Turn Sentence Examples
But let's see how things turn out.
He reached back and tried to turn on the lights.
So, when is it your turn to cook?
Shall he turn his spring into summer?
It was her turn to do some studying.
That was certainly a surprising turn of events!
Is it my turn to watch?
It was Adrienne's turn to frown.
It was Adrienne's turn to make a face.
We don't turn on one another.
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Pierre was no longer able to turn away and close his eyes.
When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat.
She started to turn.
It's a one way visit, and that is what you fear most, the possibility you turn into what you hate.
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When he did turn over his soul to her, she dumped him.
You forgot to turn off your radio.
Natasha gazed at them and was ready to cry because it was not she who was dancing that first turn of the waltz.
Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.
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Jonathan hurried off to bible class and it was Carmen's turn to help out with the infants, so she took Destiny with her.
Her time was too short to turn away a tall, dark, handsome, intriguing, dangerous stranger she met on the beach in the moonlight who smelled good.
I know the lessons you taught me will help him turn out well.
He looked at each of us in turn.
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She looked at each of us in turn.
It was my turn.
Talon's men turn them into killers who take the lives of the innocent.
Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something.
She set herself a task on her stocking and resolved not to turn round till it was finished.
He glanced at their joined hands, then at Lisa and Howard in turn.
I can turn anything into something else the same size, but I'd never tried with a person before.
But in the dark, just feeling around for 'em—the stones I'd left—I was scared we might mess up and make a wrong turn.
The startled cry made him turn.
Somewhere up ahead was a sharp turn.
He maneuvered the car around the sharp turn.
He had moved to receptors and enkephalins before Martha covered her ears and yelled, You're turn!
Only if you turn into a bad guy.
Turn you into a rock.
I know, I know, I'll turn into a princess.
She started to turn, expecting to see Talal.
Guess it's my turn.
You won't turn me against him.
Just don't turn your back on your son.
This week it's the Catholic's turn.
They reached the first turn.
We couldn't have taken a wrong turn!
It was the man's turn to nod.
She backed the car up to turn around.
His quiet voice made her turn.
It was her turn to be quiet.
Please turn around, she said.
I'm not having a good turn, sis.
She felt him turn thoughtful.
By Immortal Code, you must turn him over to me.
So, it's my turn in the barrel?
He immediately turned on his lights and made a quick U turn.
The two of us took breaks and walked together, six paces, turn, six paces, turn, six paces, turn.
Someone knocked at the door before she could turn on more than the living room lights.
So, it looks like Talon's goons took our pig and injected it with something to turn it into a vamp.
Figured everything would turn out okay, Darian said with a weak shrug.
She didn't believe she'd turn into a princess any more than she believed she wanted anything to do with killing anyone.
You know how to defend yourself, and you can turn even a man into a rock with your magic.
His body took it this time, and his soul didn't laugh at her as it had when she tried to turn him into a rock.
It was her turn to roll her eyes but she held out a hand to Jule.
He snatched her phone as he squatted beside her and tossed it in the sink above their heads, stretching to turn on the water.
Sofia watched the scenery turn from urban to rural and recognized the roads leading up to Skyline Drive, the scenic route running through the mountains of northern Virginia.
It was his turn to be ticked at the world—she was sick of being alone and angry.
As dawn broke, they reached the turn off to the safe house.
She watched him turn a page and touch it.
The Dark One was going to turn her Immortal.
She tried to turn away, but the smell filled her senses with inhuman hunger and desperation.
I didn't just turn you Immortal; I turned you into one of my kind.
She wanted to think that Gabriel wouldn't turn his back on her so quickly.
Darkyn gave her the power to seduce without the knowledge on how to turn off its effects, if it was even possible.
One he couldn't turn down.
You know I couldn't figure out how to turn on the shower?
She didn't recognize the two men before her, but they were dressed much like the two death dealers that tried to turn her over to Harmony in her old apartment.
As noble as Gabriel was, he wouldn't hesitate to turn over anyone who hurt his mate to Darkyn.
If you don't mark 'em all with rocks we're going to miss a turn on the way out and end up god-knows-where in the middle of the earth someplace.
He climbed into bed next to his wife but didn't turn off the light.
Before that, a company out of Denver started the dig, back around the turn of the century.
I'll just turn your kindness-of-the-heart offer around.
As they neared the first turn, something glinted in the beam of Dean's flashlight.
Dean was sure they had not passed an unmarked turn.
People don't just turn up missing without causing a search.
She laughed loudly enough to turn the heads of a half dozen spectators.
Nothing. Maybe turn it over to some public trust so it remains unspoiled.
Cynthia's little shriek of dismay caused Dean to turn.
It was Dean's turn to give his wife a look of caution.
Fred looked down at the table, pretending it wasn't his turn, as he wrapped a chicken leg in a piece of dark bread.
Before that—at the turn of the century—it was marginal at best.
When Roger's turn came, he chuckled.
Lydia did all but ignore Cynthia who in turn was equally cool to the visitor.
Maybe I should turn the whole business over to you now that you're back.
He continued to grope his way forward until the first turn in the tunnel closed off what little light spilled in from the entrance.
They were standing at the first turn which now lighted looked familiar.
I didn't expect her to turn out as perfect as she did.
Someone had figured out how to turn off the overhead lights that blinded her earlier.
He stopped at the door but didn't turn.
It was his turn to protect her the way she never bothered protecting him.
She had violated his mind at every turn when she was Death.
His blood was already humming with desire; he forgot how much of a turn on arguing with her was.
I'm waiting for the tables to turn and there to be another Deidre.
It was Darkyn's turn to tilt his head curiously.
His eyes fell to a toaster on the dresser with two socks resting beside it, as if waiting for their turn to warm her feet in the morning.
Only Andre would manage to sound calm standing before two creatures with enough power to turn him to dust.
No one had remembered to turn the heat on last night.
I can turn the heat down and it will cook slower – might even be better.
The thought that the bull might have starved made her stomach turn.
At the house, she washed her hands, watching the water turn red and swirl down the drain.
