Chapter III

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Difficulties; misfortune and hardship faced with courage.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

later than; following

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a region of northeastern France famous for its wines

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

equipment designed to serve a specific function

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

placed in a grave

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

power to direct or determine

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a politically organized body of people under a single government

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

travel across or pass over

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the time during which someone's life continues

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

discovered or determined by scientific observation

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

having finished or arrived at completion

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

plural of “drawing” — an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

Experienced dreams during sleep.

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

flow back or recede

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

all things; all of a situation

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

plural of “fact” — a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

a social unit living together

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

plural of “figure” — a diagram or picture illustrating textual material

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

occurring at or forming an end or termination

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a person of French nationality

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

plural of “generation” — all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

acknowledged as a supposition

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

call upon in supplication; entreat

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

incapability of existing or occurring

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

beyond belief or understanding

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

someone who is the first to think of or make something

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

inflected form of “lie” — be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

steadfast in allegiance or duty

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

of or relating to or caused by magnetism

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

engage in

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English “Mr”

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

on one occasion

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

and nothing more

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a German inhabitant of Prussia

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

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From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

United States parapsychologist (1895-1980)

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

an act of economizing; reduction in cost

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

express in words

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

inflected form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading I have shown you the facts, the figures, the drawings--everything.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

disposed of to a purchaser

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a male human offspring

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border; an inland port

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

carry out

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

plural of “tide” — the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading "Once more, not as a scientist, not as an inventor, but only as a loyal son of France, let me implore you, Monsieur le Ministre, not to regard what I have told you as the dream of an enthusiast who has only dreamt and not done."

having edges that are jagged from injury

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the body of faculty and students at a university

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

which person or people

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

in the company of; together with

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

a unit of language that native speakers can identify

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?

actively engaged in paid work

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

a late time of life

From this reading Can you not see that I am honest, that I love my country, from which I have been torn away--I who come from a family that has lived in Alsace since it was first French territory--I who am a Frenchman through five generations--I who have sold my son to the Prussians--I who have masqueraded for years in the Prussian University of Strassburg, once the Queen of the Rhine Province--I who have discovered a secret which has lain buried since the days of the great Faraday--I who have discovered, or I should say re-discovered, after him the true theory, and, what is more, the actual working of the magnetic tides which flow north and south through the two hemispheres to the pole--I who can give you, Monsieur le Ministre, and through you France, the control of those tides, so that you may make them ebb and flow as the tides of the sea do--prosperity with the flow, adversity with the ebb, that is what it comes to--ah, it is incredible!

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading I have given you every proof that I can--saving the impossible--the bringing of my apparatus from Strassburg to Paris, which, of course, you know is an impossibility, since it would have to cross the frontier, which was once a French high road.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading "And so, Monsieur le Ministre, I am to take that as your final word?