The rattling of the huge motor-lorries prevented the chauffeurs from hearing any sounds beyond the pulsations of their engines.
His horse began to rear, alarmed by the loud and rapid pulsations of the engine.
The heart was beating faintly, but the pulsations could be plainly felt, and this gave Scarlett some little hope, such as was badly needed at this crucial time.
It assists the emotions through the stimulus to the attention, through the reinforcement which it gives to the pulsationsof the psycho-physical organism.
He will find that his susceptibility to the pulsations of various types of rhythm, and his delight in the intricacies of metrical device, will be heightened by the mental effort of attention and analysis.
Moreover, if the injury be repeated often, the leaping point becomes excited and the rhythm and order of its pulsations disturbed.
It revealed the intricate organisation, comparable to that of the body, possessed by that fine web of intentions and counter-intentions whose pulsations are our thoughts.
It is stimulated by a molecular throb; the throbbing body may be in contact, but it may be as distant as the sun, in which case the molecular pulsationsare brought to us on waves of æther.
Pulsations of high tension have been proved to be mainly superficial in their journeys, so that they are best conveyed (or convoyed) by conductors of tubular form.
On the same plan, the extremely minute motion of a galvanometer, as it receives the successivepulsations of a message, is magnified by a weightless lever of light so that the words are easily read by an operator (Fig.
In the telephone for nearly two thousand miles the pulsations of the speaker's voice are not only audible, but retain their characteristic tones.
No; it is properly described as a pulsating current, or one, constant in direction, but periodically varying in intensity so as to progress in a series of throbbings or pulsations instead of with uniform strength.
As the number of coils is further increased, the amplitude of the pulsations decreases so that the resultant curve approaches nearer the form of a straight line.
It should be noted that the number of pulsations per cycle depends on the number of coils, and that as the pulsations increase in number, the variation in pressure decreases.
With one coil as shown, there are two pulsations of the current per revolution of the armature.
Her commander had detected the pulsations of the Capella motors, but he was too late.
Even as they clung they heard two muffled detonations in quick succession, followed by a distinct quiver of the submarine's hull--a movement that bore a marked difference to the vibrations under the pulsations of the motors.
The whole fabric trembled under the powerful pulsations of the mechanism.
The excurrent stream is accelerated in correspondence with the pulsations of the heart; the recurrent on the contrary being always somewhat more sluggish, and the first to stagnate and cease when the strength of the animal is impaired.
But probably it is not always uniformly in the same direction, since Malpighi states that a very slight cause will change its course, and that the pulsations differ in quickness in different portions of the heart[404].
The ice heaved and crackled under him with the pulsations of the stream, but he got across, and roused himself with difficulty for the effort to make another fire.
While he pondered, the pipe fell from his hand, and the river's turmoil rang in deep pulsationsthrough his dreams.
I have been able to render the pulsations less and less distinct, and even, on making the pressure sufficiently strong, to stop it altogether.
The double pulsations of the foetal heart can only be heard at one point of the uterus at a time, provided there be but one child; but if there be twins, then the sound is heard in two places at once.
The rapidity and strength of the foetal pulsations appear to be entirely independent of the mother's circulation; violent exercise, spirituous liquors, &c.
This is more particularly the case during the last weeks of pregnancy, when the pulsations are stronger, and the bulk of the child, in proportion to that of the liquor amnii being absolutely, as well as relatively, greater.
The other sound is produced by the pulsations of the foetal heart.
No tumour visible; pulsations can yet be felt; the skin is thickened; pulse at the wrist is at 50.
The pulsations at this time, were nearly equal over the whole surface of the tumour; but rather more distinct over the orifice in the vessel.
This was allowed, as the pulsations are weakened, and more and more central, while the elevation of the tumour is trifling.
A sublime sense of awe calmed the swift pulsations of my heart--I awaited the approach of the destruction menaced, with that solemn resignation which an unavoidable necessity instils.
Man's nature, brimful of passions and affections, would have had an home in that little heart, whose swift pulsations hurried towards their close.
His life was swallowed up in the existence of his beloved; and his heart beat only in unison with the pulsations that vivified hers.
These openings are termed the fontanelles, because we can feel the pulsations of the brain through them, like the bubbling of water in a fountain.
Dividing this by five ounces, the quantity discharged by the left ventricle at each systole, gives fifty- eight pulsations as the number necessary to transmit all the blood in the body.
The cerebral pulsations diminish as sleep grows deeper, and at last become very weak.
Scorpione was speechless, and but for the faint pulsations of his heart one might have thought him lifeless.
The bard was not an unmoved witness of this revolting scene; and his heart had been sending forth its current, in rapid and yet more rapid pulsations to his now glowing extremities, as he listened and looked on.
The location of previously unreachable bullets, and the condition of internal injuries, were determined; the cause of concealed disease was traced, the living brain explored, and the pulsations of the living heart were witnessed.
A series of such pulsations in the proper direction will, therefore, cause the tapper to play between the two gongs and ring the bell as usual.
The first pulsations of the f[oe]tal heart must simultaneously aid the unfolding of every part.
He arose and stood before her in all his gentlemanly dignity, bent down and kindly took her hands; but the quick pulsations of his heart, which Cornelia heard close beside her ear, accorded strangely with these paternal words.
I feel the pulsations of an ever-advancing civilization throbbing within me, and am ennobled by my enthusiasm for everything beautiful which it has created.
But her hand belied her words; it burned as though she were in a fever, and the quick and strong pulsations of her blood were distinctly perceptible; to delay, however, was but to excite her more.
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