Lori sat down with her food and looked at each of them in turn.
A whiff of something dead assailed her nostrils, causing her stomach to turn.
The sensations of freefalling made her stomach turn.
He had little time to redeem himself, and he kicked himself mentally for not walking into the room that would turn him into the Death he was supposed to be.
Would the Deidre that was his mate snap one day and turn into the goddess he remembered?
I'll tell you when it's safe to turn around.
To turn her bucket list into a to-do list?
He was going to turn her Immortal.
He watched the expectant look turn to one of disbelief.
What kind of human protector allowed one of his own men to turn her over to something like Sasha?
Disoriented, she leaned over to turn on the lamp.
She was scared to turn around, almost as if afraid he'd be passing out his phone number to every lithe, beautiful Amazonian they passed.
Every time I turn around, I'm getting my ass kicked by some beast, many of which are probably after you!
Turn into a bird and carry me with you? she asked.
Weeks ago, when she.d been at the Sanctuary, Gabriel entrusted her with the secret of what had caused Kris to turn on Rhyn.
I, in turn, used her to climb the Immortal ladder.
It was the demon.s turn to consider.
Kris refused to turn over Sasha or the vial.
Until now, he.d always thought he could turn back.
Even as he thought of his last moments with Kris, he felt his anger turn to resolve.
You.re right, Kris, I can.t understand how you could turn your back on the person who needed you most and justify it with your shortsighted arrogance.
For her sake, he had to find a way to live with Katie, or their differences would turn into a family feud.
Kris will need to be convinced to turn it over to me.
It was the assassin.s turn to give him a hard look.
Thought you.d be the first to turn on me.
Turn into a bird and carry me with you? she asked, desperation in her voice.
Kiera rubbed her arm with a small wince and forced herself to turn away.
She could think of only one thing that would turn her into one of the cookie-cutter women of this world, and she refused to be brainwashed.
A'Ran said nothing, though he clenched the arms of his chair hard enough for his knuckles to turn white.
If I am satisfied, I'll turn over the planning completely to you.
She tugged her hand free to turn the page quickly.
Long ago, his ancestors had rigged the planet to blow the mines and turn the atmosphere into a toxic mix no one would survive.
By nature, he didn't smile, but would he turn away from her or tolerate her?
We don't know what Bird Song was at the turn of the century, just that there was a building or some sort on this site.
I best make an inventory of this stuff before I turn it over to the ladies.
There were lots of rooming houses but we have no idea how Bird Song was utilized at the turn of the century.
Dean remained in the room long enough to turn out the parlor lights and finish banking the fire.
We could turn around and drive by.
Dean rolled his eyes, but smiled inwardly at his wife's concern as he looked for a place to turn around the jeep.
A startled look appeared on her face, causing Dean and the others to turn toward the hall.
But now, all she wants to do is— have sex with me, like we're still kids and she can turn the clock back to hot nights and summer camp.
It was long, yet wide enough to turn easily.
It was his turn to hear measured breathing beside him as Cynthia drifted off to sleep.
Every time I turn around, someone is sneaking into someone else's bed!
It was Dean's turn to ignore a question.
Let's turn ourselves in and get a high priced lawyer.
I've nowhere to turn.
He motioned with a turn of his head back toward the ice park.
It was if Annie bade him turn his thoughts beyond her long forgotten cares to the no less pressing concerns of today.
He tried to turn and raise himself to a sitting position while pushing her away, but she held back his arm in a strong grip and locked a crooked arm about his neck.
I know you don't know where to turn but there are places that help with problems like yours.
Dean assumed if Cynthia's son had traveled to see his grandmother, she had taken a turn for the worse.
Edith moved her fingers lower and he tried to turn away.
We don't get much chance to turn the old clock back.
Dean, in turn, began trying to remember the time sequence in his own mind.
It was Dean's turn to talk.
It was his turn to look up at her.
There wasn't anybody left in Edith Shipton's life for her to turn to.
She hated her husband who in turn despised her.
Neither one of them had any place or anybody to turn to.
Dean paused to turn out the lights as his wife walked ahead of him toward their room.
How I wish Victor would choose more randy gents to turn.
I thought you felt disgust toward me and would turn me away.
Frederick found suitable clothing for his guests and in turn, they each retired to the one bedchamber of the cottage to wash and change.
She did get permission to turn a human once, Peter Standish.
He suspected Standish knew Sarah's secret all along and only used her to turn him.
It took a full two weeks to turn Cassandra and it ended in disaster.
Sarah had to convince him not to turn Emily.
He yearned to see her face, but when he approached to make her turn, she disappeared, the moment they touched.
Why don't you turn your attention back to Lucy there?
Jackson decided if things didn't turn soon he would have to influence her.
How could he turn into such a monster?
This is quite a turn around, isn't it?
He wanted to scream; he wasn't used to women challenging him this way and had no idea how to turn this around.
She was surprising him at almost every turn.
Now, that my friend is a good reason for wanting to turn.
She did turn to him and the face was Elisabeth's.
Thoughts of you crept into my mind at every turn.
I had to turn away pretty quickly.
Is it painful when you turn into a wolf?
Why don't we turn the bedroom next to my music room into a studio for you?
I think he's hoping Sarah will turn him someday.
Getting permission to turn Connor was simple, just as Jackson had expected.
I may ask you to turn your head from time to time.
I know what it means to turn your back on your family.
Can you turn into a wolf whenever you want?
Well, she would turn 21 in a few months and her inheritance would be available.
For the right man, I'm willing to turn over the running of the farm and become his helpmate.
It was her turn to stare, and tears burned her eyes.
It was her turn to flinch at the sting of his words.
The water goes under the wheel to turn it.
I think I forgot to turn the water off when I filled the trough.
Behind her, Josh roared his engine as he turn the truck around, and slung gravel on the road as he took off.
He gripped her arm to turn her away from the scene and set off at a quick march.
He didn't normally turn them down, unless he didn't have the time.
She turned in time to see Mrs. Watson's skeptical look turn into a smile.
