| 1833 - 814 pages
...part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of ihese veils, combined with some strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26i by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which w ill appear more strongly... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs one hundred and thirty-seven grains, and one... | |
| Charles Babbage - Machinery - 1846 - 982 pages
...their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring all the rest of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...the substance of which these veils are made weighs 4i grains, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs 137 grains, and one square yard of the finest... | |
| 1838 - 472 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring 'Jl.ij by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear mere... | |
| The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined with some strength, ia truly surprising. One of them measuring 26¿ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree... | |
| Commerce - 1839 - 566 pages
...strength, istinly surprising. One of them, measuring 26¿ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and л half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...yard of the substance of which these veils are made weigbs 4i grains, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weigbs 137 grams, and one square yard of the... | |
| 1839 - 444 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring viiJ by 17 inches, weighed only a groin and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
| Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26^ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
| 1839 - 568 pages
...way to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part ol the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 264 by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1845 - 354 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined with their strength, is surprising. THE BUTTERFLY. In June, 1826, a column of butterflies, from ten to fifteen... | |
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