"Spirit level" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Harry to his chum. "There's something about the spirit level on this transit of mine that ...
— The Young Engineers in Colorado • H. Irving Hancock
... Daniel story. What an acted out illustration it is of Paul's words. It is a picture glowing with the action of real life. It is a double picture. Every prayer action is in doubles; a lower human level; an upper spirit level. Many see only the seen, and lose heart. While we look at the things that are seen, let us gaze intently at the things unseen; for the seen things are secondary, but the unseen are chief, and the action of life ...
— Quiet Talks on Prayer • S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
... gun factories had sold to Roumania her cannon. On each gun was a delicate sight with a spirit level—a little glass tube supposed to be filled with a liquid which would not freeze. Slyly the Germans had filled these tubes with water, intending, in case Roumania entered the war on their side, to warn them about the "mistake." When the guns were hauled up into the mountains and freezing weather ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet
... factories had sold to Roumania her cannon. On each gun was a delicate sight with a spirit level—a little glass tube supposed to be filled with a liquid which would not freeze. Slyly the Germans had filled these tubes with water, intending, in case Roumania entered the war on their side, to warn them about ...
— The World War and What was Behind It - The Story of the Map of Europe • Louis P. Benezet |
