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William Henry   /wˈɪljəm hˈɛnri/   Listen
William Henry

noun
1.
English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836).  Synonym: Henry.



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"William henry" Quotes from Famous Books



... poet's death. Crabbe had arrived in London in April, and by the end of the month we learn from the journal that he was engaged upon a work in prose, "A Plan for the Examination of our Moral and Religious Opinions," and also on a poetical "Epistle to Prince William Henry," afterwards William IV., who had only the year before entered the navy as midshipman, but had already seen some service under Rodney. The next day's entry in the diary tells how he was not neglecting other possible chances of an honest livelihood. He had answered an advertisement in the Daily ...
— Crabbe, (George) - English Men of Letters Series • Alfred Ainger

... Act of Congress, in the year 1890 by William Henry Hurlbert in the Office of the ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert

... good to be Mr. William Henry Sawyer, Esquire, of the Home Office," I said. I am a fairly truthful man as men go, and I never spoke a truer word than that, but that knowledge only came ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various

... Life: Chapters from an Autobiography. By William Henry Milburn. New York. Derby & Jackson. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... left little to spend, and I was soon on the look-out for a fresh berth. I shipped this time as mate, in a brig called the William Henry, bound on a smuggling voyage to the coast of Spain. We took in tobacco, segars, &c. &c., and the brig dropped down to Staten Island. Here I quarrelled with the captain about some cotton wick, and I threw up my ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper


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