Bands

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.
• When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the parson's croft, behind the rectory, are the musicians of the three parish bands, with their instruments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This he was ordered to repair as he advanced --only to have it destroyed by small guerilla bands or other troops as soon as he was out of the way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was the men without the Marxian vision of growth and discipline who were forever trying to lead little marauding bands against the governments of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Ropes, cords, coarse bands of leather were the common provisions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Helstone signed to his bands. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Each of these mends, done, as you observe, with silver bands, must have cost more than the pipe did originally. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Suddenly, first at one prison and then at others, bands of insurgents took possession. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The city was filled with Union fugitives who had been driven by guerilla bands to take refuge with the National troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have five from the bands of Elias and Alejandro above with their horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With my pastoral crook I went over the brook, And behold I am spread into bands! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Designs were often worked on these heads and bands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Regiment after regiment advanced, their colours flying and bands playing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• These are in many different styles such as narrow bands looped into the edge or in the form of a button fastened through the ear. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her iron-grey hair hung in heavy bands on either side of her face--her dark eyes looked straight forward, with a hard, defiant, implacable stare. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is useful for the making of chains, tools, carriage axles, joining shafting, wires, and pipes, mending bands, tires, hoops, and lengthening and shortening bolts, bars, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In this the spindles, arranged vertically in the frame, are driven by bands from a central cylinder, and project through apertures in a horizontal bar. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The leader of one of the best bands in the mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Her head seemed bound round by iron bands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These fellows dared not have acted with such inconceivable impudence, had they not been supported by some strong bands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And in the other bands? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Such local nobles would assemble bands of retainers and build themselves strongholds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It would not be better to leave, speaking of another bridge, and obtain men from other bands? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The regimental bands at that day were kept up partly by pay from the government, and partly by pay from the regimental fund. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We owe the snug fit of metal tires and bands to the expansion and contraction resulting from heating and cooling. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It had bright brass bands all over, the woodwork beautifully painted, and everything highly polished, which was the custom up to the time old Commodore Vanderbilt stopped it on his roads. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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