Figs

Examples

• This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Figs's left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Give it him with the left, Figs my boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The electromotograph is shown diagrammatically in Figs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The process is illustrated in Figs. 252, 253 and 254. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Houses on a level with the main supply pipes (Figs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Cuff was licking me for breaking a bottle of milk, and Figs wouldn't stand it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• 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.
• The market people crowd the marketplace with their baskets of figs, dates, melons, apricots, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Figs, on the contrary, was as calm as a quaker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We got plenty of fresh oranges, lemons, figs, apricots, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Figs, particularly dried figs, form an important article of food in the countries of the Levant, and are exported in large quantities to America and Europe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The plate is then taken to be Harveyized by cementation, hardening, and tempering, as seen in Figs. 260, 261, and 262. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You'd best give in, he said to Dobbin; it's only a thrashing, Figs, and you know I'm used to it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At the sixth round, there were almost as many fellows shouting out, Go it, Figs, as there were youths exclaiming, Go it, Cuff. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Can't you write to old Mother Figs to-morrow? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the illustration, Figs. 18 and 19, _a_ is a revolving wheel bearing the armature coils, _C_ permanent magnets, _d_ electro-magnets (field magnets), and _g_ the commutator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The first year it carried a good many passengers, but its freight list only comprised eight hundred pounds of figs! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But Figs, all whose limbs were in a quiver, and whose nostrils were breathing rage, put his little bottle-holder aside, and went in for a fourth time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• An asp was smuggled to her past the Roman sentries, concealed in a basket of figs, and by its fangs she died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have certainly got thistles for figs in a worldly sense, but how could I tell what time would bring forth? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The most familiar forms of the telephone are those seen in Figs. 61 and 62, but the ideal form is rigged in a cabinet or little room, which excludes all extraneous interfering sounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Old Figs grew to be a name of kindness and endearment; and the sneak of an usher jeered at him no longer. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This was the prototype of the familiar _ticker_ of the stock broker’s office, seen in Figs. 10 and 11. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Bell accomplished his object by the means shown in Figs. 56 and 57, in which Fig. 56 represents his first patent of March 7, 1876, and Fig. 57 his second patent of January 30, 1877. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Figs. 37 and 38 show an electric motor used on street cars, as made by the General Electric Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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