Guides
[gaɪd]
Examples
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I signified my readiness to proceed, but our guides protested against such a measure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I shall visit Paris again someday, and then let the guides beware! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The guides bring with them materials for renewing the light, but we had none--our only resource was to return as we came. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We made him talkative by exhibiting an interest we never betrayed to guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Perdition catch all the guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- However, we can not alter our established customs to please the whims of guides; we can not show partialities this late in the day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So with him we have played that game which has vanquished so many guides for us --imbecility and idiotic questions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The country, however, was new to us, and we had neither guides nor maps to tell us where the roads were, or where they led to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here I left my guides, and, slipping to the nearest window, sought for an avenue of escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This is generally done by causing the piston-rod to work between guides, and a jointed arm connects it with the crank. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hutton was so elated at the verification of his view that the Scotch guides thought he had struck gold, or silver at the ve ry least. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In this work there are many guides. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I've got no time to procure guides at this time of night, indeed; and she waddled off after the rest of the passengers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As for little Rawdon, who examined it with the children for his guides, it seemed to him a perfect palace of enchantment and wonder. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A walking cultivator is when the operator walks and guides the machine with the hands as with ploughs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Each consists of a ring of fixed steam guides on the casing, and a ring of moving blades on the shaft. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For light upon these extraordinary gaps in his teaching, each reader must go to his own religious guides. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That joke was lost on the foreigner--guides can not master the subtleties of the American joke. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The traveller guides the thread on to the spool. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Crawford's _feelings_, I am ready to acknowledge, have hitherto been too much his guides. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The mind runs ahead of and guides the experiment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There is one remark (already mentioned,) which never yet has failed to disgust these guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The next morning we were at the mouth of the cave at an early hour, provided with guides, candles and rockets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The water is conveyed from the reservoir to a cylinder by a pipe, and this cylinder is provided with a piston carrying at its top a table, which rises between guides. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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