Shafts

Examples

• When you had seen the pony backed into the shafts of the chaise, you had seen something there was no doubt about. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His arrow heads were of flint, beautifully made, and he lashed them tightly to their shafts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a big empty twowheeled cart, the shafts tipped high up in the rain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Even to-day enough remains of the galleries, shafts, sco ria, mine-lamps, and other utensils to give a clear idea of this scene of ancient industry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Summer advanced, and, crowned with the sun's potent rays, plague shot her unerring shafts over the earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The cranks of her propeller shafts, like those of the Kaiser Wilhelm and the Oceanic, are set according to the Schlick system, to reduce vibration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If a waterfall is convenient, air is compressed by the body of descending water, and used to ventilate tunnels, and deep shafts and mines, or drive the drills or other tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Sinking shafts through quicksands by artificially freezing the sand, so as to form a firm frozen wall immediately around the area where the shaft is to be sunk, is a recent new idea. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The curved dotted line beside the shafts indicated a bowed guard to press the standing grain away from the horse. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves, in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This I did, and I sent two of my assistants, whom I could trust, down to this place to erect the plant; and started to sink shafts fifty feet deep all over the area. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The engines were coupled directly to the propeller shafts, which feature was one of Ericsson’s improvements, and has continued to be the approved form to this day. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A view of this type bar ring with tangentially arranged rock shafts disposed in circular series is seen in Fig. 141, while the full machine is given in Fig. 142. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the earliest days of the art, when it was apparent that incandescent lighting had come to stay, the Edison Company was a shining mark at which the shafts of the dishonest were aimed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One was to have the shafts placed on the outside of the reaper, or so that the horse would pull it sideways, instead of having to push it, as had been the case with his father’s model. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Deutschland is of 35,640 horse power, her two bronze propellers are 23 feet diameter, and weigh 30 tons, and her propeller shafts are 25 inches in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She could not even parry the shafts; she was defenceless for the present. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To the steam hammer we owe the first heavy armor plate for our battle ships and the propeller shafts of our earlier steamships. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They are not shells or shafts of stone filled inside with rubbish, but the whole pier is a mass of solid masonry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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