Beams

Examples

• Besides, I choose to please myself by sharing an idea that at this moment beams in your mother's eye while she looks at you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Talking, laughing, or snoring, they make the beams of the house shake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• What I did mean to say, was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I AWOKE in the morning, just as the higher windows of the lofty houses received the first beams of the rising sun. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He laughs and beams, and looks as innocent as you like, and says, 'But I don't know the value of these things. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Gradually the object of fear sank beneath the horizon, and to the last shot up shadowy beams into the otherwise radiant air. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Iron girder bridges were also constructed, and thus the railway trains were carried across roads and narrow rivers at any required inclination, supported on flat beams of iron. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Practically all railroad rails, iron girders and beams for buildings, nails, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There are moments when life, for no other reason than my own youth, beams with sweet hues upon me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If the heat thus produced is very great, serious consequences may arise; for example, the contact of a hot wire with wall paper or dry beams may cause fire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Old six-foot Snodgrass looms on high, With elephantine grace, And beams upon the company, With brown and jovial face. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We were seldom shaded from the declining sun, whose slant beams were instinct with exhausting heat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But surely there were beams still left in the dismantled cottages near the church? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Introduction of Iron Floor Beams in building Cooper Institute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her expressive eyes were two stars whose beams were love; hope and light-heartedness sat on her cloudless brow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It had vertical cylinders of thirty-six inch stroke, with overhead grasshopper beams and connecting rods. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The eyes of each were then so intently converged upon the stone that one could fancy their beams were visible, like rays in a fog. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A kitchen first presented itself, where, guided by the moon beams, I found materials for striking a light. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Steel beams and rods have been subjected to a strain of a million pounds before breaking. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Afterward it was dark outside and I could see the beams of the search-lights moving in the sky. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typist: Virginia