By long
transmission among household facts, they grow to look like them, and have such a familiar way of making themselves at home that their influence is usually greater than we suspect.
He was a third-generation specialist in the nature of speech, and he knew that for the
transmission of spoken words there must be "a pulsatory action of the electric current which is the exact equivalent of the aerial impulses."
The Indians, who believe in the hereditary
transmission of virtues and defects in character, suffered him to depart in silence.
It will require four or five days for the
transmission of the money, four or five days for her to return; that makes ten days.
"`I, El-Kobbir, a slave-merchant, and purveyor of the harem of his highness, acknowledge having received for
transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haidee, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego.
Under these disadvantages, the old loyalist's story required more revision to render it fit for the public eye than those of the series which have preceded it; nor should it be concealed that the sentiment and tone of the affair may have undergone some slight, or perchance more than slight, metamorphosis, in its
transmission to the reader through the medium of a thorough-going democrat.
I may mention here that radio-aerograms are seldom if ever used in war time, or for the
transmission of secret dispatches at any time, for as often as one nation discovers a new cipher, or invents a new instrument for wireless purposes its neighbours bend every effort until they are able to intercept and translate the messages.
In these actions we apparently behold as perfect a
transmission of will in the zoophyte, though composed o thousands of distinct polypi, as in any single animal.
Luker had, or had not, trusted the
transmission of his precious gem to another person; and poor polite Mr.
There lies on his desk at this present moment, ready for
transmission to you, a letter, in which he tells you that our poverty--our poverty; his and mine, Miss Haredale-- forbids him to pursue his claim upon your hand; in which he offers, voluntarily proposes, to free you from your pledge; and talks magnanimously (men do so, very commonly, in such cases) of being in time more worthy of your regard--and so forth.
If we dare to look closely enough, may we not observe that the moral force of character and the higher intellectual capacities in parents seem often to wear out mysteriously in the course of
transmission to children?
That's the message,' I readily undertook its
transmission. While I was waiting for the coach in the hotel at Yarmouth that very afternoon, I procured a sheet of paper and an inkstand, and wrote a note to Peggotty, which ran thus: 'My dear Peggotty.