Distributing

Examples

• Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To feed such giant presses the old hand method of setting and distributing type has grown much too slow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A series of holes can be punched round the lower edge of a fruit can, thus affording a distributing reservoir. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Large mechanical mixers are used, and, as it is made, the mixture is dumped into tanks, from which it is conveyed to a distributing tank on the top, or roof, of the form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Consequently other means than the slow processes of nature to dry brick and other ceramics, and the crude kilns are giving way to modern heat distributing structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But she is boring all the men horribly, and if she takes to distributing tracts, as I hear she does, it will be too depressing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With the gas holder, the distributing mains of the city are made to connect to receive their supply. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Such is democracy;--a pleasing, lawless, various sort of government, distributing equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato. The Republic.
• From these current was generated by 3,500 kilowatt generators and sent out to the various distributing centers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then came the overhead circuits for distributing electrical energy to motors for operating elevators, driving machinery, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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