That same morning, Captain Poul arrived at the neighbouring valley of St. Germain, for the purpose of superintending the demolition of certain Protestant dwellings, and then he heard of Laporte's midnight expedition.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

The Coast of Adventure THE COAST OF ADVENTURE BY THE SAME AUTHOR Alton of Somasco Lorimer of the Northwest Thurston of Orchard Valley Winston of the Prairie The Gold Trail Sydney Carteret, Rancher A Prairie Courtship Vane of the Timberlands The Long Portage Ranching for Sylvia Prescott of Saskatchewan The Dust of Conflict The Greater Power Masters of the Wheatlands Delilah of the Snows By Right of Purchase The Cattle Baron's Daughter Thrice Armed For Jacinta The Intriguers The League of the Leopard For the Allinson Honor The Secret of the Reef Harding of Allenwood The Coast of Adventure "Dropping his chin upon the stock, he stiffened his arms and held his breath as he squeezed the trigger"—Page 327.
— from The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

Analysis of Coal 252 Process of Combustion 253 Heat evolved in it 254 Form and Structure of Boiler 255 Waggon Boiler 255 Furnace 256 Method of feeding it 257 Combustion of Gas in Flues 260 Williams's Patent for Method of consuming unburned Gases 260 Construction of Grate and Ash-pit 261 Magnitude of heating Surface of Boiler 262 Steam-space and Water-space in Boiler 263 Position of Flues 264 Method of feeding Boiler 265 Method of indicating the Level of Water in Boiler 266 Level Gauges 266 Self-regulating Feeders 267 Steam Gauge 270 Barometer Gauge 272 Watt's Invention of the Indicator 274 Counter 278 Safety-valve 279 Fusible Plugs 280 Self-regulating Damper 281 Brunton's Self-regulating Furnace 283 Gross and useful Effect of an Engine 285 Power and Duty of Engines 287 Horse-power of Steam Engines 289 Evaporation proportional to Horse-power 290 Sources of Loss of Power 292 Absence of good practical Rules for Power 292 Common Rules followed by Engine-makers 292 Duty distinguished from Power 294 Duty of Boilers 294 Proportion of Stroke to Diameter of Cylinder 295 Duty of Engines 296 Cornish System of Inspection 297 Table showing the Improvement of Cornish Engines 298 Beneficial Effects of Cornish Inspection 299 Successive Improvements on which the increased Duty of Engines depends, traced by John Taylor in his "Records of Mining" 299 CHAP.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

Proportion of stroke to diameter of cylinder, 295 ; Cornish system of inspection, 297 ; Improvement of the Cornish engines, 298 ; Historical detail of the duty of Cornish engines, 299 ; High-pressure engines, 321 ; Leupold's engine described, 323 ; Construction of the first high-pressure engine by Messrs. Trevethick and Vivian, 324 ; First application of the steam engine to propel carriages on railroads, 328 ; Computation of how much corn could be saved by the substitution of steam engines for horse power, 332 ; Marine engines, form and arrangement of, 441 ; Difference between marine and land engines, 443 ; Mr. Howard's patent engine described, 464 ; Humphrey's engine described, 470 .
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

Brandon of the Engineers E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team (http://www.pgdpcanada.net) BRANDON OF THE ENGINEERS BY THE SAME AUTHOR Alton of Somasco Lorimer of the Northwest Thurston of Orchard Valley Winston of the Prairie The Gold Trail Sydney Carteret, Rancher A Prairie Courtship Vane of the Timberlands The Long Portage Ranching for Sylvia Prescott of Saskatchewan The Dust of Conflict The Greater Power Masters of the Wheatlands Delilah of the Snows By Right of Purchase The Cattle Baron’s Daughter Thrice Armed For Jacinta The Intriguers The League of the Leopard For the Allison Honor The Secret of the Reef Harding of Allenwood The Coast of Adventure Johnstons of the Border Brandon of the Engineers “‘YOU MUST COME.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

But eventually the prospect of shaking the dust of cities from my feet for awhile, and living the (very much) simple life amongst unspoilt children of nature in altogether 18 novel surroundings, tempted me into acquiescence; and—greatly against the advice of my relatives and friends—I "took on" the job.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

441 During those six years, melancholy and disgraceful events, at home and abroad, had followed one another in rapid succession; the divorce of Lady Essex, the murder of Overbury, the elevation of Villiers, the pardon of Somerset, the disgrace of Coke, the execution of Raleigh, the battle of Prague, the invasion of the Palatinate by Spinola, the ignominious flight of the son-in-law of the English king, the depression of the Protestant interest all over the continent.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron