 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 páginas
...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 a bauble in...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... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 332 páginas
...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 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.' Another application of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 429 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 anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." * Examples. 1. Behold my... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 429 páginas
...obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and I iff 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." * Examples. 1. Behold my... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 páginas
...seal, and erush 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 ean embroider muslin and forge anehors — eut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against... | |
 | A. E. Pearce - 1851
...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 in the air,—embroider muslin, and forge anchors,—cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of Science.) - 1852 - 251 páginas
...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, in the air It can embroider muslins, and forge anchors ; cut steel intoribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 404 páginas
...; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a banble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wiuds and waves." eduction-pipe, communicating... | |
 | John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1853 - 80 páginas
...of obdurate metal like wax before it — draw out, without breaking a thread, as fine as gossimer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Amongst the statuary of the Museum is also a fine marble copy of Flaxman's beautiful calculating figure... | |
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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... 
