If, at last, he let the neophyte sleep, it was but a moment; he woke him suddenly up to apply new tests: he sent him on irksome errands when he was staggering with weariness; he tried the temper, the sense, and the health; and it was only when every severest test had been applied and endured, when the most corrosive aquafortis had been used, and failed to tarnish the ore, that he admitted it genuine, and, still in clouded silence, stamped it with his deep brand of approval.
For its part, the Chinese can do more to dispel such corrosive misconceptions.
The corrosive clouds are tucked safely below, so there's ample solar energy shining down from above.
The eyes may be unwell, but the primary object of our eyesight seems corrosive.
Whatever you call it — the revenge of the nerds, the franchising of the universe, the collapse of civilization — it's a force that is at once emancipatory and authoritarian, innocent and pathological, delightful and corrosive.
However, a highly toxic and corrosive substance called hydrazine, which is often used in creating potent rocket fuel, can potentially survive re-entry.
Over time, steel bike chains tend to rust, particularly when they're covered with corrosive salt that's left on the roadways.
But too much and it can be corrosive, on occasion leading to alcohol and drug abuse.
What's novel about "Friends," or what must seem so to a certain subset of New York teenagers of whom so much is expected, is the absence among the six central characters of any quality of corrosive ambition.
" Yet there's a frenzy to get into the Stanfords of the world, and it seems to grow ever crazier and more corrosive.
Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.
Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.
The calling of a man\'s self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime, too piercing and corrosive.
