| William M. Thayer - 1886 - 480 pages
...end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of...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 - Readers - 1893 - 446 pages
...end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of...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 - Conduct of life - 1893 - 464 pages
...end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of...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
...forefinger, and wind it around your finger. It will then attempt to un76 Stepping Stones to Manhood wind, and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of...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
...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;...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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