Without her micro, she doubted she could do much more than turn it on.
He said only a fed could turn this on.
You chose to let Jade go and turn a blind eye to him being a traitor. You chose not to see Hannah was a shapeshifter.
Death commanded. His body obeyed her, and he found himself struggling against himself not to turn around. Death won the fight for his body, and he watched.
He feared the palace would go down with Death, what with the nonsense she was spouting about leaving. He took in his best friend's features, uncertain whether becoming Death was a good thing or not. Gabe looked the same, and hopefully, he wouldn't turn into the riddle-talking sociopath that preceded him.
What are the chances it'll turn up?
Dean smiled at Hunter's adoration for a location where the weather alone would turn him around, scurrying back north.
The passenger, skinny and much younger, had a facial tic that was very noticeable after he pushed back his hat and looked slowly at Dean who, in turn, continued to smile his silly smile.
She, in turn, brought him up to date.
There was some moving around so we knew he was there but he didn't even turn on the TV.
He'd be at the service next week and not to see if a missing man would turn up in veiled drag, but simply because Cynthia Byrne told him she'd be pleased with his presence.
Then we get this call and tell 'em it's done and they say turn off at the next exit and get the hell out of there.
If you're an honest, law-abiding guy, like everyone says Jeffrey Byrne was or is, why don't you just turn it in to the closest police station?
The attendant gave Dean a strange look but between the two, they managed to turn the body.
Only the Lord knew what Linda Segal, The Ice Lady of the Parkside Sentinel, would do with this turn of events.
They'll have to put navigation markers out in the bay if they turn up any more bodies.
She in turn called her sister in Toledo, then Fred O'Connor because the occupants seemed to be watching his house.
Dean arrived just as the service was beginning, having been at his desk since 7 a.m. stewing over the recent turn of events.
I can't turn my back on it either.
Maybe he was just worried you'd turn him in for trying to beat the sales taxes...
My high school girl-boy-how-to book said I should be coy and turn down all last-minute dates.
Then it was Fred's turn to update.
Mom kept rereading it, but she didn't want me to see it—she'd turn away when I came near.
Turn on the radio so we can talk.
Someone would laugh and it would remind him of her laugh, turn their head to the side and it would be the way she always moved.
It was Dean's turn to grumble.
The last 200 miles of the bus ride traversed the first three days of the bike tour route after which the tour would turn north and enter the really tough mountain portions of the trek.
And yet he knew he couldn't turn his back on the quest—there were too many cop years and too much history in the make up of David Dean.
Dean felt her wiggle out of her bike shorts and then turn to her side, facing him.
With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.
If you'd turn the light on, you'd see my leg.
He located the room, which was dark when he entered, but he didn't turn on the light.
Then I said I'd turn the bags in, back in Scranton—told him I had a lawyer friend or something.
Cynthia said it loud enough to turn heads at the adjoining table.
He'll turn thirty in a couple months.
Then he'll turn into the big bad wolf.
It would be a relief to turn all that stress over to him.
Turn your cell phone on and ignore the land line.
His hands loosened so she could turn, but never left her waist.
I want to check the fence line before I turn the buffalo into the north pasture.
She tried to turn her face, but he held her lower jaw in a firm grip.
Without waiting for an answer, he headed for the kitchen, stopping briefly to turn on the stereo.
It's hard to believe a person would turn down a trip to the Bahamas.
He started to turn and then stopped, his expression turning stern.
It was Carmen's turn to be perplexed.
I just think it's too good an offer to turn down.
It was her turn to squirm in her chair.
A movement at the corner of her eye made her turn.
He could simply turn the subject off, like a radio, leaving her in shamed silence.
I'm the one you should turn to now — and God.
I can't turn back time, but I can do something about the future.
Josh waited at the foot of the stairs, obviously confused by the turn of events.
The other option was to accept the will, and when Carmen was awarded the money and farm, simply turn it all over to Lori.
She waited until it was her turn to receive her scroll.
I've watched you turn into you.
I've watched Jonny turn into the Black God.
As the White and Black Gods of this earth, you are bound by the requirement to turn the violator over to us.
Turn me over to them, she said, looking up at last.
You turn vamps into humans, and I kill Others.
Darian trailed her into the kitchen, unable to turn down her peanut butter cookies.
And now, it was her turn.
Her visions were all over the place this night, and she wasn't sure what she'd initially thought was the right path would actually turn out well.
Just turn me over to them already! she wanted to shout.
In any case, it's my turn.
Few men would turn their back to him, and normally, when there was a woman in bed, he was not on the floor.
His response made her turn, and he stared.
Taran met the first attacker head on with his sword and sought to turn his horse with his legs.
She watched as the twisted battle began and progressed, unable to turn away despite her horror.
He knew enough of what she was that he would never turn her over to any but his own.
Part of him reeled at the turn of events that found him sitting with a man who had never before acknowledged him.
The sensations unsettled him, but he forced himself to turn away.
Turn me over to him.
I haven't protected him to let my…our enemy turn him into my father!
He dropped the portcullis and shoved the lever to turn the iron gate.
He maneuvered a turn.
Jonathan was eager to get his turn, so Carmen watched Matthew, Natalie and Destiny.
She unlocked the door and stepped inside to turn the light on.
Surely he knew she didn't marry him for his money – and that no one else could turn her head.
She must have barely got home before she had to turn around and come back to the airport.
Carmen looked at Alex and Felipa in turn.
Who would they turn to when they no longer had each other?
They read for about an hour before Carmen decided to turn in.
Singing softly, she turned out onto the three-lane highway and used the center lane to execute a left turn onto a four lane highway.
The next turn found her on a narrow two lane highway that was a succession of curves.
After thirty minutes she spotted the sign indicating the state highway where she was supposed to turn.
Every time I turn around, there he is - watching over me, I guess.
The roll of twine was getting small, and it was a nuisance to hold the spool while trying to turn pages, so she unrolled the rest of the twine and tied the end around her waist.
You can turn me.
I won't turn you.
I didn't turn over the vamps to the Black God.
Only then did he turn and retreat down the hallway.
She didn't dare turn around, not certain she'd be able to witness Toni throwing herself at Xander without laughing at him.
The low voice made Jessi turn.
She bit back her response, aware she was playing into his hands at every turn.
I'd rather turn you into Wednesday.
A peek into the former vamp's mind revealed that two of Damian's sisters-in-law had managed to turn a full vamp back into a disgruntled Natural.
Will you turn me back, ikir?
Whether you turn her over to us or keep her, she's gonna find out.
I'll turn her over.
Yes. Xander could turn you into a vamp and you would then serve Jonny, who controls the vamps.
Her arousal was another turn on.
It was like she'd taken a wrong turn in a theatre, walked into a movie and couldn't find the door back to the theatre.
Jessi waited for him to turn, but he kept walking.
The more Xander knew about her family, the worse this was all going to turn out.
It's a total turn on.
He held out a hand to Darian, who in turn held his fist out to Xander.
The White God's voice made her turn.
Weird how things turn out, isn't it?
She was also able to turn objects into something else, a rare talent.
He didn't like seeing her vulnerable like this; he wanted to hear her sharp tongue and watch her face turn pink when he looked at her too long or provoked her.
At least I'll make you Sunday before I turn you into dinner.
Because our glance can easily be turned outwards and survey the exterior world but it is far harder to turn the mind's eye inwards and contemplate the world of the spirit.
When the usurper was in turn driven out by a Cyprian noble, Evagoras, fearing that his life was in danger, fled to Cilicia.
The faith which he put in the Chinese made him turn a deaf ear to the warnings which he received of the threatening Boxer movement in 1900.
When the cruising season of the lake was nearly over he in his turn retired to Sackett's Harbor, and did not leave it for the rest of the war.
Dupin de Francueil, a farmer-general of the revenue, who married the widow of Count Horn, a natural son of Louis XV., she in her turn being the natural daughter of Maurice de Saxe, the most famous of the many illegitimate children of Augustus the Strong, by the lovely countess of Konigsmarck.
De Seze was a middle-aged lawyer with a philosophic turn of mind, and Madame Dudevant for two years kept up with him an intimate correspondence.
It was doubtless a revulsion of feeling against the doctrinaires and in particular against the puritanic reign of Michel that made her turn to Chopin.
He in turn referred it to the bishops of Spires and Worms, who gave decision in March 1514 in favour of Reuchlin.
These Hebrew translations were, in their turn, rendered into Latin (by Buxtorf and others) and in this form the works of Jewish authors found their way into the learned circles of Europe.
But Hepburn, prior of St Andrews, having obtained the vote of the chapter, expelled him, and was himself in turn expelled by Forman, bishop of Moray, who had been nominated by the pope.
It had been exercised from the division of 1329 by both branches in turn.
But Leopold, alarmed at the turn affairs were taking, fled from Florence, and Montanelli, Guerrazzi and Mazzini were elected "triumvirs" of Tuscany.
During the Macedonian supremacy the town passed in turn from Cassander and Demetrius Poliorcetes to Antigonus Gonatas, and finally was incorporated in the Achaean League.
The nerves conduct the animal spirits to act upon the muscles, and in their turn convey the impressions of the organs to the brain.
The railway by Batoum to Baku by way of Tiflis has tended greatly to turn the channel of commerce from Trebizond into Russian territory, since it helps to open the route to Erivan, Tabriz and the whole of Persia.
From these it is clear that the country fell in turn under the sway of the various dynasties that ruled in the Deccan, memorials of the Chalukyan dynasty, whether temples or inscriptions, being especially abundant.
An open fire acts by radiation; it warms the air in a room by first warming the walls, floor, ceiling and articles in the room, and these in turn warm the air.
In 1863 the township of East Orange was separated from the township of Orange, which, in turn, had been separated from the township of Newark in 1806.
He passed the Reynolds range and Lake Amadeus in that direction, but was compelled to turn south, where he found a tract of well-watered grassy land.
In 1510 a second expedition against Malacca was sent out from Portugal under the command of Diogo Mendez de Vasconcellos, but d'Alboquerque retained it at Cochin to aid him in the retaking of Goa, and it was not until 1511 that the great viceroy could spare time to turn his attention to the scene of Siqueira's failure.
He believed that the Union could be saved without a war, and that a policy of delay would prevent the secession of the border states, which in turn would gradually coax their more southern neighbours back into their proper relations with the Federal government.
The leaves are large, often irregular in form, usually with a few deep lobes dilated at the end; they are of a bright light green on the upper surface, but whitish beneath; they turn to a violet tint in autumn.
Cromwell determined to turn his antagonist's position.
Truly you will not be able to keep your ditch nor your shipping unless you turn your ships and shipping into troops of horse and companies of foot, and fight to defend yourselves on terra firma."
The new comedy of Greece was probably limited for the most part to scenes written in the metres of dialogue; it remained for Plautus, as Leo has shown, to enliven his plays with cantica modelled on the contemporary lyric verse of Greece or Magna Graecia, which was in its turn a development of the dramatic lyrics of Euripides.
The cups are placed symmetrically on the end of the arms, and it is easy to see that the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it; the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross also faces the wind, but the pressure on it is naturally less, and hence a continual rotation is produced; each cup in turn as it comes round providing the necessary force.
This leads up to the fundamental distinction, introduced by Lord Kelvin, between "available energy," which we can turn to mechanical effect, and "diffuse energy," which is useless for that purpose.
A few miles below Herat the river begins to turn north-west, and after passing through a rich country to Kuhsan, it turns due north and breaks through the Paropamisan hills.
The slips are passed through an ordinary Wheatstone transmitter and actuate Wheatstone receiving apparatus which in turn controls a " Creed receiving perforator."
Owing to the difficulty of maintaining perfect balance on duplexed cables, curb sending is not now used, but the signals are transmitted by means of an apparatus similar to the Wheatstone automatic transmitter used on land lines and differing from the latter only in regard to the alphabet employed; the signals from the transmitter actuate a relay having heavy armatures which in turn transmit the signals to the cable; this arrangement gives very firm signals, a point of great importance for good working.
