"She lighted the gas, and as it flashed up, there stood the old clock, the pendulum swung back and forth, the ticking went on, and its white old-fashioned face, looked out in calm serenity; but the dog was gone.

They'd only just got time to turn out the gas and jump into bed before the door opened, and in came one of the masters called Weston.

That these pop-guns fire colossal untruths, innuendoes, word-twistings, and such like missiles, giving out gases calculated to stupefy and blind honest judgments, will become painfully evident in the course of our considerations.

Q. Do you burn gas or kerosene in your house?

The Germans began at this time the use of asphyxiating gases in their attacks.

Cut flowers also decompose water, and produce oxygen gas.

Most of the shells contained gas and were designed to destroy the occupants of the trenches about to be stormed.

Then they thought it would be just as well to see where they were, so they opened the valve to let out the gas, and came down a mile in three minutes.

"His intention is to extinguish the gas in the Rue du Petit-Carreau and all the adjoining streets, and to leave only one jet lighted in the Rue du Cadran.

The chief dangers from poisoning by noxious gases come from the fumes of burning coal in the furnace, stove, or range; from "blowing out" gas, turning it down, and having it blown out by a draught; from the foul air often found in old wells; from the fumes of charcoal and the foul air of mines. 378.

The interior arrangements in some of the old ones leave much to be desired in the way of comfort and modern improvements,lighting very bad, neither gas nor electricity, and I should think no baths anywhere, hardly a tub.

"It seems they use natural gas here for heating as well as cooking, and the woolly stuff was asbestos.

But we do not intend, to "grammar-out" the question, nor to disengage and waste our gas in definitions.

A little forward of the motor is suspended to the keel the cigar-shaped gasoline reservoir, and strung along the top rod are the batteries which furnish the current to make the sparks for the purpose of exploding the gas in the motor.

anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.

Other details as to the carbide consumed in making acetylene gas may be briefly quoted.

If possible, they should not be moved from one shelf to another, but the oven should be cooled gradually by opening the ventilators or lowering the gas.

One spring broke, but we went forward sailor-fashion, with a jury- rig of chain and rope, after getting more gas from some Christian monks, who swore they hadn't any and wept when one of Feisul's officers demonstrated that they had.

Our ordinary charcoal is made by driving off all the gases from wood, by burning it under cover where only a little air can reach it.

It has a very disagreeable odour, as if decayed, and appears to emit a sulphuretted hydrogen gas, which I observed blackened silver.

The entire upper part of the peak is perfectly bare of vegetation, and covered with fine cinders, rapilli, &c., through which escapes a gas that almost suffocates the ascending traveler.

[Footnote 1: Mercury also seems to have a scanty atmosphere, but as its mass is only one-thirtieth that of the earth it can retain only the heavier gases, and its atmosphere may be dust-laden, as is that of Mars, according to Mr. Lowell.

To the seamen it was like inhaling oxygen gas.

"It might keep going for something like an hour, and then shut off the gas entirely.

From the molten eruptions of the racked earth he had taken gases and potencies that are nameless.