Then he went over to the cleared foundations, and in a moment he was putting up the first of the four corner posts, great beams that looked stout enough to hold up a far bigger house than the one they were to support.
In a surprisingly short space of time the men who had plunged into the ruined foundations of the house had torn out the remaining beams and rafters, and had flung the heap of rubbish that filled the cellar on to the level ground.
Again it falls, fading away into great searchlight beams which rise behind the smoking crater of Mount Erebus.
The floor tiles are conventional in pattern; there are no rugs; the ceiling beams are stenciled in pastel floral designs.
There are dates on bell skirts, on walls or beams of a storage bodega, on escutcheons, on archways; often they are carved in the mesquite floor of a chapel or church.
The light of the lamp, awaiting the game on the sick man's table, already shone far to meet them, and when its beams fell on Anne's face Lynn turned his eyes away.
Jane’s grandfather was a faithful old keeper of the light, and had never failed to have the welcome beamsshine out far into the darkness of the ocean.
The giant had braced the inside withbeams of wood, but Jack broke them to pieces with one stroke.
Greatest boon of all to his eyes was the sun, which was not yet high, but whose warm beams provided him with an invigorating bath and seemed to send life and hope and strength into his cramped and chilled limbs.
The piers are 66 feet apart, centre to centre, and the longitudinal beams are supported, at four nearly equidistant points in this space, by straight single timbers radiating from the tops of the piers.
Each of these beams consists of two pieces of timber, one above the other, fastened together by bolts and joggles.
These were made to verify calculations on the longitudinal girders of the Chepstow truss, which are virtually continuous beams of five unequal spans.
At the other ends of these beams is a counterbalance weight.
The forms of wrought-iron girder already referred to are those known as plate girders, with continuous webs made of plates riveted together, and therefore analogous to the beams of cast iron which they almost entirely superseded.
Mr. Brunel also intended to introduce equalising beams in the supports of the floor, so that each chain should bear an equal share of the load.
A well-known arrangement for forming beams of greater strength than could be obtained by single pieces of timber was adopted by Mr. Brunel after a careful investigation of its merits.
Over the transverse angle iron ribs at the bottom of the ship were laid ten deep longitudinal beams (see woodcut, fig.
The opening part turns on a horizontal axle, and is lifted by rods attached to the ends of two large beams or levers, turning vertically, which are supported above the railway on a timber framework.
There were bands of iron riveted to the shelf-plate, and iron deck beams crossed diagonally under the planking of the upper and main decks.
The gates are constructed of horizontalbeams of yellow pine timber, 21 inches thick, placed close together for a height of 12 feet above the bottom.
But as the wind increased the storm-clouds sank rapidly towards the part of the horizon whence it came, until the beams of the ascending sun at length overwhelmed them with a glorious flood of light, and introduced a day of brilliant sunshine.
Just then I had been admiring the calm repose of the surrounding landscape, gilded by the beams of a splendid setting sun, and anticipating a quiet night for the party.
Cheerfulness was around him, for the bright sun of heaven cheers and ennobles every thing upon which his beams fall.
Do not scatter the beams of light; you can turn the glass so as to diffuse the rays instead of concentrating them; but the best way of preaching is to focus Jesus Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, right on a sinner's heart.
When one side of our body ached, we just turned over to the other side, and it beat riding on the bumpers or brake-beams all hollow.
And another thing, there are no brake-beams on the other side, no blind baggage and no bumpers, so where are you going to ride?
The early sun sheds his temperate beams upon you, and from the dewy grass you inhale an atmosphere cool and grateful to your lungs.
Cut them of correct length to reach from the mortises in the tops of the deck beams to the mortises cut in the tops of the bow and stern pieces.
These strips form the ceiling of the room, and generally have beams or mouldings painted across their bottom edges, but it will simplify matters to leave them plain, as shown in the illustration.
As a means of preventing the gunwales from spreading, it is best to dovetail the ends of the deck beamsinto them (see Fig.
The Ridge Pieces= are strips running from the deck beams to the bow and stern pieces (see Figs.
Then, having prepared the ends, place the beams in the positions they will occupy in the framework, and mark upon the top of the gunwales the shape of the tongues.
The space between the deck beams is left for =The Cockpit=, the frame for which we are now ready to prepare.
The youngest leaves must fall, When summer beams have ceased to play; And may not sorrow spread her pall, When joy, and hope, and love decay?
Mark, now, how richly its beams are thrown from the windows of yonder Gothic house beyond the turnpike, and on the new dwelling a little this side.
This was due to the reflecting power of the walls of ice, which threw the beams of our beacon right back at us.
I could observe these strange walls quite closely: our sounding lines indicated that they dropped perpendicularly for more than 300 meters, and our electric beams made the bright limestone positively sparkle.
This effect is difficult to understand for anyone who has never seen light beams so sharply defined on shore.
The modern airship pilot had to know his radio beams and the rules of Civil Aeronautics Authority, be able to ride the beam into the airport.
In the end the airships were all doing instrument flying, riding the radio beams like the passenger airplanes, got their landing and take-off instructions from the radio control towers at the airports.
The poet's dream 's a dream of dreams, Of phantoms seen and passed away, Like dancing moats in sunny beams Which shine but while they cross the ray.
But so it was that I did linger, and got wandering about down in the valley till the moon rose clear and mild, and weaving her silver beams with the dark blue of the sky, it became all one tissue of gentle light.
He directed his course by the river Hydaspes, that, like a golden lizard, drew along its mazy track, in the beams of the rising day.
Iërnë pressed her hand firm upon her forehead, and gazed upon Menenius while he spoke, with eyes whose bright but unsteadybeams seemed borrowed from the shifting meteors of the night.
At particular times, the sun, finding a way for its beams across the woody screen that hides it from above, shines upon the foaming mist that always rises from the water, and arches it with a sunbow.
The dark monarch of the barbarians gazed on the work he had wrought, and the joy that he had given; and a triumphant splendour, more glorious than the beams of battle, radiated from his brow.
But now that brighter beams had come With Summer's brighter ray, He called his gallant knights around To spend a festal day.
The level beams of the declining sun cast gigantic shadows over the ground.
Can you twist a rope of beams of the sun, Or have you power to seize, And round your hand, like threads of silk, Wind up the wandering breeze?
And in thy sweet angelic face Triumphant beams each modest grace; And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A form sae bright as thine, Annie.
The beams of the main-deck are of American or German oak, those of the lower deck and half-deck of pitch-pine and Norwegian fir.
In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson.
Under each beam in both decks were placed diagonal stays of fir (6 x 10 inches), almost at right angles to the ship's sides, and securely fastened to the sides and to the beams by wooden knees.
The beams are fastened to the ship's sides by knees of Norwegian spruce, of which about 450 were used.
In the boiler and engine room the beams of the lower deck had to be raised about 3 feet to give sufficient height for the engines.
Rachel hung up the lantern, and sat down on a truss of hay, idly watching the rays of light striking up into the cross-beams of the roof, and on the shining flanks of the horses.
Mrs. Halsey's living room possessed a Tudor mantelpiece in moulded brick, into which a small modern kitchener had been barbarously fitted; and three finebeams with a little incised ornament ran across the ceiling.
When the spots are abundant and active the corona rises strong above the spotted zones, forming immense beams or streamers, which on one occasion, at least, had an observed length of ten million miles.
And soon there stood before my wondering eye a throne formed of ebony, covered with purple and gold, and surmounted by a beautiful, glittering crown, which shone like the beams of the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
