Curves

Examples

• It had the curves and indentations in it still, where it had been twined and bound. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One of Plato's associates, working under his direct ion, investigated the curves produced by cutting cones of different kinds in a certain plane. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At one point the grade dropped some sixty feet in a distance of three hundred, and the curves were of recklessly short radius. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I protested at the rate of speed over the sharp curves, designed to show the power of the engine, but Edison said they had done it often. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These curves--the ellipse, the parabola, the hyperb ola--play a large part in the subsequent history of astronomy and mechanics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A wooden peg, a foot and a half high, with two slight crooks or curves in one side of it and one in the other, projects above the starboard gunwale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He had neither whisker nor moustache, which allowed the soft curves of the lower part of his face to be apparent. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These curves, according to their curvature, will give a circular motion to the shot during its flight. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Peter Cooper in the same year constructed a locomotive for short curves, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was in the curves of his brows and his chin, rich, fine, exquisite curves, the powerful beauty of life itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I put the curves in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Curves were modified, and grades eliminated where possible by the erection of numerous trestles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We started the locomotive with nobody on it, and got up to twenty miles an hour, taking those curves of very short radius; but it was weeks before we could prevent it from running off. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She bent over to lower the wick, and as the light struck up on her white shoulders and the clear curves of her face he thought: How young she is! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Rosamond was silent and did not smile again; but the lovely curves of her face looked good-tempered enough without smiling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then they said the curves were very short. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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