Lifting

Examples

• That I'm forced to do, said Caleb, still more gently, lifting up his hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As he has said it, returned madame, lifting her eyebrows a little, it is probably false. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When rotating at the rate of 788 revolutions in a minute, and lifting the water 19·4 feet, the greatest practical effect, compared with the power employed, was attained. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Look here--the fog's lifting. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I don't know, says Krook, shaking his head and lifting his eyebrows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cylinder stops, and current operates the sluggish press-magnet, causing its armature to be attracted, thus lifting the platen and its projecting arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She threw off her mantle and bonnet, and sat down opposite to him, enjoying the glow, but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was dreadfully improper, I know, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and lifting one end of the curtain before the glass door, I peeped in. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yes, said Madame de Thoux, lifting her head, proudly, and wiping her tears, Mr. Shelby, George Harris is my brother! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Rosine came to the garden doorlamp in hand; she stood on the steps, lifting her lamp, looking round vaguely. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Eustacia looked for a moment what she felt, and she murmured, lifting her deep dark eyes anxiously to his, I wish I knew what to do. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• During the operation of lifting, the bottom of the cylinder of the large hydraulic press burst out, and fell on the top of the tube, in which it made a considerable indentation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Typist: Oliver