Sheets

Examples

• I swallowed some lavender-drops and tried to write: blotted twenty sheets of paper with unintelligible nonsense and wetted them with my tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Of this edition, up to the present period (1858), the astonishing number of TWELVE MILLIONS OF SHEETS have been issued, the weight of which amounts to upwards of 335 tons! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The wet sheets of rubber are cut in square pieces, placed on perforated tin pans and loaded into the dryer, which will hold about eight hundred pounds of rubber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I will _not_ prison it in the linen press to find shrouds among the sheets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To take off copies lay dry sheets of paper on the reversed impression, press gently, and remove quickly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• For example, the printed sheets, as they come from the press, must be folded to the size of the magazine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Plante coiled up his sheets into a very handy cell like a little roll of carpet or pastry; but the trouble was that the battery took a long time to form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• My brother had handed, from time to time, lots of these sheets to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The production of printed sheets per hour over the hand-press was at once quadrupled, and very shortly 1800 sheets per hour were printed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Instead of these articles being made of sheets of rolled copper and silver, a silver plate of any desired thickness is applied to the base metal by electricity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To one pair of strings there were glued, back to back, two sheets of paper, which, when folded over, formed the flaps of the portfolio. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• With one of these hand-presses and the aid of two men about two hundred and fifty sheets an hour could be printed on one side. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Weston in 1882 improved this method by making the armature of separate and insulated sheets of iron around which the coil is wound. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The sheets of paper are held on to the cylinders at their edges by means of tapes, and are so laid on by the workmen, that the type may be impressed on them with an equal margin all round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Many improvements upon the methods for handling the paper were subsequently devised, and double cylinder presses were made which were able to print 4,000 sheets an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Between nine and ten tons of paper are thus wetted daily; and the sheets of the _Times_ printed during a year, if spread out and piled one upon another, would form a column as high as Mont Blanc. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Even to the mending of your brothers' stockings and the making of sheets? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Simultaneously the little boat spun around and shot out toward the Gulf Stream like an agitated and very erratic rocket, flinging great sheets of spray high into the air as it sped. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The sheets of rubber from which the uppers and soles are cut are at this stage of the work plastic and very sticky. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The most extensive application of photo-lithography is in the reproduction of the Patent Office drawings, which amount to about 60,000 sheets weekly. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is then worked into sheets or mats between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The sheets are about twelve by eight inches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Brunel, in 1805-1808, devised a set of circular saws run by a steam engine, which cut sheets of rosewood and mahogany, one-fourteenth of an inch thick, with great speed and accuracy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There, the first of the two sheets of paper came to an end. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The dampened and plastic papier maché sheets are beaten into the face of the type form by means of brushes, are then removed, dried, and used as moulds to cast the stereotype plate from. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But to-morrow night, and a good meal and sheets and never going away again except together. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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