"Liquid air" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... granted her request. The daughter of Saturn enters the liquid air in her graceful chariot,[68] with her variegated peacocks; peacocks just as lately tinted, upon the killing of Argus, as thou, garrulous raven, hadst been suddenly transformed into {a bird having} black wings, whereas ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... a ready and practicable means of cooling the engines, but without success. The water and oil on board was lukewarm; none of us knew how to make a freezing mixture even if we had the materials; our stock of liquid air ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... of solids, instead of being sensibly constant at all temperatures, are found to diminish rapidly in the low temperatures now available in liquid air or hydrogen and apparently tend to disappear at absolute zero. "All takes place," says Poincare, "as if these molecules lost some of their degrees of freedom in cooling—as if some of their articulations froze at ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... temperature of the earth will be less than -200 deg. C.: that is to say, more than two hundred degrees Centigrade below freezing-point. It will sink to the temperature of the moon. Our atmosphere will then be an ocean of liquid air, 35 feet deep, lying upon the solidly frozen ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson
... so powerless, so ignorant, so small—we who live on this particle of mud which revolves in liquid air. ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant
... The likeness of a kingly kick had on. * * * * * "'Yet soon he heals: for spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man In entrails, head, or heart, liver or veins, Can in the liquid texture mortal wound Receive no more, than can the liquid air, All heart they ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, 980 All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring. There eternal Summer dwells, And west ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... foster-daughter's insults ought import, "Forbid these stars to touch the blue profound: "Repel those constellations, plac'd in heaven, "Meed of adultery; lest the harlot dip "In your pure waves."—The gods their promise gave And through the liquid air Saturnia flies, Borne in her chariot by her peacocks bright; Their coats gay studded from ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... camera must be regarded as particularly interesting. It was received with much amazement at the time, but that was before we had revised our erroneous ideas about the nature of matter and before the day of liquid air. Materialization is no longer a startling idea, for that is precisely what liquid air is—a condensation of invisible matter to the point where it becomes tangible and can be weighed, measured, seen and otherwise known to the ...
— Elementary Theosophy • L. W. Rogers
... river, flicked away ashes, his diamond obediently shining. Lulu's look, her head drooping, had the liquid air of the look of a young girl. For the first time in her life she was feeling her helplessness. ...
— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale |
