Tanks

Examples

• Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Blow it if tanks come, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In a house in which there were twenty burners, the tanks were filled with water and carbide but once a fortnight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No less than a hundred tanks were abandoned _because they ran out of petrol_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These are anti-tanks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Its ray tanks were charged only with sufficient repulsive energy to lift two ordinary men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I hope to God they don't have any armored cars come up or any tanks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The top of this verandah was flat, the rain-water being carried off from it by pipes into tanks which helped to supply the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And he did not use tanks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is the only road on which they can get up tanks, or artillery, or even move a truck toward the pass which I attack. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With our tanks coming down that road, the people coming through from the right and down and past La Granja and the whole left of the mountains turned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is then placed in melting tanks at a temperature of 122° to 124° F, and the clear yellow oil is drawn off and allowed to stand until it granulates. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Is that the famous tanks, _Ingl閟? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Tanks had been invented and re-invented before the war began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It also possesses a remarkable resistance to corrosive acids and for this reason is the preferred material for tanks and vats in wineries, breweries, chemical works, mines, tanneries, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fig. 296[5] shows the compression pumps, and Fig. 297 the floor tanks, of such a system. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We must take away their planes, their automatic weapons, their tanks, their artillery and teach them dignity. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The wound in her bow has opened one of her forward ray tanks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And these tanks, Gomez said to him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Ammonia gas is liquefied by strong pressure and low temperature and is then allowed to flow into pipes which run through tanks containing salt water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Large mechanical mixers are used, and, as it is made, the mixture is dumped into tanks, from which it is conveyed to a distributing tank on the top, or roof, of the form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The women wash clothes, half the day, at the public tanks in the streets, but they are probably somebody else's. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In September, when the season was growing too late for a sustained offensive, tanks first appeared in warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here great closed tanks cook the fats, under high steam pressure, and make them into snow-white lard. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The swifter craft are seldom equipped with large buoyancy tanks, since the added bulk of them tends to reduce a vessel's speed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The slaked lime, formed while the gas was generated, collects at the bottom of the tanks and is removed from time to time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A compressor having tanks or cisterns in the cellar filled with cool or cold air may be set to work to reduce the temperature of the house and fan the inmates with a refreshing breeze. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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