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"Emergent" Quotes from Famous Books

... mirror is fatal to its performance, the effect being doubled by reflection; while in a lens alteration of figure is compensated by the equal and contrary flexures of the opposing surfaces, so that the emergent beams pursue much the same paths as if the curves of the refracting medium had remained theoretically perfect. For this reason work of precision must remain the province of refracting telescopes, although great reflectors retain the primacy ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... it is a sure sign that the land employed is not suitable for such a crop. It is no doubt an excellent thing to have a command of water in case of a long drought, when its agency might be useful in saving a crop which would otherwise fail, but irrigation ought to be used only in such emergent cases. ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... plants. A work admirably useful for Apothecaries, Chyrurgeons, and other Ingenuous persons, who may in this Herbal finde comprised all the English physical simples, that Gerard or Parkinson, in their two voluminous Herbals have discoursed of, even so as to be on emergent occasions their own physitians, the ingredients being to be be had in their own fields & gardens, Published for the general ...

— The Compleat Cook • Anonymous, given as "W. M."

... That controversies emergent about the interests of men should be determined, and an end put to strife by peremptory and satisfactory means, is ...

— Sermons on Evil-Speaking • Isaac Barrow

... scene been at this moment proportioned to intentness of feeling, the whole audience, regal and otherwise, would have faded into an indistinct mist of background, leaving as the sole emergent and telling figures Bob and Anne at one point, the trumpet-major on the left hand, and Matilda at the opposite corner of the stage. But fortunately the deadlock of awkward suspense into which all four had fallen was terminated ...

— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy

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