His transmitter consists of a nearly closed oscillating circuit comprising a condenser or battery of Leyden jars, a spark gap, and the primary coil of an oscillation transformer consisting of one turn of thick wire wound on a wooden frame.
When the connecting string is held taut and sounds, such as those of ordinary speech, are produced in front of one of the membranes, pulses corresponding to the fluctuations of the atmospheric pressure are transmitted along the string and communicated to the other membrane, which in its turn communicates them to the air, thus reproducing the sound.
If there be a line free, or when the turn of the call is reached, particulars of the connexion wanted are passed to the distant end, and the trunk operators request the local exchanges to connect the subscribers by means of junction I F..?
The subscribers' lines in an exchange are arranged in groups of moo, which are divided in turn into sub-groups of 100 each.
Not to speak of insects which feed upon the pitcher itself, some drop their eggs into the putrescent mass, where their larvae find abundant nourishment, while birds often slit open the pitchers with their beaks and devour the maggots in their turn.
He takes no heed of his rider, pays no attention whether he be on his back or not, walks straight on when once set agoing, merely because he is too stupid to turn aside, and then should some tempting thorn or green branch allure him out of the path, continues to walk on in the new direction simply because he is too dull to turn back into the right road.
Having come to an understanding with his father-in-law Podébrad, he was able to turn his arms against the emperor Frederick, and in April 1462 Frederick restored the holy crown for 60,000 ducats and was allowed to retain certain Hungarian counties with the title of king; in return for which concessions, extorted from Matthias by the necessity of coping with a simultaneous rebellion of the Magyar noble in league with Podebrad's son Victorinus, the emperor recognized Matthias as the actual sovereign of Hungary.
Only now was Matthias able to turn against the Turks, who were again threatening the southern provinces.
If we turn inland but 5 or 6 m.
The sub-tenants in their turn let a part of their land to peasants in mezzadria, thus creating a system disastrous both for agriculture and the peasants.
The development of the large cities has induced these banks to turn their attention rather to building enterprise than to mortgages on rural property.
The great Italian nobles, in their turn, appealed to Germany.
The intervention of this man, Heribert, compels us to turn a closer glance upon the cities of North Italy.
No sooner had the compromise of the investitures been conduded than it was manifest that the burghers of the new enfranchised communes were resolved to turn their arms against each other.
These, in their turn, forced the nobles to leave their castles, and to reside for at least a portion of each year within the walls.
Three years afterwards he died, leaving a son, Frederick, to the care of Constance, who in her turn died in 1198, bequeathing the young prince, already crowned king of Germany, to the guardianship of Innocent III.
The Genoese in their turn were now blockaded in Chioggia, and forced by famine to surrender.
It is now time to turn to the affairs of central Italy.
Cavour was filled with joy at the turn affairs had taken, for Austria now appeared as the aggressor.
It was certain that, his work in Sicily done, Garibaldi would turn his attention to the Neapolitan dominions on the mainland; and beyond these lay Umbria and the Marches andRome.
The irritation displayed by Bismarck at the Francophil attitude of Italy towards the end of the Franco-German War gave place to a certain show of goodwill when the great chancellor found himself in his turn involved in a struggle against the Vatican and when the policy of Thiers began to strain Franco-Italian relations.
Apart from resentment against France on account of Tunisia there remained the question of the temporal power of the pope to turn the scale in favor of Austria and Germany.
ThbkOly's distrust of the emperor now induced him to turn for help to the sultan, who recognized him as prince of Upper Hungary on condition that he paid an anuual tribute of 40,000 florins.
It is, however, to the Brahmanas and Sutras of the Yajurveda, dealing with the ritual of the real offering-priest, the Adhvaryu, that we have to turn for a connected view of the sacrificial procedure in all its material details.
Nay, it may be questioned how far it is either psychologically or logically possible to turn general scepticism into a coherent doctrine.
The point of enduring interest as regards the Andamans is the penal system, the object of which is to turn the life-sentence and few long-sentence convicts, who alone are sent to the settlement, into honest, self-respecting men and women, by leading them along a continuous course of practice in self-help and self-restraint, and by offering them every inducement to take advantage of that practice.
Thus the typical hydroid colony starts from a " founder " polyp, which in the vast majority of cases is fixed, but which may be floating, as in Nemopsis, Pelagohydra, &c. The founder-polyp usually produces by budding polyp-individuals, and these in their turn produce other buds.
All things are said to be developed out of an original being, which is at once material (fire) and spiritual (the Deity), and in turn they will dissolve back into this primordial source.
Risings broke out at Urbino and in Romagna, and the papal troops were defeated; Cesare could find no allies, and it seemed as though all Italy was about to turn against the hated family, when the French king promised help, and this was enough to frighten the confederates into coming to terms. Most of them had shown very little political or military skill, and several were ready to betray each other.
The canon provides that any clerk having a complaint against another clerk must not pass by his own bishop and turn to secular tribunals, but first lay b a re his cause before him, so that by the sentence of the bishop himself the dispute may be settled by arbitrators acceptable to both parties.
The officials of primates in their turn made similar attempts.
Then parliament enacted a new system of Church courts which, though to some extent in its turn superseded by the revival of episcopacy under James VI., was revived or ratified by the act of 1690, c. 7, and stands to this day.
Hadrian adopted, as his successor, Titus Antoninus Pius (uncle of Marcus), on condition that he in turn adopted both Marcus (then seventeen) and Lucius Ceionius Commodus, the son of Aelius Caesar, who had originally been intended by Hadrian as his successor, but had died before him.
The revolt against fish had ruined the fisheries and driven the fishermen to turn pirates, to the great scandal and detriment of the realm.
Sir John Clopton destroyed the house in 1702 (as it had reverted to his family), and the mansion he built was in turn destroyed by Sir Francis Gastrell in 1759.
Small islands off the coast of north-west Spain, the headlands of that same coast, the Scillies, Cornwall, the British Isles as a whole, have all in turn been suggested.
