| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1800 - 568 pages
...wineglass, when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself : the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of tho boat. th« vibration was greatly increased in volume by... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1860 - 556 pages
...wineglass, when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude «>f tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself : the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest boss. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume... | |
| 1874 - 898 pages
...when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself: the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat the vibration was greatly increased in volume." The... | |
| 1860 - 620 pages
...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest base. On applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat, the sound was greatly increased in volume by... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 pages
...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger . . . not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself, the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.' Other and later visitors to the same spot have riven a very similar account of their experience there.... | |
| tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction.... | |
| sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction.... | |
| 1860 - 390 pages
...wineglass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself — the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat, the sound was greatly increased in volume by its... | |
| 1860 - 536 pages
...glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. On applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat, the vibration was * Extracted from the ' Canadian... | |
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