Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 792
led, convul-sive shudders ran through her frame, and then she uttered with loud criesthe words of the oracle, while the priests who attended took down her in-coherent expressions, and set them in order. These possessions by thespirit of divination were sometimes violent. Plutarch mentions a… … Fig. 339.—A Railway Cutting. EXPLOSIVES. T^HE illustration above will serve to remind the reader of the great im--*• portance of explosive agents in the operations of civil industry. By-reason of the more impressive and exciting spectacles which attend the-use of such agents in warfare, we are…
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