"Magnetic attraction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attempt to describe the most noticeable among the genuine Anarchists who belonged to it, but I wish here to convey some faint idea of the strange medley of outside cranks and declasses whose resort it in time became. There appeared to be a magnetic attraction about the place to tramps, desoeuvres cranks, argumentative people with time on their hands, and even downright lunatics. Foreigners of all tongues assembled in the office—Russians, Italians, French, Spaniards, Dutch, Swedes, and before very long they ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith
... to give the charm and magnetic attraction of the man, and for this one must go to his works, which for those who knew him are very illuminating in this respect. In them one catches a glimpse of his plan for keeping young and cheerful in "the land of regrets," for ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
... diaphragm, the other limb being held fixed by a screw. Sometimes the patentees hinge one of the magnet cores, or both, in the sole piece, in which case the diaphragms or sounding boards can be made much thicker than when the cores are rigidly fixed to the sole piece, because the magnetic attraction of the poles has then only to overcome the resistance of the diaphragm. Instead of using a diaphragm, they sometimes fix a stem to one of the cores of the electro-magnet, and mount thereon a light disk of vulcanite, wood, ivory, gutta-percha, or any other substance which it is capable of vibrating. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... sofa) I know, I know. Women never do; they go on their way like blindfold fates. Is there such a thing as a magnetic attraction—affinity? I never believed in it till ...
— The Black Cat - A Play in Three Acts • John Todhunter
... educated at Benares, and that science is there more thoroughly understood and taught than the people of the west are aware of. We have, for many thousands of years, been good astronomers, chymists, mathematicians, and philosophers. We had discovered the secret of gunpowder, the magnetic attraction, the properties of electricity, long before they were heard of in Europe. We know more than we have revealed; and much of our knowledge is deposited in the archives of the caste to which I belong; but, for want of a language generally understood ...
— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker |
