"Infra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a beam of intense coherent light shot out of the tangent that formed the tail of the Q-tube. If the material of the Q was properly constructed and contained atoms that fluoresced strongly in the infra red, you had a heat beam that delivered plenty of power. And, since the radiation was linear and "in step," the Q-tube didn't heat up much at all. The cascade effect took most of the ...
— The Foreign Hand Tie • Gordon Randall Garrett
... crosses, each of them erected at a distance of one mile from the church, and in a different direction. Anyone who arrested a fugitive within these limits was fined two hundreth, or sixteen pounds. For an arrest "infra villam" the penalty was twofold. If the person were seized "infra muros atrii ecclesiae," it was threefold; and if within the church itself, sixfold, to which was added penance "sicut de sacrilegiis." Supposing, however, that anyone, "vesano ...
— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell
... mandibulae inferioris gonide maxime angulata; remiges primores atrae, secundariae supra nigrae apice albo, infra albae; tectrices inferiores albae; ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King
... of course, reflected sunlight. But the rays which pass back to earth after their impact on the moon's surface are profoundly changed. The spectroscope shows that they lose practically all the slower vibrations we call red and infra-red, while the extremely rapid vibrations we call the violet and ultra-violet are accelerated and altered. Many scientists hold that there is an unknown element in the moon—perhaps that which makes the gigantic ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... The use of {Symbol: infra?} in the text where an omission has occurred, and {Symbol: supra?} after the supplied omission in the lower margin, or the same symbols reversed if the supplement is entered ...
— A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger • Elias Avery Lowe and Edward Kennard Rand
... and it (the name, not the motto) had been thoughtfully sandwiched in between my Lys and my d'Angely by my sponsors in baptism, that if necessary I might ever have an excuse at hand for any dark deed or infra dig-ness. ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... grati episcopus Dunelmensis omnibus ad quos prsentes litter peruenerint salutem. Sciatis qud assignauimus & deputauimus dilectos & fideles nostros Radulphum de Ewrie cheualier senescallum nostr[u] Dunelmi, Williamum Chanceler cancellarium, infra comitatum & libertatem Dunelmi, ac Williamum Claxton vicecomitem nostrum Dunelmi coniunctim & diuisim, ad plenam & pacificam seisinam, de duabus partibus medietatis cuiusdam pontis vocati Tinebridge, ...
— Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) - Henrie IV • Raphael Holinshed
... system of ideas, logically coordinated together or concentrated into one only, on the other a quasi-nought, the Platonic "non-being" or the Aristotelian "matter."—But, having cut your cloth, you must sew it. With supra-sensible Ideas and an infra-sensible non-being, you now have to reconstruct the sensible world. You can do so only if you postulate a kind of metaphysical necessity in virtue of which the confronting of this All with this Zero is equivalent to the affirmation of all the degrees of reality that measure the ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson
... young Prince himself, "courting tranquillity," as his door-lintel intimated, ["Frederico tranquillitatem colenti" (Infra, p. 123).] and forbidden to be active except within limits, this of Literature was all along the great light of existence at Reinsberg; the supplement to all other employments or wants of employment there. To Friedrich ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—At Reinsberg—1736-1740 • Thomas Carlyle
... must then, until the end of time, exert a constant pressure upon the other departments of the mind to induce them to function to theistic conclusions. No contrary formulas can be more than provisionally held. Infra-theistic theories must be always in unstable equilibrium; for department Number Three ever lurks in ambush, ready to assert its rights, and on the slightest show of justification it makes its fatal spring, and converts them into the other ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... when invaded by a hostile tribe. In "a-Zay ma" the latter particle is not the negative, but the pronoun, giving to "a-Zay" "in what manner," "how ?" the more emphatical sense of "how ever?" In the same sense we find it again, infra, Night 754, "a-Zay ma tafutni" how canst thou quit me? I would therefore render: "Woe me I am undone, how ever should there be a man here?" or ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... going on, Walter," he remarked. "This thing registers some kind of wireless rays—infra-red, I think,— something like those that they say that Italian scientist, Ulivi, claims he has ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... in the evolution of nature. They will thus learn what effort they have to make to become more intense, and to expand in the actual direction of life." ("Creative Evolution", Preface.) Does that mean abandonment to instinct, and descent with it into infra-consciousness again? By no means. On the contrary, our task is to bring instinct to enrich intelligence, to become free and illumined in it; and this ascent towards super-consciousness is possible in the flash of an intuitive act, as it is sometimes possible for the ...
