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Significados de plumb-line em inglês

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Uso de plumb-line em inglês
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And she balanced her little head with the perpendicularity of a plumb-line.
After the Storm
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In the game way the stem and stern were measured with a plumb-line.
In the Wilds of Africa
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He will also find that a plumb-line comes in very useful.
Reviews
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Instead of the plumb-line they use a spirit-level or a basin of quicksilver.
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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He accordingly chalked a plumb-line, and went and sounded the well.
Foul Play
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Now the zenith is simply the point from which the plumb-line seems to drop.
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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The leaves of them alders hung straight as a plumb-line.
In a Hollow of the Hills
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He had heard the sailor on the river-steamer calling out the mark on the plumb-line.
The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories
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They are her instruments of precision; they represent the builder's compasses, square, level and plumb-line.
The Mason-Bees
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Then reverse the triangle, end for end, exactly, and mark the new line the plumb-line makes.
Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and S...
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Experiment, frequently repeated, shows a slight deviation to the East, of the plumb-line that marks the vertical.
Astronomy for Amateurs
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His plumb-line touches them and they squirm.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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These, of course, he shall take down; he will learn some day to use the plumb-line and measure.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
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She dropped a plumb-line into the young man, sounding him by what she knew of him and judged.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
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I was a mature man of twenty-eight at the time, mustached, and stood six feet to a plumb-line.
The Outlet
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In front of the candle a plumb-line was suspended, and remained immovable over its center during the whole operation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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