For the rest of the ride they were mostly silent; each man revolving in his mind the most plausible explanation of Antonio's behavior, in his would-be mysterious hiding, and his terrorizing of the little lads.
The young men and young women went thoughtfully away; they were revolving their initial lesson in the cardinal principle of success--enthusiasm.
After the adventure of the raft he watched Pauline afar off, revolving plans for approaching her without impairing his barbaric dignity, for subduing her without subduing himself to her.
Dumont pressed an electric button, then leaned back in his revolving chair and surveyed Fanshaw tranquilly.
But it is tolerably safe to say that where the best shooting is to be done it will continue to be done with the conico-cylindrical missile, spirally revolving around the line of flight; that is, with the arrow-rifle.
The properties of a hypocycloid were recognized by James White, an English engineer, in his geared design which employed a pivot located on the pitch circle of a spur gear revolvinginside an internal gear.
He did not know how it was or why it was, for all was confused and strange; and he lay trying to puzzle out clearly why Caer Point light should be revolving so quickly, now flashing up brightly, and now sinking again till all was nearly dark.
May thy sons' sons to him their voices tune, And each revolving year bring back the fourth of June!
The earth was believed to be fixed and the sun revolving about it but although this appears to be so, the reverse is now known to be true.
The animal cannot conceive of the earth being spherical or revolving upon its axis.
In all haste the traitor sought his castle, quaking with fear, and revolving in his mind schemes for avoiding the threatened disclosure.
While the monks of Ely were revolving this threat of disaster in their souls, the tide of assault and defence rolled on.
And as you are so anxious about your sister, I have been revolving plans for taking you back to the island, to see whether we can ascertain what is going on in that mysterious cottage.
A new access of tenderness seemed to have come over Fitzgerald; partly because happiness rendered her beauty more radiant, and partly because secret thoughts that were revolving in his mind brought some twinges of remorse.
She seemed to be revolving something in her mind very busily.
But she was absorbed in revery, and they floated round and round before her mental eye, like the revolving shadows of a magic lantern.
A chaos of thoughts were revolving through her mind; the theme of all the variations being how different it was from what it might have been, if the ideal of her girlhood had not been shattered so cruelly.
With visions of past and future revolving round him, he fell asleep and dreamed he saw Rosabella alone on a plank, sinking in a tempestuous sea.
Returning from a solitary walk, during which these ideas had been revolving in his mind, he found her in their chamber kneeling by the bedside, sobbing violently.
Revolving many plans in his mind, he at last fell asleep.
Flora, on her part, was troubled concerning the distrust which she felt must be excited by her mysterious position, and she was continually revolving plans to clear herself from suspicion in the eyes of her new friend.
In our solar system the sun's mass is so much larger than that of any of the planets, that the balance of attractive power is largely in his favor; hence the revolving of the planets around him.
Up to the year 1846, when Leverrier made his great discovery, it was believed that Uranus was the most distant planet revolving around the sun.
The machinery of this tableau is arranged as follows: The revolving beam that is described in the tableau of the Flower Vase is to be used in this piece.
The machinery and scenery which are used in the piece are made in the following manner: A revolving beam should be set up under the stage, the upper end protruding through the floor.
By placing numbers on the revolving beam, and corresponding numbers on the washers, the assistant below will be able to tell when the tableau is in the right position above.
The Geheimrat was seated in an American rocking-chair, near a revolving book-case, in which the evening papers were carefully arranged on their racks.
He paused, as though revolving his words in his mind and added: "You mustn't misunderstand me, Herr Kreisphysikus.
At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
By this arrangement the amount of friction between the brake band and the revolving wheel is weighed upon the scales.
Sometimes the carbon brush is inclined as at D, in order that the revolving commutator may tend to push the brush against its supports and thus ensure better contact.
The "turning sphear" is here this entire system ofrevolving spheres.
Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
A Circle showing the leap year, the Index revolving once in four years.
In an earlier chapter I have hinted that the speed of the revolving electron is determined by the kind of atom to which it acts as a satellite.
All he has told me is that he was flung off suddenly from within the atom with great energy, for he had been revolving at a tremendous speed.
Lorentz, of Amsterdam, declared that light was due to the motion of small particles revolving around the atoms of matter.
We picture an atom of matter as a miniature solar system of revolving electrons.
Therefore if we have electrons revolving round and round the atoms in a piece of iron, there will be a miniature magnetic field around each atom.
And now I am introducing you to those electrons who act as satellites to the atoms, revolving around them at a comparatively great distance, just as the moon revolves around the earth.
This is all we electrons do in a dynamo, but when the ends of the outer circuit or mains are brought into contact with the ends of our revolving coil, we set the electrons in the mains surging to and fro in step with ourselves.
That little world of revolving electrons known as an atom of gold, remains always an atom of gold.
You will understand that the electrons are revolving at the same speeds in both cases, but the forward movement of the star crowds the waves together, while a receding star stretches them out a little farther apart.
You will picture a great host of my fellow-electrons revolving around the atoms in a sodium flame.
The atoms are neither gaseous, liquid, nor solid; they are little worlds of revolving electrons.
He showed that therevolving "particles" were influenced by a powerful magnetic field, in the manner explained in the electron's story.
The bulk of the electrons attached to the sodium atoms are capable of revolving at speeds which produce waves causing the sensation of yellow.
Another tide is raised at the same time on the opposite side of the revolving earth; which is owing to the greater centrifugal motion of that side of the earth, which counteracts the gravitation of bodies near its surface.
There were several revolving cogwheels at the side of the truck, and in his irritation, I suppose the driver stooped over them too closely.
Mr. Veal lived in the exclusive and clean-shaven suburb of Mandrake Park, where he had built a stucco mansion with Venetian blinds, a croquet lawn with a revolving spray on it on hot days, and a mansard butler.
He undoubtedly had been consciously or unconsciously revolving death thoughts in his mind.
In our sleep, when we are revolving the day's problems and searching for solutions, many other facts, stored up in our nervous systems, rise to consciousness and are used in solving the problem.
Some of them kept on revolving commercial schemes in their heads or attending business meetings long after their office workers had left.
