| 单词 | scintillation |
| 例句 | Above the engine roar comes a loud crack, followed by a scintillation spreading underfoot, as the Packard hits a dark patch on the frozen lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The experimenter folded himself into that cramped space and fixed his eye on a scintillation screen capturing flashes from a bombarded lithium target. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Geiger and Marsden recorded the particles’ scattering by observing the flash, or scintillation, produced whenever one struck a glass plate coated with zinc sulfide. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was just as bright and just as black as the scintillations on the spangled ring, which was now close enough to be almost out of sight behind him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z With their apparatus, a refinement of the Marsden-Geiger box of 1911, they found that ordinary air produced especially frequent scintillations resembling those of hydrogen nuclei, or protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On April 16 Cockcroft and Walton nervously summoned Rutherford to the basement so he might see for himself a scintillation pattern they thought heavily suggestive of alpha particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This book’s scintillation factor is slight, but the takeaway’s well worth it. Beth Macy’s 'Factory Man,' Michael Lewis’s 'Flash Boys' and More 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z If some of the inclusions on view serve historical clarity more than visual scintillation, the show as whole nevertheless provides plenty to occupy the eye. Art Review: ‘Drawing Surrealism’ at the Morgan Library and Museum 2013-01-24T23:00:37Z Dutoit opened with a reading of Berlioz's "Roman Carnival Overture" that offered welcome degrees of clarity and scintillation. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z It will be the largest and most sensitive scintillation detector ever built. China’s new underground lab could answer long-standing neutrino mystery 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Let be the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in the organic artifact or fossil to be dated, determined by a method called liquid scintillation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z One novel proposal, called THEIA, combines a water-based detector, like Hyper-K, alongside a “scintillation” detector that is more akin to DUNE—to reap the benefits of both approaches. Troubled U.S. Neutrino Project Faces Uncertain Future–and Fresh Opportunities 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The Tibet ASgamma experiment spotted the photons using an array of nearly 600 scintillation detectors, sensors that turn particle strikes into electronic signals. Highest energy light ever seen traced to Crab Nebula 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Vollmann treks through communities in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant, measuring radiation with a dosimeter and a scintillation counter wherever he goes. Review | Why have we done so little to tackle climate change? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Bands corresponding to standard PS and PE were scraped from the plates and radioactivity was measured by scintillation counting after overnight incubation at room temperature. LACTB is a tumour suppressor that modulates lipid metabolism and cell state : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The telescope was designed by project lead Anthony Hewish to detect interplanetary scintillation in an effort to learn more about quasars. Pop Culture Pulsar: The Science Behind Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Two years later, The Times reported that Canadian researchers were able to extend the range to 40,000 years with “liquid scintillation,” still used to test the radioactivity of low-energy isotopes. Digging Up the Root of Carbon Dating 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Radioactive counts were determined by a scintillation counter and scintillation reads were normalized to the total protein concentration of each sample. Metabolic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to glucose limitation and biguanides 2014-04-04T14:06:22.655Z His field of specialty was electromagnetic scintillation, which involves the transmission of electromagnetic waves through the atmosphere. Albert D. ‘Bud’ Wheelon, satellite pioneer, dies at 84 2013-10-01T23:33:47Z Marsden had observed that when he bombarded hydrogen atoms in a sealed box with a scintillation screen with alpha particles, he predictably observed hydrogen atoms striking the scintillation screen and setting off flashes. Ernest Rutherford, master of simplicity 2013-08-30T21:45:02.847Z It was unlike any of the scintillation patterns that she was searching for in the course of the team’s quasar research. Pop Culture Pulsar: The Science Behind Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Beyond that, however, I think you exhaust the el-cheapo options and have to dig deeper into your wallet, starting with replacing the Geigers counters with scintillation counters, as Wu and Shaknov used. How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment, Part 2 (of 2) 2013-02-14T15:15:03.647Z The total amount of scintillation light detected by the photodetectors is proportional to the incident energy. [Article] Journey in the Search for the Higgs Boson: The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider 2012-12-20T21:26:28.033Z Brilliant scintillations were darting from its shadowy borders, and the zigzag lightnings were playing about it, and licking its ragged folds like the tongues of an evil spirit! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Things got more interesting when he realized that he could observe scintillations even when the box was emptied of hydrogen. Ernest Rutherford, master of simplicity 2013-08-30T21:45:02.847Z Wine most undoubtedly produces a greater vivacity of ideas and a more brilliant scintillation of wit and fancy. