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  • It had come from a time when there were no alloys, no plastics …. also no six figure book advances, no movie tie-in editions, no USA Today, no Entertainment Tonight, no celebrities doing ads for credit cards or vodka.†   (source)
  • It made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.†   (source)
  • Paul's coffee service, the fluted alloy of silver and jasmium that he had inherited from Jamis, rested on a low table to her right.†   (source)
  • It was black and heavy crafted out of alloyed steel.†   (source)
  • These new designs place great value on high-strength alloys.†   (source)
  • Just the eerie weave of chromium alloys carried in interlocking arcs, block iron and asphalt sheeting, soaring ornaments of coachwork fitted and merged.†   (source)
  • Swankoski ran through the science: two different alloys are placed side by side, and their different conductive properties transform temperature into voltage.†   (source)
  • The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the cooperation of the surgeons at the hospital.†   (source)
  • In three years, the first High Alloy Steel Foundry in Latin America opened.†   (source)
  • Rearden Metal was a new alloy, produced by Rearden after ten years of experiments.†   (source)
  • The alloy of wealth and background was ideal, of course, but the century had proven testy and ungenerous in its treatment of some of the oldest, most celebrated families of Charleston.†   (source)
  • While Nick hunted vermin with a sudden, insatiable ferocity, he was considerably more delicate with the minerals and alloys required by his unique metabolism.†   (source)
  • I think it's the alloys.†   (source)
  • But cool and candid people know that even the purest of human blessings are part alloy.†   (source)
  • The robotic tug was a mass of gravititc generators, drives and power plants surrounded by a thick shell of' high-strength alloys.†   (source)
  • In the lapel of which she spied, wrought exquisitely in some pale, glimmering alloy, not another cerise badge, but a pin in the shape of the Trystero post horn.†   (source)
  • The church bell sounding intermittently through my slumber was not entirely unmusical, but it had a clangorous, hollow, Protestant ring, as if fashioned of low-priced alloys; demonically, in the midst of my turbulent erotic visions, it tolled with the voice of sin.†   (source)
  • They were climbing spikes of a style basically old, but refined, made small and light-the pair weighed less than a tenth of a kilogram— and made foldable and compact, from a titanium alloy, hard and strong.†   (source)
  • That pen was used by construction workers to scrawl marks on girders of whiskered alloy.†   (source)
  • I chipped casings off bronze castings, washed glassware, and ground ore for alloys.†   (source)
  • The curved nails raked Holly's helmet, scoring parallel grooves in the alloy.†   (source)
  • Melted alloy girders rose from the stones like the ribs of some giant carcass.†   (source)
  • The casing and firing mechanism are plastic alloy and will completely disintegrate.†   (source)
  • That and the eight whiskered-alloy rods that stand between us and eternity.†   (source)
  • The federal government regulates the alloy and value of coins.†   (source)
  • "Especially alloys," Dess said, "which means a mix of metals.†   (source)
  • But Orren Boyle's best special alloy was some cracking mixture that no one cared to buy.†   (source)
  • "New tools, like forged metal and alloys," Dess said.†   (source)
  • It might look delicate, said Crake, but it was made of a new mussel-adhesive/silicon/dendrite-formation alloy, ultra-resistant.†   (source)
  • They made an alloy of sorts, a harmony.†   (source)
  • Two dozen controlled charges detonated in their chambers, driving two dozen alloy cylinders out of their mounts at over a thousand miles per hour.†   (source)
  • Bassal is a light, silvery metal, useful in certain alloys that I would be using to construct my lamp.†   (source)
  • The alloy spikes still conducted current even when… I could see it… feel it… surging through what was left of the body.†   (source)
  • I joined the ranks of the Artificery, studying how to blow glass, mix alloys, draw wire, inscribe metal, and sculpt stone.†   (source)
  • My apprenticeship with Manet was going well, but there was simply too much to learn: how to fire the kilns, how to draw wire to the proper consistency, which alloys to choose for the proper effects.†   (source)
  • The alloy and ferroconcrete pedestrian strip where we had been a second before burned, bubbled, sagged, and tumbled down onto the flaming walkway below.†   (source)
  • But crouching among the exposed alloy ribs of the ancient craft, I could imagine the rejoicing of the seventy survivors, their short voyage to the Cleft, their eventual discovery of the basilica, and… and what?†   (source)
  • I dealt with the Ding an $iÑžh, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.†   (source)
  • …city blocks, rising more than a hundred and fifty meters to its central, sharpened spire, the Shrike Church's central temple was part awe-inspiring cathedral, part Gothic joke with its fluid, buttressed curves of stone permabonded to its whiskered-alloy skeleton, part Escher print with its tricks of perspective and impossible angles, part Boschian nightmare with its tunnel entrances, hidden chambers, dark gardens, and forbidden sections, and-more than anything else-it had been part of…†   (source)
  • But they're scared of alloys.†   (source)
  • The amount of voltage generated between the alloys is a sign of how much temperature difference there is.†   (source)
  • Fecundino Suarez monitored the mix of alloys at his end of the line; the oxidation of the liquid's impurities raised the charge and caused an intense flame at the mouth of the converter.†   (source)
  • Just making the alloy isn't enough.†   (source)
  • What had not been fully considered was that the metal was also exposed to intense nuclear radiation, and this particular titanium alloy was not completely stable under extended neutron bombardment.†   (source)
  • Taking up his tools, the Fomorian shaped the mystic alloy, which hissed and sparked at each ringing blow as though it were a living thing.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf's first thought had been to have a friend of his in the sheet metal shop sink pegs of nickel alloy into each man's thighbones and link them to the wrists by strands of copper wire with exactly three inches of play, but there wasn't time — there was never enough time — and good copper wire was hard to come by in wartime.†   (source)
  • You who won't allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal-what have you allowed into your moral code?†   (source)
  • The weapon was all forged of the same remarkable alloy, and Max noted that its color varied significantly depending how the light struck its surface.†   (source)
  • "You who won't allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal," the unforgotten voice was saying to him, "what have you allowed into your moral code?"†   (source)
  • He heard the thin aluminum alloy of Purposelessly Hyperinflated Individuality crumple with the impact, then the shield burned his fingers as it instantly turned white-hot.†   (source)
  • First, he had been told that he could not produce Rearden Metal in an amount greater than the tonnage of the best special alloy, other than steel, produced by Orren Boyle.†   (source)
  • But how one could feel a personal emotion about a metal alloy, and what such an emotion indicated, was incomprehensible to him; so he could make no use of his discovery.†   (source)
  • The thing stated that he, Henry Rearden, hereby transferred to the nation all rights to the metal alloy now known as "Rearden Metal," which would henceforth be manufactured by all who so desired, and which would bear the name of "Miracle Metal," chosen by the representatives of the people.†   (source)
  • …giving himself time to feel, driving himself through the wringing torture of: "not good enough …. still not good enough …." and going on with no motor save the conviction that it could be done— —then the day when it was done and its result was called Rearden Metal— —these were the things that had come to white heat, had melted and fused within him, and their alloy was a strange, quiet feeling that made him smile at the countryside in the darkness and wonder why happiness could hurt.†   (source)
  • Name me a greater example of such devotion than the act of a man who says that the earth does turn, or the act of a man who says that an alloy of steel and copper has certain properties which enable it to do certain things, that it is and does-and let the world rack him or ruin him, he will not bear false witness to the evidence of his mind!†   (source)
  • …in his mind when he looked at the buildings of a city, at the track of a railroad, at the light in the windows of a distant farmhouse, at the knife in the hands of a beautiful woman cutting a piece of fruit at a banquet, the thought oaf metal alloy that would do more than steel had ever done, a metal that would be to steel what steel had been to iron—the acts of self-racking when he discarded a hope or a sample, not permitting himself to know that he was tired, not giving himself time…†   (source)
  • The steel mills of the country were ordered to limit the maximum production of any metal alloy to an amount equal to the production of other metal alloys by other mills placed in the same classification of plant capacity-and to supply a fair share of any metal alloy to all consumers who might desire to obtain it.†   (source)
  • …of his figure, his skin was suntanned, his body had the hardness, the gaunt, tensile strength, the clean precision of a foundry casting, he looked as if he were poured out of metal, but some dimmed, soft-lustered metal, like an aluminum-copper alloy, the color of his skin blending with the chestnut-brown of his hair, the loose strands of the hair shading from brown to gold in the sun, and his eyes completing the colors, as the one part of the casting left undimmed and harshly lustrous:…†   (source)
  • The steel mills of the country were ordered to limit the maximum production of any metal alloy to an amount equal to the production of other metal alloys by other mills placed in the same classification of plant capacity-and to supply a fair share of any metal alloy to all consumers who might desire to obtain it.†   (source)
  • He put it inside the little oven for gold alloy.†   (source)
  • He was the acid test of all these alloys.†   (source)
  • He was making a gold alloy - there were no depots here where he could buy his material ready-made.†   (source)
  • When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • The gold was on the point of fusion with the alloy, so he flung in a spoonful of vegetable charcoal to protect the mixture from the air, took up his pen again and sat mooning over the paper.†   (source)
  • He looked as genuine as a new sovereign, but there was some infernal alloy in his metal.†   (source)
  • Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.†   (source)
