...Gold, frombeing most portable, was bought at an immense loss with silver that theknapsacks were incapable of holding...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...The necessity was felt of dividing and mobilizing wealth, of rendering it portable, of making it pass from the hands of the possessor into those of the worker...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...In describing a portable deadfall, an Indiana trapper writes as follows: We took a piece of sawed stuff 2 x 4, say 5 feet long, then another the same size and length...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Deadfalls and Snares」
...The former certainly gives more power in a fair chase, but the latter has the advantage of being the lighter, more portable, and less conspicuous of the two...
W. S. Coleman 「British Butterfiles」
...Far worse than the men who wentwere three portable steam sawmills which came in their place...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...In the Sandwich Islands chiefs wereattended by a confidential servant bearing a portable spittoon, andthe deposit was carefully buried every morning to put it out of thereach of sorcerers...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Lower down in the foothills, wherethere are no suitable large rocks for these permanent mortars,the Indians used single portable stone mortars for this purpose...
Galen Clark 「Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity」
...It was often raised toa considerable height above the level of the floor, and a stool, or alittle portable set of steps, was used in mounting it...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...These articles, being generally light and portable,and constructed of delicate parts, can as well be classed withbasketry as with wattle work...
William Henry Holmes 「Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States」
...With a portable still attached to a cooking stove, I obtain half a gallonof water per hour, and with very little trouble...
Samuel D. Humphrey 「American Handbook of the Daguerrotype」
...Behind them, andcorresponding to heavy infantry, were ranged some twenty thousandblue-plumed hoplites, eagerly fingering the brazen hoses of theirdeath dealing portable retortii...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...The mechanism looked somewhatlike a portable radio, with twoslender parallel rods on top and anumber of dials on the main panel...
Hal K. Wells 「The Cavern of the Shining Ones」
...I had my portable audiphone and got Halseyat once...
Raymond King Cummings 「Wandl the Invader」
..."They have that portable ray mechanism, withthem, which disabled our bombs...
Sterner St. Paul Meek 「The Solar Magnet」
...Beside, a sundial is not a portable instrument, andJoshua and his men had something more pressing to do than to loiterround it...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Clepsydræ or clocks are of later date, and no more than asundial are they portable...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Others,again, have suggested that if a small portable dial were tilted the samephenomenon would show itself...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
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