All 50 Uses of
Archimedes
in
The Once and Future King
- "We see so little company," explained the magician, wiping his head with half a worn-out pair of pyjamas which he kept for that purpose, "that Archimedes is a little shy of strangers.†
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- Come, Archimedes, I want you to meet a friend of mine called Wart.†
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- "I will not," said Archimedes, looking the other way and holding tight "Oh, he is lovely," said the Wart again.†
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- Archimedes has stayed with me since he was small, indeed since he had a tiny head like a chicken's.†
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- I find it most convenient"—and handed it to the Wart, who held it out rather gingerly toward Archimedes.†
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- The nutty curved beak looked as it if were capable of doing damage, but Archimedes looked closely at the mouse, blinked at the Wart, moved nearer on the finger, closed his eyes and leaned forward.†
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- Archimedes, who had been standing forgotten on his shoulder all this time, was gently touching himself against him.†
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- The owl is called Archimedes.†
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- He sent Archimedes to look for him on the way home.†
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- Then Archimedes told us that he had been and killed a pigeon and was eating it.†
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- "Assuredly," said Merlyn, who stood patiently among the throng with his arms folded in his necromantic gown, while Archimedes sat very stiff and elongated on the top of his head.†
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- The Wart and Archimedes looked at each other, wondering which was meant—Archimedes had been sitting all the while on the window-sill and looking at the view, for, of course, he never left his master—but Merlyn did not pay them any attention.†
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- The Wart and Archimedes looked at each other, wondering which was meant—Archimedes had been sitting all the while on the window-sill and looking at the view, for, of course, he never left his master—but Merlyn did not pay them any attention.†
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- Archimedes seemed to be accustomed to these scenes, for he now said in a reasonable voice: "Why don't you ask for the hat by name, master?†
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- Wart sat down again on the floor, and Archimedes resumed his toilet, pulling his pinions and tail feathers through his beak to smooth the barbs together.†
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- "You have not had it," said Archimedes.†
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- What shall I do before dinner, Archimedes?†
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- You could go with Archimedes this evening, and he would tell you about them.†
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- Would you do that, Archimedes?†
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- "Why?" asked Archimedes.†
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- "It is true," said Archimedes reflectively, "that all the corvidae have a distorted sense of humour."†
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- "They are intelligent birds," said Archimedes, "in spite of their low humour.†
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- "They are mobs," said Archimedes, loftily.†
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- Archimedes thought this over for some time, and then said, "Well, it is a large question.†
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- "The pigeon," said Archimedes, "is a kind of Quaker.†
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- "Did you know," added Archimedes, "that a pair of pigeons always roost head to tail, so that they can keep a look-out in both directions?"†
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- "And what is your favourite bird?" asked Archimedes, feeling that his master ought to be allowed a say.†
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- "The conversation," observed Archimedes, "arose out of whether birds could talk."†
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- Archimedes sighed heavily, and remarked in prophetic tones, "You had better get it off your chest."†
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- "I see," said Archimedes coldly.†
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- "And the old?" inquired Archimedes sarcastically.†
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- "I see," said Archimedes, more coolly than ever.†
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- "It seems now," said Archimedes, "that it is no longer a question of what we eat, but also what we drink or hear."†
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- "Would you mind telling us," said Archimedes, "since you know so much about it, how many various things we birds are able to express by altering the tempo and emphasis of the elaborations of our call-notes?"†
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- "When we come to conditioned reflexes," remarked Archimedes sourly, "I prefer to look for a mouse."†
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- "You are a cunning master," said Archimedes, "and as far as a poor owl is concerned you will just have to get away with it.†
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- "The nightingale," cried Archimedes desperately.†
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- He was to wait until Kay was asleep, and then Archimedes would come for him with Merlyn's magic.†
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- He was fast asleep when Archimedes came for him.†
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- "For heaven's sake," panted Archimedes, bobbing in the dark air beside him, "stop flying like a woodpecker.†
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- The temperature," said Archimedes, "depends on the vegetation of the bottom.†
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- "You are beginning to fit things together," remarked Archimedes.†
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- "The reasons are different," said Archimedes, "yet the fact is true.†
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- The Wart copied Archimedes in zooming up toward the branch which they had chosen.†
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- Wart paid little or no attention to the lecture, but got his eyes accustomed to the strange tones of light instead, and watched Archimedes from the corner of one of them.†
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- For Archimedes, while he was talking, was absent-mindedly spying for his dinner.†
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- The leg of the top remains in the same place, but the apex makes circles which get bigger and bigger toward the end This is what Archimedes was absent-mindedly doing.†
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- "What are you doing?" asked the Wart Even as he asked, Archimedes was gone.†
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- "As a matter of fact," said Archimedes, after waiting to crop his mouthful, "you may not.†
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- Archimedes finished his sparrow, wiped his beak politely on the bough, and turned his eyes full on the Wart.†
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Definition:
Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)