"Ir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Castle of Zohawk are situated on a hill commanding the high road from Toorkisthan over the Ir[a]k and Kalloo passes, and in the angle formed by the union of the Bamee[a]n and Ir[a]k rivers. It is impossible to fix the date of the first structure; it seems from the ruin to have been added to at many successive ...
— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem
... L., 75. The terms used for satchels are sacculi (Lat.), and tiag, or tiag liubhair or teig liubair (Ir.). There has been some confusion between polaire and tiag, the former being regarded as a leather case for a single book, the latter a satchel for several books. This distinction is made in connection with ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... magnets), and much more in a dynamo-electric machine (inducing by means of electro-magnets excited by the very current produced) the product, M C, is a function of the intensity. From the identity of the expressions, i squaredR and i [omega] M C we obtain the relation M C IR/[omega] which indicates the course to be pursued to determine experimentally the law which connects the variations of M C with those of i. Some experiments made in 1876, by M. Hagenbach, on a Gramme dynamo-electric machine, appear to indicate that the magnetism, M C, does not increase indefinitely ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... see him—no sae auld as himsel', but ane he had kenned whan they wur at the college thegither. An' this was a man that had travelled greatly, an' was weel learnt in a heap o' things ordinar' fowk, that gies themsel's to the lan', an' the growin' o' corn, an' beasts, ir no likely to ken mickle aboot. He saw his auld freen' was in trouble, an' didna carry his age calm-like as was nat'ral, an' sae speirt him what was the matter. An' he told him the whole story, frae the hangin' to the bangin'. "Weel," said the learnit man, whan he had ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald |
