"Node" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the middle of the room, when she was shown in by the landlady. He too was moved outside himself. She saw him agitated and shaken, a frail, unsubstantial body silent like the node of some violent force, that came out from him and shook ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... for the same time, but the velocity is much greater. The extreme latitudes vary at different times with the eccentricity of the lunar orbit, with the place or longitude of the perigee, and with the longitude of the moon's ascending node, but in no case can the central vortex reach within 5d of the equator, or higher than about 75d of latitude north or south. Hence there are no storms strictly speaking beyond 88d[7] of latitude; although a storm may be raging close by, at the turning point south, and draw in a very strong ...
— Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms - Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence • T. Bassnett
... are aware that wrong methods of tone-production result in nodes on the vocal cords. The node, therefore, is one of the most familiar ...
— The Voice - Its Production, Care and Preservation • Frank E. Miller
... all dis eart'ly pliss? Oh, vot ish man's soocksess? Oh, vot ish various kinds of dings? Und vot ish hobbiness? Ve find a pank node in de shtreedt, Next dings der pank ish preak! Ve folls, and knocks our outsides in, Vhen ve a ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... is reckoned from the ascending node of the Milky Way on the equator, which is situated in the constellation Aquila. The galactic latitude (b) gives the angular distance of the star from the Galaxy. On plate I, at the end of these lectures, will be found a fairly detailed diagram ...
— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
... flower has a pedicel about 1in. long, which springs from the axils of the main stem leaves; the stems seldom exceed the height of 4in. or 5in., and they are exceedingly fine, thready, as also are the pedicels; they are, moreover, of zigzag form, from node to node. The leaves are 3/4in. long, and less than 1/2in. wide, ovate or nearly cordate, partially folded, and sometimes reflexed at the ends, nearly stalkless, slightly toothed, smooth, of good substance and a peculiar grey-green colour. The foliage for ...
— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood |
