Smith could think of no other way of announcing or recording this, except to send a telegram to an old friend (by this time a total stranger) to say that he had just seen a man with two legs; and that the man was alive.
Pym has no common sense; I confine myself to recording the chronological accident that he has not shown us any so far.
Sam kept a diary wherein were writ So many noble deeds and so much wit That the Recording Angel, when Sam died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I 'll judge you by your diary.
A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility, and mechanize its methods.
Betty," she said to Mark, "has a mind which till now has been a sundial: recording only the bright hours.
Was it merely the heart, recording with solemn knell the passing of a soul?
While employed on the wild legend of Odysseus, he met with a ballad, recording the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon.
Or a college would receive from its curator a gift of some silver statues of the gods, on the dedication of the schola, with a brass tablet, no doubt recording the event.
He feels a proud satisfaction in recording the virtues of the scion of a noble race, and degeneracy from great traditions moves his indignant pity.
There is many an inscription recordingthe love and faithfulness of the slave husband and wife, although not under those honoured names.
The opinion of a miniature painter who had done a picture of the young soldier is worthrecording as evidence of identity.
It had already been shown by the astronomers that the sensitized plate is a more delicate recording instrument than the human retina, and that it can show stars upon a long exposure which the eye has never seen.
And in recording that answer, History performs her sacred duty in pointing to its authors as the authors of the state of things which now alarms and afflicts the country, and threatens the calamity which President Polk foresaw and deprecated.
Before taking leave of Kentish Town, I cannot helprecording a legal squabble, which resulted in a victory for the public.
This is a striking instance, well worth recording here, of the sagacity and fidelity of some members of the heathen tribes.
This incident, though exciting at the time, would not have been worth recording here were it not for its connection with what happened afterwards.
Vouchers in the Virginia State Library recording public payments for convicted slaves.
The bills of sale recording actual market transactions remain as the chief and central source of information upon prices.
She was accessorized with a recording machine beside her and a backup tape recorder on the table.
I was further told that recording of the hearing would be by tape recorder.
The remarks contained in the former of the two letters here transcribed seem to make this a proper place for recording "what I remember" of Garibaldi.
But I will let my readers off easy, recording only that I walked from Murat to St. Flour, a distance of fifteen miles, in five minutes under three hours.
And I must content myself with recording my recollections of those among them in whom the world may be supposed to take an interest.
The latter used a recording deflectometer and two recording extensometers.
Northampton, upon which is an inscription recording that the expense of repairing it was defrayed by a grant of chimney money for, I believe, seven years, temp.
As we are unwilling to turn our history into a Newgate Calendar, for the sake of recording the atrocities of a sanguinary king, we shall, in our account of the remainder of this odious reign, preserve the heads, and avoid the executions.
Strype--who certainly deserves a hundred stripes for recording such an atrocity.
In no other type of bird census has there ever been so near a certainty of recording all of the individuals in a specified space, so nearly independently of the subjective interpretations of the observer.
As a further result of its inclination, the cone of observation, seldom affords an equal opportunity of recording birds that are flying in two different directions.
Unfortunately, Winkenwerder was apparently dealing with telescopes that gave inverted images, and he used a system for recording cooerdinates so ambiguously described that I am not certain I have deciphered its true meaning.
As a matter of fact, David, I am rapidly coming to the conviction that there is no such thing as time--surely there can be no time here within Pellucidar, where there are no means for measuring or recording time.
Mr. Swan says that this departure was received with favor by recording officers.
With a State standard ink adopted, its use by recording officers would soon follow.
Any general opinion which will aid the recordingofficers in their selection of ink or paper will be welcomed.
Even then it must not be supposed that the history of ink is authentic and continuous from the moment handwriting was applied to the recording of events; for the earliest records are lost to us in almost every instance.
It was adopted and such an ink is without exception now used by all recording officers of both Massachusetts and Connecticut.
When the state of Massachusetts in 1894 decided that recording officers must use a "gall" ink made after an official formula, they competed with other manufacturers for the privilege of supplying such an ink and won it.
In telling a story or recording a life, their interest was in the moral to be drawn, rather than in the passions involved.
As for Franklin, we have seen the inquisitive bent of his mind in childhood, and as he grew older the habit of observing and recording and theorizing became his master passion.
Their conversation, though not worth recording for any sense or reflection shewn by any of the talkers, may perhaps display their characters, and add two or three facts to our story, which may be amusing to some few of our readers.
Patience on a monument on the wall over our heads, and a very long inscription, recording things quite as unsuitable to a clergyman.
The wax strip passes from one 8-inch reel around the periphery of a pulley (with guide flanges) mounted above the V-pulleys on the main vertical shaft, where it comes in contact with the recording or reproducing stylus.
The sharp recording stylus, actuated by a vibrating mica diaphragm, cuts the wax from the strip.
While recording or playing, the record not only rotated, but moved laterally under the stylus, which thus described a spiral, recording 150 grooves to the inch.
The explanation is that in the early experiments, the turntable, with disc, was mounted on the shop lathe, along with the recording and reproducing heads.
The work of the Volta associates laid the foundation for the successful use of the dictating machine in business, for their wax recording process was practical and their machines sturdy.
Recording with the tinfoil phonograph is too difficult to be practical.
Both recording and reproducing heads, mounted alternately on the same two posts, could be adjusted vertically so that several records could be cut on the same 3/16-inch strip.
