 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble into the air; it can embroider muslin, and forge anchors — cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against winds and waves." Like most other great inventions, the... | |
 | John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 pages
...of obdurate metal like wax before the sun; it can draw out. without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in...embroider muslin, and forge anchors; cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." eyes or hollows.—4th.... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pages
...eeal, 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...embroider muslin and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 pages
...obdurate reotals 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 5 cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves." The necessity... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pages
...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 56- NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF AIR. steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...obdurate metal like wax 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 ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 pages
...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 ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It has armed the feeble... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift up a ship of war, like a bauble, in the air. tt can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel...ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves. '• : JACOEUS D -y. nui.i,. A clergyman at a respeetthlfi dissenters' chapel dismissed... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...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 ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. " A second example, more... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 pages
...crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it; draws out without breaking a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.... | |
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The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal... 
