 | Biography - 1877 - 814 pages
...it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watrb with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...round your finger : it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small Hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the Eoop round and round, and wind up a Thread tied to the outside of the Hoop." — I thanked the Gentleman,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop." I thanked the gentleman and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch, with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1886 - 480 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the inside." "I see it ! I see it I " exclaimed Ferguson, expressing thanks and his enthusiasm at the same... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Conduct of life - 1893 - 464 pages
...round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside." The whole operation was clear now to the boy's discriminating mind. " I see ! I see ! " he exclaimed... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Readers - 1893 - 446 pages
...it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside." The whole operation was clear now to the boy's discriminating mind. " I see ! I see ! " he exclaimed... | |
 | William Peter Pearce - Boys - 1903 - 368 pages
...It will then attempt to un76 Stepping Stones to Manhood wind, and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop and leave it to itself...and round and wind up a thread tied to the outside." "I see it ! I see it 1" exclaimed the boy, enthusiastically. "Thank you, very much !" It was not long... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | English literature - 1774 - 760 pages
...itfelf : and if you fix the other end of it to the infide of a fmall hoop, and leave it to itfelf, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outfide of »k-fpaired of ever recovering the life of the hoop."— I thanked the gentleman, jpj- left... | |
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take a long, thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,... 