— A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson • Edouard le Roy
... state of glory for its ordained end, does not influence inferior bodies of another order—those, namely, that are directed only to natural ends. Yet it seems still more probable that it does influence bodies that are moved, though itself motionless, just as angels of the highest rank, who assist [*Infra, Q. 112, A. 3], influence those of lower degree who act as messengers, though they themselves are not sent, as Dionysius teaches (Coel. Hier. xii). For this reason it may be said that the influence of the empyrean upon that which is called the first heaven, and is moved, produces therein ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... Europe regarded the Jews as something infra-human, and it would require an almost impossible amount of large toleration for a Christian maiden of the Middle Ages to regard union with a Jew as anything ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... il pastore in assai buona e bella Stanza, nel bosco infra duo monti piatta, Con la moglie e co i figli; et avea quella Tutta di nuovo e poco inanzi fatta. Quivi a Medoro fu per la donzella La piaga in breve a sanita ritratta; Ma in minor tempo si senti maggiore Piaga di ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... tidings upon the mountain tops, Ma-ajor. Can't come out to bring you chop because too i-i-infra dig, for now I also biggish bug, the little bird what sit upon the rose, as poet sa-a-ays. I tell these Johnnies bring you grub, which you eat without qualm, ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... service of the Church, that the assertion will not be denied that the restrictions as to contracting matrimonial alliances did not extend to clerks not in holy orders or below the grade of subdiaconus. The Registrum Brevium furnishes a precedent of a writ, "De clerico infra sacros ordines constituto non eligendo in officium." This distinction alone would prove that other clerks were not ineligible to office. The various decrees of the Church may be cited to show that the prohibition to marry did not include all clerks ...
— Notes & Queries 1849.12.22 • Various
... voedra norir, le norise deinz sa measoun." Four jurymen were to act as public executors: "Quatuor homines electi et jurati ad interficiendos porcos inventos vagantes infra muros civitatis." Riley "Munimenta Gildhallae," Rolls, 1859, 4 vols. 8vo; "Liber Albus," pp. 270 ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... Great T'ang Dynasty, the seventh day of the month Tait su, the feast of the great Yaosan. This corresponds, according to Gaubil, to 4th February, 781, and Yaosan is supposed to stand for Hosanna (i.e. Palm Sunday, but this apparently does not fit, see infra). There are added the name chief of the law, NINGCHU (presumed to be the Chinese name of the Metropolitan), the name of the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... el Licenciado Andres de Cianca, Oidor de S. M. destos Reinos, e subdelegados por el mui Ilustre Senor el Licenciado Pedro de la Gazca del Consejo de S. M. de la Santa Inquisicion, Presidente destos Reinos e provincias del Peru, para lo infra escripto la notoriedad de los muchos graves e atroces delitos que Gonzalo Pizarro ha cometido e consentido cometer a los que le han seguido, despues que a estos Reinos ha venido el Visorrey Blasco Nunez Vela, en deservicio e desacato ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... the sound of air motors overhead. "They must have had infra-red search beams. Well, that does it. We'll have to run for it, since this bus ...
— A World is Born • Leigh Douglass Brackett
... & divisim, ad tot Equos, Boves, Plaustra, & Carectas, quot pro Cariagio certorum Gunnorum nostrorum, ac aliarum Rerum pro eisdem Gunnis necessarium, a Villa Bristolli usque Civitatem nostram Londoni, indiguerint, tm infra Libertates, qum extea (Feodo Ecclesi dumtaxat excepto) pro Denariis nostris, in hac parte rationabiliter solvendis Capiendum & ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... Miko and Snap bending watchfully at the crowded banks of instruments. A silence in which my own pounding heart seemed to echo. I did not dare look at Anita, nor she at me. Snap was trying to signal Earth, not the Moon! His main grids were set in the reverse. The infra-red waves, flung from the bow window, were of a frequency which Snap and I believed that Grantline could not pick up. And over against the wall, close beside me and seemingly ignored by Snap, there was a tiny ultra-violet sender. Its faint hum and the ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings
... cold, the broken expressions of compelled attention to bodily feelings still under control—all excellently accord with, and prepare for, the after gradual rise into tragedy;—but, above all, into a tragedy, the interest of which is as eminently 'ad et apud infra', as that of Macbeth is directly ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
... case the secret was simple enough, though I suppose I should have got into trouble if it had attracted any notice. And I'm afraid you'll think it rather infra dig. ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • George Bernard Shaw
... give an ascent of fifteen cubits, half a cubit seeming sufficient for a single step. Possibly there were fourteen or fifteen steps at the partition wall, and fourteen or fifteen more thence into the court itself, which would bring the whole near to the just proportion. See sect. 3, infra. But I determine nothing. ...
— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus
... bibliothecam introeuntibus In primo scanno supra [27] " " infra [27] Finis primi scanni sub ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... means forgotten the injuries he had received at the hands of the Ravennati: "ad Ravennam," says Agnellus, "corda revolvens retorsit, et per noctem plurima volvens, infra se taliter agens; heu quid agam et contra Ravennam quae exordia sumam?" "What can I do against Ravenna?" What he did was this. Theodore the patrician, one of his generals, was despatched with a fleet to Ravenna by way of ...
— Ravenna, A Study • Edward Hutton
... all infra-and-ultra-artistic purpose, this repudiation of the role of propagandist, this avowal of what Nietzsche was fond of calling innocence, explains the failure of Conrad to fit into the pigeon-holes so laboriously ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken
... peered out from the galley fly; Behind Jim Island, lying long and dim; An infra owl-light tinged the twilight sky As if ...
— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen |
