| George Augustus Rowell - 1875 - 308 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder-cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular stones were hissing around us, like points near a powerful electrical machine. Immediately after this it thundered.' 82.... | |
| James David Forbes - 1843 - 480 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth when a clap of thunder, unaccompanied by lightning,... | |
| 1844 - 434 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud, as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth, when a clap of thunder, unaccompanied by lightning,... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...begged Damatter to lower his umbrella, which he had hoisted against a hail shower, and whose gay brass point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 306 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder-cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...I told my companions of our situation, and begged the guide to lower his umbrella, which he had now resumed, and hoisted against the hail-shower, and... | |
| James David Forbes - 1855 - 370 páginas
...There could be _but one explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth, when a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning,... | |
| James David Forbes - 1855 - 390 páginas
...explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud as to be THE PARTY ELECTRIFIED. 255 highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the party. The words were scarcely out of my mouth, when a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning,... | |
| Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder-cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...begged Damatter to lower his umbrella, which he had hoisted against a hail shower, and whose gay brass point was likely to hecome the paratonnerre of the... | |
| George Augustus Rowell - 1859 - 188 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder-cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...us, like points near a powerful electrical machine." Immediately after this it thundered. There can be hardly a doubt that had this phenomenon occurred... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 páginas
...There could be but one explanation — we were so near a thunder cloud as to be highly electrified by induction. I soon perceived that all the angular...begged Damatter to lower his umbrella, which he had hoisted against a hail shower, and whose gay brass point was likely to become the paratonnerre of the... | |
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