"Laughing gas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is, however, subject to some apparent exceptions. Carbon burned in protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas, N{2}O, produces about 38 per cent. more heat than the same substance burned in pure oxygen, notwithstanding that the work of decomposing the protoxide of nitrogen has to be performed. In marsh gas, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various
... thinkers whom modern France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet. All these writers are of a revolutionary cast; not in a political sense merely, but in all senses; mad, oftentimes, as March hares; crazy with the laughing gas of recovered liberty; drunk with the wine cup of their mighty Revolution, snorting, whinnying, throwing up their heels, like wild horses in the boundless pampas, and running races of defiance with snipes, ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey
... on each knee, bent down his nose to the basket, and took a long inspiration at the lid; the grin upon his withered face expanding in the process, as if he were inhaling laughing gas. ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens |
