oscillation

Bell noticed how small and thin was the ear-drum, and yet how effectively it could send thrills and vibrations through heavy bones.

He knew what a spoken word was, and how it acted upon the air, or the ether, that carried its vibrations from the lips to the ear.

He listened and learned what even he had not known before, that a solid metallic body could take up from the air all the countless varieties of vibrations produced by speech, and that these vibrations could be carried along a wire and reproduced exactly by a second metallic body.

But it might have been long; for I knew there were demons who took note of my swoon, and who could have arrested the vibration at pleasure.

The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length.

I gasped and struggled at each vibration. I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep.

I don't know about Mills, but the subdued shadowy vibration of it echoed in my breast which felt empty for a moment and like a large space that makes one giddy.

There was a deep-down vibration in her tone for the first time.

These thousand tiny bells quivered for some time with the vibration of the rope, then gradually died away, and finally became silent when the manikin had been brought into a state of immobility by that law of the pendulum which has dethroned the water clock and the hour-glass.

"Oh!" he said, in a very low voice, "is it possible that my life depends on the slightest vibration of the least of these bells?

Perceiving that no respite, nor reprieve, nor subterfuge was possible, he bravely decided upon his course of action; he wound his right foot round his left leg, raised himself on his left foot, and stretched out his arm: but at the moment when his hand touched the manikin, his body, which was now supported upon one leg only, wavered on the stool which had but three; he made an involuntary effort to support himself by the manikin, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground, deafened by the fatal vibration of the thousand bells of the manikin, which, yielding to the impulse imparted by his hand, described first a rotary motion, and then swayed majestically between the two posts.

Instinctively she paused before the arched window, and looked out upon the street, in order to seize its permanent objects with her mental grasp, and thus to steady herself from the reel and vibration which affected her more immediate sphere.

She had struck with the entire force of her heart's vibration, communicating, by some subtile magnetism, her own terror to the summons.