The depths of the most noted pits have easily been ascertained by line and plummet and the height of several large domes has been found by the use of small balloons.
Ruling with the plummet or lead-point is found in the 11th century and came into ordinary use in the 12th century; coloured inks, e.
In a third fan La Liberte becomes 'Patrone des Francais,' and is still provided with plummet and cap.
Just here the voyaging is most dangerous; just here we drop the plummetand strike upon a shoal; we lift up our eyes, and discover a lee-shore.
The accompanying cut represents a plummet found in digging a well in the San Joaquin Valley, California, thirty feet below the surface.
This time it fell like a plummet for twelve thousand feet.
For fifteen minutes more he kept the plane on a straight course and then, bringing it to a quick stop, he let it drop like a plummet toward the earth.
A million pounds of solid gold One would have thought would have crushed them dead; But dear they bobbed, and courtesied, and rolled Like a couple of corks to a plummet of lead.
His splay-feet stood all parrot-toed In cowhide shoes arrayed, And his hair seemed cut across his brow By rule and plummet laid.
They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel.
It is joy to the Christian to know that the plummet is now in the hands of our great Zerubbabel, and that when He comes forth, the world's misrule shall be over.
The bricklayer with his bricks, no longer heedful of plummet or the law of gravitation, have toppled, tumbled, and it all welters as we see!
You cannot make an association out of insincere men; you cannot build an edifice except by plummet and level,--at right-angles to one another!
Stevens says, quoting from Schoolcraft, that the Pennacook Indians used sinkers very much like a plummet in shape.
Balearic string can pass with the whirled plummet of lead; when suddenly the youth, spurning the earth with his feet, rose on high into the clouds.
In examining this beautiful relic, one is led almost instinctively to believe that it was used as a plummet for the purpose of determining the perpendicular to the horizon.
IV When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed, Ere my heart's plummet sounded depths of pain, I called on reason to control my brain, And scoffed at that old story of the Christ.
Beyond the fall of dews, Deeper than plummet lies, Float ships, with all their crews, No more to sink nor rise.
And thy soul shall sink Down into the dark abyss, Into the infinite abyss, From which no plummet nor rope Ever drew up the silver sand of hope!
They often stand so straight that a plummet line will not reveal a deviation from the perpendicular.
Like childhood, listening for the sound Of its dropped pebbles in the well, All vainly down the dark profound His brief-lined plummet fell.
And who, that has reperused the story of the Pilgrim at a maturer age, and felt the plummet of its truth sounding in the deep places of the soul, has not reason to bless the author for some timely warning or grateful encouragement?
Through all depths of sin and loss Drops the plummet of Thy cross!
And the Lord said, Behold, I am setting a plummet in the midst of My people Israel.
It was a leaden plummetwhich Amos saw Jehovah setting to the structure of Israel's life.
The string, sufficiently long to unwind and allow the plummet to hang outside the base, so that, when cut, the model falls in the direction of the arrow.
The centre of gravity and plummet line suspended from it.
Deviation of Plummet by the Attraction of Mountains:-- Experiments made.
Then his heart sank within him like a plummet of lead.
Oliver's heart was sinking like a plummet of lead.
Once it gave, the entire structure, weighted by its five occupants, would plummet toward the ground nearly a hundred feet below.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
But the time was approaching when the potent sorcerer was to break his staff, and bury it fathoms in the ocean 'deeper than did ever plummet sound.