This may have a radial stem-like organization, a central cell-thread giving off from every side a number of short sometimes unicellular branches, which together form a cortex round the central thread, the whole structure having a cylindrical form which only branches when one of the short cell-branches from the central thread grows out beyond the general surface and forms in its turn a new central thread, from whose cells arise new short branches.
This type of stern is therefore often spoken of as protoslelic. In the Ferns there is clear evidence that the amphiphloic haplostele or protostele succeeded the simple (ectophloic) protostele in evolution, and that this in its turn gave rise to the solenostele, which was again succeeded by the dictyostele.
Identity of the Food of Animals and Plants.rt is evidently to the actual seats of consumption of food, and of consequent nutrition and increase of living substance, that we should turn when we wish to inquire what are the nutritive materials of plants.
Bonnier has drawn attention to the fact that the mistletoe in its turn, remaining green in the winter, contributes food material to its host when the latter has lost its leaves.
That the fixation of the gas is carried out by the fungal organism either in the soil or in the plant, and the nitrogenous substance so produced is absorbed by the organism, which is in turn consumed by the green plant.
It is a very common event to find the early stages of injury indicated by pale yellow spots, which turn darker, brown, red, black, &c., later, e.g.
Both were in turn replaced by the Lower Mesozoic flora, which again is thought to have had its birth in the hypothetical Gondwana land, and in which Gymnosperms played the leading part formerly taken by vascular Cryptogams. The abundance of Cycadean plants is one of its most striking features.
If we turn to herbaceous plants, Hemsley has pointed out that of the thirteen genera of Ranunculaceae in California, eleven are British.
It was succeeded by the sessile-fruited oak, which was in turn supplanted by the pedunculate form of the same tree.
The oak in turn has been almost superseded in Denmark by the beech, which, if we may trust Julius Caesar, had not reached Britain in his time, though it existed there in the pre-glacial period, but is not native in either Scotland or Ireland.
His armies crossed the plains beyond the Caspian, penetrated the wild mountain passes northwest of India, and did not turn back until they had entered on the Indo-Gangetic plain.
It is convenient to employ a specific name for a projection of a coast-line less pronounced than a peninsula, and for an inlet less pronounced than a bay or bight; outcurve and incurve may serve the turn.
The Moors being vanquished, now came the turn of the Jews.
After his release Wakefield seemed disposed for a while to turn his attention to social questions at home, and produced a tract on the Punishment of Death, with a terribly graphic picture of the condemned sermon in Newgate, and another on incendiarism in the rural districts, with an equally powerful exhibition of the degraded condition of the agricultural labourer.
The apex of the cochlea is turned towards, and almost reaches the anterior wall of the occipital condyle; at most it makes but half a twist or turn; it possesses both Reissner's membrane and the organ of Corti.
He left his wife for a mistress, Elizabeth Holland, was in discord with his family, and lived to see his two nieces, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and his son Surrey, the fiery-tempered poet, go in turn to the block.
Two of his sons succeeded in turn to the earldom of Nottingham, extinct on the death of Charles, the third earl in 1681.
When, however, Dbllinger and his school in their turn started the Old Catholic movement, Frohschammer refused to associate himself with their cause, holding that they did not go far enough, and that their declaration of 1863 had cut the ground from under their feet.
As the discussion of the Law led up to the compilation of the Mishnah, so the Mishnah itself became in turn the subject of further discussion.
Both add notes and explanations of their own, and both have in turn formed the text of commentaries.
We must now turn back to a most difficult subject - the growth of the Liturgy.
In turn other animals took shape, the last being two golden spiders from whose excrement the earth gradually rose above the surrounding ocean.
Three or four piers or sometimes bridges of masonry are run out into the bed of the river, frequently from both sides at once, raising the level of the stream and thus giving a water power sufficient to turn the gigantic wheel or wheels, sometimes almost 40 ft.
This ancient system of canalization was inherited from the Persians (who, in turn, inherited it from their predecessors), by the Arabs, who long maintained it in working order, and the astonishing fertility and consequent prosperity of the country watered by the Euphrates, its tributaries and its canals, is noticed by all ancient writers.
By an invention probably due to Humfray Cole and published in 1 578 by William Bourne in his Inventions and Devices, it was proposed to register a ship's speed by means of a "little small close boat," with a wheel, or wheels, and an axle-tree to turn clockwork in the little boat, with dials and pointers indicating fathoms, leagues, scores of leagues and hundreds of leagues.
When the bunting at the end of the stray line passes his hand, he calls to his assistant to turn the glass, and allows the line to pay out freely.
The former bears a general resemblance to the Cherub log, but the dial plate is horizontal and the faces turn upwards.
But under Zinzendorf the history of the Moravians took an entirely new turn.
While moving vehicles by capstans, turn tables, props, levers, &c...
In the earlier years of American railway building, each project was commonly the subject of a special law; then special laws were in turn succeeded by general railway laws in the several states, and these in turn have come to be succeeded in most parts of the country by jurisdiction vested in the' state railway commission.
These in turn converge to a pair of single lines which lead to two groups of marshalling sidings, called " gridirons " from their shape, and these again converge to single lines leading to " lower reception and departure lines " at the bottom of the slope.
In whatever form energy is produced and distributed to the train it ultimately appears as mechanical energy applied to turn one or more axles against the resistance to their rotation imposed by the weight on the wheels and the motion of the train.
Let a couple be applied to the axle tending to turn it in the direction shown by the arrow.
The couple T is necessarily accompanied by an equal and opposite couple acting on the frame, which couple endeavours to turn the frame in the opposite direction to that in which the axle rotates.
The knuckle stands open until the coupling is pushed against another coupling, when the two hooks turn on their pivots to the position shown in fig.
There is very little evidence to show that mediumship arose anywhere spontaneously,' but those who sat with the Foxes were often found to become mediums themselves and then in their turn developed mediumship in others.
If, however, we turn to Australia, where sacrifice is unknown, we find more than ' one class of rites in which we can trace an idea akin to some forms of sacrifice.
And so the old limitations of Israel's popular religion, - the same limitations that encumbered also the religions of all the neighbouring races that succumbed in turn to Assyria's invincible progress, - now began to disappear.
It is possible for every sinner to turn to God and escape punishment, and conversely for a righteous man to backslide and fall.
The untimely death of that monarch upon the battlefield of Megiddo (608 B.C.), followed by the inglorious reigns of the kings who succeeded him, who became puppets in turn of Egypt or of Babylonia, silenced for a while the Messianic hopes for a future king or line of kings of Davidic lineage who would rule a renovated kingdom in righteousness and peace.
In accordance with his general method these notes were in turn read over to him until he had completely mastered them, when they were worked up in his memory to their final shape.
Enclosed within the Tatar city is the Hwang ch' eng, or "Imperial city," which in its turn encloses the Tsze-kin ch' eng, or "Forbidden city," in which stands the emperor's palace.
The melting of the mountain snow-caps in the spring causes severe freshets, which in turn are followed by long seasons of drought at a time when water is most needed for agricultural purposes.
The affair did not turn out as the minister wished.
Like the Odyssey, Gudrun is an epic of the sea, a story of adventure; it does not turn solely round the conflict of human passions; nor is it built up round one all-absorbing, all-dominating idea like the Nibelungenlied.
Hebrew religious institutions can be understood from the biblical evidence studied in the light of comparative religion; and without going afield to Babylonia, Assyria or Egypt, valuable data are furnished by the cults of Phoenicia, Syria and Arabia, and these in turn can be illustrated from excavation and from modern custom.
Although no evidence is at hand, it is probable that Ahaz of Judah rendered service to Assyria by keeping the allies in check; possible, also, that the former enemies of Jerusalem had now been induced to turn against Samaria.
It will be convenient to turn to this first.
But it is not clear that he had such need of the Jews or such regard for the Temple of Jerusalem that he should turn aside on his way to Egypt for such a purpose.
Apollonius, the commander of the Syrian garrison in Jerusalem, and Seron the commander of the army in Syria, came in turn against Judas and his bands and were defeated.
It is to Holland and to the 17th century that we must turn for the first real steps towards Jewish emancipation.
From Italy we may turn to the country which so much influenced Italian politics, Austria, which had founded the system of " Court Jews " in 1518, had expelled the Jews from Vienna as late as 1670, when the synagogue of that city was converted into a church.
As time went on, a more progressive policy intervened, the special form of Jewish oath was abolished in 1846, and in 1848, as a result of the revolutionary movement in which Jews played an active part, legislation took a more liberal turn.
These in turn come from the Chaldee or Aramaean form x7t?
It was during his control of the Erie that he and Fisk entered into a league with the Tweed Ring, they admitted Tweed to the directorate of the Erie, and Tweed in turn arranged favourable legislation for them at Albany.
The soul is in turn the image or product of the vas, and the soul by its motion begets corporeal matter..
Honey forms the staple nourishment of many ants, some of the workers seeking nectar from flowers, working it up into honey within their stomachs and regurgitating it so as to feed their comrades within the nest, who, in their turn, pass it on to the grubs.
After doing some research work at Simancas in Spain, he became professor of history at the university of Dorpat in 1867; and was then in turn professor at Konigsberg, Bonn and Leipzig.
Persian, after being itself transformed by Arabic, has in its turn largely influenced all west Asiatic Moslem literature from Hindustani to Turkish.
After the defeat of the Philistines came the turn of Moab.
These in their turn migrated to other settlements and were replaced, about the end of the 5th century of our era, by Slavonic tribes, the Wilzi and the Pomerani.
Into each ovarian sac behind the transverse junction opens a slender tube, which is greatly coiled, and, in its turn, opens into a spherical "spermathecal sac."
It does not evaporate or turn rancid, whilst its marked hygroscopic action ensures the moistness and softness of any surface that it covers.
His acquaintance with Mirabeau, begun in 1788, ripened during the following year into a friendship, which La 11/Iarck hoped to turn to the advantage of the court.
Though patient and good-tempered in the main, they have a latent warmth of temper, and if oppressed beyond a certain limit they would fiercely turn upon their tormentors.
In Turgot's proposed system landed proprietors alone were to form the electorate, no distinction being made between the three orders; the members of the town and country municipalites were to elect representatives for the district municipalites, which in turn would elect to the provincial municipalites, and the latter to a grande municipalite, which should have no legislative powers, but should concern itself entirely with the administration of taxation.
The pasture-land was common to all, though the number of beasts which one man might turn into it was sometimes limited.
The duty of collecting and weighing evidence for himself was at every turn impressed upon the boy; he was taught to accept no opinion on authority.
The different threads of social activity are so closely interwoven that we cannot follow any one for very long without forming wrong impressions, and it becomes necessary to turn back and study others which seemed at first sight unrelated to the subject of our investigations.
We have already shown how these methods, in their turn, require the aid of general theory, but not of a general theory which tries to do their work.
Firdousi had been always strongly attracted by the ancient Pahlavi records, and had begun at an early age to turn them into Persian epic verse.
The Senatus Consultum of the 18th of May 1804 awarded to Napoleon the title of emperor, the succession (in case he had no heir) devolving in turn upon the descendants of Joseph and Louis Bonaparte (Lucien and Jerome were for the present excluded from the succession owing to their having contracted marriages displeasing to Napoleon).
Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.
During the course of a tour in Italy in December 1807 he gave a sharp turn to that world-compelling screw, the Continental System.
The partition of Turkey had to be postponed; the financial collapse of England could not be expected now that she framed an alliance with the Spanish patriots and had their markets and those of their colonies opened to her; and the discussions with the tsar Alexander, which had not gone quite smoothly, now took a decidedly unfavourable turn.
The time had come, however, when Saint Just and he were to turn their attention not only to les enrages, but to les indulgents- the powerful faction of the Dantonists.
Melian vases came in their turn to Crete.
