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  • There were old clocks and vases, mortars and retorts, knives and dolls,quill pens and bookends, octants and sextants, compasses and barometers.†   (source)
  • …entrance for ordinary visitors, was separated from the parlor by a sliding door; though Mr. Clutter occasionally shared the office with Gerald Van Vleet, a young man who assisted him with the management of the farm, it was fundamentally his retreat-an orderly sanctuary, paneled in walnut veneer, where, surrounded by weather barometers, rain charts, a pair of binoculars, he sat like a captain in his cabin, a navigator piloting River Valley's sometimes risky passage through the seasons.†   (source)
  • The barometer of confidence soared.†   (source)
  • Phoebe began to cry, as if she had some sort of internal barometer for strife and tension.†   (source)
  • It was the barometer by which we judged everything.†   (source)
  • Consider the historical trend in homicide (not including wars), which is both the most reliably measured crime and the best barometer of a society's overall crime rate.†   (source)
  • I am joking because I won't have stayed around to become a human barometer or an instrument capable of forecasting weather.†   (source)
  • A commander does not need to know the barometric pressure or the winds or even the temperature.†   (source)
  • The supply of hot dog buns, a key barometer of fan enthusiasm, was completely exhausted by early afternoon.†   (source)
  • His frustration over it went,up and down like a barometer, the climate being the extent to which he was able to comprehend and resolve whatever mathematical problem preoccupied him at any given moment.†   (source)
  • There was food in the wagon, and wine-and a camera, and a stamp collection, and a stuffed owl, and a mantel clock that ran on changes of barometric pressure.†   (source)
  • Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.†   (source)
  • It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.†   (source)
  • Ralph's work dipped and peaked with the barometer.†   (source)
  • He checked the large, reliable marine barometer and its twin thermometer alongside the front door.†   (source)
  • "And I feel him, certain days, days of a certain temperature," said Mr. Thoth, "and barometric pressure.†   (source)
  • In time, a barometer was added to our diningroom wall; but we didn't really need it.†   (source)
  • I reached over and tapped the barometer.†   (source)
  • As he ambled around the course, the barometer in the track secretary's office leaned toward rain.†   (source)
  • The needle of the barometer was planted squarely in the quadrant marked FAIR.†   (source)
  • He walked back to the house and paused on the porch to look at the thermometer and barometer.†   (source)
  • A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric Pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail.†   (source)
  • The morning e-mail was a ritual for me, a visceral, if inexact, barometer of the impact that day's column had made.†   (source)
  • He checked the barometer again.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the thermometer-barometer screwed to the side of the house as they went out … a gift from Donna last Christmas.†   (source)
  • Just as your body has two fundamental sensations, pleasure and pain, as signs of its welfare or injury, as a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death, so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions, joy and suffering, in answer to the same alternative.†   (source)
  • The barometer continued to sink.†   (source)
  • They're using a barometer instead.†   (source)
  • The barometer was steady, very high.†   (source)
  • Not with the barometer falling and the wind due west.†   (source)
  • He was invaluable to Wynand—as a barometer of public reaction.†   (source)
  • It looked like the first fine flush of a three-day blow and the barometer falling.†   (source)
  • It's barometric--you can look it up in Ellsworth Huntington.†   (source)
  • I made myself into a barometer subject to the pressure of the whole world.†   (source)
  • Like a delicate barometer, he recorded the trend of pressures, and as the Radical pressure increased he moved toward the left.†   (source)
  • She let her hands lie in sight on the arms of her chair, so that the relief of any violent motion would be denied her, her hands as her private barometer of endurance, when Wynand came home late at night and told her that he had spent the evening at Roark's apartment, the apartment she had never seen.†   (source)
  • The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.†   (source)
  • That was not for him, he required sensible barometric pressure or he would have another attack.†   (source)
  • The barometer was down, and the sky to the east did not please him.†   (source)
  • This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer.†   (source)
  • That man is a perfect barometer—he always knows when Bertha is going to——†   (source)
  • It is entirely a question of barometric pressure.†   (source)
  • It was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, with, I am told, a rapidly fluctuating barometer.†   (source)
  • I can't understand it; the barometer has been 'set fair.'†   (source)
  • There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.†   (source)
  • Our social barometers always stand at 'cloudy' and 'overcast.'†   (source)
  • No, he requires sensible barometric pressure.†   (source)
  • You remember, I told you last night the barometer was falling.†   (source)
  • An aneroid barometer, to indicate extreme pressures of the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Under these conditions the barometer generally stayed quite low.†   (source)
  • As in the 1860 cyclone on Réunion Island, the barometer fell to 710 millimeters.†   (source)
  • The barometer fell significantly, indicating a tremendous tension in the surrounding haze.†   (source)
  • When her nose grew cold, it being a faithful barometer as to temperature, Carley knew there was frost in the air.†   (source)
  • The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked 'No.†   (source)
  • It was more a barometric condition.†   (source)
  • But on other days would begin to fall the rain, of which we had had due warning from the little barometer-figure which the spectacle-maker hung out in his doorway.†   (source)
  • My father would shrug his shoulders and study the barometer, for he took an interest in meteorology, while my mother, keeping very quiet so as not to disturb him, looked at him with tender respect, but not too hard, not wishing to penetrate the mysteries of his superior mind.†   (source)
