1 Nevertheless, she was soon aware that the experiment of coming to Bellomont was destined not to be successful.
2 The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
3 Carol caught herself picturing pleasanter reading-rooms, chairs for children, an art collection, a librarian young enough to experiment.
4 Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
5 By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
6 But more surprising is it to know, as has been proved by experiment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than that of a Borneo negro in summer.
7 The experiment in some measure succeeded, though far too many suffered their unloaded muskets to be torn from their hands, in the vain hope of appeasing the savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 8 Hawkeye, though too much accustomed to Indian artifices not to foresee the danger of the experiment, knew not well how to combat this sudden resolution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 9 Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying experiment on her delinquent countryman.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 10 When Heyward joined him, the scout was coolly awaiting the result of this experiment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 11 Once or twice he felt induced to give the order for a rush, and to attempt the village by surprise; but his experience quickly admonished him of the danger of so useless an experiment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 12 Many fell, in making the experiment, under the bullets and the blows of the pursuing Delawares.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 13 He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth.
14 Well, I can't say I thank you for the experiment.
15 Or if ever this were done by inadvertency, or by way of experiment, there forthwith resulted such disorder and danger, that the city at once retraced its steps and reverted to the true path.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI.