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" The performances of this wonderful man, in whom were united the strength of twelve, were, rolling up a pewter dish of seven pounds as a man rolls up a sheet of paper ; holding a pewter quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell... "
A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby - Page 207
by Robert Simpson - 1826
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 3

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell ; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently over...a rope, fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight ; lifted an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half a hundred weight...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell. Lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently over...his head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost the power of gravitation. He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would have sustained twenty...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell. Lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently over his head The bodies he touched seemed to have lost the power of gravitation. He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would have sustained twenty...
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The history of Derby

William Hutton - Derby (England) - 1817 - 388 pages
...gravitation, — He also broke a rope, fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight — lifted an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half a hundred weight was hung to the extremity : a piece of leather was fixed to one end for his teeth to...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 13

1823 - 496 pages
...together like an egg-shell; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently ovet his head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost...broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight; lifted an oak table than that in his mouth. He took Mr. Chambers, Vicar of All...
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The Encyclopedia of Anecdotes: Illustrative of Character and Events from ...

George Ramsay - Anecdotes - 1828 - 654 pages
...quart at arm's length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell ; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger, and moving it gently over...broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight; lifted an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half a hundred weight...
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The Spirit of the English Magazines

American periodicals - 1825 - 498 pages
...length, and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell ; lifting two hundred weight with his Tittle finger, and moving it gently over his head. The bodies...broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight ; lifted an oak table six feet long with his teeth, though half a hundred weight...
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Biographical Sketches of Eccentric Characters

Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...quart at arm's length and squeezmg the sides together like an egg-she'l ; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger and moving it gently over his...head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost their power of gravitation. He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred...
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Biographical Sketches of Eccentric Characters

Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...quart at arm's length and squeezing the sides together like an egg-shell ; lifting two hundred weight with his little finger and moving it gently over his...head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost their power of gravitation. He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...sides together like an eggshell ; lifting two hundred weights on his little-finger, and moving them gently over his head. The bodies he touched seemed to have lost their quality of gravitation. He broke a rope that could sustain twenty hundredweight. He lifted an oaken-table,...
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