The French electrify the world not by starting any paradox, they electrify it by carrying out a truism.
The secret, then, lay in a presentation of the divine message which would convince and transform and electrify those who heard it to action--a presentation of the message in terms which the age could grasp.
It was as though he had needed just the stimulus of that interruption to electrify and transform him.
Although too late to electrify Densmore and Principal Haime with my scholarship, I was determined to go to college now, somehow, sometime.
Your mind was full of that miserable paper all the time, and I am positive you were putting together some silly speech that you imagine would electrify those absurd men in the House of Commons.
No sweet sounds can be produced from the awful and terrifying instrument that for years has served to electrify the ears of those unfortunate enough to possess sittings in the church.
He showed that all substances could be electrified by friction, but that to electrify conductors they must be insulated or supported on non-conductors.
To use the apparatus the surface of the dielectric is rubbed with a piece of warm flannel, silk or catskin, so as to electrify it, and the upper metal plate is then placed upon it.
Don't wonder Mr. Bartholomew is eager to electrify his entire tine.
Of course, Tom might have sent two of his mechanics from the works down here to electrify the barbed wire entanglements that Mr. Damon had erected around his chicken run.
One might expect the palpable assurance of the victim's survival would electrify the fancied murderer.
He looked at them, indignant at their indifference, thinking of what he could say or do in order to make an impression to electrify this calm peasantry, to fulfill his mission as a leader.
Desaguliers) is an Electric per se and of the vitreous Kind; therefore it repels the Electricity arising from the glass Tube, and disposes it to electrify whatever non-electrical Bodies receive the Effluvia from the Tube.
But if you electrify this heated Poker, the electrical Flashes presently kindle Flame in either.
To show that points will THROW OFF as well as DRAW OFF the electrical fire, lay a long, sharp needle upon the shot, and you cannot electrify the shot so as to make it repel the cork ball.
Joseph Desaguliers, who was the first experimenter to electrify running water, and who was probably the first to suggest that clouds might be electrified bodies.
Electrify the shot, and the ball will be repelled to the distance of four or five inches, more or less, according to the quantity of electricity.
Electrify a smooth glass tube with a rubber, and hold a small feather at a short distance from it.
As soon as the sparks begin to get small, electrify E S again.
C) Heat and electrify G; bring it near E R, and carefully note whether the attraction between them is stronger or weaker than before, or whether they repel each other.
A) Electrify E R, then hold it near the carbon of the electroscope.
A) Electrify E R with F C, and place E R in the swing, W S (Fig.
F) Thoroughly electrify E S, and see if it will cling to the wall strongly enough to support its own weight.
A) Heat the paper, then place it flat upon the table and electrify it by rubbing it with your hand.
A) Thoroughly electrify E S as before, then lift and hold it in the air.
If he has any special plan regarding foreign politics, he is keeping it in petto to electrify the Corps Diplomatique on New Year's Day, or the Chambers in his opening speech.
Probably Lord Lyons's distaste arose partly from the fact that foreign diplomatists have a habit of coming and rehearsing to their colleagues the speeches with which they propose subsequently to electrify the assembled Conference.
Stackpole related the full story, which somehow seemed to electrify the company, so intense was the feeling against Cowperwood.
We have become as unimaginative as steam-engines, and no longer indulge in those astounding bursts of eloquence and sensibility which used to electrify our grandfathers and grandmothers.
Be awake, electrify yourself; go forth to the task.
Think of a great singer like Nordica attempting to electrify an audience while lounging on a sofa or sitting in a slouchy position.
You must speak to the soul," he declared, "to electrify the man.
It might be a gain to borrow his spirit for a while at the present time to electrify the British Admiralty.
In his turn, he looked at them, indignant at their indifference, seeking for some word that could make a grand impression, electrify this placid country and make good his mission.
Better electrify the world by such scenes of heroism, than surrender the capital and endanger the cause.
Lee will soon electrify us with another movement of his grand army,--such is the general belief.
The enraptured sailors were only too anxious to mount the enormous birds and sally forth to electrify the city.
We thought what a cry of joy would electrify both planets when through our instrumentality they first knew of each other's existence.
The sight of my white shoulders appeared to electrify Harry, for he immediately brought his lips to bear upon them, and caressed and patted them with his hand.
The contact of my bubbies appeared to electrify him, for I felt his staff of love beating against my buttocks, still more plainly than before.
Dexterously electrify one set, and its balls will repel each other to a greater distance, enlarging the triangles.
And by this, that we cannot from a mass of glass draw a quantity of electrical fire, or electrify the whole mass minus, as we can a mass of metal.
Electrify the shot, and the ball will be repelled to the distance of four or five inches, more or less, according to the quantity of Electricity.
Set the iron punch on the end upon the floor, in such a place as that the scales may pass over it in making their circle: Then electrify one scale by applying the wire of a charged phial to it.
Dexterously electrify one set, and its ball will repel each other to a greater distance, enlarging the triangles.
Rub another glass, which has previously been warmed in a similar manner, with a piece of black silk or a silk handkerchief, in order to electrify it.
Set the iron punch on the end upon the floor, in such a place as that the scales may pass over it in making their circle: then electrify one scale, by applying the wire of a charged phial to it.
And by this, that we cannot from a mass of glass, draw a quantity of electric fire, or electrify the whole mass minus, as we can a mass of metal.
Electrify the cork-balls as in the last experiment by glass, and at the approach of an excited stick of wax their repulsion will be increased.
In this town the air is generally moister than with us, and here I have seen Mr. Canton electrify the air in one room positively, and in another, which communicated by a door, he has electrised the air negatively.
