Aperture

Examples

• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Only so much of this disc was exposed to view as to show a single letter at a time, through a small aperture, as the seconds wheel revolved. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Black Knight's eyes seemed to flash fire even through the aperture of his visor. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Before me was a small patch of moonlit sky which showed through a ragged aperture. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• They both came to the door, and a chain grated, and a woman with her apron thrown over her face and head stood in the aperture. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It showed no aperture in the mighty walls other than the tiny door at which I sank exhausted, nor was there any sign of life about it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• My eye was quickly at the aperture. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The aperture, when found, was narrow, but they worked their way through. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A tin tube passes through the upright C and then runs to D, where there is a small slit or aperture opposite the trumpet. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In with you, Tars Tarkas, I cried, but he would not go; saying that his bulk was too great for the little aperture, while I might slip in easily. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A flanged ridge around each aperture forms a ring and affords a track for a little steel hoop called a traveller, which is sprung over the ring. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In such an arrangement of the reflectors, the figure seen on looking through the central aperture will consist of four parts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The letters _a_, _b_, _c_, _d_ mark the outside; the aperture, at _c d_, being enlarged to permit several persons to look into it at the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Between each of the compartments of the disc there is an elongated aperture, about one inch long and a quarter of an inch wide, for the eye to look through. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The front end of this cylindrical shield is provided with a diaphragm or bulkhead in which are apertures which may be opened or closed at will. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In this the spindles, arranged vertically in the frame, are driven by bands from a central cylinder, and project through apertures in a horizontal bar. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He found that fire-damp explodes only at high temperature, and that the flame of this explosive mi xture will not pass through small apertures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The mixture flows through the apertures in the partition, and occupies the lower part of the generator. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And as these parts are used on separate occasions, the respective apertures are opened or closed by a sliding bottom and by a single movement of the hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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