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More "Gramme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sorrows, now and onwards. June 12th, Friedrich's pouting Brother, the Prince of Prussia, died; this also he had to hear in Camp at Olmutz. 'What did he die of?' said Friedrich to the Messenger, a Major Something. 'Of chagrin,' said the Major, 'AUS GRAM.' ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.—1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle
... when he sailed, one bull, twenty-four cows, two hundred and twenty sheep, one hundred and thirty goats, five horses, and six asses; together with a quantity of beef, flour, rice, wheat, gram, paddy, and sugar; a few pipes of wine, some flat iron, and copper sufficient for the sloop's bottom which had been received in frame by the Pitt, and which Captain Manning remembered to have been sent out without that necessary article; a large quantity of spirits, and some canvas. In ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins
... find it vacant save for a youthful waiter and a barmaid. I walked straight to the window—where the light would be better for reading—and ordered bread and Edam cheese, tearing off a fifty gram amount from my Berlin bread ticket, which was fortunately good ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... Day the wheat, the barley, the gram, and the other Spring crops are well above the ground, and, ere January has given place to February, the emerald shoots of the corn attain a height of fully sixteen inches. On these the ...
— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar
... of an explosive, started by an external force, is generally completed in a fraction of a second; change of condition changes the rate of explosion: the "half-life period" of each radio-active substance is a constant characteristic of it; if a gram of radium were kept for about 1800 years, half of it would have changed into radio-inactive substances. Conditions may be arranged so that an explosive remains unchanged—wet gun-cotton is not exploded by a shock which ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir
... it paid 28 sers of wheat, 4 sers of Urid, and 2 of Ghiu: in August it paid one rupee in money. On each of the two holidays called Dasahara, there was besides a kid offered to the sovereign for every 10 Visis. The possessions of a convenient number of Zemindars formed a gram or gang, and one of them held the hereditary office of Pradhan, entirely analogous to the Umra of the eastern parts. The Pradhan was allowed a deduction of rent, and enjoyed some honourable distinctions, and, when the heir was in any manner incapacitated, a relation was appointed to act ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton
... of Heat. It is necessary to have a unit of heat just as we have a unit of length, or a unit of mass, or a unit of time. One unit of heat is called a calorie, and is the amount of heat which will change the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 deg. C. It is the amount of heat given out by 1 gram of water when its temperature falls 1 deg. C., or the amount of heat absorbed by 1 gram of water when its temperature rises 1 deg. C. If 400 grams of water ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark
... and he folded her in his arms, and he spake sweet words to her, and she was content. So they were wed that very day, and there came to do them honor all the folk upon these islands: Dougal and Tam and Ib and Robbie and Nels and Gram and Rupert and Rolf and many others and all their kin, and they made merry, and it was well. And never spake the Pagan princess of that soft velvet skin which Harold had hid away,—never spake she of it to him or to any ...
— The Holy Cross and Other Tales • Eugene Field
... tells thee true, my noble neophyte; my little gram maticaster, he does: it shall never put thee to thy mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, and I know not what supposed Suficiencies; if thou canst but have the patience to plod enough, talk, and make a noise enough, be ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson
... weight of mycelium, or of mycelium together with its organs of fructification. In an experiment of this kind, in which the plant was weighed a year after its development, we found for 0.008 gramme (0.123 gram) of MYCELIUM, dried at 100 degrees C. (212 degrees F.), an absorption that amounted to not less than 43 cc. (2.5 cubic inches) of oxygen at 25 degrees. These numbers, however, must vary sensibly with the nature of the mould employed, ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various
... This emendation, as well as an emendation with (?) to v. 739, he offers, because 'under' baffles him in both passages. All we need is to take 'under' in its secondary meaning of 'in,' which, though not given by Grein, occurs in the literature. Cf. Chron. 876 (March's A.-S. Gram. Sec. 355) and Oro. Amaz. I. 10, where 'under' in the midst of. Cf. modern Eng. 'in such circumstances,' which interchanges in good usage with 'under ...
— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin
... to calories is absolutely the worst of all food types, except perhaps for pure white sugar, which is all calories and absolutely no nutrition (this is also true for other forms of sugar. Honey, too, contains almost no nutrition.). Gram for gram, fats contain many more calories than do sugars or starches. Yet gram for gram, fats contain virtually no nutrition except for small quantities ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
... my researches. You should see some of our results! I have found a rat with undeniable psychokinetic power. I have seen him move a gram-weight of cheese nearly three centimeters to where he could reach it through the cage bars. I begin to suspect a certain female dog of abilities I would prefer not to name just yet. If you can find any excuse to come to Laibach, I ...
— The Leader • William Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)
... it. I now thought by going to the new northern range, that my progress thence might be easier. We may perhaps have paid the passing tribute of a sigh at leaving our little gardens, for the seeds planted in most of them had grown remarkably well. The plants that throve best here were Indian gram, maize, peas, spinach, pumpkins, beans, and cucumbers; melons also grew pretty well, with turnips and mustard. Only two wattles out of many dozens sown here came up, and no eucalypts have appeared, although the seeds ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles
... my surprise when at the day's end I emptied my bag on the floor to find a least little gram of gold among the poor heap. I bitterly wept and wished that I had had the heart to give thee ...
