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"Aneroid" Quotes from Famous Books

... skipper is not of this class is proved by the appearance of his "cuddy," which is neatly, if not luxuriously, furnished, and prettily decorated. In addition to the instruments that appertain to his calling—telescope, aneroid barometer, sextant, and compass, all placed conspicuously in racks—there is a bookcase of ornamental wood, filled with well-bound volumes; and several squares of looking-glass inlaid between the doors that ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... geology of the district (which greatly helped us to understand many of its picturesque effects, and was kindly furnished by Professor Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S., of the Mason College, Birmingham), and with a pocket aneroid barometer, which every traveller should possess himself with if he wishes to make convenient arrangements as regards weather, we make ...

— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... Foreland lights ahead and infinite possibilities all around. The captain drinks his whisky and hot water with a certain slow appreciation of the merits of that reprehensible solution, and glances at the aneroid barometer on the bulkhead of ...

— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman

... you have an aneroid? ere starting you shall see How truly mine prognosticates what weather there will be." "I ain't got no such gimcracks; but I knows there'll be a flush When I sees th'oud ram tak shelter wi' his ...

— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

Words linked to "Aneroid" : aneroid barometer, barometer, altimeter