"Disengagement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... investigation. He thought of a caloric air engine as possibly one of the new ideas; then of the practicability of producing mechanical power by the absorption and condensation of gas on the one hand and by its disengagement and expansion on the other. His mind seemed to range over the entire ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... is content to say: "Some experiments seem to indicate that the solidification of a body produces electricity." Mr. Becquerel does more than doubt—he denies: "As regards the disengagement of electricity in the changing of the state of bodies, we find none." This assertion is too sweeping, for further along we shall cite facts that prove, on the contrary, that in the phenomena of crystallization (to speak of this change of state only) there is an unequivocal production of electricity. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various
... astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils,—a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... tissue disintegration. The effort being purely mental, we may say it is accompanied by disintegration of cerebral and nervous tissue. But disintegration of organic tissue means, as we have seen before, disengagement of specific scents; the mesmeriser emits, then, during his operation, scents from his own body. And as the patient's sufferings are supposed to originate from a deficiency or alteration of his own specific scent, ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... United Nations Angola Verification Mission UNDOF United Nations Disengagement Observer Force UNFICYP United Nations Force in Cyprus UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization UNIKOM United Nations ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. |
