Babinet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Upon this topic my old master and friend Babinet, who was a member of the commission, wrote as follows: The members of the commission were not able to verify any of the features announced.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Babinet quotes a French proverb, "Summer rain wets nothing," and explains it as meaning that the water of such rains is "almost totally taken up by evaporation."
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
We are fain to believe that M. Babinet himself has little doubt about his "impossibility."
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Her slow distracted gaze traveled from Glaud Burge to Jean le Prince, from Renot Babinet to François Bastarack, from Ambroise Tibedeaux along the line of stanch faces to Edelwald.
From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
"I know she is out of Fort St. John at this minute," insisted Renot Babinet.
From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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