Throughout the whole length of this piece, upon the inside, there is a spiral groove cut to receive one end of a feather, by which its pitch oreccentricity is regulated.
The eccentricity in this wheel is not sufficient to keep the floats in the vertical position, but in the position between the vertical and the radial.
This celebrated vendor of gingerbread, from his eccentricity of character, and extensive dealings in his way, was always hailed as the king of itinerant tradesmen.
He was one of the most singular characters of the time, and as remarkable for his personal ugliness as for the eccentricity of his manners.
We must compare it with pageants and ballets; and if, so comparing it, we like it less than some that we have seen at the Empire and the Alhambra, the generous will attribute our eccentricity to an overdeveloped moral sense.
He cares nothing for being in the fashion, neither does he eschew a novel eccentricity lest the nicest people should say that he is going a little too far.
Eccentricity in structure almost always occurs in the male; excess of coloration usually in the female.
In some groups the males of all the species seem built on one regular plan--in others the males of each species seem to vie with the next as to what eccentricity of structure in antennae or legs or apex of the body it can exhibit.
A hundred years later Hipparchus determined more exactly the length of the solar year, and the eccentricity of the ecliptic, discovered the precession of the equinoxes, and even undertook a catalogue of the stars.
The colouring of this admirable portrait is not a little heightened in its effect by a tinge of eccentricity caught from a life of rural retirement in the romantic mountainous country of Wales.
Amongst further reasons for the hiding away of money, may be noticed eccentricity of character, or mental delusion, a singular instance of which occurred some years ago.
But, scarce as the records of unbroken vows may be, they are deserving of a permanent record, more especially as the direction of their eccentricity is, for the most part, in itself curious and uncommon.
Then, as he was going home to his diggings he remembered the eccentricity of his friend and master, the Warden of Brakespeare, and resolved desperately to turn in to that gentleman's private house.
The villagers, naturally wishing to oblige Lady Bullingdon, came forward in several cases; and all would have been well had it not been for the deplorable eccentricity or depravity of the girl Green herself.
He shared this eccentricitywith Nodier: these two geniuses of modern prose were haunted by the demon of rhyme.
It is summer in the former while it is winter in the latter and the difference in the length of the two seasons due to the eccentricity of the orbit makes a vast difference in the result.
That the south polar cap is given to greater extremes than the north one, implies again, in view of the eccentricity of the orbit and the tilt of the axis, that deposition in both caps is light.
Thus the heat received by a point or a hemisphere, through any orbital angle, is independent of the eccentricity of the orbit.
Owing to the eccentricity of the orbital ellipse pursued by Mars and to the present position of the planet's solstices, the southern hemisphere is farther away from the sun during its winter and is so for a longer time.
The greater swing in size of the cap most exposed to the effects of the eccentricity is, then, the necessary result of circumstances when the precipitation is not too great to be nearly carried off by the subsequent dissipation.
It is a curious concomitant of the law of gravity that the amount of heat received by a planet in passing from any point of its path to a point diametrically opposite is always the same no matter what be the eccentricity of the orbit.
This accounting for thermal pole eccentricity is inapplicable to Mars because of the absence there of bodies of water.
The majority of the English still think that physical matters should be hidden: hence our dramatists and novelists having had to find other themes, adventure, eccentricity and character have won their predominant place.
In England we bring such sandpaper of prejudice and public opinion to bear upon eccentricity that every one becomes smooth and ordinary--like every one else.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained.
Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.
It is rather fantastical than tasteful, and savours more of eccentricity than sentiment.
Exclaim that it is eccentricityif you like, and you will not be far wrong; but add that it is life, and you will be right.
In these avenues American eccentricity has been allowed free play.
After all, eccentricity is but an exaggerated form of activity; but for certain people with narrow ideas, eccentricity and madness are but one and the same thing.
It is said, too, that their eccentricity constantly leads them into folly and licence.
Much less eccentricity has saved many a murderer in our days from the gallows.
All these causes tend towards the same end; but the most powerful appears to be the indirect influence of the eccentricity of the orbit upon oceanic currents.
His conversation was extremely vivid and sparkling, and the quaint eccentricity of his manner added to the impression of originality which he produced upon one.
Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.
A somewhat remarkableeccentricity on the part of the London clocks?
Eckleton was not a town that took up a great deal of room on the map of England, but it made up for small dimensions by the eccentricity with which it had been laid out.
When originality is found apart from good sense, which more or less is frequently the case, it shows itself in paradox and rashness of sentiment, and eccentricity of outward conduct.
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