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  • Scherzi Photography An 'Electro-Magnetic Engine, patented in 1872.

    Trying to Build a Better Mousetrap Rachel Wolff 2011

  • Scherzi Photography An 1858 yarn-dyeing machine The delicate models, often no bigger than a square foot, were required by the U.S. Patent Office for much of the 19th century, but ultimately banned due to space constrictions and a pair of costly fires.

    Trying to Build a Better Mousetrap Rachel Wolff 2011

  • Scherzi Photography An 1870 trap for catching four mice at a time.

    Trying to Build a Better Mousetrap Rachel Wolff 2011

  • Scherzi Photography An 1870 trap for catching four mice at a time.

    Trying to Build a Better Mousetrap Rachel Wolff 2011

  • Scherzi a parte, una bellissima aggiunta alla collezione Zune Arts, diretta da Ryan Dunn presso Vitamin Pictures.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Zune Arts: Float 2007

  • So when we -- like in the case right now -- we know what we know about Kandahar, but until we get a sense through the opposition leaders, Karzai and Scherzi (ph), who are in the city of Kandahar, we won't know whether they believe that the tribal leaders out around Gamabark (ph), Kolot (ph), and so forth, have become very, very cooperative.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2001 2001

  • These four Scherzi are psychical records, confessions committed to paper of outpourings that never could have passed the lips.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • He took up the dancing patterns of Poland because they suited his vivid inner life; he transformed them, idealized them, attaining to more prolonged phraseology and denser architecture in his Ballades and Scherzi -- but these periods are passionate, never philosophical.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • Because Chopin did not label his works with any but general titles, Ballades, Scherzi, Studies, Preludes and the like, his music sounds all the better: the listener is not pinned down to any precise mood, the music being allowed to work its particular charm without the aid of literary crutches for unimaginative minds.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • The poetry, the passion of the Ballades and Scherzi wind throughout these technical problems like a flaming skein.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

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