How To Use Quicksilver In A Sentence
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More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form.
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Our ability to foresee and avert techno-terrorism or bio slip-ups may be more like Skating on Stilts over ball bearings in quicksilver.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Smallpox in the garage
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Thanks to every instructor at BOEC who has allowed me to propel myself, in my monoski, up that hill to the Quicksilver lift.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories
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Hanuman smiled, and then he spoke, and his words were as cool as quicksilver, `But we haven't recorded your memories yet.
THE BROKEN GOD
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He was a beatnik and hippie, and was once the manager for the rock group ‘Quicksilver Messenger Service.’
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Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquaevitae, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
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The play scoffs at citizens like Gertrude who marry above their station; at wannabe gallants like Quicksilver the apprentice; and at ‘false’ gentlemen such as the new-made knight Sir Petronel Flash.
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Her quicksilver changes of intent, complex multiple qualities, polyrhythms, and opposing body parts warred with Anderson's weeping strings to create a moving picture of grief.
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They were like crystal clear pools of pale green water, emotions, thoughts, flashing like quicksilver fish in their depths.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Kepler noted with satisfaction that it would be appropriate to correlate the sun with gold, the density of which is greater than that of quicksilver.
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But this is best seen in quicksilver, which is not inaptly called mineral water.
The New Organon
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If one ventures to wonder whether Haitink has the quicksilver mind necessary for Mozart, it is only because his Verdi and Wagner were superlative.
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It was a copybook move of pinpoint accuracy which saw Alan Stubbs spray the ball wide to Mark Patterson, whose near-post cross found the quicksilver Scot in a determined rush to open his account.
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The award-winning sculptor of found footage has become a contemporary ambassador of the technique largely thanks to his 2002 film "Decasia," which literalized its title by turning physically distressed footage into quicksilver sequences of eerie beauty.
A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning
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That physical manifestation of the Skill-magic had gleamed like quicksilver.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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And another quicksilver attack saw Carlton cross for the rapidly arriving Twiss - but Uberschar deflected his shot for a corner.
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For them, your words are like quicksilver, and you speak and speak, and more and more people knock at Bardo's gates to listen.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Mears, a quicksilver defender, made his debut as a replacement in the win over Nottingham Forest at Maine Road and will be another under Keegan's gaze.
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On my death-bed, I will choose upon your merits as I consider them, whether to return as an electrifying eel, a hoary stickleback or a shoal of quicksilver fish, adept at exploring new routes among the labyrinth passages within the flesh and bones of your torpefied body.
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What is clear, however, is that his latest, slim book is written in the same spirit as his partly fabricated biography of Thomas Griffiths Wanewright, one of the most quicksilver characters in the circle around John Keats.
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During the Great Depression one enterprising young man sought to improve his lot by salvaging ‘quicksilver’ from cinnabar (HgS, mercuric sulfide) leftover from an old mining venture in the area.
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Iain sez, The fundraising body for science fiction's Arthur C Clarke Award has just released a collection of essays on past winners (up to and including Quicksilver) and The Aust Gate bookstore has set up a site for it.
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Sinead Cusack also brings the right qualities to Cleopatra: quicksilver energy, boundless curiosity and emotional volatility.
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Or put a drop of balm in clear water in a cup of silver or in a clear basin, stir it well with the clear water; and if the balm be fine and of his own kind, the water shall never trouble; and if the balm be sophisticate, that is to say counterfeited, the water shall become anon trouble; and also if the balm be fine it shall fall to the bottom of the vessel, as though it were quicksilver, for the fine balm is more heavy twice than is the balm that is sophisticate and counterfeited.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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It is the secret, the mystery of quicksilver, that a metal of such enormous density can yet remain liquid.
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Hebrew root, "pant" or "snort," referring to the sound of the bellows blown hard. lead -- employed to separate the baser metal from the silver, as quicksilver is now used.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The sky from the earth to the zenith was a vast expanse of illuminated smoke, and the black landscape round about was cut by rivulets of molten lava rolling on and on like restless streams of quicksilver.
The Changing Sun
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There's a lightness of touch and a melodic freedom that's fairly jazzy, especially in guitarist Jay Berliner's quicksilver leads, an echo of his work with Mingus on The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady.
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Mercury is a neurotoxic element that was once known as quicksilver and ranks next to gold at No. 80 on the periodic table.
Peter Christian Hall: Thimerosol in Flu Vaccines? America's Mercury Habit is Nothing New
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Victorian gothicThis combination of plants will farebest in full sun: for partial shade, switch the sun-loving sempervivums and curry plants for a dark-leaved heuchera such as'Chocolate Ruffles 'or Hebe pimeleoides' Quicksilver '.
Window box ideas
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Tex Avery had wit, quicksilver charm, and near-boundless inventive genius.
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The achievement is palpable: the quicksilver movements of fish, the movement of water and the play of light through it, the interior of a whale's mouth.
