"Millimetre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have never been here until this second?' cried Longstreet triumphantly. 'I know it, all of it, every inch and millimetre of it! I could have made a map of it and laid the colours in. I have read of it, studied it—I have written of this country! Having been right in everything else, am I to be mistaken in the matter of its minerals? I said give me three months to ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... on the surface of the honey five or six bits of straw a millimetre in length. (.039 inch.—Translator's Note.) Great astonishment on the part of the returning insect. Never before have so many sweepings accumulated in its warehouse. The Bee picks out the bits of straw, one by one, to the very last, and each ...
— The Mason-bees • J. Henri Fabre
... were Croats. With respect to the fall of Gorica, this was not—despite the clamour that they made about it—due to the Italians, but to two officers, Tolja and Salvi, who took over with them all the plans of the underground forts and maps made to the scale of one step to a millimetre. Among the accomplishments which the officers of this regiment taught their men was how to surrender to the foe. Efforts were made to bring about a different state of things: German and Magyar regiments were placed behind ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein
... of Latakia to Virginian of one to nineteen—a small percentage of glycerine and cucumber being added because you have red hair, and the whole submitted to a pressure of eighteen hundred foot-pounds to the square millimetre, under violet rays. This will be known as 'Your Mixture,' Number 56785-6/11, and will be supplied to no one else on earth, except under penalty ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917 • Various
... predestinating power and possible complexity of the germ, it is instructive to reflect on the very great molecular population of even the smallest spores—giving rise to very simple forms. Thus, the spores of the unicellular Schizomycetes are estimated to dimensions as low as 1/10,000 of a millimetre in diameter (Cornil et Babes, Les Batteries, 1. 37). From Lord Kelvin's estimate of the number of molecules in water, comprised within the length of a wave-length of yellow light (The Size of Atoms, Proc. R. I., vol. x., p. 185) it is probable ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... had been staring fixedly at the Attison Detector for over an hour. Now he blinked three times rapidly, and looked again. "Not a millimeter." ...
— The Hour of Battle • Robert Sheckley
... a deposit of silver two-millionths of a millimeter thick, and visible to the naked eye. The computed diameter of the molecule is only one and a half ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams |
