Suppose the ball in the accompanying cut to be moving in the direction of the arrow, B C, at the rate of 100 feet per second.
But while the force of the twist itself is not affected by the rate of the forward movement, its effect upon the ball is greatly nullified.
I expect to get some first-rate pluckings from those people I was speaking of, and I mean to begin my thirty-ninth novel as soon as I have got through my visit.
He should, if possible, have been born, at any rate have passed some of his early years, or a large part of them, under the roof of the good old minister.
The tide runs through the inlet at the rate of five miles an hour.
God because he had no kink, or at any rate knew of none which disturbed him.
Well, at any rate I haven't got the Foreign Office manner.
There were fewer people about and the street was not so brightly lit up, or at any rate seemed to her darker.
One isn't made of cast iron, although some people seem to think one is, or at ay rate ought to be.
In London, at any rate if one is English and cursed by being well known, one lives in a strait waist-coat.
For there, at any rate in all the earlier years, he had been criticizing and laughing at others.
But one forgives them because they are happy in their naughtiness, or at anyrate they seem happy.
Well, wait then-- just wait; and when that play appears, see if I do not compel you to rate my intellectual capacity very highly.
But how long it will continue," Miss Hart spoke impressively--"at thisrate I am sure I cannot tell.
Having to associate with such third-rate commercial fellows and witness their ebullitions of mutual admiration makes a man of education, like myself, utterly sick.
They are increasing at a rate alarming, Go where I will, the traveled man is there.
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack, But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back.
Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man's wealth, You must first know the state of his conscience and health.
The commandant of our guard appears very civil and inclined to oblige us in every possible way—at any rate he is so to me.
The fruit brought for sale was paid for at a rate far above its value.
At any rate she talked more, and with more vigour; she was more liable to opinions of her own; and in these days there was that going on at Bannisdale which provoked opinion in great plenty.
Well, when my time was up I was a first-rate maker of penny trumpets, and my only resource was making child's playthings.
It sounds impossible, but if you come to think of it lots of things that happen now would have sounded impossible to those children, or at any rate to Papa and Mamma.
But at any rate I thought that we, who had been such old friends, had better understand each other; that you'd help me if I asked you.
She guessed at any rate that they were somehow connected with Mr. Manisty and his book; and she was indignant again--she hardly knew why.
Second-hand Guns and Pistols of his own make and all the other first-rate London makers, at most reasonable prices, together with every article connected with the trade.
Premises, at the lowest possible Price, consistent with first-rate workmanship.
The Articles printed in this list warranted of the first-rate quality.
I noticed in a moment that we were going at a rate of speed rather exceptional for a cab, and it steadily increased, as the driver found a clear road before him.
At any rate it must be something impossible to get at Number 6 Buzley's Court, Whitechapel, where she had lived all the thirteen years of her life.
At any rate she would run down to the lodge and meet the postman.
Iris sat down, feeling rather frightened, but yet as though the worst were over; at any rate she had nothing more to confess.
Among other matters often discussed were the English birth-rate and the rearing of English children, points which deeply interested M.
She tried to reassure herself by thinking that if she did not love him in the same blind, reckless way, at any rate she would never meet another man whom she could love as she loved Gerald Leigh.
I felt inclined to curse my folly in attempting such a drive, at any rate I blamed myself for not having started two or three hours earlier.
Thinking he was going to start every moment, he did not write to Madeline--at the rate at which he meant to return, a letter posted in England would reach her almost as quickly as if posted at Cannes.
I had a horse with me, and a second-rate subscription pack of slow-going mongrels did meet somewhere in the neighborhood, so no one could gainsay my explanation.
I did not much like the course adopted, nor did I like the look of the man to whom the inquiry was intrusted; but at any rate something was being done.
It caught the fellow back of the ear, and the force behind the blow, as well as the rate at which he had been coming, sent him headlong between two seats, where he lay crumpled up like a rag.
At the rate he was going when I sent a message after him, he's clear into the suburbs of Chicago by this time.
The rate plague has developed to an alarming extent in Thanet, and considerable anxiety is felt, especially as there appears to be no effective preparation of poison to exterminate them.
Everybody is in quite good spirits--indeed, some of the children are thinking it first-rate fun.
She was sorry for him; when she was with him she almost believed she loved him, but at any rate she need not decide now.
And Paul said this morning that we were both of us fish out of water; that he must stay here, at any rate for the present, but that I might please myself.
Then don't contemplate it--at any rate just now, when I am so merry and happy.
Apparently the plan was good, like General Trochu's, but it has at any rate so tired them that they have been unable to do anything since.
The natives, too, have had great windfalls lately in the matter of locusts, which are really not bad eating, and at any rate much appreciated by them.
However, as he had been given to understand that it was desirable to get the cattle in he determined to make the attempt, as at any rate they might get some in, and if he stayed where he was the Boers would probably surround him.
The troops in the South would have had a far greater extent of country to reconquer, and Mafeking at any rate must have eventually fallen.
I have never heard more or worse jokes made, and, no doubt, had I been umpiring, I should have put some of us out of action or at any rate given them a slight advantage.
The chronic deficit in the treasury had been further increased by a serious lowering in the rate of exchange, which was due to an excessive issue of paper money.
As a result of his negotiations a "funding loan" was obtained, in return for which an equivalent amount in paper money was to be turned over for cancellation at a fixed rate of exchange.
James was without a son, and the marriage with Mary would at anyrate ensure William the aid of England in his great enterprise on his father-in-law's death.
The new Protector was a weak and worthless man; but the bulk of the nation were content to be ruled by one who was at any rate no soldier, no Puritan, and no innovator.
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