 | Conrad Ludwig Hotze - 1871 - 188 páginas
...crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it; 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." And when it flies with the... | |
 | 1871 - 404 páginas
...seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as line as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in...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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...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 be difficult to... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...metal ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors;...ribbons and impel loaded vessels against the fury of wind and waves. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up all the How just, also, and how finely expressed, is the following refutation of a vulgar error that even Byron... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 páginas
...it, draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble 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 would be difficult to... | |
 | Young people - 1877 - 696 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...embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. Such results were not the... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 páginas
...of obdurate metal ; 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,...ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of winds and waves." Iii this passage extreme delicacy of action is contrasted with gigantic effort, and... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 páginas
...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 be difficult to... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 páginas
...obdurate metal hefore it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as flne as a 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." (12) Climax (from the Greek... | |
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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... 
