"Friction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this, and knew that her husband would tolerate carelessness and friction only up to a certain point. She had gained more influence over the young man than any one else had ever possessed, and by means of it kept him within bounds for some time; but she saw from her husband's manner that things were ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... and the pictures it gives, are, however, common enough to be in the hands of many of our readers; and as many of those who are not acquainted with it must before long become as familiar with it as they are now with friction-matches, we feel sure that a few pages relating to it ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various
... of alterations held quite well, for low-order variables. Wherever we appeared, whatever we did, we set up a definite friction in the normal time-stream, a distortion, like pulling a taut rubber band out. And we could produce changes—on low-order variables. But the elasticity of the distortion was so great as to warp the change back into the time-stream without causing any lasting alteration. ...
— Infinite Intruder • Alan Edward Nourse
... numerous occasions for friction, especially with the civil authorities, whose rights and duties often overlapped his own. And he did not escape the danger of such bickerings with their resultant ill-feeling. There is nothing to indicate ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg
... race friction of; woman of color stoned to death; Negro church disturbed; reaction against Negroes; riots in; successful Negroes ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson
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