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Ruth saw this scintillation; instantly she crossed to Chase's side, as he still studied the programme, and bending to look at it, said, "Please, may I see too?" Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Her eyes, which had a faint scintillation in them, were of a violet black, and her hair of the tint of ebony, though it was lustrous, too. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Too slow a rotation allows a scintillation which is destructive of accuracy of reading. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z He realized that the goal was basically one of exclusion; if he systematically exclude possible suspects that could react with the alpha particle and produce scintillations, he could determine the culprit. Ernest Rutherford, master of simplicity 2013-08-30T21:45:02.847Z Every nerve in him tingled, though there was only the ominous scintillation in his eyes to indicate what he was feeling. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Just then there was a little scintillation in his eyes, and he looked like one who had at least the courage to attempt a good deal. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Is man alone, Of all the marvels of creative love, Blest with a scintillation of His essence— The heavenly spark of reasonable soul? The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Near them it was dark green in color; farther away it was blue; then in the centre the great silvery spot was still resplendent with vivid scintillations reflecting the fiery disk of the sun. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Only in the last case did the scintillations double, indicating that there was something in the air that was producing hydrogens. Ernest Rutherford, master of simplicity 2013-08-30T21:45:02.847Z There isn't a single scintillation of truth in the story. Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z Is man alone, of all the marvels of creative love Blest with a scintillation of his essence? Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Night as it was, there was no softness in that scheme of color lighted by the frosty scintillations of the stars, and a shiver ran through his stiffened limbs. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z While thus passing down, as the boats turn a sudden bend in the river, a dozen lights gleam from the islands, throwing their lengthened scintillations over the water. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Their power lay, not in intellectual subtlety or brilliant scintillation of wit, but in the bitterness of their invective, the appeal they make to elemental passions. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Keen flashes of wit, bright scintillations of thought, forms of expression of unusual felicity, pour forth spontaneously, while the mind apprehends and retains many kinds of knowledge with the greatest readiness. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z "What is't ye want, then?" roared he, at last, in a voice higher than Stentor's, while the fire flashed frae his ee in almost palpable scintillations o' fury. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z A scintillation rushed across from the zenith to the southern horizon. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The phosphorescence of the sea, with its scintillations of brilliant light, its ripples of liquid fire, the crest of each wave a flaming cascade, was a charming phenomenon one never tired of watching. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z All was perfectly silent, and the darkness was intense, save ashore, where the fireflies glanced and played in scintillations amongst the trees. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z He had a sense of dimly grasping great secrets as be gazed into its shining depths, trying to follow the flow and scintillation of its myriad stars. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Swiftly, smoothly, they seemed to speed through the ebon darkness lit up from time to time by the phosphorescent scintillations which fell from the black water at each dip of the oars. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z This refers to the scintillation of the stars rising. A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z Sparks burst out of them, dazzling scintillations, miniature fireworks. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The scintillations from a thousand gems, with which its surface was enriched, lent to it a brilliance which eye-witnesses declare to have been almost insupportable. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z From the vague outline of the blue garden slopes as far as the immense scintillation of the night, shuddered the eternal sea. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z With only an occasional interval—transient as the scintillation of a meteor—it has been black ever since! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Each α-particle produces a scintillation on a sensitive screen placed in its path, and these scintillations are counted one by one by the observer. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z There was a scintillation of cheer in the disappointment. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z It was only a single glance she gave me; and then the long lashes fell over her eyes, hiding their sweet scintillation. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z The crests of the vast billows as they burst high in the air, descended in showers of scintillations. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z She had ordered this man down in her royal way, being rather taken with his tallness, youngness and smoothness, and demanded scintillation. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z The black and sinuous line of battalions and squadrons was hardly distinguishable from the surrounding darkness of the night, lighted only by the scintillations of the stars. