 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 pages
...put together. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...eight Years upon a Project for extracting Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers, which were to be put into Vials hermetically Sealed, and let out to warm the Air in...raw inclement Summers. He told me, he did not doubt, in eight Years more, he should be able to supply the Governor's Gardens with Sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | United States. Congress. Atomic Energy Joint Committee - 1974 - 612 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | David W. Ehrenfeld - 1981 - 305 pages
...Eight Years upon a Project for extracting Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers, which were to be put into Vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the Air in...raw inclement Summers. He told me, he did not doubt in Eight Years more, that he should be able to supply the Governors Gardens with Sun-Shine at a reasonable... | |
 | Morris Goran - 1980 - 140 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight more years he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Albert Truman Schwartz, John G. McEvoy - 1990 - 308 pages
...eightyears upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt in eightyears more, dial he should be able to supply governors gardens with sun-shine at a reasonable... | |
 | Reuben Archer Torrey, Charles L. Feinberg - 760 pages
...a man who had been eight years upon a process of extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers. The sunbeams were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in inclement weather. This was folly indeed, but it is even more ridiculous to think of extracting righteousness... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 1991 - 324 pages
...He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. (Jonathan Swift, Voyage to Laputa) This study of the Trilateral Commission would not have been possible... | |
 | Robert Proctor - 1991 - 364 pages
...Swift describes projects for "extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers"; another academician was busily seeking a way "to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating... | |
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. 
