 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1865 - 1022 pages
...alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision and ductility with which it can be varied,...and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw oat, without breaking, a thread as tine as a gossamer ; and lift up a ship of war like a bubble in... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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 lefore it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 pages
...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...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... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 pages
...for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...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... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. 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... | |
 | Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - 1870 - 498 pages
...that of which an eloquent essayist has said: "The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a needle and rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal; draw out without breaking a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a shipof-war, like a bauble in... | |
 | 1871 - 404 pages
...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility...before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as line as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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 ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble in... | |
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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... 
