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39785	(_ Illustrated London News_, 1869?)]
16440	The largest leak found on one joint was at the rate of 17[,?
16440	Was the first appearance, or the average time of appearance, accepted for computing the velocity of flow?
16938	3, the query is naturally suggested:"What would have been the result if the nuts and washers had first been tightened and water then added?"
16938	If the arching action of earth exists, why should it not be recognized and considered?
16938	timber be driven, under gradually added pressure, up to 60 tons, for instance, in normal sand?
40514	And why is it that our goods are sent to New York to be sold?
40514	Can there be any doubt that a corporation thus formed and managed will prove a financial success?
40514	Having expended so large a sum on the Tunnel, the question arises, How shall we use it to derive the greatest good to the whole people?
40514	How can we, in Boston and Massachusetts, get our fair share of the importing and domestic trade of the country?
40514	What next?
40514	interest on the capital loaned to increase the facilities for extending the business over the line?
40709	What order? 40709 How were the workmen to breathe? 40709 If there is no loss in two miles, how can there be in five? 40709 The next question to be considered, if, indeed, there can be any question about it, is how shall the new route be located? 40709 Was it certain that the two sections commenced from the opposite ends would not miss and pass each other in the middle of the mountain? 40709 What chasms, unfathomable abysses and resistless torrents might not be encountered? 40709 What surveys?
26131	Canst thou send lightnings to say''Lo, here I am''?
26131	Is that all? 26131 What, out of wood?"
26131	_ How_ was it made?
26131	Are you not ashamed of spending your time in this way?"
26131	As he often said,"without a hobby- horse, what is life?"
26131	Did Bruce falter?
26131	Did Wallace give up the fight, or ever think of giving up?
26131	Do you doubt that other inventions will work changes even more sweeping than those which the steam engine has brought?
26131	First then, what caused the loss?
26131	How came he then to exclaim"What a piece of work is man; how infinite in faculty; in form and_ moving_ how express and admirable"?
26131	How much more has our modern Archimedes done?
26131	I showed him round last week, o''er all-- an''at the last says he:"Mister M''Andrew, do n''t you think steam spoils romance at sea?"
26131	If he could not solve it, who could?
26131	In his reply, September 30, 1770, Watt asks,"Have you ever considered a spiral oar for that purpose, or are you for two wheels?"
26131	Is Tyndal''s prophecy to be verified that"the potency of all things is yet to be found in matter"?
26131	One word did it, nay a new accent upon a monosyllable-- a trifling change say you?
26131	Second, who proved this in actual practice?
26131	The engines were doing astonishingly well to- day, but who could ensure their lasting qualities?
26131	Those first- class passengers they like it very well, Printed an''bound in little books; but why do n''t poets tell?
26131	Throughout its history, the court has attached more and more importance to two points: First, is the invention valuable?
26131	Until Mrs. Siddons revealed the real Lady Macbeth, every actress had replied,"We fail?"
26131	Uplift am I?
26131	What does latent heat mean?
26131	What of his heart?
26131	What of that of the grandmothers and mothers of the line-- equally important?
26131	What place would Lord Bacon have assigned in such a gallery to the statue of Mr. Watt?
26131	When first in store the new- made beasties stood, Were ye cast down that breathed the Word declarin''all things good?
26131	Where is that quartette to be equalled?
26131	Why should n''t I write the Life of the maker of the steam- engine, out of which I had made fortune?
26131	Writing to his illustrious friend, he asks: What are the products of your experiment?
34942	''Excuse me, sir, but suppose they still will come to me after the notices are up, and I ca n''t keep them away?'' 34942 ''How long is the specification for masonry?
34942	''Rat, is it, Dasher?'' 34942 ''So you got out of the trouble all right?"
34942	''Very likely, sir; but did you find the leg, or body, or dress of a woman?'' 34942 ''What do you think it was?''
34942	''Where is that?'' 34942 A kind of confession?"
34942	Did any of your men ever play rough on you?
34942	Did you ever get a bit''extra''out of rock ballast?
34942	Did your guv''nor stand that?
34942	Do n''t you think I was lucky, old pal? 34942 Do you remember Carotty Jack?"
34942	Do you? 34942 Have I told you of my scare in a tunnel I got some''extra''profit out of by real scamping?"
34942	Have a sip?
34942	Have you managed to get a bit''extra''out of measurements?
34942	Have you managed to squeeze any''extra''profit on the quiet out of concrete?
34942	Have you sunk any disc piles?
34942	Here I am, old chap, what''s the matter?
34942	How about the director?
34942	How did he do that?
34942	How did it happen?
34942	How did you do it?
34942	How did you do it?
34942	How did you do it?
34942	How do you do it?
34942	How do you fix the capstan head to the pile shaft?
34942	How much fell in?
34942	How much power is generally wanted for screwing?
34942	How''s that?
34942	How?
34942	I guess he would be, the joy might kill him; but how did you apply your schooling to the brickwork?
34942	I suppose the bricks you took from the brick- yard were tallied, and deliveries checked with the work done in the lining?
