have you got to that, witness?" There was a slight stir in courtan expression of the feeling of tension among the spectators.

Bringing such a wire into communication by one of its ends with a battery, of which the opposite pole is in contact with the earth, whilst the other extremity of the wire is insulated, must cause the wire to take a charge of the same character and tension as that of the pole of the battery touched by it.

To lower the new tensions throughout the vegetative system to the normal range, the instinctive action is carried out.

But the death of Sun Yat-sen had been followed after a time by tension within the party between its right and left wings.

Consequently we may speak of being on a tension without having in mind at all a comparison of our nervous system with a stretched garment, or with an outreaching arm, or with a tightly strung musical instrument, or with a taut rope.

A large cylinder will inevitably become oval if laid upon its side; and if while under the tension due to its own weight it be bored round, it will become oval again when set upon end.

It would be well to have several duplicates of each ball, and, as soon as tension through contraction manifests itself, to try the effect of firing very small charges of small shot to ascertain whether such impacts would start radiating fractures.

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of earning a "settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver gives the individual thus armed.