 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pages
...steam engine; of the second, poetry. 1. " It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors—cut steel into... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 418 pages
...pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave u seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a bauble in the air. It can embrpider muslin, and forge anchors ; cut steel into... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...steam, in order to keep the cylinder from being cooled by the external air. D is the digious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine »s gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says : " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says: " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and I iff up a ship of war... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. ' The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it,—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,—and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | A. E. Pearce - 1851 - 116 pages
...alike for its force and for its flexibility, and of which the late Lord Jeffrey eloquently wrote, " It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it,—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
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It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel... 
