In about ten minutes after starting, the barometer
indicated an altitude of 15,000 feet.
is useless: it is as misleading as the newspaper forecast.
He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last; whereupon he was referred to the barometer
, which seemed to have no intention of rising.
This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer
It was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, with, I am told, a rapidly fluctuating barometer
An old piano, standing beneath a barometer
, was covered with a pyramid of old books and boxes.
Thompson, surveyor to the Northwest Company; who, by the joint means of the barometer
and trigonometric measurement, ascertained it to be twenty-five thousand feet above the level of the sea; an elevation only inferior to that of the Himalayas.
will give warning of an easterly gale, were it ever so wet.
Allen, not having his own skies and barometer
about him, declined giving any absolute promise of sunshine.
But now Lydgate came in; the book was closed before he reached Rosamond's corner, and as he took his seat with easy confidence on the other side of her, young Plymdale's jaw fell like a barometer
towards the cheerless side of change.
To act as middleman between the pursuer of wealth, and the wealth which he pursued, or to stand as a human barometer
, registering the rise and fall of the great mammon pressure in the markets, was not the work for which Providence had placed those broad shoulders and strong limbs upon his well knit frame.
Raoul decided to interview Captain Lynch on the subject, but when he arrived at that ancient mariner's house, he found him looking wide-eyed at the barometer