— Gitanjali • Rabindranath Tagore
... weights commonly used in analytical chemistry range from 20 grams to 5 milligrams. The weights from 20 grams to 1 gram are usually of brass, lacquered or gold plated. The fractional weights are of German silver, gold, platinum or aluminium. The rider is ...
— An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis - With Explanatory Notes • Henry P. Talbot
... thought and not of passion, prejudice and sensation and interest, they could do the work that police and courts are called upon to do. They could effectively answer the agitator. But the people do not believe them when they cry aloud. Maybe I am wrong, but isn't there a grain, or a gram, of ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... 15-gram weights on the table before the child some two or three inches apart. Say: "You see these blocks. They look just alike, but one of them is heavy and one is light. Try them and tell me which one is heavier." If the child does not respond, repeat the ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman
... clamped by the spring, s. This string, which was attached to the subject's leg by means of a light elastic band, after passing through the bar ran over a wheel, w, and hung tense by reason of a five-gram weight attached to the end. Until everything was in readiness for an experiment the string was left free to move through the bar so that movement of the animal was not hindered, but the instant before the ready-signal was given it was clamped by pressure on s. ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various
... I Dan I Humblus II Lotherus Scioldus Scioldus Gram Swibdagerus Guthormus Hadingus Frotho I Haldanus, Roe, Scatus Roe, Helgo Roluo Krage Hiartwarus Hotherus Balderus Roricus Vigletus Wermundus Uffo Dan II Hugletus Frotho II Dan III Fridleus I Fridleifus ...
— The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf • Oscar Ludvig Olson
... hier?" 75 Ich weiss es nicht. Besinnungslos und bleich, So fanden ihn am andern Tag die Priester Am Fussgestell der Isis ausgestreckt. Was er allda gesehen und erfahren, Hat seine Zunge nie bekannt. Auf ewig 80 War seines Lebens Heiterkeit dahin, Ihn riss ein tiefer Gram zum fruehen Grabe. "Weh dem", dies war sein warnungsvolles Wort, Wenn ungestueme Frager in ihn drangen, "Weh dem, der zu der Wahrheit geht durch Schuld, 85 Sie wird ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... everybody, todo el mundo, todos exact, exacto examination, examen to exceed, exceder exceedingly, mucho excellent, very good, optimo to exchange, trocar, cambiar exclusive, exclusivo to excuse, dispensar, disculpar to execute, ejecutar exercise (gram.), tema (el) to exert oneself, afanarse to exhaust, apurar, agotar to exhibit, exhibir to expect, esperar to experience, experimentar experienced, experto to experiment, experimentar expert, perito to explain, explicar, explanar to exploit, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... the known sources one by one. The usual ones, the ones men have been using for centuries, go out at once. The atomic hydrogen reaction stores more energy per gram than any other chemical reaction known. Such things as the storage battery, the electro-static condenser, the induction coil, or plain heat storage, are worthless to us. The only other method of storing energy we ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... boy of wondrous strength and beauty, with eyes that sparkled brightly, and lived at the court of King Hjalprek, the father of Alf. Regin, the dwarfish brother of Fafnir, was his tutor. Regin welds together the pieces of the broken sword Gram, so sharp and strong that with it Sigurd cleaves Regin's anvil in twain. With men and ships that he has received from King Hjalprek Sigurd goes against the sons of Hunding, whom he slays, thereby avenging ...
— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler
... he is, Jim; don't you meet trouble halfway. If once he gets the money everything will be as right as possible. But this 'gram must go off, and you must ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade
... 2 a.m., he had taken four tabloids, each containing 0.324 gramme of trional, and had drunk the glass of hot milk which Simon always left him in case he should want it. And he had written on a sheet of paper the words: 'I am not to be disturbed before 10 a.m., no matter what happens; but call me at ten.—H.'; and had put the sheet of paper on ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett
... delegate, after brooding a while, said suddenly, "Ce tlgramme-l, celui qui dit 'j'ai travers par l, et voici, il est biff!' les Boches l'ont expdi. Oui, justement. Tous les Boches veulent dtruire la Socit des Nations; ils le dsirent d'autant plus depuis que l'Allemagne ...
— Mystery at Geneva - An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings • Rose Macaulay
... silver and mercury. F. B. Mylius and O. Fromm have shown that alloys may be precipitated from dilute solutions by zinc cadmium, tin, lead and copper. Thus a strip of zinc plunged into a solution of silver sulphate, containing not more than 0.03 gramme of silver in the litre, becomes covered with a flocculent precipitate which is a true alloy of silver and zinc, and in the same way, when copper is precipitated from its sulphate by zinc, the alloy formed is brass. They ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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