"Water back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fancy. Our modern internal-combustion engines were barely dreamed of, yet they drove his boat. His fancy even enabled him to foresee one of the most amazing features of the Lake boat of to-day, namely the compressed air chamber which opened to the sea still holds the water back, and enables the submarine navigator clad in a diver's suit to step into the wall of water and prosecute his labors on the bed of the ocean. Jules Verne even foresaw the callous and inhuman character of ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot
... we can make repairs, we've got to get water back into the critical areas and figure some way of storing and valving ...
— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael
... along also and help Twinkle carry the water back for Pinkie Whiskers. I am sure that cap would be very heavy if it were full ...
— Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories • Howard B. Famous
... also come from the nostrils. This is a bad sign, as extensive inflammation is no doubt present. Water, also, runs through the nostrils freely when the animal attempts to drink, due to the swollen condition of the throat. The animal forces the water back into the mouth, but is unable to swallow and hence the water gushes out through the nostrils. The animal evinces great pain when pressure is applied from the outside and he breathes with great difficulty. Although the pulse is not much affected at this stage, the temperature is elevated ...
— The Veterinarian • Chas. J. Korinek
... did not come home, his father and some of the people who lived close by went to search for him. After many hours they found him at the dike, keeping the water back with his hand. Then his father took him home, and the men stopped up the hole in the dike. Everybody praised Hans for what ...
— Big People and Little People of Other Lands • Edward R. Shaw
... then she washed out the milk-can, but would not pour the dirty water back into the basin. "It would be an offence," she said simply, and I felt ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... obstructed by a number of elastic partitions or diaphragms. The water can not move without straining and bending these diaphragms, and if you allow it, these strained partitions will recover themselves, and drive the water back again. [Here was explained the process of charging a Leyden jar.] The essential thing to remember is that we may have electrical energy in two forms, the static and the kinetic; and it is, therefore, also possible to have the rapid alternation from one of these ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... salts," continued Harry, "which, if dissolved in water, will prevent it from boiling till it is heated to two hundred and sixty-four degrees, as if they held the water back from flying into steam. So, then, the boiling of water may be hindered, more or less, by pressure from without, and attraction from within. The boiling point of water depends on another important fact which the ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various |
