The pump rod in the windmill tower is provided with a swivel coupling, enabling the mill head to turn completely round without altering the position of the rod.
In truth, a great many of the good old souls really looked upon the act of altering the mode of singing as a departure from the faith given unto the saints.
The parrot perched on it is removed, which may be done without alteringthe curve, as the bird is set where its weight would not have bent the wood.
Form may be attained in perfectness by painters who, in their course of study, are continually altering or idealizing it; but only the sternest fidelity will reach coloring.
Let us guard ourselves, however, from carrying this idea too far, and, upon the faith of a happy word, altering altogether the true relations of created beings.
Like all the Actiniadæ, the present species possess a power of considerably altering their shape; sometimes the mouth is depressed, and at others it is elevated into an obtuse cone.
THIRD LADY Shall always acknowledge your politeness; but have no thoughts of altering my condition.
Then Miss Huntley would take offence, and threaten Ellen with "altering her will," and that would vex Ellen more than anything.
Huntley bowed, and took it; and the next thing seen by the boys was Mr. Galloway altering the roll.
There was no trouble in getting the cattle or horses into this, and there were all kinds of narrow yards and pens for branding the stock if they were clearskins, and altering or 'faking' the brands if they were plain.
You have doubtless perceived,” said her father, “that the art entirely consists in dexterously altering the centre of gravity upon every new position of the body, so as constantly to preserve the line of direction within the base.
It consists in altering the axis of rotation while the card is in the act of revolving, in order that the images on its opposite sides may be brought in different positions with respect to each other.
You do not write Irish Echoes--but yet by altering the notation they may inadvertently arise.
The whole development and expansion of the Royal Flying Corps in France was carried on while the conditions were altering every month, at high pressure, in rivalry with the Germans.
Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate, and collaborated with Dryden in altering (and debasing) The Tempest.
His poem appears to have been the great interest of his life, and almost to the end he wasaltering and adding to, without, however, improving it.
Their "Reasons assigned for suspending the delivery to Congress of the Governor's letter for revising and altering the Confederation" may be found in the Life of Hamilton, II.
But to think that we have no power of altering our character, and to think that we shall not use our power unless we desire to use it, are very different things, and have a very different effect on the mind.
By altering the distance and direction of the central body relatively to the planet, and the direction and quantity of the force in the direction of the tangent, it alters the elements which determine the motion at the next succeeding instant.
If, indeed, the belief ever amounted to an irresistible necessity, there would then be no use in appealing from it, because there would be no possibility of altering it.
MARIE [Stonily rigid, but very happy, trying to speak without alteringher expression.
The wind was very light and variable, which accounted for the vessel so often altering her course.
A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.
In forming those constitutions, or in altering them, little or no inconvenience took place.
I HAVE alluded, in an earlier chapter, to the fact that many inexperienced cooks are afraid of altering recipes; a few words on this subject may not be out of place.
Whatever my own optical skill could suggest, I tried; and the best opticians were sent for to bring their glasses, and take his directions for altering them; but all was to no purpose.
The power and the habit altering in proportion, there is no case made out of that disturbed equilibrium to which apparently he would attribute the headaches.
Altering the position of those buoys the night you were here doubtless upset the German gunners' calculations.
Owing to the "Sunderland" altering her course she was swinging considerably to starboard, and the motion made the man advance cautiously, his feet sliding along the foot-ropes while he held on grimly with his free hand to the spar.
Let us make some inquiries into the extent of the influence which the progress of society has exerted during the last seven or eight centuries, in altering the distribution of indigenous British animals.
But although the sum of their influence in altering the surface of the earth may be very constant throughout successive epochs, yet the points where these operations are displayed in fullest energy shift perpetually.
The stronger individuality will dominate the other and mould it into submission, or the two characters will become amalgamated, each altering the other, until a plane is reached on which there is possible a harmony of desires.
Then altering her tone, and speaking more rapidly, she continued: "Do not think that your wife is a fool, Dr.
