How To Use Leyden In A Sentence
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The chief leaders of the Anabaptists were natives of Holland, including the famous or infamous John of Leyden, who with some thousands of these fanatical sectaries perished at Münster in 1535.
History of Holland
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The next step was the invention of the Leyden jar.
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It was the inevitable tendency of Mormonism, like every other religious delusion, from the advent of John of Leyden to that of the Spiritualists, to disturb the natural relation of the sexes under the Christian dispensation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
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The term electric radiation was first employed by Hertz to designate waves emitted by a Leyden jar or oscillator system of an induction coil, but since that time these radiations have been known as Hertzian waves.
Marvels of Modern Science
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We do not know how Meyerbeer got his idea of putting the schismatic John Huss on the stage under the name of John of Leyden.
Musical Memories
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Dr. Leyden, who exhausted on this subject, as upon most others, a profusion of learning, found the first idea of the elfin people in the Northern opinions concerning the duergar, or dwarfs.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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John of Leyden, an Anabaptist leader, was the husband of seventeen wives, and he held that it was his moral right to marry as many as he chose.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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This can be done cata-strophically in the form of a lightning bolt, or on a much smaller scale in the form of a Leyden jar discharge.
The Human Brain
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Downfall of the Anabaptists at Muenster; John of Leyden put to death.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
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A melanoid variety of this species is mentioned by Dr. Anderson as being in the Leyden Museum.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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He seems to have cherished an intense affection for the Leyden pastor, such as valorous natures often feel for meditative ones, and that
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
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So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit -- [The trekschuit (drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance from Leyden to Delft.] -- and very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after them, but met them by the way.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660
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Every day she says she fears becoming a crime statistic. "I'm waiting for it to happen someday, " Leyden says.
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Gysbert Cornellisen's cooking pot, once smoking with savory Spanish stew or hodge-podge, is still to be seen in the Stedelyk (city) Museum, which every American ought to visit when in Leyden.
Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
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Submissive magistrates were dismissed and William took the decision to cut the dykes and deliberately flood the area surrounding Leyden.
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The cloth manufacture of Amsterdam, during the first half of the ieventeenth century, waa f eiy trifliiigy when compared with uiat of Leyden.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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He did not return till November 6, but all the time he was in active correspondence with his party in Holland, at whose head were the three pensionaries of Rotterdam, Leyden and
History of Holland
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One way that they can be produced is as follows: A sharp-pointed needle is placed perpendicular to a non-conducting plate, such as of resin, ebonite, or glass, with its point very near to or in contact with the plate, and a high voltage Leyden jar a type of capacitor or a static electricity generator is discharged into the needle.
Lichtenberg Figures
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Earlier on, in comparing her with Van der Linden and the Zwanziger woman, I have lessened her caliginosity as compared with that of the Leyden poisoner, giving her credit for one less death than her Dutch sister in crime.
She Stands Accused
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Once alas! he followed that mad Anabaptist fool, John of Leyden, the fellow who set up as a king, and said that men might have as many wives as they wished.
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
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The history of John of Leyden and of many another self-styled prophet will afford examples in point.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Majesty, John of Leyden, I doubt whether any Government has received or appointed so queer an ambassador.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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It was from the sewer of Munster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge.
Les Miserables
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Herr Carlo Landberg (Proverbes et Dictons du Peuple Arabe, vol.i. of Syria, Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1883) explains layta for rayta (= raayta) by permutation of liquids and argues that the contraction is ancient (p. 42).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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These tiny sparks from the electrophorus, or the bigger discharges of an electrical machine, can be stored in a simple apparatus called a Leyden jar, which was discovered by accident.
The Story of Electricity
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I don't know what they think about Frans Leyden but I'm pretty sure they won't be too happy with Eric Roy.
CHAMELEON
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CAPACITY -- K. -- The farad is that capacity of a body, say a Leyden jar or condenser, which a coulomb of electricity will charge to the potential of a volt.
The Story of Electricity
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By the time she caught sight of the Leyden house, she was beginning to pant, for her stays were tightly laced, but she did not slow her gait.
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As given at Brunswick, in the last scene the Prophet, John of Leyden, is discovered at supper with some boon companions in rather doubtful female society.
The Days Before Yesterday
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De Diemerbroeck * [304] mentions the fact that a knife ten inches long was extracted by gastrotomy, and placed among the rarities in the anatomic chamber of the University at Leyden.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Mattie Leyden, 40, was born a man but legally changed her documents to reflect a female identity two years ago.
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Barry covertly watched Natalie while Leyden's rattish characteristics were under discussion.
Gold Out of Celebes
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Note 61: According to written sources from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Hlanganu lived in the Transvaal lowveld near present-day Leydenburg and in the Lebombo hills between the Sabié and Olifants Rivers (i.e., straddling the present border).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Leyden was supposed to be the first of a dozen men to exit the right side of the amtrack while another dozen went out the left side.
Brotherhood of Heroes
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A condenser is a form of Leyden jar, suitable for current electricity, and consists of layers of tinfoil separated from each other by sheets of paraffin paper, mica, or some other convenient insulator, and alternate foils are connected together.
The Story of Electricity
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Of late years the principle of induction, which is the secret of the Leyden jar and electrophorus, has been applied in constructing
The Story of Electricity
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There was Kyle Leyden, a young barrister about to embark on the two-year apprenticeship known as devilling.