34942	I suppose you silenced him quickly?
34942	Now, how the dickens could any concrete be right with such treatment? 34942 That was pretty for you; but did I ever tell you how I got well insulted by one of my chaps?"
34942	That''s it, but what has that to do with the scare at the tunnel and the scamping?
34942	Were you scared to think the train after you would telescope you?
34942	What a row there is outside?
34942	What did he do?
34942	What do you mean, your orders were wrong?
34942	What do you think of solid piles as against hollow ones?
34942	What was it?
34942	Why are short lengths best for''extra''profit?
34942	Why?
34942	Will you listen to me for a few minutes?
34942	You mean it wedges up, and will not move?
34942	You mean quite clean angular grains, and hard, too, like broken- up quartz rock?
34942	You mean the difference between the strain a thing has to bear in ordinary use and what will break it?
34942	You mean, how does my dog, Spot, do it? 34942 You remember my old partner on the last dock works we were on?"
34942	You remember old Bill Marr?
34942	''Very well, sir; but some of the rock will soon weather, and do n''t you think it better to keep it a bit large rather than small?
34942	Anyhow, you agree, do n''t you?"
34942	Are you ill, sir?''
34942	Do you think the alphabet must be again taught me?''
34942	Do you understand?
34942	Do you understand?"
34942	Eh?"
34942	Have we?"
34942	He said,''Why did you not telegraph?
34942	He said:--"''I want you to tell me your idea of the character of the ground upon which the western quay wall is erected?''
34942	He then whispered in my ear,''Is your name Dark?''
34942	How could I forget it?
34942	How much?''
34942	How was that?"
34942	I am game for another hour, are you?"
34942	I took old Bond-- he was my ganger-- with me, and said to him,''How are we going to do the lining?''
34942	Is that good enough?"
34942	So I said,''As I am here, sir, do you mind telling me what you make the measurement?''"
34942	Some went in like the soup that has balls in it, and we threw the concrete(?)
34942	That was not exactly what I wanted, and said,''Why, the long ones went down easily?''
34942	The men will cease work, I think, very soon?''
34942	The tide was still rising, He turned his head, and said:''Are you ready?''
34942	Well, what is it, old partner?
34942	What do you say to try the other way in, sir, we all have our fancies?''
34942	What do you think of that scare?"
34942	What is the use to the likes of us of a bit of education if we ca n''t turn it into gold?
34942	What''s the use of my education if I am not?
34942	What_ are_ you talking about?
34942	Where is the letter?"
34942	Who can say it is not?''
34942	You know what pure sand is?"
34942	You may talk as long as you like, and say, How could I get them all braced when the piles must be screwed separately?
34942	You see, what is ten or twenty yards of dredging, nothing either way?
34942	You understand now?
34942	You understand?
34942	You understand?"
34942	You''ve come to stop?"
34942	you were, were you?"
30990	''Tis the morn, but dim and dark, Whither flies the silent lark?
30990	Do you really so far deceive yourself in your imagination as to fancy that the author is a friend to good? 30990 She has not denounced me yet"--so his thoughts ran:"when will she denounce me?
30990	That bank was being undercut,he might say;"why?
30990	What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and_ lose himself_?
30990	You can recommend some other fit person?
30990	_ The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light._Are they?
30990	( 2) What do we owe our parents?
30990	A readiness to what?
30990	After what I have done, what might I not have done?
30990	Ah, what is this?
30990	Alas, in the cycle of the ages when shall such another be proposed for the judgment of man?
30990	Am I to suppose myself a monster?
30990	Am I to understand that you blame the father for profiting by these, or the officers for granting them?
30990	And again if we require so much of ourselves, shall we not require much of others?
30990	And as for the family of the bankrupt merchant, how is it possible for greater moral qualities to be alive with more irremediable misfortunes?
30990	And as the authentic clue to such a labyrinth and change of scene, do you offer me these two score words?
30990	And at least, is not this an unusual gloss upon the eighth commandment?
30990	And here it may be pertinently asked, Why bad?
30990	And how far, on the other side, is he bound to be his brother''s keeper and the prophet of his own morality?
30990	And how should we regard the man of science who suppressed all facts that would not tally with the orthodoxy of the hour?
