I am he through whom the rays of heavenly grace dart like those of the sun through a burning-glass, concentrating them on other objects, until they kindle and blaze, while the glass itself remains cold and uninfluenced. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The more he sees her, the worse he is, — uritque videndo, as in a burning-glass, the sunbeams are re-collected to a centre, the rays of love are projected from her eyes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The sun strikes upon our heads at this open window, as though its rays were concentrated through a burning-glass; but the day is in its zenith, and the season an unusual one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For, non pereunt, sed minuuntur et disparent, [3091] Blancanus holds they come and go by fits, casting their tails still from the sun: some of them, as a burning-glass, projects the sunbeams from it; though not always neither: for sometimes a comet casts his tail from Venus, as Tycho observes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Having filled them with water and rendered their edges adhesive by means of a little clay, he thus fabricated a regular burning-glass, which, concentrating the solar rays on some very dry moss, soon caused it to blaze. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And he showed the apparatus which served for a burning-glass. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I inferred that the infinite number of minute bubbles which I had first seen against the under surface of the ice were now frozen in likewise, and that each, in its degree, had operated like a burning-glass on the ice beneath to melt and rot it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the cheering was done, and every eye was fixed upon the blushing Scudamore — who felt himself, under that fixture, like an insect under a lens which the sun is turning into a burning-glass — the Chairman perceived his sad plight, and to give him more time and more spirit, rose again. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Openshaw had instantly turned on them that concentrated spotlight or burning-glass of sceptical scrutiny which he turned on many men to see if they were mountebanks or maniacs; and, in this case, he had a rather unusual sense of reassurance. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In silence, Ramón kindled shreds of cane and ocote, with a burning-glass. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Where a starvation victim imagines sumptuous meals, those suffering thirst imagine themselves as insects in “the focus of a burning-glass,” one desert traveler said. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
The air around them was growing bright, light, mild; Trewissick, for this one night, would catch every mood of the Greenwitch like a burning-glass. ❋ Susan Cooper (2002)
Spines of light hit me in the eye as the molten sun poured over the mountain wall and turned it into a burning-glass. ❋ Vinge, Joan D. (1988)
There was this huge city of houses, perhaps two miles across, walled and embattled in wood, and dominated by a hill on the top of which stood an enormous wooden palace, four storeys high, with another building alongside it which seemed to be made of mirrors, for it shimmered bright as a burning-glass in the sunlight. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
Finsen's method is therefore in no way comparable to certain previous attempts to treat lupus by burning the affected tissue with a burning-glass. ❋ Unknown (1967)
