Fibres

Examples

• Although the cotton is now a white, soft, clean, downy sheet, still the fibres cross each other in every direction, and they require to be straightened and laid parallel before the spinning. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Her fibres had been softened by suffering, and the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• To unite and interlace the fibres the wire cloth belt is given a lateral oscillating or shaking movement, which serves to interlock the fibres. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The different cards are arranged to move past each other in opposite directions, so as to catch and disentangle the fibres. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And the concussion was so great that a column of Water, Smoke and fibres of the Sloop were cast from 80 to 100 feet in Air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the present instance this broom was manufactured out of the tough fibres of Moore's own stubborn purpose, bound tight with his will. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He almost despaired of success, when, suddenly, he observed the loose fibres of his string to move towards an erect position. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I am not sure that certain fibres in Mr. Garth's mind had not resumed their old vibration towards the very end which now revealed itself to Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• With the close of Mr. McGowan's and Mr. Ricalton's expeditions, there ended the historic world-hunt for natural fibres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her gentle mien, step, gestures, her grace of person and attire, moved some artist-fibres about his peasant heart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Originally made from the fibres of the papyrus plant, and later from rags beaten into a pulp, paper for the printing of books and newspapers is now made almost entirely of wood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They thus secured their food, and accumulated s urprising quantities of the picked fibres of the cocoanut husk, on which they rest as a bed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The fibres of his frame became relaxed, and cold dew stood on his forehead, at this idea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• O, worn and beating heart, may I dissect thy fibres, and tell how in each unmitigable misery, sadness dire, repinings, and despair, existed? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• With such fibres still astir in him, the shock he received could not at once be distinctly anger; it was confused pain. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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