  • All sorts of objects that had fallen out of use, which made them all the more captivating, were kept inside: a pair of sinuous silver candlesticks; a broken barometer, its wooden case carved with figures; an album of daguerreotypes; a cedar chest for liqueurs; a little Turk in a bright silk costume, whose body was rigid to the touch but contained a mechanism that, though it had long since fallen into disrepair, had once enabled him to run across the table; a model of an old-fashioned…†   (source)
  • I could no longer contain my joy when my father, in the intervals of tapping the barometer and complaining of the cold, began to look out which were the best trains, and when I understood that by making one's way, after luncheon, into the coal-grimed laboratory, the wizard's cell that undertook to contrive a complete transmutation of its surroundings, one could awaken, next morning, in the city of marble and gold, in which "the building of the wall was of jasper and the foundation of…†   (source)
  • Seafaring Peter was more or less out of the question, and as for Great-uncle Tienappel, it was understood that wild horses could not drag him to regions whose barometric pressures he had every reason to fear.†   (source)
  • She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.†   (source)
  • He had most carefully avoided regions of unwholesome barometric pressure and had left it to Uncle James to make a fool of himself there; but in the long run, he had been unable to elude apoplexy; and one day news of his passing, in the form of a brief but delicately considerate telegram (delicate and considerate more in deference to the departed than to the receiver of the message), had reached Hans Castorp as he lay in his splendid lounge chair, whereupon he had purchased…†   (source)
  • But now Lydgate came in; the book was closed before he reached Rosamond's corner, and as he took his seat with easy confidence on the other side of her, young Plymdale's jaw fell like a barometer towards the cheerless side of change.†   (source)
  • Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat.†   (source)
  • It was the Dutch navigator Tasman who discovered this group in 1643, the same year the Italian physicist Torricelli invented the barometer and King Louis XIV ascended the French throne.†   (source)
  • And escaping from the room, Emma closed the door so violently that the barometer fell from the wall and smashed on the floor.†   (source)
  • He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last; whereupon he was referred to the barometer, which seemed to have no intention of rising.†   (source)
  • A Fahrenheit's thermometer in a mahogany case, and with a barometer annexed, was hung against the wall, at some little distance from the stove, which Benjamin consulted, every half hour, with prodigious exactitude.†   (source)
  • Thus in person, he became a sort of flesh-barometer, with feelers always directed to the sky and wind around him.†   (source)
  • The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long surges which indicated a tempest.†   (source)
  • The small muslin curtain along the windows deepened the twilight, and the gilding of the barometer, on which the rays of the sun fell, shone in the looking-glass between the meshes of the coral.†   (source)
  • An ordinary barometer would not have answered the purpose, as the pressure would increase during our descent to a point which the mercurial barometer [1] would not register.†   (source)
  • "You see," said the Professor, "we have now only the pressure of our atmosphere, and I shall be glad when the aneroid takes the place of the barometer."†   (source)
  • Ever since the evening before the barometer, suddenly falling, had indicated an approaching change in the atmosphere; and during the night the temperature varied, the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the south-east.†   (source)
  • 17 a.m.; barometer, 297 in.†   (source)
  • In addition to me, the skiff carried Captain Nemo, two crewmen, and the instruments—in other words, a chronometer, a spyglass, and a barometer.†   (source)
  • Consult the barometer.†   (source)
  • A first–class barometer, my friend.†   (source)
  • My uncle would have met it with his inevitable Saknussemm, a precedent which possessed no weight with me; for even if the journey of the learned Icelander were really attested, there was one very simple answer, that in the sixteenth century there was neither barometer or aneroid and therefore Saknussemm could not tell how far he had gone.†   (source)
  • The barometer, which had been falling for some days, forecast an approaching struggle of the elements.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir, a natural barometer that didn't let me down when I navigated the narrows of the Strait of Magellan."†   (source)
  • Arriving at the summit of this peak, Captain Nemo carefully determined its elevation by means of his barometer, since he had to take this factor into account in his noon sights.†   (source)
  • You're familiar with some of them, such as the thermometer, which gives the temperature inside the Nautilus; the barometer, which measures the heaviness of the outside air and forecasts changes in the weather; the humidistat, which indicates the degree of dryness in the atmosphere; the storm glass, whose mixture decomposes to foretell the arrival of tempests; the compass, which steers my course; the sextant, which takes the sun's altitude and tells me my latitude; chronometers, which…†   (source)
  • She applied to Mr. Allen for confirmation of her hopes, but Mr. Allen, not having his own skies and barometer about him, declined giving any absolute promise of sunshine.†   (source)
  • Poor dear papa, a widower, was a regular barometer from it.†   (source)
  • …with adjacent directory, handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legs, hearth with massive firebrasses and ormolu mantel chronometer clock, guaranteed timekeeper with cathedral chime, barometer with hygrographic chart, comfortable lounge settees and corner fitments, upholstered in ruby plush with good springing and sunk centre, three banner Japanese screen and cuspidors (club style, rich winecoloured leather, gloss renewable with…†   (source)
  • Those who have been accustomed to contemplate the circumstances which produce and constitute national wealth, must be satisfied that there is no common standard or barometer by which the degrees of it can be ascertained.†   (source)
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