Instruments

Examples

• Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The instruments show a rapidly decreasing air pressure on all parts of Barsoom--the engine has stopped. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Thirdly, and lastly, the machines and instruments of trade, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He has occasion for no machines or instruments of trade, unless his shop or warehouse be considered as such. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To make the manufacture of instruments an ideal is to lose much of their ideal value. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Is a commander first to give cruel orders, and then to forgive and reward those who slay his instruments? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• For a long time his receiving instruments would only give out vague rumbling noises. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then in the latter part of the eighteenth century Broadwood and Clementi of London and Erard of Strasburg and Petzold of Paris commenced the manufacture of their fine instruments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The story of the piano, that queen of musical instruments, involves the whole history of the art of music. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Present-day reform lays a great emphasis upon instruments and very little on the skilful use of them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here again we have not only enrichment of sound but also individuality of instruments. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The first sound of martial instruments that came upon our undisciplined foe, inspired surprise, not unmingled with dread. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Myths must be judged as instruments for acting upon present conditions; all discussion about the manner of applying them concretely to the course of history is senseless. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Twenty-five instruments were energized from one circuit, and the quotations were supplied from a central at 18 New Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The inventions and improvements in optical instruments gave rise to great advances in the making of lenses, based on scientific principles, and not resting alone on hard work and experience. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A company was formed, a large number of instruments were made and sent to Gouraud in London, and prospects were bright. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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