  • There is no alloy of self in what I feel for you.'†   (source)
  • That was a fact beyond a doubt, and without an alloy.†   (source)
  • This, then, was the society that the prince accepted at once as true coin, as pure gold without alloy.†   (source)
  • At any rate for notable instances, since these have no vulgar alloy of the brute in them, but invariably are dominated by intellectuality, one must go elsewhere.†   (source)
  • His exaltation had but one alloy—the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden—and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.†   (source)
  • If it had been Sid, she would have had no misgivings to alloy her delight; but since it was Tom, she watched the bottle clandestinely.†   (source)
  • Of course, we could not count the dead, because they did not exist as individuals, but merely as homogeneous protoplasm, with alloys of iron and buttons.†   (source)
  • All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy.†   (source)
  • He had quite forgotten the momentary unpleasant impression, and alone with her he felt, now that the thought of her approaching motherhood was never for a moment absent from his mind, a new and delicious bliss, quite pure from all alloy of sense, in the being near to the woman he loved.†   (source)
  • But then—by a kind of necessity that always impelled this child to alloy whatever comfort she might chance to give with a throb of anguish—Pearl put up her mouth and kissed the scarlet letter, too.†   (source)
  • Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to eat the bread of idleness.†   (source)
  • The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.†   (source)
  • By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.†   (source)
  • …seemed taught by some kind spirit how to steer her course with unerring accuracy, between good and evil, would have revolted at Hurry's character on a thousand points, had there been opportunities to enlighten her, but while he conversed and trifled with her sister, at a distance from herself, his perfection of form and feature had been left to produce their influence on her simple imagination and naturally tender feelings, without suffering by the alloy of his opinions and coarseness.†   (source)
  • Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.†   (source)
  • His mirth was without alloy.†   (source)
  • If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.†   (source)
  • I was silent; Helen had calmed me; but in the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.†   (source)
  • Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?†   (source)
  • All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last.†   (source)
  • The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet's welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.†   (source)
  • I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal.†   (source)
  • "I believe you will accept the post I offer you," said he, "and hold it for a while: not permanently, though: any more than I could permanently keep the narrow and narrowing — the tranquil, hidden office of English country incumbent; for in your nature is an alloy as detrimental to repose as that in mine, though of a different kind."†   (source)
  • As long as Mr. Knightley remained with them, Emma's fever continued; but when he was gone, she began to be a little tranquillised and subdued—and in the course of the sleepless night, which was the tax for such an evening, she found one or two such very serious points to consider, as made her feel, that even her happiness must have some alloy.†   (source)
  • Anne, satisfied at a very early period of Lady Russell's meaning to love Captain Wentworth as she ought, had no other alloy to the happiness of her prospects than what arose from the consciousness of having no relations to bestow on him which a man of sense could value.†   (source)
  • She spoke of you with high praise and warm affection; yet, even here, there was alloy, a dash of evil; for in the midst of it she could exclaim, 'Why would not she have him?†   (source)
  • The happiness she was imparting, too, happiness very little alloyed by the black communication which must briefly precede it—the joyful consent of her father and mother to Susan's going with her—the general satisfaction with which the going of both seemed regarded, and the ecstasy of Susan herself, was all serving to support her spirits.†   (source)
  • But in sorrow she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy.†   (source)
  • …that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and…†   (source)
  • One can only speculate about why Franz became so attached to McCandless so quickly, but the affection he felt was genuine, intense, and unalloyed.   (source)
    unalloyed = pure
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unalloyed means not and reverses the meaning of alloyed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • But my gratitude paled compared to my unalloyed joy that Walter and the others were free.†   (source)
  • Up close, his eyes were a clear, unalloyed blue, striking in their purity.†   (source)
  • Andy's palpable hunger for climbing, his unalloyed enthusiasm for the mountains, made me wistful for the period in my own life when climbing was the most important thing imaginable, when I charted the course of my existence in terms of mountains I'd ascended and those I hoped one day to ascend.†   (source)
  • General Grant, who disliked the Hessians almost as much as he disliked Americans, wrote with unalloyed admiration of how they "surmounted every difficulty," and after gaining the heights kept on "at a trot …. and if General Knyphausen had not stopped Colonel Rall, I am convinced he would have been in the fort in five minutes."†   (source)
