"Thermic" Quotes from Famous Books
... upon the glasses from the internal air, dry as the latter had been kept, was a sensible annoyance—an annoyance which would have become an insuperable trouble had I not taken so much pains, by directing the thermic currents upon the walls, to keep the internal temperature, in so far as comfort would permit—it had now fallen to 4 deg. C.—as near as possible to that of the inner surface of the walls and windows. A careful ... — Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg |