Straits

Examples

• That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I had paid for all the experiments on the quadruplex and exhausted the money, and I was again in straits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Robert designed the tubular bridge across the Menai Straits on this line, which was considered a most remarkable feat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And into the straits of Royd Lane they accordingly defiled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I then left my station, and ran to the entrance of the works, where I got into a boat, and bade the men pull out as far as they could into the middle of the Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshu-shima. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I told him Mr. Orton had gone off and left me without means, and I was in straits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She started up and bounded towards him in an instant: he was evidently in great straits for breath. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sound is conveyed through these cavities as readily as through speaking tubes, and conversation can be thus easily carried on across the Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Then there came to Terkoz's rescue the same thing that had put him in these sore straits--a man's reasoning power. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Sicily fell completely to Carthage, and Rome came down to the toe and heel of Italy, and looked across the Straits of Messina at her new rival. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Britannia Bridge, across the Menai Straits, was a triumphant response to the call for a new kind of suspended roadway adapted to the requirements of railways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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