Moves

Examples

• Also, I see that they are covered with dust, and that the dust moves with them as they come, tramp, tramp! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She doesn't bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person in a motherly way which delights me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The shifting of the air-currents means that the centre of air-pressure moves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The wire cloth moves at the rate of from 25 to 40 feet per minute, and such a machine would consequently make at least 10 yards of paper in that time, which is equal to a mile in three hours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• You do not know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The hydrogen formed by the chemical action of the dilute sulphuric acid on the zinc moves toward the copper electrode, as in the simple voltaic cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Sherman, with a large force, moves immediately on Johnston, to drive him from the State. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• When a photographer takes a photograph of a person or a tree, he moves his camera until the image formed by the lens is of the desired size. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When the gate is raised, the water moves forward, but the motion, so to speak, runs backward. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When the piston moves downward as in (3), the valve in the pipe closes by its own weight, and the air in the cylinder escapes through the valve in the plunger. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the arm lifts upward, the pin moves along the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus causing it to cant and shift the type-wheels to the right or left, as desired. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sphere in which she moves is much above his. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The mixture of gasoline and air enters the cylinder as the piston moves to the right. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In one of the backward moves, on the 6th, the division commanded by General Prentiss did not fall back with the others. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The vessel then moves forward slowly until it is in the entrance chamber, when lines are thrown out on the other side and connections are made with towing locomotives on the side wall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By an ingenious arrangement of the mechanism, the film moves intermittently so that it may have a much longer period of rest than of motion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The ammunition car also moves with the gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The rate at which a glacier moves generally varies from eighteen to twenty-four inches in a day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the Mannlicher the barrel moves to the front, leaving space for a fresh cartridge to come up from the magazine below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• About each birthday the spirit moves me to deliver one oracle respecting my own instruction and management. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If the companion moves his head in order to avoid the reflected beam, his tormentor moves or inclines the mirror and flashes the beam back to his victim's face. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A man who moves 8 pounds through 6 feet does 48 foot pounds of work, while a man who moves 8 ounces (1/2 pound) through 6 inches (1/2 foot) does only one fourth of a foot pound of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It never moves more than three times in a lifetime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The waste gas is expelled as the piston moves to the left. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• From this we can well conjecture the vast speed with which the latter moves, its enormous range and vast powers of destruction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She merely moves her head in reply. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This is ascertained by means of a micrometer screw, S, which moves a needle, T, in front of the dial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If the fire is hot, steam is formed quickly, and the piston moves rapidly; if the fire is low, steam is formed slowly, and the piston moves less rapidly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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