You couldn't make a wonder of a bell if you poured your metal into an imperfect mould.
The mould must be flawless and the metal cunningly mixed; and then how clear the tone, how resonant!
We know how the windows were taken out, how the glass appropriated, how the "melter" accompanied the visitors to run the lead upon the roofs, and the metal of the bells into portable forms.
The association of fountains at its base with this obelisk seems at first sight as incongruous as the crowning of its apex with a metal cross, for the Christian emblem can never alter the nature of the pagan monument.
The circular space around the obelisk in the Piazza of St. Peter's to a considerable extent is paved with it; and specimens of it frequently occur among the ordinary road-metal in the city and neighbourhood.
The metal clasp had been caught in the hemstitching of the handkerchief but now came loose, allowing the heavy beads to land noisily on the hardwood floor.
One way and the other the larder was kept well supplied, and while Dr Lascelles on the one hand talked eagerly of the precious metal he hoped to discover, Joses was always ready with promises of endless sport.
As the application of heat expands the metal, the contracted particles of the metal on the inside of the piece pushed against each other with greater force than those on the outside, and the bar tried to straighten itself out again.
Here is a metaldrinking cup, just as they left it.
When you bent the metalpiece of which it is made you crowded the metal on the inside of the piece together, and also stretched the metal on the outside of the bend.
If that is the case, why is it that the molten metal flows out of the volcanoes?
Something quite hard was under the leather at the corners, perhaps the thinnest of metal plates.
True, instead of cloudy black, her hair vied in tone with the banner of coppery flame that streams from the crater of an active volcano, or burns above some giant crucible of molten metal ready to be poured forth.
Little bits of metal rattled on Franky's plank penthouse, and some warm drops pattered on Franky's face and wetted the hand that lay upon his breast.
On the metal rim of the larger lense was engraved the style and title of the owner: "Capt.
Obedience, Duty, and Honour are welded into the metal of his character.
Franky could hear the metal balls on the whip clink one against another as the loaded thongs were shaken out.
Fame," I mused, "what quality of metal art thou made of, that millions bow down and worship thee?
Rise, strike a light, and let the quality of metal you are made of be seen!
Now, upon my word, I am not so much bruised after all; and as the accident was not from any want of courage in me, I will presently give you an opportunity of seeing what sort of metal Major Potter is made of.
We saw in them the three metal bosses supposed to have been taken from Mahmoud's shield.
The medal which has been struck to commemorate the confederation of the provinces is in solid gold, and is so large and massive that its value in metal alone is £50.
And how much of the precious metal would many an English duke give to possess, in his own famed isle, a site of such exquisite beauty?
The milk flows down the outside of the metal refrigerator (fig.
Milk utensils for farm use should be made of metal and have all joints smoothly soldered.
Strain the milk through a metal gauze and a flannel cloth or layer of cotton as soon as it is drawn.
Long rows of shining metal pans no longer adorn rural dooryards.
This system of ornamentation is peculiarly Oriental, having been much practised by the early goldsmiths of Damascus, and it is still eminently characteristic of Persian metal work.
Through a few openings in these metallic flames we perceived a large sphere of a darker kind of metal nearly of a clouded copper colour, which they enclosed and seemingly raged around, as if hieroglyphically consuming it.
We may note, in passing, that to each planet a special metal is assigned, as also particular colours.
The dapper little man stood before the empty stove picking his beautiful white teeth with his metal pencil-case.
He carried a metal pencil-case, and one of those long, thin note-books which gentlemen of the Stock Exchange use to enter their bargains in.
They were small chains, light weight, of a metal that looked like aluminum.
The object he had thought of as a stick was in reality a long metal tube, precisely machined, with a small button near one end.
I answer, that in all counterfeit coin, which is well executed, the gold is often laid on the base metal rather thickly, and with great ingenuity.
You can make a little spark like that, if you walk quickly over a soft rug, on a dry winter day, and then put your knuckle to the metal radiator.
After this, Modor hunted for more of the gold, and when he found it, he made many more wide gold bands, and put them on each arm from the elbow to the shoulder, and this was the first use of metal armour.
They sailed great distances in their stout ships and not only learned the things that other races knew, but at the same time brought to these other peoples their own knowledge of metal working, and carpentry, and the building of boats.
The ancient Egyptians carved their wonderful statues, their huge obelisks, with tools of copper, hardening the soft metal in some way, so that it would cut the toughest stone.
The secret of hardening and tempering copper in this way has been lost, and the most skilful metal workers to-day do not know how to do it.
His eyes made out a man-like apparition in a white smock buttoned to a metal harness, a tall lithe figure whose curiously pointed face regarded him with unblinking interest.
Stubby atmospheric wings unfolded into place on the shining metal sides.
After the heading was set, he crawled toward the ship's stern, dragging with him a hydrojet welding torch, a tool that could sear metal apart or join it by causing regulation of the molten rod protruding from its spring barrel.
Metal groaned and creaked all about him, and the room temperature noticeably increased.
The industrialist waddled back to the telescreen, flicked a metal knob that brought into view a transmission on one of the few ultra-high frequency channels still in operation.
Dollard, screaming in panic, was flung against a network ofmetal braces; despite his weightlessness, his mass was great as ever and a sharp steel corner gouged a deep bleeding slash in his puffy cheek.
The absence of the work already executed and the hardness of the metal do not warn you that you are now engaged upon a senseless task.
With this road-metal are mingled short strips of raphia, or palm-fibre, flexible ribbons, easily bent.
Uranium is extracted from a metal or ore called uranite by mineralogists, and popularly known as pitch-blende.
Here clay is melted in vast quantities to form aluminium, a metal as precious a few years ago as gold.
He exposed some salts of the metal uranium to the sunlight until they became phosphorescent, and then tried their effect upon a photographic plate.
They do, however, possess strength enough to draw the little particles of silver and nickel in the coherer together in a continuous metal path.
This was led into a box or chamber of metal six feet high and three feet in diameter--the box having openings to admit the air.
And this goes on continuously as themetal throws off its rays like myriads of bursting, blazing stars.
The light from this lamp is reflected downward by means of a mirror through a little slit in themetal case which covers the entire apparatus.
Upon this is perched a firm metal stand, from the top of which the boom or pendulum, about thirty inches long, is swung by means of a "tie" or stay.
He didn't know that this Betty was of the same origin--a miraculous fabrication of metal and energy-units and soft plastic.
With infinite care it was crated in a metal case, and hauled into the flying machine.
His tool-benches were there, greasy and littered with metal filings, just as they had always been.
Strike by yourself, sweet larum; you're true bell-metal I warrant you.
In the fabrication of these pieces, everything depends on employing a metal with the highest possible power of resistance, and steel is incontestably that metal of all others which resists the best.
He succeeded by heating the metal with powdered coal in a crucible which had previously been manufactured from clay suitable for the purpose.
This was also indicated by the second case of metalwhich had preserved them from damp, and which could not have been soldered in a moment of haste.
But the metalwas not yet in its most serviceable state, that is, of steel.
Cyrus Harding thought that it had not exploded; that it was possible some barrels might be saved, and that the powder, which is usually enclosed in metal coverings might not have suffered from contact with the water.
This is the cause of the wealth of the mines in Great Britain, where the coal aids the manufacture of the metal extracted from the same soil at the same time as itself.
Neb brought this piece of metal to his master, who was then occupied with his companions in the workshop of the Chimneys.
They had been speaking of musical instruments at dinner; and their host now brought them some venerable lutes to examine--curiosities only, for most of the metal strings were broken.
