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I shall protest the roving apeman tribes, the sheep-people munching the far fields prayed on by the feudal land-baron wolves who rarefy themselves in the few skyscraper summits and horde unremembered foods. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
I'm no stranger to the Gentri-verse and I ride my bike all the time, and I can't even relate to him--which, I guess, is why I also can't always relate to the "bike culture," since they seem so determined to rarefy the normal. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Fridaculous Fun Quiz!] Reference
Because the elements, on the other hand, can be rarefied and condensed, they can incline the lumen in themselves away from the center of the universe, so as to rarefy it, or toward the center so as to condense it, and this accounts for their natural capacity to move up and down. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Grosseteste] Reference
The arid plains from which the conglomerate crops out rarefy the superincumbent air-stratum to such a degree that the intensely chilled layers resting on the closely adjoining snow-peaks pour down to reëstablish equilibrium, with the wrathful force of an invisible cataract, eight, ten, even seventeen thousand feet in height. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
They are earth's lumi - naries, which serve to cleanse and rarefy the atmosphere of. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures] Reference
The air consequently was damp and gross, for want of stronger rays to open and rarefy it. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference
But extend this vapour, rarefy it; from so narrow a room as our natural bodies, to any politic body, to a state. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in a bulb and rarefy the air in the same. From Wordnik.com. [Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency] Reference
The rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
I now reduced them still lower, that I might rarefy further, and for this purpose in the following experiment used a measuring interval in the electrometer of only 15° (1185.). From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference
The markings, always spots and specks, the largest never exceeding 0·1 inch in diameter, are invariably most numerous towards the large end, where they are sometimes, though rarefy, slightly confluent. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
Thou mayst change the thoughts into new forms; thou mayst rarefy and sublimate it into a finer spirit, -- but thou canst not annihilate that which has no home but in the memory, no substance but the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Our condensers, which compress, cool, and rarefy air, enabling travellers to obtain water and even ice from the atmosphere, are great aids in desert exploration, removing absolutely the principal distress of the ancient caravan. From Wordnik.com. [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference
But the heat which rarefies the air inclosed in the water must rarefy the water at the same time; therefore, if it could remain stationary in the water when both were cold, I do not understand why it should not when both are equally heated?. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
I assumed that when the sun is low the vapours above the edge of the crater and elsewhere cool and condense, thus bending the rays and seeming to lift the sun higher; but after a time the rays heat and rarefy the vapours, thus lowering the sun again. From Wordnik.com. [A Trip to Venus] Reference
&c. — which for aught he knew, might as well rarefy and dilute the faculties of the soul into nothing, by one extreme, — as they are condensed in colder climates by the other; — but he traced the affair up to its spring-head; — shewed that, in warmer climates, nature had laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
It is certainly possible to take a hollow core of copper, rarefy the gas in the same, and by passing impulses of sufficiently high frequency through a circuit around it, bring the gas inside to a high degree of incandescence; but as to the nature of the forces there would be considerable uncertainty, for it would be doubtful whether with such impulses the copper core would act as a static screen. From Wordnik.com. [Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency] Reference
It is then that the flowers of this world bloom brightest; that its sun is the most genial; that its clouds are the scarcest; that its fruit is the most delicious; that the air is the most balmy; that its cigars are of the highest flavor; that the warmth and radiance of early matrimonial felicity so rarefy the intellectual atmosphere that the soul mounts higher, and enjoys a wider prospect, than ever before. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Egg and Other Stories] Reference
Isn't it a pity Edison can't invent a machine to rarefy an overdone steak? ". From Wordnik.com. [Paste Jewels] Reference
By the time the rising sun has ascended to the height of thirty or forty degrees above the horizon the earth has acquired, and reflected on the body of air situated over it, a degree of heat sufficient to rarefy it and destroy its equilibrium; in consequence of which the body of air above the sea, not being equally, or scarcely at all, rarefied, rushes towards the land and the same causes operating so long as the sun continues above the horizon, a constant sea-breeze, or current of air from sea to land, prevails during that time. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
"Chambers is not yet gone, but fo hurried, or fo negligent, or fo proud, that I rarefy fee him. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...] Reference
A certain quantity of air; and if it were mingled with the air, two difficulties arise; that is to say: It must rarefy that portion of the air with which it mingles; and for this cause the rarefied air must fly up of itself and will not remain among the air that is heavier than itself; and besides this the subtle spiritual essence disunites itself, and its nature is modified, by which that nature loses some of its first virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
20. rarefy. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
If, therefore, rising out of low ground, they are driven along the plain, and are soon lost to the sight, it must arise from some of these causes, viz. That there is sufficient air abroad to divide and resolve them, or the heat of the sua has been strong enough to exhale them, that is, to rarefy them, so as to render them lighter than the air through which they were to pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Weather Guide: A Collection of Practical Observations for Prognosticating the ...] Reference
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