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...automatic sampling machine. The concentration department will be made up of fine rolls to crusher the rock, revolving screens to sift it, and jigs in which to wash the ore free from the rock. The ore which will remain too fine for the jigs will be subsequently treated on slime machines, which will show what machine should be used for the different ores. The stamping division will have a complete but simple set of machinery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINING LABORATORY | 1/22/1900 | See Source »

...utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling eye of day; faces mutilated into every shape into which the human countenance can be bruised or flattened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...dangling into the water; but they cannot grasp It-indeed, it is doubtful if they wish to; what can be pleasanter than this aimless, dreamy floating? It is baptised with the unspeakable filth of a dozen sewers which discharge into the river, its limbs are sadly swollen, and the slime of the river has veiled the staring eyes. Then, after many, many hours of quiet floating, it is espied from one of the lower quais. Now comes the rush of curious bystanders, the ropes which the officers of the Morgue let down to grapple it. Then it is put into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...well represented along the route. The beet part of this parade is generally considered to be the supper, which a member, living in Chelsea, kindly provided for the band. It is rumored that there were several young ladies present at the party, and also that the grime and general slime of the uniforms of the band was severely anathematized by members who realized too truly that distance lends enchantment to the view, and who saw themselves vanquished by men in civilians costume, simply because they were able to get nearer than ten feet to the representatives of the fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brass Band in the Campaign. | 11/6/1884 | See Source »

Voracious monster, gorged with slimiest slime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER BROWNING. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

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