30990	And how, without free- will upon our parts, can you justify blame or approval on that of the author?
30990	And it may be asked, Is not this merely preparing misers, who are not the best of company?
30990	And suppose he does fall out of society, is that a cause of sorrow?
30990	And this something else?
30990	And what sort of comfort, guidance, or illumination did that precept afford my friend throughout these contentions?
30990	And when he had done, she fell upon her knees, and with outstretched hands:"Do you not understand?"
30990	And who can look twice at the British Parliament and then seriously bring it such a task?
30990	And yet you continue to misrepresent an author to yourself, as a deity devoted to virtue and inimical to vice?
30990	And, on the other hand, how many do we continue to peruse and reperuse with pleasure whose only merit is the elegance of texture?
30990	Are there, then, we may be asked, no genuine beggars?
30990	Are they like us, I wonder, in the timid hope of some reward, some sugar with the drug?
30990	Are you sure you are one of these?
30990	Are you sure you prefer cigars at sixpence each to pipes at some fraction of a farthing?
30990	Are you sure you wish to keep a gig?
30990	Are you surprised?
30990	At best was he not coldly profiting by the injustice of society, and greedily devouring stolen goods?
30990	At last, one of them, regarding him with a formidable countenance, inquired if he were not frightened?
30990	But the excuse is merely local; it can not apply to similar bodies in America and France; and what are we to say of these?
30990	But what is meant by bigotry, that we should regard it as a blemish in a priest?
30990	But what is_ to steal_?
30990	But will a gentleman of your reverend profession allow me an example from the fields of gallantry?
30990	But you, who were so refined, why were you not there, to cheer them with the lights of culture?
30990	But_ am_ I stealing?
30990	Can he convince me?
30990	Can not?
30990	Can you or your heart say more?
30990	Did you think it was easy to be just and kind and truthful?
30990	Did you think the whole duty of aspiring man was as simple as a hornpipe?
30990	Do you care about where you sleep, or are you not as much at your ease in a cheap lodging as in an Elizabethan manor- house?
30990	Do you enjoy fine clothes?
30990	Do you find that in your Bible?
30990	Do you know where beggars go?
30990	Do you think society loves you?
30990	Do you think you are only declaring yourself?
30990	Does Dr. Hyde think otherwise?
30990	Does it ask money?
30990	Does it ask the approval of the indifferent herd?
30990	Does it stop with the dog?
30990	Does it stop, then, with the ant?
30990	Does your soul ask profit?
30990	Each phrase, I said, was to be comely; but what is a comely phrase?
30990	Easy?
30990	Follow it-- use the eyes God has given you-- can you not see that a great deal of land would be reclaimed upon this side?"
30990	For what can a man possess, or what can he enjoy, except himself?
30990	Given, then, our new polity, with its new waggon- load of laws, what headmarks must we look for in the life?
30990	Had he not filched that fellow''s birthright?
30990	Have you a salary?
30990	Have you double accounts?
30990	Have you fitted the spirit to a single case?
30990	His answer was,''That will be with regard to the lass?''
30990	His old servant was a model of the virtues, yet did he not miserably perish in that ambuscade upon the road to Poitiers?
30990	How do you know that?
30990	How far is he to make his neighbour happy?
30990	How far must he resent evil?
30990	How far must he respect that smiling face, so easy to cloud, so hard to brighten again?
30990	How?
30990	I am sure one should not be so deliciously tickled by the humorous pieces:--"What, crusty?
30990	I wonder, was not Charles Peebles himself a case in point?
30990	If we do not genially judge our own deficiencies, is it not to be feared we shall be even stern to the trespasses of others?
30990	Is He asked, for example, to divide a heritage?
30990	Is it growing at all clear to you what a picture you have drawn of your own heart?
30990	Is not that also to conceal and cloak God''s counsel?
30990	Is that truly a man, in the rigorous meaning of the word?
30990	Is there any man so blind who can not see that this is theft?
30990	Is this a misreading?
30990	Is this to be allowed?
30990	Is your heart so dead that you prefer the recognition of many to the love of a few?
30990	It is another word to be construed; and who is to be our guide?
30990	My dear benefactors, doing so much good to many, to the Lord, suddenly to be deprived of their most valued comforts?
30990	None the less for that, was it abominable nonsense, and the mere raving of those blindest of the blind who will not see?
30990	Nor the sleight of mind and dexterity of language with which I separated Lelio from the merchant''s family?
30990	O man of formulà ¦, is this a place for you?
30990	O, Miss Smith, did I think when I parted from my sweet babys that I never was to see them more?"
30990	Or suppose you were to blast that boulder, what would happen?
30990	Or were these separate creations of the patronymic, some English, some Gaelic?
30990	Our friend with his infinite variety and flexibility, we know-- but can we put him in?
30990	Perhaps they do not remember the hire of the field labourer; or do they think no parallel will lie?
30990	Pray, do you believe in an author at all?"
30990	Pray, who taught you?"
30990	Service for service: how have you bought your sixpences?
30990	Shall we repent this failure?
30990	She too sprang up, with a pale face; with a pale face, she heard him as he raved out his complaint: Why did she torture him so?
30990	Stevenson, Steenson, Macstophane, M''Steen: which is the original?
30990	Suppose you were to put a groin out here, would not the_ filum fluminis_ be cast abruptly off across the channel?
30990	The insurance seems to have failed, and what next is to be tried?"
30990	The more I think of it, the more I am moved to press upon the world my question: Who are the Little People?
30990	Then he said,''What would I think, just exactly, of Mr. Watt being called an Old B----?''
30990	There is such a thing as loyalty to a man''s own better self; and from those who have not that, God help me, how am I to look for loyalty to others?
30990	These were not virtuous actions; and yet, how am I to tell you?
30990	They will say,"Why do you not write a great book?
30990	To steal?
30990	To whom is he to give?
30990	Upon which the cook replied,"Was he before you upon the rope- ladder?"
30990	Was there ever a more complete justification of the rule of Horace?
30990	We can put in the quaint figure that spoke a hundred words with us yesterday by the wayside; but do we know him?
30990	We must be what is called respectable, and offend no one by our carriage; it will not do to make oneself conspicuous-- who knows?
30990	What are they to tell the child about life and conduct, subjects on which they have themselves so few and such confused opinions?
30990	What is in thy mind?
30990	What is that now in thy mind?
30990	What is that point?
30990	What is the man?
30990	What is the utterance of your inmost self when, in a quiet hour, it can be heard intelligibly?
30990	What result, then, can be drawn from two experiences so contrary as yours and mine?
30990	What was the best yesterday, is it still the best in this changed theatre of a to- morrow?
30990	What, then, are we to count the centre- bit and axle of a being so variously compounded?
30990	When two of these asses met, there would be an anxious"Have you got your lantern?"
30990	Where did you hear that it was easy to be honest?
30990	Where does he find them?
30990	Where to find-- note this phrase-- the Deserving Poor?
30990	Which am I to believe then-- Christ or the author of repute?
30990	Who are they, then?
30990	Who should set a limit to its future encroachments?
30990	Why was this never mentioned?
30990	Will any man suppose it worth the gaining?
30990	Will it be to- morrow?"
30990	Will your own Past truly guide you in your own violent and unexpected Future?
30990	Would not this simple rule make a new world out of the old and cruel one which we inhabit?
30990	Wrong?
30990	Yes, but does that mean to obey?
30990	You will have your own reward, if you keep on growing better than you were-- how do I say?
30990	You will not have forgotten, I believe, my daring and single- handed butchery of the five secret witnesses?
30990	[ 1878?]
30990	[ 1884?]
30990	and how came it to you in the retirement of your clerical parlour?
30990	and if so, how long and how far?
30990	and that I came into the world with all my faculties complete, and have only learned sinsyne to be more tolerant of boredom?...
30990	and that the last thing you would do would be to publish it in the religious press?
30990	and what are they when found?
30990	and what would be the result?
30990	and where would it impinge upon the other shore?
30990	and who is the dreamer?
30990	and yet again, why did she torture him?
30990	and you could walk through life like a gentleman and a hero, with no more concern than it takes to go to church or to address a circular?
30990	by speech or by silence also?
30990	cries Will in a taking, Who would not be crusty with half a year''s baking?"
30990	even in virtue?
30990	is it fear, or suspicion, or desire, or anything of that kind?"
30990	or I?]
30990	or do you really mean the words for blame?
30990	or even by a smile?
30990	or is it not a man and something else?
30990	paint a great picture?"
30990	she knew all, she knew he was no enemy to her; why did she not denounce him at once?
30990	that you would feel the tale of frailty the more keenly since it shamed the author of your days?
30990	these five bald prohibitions?
30990	what is a precept?
30990	what signified her whole behaviour?
30990	which the translation?
30990	why did she torture him?