But I did manage hotel rooms with a connectingbath over at the Statler-Hilton Hotel.
There was another buzz, a click and an ungodly howl which was followed by the voice of Operator Ni-yun saying: "We are connecting you.
He went into the bathroom and tapped gently on the door to Boyd's connecting room.
He went into the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and then opened the connecting door to Boyd's room softly.
The generators alone have switches connecting with these bars.
With vertical shafts, connecting wheels, and generators, the main floor of an electric station may be located above the crest of the falls where the power is developed instead of at or near their base.
By this means a flow of energy from a sub-station to a short circuit in one of the lines or cables connecting it with the generating plant is prevented.
In cases of this sort the shafts connectingwheels and generators pass through the wall between them.
Where generators operate at the maximum voltage of the system only two main groups of switches are necessary, one group connecting generators to bus-bars, and the other group connecting bus-bars to the transmission lines.
The Manchester electrical supply system also furnishes energy, through a sub-station of 800-horse-power capacity, to operate an electric railway connecting Manchester and Concord.
That no excessive rise of voltage took place when one of these switches was open was shown by connecting two sharp terminals in parallel with the switch and by adjusting these terminals to a certain distance apart.
Transmission lines, on entering a station or sub-station, should pass to the arresters at once and before connecting with any of the operating machinery.
The religious aspect of the enterprise was presented under the idea of connecting and civilizing the idolatrous and savage Indian tribes of New England.
But though there are no wizards or druids in the VG version, they appear in another story connecting Diarmait with the foundation of Clonmacnois.
Another episode connecting Ciaran and Senan is narrated in the metrical Life of Senan (though the passage is absent from the CS copy; it will be found in the Bollandist edition, March, vol.
First, it is an organization connecting us with the outward universe of space and time.
If, however, we connect the perforated bodies with circulation through them in the hydro-kinetic system, by jointed rigid connecting links, we may arrange for configurations of stable equilibrium.
California a territory three times as large as New York and Oregon and the State of Washington, all now being cultivated and containing large and populous cities, and railroads connecting them with the East.
The ideas of the people there at that time was, that a railroad across the continent, connecting California with the East, was entirely impracticable.
It was nothing less than mutual distrust which kept the connecting door closed day after day, and clogged the channel of coöperation with the sharp-pointed boulders of antagonism.
This time the silence was broken by a single sharp little click--the latch of the connecting door slipping into place.
At length we see the stream of the River Jordan, which is the connecting link between Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake, and at last we find ourselves in the city founded by Brigham Young and his pioneer followers in 1847.
The usual tale is told about a subterranean passage connecting this inn with the cathedral.
We come to Maidenhead and Taplow, with Brunel's masterpiece of bridge-building connecting them, its elliptical brick arches being the broadest of their kind in the kingdom.
The town lies rather low on the river, with a handsome bridge connecting the two parts, and pretty gardens fringing each shore.
On its ground floor is the dungeon, half underground, with square openings in the floor connecting with the apartment above.
The foundations are built into a dark gray rock, and the castle rises from the point of a headland, the northern front consisting of square towers with high, connecting embattled walls.
A magnificent suspension-bridge spans the gorge of the Avon, connecting Bristol with its suburb of Clifton, and it is believed that the earliest settlements by the Romans were on the heights of Clifton and the adjoining Brandon Hill.
The Lizard peninsula is practically almost an island, the broad estuary of the Helford River on one side and a strange inlet called Loo Pool on the other narrowing itsconnecting isthmus to barely two miles width.
From Brockenhurst the Lymington River flows southward out of the New Forest into the Solent, across which is the Isle of Wight, steamers connecting Lymington at the mouth of the river with Yarmouth on the island.
The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.
The discharge of a condenser is effected byconnecting the plates having an opposite charge.
In the long shunt, one end of the shunt winding is connected to one of the brushes and the other end to the terminal connecting the series winding with the external circuit as in fig.
Thus, connecting in series four cells of one and one-half volts each will give a total of six volts.
There are three methods ofconnecting cells to form a battery; they may be connected: 1.
Showing method of connecting voltmeter to find potential difference between any two points as m and n on an electrical circuit.
When the current flows, the zinc strip is observed to waste away, its consumption in fact furnishing the energy or electromotive force required to drive the current through the cell and the connecting wire.
The difficulties encountered in connecting up numerous loops were overcome by Gramme, who, in 1871 invented a "ring" armature.
In connecting dry cells in places where there is vibration, heavy copper wire should not be used, because vibration will cause it to break.
The terminals of each cell should be thoroughly cleansed and scraped bright so as to get good contact of the connecting wires and thus avoid extra resistance in the circuit.
The jar may be charged by repeatedly touching the knob with the charged plate of the electrophorus or by connecting the inner coating to one knob of an electrical machine and the outer coating to the other knob.
