"Dyne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blight attacks the melon or cucumber beds; a fierce wind rises during the night, and shakes half the mangoes off the trees; the youngest child is attacked with teething convulsions; the plough-bullock is accidentally lamed, or the favourite cow refuses to give milk. In every case it is some 'Dyne,' or witch, that has been at work with her damnable spells and charms. I remember a case in which a poor little child had bad convulsions. The 'Ojah,' or witch-finder, in this case a fat, greasy, oleaginous knave, was sent for. Full of importance ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis
... gross ist, dass wenn er in die Entfernung von 1 cm von einem hnlichen Magnetpol von gleicher Strke gestellt wird, denselben mit der absoluten Einheit der Kraft abstsst. Diese absolute Einheit der Kraft ist die Dyne, welche der Masse von 1 g die Geschwindigkeit von 1 ...
— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh
... lough, and seyde, 'Go we dyne.' And he gan at him-self to iape faste, And seyde, 'Nece, I have so greet a pyne 1165 For love, that every other day I faste' — And gan his beste Iapes forth to caste; And made hir so to laughe at his folye, That she for ...
— Troilus and Criseyde • Geoffrey Chaucer
... Westminster gate y went, When the sone was at highe prime; Cokes to me, they toke good entent, Called me nere, for to dyne, And proferyd me good brede, ale, and wyne; A fayre clothe they began to sprede, Rybbes of beffe bothe fat and fine; But for lacke of ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous |