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z See," he said, "how sharp the diamond scintillations are compared to this softened glory! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z It glittered and crawled with scaly scintillations, like the corrugated armor of a dragon. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Nor can any one candidly read it, without finding on every page, scintillations of the sunlike splendors of a mind bathed in the purity, wisdom, and love of heaven.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Consequently the candle end spit, spat, and sputtered; sent off little fatty scintillations, and then went out. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z This was witnessed with secret satisfaction; for, with these treacherous scintillations, departed the dread that many felt, lest they should betray the march of the army. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico A bucketful was drawn and deposited upon deck; while it remained still it appeared dark and like any other water, but when agitated it emitted scintillations of light like the stars. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands The Diana pond was skinned with ice; goddess and golden nymphs caught every scintillation of cold sunlight as we trundled past. Witching Hill From a scintillation of colored lights upon the horizon he could hear the scrannel sounds of the railway come thinly along the night air. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The boats glide over the water-streets; a landing is possible in the Therezia Square; lanterns are burning; torches flare, ruddy scintillations dart over the water. Majesty A Novel Opposite, the misty loom of cliffs was now discernible, and between it and them, down in the shadowy depths, that flashing star still shone clear in its green scintillations. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt A grim, massive face, a pair of fierce, rolling eyes, which seemed to sparkle with a cruel and blood thirsty scintillation, a large, strongly built trunk, whose conformation alone betrayed the sex of the creature. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War By proper subdivision of the field under the lens, the number of scintillations can be counted with close accuracy. A Brief Account of Radio-activity Another method of counting this number is to let the particles fall on a phosphorescent screen, and count the number of scintillations on the screen in a certain time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" So came the Scorpio, with coil on coil of sidereal scintillations, and here and again the out-thrust dartings of a malign red star. The Story of Old Fort Loudon It had its own light source, a substage illuminator, and even an "atomic energy" stage, which was actually a device for viewing the scintillations caused when radioactivity hit a sulfide screen. The Blue Ghost Mystery Was all this scintillation a mask, he wondered, or had the coming of the King—the remembrance of her vow—driven the recollection of that momentary surrender in Paris from her heart? Trusia A Princess of Krovitch A simple form of apparatus called the spinthariscope has been devised to show these scintillations. A Brief Account of Radio-activity There comes not one pencil of light from the interior, neither is there one scintillation of that which comes from without reflected in any direction. Old and New London Volume I These ladles are filled from the various furnaces, the iron throwing out an intense heat, and projecting the most brilliant scintillations in every direction, as it flows. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. There were hundreds of scintillations, each caused by a nuclear particle or photon striking the screen. The Blue Ghost Mystery Harry proceeded to obey, Raeburn watching him, and every now and again, his greed rekindled by some bright scintillation, abstracting another jewel from the secretary’s share, and adding it to his own. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) Under a magnifying glass this light is seen to be made up of a number of scintillating points of light and is not continuous, each scintillation being of very short duration. A Brief Account of Radio-activity It is fitted with a lens focused upon a bit of Sidot's blende and radium nitrate, and in a dark room shows these beautiful scintillations "like a shower of stars." A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The scintillations from jewels whose value mounted into millions was like the continuous flash of the electric spark. Carmen Ariza The woman's hand trembled as she touched his; her head was uplifted for an instant, and an exulting glance shot from those strange eyes, bright as scintillations from a diamond. Mabel's Mistake Not a scintillation of it has reached us. Bible Romances First Series The scintillations can be observed through an adjustable lens at the other end of the tube. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The greatest Athenians were certainly not religious in Professor Flint's sense of the word, and the grand old Roman patriots had scarcely a scintillation of such a religious faith as he speaks of. Arrows of Freethought So long as we can get a scintillation of their meaning we must be satisfied. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Directly, bright scintillations of frost arose upon the white waste of snow, and the whole earth seemed crusted with diamond dust. Mabel's Mistake It had in it the scintillation of the diamond, for the flickering brilliance changed to evanescent blue and rose from pure white light. Blake's Burden By the scintillations on a zinc sulphide screen. A Brief Account of Radio-activity What is scintillation? in what two senses used? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Harry proceeded to obey, Raeburn watching him, and every now and again, his greed rekindled by some bright scintillation, abstracting another jewel from the secretary's share, and adding it to his own. