 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 508 pages
...It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal lake-wax — draw out, without break-: ing, 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 stqel into ribbons, and impel .loaded... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...is аз nothing to it. It can engrave a eeal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,...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 - Steam-engines - 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 - New Hampshire - 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 - Elocution - 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... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 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.... | |
 | 1829 - 576 pages
...can engrave a seal, and crush masses of ohdurate metal like wax hefore it, draw out, without hreaking a thread, as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a hauhle in the air. It can emhroider muslins and forge anchors, cut steel into rihhands, and impel loaded... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...Atlantic in fifteen days — and amidst a long list of other marvels, " engrave seals, forge anchors, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air." Nor has the moral world remained stationary, while the physical was undergoing such wonderful revolutions.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 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,— rcut 5fo NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF AIR. steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...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,...embroider muslin and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." And another application... | |
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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 before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in... 
