Forks

Examples

• The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Now, Joe, knives and forks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A horrid rattling of knives and forks sounded outside the door, and the footman came in to lay the table for luncheon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The column from New Bern was attacked on the 8th of March, at Wise's Forks, and driven back with the loss of several hundred prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And these new means were the hay tedder to stir it, the horse hay-rake, the great hay-forks to load, and the hay-stackers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Bouncers were more delighted still; they dropped their knives and forks with a crash, and burst out together vehemently, O! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Merritt, with the cavalry, stopped and bivouacked west of Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She picked up the iron plate they had eaten from and the four forks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Upon these were laid knives and forks for six or eight people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In the great silver exhibition recently held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, of more than one thousand pieces, there were only two forks to be found. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There seems no reason why, if in general use, silver forks should not now be as common as spoons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• During the 30th, Sheridan advanced from Dinwiddie Court House towards Five Forks, where he found the enemy in full force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He did on the 30th send Pickett with five brigades to reinforce Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As for one dozen well-manufactured silver spoons and forks at per oz. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You stopped at the place where the road forks, looked round at the bonfires, and then said, 'Damn it, I'll go! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Sheridan was not however to make his movement against Five Forks until he got further instructions from me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Are we to go without spoons and forks then? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Warren was on the extreme left when the extension began, but Humphreys was marched around later and thrown into line between him and Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There are no forks. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The marvelous force of electricity was brought to bear on the making of silver-plated knives, forks, spoons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This movement was made for the purpose of extending our lines to the west as far as practicable towards the enemy's extreme right, or Five Forks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So few silver forks have been found in collections of old silver that it forces the belief that they were generally made of steel, with bone handles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have hook-shaped handles at the upper end, and terminate below in forks that are pivoted to the shanks of type hammers, to raise and lower them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Watch-guards and toasting-forks were alike at a discount, and pencil-cases and sponges were a drug in the market. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The ensilage is pitched into a cart with forks and the cart driven into the feeding barn between the two rows of cows which stand facing each other. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• As I had also been working on a telegraph system employing tuning-forks, simultaneously with both Bell and Gray, I was pretty familiar with the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was then experimenting with sending eight messages simultaneously over a wire by means of synchronizing tuning-forks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sheridan, after he had returned to Five Forks, swept down to Petersburg, coming in on our left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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