Melted

Examples

• With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Donnez-moi la main, said he, and the spite and jealousy melted out of his face, and a generous kindliness shone there instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Break up the glue and soak in the water for a few hours, then heat by water-bath until melted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The fearlessness of the Chicago confession was melted down into a featureless alloy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Barff kindly sent him a specimen of this substance, which he melted, and put some of it into one-half of a pint of cream. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But, if all melted like a dream, as once before had happened--? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Man first discovered by observation or accident that certain stones were melted or softened by fire, and that the product could be hammered and shaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the glowing splendor it looked so frail and ethereal, that, even as they gazed, it melted away before their eyes like a fairy vision. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A great variety of lamps was made of the platinum-iridium type, mostly with thermal devices to regulate the temperature of the burner and prevent its being melted by an excess of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For a moment it stood as though listening and then turned slowly, and melted into the shadows of the jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And in those tears they all shed together, the high and the lowly, melted away all the heart-burnings and anger of the oppressed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand: her past was come back to her with larger interpretation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A solid column of ice 93,000,000 miles long and 2-1/4 miles in diameter could be melted in a single second if the sun could concentrate its entire power on the ice. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They drifted northward as the snows melted for summer pasture, and southward to winter pasture after the custom of the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Finding that the melted metal sank through the mass of consumed fuel, they constructed a stone hearth on which to receive it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If glass melted at a definite temperature, it could not be molded in this way. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sound of the wheels grew fainter in the distance--the cab melted into the black shadows on the road--the woman in white was gone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Suddenly her soul melted in her eyes; she fell on his neck:--I won't leave you, papa; I'll never leave you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I will ride him out and will hide him and bring him in when the snow is melted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Cover the portion of metal you wish to write upon with melted beeswax and allow it to cool. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They were both melted by these words, and both entreated me to say no more. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Jumping on a stool she got close to his elbow and said with her whole soul melted into tender alarm-- Can you lean on me, dear? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I've seen that theer bald head of his a perspiring in the sun, Mas'r Davy, till I a'most thowt it would have melted away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• An impression of the metal was obtained in fusible metal, which is an alloy composed of tin, lead, and bismuth, melted together in the proportions of two of the latter to one each of the former. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By one method the surface of the object is first coated with tinfoil on which the artist traces his design, and this is then coated with melted transparent wax. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All the rest, by some extraordinary means, has melted away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Such money no sooner appeared, than it was melted down or carried away, as it always is in such circumstances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But he fed that furnace and he melted his different compositions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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