There is another class of people in whom the connection between the dense and the vital bodies is more or less loose, so that the ether of their vital bodies vibrates at a higher rate than in the first class mentioned.
But the air vibrates as before; its columns strike as before the drum of the ear; nothing has been changed; nothing has failed in the universe but one sensation.
Her soul was like an Æolian harp which vibrates to the slightest breath.
At a turn in the road, I perceived on an acclivity Cahuzac, whose name vibrates so pleasantly on the ears of Eugénie.
When this is held by the bend, and struck upon the floor or with a stick, it vibrates powerfully; and if one of its prongs be permitted to strike against the plate P, Fig.
The glass with sand vibrates slowly; here there is great moment of inertia, as the sand and glass behave like one rigid body, and again the vibration goes on for a long time.
When the gyrostat is not spinning, the ship vibrates slowly when put out of equilibrium; when the gyrostat is spinning the ship gets a motion of precession which is opposite in direction to that of the spinning.
Now observe the piece of paraffin wax A immersed in the water, and you will see when I push at it with a rod that it vibrates just as if it were surrounded with a thick jelly.
The medial intellectual man is closely bound to the thoughts of his century; he incarnates the prevailing ideas of his time; he vibrates in response to the majority.
If the intellectual genius is almost a reader of contemporaneous thought as it vibrates around him, the religious genius interprets more or less completely and perfectly the universal and eternal spirit of life in humanity.
Of itself untrammelled and unclogged by matter, it vibrates and shakes with the speed and rapidity of the vibrations of light.
In spite of its simplicity and its brevity, it plays with the deft touch of mastery on that chord of pathos that always vibrates to the thought of Time's ceaseless and inevitable surge.
Attend with diligence, for each chord that vibrates away into hiding shall appear again to thee after thou hast returned to earth, as Alpheus, sinking his waters into the soil of Hellas, appears as the crystal Arethusa in remote Sicilia.
But no sonorous body vibrates in one single rate; a taut string vibrates as a whole, which gives its fundamental tone, but also in halves, in fourths, etc.
Some of the channels were lined with a very fine, delicate yellow, silky material, which vibrates at every movement of the waters.
The understanding that was deaf vibrates with joy in response to the call of a salvatory science.
She is touched by the secret springs of life, and vibrates in response, like the Æolian harp.
This word, however stripped of the ideas which formerly attached to it, still vibrates upon the imagination.
It is a state of pleasure too exquisite for human nature; and the soul then vibrates like an instrument which a too perfect harmony would break.
No, she vibrates between the Madison Avenue house and the Newport one.
The immense hall rang to the glorious quality of this sound as a violin-back vibrates to the drawn bow.
For every fibre of the heart, now touched by the finger of God, wakes in harmony, and vibrates with the richest music of which earth or heaven can boast.
We've seen a friend depart; In vain we tune our harp and sing, We cannot touch that thrilling string, Which vibrates in the heart.
E'en now we love thee for his sake, But not for his alone, For in thy heart, a chord we find, That vibrates with our own.
Very sensible shaking, even such as may produce considerable damage to buildings, are caused by shocks in which the earth vibrates with less than an inch of swing.
The reader has perhaps seen that for a moment the rim of the bell vibrates with such rapidity that it has a misty look--that is, the motions elude the sight.
If the string vibrates as a whole merely, the tone given out is simple, and seems dull and characterless.
When a string vibrates as a whole, it gives out the fundamental note.
When a string is plucked in the middle without being held, it vibrates simply as a whole (Fig.
Practically everyone knows that a hammock hung with long ropes swings or vibrates more slowly than one hung with short ropes, and that a stone suspended by a long string swings more slowly than one suspended by a short string.
Size and shape determine to a large degree the period of a body; for example, a short, thick tuning forkvibrates more rapidly than a tall slender fork.
If, on the other hand, it vibrates in such a way that overtones are present, the tone given forth is full and rich and the sensation is pleasing.
If a light cork ball on the end of a thread is brought in contact with a sounding fork, the ball does not remain at rest, but vibrates back and forth, being driven by the moving prongs.
Now when a column of air vibrates in a pipe AB, the whole of it rushes alternately from B to A, as in No.
A pendulum which vibrates seconds in this latitude is about 39-1/7 inches long.
Creation vibrates with the same emotions which thrill the poet.
A tone of triumph vibrates through the imagery of ver.
The man whose mind vibrates with its thoughts of unity and duality (i.
The mindvibrates no longer, after the extinction of breathing; and then, O sage!
It is the three-inch swing of a pendulum in a cupboard, which the great pulse of nature vibrates by and through each instant.
But as he progresses it vibrates with increasing intensity.
Each section of the string vibrates with a different quality of tone.
The chord it vibrates with its magic touch Is not a sense to man peculiar, An independent string formed by that breath That, breathed into the image corporate, Made man a living soul.
And His great heart Went out in fondest tones: His soft embrace Encircling such as thou, thrilled out that love That vibrates yet, and still enfolds so warm His tender lambs.
He touched thy lips, and every word of thine Vibrates on chords whose deep electric thrill Shall never cease till that wide wound be healed.
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