"Vesuvian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox. [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen. brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve^, vesuvian, vesta^, fusee, locofoco^; linstock^. candle &c (luminary) 423; oil &c (grease) 356. Adj. carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable; high octane, high specific impulse; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... centred entirely upon these. But with Clemens it was different; he lived in a house with a street door kept by a single butler, and he was constantly rung for. I forget how long the siege lasted, but long enough for us to have fun with it. That was the moment of the great Vesuvian eruption, and we figured ourselves in easy reach of a volcano which was every now and then "blowing a cone off," as the telegraphic phrase was. The roof of the great market in Naples had just broken in under its load of ashes and cinders, and crashed hundreds of people; and we asked each other ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... suspicion had crept over the good priest. Was it possible that the invalid sinking into eternity in a sunset of sanctity and of heroic penance, formerly the chivalrous captain of Vesuvian fame, was no other than ...
— Alvira: the Heroine of Vesuvius • A. J. O'Reilly
... sister came in. After a few words of greeting I took my leave and walked home. I was confounded. Who could have dreamed that such tragic depths lay behind that serene face, and that her orderly precision was like the grass and flowers upon volcanic soil with Vesuvian fires slumbering below? I had been altogether at fault, and I was taught, what I have since been taught, over and over again, that unknown abysses, into which the sun never shines, lie covered with commonplace in men and ...
— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford
... just finished the mid-day Christmas dinner, at which function you were badly wanted. The inflammation of the pudding was highly successful—in fact Vesuvian not to say Aetnaic—and I have never yet attained so high a pitch in piggygenesis ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley |
