Bends
[bendz]
Examples
- The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The aneroid barometer is an air-tight box whose top is made of a thin metallic disk which bends inward or outward according to the pressure of the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Analytical Chemist again bends and whispers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Rosa bends down on the footstool at my Lady's feet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When we hold a stick partly in the water, it looks as though the stick bends just where it enters the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And the broad stomacher heaves, and the quaint upright old-fashioned figure bends under its load of affectionate distress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Many a haughty step bends to your halls, Many a helmed head. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Analytical Chemist bends and whispers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One of his hind legs bends the wrong way, and the other one is as straight and stiff as a tent-pole. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Rosa is now at work upon embroidery or some such pretty thing, and as she bends her head over it, my Lady watches her in silence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The bends of the two streams shortened the line that had been chosen for intrenchments, while it increased the area which the line inclosed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. Jane Austen. Emma.
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