 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 páginas
...seal, and crush masses of obduiate metal before it — draw out, without breaklog, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble...embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1862 - 488 páginas
...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." Explain 767. Fig. 109 represents... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 páginas
...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 anchors1 ; cut steel into ribbons', and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves1.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 898 páginas
...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...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Notwithstanding the merited encomiums received by the new engine, and the comparatively admirable manner... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 páginas
...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...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Notwithstanding the merited encomiums received by the new engine, and the comparatively admirable manner... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 páginas
...and crush masses of obdurate melal like wax 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... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 páginas
...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...embroider muslin and forge anchors, —cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would he difficult to... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 552 páginas
...obdurate metal before it1 ; 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 ribbons', ant^impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves*. But I perceive, George, that you... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 472 páginas
...and crush masses of obdurate metal like loax 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, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 468 páginas
...and crush masses of obdurate metal like trax 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, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and... | |
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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... 