  • When the soccer ball rolled his way, he would draw his foot back, swing his leg with all his might, and as often as not, miss the ball entirely, with all the awkward, unalloyed zeal of a batter swinging for the fences and whiffing.†   (source)
  • We wish it somehow pure, this thing, we wish it unmixed, unalloyed with human hope or piety or fear or maybe even love.†   (source)
  • He turned and grinned at his pit crew in unalloyed pleasure, and then fixed his eyes upon the starter.†   (source)
  • Now she found with a sigh that being a "parent" was not unalloyed pleasure; it was more like the soul-searching that had gone into her first duty as member of a court martial.†   (source)
  • Once more he had been able to worship with the ardour of a young religious, for whom religion is pure personal devotion, unalloyed by expediency and the benumbing cares of a missionary's work.†   (source)
  • Granted, such pure and unalloyed waiting practically never happens.†   (source)
  • Nor is this precious substance found unalloyed in any other part of the creature.†   (source)
  • No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed.†   (source)
  • Lily, to whom family reunions were occasions of unalloyed dulness, had persuaded her aunt that a dinner of "smart" people would be much more to the taste of the young couple, and Mrs. Peniston, who leaned helplessly on her niece in social matters, had been prevailed upon to pronounce Grace's exile.†   (source)
  • In my case they were not unalloyed.†   (source)
  • But my happiness was not unalloyed.†   (source)
  • He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet—no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.†   (source)
  • These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything.†   (source)
  • And if Mr. Luzhin had been of unalloyed gold, or one huge diamond, she would never have consented to become his legal concubine.†   (source)
  • The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her and walked with her in a delicate poise between love and friendship—that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.†   (source)
  • The pictures of the past and of the present, therefore, that exhibited themselves so rapidly to her active imagination, were unclouded with a shade that might affect any in whom she felt an interest; and ere she had mused, in the manner related, a quarter of an hour, the whole scene around her was filled with unalloyed satisfaction.†   (source)
  • He no longer hesitated to be led to a spot which promised such unalloyed gratification to his wearied senses; and leaning on the arm of his companion, he entered the narrow mouth of the cave.†   (source)
  • These qualities, however, were unalloyed by the slightest shade of selfishness; and, instead of dividing yet farther his weakened nation by forming a faction of his own, it was a leading part of Cedric's plan to extinguish that which already existed, by promoting a marriage betwixt Rowena and Athelstane.†   (source)
  • The emigrants who fixed themselves on the shores of America in the beginning of the seventeenth century severed the democratic principle from all the principles which repressed it in the old communities of Europe, and transplanted it unalloyed to the New World.†   (source)
  • Poor Maggie was by no means made up of unalloyed devotedness, but put forth large claims for herself where she loved strongly.†   (source)
  • I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.†   (source)
  • By not one of the circle was he listened to with such unbroken, unalloyed enjoyment as by his wife, who was really extremely happy to see him, and whose feelings were so warmed by his sudden arrival as to place her nearer agitation than she had been for the last twenty years.†   (source)
  • For all men praise the dead, and, however preeminent your virtue may be, I do not say even to approach them, and avoid living their rivals and detractors, but when a man is out of the way, the honor and goodwill which he receives is unalloyed.†   (source)
  • No man would refuse to give brass for silver or gold, because the latter had some alloy in it.†   (source)
  • There is Romena, where I falsified the alloy stamped with the Baptist,[1] for which on earth I left my body burned.†   (source)
  • But one word, lordings, hearken, ere I go: It were full hard to finde now-a-days In all a town Griseldas three or two: For, if that they were put to such assays, The gold of them hath now so bad allays* *alloys With brass, that though the coin be fair *at eye,* *to see* It woulde rather break in two than ply.†   (source)
  • The right of coining money, which is here taken from the States, was left in their hands by the Confederation, as a concurrent right with that of Congress, under an exception in favor of the exclusive right of Congress to regulate the alloy and value.†   (source)
  • Whilst the alloy and value depended on the general authority, a right of coinage in the particular States could have no other effect than to multiply expensive mints and diversify the forms and weights of the circulating pieces.†   (source)
  • …field for rhetoric and declamation; it may inflame the passions of the unthinking, and may confirm the prejudices of the misthinking: but cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them; that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness involves a discretion which may be…†   (source)
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