"DC" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ver apropos of saircumstance, said the French-. man ver judgmentbut it is in the catholique country dat dey build dcvat you callah a ah-hala grande cathdralede big church. St. Paul, Londre, is ver fine; ver belle; ver grandvat you call beeg; but, Monsieur Ben, pardonnez-moi, it is no vort so ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... to start the pump motor. Nothing happened. He reached for the light switch to test the single bulb hanging from a cord to the ceiling. Same nothing. Muttering darkly to himself, he changed the pump engine leads to DC current and closed the switch to the battery bank. The engine squeaked and whined slowly but when Barney threw in the clutch to drive the pump, it stopped and just hummed faintly. Then he opened the ...
— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael
... can see," Elshawe said. "He's got two big atomic-powered DC generators aboard—says they have to be DC to avoid electromagnetic effects. But the drive engines don't make any more sense to me than ...
— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett
... are not moralists, like Southey, when He prated to the world of "Pantisocracy;"[211] Or Wordsworth unexcised,[212] unhired, who then Seasoned his pedlar poems with Democracy;[dc] Or Coleridge[213] long before his flighty pen Let to the Morning Post its aristocracy;[dd] When he and Southey, following the same path, Espoused two ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... 9. Brya ebenus, [Delta]. DC.—A small tree of Jamaica, where the wood is known as green ebony, and is used for making various small articles. It is imported into this country under the name of cocus wood, and is used with us for making flutes and other wind instruments. Mr. Worthington Smith considers that the wood equals ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various
... [db]virtutibus eius, praise him in his powers: [dc]other ob fortitudinem eius, praise him in his power; and according to these two diuerse translations, I find two different expositions; one construing it of Gods glorious [dd]Angels, and the other applying it to Gods glorious acts: For the first it is euident in holy writ, ...
— An Exposition of the Last Psalme • John Boys
... appears as ab cb, in which case it is a Kit'ah or fragment. The Murabba, tetrastichs or four fold-song, occurs once only in The Nights (vol.i. 98); it is a succession of double Bayts or of four lined stanzas rhyming aa bc dc ec: in strict form the first three hemistichs rhyme with one another only, independently of the rest of the poem, and the fourth with that of every other stanza, e.g., aa ab cb db. The Mukhammas, cinquains or pentastichs ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... in Dc, or long stitch. Twist the thread round the hook as often as required, insert it in the work, and half do a stitch. Instead of finishing it, twist the thread round again, until the same number of loops are on, and ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous |
