Staves Sentence Examples

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  • Trundles having only six staves will work with large wheels.

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  • They are coated internally with glue, and painted in the well-known colours, blue staves and white heads.

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  • The barrels employed in the transport of petroleum products are made of well-seasoned white-oak staves bound by six or eight iron hoops.

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  • These last already appear in miniatures of the 9th century; from the II th onwards they predominated; and in the 13th century they ousted all other forms. Originally plain, the crook was from the lath century onwards often made in the form of a snake (5), which in richer staves encircled the Lamb of God or the representation of a figure.

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  • It was lined within and without with gold, and through four golden rings were placed staves of acacia wood, by means of which it was carried.

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  • Trundles and Pin-Wheels.If a wheel or trundle have cylindrical pins or staves for teeth, the faces of the teeth of a wheel suitable for driving it are described by first tracing external epicycloids, by rolling the pitch-circle of the pin-wheel or trundle on the pitch-circle of the driving-wheel, with the centre of a stave for a tracing-point, and then drawing curves parallel to, and within the epicycloids, at a distance from them equal to the radius of a stave.

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  • The sound of the bamboo staves hitting each other and the ground is quite loud and startling, and implies danger to the dancers who prance in and out of the spaces created by the rhythmic pounding.

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  • Where Javanese is the principal language, Malay is sometimes found written with Javanese characters; and in Palembang, in the Menangkabo country of Middle Sumatra, the Rechang or Renchong characters are in general use, so called from the sharp and pointed knife with which they are cut on the smooth side of bamboo staves.

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  • It has small leaves and fibrous bark, the wood is light, soft and easily-worked, and very durable in contact with the soil, and is much used for boat-building and for making fences and coopers' staves.

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  • Among the manufactures are cotton-seed oil, lumber and staves, and furniture.

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  • The chief imports comprise coal, timber, especially oak staves, and various manufactured goods.

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  • The box, I, has a hinged bottom with a projecting click finger which, as the box de - scends, plays idly over the staves of a ladder arc. When the weight is removed from the platform, the counterbalance, E, causes the finger, G, to run back to its zero position, carrying with it the finger M, and causing the click finger of the box, I, to trip open the bottom of the box and let the penny fall out.

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  • The trade of Alicante consists chiefly in the manufacture of cotton, linen and woollen goods, cigars and confectionery; the importation of coal, iron, machinery, manures, timber, oak staves and fish; and the exportation of lead, fruit, farm produce and red wines, which are sent to France for blending with better vintages.

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  • If so, parliament was told that temporal possessions ruin the church and drive out the Christian graces of faith, hope and charity; that the priesthood of the church in communion with Rome was not the priesthood Christ gave to his apostles; that the monk's vow of celibacy had for its consequence unnatural lust, and should not be imposed; that transubstantiation was a feigned miracle, and led people to idolatry; that prayers made over wine, bread, water, oil, salt, wax, incense, altars of stone, church walls, vestments, mitres, crosses, staves, were magical and should not be allowed; that kings should possess the jus episcopale, and bring good government into the church; that no special prayers should be made for the dead; that auricular confession made to the clergy, and declared to be necessary for salvation, was the root of clerical arrogance and the cause of indulgences and other abuses in pardoning sin; that all wars were against the principles of the New Testament, and were but murdering and plundering the poor to win glory for kings; that the vows of chastity laid upon nuns led to child murder; that many of the trades practised in the commonwealth, such as those of goldsmiths and armourers, were unnecessary and led to luxury and waste.

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  • These cages or boxes are either constructed of metal staves held together by a number of steel rings, or consist of one cylinder having a large number of perforations.

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  • The presses having perforated cylinders, although presenting mechanically a more perfect arrangement, are not preferable to the press cages formed by staves, as the holes become easily clogged up by the meal, when the cylinder must be carefully cleaned out.

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  • This is especially necessary in the case of reverberatory furnaces, which are essentially weak structures, and therefore require to be bound together by complicated systems of tie rods and uprights or buck staves.

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  • The percussion clef is shown on staves for indefinite pitch percussion parts.

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  • Some carried greenery including mistletoe, others bells and/or ceremonial staves of antlers ' horns.

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  • Music copied on f. 100v only; unused ruled staves on the remaining pages.

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  • They often carry staves or similar and carry sprays which they direct at the hounds in order to disrupt their sense of smell.

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  • Verses 6, 7. " And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay THEM with brass.

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  • Once a year, on November the 5th, they use staves to turn the stone over to protect the village.

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  • No windows were glazed, but were openings protected by wooden staves morticed into the frames above and below.

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  • The casks are made with our own staves, which we import from the US and naturally air dry for two years.

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  • Many barrel staves were excavated, possibly the remains of a cargo or supplies for the crew.

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  • It was formed of oak cask staves, tightly bound with hoops of hazel.

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  • A pinion is a small toothed wheel; a trundle is a pinion with cylindrical staves for teeth.

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  • These measures were largely successful, but in 1902 the export of oak staves was discontinued owing to a shortage of supply.

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  • Among its manufactures are lumber, staves, and hoops.

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  • Music copied in [f. 1v] only; otherwise unused ruled staves.

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  • Verses 6, 7. And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay THEM with brass.

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  • A MUP score can contain up to 32 staves of music, each with two voices.

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  • People were forced to run for their lives in order to escape being trampled upon by the police horses or beaten by staves.

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  • Most, however, are tolerant about the use of staves or wood chips in the vinification process.

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