"Infra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... later, when Impressive Clerk happens to be out, a knock comes. Nobody in. At last, go myself (Query—infra dig.?) and ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 3rd, 1891 • Various
... Christian followers, seems to make a real world impossible; for bare Unity cannot create, and the metaphor of the sun shedding his rays explains nothing. Accordingly the "intelligible world," the sphere of reality, drops out, and we are left with only the infra-real world and the supra-real One. So we are landed ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... in self-defence, if not as a boast; and it (the name, not the motto) had been thoughtfully sandwiched in between my Lys and my d'Angely by my sponsors in baptism, that if necessary I might ever have an excuse at hand for any dark deed or infra dig-ness. ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... sheriff is not called bailiff, yet it was probable that was one of his names also, because the county is often called balliva; as in the return of a writ, where the person is not arrested, the sheriff saith, infra-nominatus, A. B. non est inventus in balliva mea, &c;.; (the within named A. B. is not found in my bailiwick, &c;.) And in the statute of Magna Carta, ch. 28, and 14 Ed. 8, ch. 9, the word bailiff seems to comprise as well sheriffs, as bailiffs ...
— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner
... with the conversion of etherial energy attending the crystallizing out of matter from the primitive motions. And thus possibly the conditions then obtaining involved a progressively increasing complexity of material structure the genesis of the elements, from an infra-hydrogen possessing the simplest material configuration, resulting ultimately in such self-luminous nebula as we yet see in ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... Denver, a little to the north of the central track of the shadow, observed the infra or bands within the shadow, alluding to the fact that they must be moving at the same rate as the shadow, although their apparent motion was much slower, or like the shadows of flying clouds. He attributes the discrepancy to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various
... up the sound of air motors overhead. "They must have had infra-red search beams. Well, that does it. We'll have to run for it, since ...
— A World is Born • Leigh Douglass Brackett
... sustained burst of radiation. The combination of skin temperature increase plus large ultra-violet flux inside 4,000 yards is injurious in all cases to exposed personnel. Beyond this point there may be cases of injury, depending upon the individual sensitivity. The infra-red dosage is probably less important ...
— The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • United States
... infra-bass first came to their ears, Robert Blake and Helen Lawton were standing on the platform of a New York subway station waiting for the arrival of an uptown express to bear ...
— Zehru of Xollar • Hal K. Wells
... by no means forgotten the injuries he had received at the hands of the Ravennati: "ad Ravennam," says Agnellus, "corda revolvens retorsit, et per noctem plurima volvens, infra se taliter agens; heu quid agam et contra Ravennam quae exordia sumam?" "What can I do against Ravenna?" What he did was this. Theodore the patrician, one of his generals, was despatched with a fleet to Ravenna by way of Sicily. He proceeded up the ...
— Ravenna, A Study • Edward Hutton
... atmosphere, and to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, and apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895). ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... such another in the fourth, and so on; but he who was in the highest was emphatically said to be of the class, "classicus"—a class man, without adding the number, as in that case superfluous; while all others were infra classem. Hence, by an obvious analogy, the best authors were rated as "classici," or men of the highest class; just as in English we say "men of rank" absolutely, for men who are in the highest ranks of the state.' The mental process by which this title, which would apply rightly to the best authors ...
— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench |
