Blades

Examples

• My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But when I looked at my purchase, at home, where no glittering blades came into competition with it, I was astonished to see how handsome it was. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I could see Catherine in the stern but I could not see the water where the blades of the oars dipped. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They are of course unpolished, but the best specimens are as thin as steel blades and almost as sharp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Disk cultivators are those in which disk blades instead of ploughs are used with which to disturb the soil already broken. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Steam turbine with many blades and 4 nozzles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then, in 1807, Salonen introduced vibrating knifes over stationary blades, fingers to gather grain to the cutters, and a rake to carry the grain off to one side. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The depth to which the shares or cultivator blades work in the ground may be adjusted by a gauge wheel upon the draught beam, or a roller on the back of the frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Among the century's improvements in this line is the use of disks in place of the old shovel blades to penetrate the earth and revolve in contact therewith. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Let us hope that we may at least go out with good red blood upon our blades, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The racks without your cages are filled with blades. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The crashing of their blades upon mine raised a terrific din that might have been heard for miles through the silent night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Man by man those who stood between us and the carven sorapus wood bench went down before our blades. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I stayed well out in the lake, rowing awhile, then resting and holding the oars so that the wind struck the blades. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Salonen introduced Vibrating Knives over Stationary Blades, 1807. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In using the method for saw blades, they are first heated in a suitable furnace and then placed vertically, teeth upward, in troughs filled with the mixture. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Each consists of a ring of fixed steam guides on the casing, and a ring of moving blades on the shaft. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A hundred men surged up on the platform, and a hundred blades rattled and clanked to the floor at my feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But unseen voices may emanate from unseen and unseeable creatures who wield invisible blades, answered the green warrior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A single large turbine wheel may have as many as 800,000 sails or blades, and steam may pour out upon these from many nozzles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The difference was owing to the screw slipping in the water, because the fluid yielded to the oblique action of the blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was with such a furnace probably that India produced her keen-edged weapons that would cut a web of gossamer, and Damascus its flashing blades--the synonym of elastic strength. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In one form of this class of machines an oscillating pendulum lever is employed, carrying at its end a revolving cylinder having thirty or more spiral blades. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Let your blades drink blood like wine; Feast ye in the banquet of slaughter, By the light of the blazing halls! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In Bramah's machine, a vertical spindle carried at its lower extremity a horizontal wheel having twenty-eight cutter blades, followed by a plane also attached to a wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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