What geological research has not revealed, is the former existence of infinitely numerous gradations, as fine as existing varieties, connecting together nearly all existing and extinct species.
Independently of our not finding fossil remains of such infinitely numerous connecting links, it may be objected that time cannot have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having been effected slowly.
The more aberrant any form is, the greater must be the number of connecting forms which have been exterminated and utterly lost.
What a wonderful connecting link in the chain of mammals is the Typotherium from South America, as the name given to it by Professor Gervais expresses, and which cannot be placed in any existing order.
Nor should it be forgotten, when we look to the special parts of allied species, instead of to distinct species, that numerous and wonderfully fine gradations can be traced, connecting together widely different structures.
As the differences depend on the insects having long fed on distinct plants, it cannot be expected that intermediate linksconnecting the several forms should now be found.
Upon reaching the end of the ridge that formed a natural bridge connecting two mountain ranges, Tom and Hippy came upon a sharp descent that led down into a broad, open valley, beyond which lay the mountain they were to climb.
This ridge, not more than a dozen feet wide along the top, formed a natural bridge connecting two mountain ranges.
Often the starting idea, or the connecting links, may appear but dimly in consciousness; but rest assured they are always there.
Then come the aesthetic feelings, which find satisfaction in the two "liking the same things," sympathy and community of feeling being the connecting link.
A little thought will show that something seen, or a few notes of a song floating to the ears, or the fragrance of a flower, has supplied the connecting link between the past and the present.
The reverie may be broken into by a sudden impression from outside, and we will then proceed from that impression, connecting it with something else already in our experience, and starting a new chain of sequence.
The French had built Forts Beau-Séjour and Gaspereau on the neck connecting the peninsula of Nova Scotia with the mainland, to guard the entrance to their territory.
Thus we learn that a short railway, connecting with the Intercolonial, will convey us thither, though not a road intended for passenger service.
The peculiarity of these Verbs is that they append the personal endings in many forms directly to the stem, instead of employing a connecting vowel, as fer-s (2d Sing.
He still cherished the delusion that some way could be found of connecting the Anglican establishment with this venerable apostolic church.
New York; giving an interval of two and a half hours in which the shadow passed over the long line connecting these points, which it will be perceived are nearly opposite in longitude.
The uniform dwellings, with their line of connecting porches, remind one of the inside of a fort, and of careless, gossiping, uncertain sojourn in quarters.
Still less permissible would be the cutting of a cable connecting two neutral ports, although messages may pass through it which, by previous and subsequent stages of transmission, may be useful to the enemy.
Being thus unaffected by the treaty, the canal retains those characteristics which it possesses, under the common law of nations, as a narrow strait, wholly within the territory of one Power and connecting two open seas.
The cutting, elsewhere than in the enemy's waters, of a cable connectingenemy with neutral territory receives no countenance from international law.
In the island of Ombai, situated at the extremity of that vast archipelago which seems in some remote age to have formed an isthmus connecting the Australian with the Asiatic continent, the natives are of a more or less decided olive-brown.
We have seen that the aye-aye may be considered as connecting the Quadrumana with the Bradypes, on the one hand, and the squirrels on the other.
Their goal was reached, and the problem of a connectingroute between north and south successfully solved.
The Mammoth, therefore, would seem to be a link connectingthe past and the present worlds, a being whose body has outlived its destination.
Hague rules concerning land warfare which enacts:--"Submarine cables connecting a territory occupied with a neutral territory shall not be seized or destroyed except in the case of absolute necessity.
The vibrating motion was given by connectingthe back end of one shear to a bar--making the bolt the fulcrum--and which was attached to a crank, revolving by gear to the driving wheels.
On connecting a high voltage to electrodes in each end, an electrical discharge passed through the residual gas making it luminous.
In some cases it is easy to provide a dangling plug for connecting such electric equipment as a toaster, percolator, or candlesticks.
One outlet on the mantel is also to be desired for connecting decorative candlesticks, and brackets above the fireplace are of ornamental value.
A baseboard or wall outlet is convenient for connecting a heater, curling-iron, and other electrically heated devices.
For although there is almost an infinite variety in the parts of the creation which we have opportunities of examining, yet there is a general analogy running through and connecting all the parts into one scheme, one design, one whole!
This is done by the interposition of cellular membrane, which is the general connectingmedium throughout the body, attaching each organ to its neighbor, but allowing sufficient play for the performance of its function.
Of a naturally refined nature and liberal education, he had steadily resisted the aggressions and temptations of Smith's Pocket, and represented to the master a kind of connecting link between his present life and the past.
The expressman--their only connecting link with the surrounding world--sometimes told wonderful stories of the camp.
I had spoken mechanically, for I was preoccupied in connecting other public lines with private surveys, as I looked in his face.