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The trail once led from the cinnabar or quicksilver mines of Mount St Helena to the port of San Pablo.
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First, the budding neurosurgeon correctly spelled "hydrargyrum", as chemists call mercury or quicksilver.
SiliconIndia.com
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Or again, it might be a stern El Greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer, and all around alternating stripe of quicksilverish water and harsh green corn, the whole arrangement opening like a fan, somewhere in Kansas.
Nabokov's Art as Story
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As we approached it, there was the wooden drawbridge and the beauti - ful broad moat as still and luminous as quicksilver in the cold, winter sunshine.
Chennai
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Lloyd's tenor is luxuriously rich throughout; sticking mostly to the upper register of the horn and peppering his phrases with sweet quicksilver flurries, he makes a beautiful noise.
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In 1972, he gave a dazzling, quicksilver performance as an English aristocrat who believes himself to be the Messiah in The Ruling Class.
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Glass and crystal ware, plate and window glass, and the same silvered, quicksilvered, and platinized.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
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Mercury is also known by the popular name of quicksilver, derived from the Greek words, hydros meaning water, and argyros meaning silver, because this silvery mineral occurs at room temperature as a liquid.
Mercury (element)
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But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley.
What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
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There's another way that planning has changed in this quicksilver world of business: it has become a more continuous process rather than an annual or a semiannual review.
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Occasionally Hautzinger drops to muted valve clicks and Derek riffs with him, as on the quicksilver interplay of ‘The Vietnamese Driver’.
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He has been pulled much back by the operation of his quicksilver, which flung him into a severe looseness and kind of salivation: it weakened him much and kept him from the air, but it brought off a great load of black stuff from his stomach, and his spirits are exceedingly better.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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The lead, which was then used in refining silver, as quicksilver is now, is consumed of the fire, and has not done its work.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Aristotle saith that of brimstone that is boisterous and not swiftly pured, but troublous and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of lead is gendered, and is gendered in mineral places; so of uncleanness of impure brimstone lead hath a manner of neshness, and smircheth his hand that toucheth it.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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Indeed, it was only neat work from Sauzee in the 20th minute which brought to an end a quicksilver run from the youngster as he glided past three Hibs men towards goal.
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The internet dial up pleading the electrocardiographic to cytoplasm and unselfconsciously utrillo onto beads hackee, euphonic gerbert as he airs from complaisance to voltaren, quicksilver kalemia lt.
Rational Review
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My interests are now quicksilver streams that dart between, and are frequently dammed by, the immovable rocks of naps, meals, bedtimes and bubble-blowing sessions.
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CNN reports the special tournament called the "The Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau" a legendary lifeguard and surfer has only been held seven times in 26 years due to the infrequency of adequate waves.
Huge Pacific storm to bring high surf to Hawaii
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They now knew that quicksilver was mercury, that red wulfenite, peacock coal, and hornblende were all minerals, that wild elephant’s ear, bladderwort, and stinking smut were plants, and that sunfish scales, flyclub, and phoenix feather were parts of animals.
The Night Of the Solstice
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But that loss is more than made up for by attention to the hang, the single area which can make or break a show by this most quicksilver of artists.
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He can scarcely believe his own fingers can keep up with the quicksilver flow of the his thoughts; even as he is playing he knows he'll have a hard time ever recreating the drive goading him on to the end.
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But Ms. Hustvedt rarely belabors the theme—this brisk, ebullient novel is a potpourri of poems, diary entries, emails and quicksilver self-analysis: "My own head was a storehouse of multiloquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley.
What the Nanny Saw; the Trouble With Men
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She displayed, under his nose, the only kind of figure he considered worth looking at -- that of a very young girl, supple and sinuous and quicksilverish; thin, eager shoulders, polished white arms that were nowhere too fat and nowhere too thin.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
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The internet dial up pleading the electrocardiographic to cytoplasm and unselfconsciously utrillo onto beads hackee, euphonic gerbert as he airs from complaisance to voltaren, quicksilver kalemia lt.
Rational Review
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Her dry Aussie wit is a godsend in an industry choked with airheads, and her quicksilver intelligence animates her luminous beauty.
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More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form.
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According to Dralla, the main benefit of Quicksilver over competing laser based systems is its ability to differentiate between different flaws such as passivation voids, scratches, metal shorts and debris.
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Apart from the distressing number of literals and homophones which infest my proof copy, my main criticism is that she never quite succeeds in bringing her quicksilver subject into full view.
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By increasing the amount of mercury allowed in coal-fired power plant emissions, he will ensure that every fish in every Great Lake contains unsafe levels of quicksilver.
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Scherzo shows off pianist Ian Brown's quicksilver, biting attacks -- as well as a vicious rasping in Lawrence Power's viola -- a passion that subdues only briefly in the countersubject, since there is no trio to relieve the visceral intensity of the composer's furor.
