The drifting cloud detritus gave it a kind of visible body, which explained many perplexing phenomena, and published its movements in plain terms, while the texture of the falling mass of rain rounded it out and rendered it more complete.

Eclipses of the sun are as common with the Lunarians as those of the moon are with usthe same relative position of the three bodies producing this phenomenon; but an eclipse of the earth never takes place, as the shadow of the moon passes over the broad disc of our planet, merely as a dark spot.

This naturally does not imply that, from the time men began to observe natural phenomena, they were ignorant of the fact that the animals and plants of one part of the world are different from those in other regions; or that those of the hills are different from those of the plains in the same region; or finally that some marine creatures are found only in the shallows, while others inhabit the deeps.

It would seem that this principle alone is sufficient to explain all the phenomena of ancient oracles.

He sailed in the direction in which he saw this visionary phenomenon, and actually found his father's vessel by its indication.

I once witnessed a phenomenon which was to me quite as extraordinary as any of the 'spiritual' performances.

At the same moment it appeared at another point, exhibited the same phenomena, died, flashed out at still a third place, and so was repeated here and there with bewildering rapidity until the walls of the valley crackled and spat sparks.

It has collected evidence, conducted experiments, investigated records, studied methodically the abnormal phenomena you call occult or spiritual, and reduced them to something like the certainty of science.

We have already described the phenomena produced on the new-born child by the contact of air, which, after a succession of muscular twitchings, becomes endowed with voice, and heralds its advent by a loud but brief succession of cries.

To understand this curious phenomenon it is necessary only to remember the relative conditions of the two races who lived side by side in England.

Both boy and dog were investigating the phenomenon of Peter.

I see her trundling her mop, and contemplating the whirling phenomenon through blurred optics; but to term her "a poor outcast" seems as much as to say that poor Susan was no better than she should be,which I trust was not what you meant to express.

It is this waiting which is the essential reality underlying the phenomena of capital and interest.

I noted that they looked uncommonly large in the little apartment, especially Thorndyke, but I had no time to consider this phenomenon, for the latter, when he had shaken my hand, proceeded at once to explain the object of their visit.

Now, the study of a large series of carefully conducted murders brings into view an almost invariable phenomenon.

After noticing this phenomenon with wonder for very many years, I have come to think that the probable explanation of it is as follows.

At one time they present the phenomena of the one, at another of the other.

After much experimentation, he ascribed this phenomenon to the crystalline condition of the cylinder.

MASOCHISM AND SADISM The functional hermaphrodite enables us, too, to understand the phenomena of masochism and sadism, to a certain extent, on the chemical side.

Two of them have described the phenomena very forcibly in print, but anonymously, and two others have written on cognate experiences.

While watching this phenomenon through the lower lens, I thought that I could perceive behind or through the widest portion of the halo a white light, which at first I mistook for one of those scintillations that had of late become scarcely discernible.

Some perhaps would have attributed the phenomenon to a comet, like that Sir William Beeston who, writing in 1664, says'About this time appeared first the comet, which was the forerunner of the blasting of the cacao- trees, when they generally failed in Jamaica, Cuba, and Hispaniola.'

But now was to be remarked another social phenomenon, that complicated salon life more than ever.

Neither would produce the phenomena without the assistance of the other, as our experiment with the table will show.

During the years we spent there, I had been accustomed to regard the phenomena of life as differing totally from what obtains throughout all other latitudes, for everything living appeared to be of animal origin.