"Phosphor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Phoenicians probably carried Sun legends to the New World, 594-l. Phoenicians regarded Sun, Moon and Stars as the cause of generation, 469-l. Phoenix and Pelican symbols of the Great Work, 774-m. Phoenix, Dove, Raven, are symbols of Good, Evil and Beauty, 792-m. Phosphor, or Light Bearer, represents the Evil Force or Devil, 102-l. Phrygia suffered famine while Sun God was with the Hyperboreans, 592-u. Physical realization of Hermeticism is the discovery of the creative ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... 13th November. The first keel plate of the AEolus was laid in position on the 10th March last year, and up to the present time fully two thirds of the estimated weight has been worked into her structure. Says Industries: She is built of steel, with large phosphor bronze castings for stern post, shaft brackets, and stem, the latter terminating in a formidable ram. The hull is sheathed with wood, and will be covered with copper to enable her to keep the seas for a lengthened period on remote stations, where there is a lack of docking accommodation. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 • Various
... store in the Sea King's palace the golden phosphor of the sea. But this Water Nixie had lost her happiness through not being good. She had forgotten many things that had been told her, and she had done many things that grieved others. She had stolen somebody else's property—quite a large bundle ...
— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock
... either one or two cylinders, and is, of course, single-acting. The pistons and connecting rods are of forged steel and phosphor-bronze. The following is a list of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various
... wraithest of wraithly things! Tickle me, Love, in these Lonesome Ribs! 'Tis a fair Whing-Whangess, with phosphor rings And bridal-jewels of fangs and stings; And she sits and as sadly and softly sings As the mildewed whir of her own dead wings,— Tickle me, Dear, Tickle me here, Tickle me, Love, ...
— Riley Child-Rhymes • James Whitcomb Riley
... engines are identical in design, and are constructed of forged steel with the exception of the bearings, connecting-rods, crossheads, slide valves and pumps, which are of phosphor-bronze. The cylinders, with the steam passages, etc., are shaped out of the solid. The standards, as will be seen, are of very light T steel, the crankshafts and pins are hollow, as are also the crosshead bolts and piston rods. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various
... together, foam and fall. Out of watchings, out of wiles, Comes the bliss of secret smiles. All things are not told to all, Half-round the mantling night is drawn, Purplefringed with even and dawn. Hesper hateth Phosphor, ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... now 'twas silence all: the pale stars shone; The moon, declining, fill'd her ruddy throne. But wrapt in deepest trance Ernestus lay, 'Till Phosphor's lamp restored ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... be anything but a clod if he could resist it? Why, here was a spectacle last night for a whole country,—a bonfire visible to London, alarming her guilty towers, and shaking the Monument with an ague fit: all done by a little vial of phosphor in a clown's fob! How he must grin, and shake his empty noddle in clouds, the Vulcanian epicure! Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb |
