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It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence "-" There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method.
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All evening she was eloquent and pleased with herself.
He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.
Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).
Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.
George Rapp had an eloquent style, which matched his commanding presence, and he was the personality that led the group through all the different settlements.
Matsuoka was described as inventive, eloquent, headstrong, and quick to anger.
Andrewes was considered, next to Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.
* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.
The Pope did his best: he addressed an eloquent letter to the Sultan of Turkey urging him to become a Christian, a letter that probably never was sent.
Eugene is described by his biographer as simple and humble, learned and eloquent, handsome and generous, a lover of peace, and wholly occupied with the thought of doing what was pleasing to God.
The Egyptians held eloquent speaking in high esteem, and it was a skill that had a very high value in their society.
The Ratio was indeed imbued with a sense of the divine, of the incarnate logos, that is of rhetoric as an eloquent and humane means to reach further devotion and further action in the Christian city, which was absent from Ramist formalism.
He studied jurisprudence and was renowned as an eloquent lawyer ; his knowledge of Roman law is reflected in parts of his writings.
He was an eloquent conversationalist who, throughout his life, sought out the company of the smartest people.
The Rhodian poet Timocreon was among his most eloquent enemies, composing slanderous drinking songs.
" He was an eloquent preacher, a sound administrator and an astute handler of public relations.
Jardine was known to work long hours and was extremely business-minded, while Matheson enjoyed the arts and was very eloquent.
Leo was known as an eloquent preacher who was interested in music, and noted for his charity to the poor.
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After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief ; it had candour, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth — the strange commingling of desire and hate "-" he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot.
Historically, the problem of a vibrating string such as that of a musical instrument was studied by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, Leonhard Euler, Daniel Bernoulli, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
However, voiceless speech sounds are sometimes better identified as containing an abductory gesture, even if the gesture was not strong enough to stop the vocal folds from vibrating.
Lord Kelvin ( 1882 ) had proposed the so-called " resonance " theory, wherein the semi-diurnal tide would be " selected " over the diurnal oscillation if the atmosphere was somehow able to oscillate freely at a period of very close to 12 hours, in the same way that overtones are selected on a vibrating string.
Essentially Ambartsumian was examining the inverse Sturm – Liouville problem, which dealt with determining the equations of a vibrating string.
It was noted as the first film to utilize Sensurround, where massive sub-woofer speakers were installed in theaters to recreate the vibrating sensation of an earthquake.
That same year, Konami's WEC Le Mans was a race driving simulator that attempted to accurately simulate the 24 Hours of Le Mans competition, with fairly realistic handling, a day-night cycle, and the use of force feedback to simulate road vibration in the form of a vibrating steering wheel that reacts to the driver's acceleration and off-road bumps.
This was one of the earliest electric musical instrument using self vibrating electromagnetic circuits that were single-note oscillators operated by a two-octave piano keyboard.
Essentially Hambardzumyan was examining the inverse Sturm-Liouville problem, which dealt with determining the equations of a vibrating string.
" Additionally, she thought the demo phone's vibrating function, set off when the player receives a call from Tseng, " was a really nice touch.
Since the Tungsten T3 was discontinued, no Palm handhelds have included a vibrating alarm, a slider to make the device smaller, or the Palm Universal Connector.
While the Tungsten T5 was meant to be a replacement for the Tungsten T3, it is missing several features from the Tungsten T3 such as a charge-indicator LED, vibrating alarm, included HotSync cradle, and built in microphone for voice memos.
A safer technique was then developed that involved chopping the lights into a fine sand-like consistency, mixing it with water and vibrating the slurry on a table causing the different elements to separate out, similar to the process of panning for gold.
Cary also recalled that, “ The main use of electronics in Quatermass, I think, was the violent shaking, vibrating sound that the “ thing in the tunnel ” gave off It was not a terribly challenging sound to do, though I never played it very loud because I didn't want to destroy my speakers – I did have hopes of destroying a few cinema loudspeaker systems, though it never happened ”.
Henri was described in performance as " bouncing thunderously and at risk to audience and fellow performers, the stage vibrating out of rhythm beneath him.
The pendulum was estimated to be 39. 14912 English inches of that time long ( it wasn't until much later that the inch was defined to be 25. 4 mm ), or 1. 5 times that for a vibrating rod ( 58. 72368 inches ).
The phone was available with a slim, standard or vibrating battery.
Later stories would show him as having his identity secret, and that he was able to maintain it without the use of a mask by constantly " vibrating " his features, making him hard to recognize or clearly photograph.
In the beginning the sound was heavily inspired by the German trance scene and their Goal was, to produce vibrating music, a Hybrid between melodic trance and acid.
That would change when the existence of another reliable Earth was established in a story titled " Flash of Two Worlds " in which Barry Allen, the modern Flash later referred to as Earth-One ( the setting of the Silver Age stories ) first travels to another Earth, accidentally vibrating at just the right speed to appear on Earth-Two, where he meets Jay Garrick, his Earth-Two counterpart.
Moscoso's use of vibrating colors was influenced by painter Josef Albers, one of his teachers at Yale.
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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.
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