Then he laid the legs in the furnace, just as he had seen our Lord lay them, and threw on a great heap of coal, and made his mates work the bellows bravely; but it went as one might suppose it would go.
Then the boy told him again the same thing about his snoring and the man bade him go to sleep, and he began to snore, and the man to blow his bellows until the snoring stopped.
Defn: An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
One brawny smith the puffingbellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air.
It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot.
Defn: A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying.
Follansbee and Bellows bolted down to the sutler's with the surprising news, wondering if Fuller could have been ass enough to advance the money.
No, plainly, Fuller was not the angel that had come to the rescue of Winn, nor could Follansbee or Bellows or the rest of the fellows find out who had.
A pair of British forge bellows were now produced, and the assembly were requested to don their paper armour, and to stand round the anvil.
The small draft of air created by a pair of primitive native bellows proving of none avail, the smiths declared aloud that the phenomenon arose from some holy charm.
Heaved by the breath the inspiring bellows blow: The inspiring bellowslie and pant below.
There had been roars and whistles and bellows in the high, still air, coming, coming!
They seized and occupied in force Bellows Falls and the White River, Wells River and St. Johnsbury Junctions of the Vermont railroads.
It is also shown in the excitement or increase of heat by motion, as by bellows and draughts: for which see Inst.
Motion increases heat,[96] as is shown in the bellows and the blowpipe; for the harder metals are not dissolved or melted by steady quiet fire, without the aid of the blowpipe.
Wolstan, in his life of St. Swithin, the Benedictine monk, gives an account of the exhausting work required to keep the bellows in action.
They were hung by means of a strap passed over the shoulders; one hand pressed the keys in front of the pipes (which were arranged perpendicularly), and the other hand operated the small bellows behind the pipes.
The right hand plays the melody on the keyboard, while the left works the bellows and manipulates the two or three bass harmony keys, which sound the simple chords of the tonic and dominant.
The accordion consists of a bellows of many folds, to which is attached a keyboard with from 5 to 50 keys.
The contest was postponed until the following day, but before the judges arrived on the ground, the bellows for creating the blast in the “Novelty” gave way, and it was found incapable of going through its performance.
The steam-cocks and the force-pump, as also the bellows used for the purpose of quickening combustion in the furnace, were worked off the same crank-axle.
The modern Lowland bag-pipe differs from the Highland bag-pipe mainly in that it is blown by bellows instead of by the mouth.
The opinion advanced that the bellows were first added to the bag-pipe in Ireland seems untenable and is quite unsupported by facts; the bellows were in all probability added to the union-pipes in imitation of the musette.
The second class of instruments, inflated by means of a small bellows worked by the arm, has as prototype the musette (see fig.
The union pipes of the 18th century, or modern Irish bag-pipe, blown by bellows (see fig.
In the absence of power, obtain a small circular double-blast bellows and hearth, costing with blowpipe about £5.
The bottom bellows C should have the top handle extended by a piece of stout bent iron N to act as a pedal, and should be screwed to the base.
Between the top of the upper bellows D and the top of the packing case at V, a stout sofa spring E is fixed to keep the top bellows shut down tight till air is pumped in from the bellows below.
First, get two ordinary large house bellows about 1 ft.
For heavier work, a foot-bellows and gas blowpipe, or else a blowlamp, are essential.
Next, push the nozzle of the bellows through the hole S^{1}, and screw the bellows down tightly to the shelf B.
A foot-bellows is generally used for supplying the air, the bellows being connected with the air jet J by means of an indiarubber tube.
The bellows are fixed one above the other, interconnected by a fixed lead pipe, one pair of bellows worked by the foot pumping air into the pair above it, from which the air is taken to a bunsen blast burner by flexible tube.
A small fan is far preferable to a bellows of any description, the flame being steady and constant, and the operator being able to devote his entire attention to the job.
With this lamp, of course, the bellows is not used, and only an iron hearth with asbestos cubes is wanted; but gas should be used if available.
What was bruited erewhile Now bellows through Mayence.
And the breathings of him he tempers and times no more than a bull in act to toss, And hideously he bellows invoking the Keres, daughters of Tartaros.
Joe Clausin; and even Gusty Bellows and Little Billie nodded their heads, as if agreeing that there were things less desirable than camping on the bank.
It was a forge of some sort, with a bellows attached, and a wind screen, but no shelter over the top; which fact would seem to indicate that it must be in the nature of a field smithy, used for certain purposes to heat or melt metal.
Soon the others followed suit, even if Joe and Little Billie--and yes, Gusty Bellows also looked timidly around.
It has bellows which are simply one form of an air pump.
The motor pumps air until the bellows is full, and if the organist delays playing, the strip of brass n (Fig.
The bellows on the other hand needs to be large and move slowly in order to be efficient.
We possessed one of those bellows used in blowing sulphur upon vines attacked by the grape-mildew.
A light film of flour was almost instantaneously spread over the table by means of a sulphur bellows such as is used in vineyards.
After a short wait of five or six seconds I feel the accordion drawn by its free end, and the bellows is immediately pushed in several times successively; and at the same time the music is heard.
Then the command rings out; the whole chain lifts up from the table, and at the same instant the bellows covers its entire surface with a light dusting of flour.
The curtain comes forward, and the bellows of the accordion is methodically moved back and forth, its keys are touched, and several different notes are heard.
This instrument, says the old chronicler, had brass pipes, blown with bellows bags; it was struck with the hands and feet.
Prætorius says that the organ which Vitellianus set in church 300 years before Pepin, must have been the small instrument of fifteen pipes, for which the wind was collected in twelve bellows bags.
This instrument had twenty-two keys, fourteen diatonics and eight chromatics, extending from B natural up to A; and twenty bellows blown by ten men.
This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration,' said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall.
To have them so near was almost too great a joy; she was like a slave under their feet; they regarded her less than the bellows in her hands.
He composed the "Star" at different printing houses with types of different printers and struck them off by a small bellows press of his own.
As we ascended, the wind that had risen with the sun, fought us every inch of the way, and by the time I had won to level ground, I was speechless, and blowing like the bellows of a forge.
More and angrier bellows followed; I went stealthily out into the yard, and took stock of the windows above the stable.
But the brass knobs and bars in front look cheery and sparkling, and then the indispensable bellows are a delightful invention for fidgety fingers like those of Ralph and Molly.
How many new "nozzles" grandmother had to pay for her poorbellows that winter I should really be afraid to say!
Doubtless the remedy was effectual so far as extinguishing the fire was concerned, but as for the after result on the constitution of the poor bellows I cannot report favourably, as they were never again fit to use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bellows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blower; blowgun; blowpipe; gill; lights; lung
