The watching private studied the mechanics of this engagement with an expert eye.

If she would marry that good-looking mechanic who plainly wanted her.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century Laplace worked out the mechanics of the universe, on the nebular hypothesis.

Now, under these circumstances, he employs an American mechanic, who is residing in Paris, to come to his house and teach his children the use of the lathe.

The first class was ordered to wear for the defense of the body, brazen helmets, shields, and coats of mail, and to bear spears and swords, excepting the mechanics, who were to carry the necessary military engines and to serve without arms.

"See there!" Upon the margin of that captured sheet Eustace had exposed, as it were, the very secret mechanics of his passion.

But in 1816 the traveler down the Ohio who stopped at Vevay found himself at a flourishing county seat, with seventy-five dwellings, occupied by a happy population who boasted of having among them thirty-one mechanics of various trades; of receiving three mails each week, and supporting a weekly newspaper called the Indiana Register.

Railroads cannot find help to keep their property in repair, contractors fall short of their plans for failure to hold mechanics drawn into the industrial boom and the United States Government has had to advertise for men to hasten the preparation for war.

But the Doctor was too busy hurrying the mechanics in their repairs to heed the words of the excited engineer.

To illustrate the mechanics of respiration (see Experiment 122, p. 234).

"The Lectures as begun in 1827 included ordinary Mechanics, ordinary Hydrostatics and Pneumatics (I think that I did not touch, or touched very lightly, on the subjects connected with the Hydraulic Ram), and ordinary Optics (with a very few words on Polarization and Depolarization).

One of the tests of the strength of these protagonists was whether or not they could induce the mechanics of the North to take colored workmen to supply the skilled laborers required by the then rapid economic development of our free States.

With equal accuracy Mr. King informs the mechanics that "Colonel John Stevens had clearly worked out in his own mind, long before any locomotive was constructed in Europe, the theory of such an application of steam, and the actual form in which it could be advantageously made, as well as the cost of constructing and working a railway for the use of locomotives."

It is evident that an air compressor which has the steam cylinder and the air cylinder on a single straight rod will apply the power in the most direct manner, and will involve the simplest mechanics in the construction of its parts.

But, on the other hand, Béranger loved the dweller in the city, the mechanic, the ouvrier, industrious, intellectual, full of enthusiasm and also of imprudence, passionate, with the heart of a soldier, and with free, adventurous ideas.

No sooner, however, had he mastered the mechanics of the thing sufficiently to graduate from the board-walk onto a cork pillow in the water, than he had to quit because the whole family was "going into the country" for the summer.

"The government needs mechanics, too.

The Archbishop of Aix, when I first showed him the same plate, was so struck with horror, that he could scarcely speak: and when Mirabeau first saw it, he was so impressed by it, that he ordered a mechanic to make a model of it in wood, at a considerable expense.

"Mademoiselle wishes you to denounce the young American monsieur," added on his own account the mechanic who brought the message.

All unconsciously to himself, he has called into play four-dimensional mechanics.

We should therefore have a law to prevent slave mechanics going off their masters' premises to work.

Humour was his proper sphere; and in that, he delighted most to represent mechanic [uncultivated] people.

Who has not seen skilled mechanics in blue jeans and unskilled amateurs in jeans of leather, so to speak, flat on their backs under the vehicle, peering upward into the intricacies of the mechanism, trying to find the cause,the obscure, the hidden source of all their trouble?

Then I'll make you!" He raised his cane, and smote the mechanic on his face.

But it did not suit the head mechanic at all.