 | DR. H. SCHELLEN - 1872 - 512 pages
...reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till, when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second,* a deep hum strikes my ear. The tone rises continually...vibrating rod) an agreeable warmth as from a fire diffusing itself from the spot whence the sound had proceeded. Still all is dark. The vibrations increase... | |
 | Heinrich Schellen - 1872 - 744 pages
...reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second,* a deep hum strikes my ear. The tone rises continually...I feel suddenly (by the increased velocity of the of quinine was observed by Sir John Herschel, and the coloured light diffused from various vegetable... | |
 | Heinrich Schellen - 1872 - 724 pages
...reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second,* a deep hum strikes my ear. The tone rises continually...all sinks again into the former grave-like silence. \Vhile full of astonishment at what I have heard, I feel suddenly (by the increased velocity of the... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - 1873 - 608 pages
...rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second, a deep hum strikes my ear. The loi.e rises continually in pitch, and passes through all...grades up to the highest, the shrillest note, then ail .-inks again into the former grave-like silence. While full of astonishment at what I have heard,... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - 1873 - 644 pages
...reach the number of thirty-two in a second, a deep hum strikes my e ir. The lor.e rises cominually in pitch, and passes through all the intervening grades up to the highest, the shrillest note, then ail r-inks again into the former grave-like silence. While full of astonishment at what I have heard,... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - 1874 - 638 pages
...reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second, a deep hum strikes my ear. The tone rises continually...vibrating rod) an agreeable warmth, as from a fire, diffusing itself from the spot whence the sound had proceeded. Still all is dark. The vibrations increase... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - 1874 - 638 pages
...reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second, a deep hum strikes my ear. The tone rises continually...astonishment at what I have heard, I feel suddenly (by the in • creased velocity of the vibrating rod) an agreeable warmth, as from a fire, diffusing itself... | |
 | 1878 - 350 pages
...become more rapid, till, when they reach the number of thirty-two in a second, я deep hum strikes our ear. The tone rises continually in pitch, and passes...intervening grades up to the highest, the shrillest notes; then all sinks again into former grave-like silence. While full of astonishment at what we have... | |
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... the room at the moment when the rod is vibrating four times in a second. Neither eye nor ear tell me of the presence of the rod, only the hand which feels the strokes when brought within their reach. The vibrations become more rapid, till when they... 