These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles, into which the electricity is forced to a very high
tension. With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead.
I lowered the gun and stepped to the corner of the cabin, primarily to relieve the
tension on my nerves and to make a new start, and incidentally to be closer.
This represents, at atmospheric
tension, 1,800 cubic feet of the former and
Some of his own holdings were imperilled, and the man was working like some high-geared, delicate, strong machine--strung to full
tension, going at full speed, accurate, never hesitating, with the proper word and decision and act ready and prompt as clockwork.
There is, in addition to them, a judgment: "This is what I shall do"; there is also a sensation of
tension during doubt, followed by a different sensation at the moment of deciding.
Stranger than I can express, certainly, was the effort to struggle against my new lights; it would doubtless have been, however, a greater
tension still had it not been so frequently successful.
No human skill can keep pace with the changing tensions. A vortex has us by the beak and we dive down a two-thousand foot slant at an angle (the dip-dial and my bouncing body record it) of thirty-five.
"Now we've done it," says George in my ear: "Our skin-friction, that last slide, has played Old Harry with the tensions! Look out for laterals, Tim; she'll want some holding."
If one intrudes on the Heavens when they are balancing their volt-accounts; if one disturbs the High Gods' market-rates by hurling steel hulls at ninety knots across tremblingly adjusted electric tensions, one must not complain of any rudeness in the reception.
Said George: "That may iron out all the tensions." Even as he spoke, the conflicting winds came to rest; the levels filled; the laterals died out in long, easy swells; the air-ways were smoothed before us.
AH, STENCIL
TENSION. A subject near and dear to my heart and one I've written about before in this space.
Two, our response or reaction to suffering from the perspective of creative
tension. Three, the movement from suffering to sacrifice to the sacred.
