Cuts

Examples

• Nomadism cuts men off from fixed temples and intense local associations; they take a broader and simpler view of the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If Miss Mowcher cuts the Prince's nails, she must be all right. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Hows'ever, it warn't paid, and so they cuts the water off. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He then cuts this off with a wet knife which made it cut more rapidly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One workman is seen cutting a long strand from a hide which he turns round as he cuts, while another man walks backward with this, twisting it as he goes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I ought to have begun with a word of explanation, but it's my way to make short cuts at things. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• George as a boy had been horsewhipped in this room many times; his mother sitting sick on the stair listening to the cuts of the whip. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then he produced his wooden cuts, and explained in detail how he had made them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When one side is covered with single cuts if the file is to be double cut he adds in the same manner a second series, crossing the others at a certain angle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• More important, however, is the compressed air rock drill, in which a piston has the drill bit directly on its piston rod and cuts by a reciprocating action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man's head off. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Fig. 3 shows a huge punch press which cuts the blank of steel that is afterwards drawn to the shape of the iron top. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The machine first cuts the buttonhole, then transfers it to the stitching devices, which stitch and bar the buttonhole, finishing it entirely in an automatic manner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It cuts into glass as though it were putty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He cuts furze because it is the only thing he can do that does not put any strain upon his poor eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There were many cuts in the book which had to be copied, and so they engaged two wood engravers who lived in Strasburg to help them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The machine in the lower view is self-propelling, cuts and threshes the grain, throwing out the straw, and places the grain in sacks ready for loading on the wagon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the same gravel-pits were found teeth of rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and the leg-bone of a deer with marks upon it that may be cuts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Carbon dioxide is not poisonous, but it cuts off the supply of oxygen, just as water cuts it off from a drowning man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The gum is collected by chopping through the bark with a hatchet and placing under each series of cuts a little clay cup formed by the hands of the workman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Asks me, as if his sharp old eye--why, it cuts like a knife--wasn't looking at his walking-stick by the door! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I'll bet you ten guineas to five, he cuts his throat,' said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The magazines of the enemy were made by running passage-ways into this clay at places where there were deep cuts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Or so--like Lyons sausage,' said John Baptist, demonstrating the various cuts on the bread he held, and soberly chewing what he had in his mouth. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I didn't see that opening, but she spies it out and cuts into it as soon as it's made. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But fortunately she was too many for him, and a pretty figure he cuts now he is exposed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Cuts and wounds allow easy access to the body; a small cut has been known to cause death because of the bacteria which found their way into the open wound and produced disease. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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