U

Examples

• Muriate of ammonium 5 parts}| n t | Nitrate of potassium 5 parts}| y u | | r | Snow or pounded ice 12 parts}| e | Muriate of sodium 5 parts}| to -25° | . William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Take your time and mind your accent; especially let us have no English _u_'s. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• H is a swinging frame, carrying the model T of a shoe last, and a roughed-out block U, partly converted into a shoe last. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Pour mercury into a U-shaped tube until the level of the mercury in the closed end of the tube is the same as the level in the open end. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He was intent on classifi cation, and might be compared in that respect with the naturalist Buffon, or the botanist Linn?u s. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• S-o-a-p, soap; s-o-p-e, soap; s-o-u-p, soap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In 1865 Pasteur was called u pon to exercise his scientific acumen on behalf of the silk industry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Pasteur, at the instigation of the Minister of Agriculture, u ndertook an investigation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, but such care could have been furnished by any one of us. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Do you mean to join us at dinner? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And then let us be going. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The Colonel and the Inspector were awaiting us in the parlor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. Plato. The Republic.
• I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Again you find us, Miss Summerson, said he, using our little arts to polish, polish! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The ice, you see, was broken between us--and I thought I would take care, on the next occasion, that Mr. Betteredge was out of the way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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