Sliding

Examples

• Wood-working implements in which the cutting tool was carried by a sliding block were described in the English patents of General Sir Samuel Bentham and Joseph Bramah, in 1793-94. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And he was sliding, endlessly, endlessly away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The world was sliding, everything was sliding off into the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It embodied a reciprocating saw tooth cutter _f_ sliding within double guard fingers _e_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This operation concluded, they hastily clambered over her sides, sliding down the guy ropes to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of What the deuce is to do now? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He dived his arm down to the bottom of the chest, and brought up a small wooden box with a sliding lid, such as children's toys are kept in. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then he was half-conscious again, aware only of the strange tilting and sliding of the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. George, returning, folds his arms, and looking down at the old man, sliding every moment lower and lower in his chair, says quietly, Now for it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The needle gun has in the place of the swinging hammer a rectilinearly sliding bolt, carrying in front a needle which pierces the charge and ignites the fulminate by its friction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• No surface can be made perfectly smooth, and when a barrel rolls over an incline, or a rope passes over a pulley, or a cogwheel turns its neighbor, there is rubbing and slipping and sliding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her white teeth shining like a keyboard, she pushed back the sliding doors and ushered him into old Catherine's presence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Archer sat silent, with the sense of clinging to the edge of a sliding precipice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Come on, you big gray fascist bastard, Robert Jordan said to the horse and put him down the slope in a sliding plunge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It printed upon a sheet of paper supported on a roller, carried in a sliding frame worked by a ratchet and pawl. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The screw was worked up and down in a box, called a hose, and the board on which the type were set for the printing was actually a sort of sliding table. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The sport was at its height, the sliding was at the quickest, the laughter was at the loudest, when a sharp smart crack was heard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I got up a slot contact for street railways, and have a patent on it--a sliding contact in a slot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Georgy got one, wrenching it off, having swarmed up the pole to the delight of the spectators, and sliding down with the rapidity of a fall of water. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The attendant received the card, watched his opportunity for sliding down, slid down, and so it ended. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And as these parts are used on separate occasions, the respective apertures are opened or closed by a sliding bottom and by a single movement of the hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Study taught them that birds are really aeroplanes, and that buzzards and hawks and gulls stay in the air by balancing on or sliding down rising currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The priming pan is fitted with a sliding cover, and a vertical wheel with a serrated edge projects into it, nearly in contact with the powder in the pan. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It had a sliding breech block carrying the main spring and firing pin. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One of its most important features is the simultaneous extraction of the shells by an ejector, having a stem sliding through the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It consists of a steam cylinder at the top whose piston is attached to a block of iron, forming the hammer head and sliding vertically in guides between the two legs of the frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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