Ties

Examples

• You mean of family ties? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That she was, if there were any ties of blood in such a case, the child's aunt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Practically all people know that ribbons and ties, trimmings and dresses, frequently look different at night from what they do in the daytime. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They speak one language, and are related by blood and other ties. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By the ties of the past and the charities of the present. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Railroad ties and street paving blocks are ordinarily protected by oil rather than paint. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The ties had been dug out too and thrown down the embankment. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I am ready to cast off the ties that have bound me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But its influence was greater in destruction of old falsities than in the construction of new ties and associations among men. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ties that bind electricity and magnetism in twinship of relation and interaction were detected, and Faraday's work in induction gave the world at once the dynamo and the motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I watched the ties and the rails for any trip-wires or signs of explosive but I saw nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The railroads prefer redwood for ties because of its resistance to decay in contact with moist soil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In that long absence of ten years, the most selfish will think about home and early ties. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Never mixing with any natural ties, never coming here to see how Miss Havisham is! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Ye who are linked by the affectionate ties of nature, companions, friends, lovers! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The ties of interest, which bound the inferior ranks of people to the clergy, were in this manner gradually broken and dissolved. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The same promise, then, which binds them to obedience, ties them down to a particular person, and makes him the object of their allegiance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The first process here is that of the ensign lacing machine, which puts a strong twine through the eyelets and ties it in an accurate manner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Southern Pacific Company today has in service in some of its sidings redwood ties that were put down under its rails fifty-five years ago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ties would then be placed in piles, and the rails, as they were loosened, would be carried and put across these log heaps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When a sufficient number of rails were placed upon a pile of ties it would be set on fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As he says himself, what is public life without private ties? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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