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condensation
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  • The polished metal was cool, and her touch left little patches of shrinking condensation.†   (source)
  • I could make something to collect the condensation, I'm sure.†   (source)
  • All of us were going through this first year idiocy of writing notes carefully in the classroom and doing an outline of that, then a condensation of that, and then doing it again on onionskin paper, on top of other paper," remembers Charles Haar, who was a classmate of Flom's.†   (source)
  • She climbed into bed in her street clothes, opened the curtains, and wiped the condensation off the window.†   (source)
  • The summit, however, was still a vertical mile above, wreathed in a nimbus of gale-borne condensation.†   (source)
  • Jack contemplated the twenty imaginary drinks, the martini glasses blushing droplets of condensation, each with a swizzle poked through a plump green olive.†   (source)
  • She wiped the condensation from her glass.†   (source)
  • Condensation is dripping from the blade of Bruce Lee's samurai sword.†   (source)
  • It's so warm in the car that the windows keep fogging up, and I draw little squiggles in the condensation.†   (source)
  • He put his finger to the window and traced something in the condensation—another bloody hieroglyph.†   (source)
  • I turned back to my accounts, saying: "Merely condensation, I believe, Miss Kenton."†   (source)
  • To our right glass doors moist with condensation led out to a patio.†   (source)
  • As the day wore on, you could see exhausted soldiers and civilians in orange space suits, men and women, their head bubbles clouded with condensation, sitting on the chairs in the hallway, loading syringes with T-61 and sorting boxes full of blood tubes.†   (source)
  • We both must have fallen asleep at some point, because by the time I opened my eyes, the condensation was shrinking against the glass, and a few rays of morning light had made it to the forest floor.†   (source)
  • And there was a big glass of water in front of me—all cold, you could see the condensation running down the sides.†   (source)
  • Out over the trees he saw the residue of a jet contrail, the vapor losing its shape, beginning to spread and rib out, and he thought of the desert of course, the weapons range and flypaths and the way the condensation in the sky was the only sign of human endeavor as far as he could see, a city boy out camping, taking his soul struggle to the back-country, and the mach-2 booms came skyclapping down and the vapor formed an ice trail in the heavens.†   (source)
  • At dawn they gave him a pail for a latrine and drove him to the airport, where two more giant M.P.s with clubs and white helmets were waiting at a transport plane whose engines were already warming up when they arrived, the cylindrical green cowlings oozing quivering beads of condensation.†   (source)
  • As I got closer, I saw it was on a jewelry stall, which appeared to be unmanned, although there were signs of someone having just left: a Jumbo Smoothie cup sweating with condensation was sitting on the register, and there was a stick of incense burning, the smoke wafting in long curlicues up toward the high, bright glass atrium-like ceiling above.†   (source)
  • The windshield quickly clouded with the condensation of their breath.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward and wiped the condensation off the windshield with his sleeve.†   (source)
  • The ceiling was three stories above us and dripped with paint stalactites and humid condensation.†   (source)
  • "Go back down, David," she sighed, wiping condensation from her glasses.†   (source)
  • Or else it was the result of condensation; that would not be good.†   (source)
  • It stood untouched before him, beads of condensation clouding the glass.†   (source)
  • Compared to the Yamacraw children, everyone I brought to the island was a compendium of ideas and experience, and the one transcendent problem of all who came to the classroom was the intelligent condensation and control of the material they wished to present.†   (source)
  • Two volumes of an encyclopedia, a book of business law, a world almanac old as the hills, some leatherbound Reader's Digest condensations.†   (source)
  • She could see her reflection in the darkened glass, lips parted, eyes wide, and then the condensation of her breath obscured it.   (source)
    condensation = moisture formed from water vapor
  • Globes of condensation form on its surface, break loose, and trickle down the side.†   (source)
  • Nana leaned forward and wiped at the condensation on the window.†   (source)
  • The pearly condensation retreated toward the edges of the windshield.†   (source)
  • Beth nodded before wiping the condensation from the outside of her glass with a paper napkin.†   (source)
  • That makes the oxygen turn to liquid, but leaves the nitrogen (condensation point: 77K) still gaseous.†   (source)
  • Their water was supplied by the condensation from steam engines from nearby factories and so was cleaner and warmer.†   (source)
  • Bast traced her finger across the table, drawing hieroglyphs in the condensation ring from her goblet.†   (source)
  • Gleaming in the brilliant midday sun, they appeared no different from the harmless puffs of convection condensation that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.†   (source)
  • The rendering is so perfect that Y.T. can see a miniaturized reflection of the office windows in each drop of condensation.†   (source)
  • As always seemed to be the case, a horizontal plume of condensation streamed from the summit like frozen smoke, betraying the violence of the jetstream winds.†   (source)
  • There's plenty of condensation on the walls and domed roof, and the soil is certainly absorbing its fair share.†   (source)
  • Once they had settled into their seats, Katie used her hand to wipe the condensation from the window.†   (source)
  • Beads of condensation had formed on the outside of her bottle of beer, and Theresa began to peel off the label.†   (source)
  • Because it wasn't yet summer, the humidity was bearable, though their cans of beer were coated in condensation.†   (source)
  • It is merely a condensation of the spirit of a people.†   (source)
  • …since time is longer than any distance, while the other, the getting from the fields into the barricaded house, seemed to have occurred with a sort of violent abrogation which must have been almost as short as his telling about it—a very condensation of time which was the gauge of its own violence, and he telling it in that pleasant faintly forensic anecdotal manner apparently just as he remembered it, was impressed by it through detached and impersonal interest and curiosity which…†   (source)
  • Such varieties of image alternate easily, representing three degrees of condensation of the one life force.†   (source)
  • …whose particles adhere not to some iron and still impervious framework but to one another as though in some communal and oblivious and mindless life of their own like a colony of maggots, but as the demon himself had grown old with a kind of condensation, an anguished emergence of the primary indomitable ossification which the soft color and texture, the light electric aura of youth, had merely temporarily assuaged but never concealed—the spinster in homemade and shapeless clothing,…†   (source)
  • It was merely the condensation of the man.†   (source)
  • No apartment-house in Zenith had more resolutely experimented in condensation than the Revelstoke Arms, in which Paul and Zilla Riesling had a flat.†   (source)
  • And now Jephson, turning to her and laying the matter before her and offering to prepare a lecture or notes—a condensation of his various arguments—in fact, an entire lecture which she could re-arrange and present as she chose—all the data which was the ultimate, basic truth in regard to her son.†   (source)
  • They say women don't know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation.†   (source)
  • Its evidence—the evidence of the sentience—was to be seen, he said, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls.†   (source)
  • The piled-up vapours condense into water; and the air, put into violent action to supply the vacuum left by the condensation of the mists, rouses itself into a whirlwind.†   (source)
  • They say that by electro-magnetism, your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner: it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors,—of our condensation and acceleration of objects: but nothing is gained: nature cannot be cheated: man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.†   (source)
  • The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.†   (source)
  • …(white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel, Galle: the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of…†   (source)
  • …sky, This film of Satan's seething pit, This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea; Out from the convolutions of this globe, This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars, This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe, Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;) These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time, To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate, To…†   (source)
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