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The presence of moisture in the atmosphere intensifies scintillation, and this is usually regarded as a prognostication of rain. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' These are small scintillations, but the toiler through German pamphlet literature is truly grateful for them. Gems (?) of German Thought On introducing the emanation into the tube, the escape of the alpha particles from the emanation was clearly seen by the scintillations produced at some distance on a zinc sulphide screen. A Brief Account of Radio-activity The gayety and magnetism of numbers, the scintillations of brain in special advocacy, followed by tumultuous accord. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century From the scintillations of wit, the fun and the laughter, an outsider would never have supposed that we were an oppressed class, and so hopelessly degraded in the statute laws and Constitution. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Out of this came a faint scintillation of light, and as they drew up to it, a candle could be seen burning inside a sort of covered porch, resembling the lych-gate of a country church. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley If a bucketful is drawn and deposited upon deck, while it remains still it appears dark and like any other water, but when agitated it emits scintillations of light like the stars. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands They all shone with a clear and steady light; the twinkling and scintillation of the stars, as seen from the earth, being caused by the vibrations and movements in our own atmosphere. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story As editor of The Elevator, a weekly newspaper still published in San Francisco, he made its pages brilliant with scintillations of elegance, wealth of learning, and vigor of advocacy. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century The scintillations which leaped out to meet them, were like the rays from myriads of gleaming, glistening, varicolored lights, of dazzling brightness and infinite depth. In Her Own Right The liveliness of the interruption, and its futility, often please; dulce est desipere in loco; and yet those who must endure the society of inveterate jokers know how intolerable this sort of scintillation can become. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory According to the idiosyncrasy of the individual, the scintillations will have one character or another. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy A Burmese gong: briefly and magically the stage, the audience, the amazing gleam and scintillation of the Opera, faded. The Place of Honeymoons How often do we see the scintillations of genius within college walls, of which we see or hear nothing after the day of graduation? Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Not that I recognised in him the faintest scintillation of the affectation so common among authors as to the publication of work. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti They observe other scintillation besides that caused by the Condor’s keel. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The stars multiply and shed around their scintillations. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul A million tiny winkings and scintillations emanated from each crystal. The Marooner The heat there is competent to raise iron to a temperature at which it throws off brilliant scintillations. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The apprentice went back to his stool in the corner and knocked off that scintillation of genius. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It is at the same time hurling off material particles which reveal their impact on a screen by luminous scintillations. The Life Radiant I did not raise my head from the stand, for I felt sure that this was not all I was to behold; and in a few moments there was again a faint scintillation. Tales of Fantasy and Fact But in that appalling emptiness they were mere scintillations. A Matter of Importance At each box is a bunch of lights, and, with the arrival of the silks and jewellery, they are whipped to a thousand scintillations. Nights in London Their peculiar scintillation, their lesser size, the wide space between them all convinced me they were not deer’s eyes. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle, with plenty of scintillation; like some little firework made for their amusement, but no sign of the train being fired. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" “To save you,” said the hermit, with a scintillation of his half-pitiful smile. Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago And they stood face to face in a pallor that was like a scintillation of white-hot metal, both knowing that their lips, though they uttered first a thousand similar phrases, would presently be united. Sacrifice When there are no scintillations in the air, the rim or margin of the sun appears to be a perfect circle, as defined, in outline, as if carved. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I do not wish to appear exigent, but as one who likes to be amused as well as entertained I could easily have done with a little more scintillation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 "If brains were radium, you couldn't make a flicker on a scintillation counter." Pagan Passions He will see the gold-tipped dome of the Library of Congress glinting in the light, and know its scintillations but herald the purpose to keep the light of learning and knowledge bright. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time The light from the deck brought out dazzling scintillations from a beach composed of gigantic crystal pebbles as large as ostrich eggs. The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette Innumerable electric scintillations played through the chaos of vapors, at the same time that the ears were deafened by a frightful fracas. Plotting in Pirate Seas Look at that—recording tape from my scintillation counter. Planet of the Damned “Thank you,” said Archie, with a faint scintillation of his old ideas of fun. