"Aneroid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came, flattening them to a level, she would lie down like a tired animal, while the aeolian song aloft prevented orders being heard unless shouted near by. Captain Swarth went below and smashed the glass of an aneroid barometer (newly invented and lately acquired from an outward-bound Englishman), in which he had not much confidence, but which might tell him roughly of the air-density. Feeling of the indicator, and judging by the angle ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson |
