 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring- box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what...was that made the box turn round. He told me that it turned round by a steel spring within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and pui it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with pan of the chain round it ; and asked him what it was...Having then never seen any other spring than that of im father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what...turn round ? He told me that it was turned round by a steel-spring within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-locks,... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...entire stranger, he immediately opened the "watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him what...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...of his watch ; and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the •j'atch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...inside of his watch : and though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch, und put it into my hands. I saw the springbox with part of the...never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock, I asked how a spring within a box could turn the box so often round as to wind all the chain... | |
| |
I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round ; he told me that it was turned round by a steel spring within it. Having then never seen any other spring than that of my father's gun-lock,... 