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris The soft black-looking cord burst into scintillations, tiny sparks flew off on all sides, and a dull fire began to burn slowly along the fuse. Patience Wins War in the Works For the mainsail began to shiver slightly, and the glassy water to send forth scintillations instead of one broad silvery gleam. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai But unfortunately, on the other hand, there was the darkness profound, and not the scintillation of a riding light to show where the gunboat lay. Fitz the Filibuster The next minute my head came in contact with stones, strange scintillations of light flashed before my eyes, there was a roar as of thunder in my ears, and then all was blank. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer Sirius blazed in blue-white splendor, dominating the lesser members of his constellation, a minute but intensely brilliant diamond upon a field of black velvet—his refulgence unmarred by any trace of scintillation or distortion. Skylark Three The light above struck blind on the glass in one eye, but the other danced with a genial, a mad scintillation. The Coast of Chance Alas! proud Science, Fancy’s sneering foe, Says they are but the Sun’s refracted rays, And scintillations from his burning wheels. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Miriam retorted with the first scintillation of gaiety she had shown on this occasion. The Tragic Muse The Count caught a glimpse of a tall and graceful figure, a scintillation of diamonds in dark hair and a slender foot on the step. The Child of Pleasure Perhaps we may look upon the so-called splendour of the reign of Dagobert in France as the spasmodic scintillations of its latest moments of existence. Illuminated Manuscripts Wisdom is equilibrium in the Thoughts, which are the scintillations and rays of the Intellect. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Indeed, in a small way, I who write these words suffered dismissal and disgrace, though I caught but one glimpse of this dazzling scintillation of jewels. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The sky had never stretched more cloudlessly above his head; the air had never been sweeter, the dancing ripples of the bay gladder in their golden scintillations. Flood Tide I saw clearly that it had required all the influence of my danger and suffering, to extract from him one scintillation of humane feeling. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth However, he was not one to exhibit a family difference before a stranger, when once recalled to his senses, and the topic that had elicited these few scintillations of feeling was dropped by common consent. The Mayor of Warwick It suggested rather a shooting star, emitting a shower of scintillations from the facets of a hundred jewels. The Story of Cooperstown We know nothing of these celestial eyes which gaze upon us, cold and calm, with scintillations like the blinking of eyelids. Social Life in the Insect World Viands of all kinds stood on every side, while the brilliant scintillations from chandeliers—massive silver and sparkling glasses—were of wondrous radiance. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Suppose some gleam or scintillation of humour had lighted up the unwinking, amber eye? Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country For this is what we saw:— At first, only a blaze of darting rays that beneath the moon gleamed, sparkled and shot out a myriad scintillations of colour—red, violet, orange, green and deepest crimson. Dead Man's Rock Affections and thought flowing from that love are represented by diamond-like auras with scintillations as if from carbuncles and rubies, which are attended by delights that affect the interiors of the mind. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell Moonlight illumined the wider bends and flashed in silver scintillations from the broken waters of the creek. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country He may have soared aloft for a brief moment with starry scintillations, like a rocket, only at last to come down like the stick, empty and unnoticed. Inquiries and Opinions So must an Eternal Being regard the scintillation of the stars and the periodic vibration of life in our geological time and the most enduring efforts of thought. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays Thank God for such a Hero!—Fearless hold His diamond character beneath the sun, And brighter scintillations, one by one, Come flashing from it. Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War Irradiations in gold, scintillations in crimson, splendors in emerald, lucidities in ultramarine—a dazzling girandola of every tint and of every hue. All Around the Moon Vivid, multicoloured scintillations and innumerable glittering stars flashed out and thronged the sky. Combed Out Such an expression might be observed in a menagerie when a tigress, indolently dallying with one of her cubs, exhibits, even in repose, those fiery scintillations in the eye which startle the beholders. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One This pains the eye in a similar manner as when we come suddenly from a dark room into bright daylight, and gives the appearance of bright scintillations. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life When submitted to a white heat iron burns with brilliant scintillations. A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations No twinkling, no scintillation, no nictitation, disturbed their pure and lambent gleam. All Around the Moon It is also observable, that those bright scintillations neer the Horizon, are not by much so quick and sudden in their consecutions of one another, as the nimbler twinklings of Stars neerer the Zenith. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Foaming with light, the eddying waves flash in phosphorent sparks over the wide expanse of waters, where every scintillation is the vital manifestation of an invisible animal world.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 "To save you" said the hermit, with a scintillation of his half-pitiful smile. Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata The instruments give out the merest intimations of sound, scintillations that suggest it rather. Beethoven A curious phenomenon is noticed with wood charcoal; it appears at first to absorb and condense the fluorine, then quite suddenly it bursts into flame with bright scintillations. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Let the adult gaze upon the arc of an electric light or into the sun, and for many moments, nay hours, that individual has dancing before his vision scintillations and phosphenes. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Soon its ruddy glare lit up the dark rock with fantastic flickerings, and drew scintillations from the weapons and ornaments of the hideously picturesque horde gathered in its vicinity. The Wings of the Morning He leant against an aged tree, and his strange, lustrous-looking eyes seemed to collect every wandering scintillation of light that was around, and to shine with preternatural intensity. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood I soon learned the secret of all this scintillation. Life in a Thousand Worlds When well struck, the spark is white-hot and at that temperature it burns with bright scintillations in the air, just as iron that is merely red-hot burns in pure oxygen. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries All our gifts derive their significance from this Gift; all our joys are scintillations of this Light. A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas Foaming with light, the eddying waves flash in phosphorescent sparks over the wide expanse of waters, where every scintillation is the vital manifestation of an invisible animal world. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 It had in it the scintillation of the diamond, for the flickering brilliance changed from pure white light to evanescent blue and rose. The Intriguers The scintillation and glitter of light destroys this touch idea, which is better preserved in quieter lightings. The Practice and Science of Drawing But One thing is impossible to love: love cannot create love; the intensest and most fervent love is powerless to evoke a scintillation of love. Hints for Lovers Otherwise, it gleamed with scintillations, neither faint nor few, of the light of other days. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 Whether she was embittered by the thought of her scintillations growing dull from disuse or of scintillating head axes, I know not, but she made little less than a tragedy of the matter. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines The scintillations of these rays are caught up by the clouds and vapors and are repeated in many portions of the globe, and faint rays from them are seen even in this temperate climate. Strange Visitors Trappings, scintillations, music, firm looks, heavy and serious mustaches, all enters pell-mell into him, and in a few moments the resulting poem will be virtually composed. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 In passing down from ancient to modern times the Persians and the Arabians light the long way with scintillations from the beautiful. Essays Æsthetical There are scintillations of wit and humor, but they are not very numerous. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I None shed off such splendid scintillations in our evening colloquies on the piazzas. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography These three stones darted mysterious and perverse scintillations, painfully torn from the frozen depths of their troubled waters. Against the Grain In those days, Santa Fé, New Mexico, was an undergrown, decrepit, out-at-elbows ancient hidalgo of a town, with not a scintillation of prosperity or grandeur about it, except the name of capital. Overland "No," said Aurora, with a scintillation of irrepressible mischief in her eyes. The Grandissimes Largest of all, great Sirius is flaming in the south, quivering with the ebb and flow of his light, sometimes with an emerald scintillation like a dewdrop on which a sunbeam glances. Hodge and His Masters The serpent looked at the poised egg, and he trembled and writhed so that his black scales scattered everywhither scintillations of reflected sunlight. Figures of Earth First, we write Mrs. Browning, a name surrounded by a halo of glory from the scintillations of her own genius. Woman: Man's Equal Yet the perpetual scintillation of Butler's wit is too dazzling to be delightful; and we can seldom read far in "Hudibras" without feeling more fatigue than pleasure. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author "La bourse" she repeated, softly smiling, but with a scintillation of the eyes in resentment of his scrutiny. The Grandissimes From his eyes came scintillations of a joy whose root is not in our planet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 The glitter of the drops in the sunset light, a jewelled scintillation, was caught in Mrs. Laudersdale's eyes, and some unconscious excitement fanned a faint color to and fro on her cheek. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 The shining matter was fluid and very adhesive: little spots, where the skin had been torn, continued bright with a slight scintillation, whilst the uninjured parts were obscured. The Voyage of the Beagle Harry proceeded to obey, Raeburn watching him, and every now and again his greed rekindled by some bright scintillation, abstracting another jewel from the secretary's share, and adding it to his own. New Arabian Nights The rays gushing into it seemed to be filling it; it was alive with sparklings, scintillations, glimmerings. The Moon Pool The sky was a different and terribly fierce color; and when I caught a glimpse of the sun, he was white and unwinking like a lime-ball light, yet threw off wicked scintillations. