Shocks
[ʃɔks]
Examples
- How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is reason to believe they set great store upon their hair, wearing it in large shocks with pins of bone and afterwards of metal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This shocks me very much. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was an old soldier, we have said, and not to be disturbed by any little shocks of fate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Subsequently Forrest made a report in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This horseshoe of carbonized paper seemed incapable to resist mechanical shocks and to maintain incandescence for any considerable length of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- God grant your health may be called on to sustain no more shocks! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It had been ruined so often, that it was amazing how it had borne so many shocks. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It shocks James so dreadfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Terribly shocks ran over her body, like shocks of electricity, as if many volts of electricity suddenly struck her down. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nature cast her features in a fine mould; they have matured in their pure, accurate first lines, unaltered by the shocks of disease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This is the simplest arrangement, and is that which is commonly employed when the original currents are not of such high tension as to be dangerous to life in the case of accidental shocks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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