Did you mayhaps mean grand?
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“Even if the phase of our system is well specified to start, the stuff we trace out represents reservoir states with lots of various phases, which in the argand plane point everywhere (FAPP) and we are really just saying our nicely prepared phase is being buried away in that noise.”
“In the evening especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist leaning over his desk.”
“And the shade of the argand lamp fastened to the wall above”
“A recent number of Gill's "Technical Repository," contains a simple mode of consuming the smoke that ascends from the turner of an argand lamp.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
“This gifted improvisatore (who is poet to the King's Theatre,) sometimes astonishes his acquaintance -- especially if a new one -- by holding his hand close over the flame of a candle, or an argand lamp, for several minutes together.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
“Within the latter is placed an argand burner _ (f) _ with glass chimney.”
“The argand has long been the favorite burner for the table and desk.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
“Of the argand burners, Guise's shadowless argand has been considered the best, but of late years Sugg's”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
“Yet either the batwing or the fishtail tip can be used in any common burner except the argand.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
“The chemist now proceeded to illustrate his harangue with the argand upon the table, which he lighted and turned on full, without replacing the chimney.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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