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The secret of the entire process hinges on the use of the ninth ray, one of the beautiful scintillations which I had noted emanating from the great stone in my host's diadem. A Princess of Mars While posing as the apostle of light, you will obscure the scintillations of the stars because the sun is hid; while apotheosizing Happiness you would banish Hope, that mother of which it is born. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 It is sad that I can remember nothing of all this scintillation. Moon and Sixpence Bellegarde always welcomed the prospect of a long stretch of conversation, and before long the two men sat watching the great blaze which scattered its scintillations over the high adornments of Newman's ball-room. The American The crests of the waves sparkled with phosphoric scintillations. Love's Final Victory We care less and less for the surprises and scintillations of clever fellows; we care more and more for the real thoughts of real men. The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men The quickness of her answer was the scintillation of her intellect under the glow of her affection. Miracles of Our Lord The scintillations of Johnson's genius flashed every time he was struck, without his receiving any injury. Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 Madame de Bellegarde opened her eyes; the scintillations had gone out of them; they were fixed and dead. The American The Gulf of Carthage gleamed far off under the scintillation of the stars, under the palpitating of a milky way all white like the flowers of the garden of Heaven. Saint Augustin From its midst luminous fragments and bright scintillations were thrown in every direction. The Mysterious Island Air and water contribute to make their particles cohere; the igneous matter, or inflammable principle, tinges them with colour, and sometimes plainly indicates its presence, by the brilliant scintillation which motion elicits from them. The System of Nature, Volume 1 Sometimes, indeed, a few embers of intellect were seen among the clergy; but the brightness of their scintillation was owing to the blackness of death with which they were contrasted. The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself Here it was that Humboldt saw apparent lateral shiftings and perpendicular oscillations of fixed stars; and our Admiralty, not wishing to be behind him, directed Professor P. Smyth's attention to 'scintillations in general.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I I have been a week in the country now, and am writing at this moment amidst such a scintillation of fireflies and chorus of frogs as a cockney would cross the Atlantic to enjoy. Authors and Friends He shrieked in mortal agony, and then in a whirl of dizzying circles seemed to go down in a tide of blackness sparkling with millions of sharp scintillations. The Puritans Its scintillations made a stirring address to his eye. Bertram Cope's Year There are other tints and flashes of glory sleeping in the jewel which need the rays of light to impinge upon it at other angles, in order to wake them into scintillation and lustre. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The supple, well-trained horses lose the scintillation on their coats, while Uncle Sam's blue is growing mauve very rapidly. Crooked Trails Their scintillation was scarcely sensible at the horizon, which seemed illumined by the great nebulae of the southern hemisphere. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 At times the gleam of the brasswork would exercise the same hypnosis over his senses as the scintillation of the jewelry counters of the store, and he would rub his hands crisply together. Over the Pass Both had seen that flash of teeth and deadly scintillation of eyes at other times, both knew what it meant. The Danger Trail It has long ceased to flash round the welkin, and its very scintillations have disturbed our true vision. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents Mrs. Delano smiled at these small scintillations of wit, which in the talk of lovers sparkle to them like diamond-dust in the sunshine. A Romance of the Republic The light of the halo was of course very much narrower than when I first observed it, and its scintillations or coruscations no longer distinctly visible. Across the Zodiac He rubbed the palms of his hands together as he had over the scintillation of the jewelry counters. Over the Pass She thanked me for my compliance, and said, with a scintillation of coaxingness in her manner,— "You need not be afraid; there's nothing to harm one in Redleaf." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 Of course he has never seen your noble, capacious, alabaster forehead, else he would perceive the source of those scintillations of light and warmth which radiate throughout the universe every Saturday for only ten cents. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 Then they moved—revolving slowly, and throwing out alternate scintillations of green and red; at least, so it appeared to me. The House on the Borderland The scintillation so characteristic of the fixed stars, especially in the temperate climates of the Earth, was scarcely perceptible. Across the Zodiac It was then that the beauty of the maiden's nature shone resplendently, showering scintillations of pure native goodness that forever sparkled as sunshine and cheered the rugged path of Phillip Lawson's life! Marguerite Verne Booth, who had no real virtue except by scintillations, became what he had promised, and one more soul went to the isles of Cyprus. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth Were the scintillations you spoke of the other night, that were seen all over the Western Continent, the result of the flashing of these radiant pages? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 In 1667, he explained the scintillation of the stars by irregular atmospheric refractions. