"The matter is, monseigneur," replied the patron of the bark, "that it is a truly remarkable thing - that
lighter comes along like a hurricane."
"'What was thot?' says the pilot, when we struck the
lighter.
By giving the balloon these cubic dimensions, and filling it with hydrogen gas, instead of common air--the former being fourteen and a half times
lighter and weighing therefore only two hundred and seventy-six pounds--a difference of three thousand seven hundred and twenty-four pounds in equilibrium is produced; and it is this difference between the weight of the gas contained in the balloon and the weight of the surrounding atmosphere that constitutes the ascensional force of the former.
But they kept steadily moving, and just as Jim was about tired out with his long journey the way suddenly grew
lighter, and Zeb put out the lanterns to save the oil.
The children were light in color, even
lighter than the women, and all looked precisely alike to me, except that some were taller than others; older, I presumed.
"Oh, botheration!" returned Sydney, with a
lighter and more good- humoured laugh, "don't YOU be moral!"
When completed he had a rather snug little nest, to which he carried their blankets and some of the
lighter luggage.
Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a
lighter material--pine.
The
lighter sort of malignity, turneth but to a crassness, or frowardness, or aptness to oppose, or difficulties, or the like; but the deeper sort, to envy and mere mischief.
I have a notion that there were some clever people in one of these companies, and that the
lighter pieces at least were well played, but I may be altogether wrong.
As it is, however, I will make
lighter of you, since I have to carry what is heavy; and what matter if beetles and May-bugs also alight on my load!
"It will be
lighter for you here," answered her sister-in-law.