 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1860 - 556 pages
...Chilka, in Ceylon, like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wineglass, when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude «>f tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself : the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude...ear to the wood-work of the boat the vibration was greatly increased in volume." The sounds varied considerably at different points, and could be localized,... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest base. On applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat, the sound was greatly increased in volume by... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 pages
...musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger . . . not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds,...the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.' Other and later visitors to the same spot have riven a very similar account of their experience there.... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction. The sounds varied considerably at different points, as we... | |
 | William Smellie, John Ware - Animal behavior - 1860 - 468 pages
...up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wineglass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased by conduction." The last-mentioned fact seems to imply that the sounds were actually... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction. The sounds varied considerably at different points, as we... | |
 | Geology - 1860 - 390 pages
...up from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord or the faint vibrations of a wineglass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...ear to the woodwork of the boat, the vibration was greatly increased in volume by conduction. The sound varied considerably at different points as we... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...from the water like the gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vibrations of a wine-glass when its rim is rubbed by a wet finger. It was not...applying the ear to the wood-work of the boat, the sound was greatly increased in volume by its conductor. They varied considerably at different points... | |
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It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself ; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass. 
