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How to use Leyden in a sentence

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There was Kyle Leyden, a young barrister about to embark on the two-year apprenticeship known as devilling.
Submissive magistrates were dismissed and William took the decision to cut the dykes and deliberately flood the area surrounding Leyden.
It is easy to imagine Ben Franklin practicing abduction when he first witnessed a spark discharge from the Leyden jars in which he had stored large electric charges.
The Leyden jar is a primitive capacitor, first used for containing electrical spirits and demons by Rabbi Levi of Prague in the sixteenth century.
It departed Delfshaven in July 1620 with the Leiden colonists, after a canal ride from Leyden of about seven hours.
Leyden also said that they are prized recruits because they have a number of traits that make them valuable for the white supremacists.
He was sending the message to other lone wolves to commit acts of terrorism, to go out there and try it,'' Leyden said.
Gomarus resigned his professorship at Leyden, in protest that Vorstius was not removed.
Examples from Classical Literature
The true method is to encase the building in a network of rods, when it will take its charge quietly like a Leyden jar.
The first relates to the exact period of his residence at Leyden University.
In frictional electricity, a series of Leyden jars so arranged as to admit of being charged and discharged together.
Magrath was reading a treatise on medicine, in good Leyden Latin, by a lamp.
He found that the inner and outer armatures of his Leyden jars were oppositely electrified.
I'm tired of being fed with a medicine spoon, and only let me get a sight o' Leyden at the end of my six-gun, and blooey!
The other four helices were similarly arranged, but their ends connected with a Leyden jar.
The text is written in hieratic on papyrus, and is preserved in the Royal Museum, Leyden.
It indicates that Franklin had subjected them to a scrutiny hardly less close than that which he had fixed upon the Leyden jar.
In order to collect the electricity thus generated a vessel called a Leyden jar is used.
The discharge of a Leyden jar or of another condenser sets up ether waves that have the speed of light.
He believed that the electricity in the bottle, or Leyden jar, was the same thing as the lightning we see in a thunder-storm.
At their tercentenary festival in 1875, tne Leyden University printed a list of their students from their foundation to that year.
But the last exclamation escaped him like the discharge from a Leyden jar.
I am credibly informed that persons of culture have forgotten John Leyden.
Similar to spiced Leyden or Edam with caraway, and shaped like a Gouda.
We are at Leyden now, but we left Haarlem through the Groningen gate.
I loved Mayken Floriszoon, who died at Leyden, the day after help came.
In 1740, at Leyden, was discovered the jar which bears that name.
Robinson was the pastor of the separatist congregation at Leyden.
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