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No less than fifty degrees was the thermometrical difference in Ta-shui-tsing and Kiang-ti.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John

It is incongruous that he should be looking at a date-palm in his overcoat, and he is puzzled that a thermometrical heat that should enervate him elsewhere, stimulates him here.

From Our Italy by Warner, Charles Dudley

To the - of the creditor may correspond a + of the debtor; but the latter is negative only in the sense that we speak of negative electricity, a negative thermometrical degree.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

Now, those who have attended to thermometrical observation will readily allow, that a continuance of this degree of heat for a length of time, would be found violent and suffocating by the generality of mankind.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

With Captain Grant rested the botanical collections and thermometrical registers.

From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning