Rows

Examples

• Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All those rows of volumes--will you not now do what you used to speak of? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Everybody knows how like the street the two dinner-rows of people who take their stand by the street will be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The land was divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing; there was great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He occupied an excellent place, some twelve or fourteen seats from the end of a bench, within three rows of the stalls. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The hunters carry big shields and spears, and stand in rows one behind the other. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She did a few rows every day, by way of penance for the expiation of her sins. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Rows of doors, garnished with boots of every shape, make, and size, branched off in every possible direction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These molds are arranged in rows around a horizontal wheel about eight feet in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I own I now wish we had two rows of them in every one of our streets. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There were the long rows of bare trees, the big hotels and the closed villas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You showed me the rows of notebooks--you have often spoken of them--you have often said that they wanted digesting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The field was grown up with corn so tall and thick as to cut off the view of even a person on horseback, except directly along the rows. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Rush-bottomed arm-chairs faced each other across the tiled hearth, and rows of Delft plates stood on shelves against the walls. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I'm sure I shall get most horribly mixed up and there will be some awful rows. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A long room with three long rows of desks, and six of forms, and bristling all round with pegs for hats and slates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When the center of the paper is reached, after six rows have been stuck, the machine automatically spaces the paper so as to skip the space used for the brand name. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The boring bit is a steel thimble about four inches in length, having two rows of Brazilian black diamonds firmly embedded therein, the edges projecting slightly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approaching curved up the hill-slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• New books, for instance, were dictated to rows of copyists in the factories of the booksellers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Pitt machine, however, had a revolving cylinder on which were rows of comb teeth, which tore off the heads of grain and discharged them into a receptacle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I can line yonder barren Hollow with lines of cottages and rows of cottage-gardens---- Robert! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If worked between two rows they are termed single, and when between three rows, double cultivators. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Within the main row there are some subsidiary rows. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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