quick-silver

Further, having affirmed that he would be beholden to none of them, he got the contract to carry the United States mail, twice a week, from Kelterville up over Tarwater Mountain to Old Almaden - which was a sporadically worked quick-silver mine in the upland cattle country.

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

But then the whole project was a quick-silver thing thanks in large part to its propaganda responsibilities and the importance that it landed at exactly the right moment to try and affect public consciousness, so the editing process may well have been further down the list of responsibilities than usual.

Simon jigs and jives to the STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM on DVD – Bing Crosby reviewed on OWF! | Obsessed With Film 2010

I hauled ice from Saturn's rings and quick-silver from Europa.

Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

Rather the Dharmadhatu is the universe seen correctly, the quick-silver universe of radiance, luminosity with no shadows.

Archive 2008-02-01 Fathorse 2008

Rather the Dharmadhatu is the universe seen correctly, the quick-silver universe of radiance, luminosity with no shadows.

Tagged by Michelle Dawn Fathorse 2008

The gauzy stuff seemed to vibrate — its strands to run together like quick-silver.

The Moon Pool 2004

The distillery opposite Skovgaard's warehouse was struck and the stills exploded blue fire that ran like burning quick-silver down alleys and gutters.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

The Tzigane of Hungary to-day wears his sheep-skin breeches, and hands them down to posterity, with a plentiful supply of quick-silver and grease to keep them soft and clean.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

"Lastly, Instead of using water to render the pistons and other parts of the engine air and steam tight, I employ oils, wax, resinous bodies, fat of animals, quick-silver and other metals in their fluid state."

Steam, Its Generation and Use

Hodgson really seemed trying to catch quick-silver when he tried to get home on Acton.

Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson