Spaces

Examples

• As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Morse telegraphic code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces, is given in Figure 218. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There were long spaces of silence between their words. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Open heat spaces were left between the two flues. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another important plant of this period deserves special mention, as it was the pioneer in the lighting of large spaces by incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A double walled globular vessel has between its walls air spaces and non-conducting packing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He suggested the cutting out of the mica pieces almost to the bottom, leaving the commutator bars separated by air-spaces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• With a stout brush the mixture is driven into all spaces and interstices, until all details are thoroughly covered. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Rasps are files which have isolated sharp teeth separated by comparatively wide spaces, and are chiefly used for soft materials such as wood and horn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The former was hermetically sealed at the top and marked off in forty-eight quarter-inch spaces. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama, said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This attachment automatically feeds the paper and spaces the proper distances between the printing of each address. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These elongated spaces reach nearly to the face of the letters, so that the plaster may not sink between them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But there were still spaces left near the head of the large central table, and they made their way thither. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Four chambers, C, E, E′, C′, are filled with fire brick loosely stacked with spaces between, in checker-work style. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In a railroad, spaces are usually left between consecutive rails in order to allow for expansion during the summer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If pressure is now exerted the soft mass will adjust itself to fill all the spaces and reproduce the mould invertedly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A picture is thus produced on a metal plate, and the blank spaces are etched out by acid, leaving the lines in relief as printing surfaces. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This scheme was objected to on the ground that particles of graphite would fill these air-spaces and cause a short-circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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