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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Similar qualities had characterized her acting, and they spring from a nature which a close observer has described as clear in perception yet swayed by fantasy; strong of will yet impulsive as quicksilver; finding enjoyment now in animated discussion, now in impetuous riding, now in absolute repose; full of maternal tenderness, yet fond of splendor and the excitements of society; a nature, in short, abounding in contrasts, but substantially that of a true, noble and lovable woman.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
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Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck. Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People, who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery, he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck and there would be no story at all.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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By heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines.
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Though now a barely functioning ruin of the quicksilver artistic spirit he once was, Avram is as richly imagined a character as Ora.
Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"
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Tex Avery had wit, quicksilver charm, and near-boundless inventive genius.
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i was a hardcore windows fan until 4 years ago, finally since XP was getting so old and I wanted a new computer i decided to try it out. it took a bit. but life changed. quicksilver is your keyboard answer to anything drag and drop. mac osx is your answer to anything windows.
Why I Didn’t Buy A Mac | Lifehacker Australia
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Boyle suggested that the divergence from the expected result in the case of rarefaction may have been due to "some little aerial bubbles in the quicksilver" ( "so easy is it in such nice experiments to miss of exactness," he added).
Sticky Wants to Grab
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a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
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The usually quicksilver striker is looking jaded and he had three opportunities to put Dundee ahead before Hibs took the lead.
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Rarely has a football been attached to quicksilver legs with such umbilical certainty; never again will we see such an intoxicating blend of power and guile in his trademark dribbling game.
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Take half an ounce of samphire, dissolve it in two ounces of aquævitæ, add to it one ounce of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of Myrrh and hinders the camphire from firing; take also two ounces of hematitus, a red stone to be had at the druggist's, and when you buy it let them beat it to powder in their great mortar, for it is so very hard that it cannot be done in a small one; put this to the afore-mentioned composition, and when you intend to walk on the bar you must annoint your feet well therewith, and you may walk over without danger: by this you may wash your hands in boiling lead.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
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The term quack actually comes from the word quicksilver and refers to the so called early drug doctors and piss prophets refers to those who drew the astrological figure or a sick person, his urine being brought to the physician at that moment in time to represent part of his body.
Plutocracy and America-How Corporate Welfare is Destroying America
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The platina is shorter than the zincs, to prevent its reaching the quicksilver in the bottom of the cell; and the wax balls on its sides are to insulate it from the zinc plates.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
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She brings the right qualities to Cleopatra: quicksilver energy, boundless curiosity and emotional volatility.
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The dancing has to match the play's quicksilver banter, step for step, with skill and style.
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The Indians ran away and left their possessions, and Raleigh's dreams of mineral wealth were excited by the discovery of what he took to be a 'refiner's basket, for I found in it his quicksilver, saltpetre, and divers things for the trial of metals, and also the dust of such ore as he had refined.'
Raleigh
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This was a mistake because I wanted him to talk more about the theatre, and there is something quicksilverish in Micio's temperament; having got on the maccaroni he did not care to return to art.
Diversions in Sicily
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But she's not just an exceptional actress; her dry Aussie wit is a godsend in an industry choked with airheads, and her quicksilver intelligence animates her luminous beauty.
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Quacks or quack salvers are named from quicksilver ointment peddlers who treated syphilis in the 16th century.
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But Hall's business was in the quicksilver world of ideas.
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On a set of constantly shifting black and white panels (think fine lace), the eight dancers make use of a frenzied vocabulary, whether in quicksilver entrechats, whiplash pirouetting, or angst-ridden arm gestures.
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But he has struggled to live up to that quicksilver performance and has made only limited appearances in the first team squad.
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California exported nearly all its silver to Asian markets, as well as much of its quicksilver [mercury], which was a key new element in improving the extraction of precious metals from ore.
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Robert Martin whipped in a shot from the right wing and quicksilver forward Fabio Cretaro, who darted with menace, diverted the sliothar past Mayo's net-minder Michael Walsh.
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Mercury has long been known also by the name quicksilver, because it is a silver liquid.
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Quicksilver is set in the late seventeenth century, and belongs in a category of novels which some would call historical, or picaresque, or possible just an adventure story.
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But he is an immensely gifted comic, with a quicksilver imagination which is like a video player permanently jammed in fast-forward.
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Quicksilver, liquid metal, nickname for Mercury, keeper of eloquence and dexterity, protector of roads, deliverer of the messages we need.
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A well-known consequence of this difference is that in a narrow tube the surface of the liquid - the so-called meniscus - stands higher at the circumference than at the centre in the case of water; with quicksilver it is just the reverse.
Man or Matter
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The gore here is clinical but the plot flows like quicksilver from the splash page to the climax, with interesting characters and situations combined with well-conceived visuals, that last always a Zenescope trademark.
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