In the light of this knowledge we shall be able to formulate the moral code, which, in turn, will serve as a criterion of actual civic and social institutions.
The law of our being, so revealed, involves in its turn civic or political duties.
On the 6th of October he had reached Pernau, with the intention of first relieving Riga, but, hearing that Narva was in great straits, he decided to turn northwards against the tsar.
He soon convinced himself that western Europe had nothing to fear from Charles, and that no bribes were necessary to turn the Swedish arms from Germany to Russia.
It now behoves us to turn to general and particularly systematic works in which plates, if they exist at all, form but an accessory to the text.
To turn now to the external events which followed on the Fourth Crusade.
She was compelled to turn her attention, though reluctantly, to the mainland of Italy.
Chambo in turn receives the waters of a larger lake - Abai, Abaya, Pagade or Regina Margherita - through the river Walo, across a plain only 2 m.
And when we turn to the other line along which the web-building instinct has been developed we find that the primary guiding influence has been that second great vital necessity, namely the necessity of getting food.
It has been suggested that the diminutive size of the male is of great advantage to him during courtship, because he is enabled to move easily thereby to escape from her clutches should she turn upon him with hostile intent.
Thus a tenant for years, or even from year to year only, may stand in his turn as landlord to another tenant.
Sandy soils are made thereby too dry and leachy, and it is a questionable proceeding to turn the heavy clays upon the top. Planters are, as a result, divided in opinion as to the wisdom of subsoiling.
A similar, but larger machine, requiring about horse-power to run it, will turn out 50 to 60 lb of Egyptian or 60 to 80 lb of Sea Island cleaned cotton per hour.
Young plants a few inches high are usually attacked; the leaves, beginning with the lower ones, turn yellow, and afterwards become brown and drop. The plants remain very dwarf and generally unhealthy, or die.
If a spinner is pressed by a shipper to make quotations with refusal for two or three days to give time for business to be settled by cable, it is evidently not impossible for the spinner to shift the risk involved by getting in turn from his broker refusal quotations for cotton.
Now it is evident that brokers in turn require some means of passing on the risks that they are bearing, or some portion of them from one to another, or of sharing them with other market experts, as they find themselves overburdened, and as their judgment of the situation changes.
Loscher affirms in regard to miracles that " solus Deus potest tum supra naturae vires turn contra naturae leges agere "; and Buddaeus argues that in them a " suspensio legum naturae " is followed by a restitutio.
When we turn to the British Islands we find, as we should expect, no traces of the Druids in England and Wales after the conquest of Anglesea mentioned above, except in the story of Vortigern as recounted by Nennius.
After a short spring the heat of summer succeeds, which in its turn is followed by an autumn of six weeks' duration.
These invaders were in their turn overthrown two centuries later by another invasion from Manchuria.
That the Pilgrims' Progress should thus have turned into a Holy War is a fact readily explicable, when we turn to consider the attempts made by the Church, during the 11th century, to purify, or at any rate to direct, the feudal instinct for private war (Fehde).
When a power arose in Mosul, about 1130, which was able to unify Syria - when, again, in the hands of Saladin, unified Syria was in turn united to Egypt - the cause of Latin Christianity in the East was doomed.
The besiegers were no sooner in the city, than they were besieged in their turn by Kerbogha; and the twenty-five days which followed were the worst period of stress and strain which the crusaders had to encounter.
But each of the three sections of their army was routed in turn in Asia Minor by the princes of Sivas, Aleppo and Harran, in the middle of I ror; and only a few escaped to report the crushing disaster.
But when Zengi established himself in Mosul in 1127, the tide gradually began to turn.
Before we turn to describe the Second Crusade, which the loss of Edessa provoked, and to trace the fall of the kingdom, which the Second Crusade rather hastened than hindered, we may pause at this point to consider the organization of the Frankish colonies in Syria.
France, always the natural home of the Crusades, was too fully occupied, first by war with England and then by a struggle with the papacy, to turn her energies towards the East.
If we seek the peculiar and definite results of the Crusades, we must turn to narrower issues.
When we turn from the sphere of politics to the history of civilization and culture, we find the effects of the Crusades as deeply impressed, if not so definitely marked.
In those intended for alternating currents, the main current through the movable coil, whether consisting of one turn or more than one turn, is carried by a wire rope, of which each component strand is insulated by silk covering, to prevent the inductive action from altering the distribution of the current across the transverse section of the conductor.
Tobacco culture, which declined after 1860 on account of the competition of Cuba and Sumatra, has revived since 1885 through the introduction of Cuban and Sumatran seed; the product of 1907 (6,937,500 lb) was more than six times that of 1899, the product in 1899 (1,125,600 lb) being more than twice that of 1889 (470,443 lb), which in turn was more than twenty times that for 1880 (21,182 lb)-the smallest production recorded for many decades.
The middle wall, beginning south of the Pnyx near the Melitan Gate, gradually approached the northern wall and, following a parallel course at an interval of 550 ft., diverged to the east near the modern New Phalerum and joined the Peiraeus walls on the height of Munychia where they turn inland from the sea.
In the hour of danger, the claims of religion reasserted themselves on the young soldier, and, following a custom when no priest was at hand, he made his confession to a brother officer, who in turn also confessed to him.
Ignatius, with his military instinct and views of obedience, intervenes with a director who gives the exercises to the person who in turn receives them.
Meanwhile the other independent principalities of Gondwana had in turn succumbed.
This spirit gave way to the physicians, who regarded " chemistry as the art of preparing medicines," a denotation which in turn succumbed to the arguments of Boyle, who regarded it as the " science of the composition of substances," a definition which adequately fits the science to-day.
Zincke; and his researches have led to the discovery of many chlorinated oxidation products which admit of decomposition into cyclic compounds containing fewer carbon atoms than characterize the benzene ring, and in turn yielding openchain or aliphatic compounds.
When thus chlorinated phenol (I) yields trichlor-o-diketo-R-hexene (2), which may be hydrolysed to an acid (3), which, in turn, suffers rearrangement to trichlor-R-pentene-oxycarboxylic acid (4).