Holes

Examples

• The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Upon this machine 10,010 button holes have been made in nine hours and fifty minutes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was a machine mounted on two wheels, that had a seed box in the bottom of which was a series of holes opening into a corresponding number of metal tubes or funnels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Then we have stopped all the holes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• We never expect to see around a corner, and if we wish to see through pinholes in three separate pieces of cardboard, we place the cardboards so that the three holes are in a straight line. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The cabin in which we found ourselves extended entirely across the ship, having port-holes on either side below the water line. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The only light was received through one or two loop-holes far above the reach of the captive's hand. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He died while I was stopping up the two holes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A is a steam pipe communicating with the boiler, B another pipe receiving steam from A through small holes and terminating in a cone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She roared as she breathed, her nostrils were two wide, hot holes, her mouth was apart, her eyes frenzied. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I wish you had been poked into cells and black holes, and run over by rats and spiders and beetles. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Make holes above for your cartridges and attach wires of any length. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He abandoned the attempt to cut dashes as such, in the paper tape, but instead punched three round holes so arranged as to form a triangle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Maurice made no reply, but punched holes in the gravel with his walking-stick. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Showing how caves and holes are formed by the solvent action of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• While the bed is still in this upright position, a one-inch slot is cut across where the foul line is to rest, and holes are bored through the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When the sand is mixed it is dropped through holes in the floor into the hoppers, which deposit the sand on the bench convenient for the core-maker. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pelting is nothing to their finding holes in one's coat, said the Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The slab of wood forming the swing is made in some cases with two half-round holes, to allow the lady to place her hands through, to show that she can pass her hands beneath her. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• To give additional protection sand bags, bullet-proof, were placed along the tops of the parapets far enough apart to make loop-holes for musketry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The black pudding was now huddled up into the folds of her new frock: then she rued the day when pocket-holes went out of fashion. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Instead of punching Morse characters in the transmission tape however, it was perforated with a series of small round holes forming Roman letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Nettie