"The Swiss Family Robinson" author

Usage examples of wyss.

The imaginary heroes of Daniel Defoe or of Wyss, as well as Selkirk and Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez and on the archipelago of the Aucklands, were never in such absolute destitution.

In the power-house were several Escher Wyss turbines of great horse-power running at one hundred and forty revolutions a minute and governing hydraulic accumulators which evolved a pressure of fourteen hundred pounds per square inch, passing in three-inch pipes down the shaft and operating four rock drills with hollow cutters of the Brandt type.

He recognized the answering voice of Carla Wyss, whom he had not heard from in years.

He stared through the glass at Carla Wyss, rubbed his eyes, and opened the door.