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III The tone of the place is a triumph of mystery, the richest harmony of lurking shadows and dusky corners, all relieved by scattered images and scintillations. Italian Hours I have often seen at Cumana a great scintillation of the stars of Orion and Sagittarius, when Saussure's hygrometer was at 85 degrees. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 And most of the little scintillations of erudition, which may be found in the notes to the Characteristics, and in the Essays of Addison, are derived, almost without exception, and uniformly without acknowledgment, from Bayle. Biographical Essays Paste diamonds sparkle in necklaces, crowns and tiaras, seeming to rival the scintillations of the Kohinoor. Marvels of Modern Science The flashings below had shattered into many small scintillations as they shot upward, while something sharp and metallic was rattling among his planes. Our Pilots in the Air The dim light awoke strange scintillations in the precious stones. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian Probably it is not the quantity of vapour, but the manner in which it is diffused, and more or less dissolved in the air, which determines the scintillation. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Those little curt phrases, this continual scintillation irritates like seltzer water, which is pleasing at first but shortly seems like nasty water. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters They both looked at one another steadily, but the white face of the woman did not blench before the scintillations of his eyes. Madame Midas And then— There was a flash of inverted lightning, a flame of white fire, a blinding, stabbing scintillation of a million coruscations. The Blind Spot It was not the scintillation of laughter, and the flame in her cheeks was not embarrassment. The Flaming Forest And Riley fixed his eyes, that seemed, to the rum-seller, to burn and flash like balls of fire, sending off vivid scintillations, upon him with a long and searching stare. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life That year the spring burst over Chicago in a prolonged scintillation of pallid green. The Pit We are no longer convicts from a French prison, my friend, but shipwrecked sailors; you hear?'—with a sudden scintillation from his black eyes— 'shipwrecked sailors; and I will tell the story of the wreck. Madame Midas What one knows the other is but half aware of; neither knowledge nor ignorance being mutual, there is a scintillation of exchange, from opposing vantage grounds, followed by harmless snaps of thunder. Alice of Old Vincennes He took the jewel in his hand, examined it attentively, held it up to the light, admired its brilliant scintillations, and said: "It is a very handsome stone, but I didn't notice it." Monsieur Lecoq His heart beat painfully, as the last scintillations went out, and left but the pall of night behind. Prince Eugene and His Times It was a star which, seen from this depth, had lost all scintillation, and which by my computation should be 46; Ursa minor. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth The stars through all the gaps in the fearful ceilings seem to send their scintillations to you in an abyss. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Words of truth and soberness formed the staple of each sermon; and his burning words and startling images were only the electric scintillations along the chain of his scriptural eloquence. Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] This sport delighted him, "with the mirror darting its intermittent beams under the rays of the morning sun amid the general scintillation of the dewdrops and crystals of hoarfrost hanging on every blade of grass." Fabre, Poet of Science With the spell of her voice, of her eyes, of her radiant face upon him, Cameron's scintillation faded and snuffed out. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail I was working off these humorous brilliancies on him and getting no return—not a scintillation in his eye, not a spark of recognition of what I was doing there. Mark Twain's Speeches Francois Arago, as long as forty or fifty years ago, conclusively established the fact that scintillation is the simplest thing in the world,—merely a matter of atmosphere. Two on a Tower But nothing happened, and two o'clock, then three o'clock struck, without a dimming of the blue scintillations on the end of her dresser. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange Did ever Lark With swifter scintillations fling the spark That fires the dark? The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 In the midst of his scintillation he abruptly paused and sat listening. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail The village smith was opposite, but he was not a man of ponderous strength, nor were there those wondrous flights and scintillations of sparks which were the joy of our childhood in the Tattenhall forge. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan The comparative absence of scintillation in warm countries was noticed by Humboldt. Two on a Tower Their scintillation in the sun, in frequented paths, attracts Mosquitoes and Butterflies, like the lamps in our rooms and the fowler’s looking-glass. The Life of the Spider It was a return to life, a return to space; the earth coming out from under a pall to take its place in the renewed and immense scintillation of the universe. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows The scintillations of their united diadems illumined space like the fires of the sky at dawn upon the mountains. Seraphita The scintillation of the stars and the soft light of the moon illumined the delightful valley that lay at his feet. Verdugo, El It was further observed that Jupiter itself was almost void of scintillation. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space |
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