"Impinging" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young man in the great interests of the wheat business. Lenore could not understand why she was not praying that he be successful. But she was not. It was inexplicable and puzzling—this change in her—this end of her selfishness. Yet she shrank in terror from an impinging sacrifice. She thrust the thought from her with passionate physical gesture and with ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey
... and his brain. We torture ourselves in the effort to gain an idea of ourselves, and weary with the exertion. Who has yet made us understand how, from the contact with a foreign body, the image in the eye, the wave of air impinging on the ear, particular particles entering the nostrils, and coining in contact with the palate, come sensations in the nerves, and from that, perception in the mind, of the animal or ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... their coating for a length of about three inches, the proximal ends for about two inches. The denuded portion of the distal ends should be rolled up in the form of a spiral coil; this will insure their constant impinging on the carbons more certainly than could be expected from a ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... To turn aside or quit the original direction, as a shot does from accidentally impinging ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... and keen ears are characteristic of the Thoracics. The millions of stimuli—the sounds, sights and smells impinging every waking moment upon the human consciousness—affect him more quickly and more intensely than any other type. The acuteness of all our senses depends, to a far greater extent than we have hitherto supposed, upon proper heart and ...
— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
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