Pieces of it, placed on the blades while green, contract in drying and become solid.
Now it was the ancient privilege of the great to try the temper of their blades upon beggars and such cattle.
Many lords who came hither in pilgrim guise to improve their soul's estate, looked in at Sanjo's ere they went away, to buy new blades and armour.
Then, seeing half a score of bright blades flashing in the sun, he waved them back into their scabbards.
The thin strips thus obtained are drawn by the hand between a convex block and a knife fixed in a sloping position, and between a couple of steel blades which nearly meet.
The water spurned up by the paddleblades was the color of beer, and the smell of it was puzzlingly familiar.
He dropped a spear as he turned, and Kettle picked it up and drove the blade between his shoulder-blades as he ran.
In filling the shuttle, be careful not to wind on too much thread at once, or the blades will gape open at the ends and the thread get soiled by constant contact with the worker's hands.
The tatting shuttle consists of two oval blades of either bone, ivory, mother of pearl or tortoise-shell, pointed at both ends, and joined together in the middle.
Murari presented himself before the Master holding two blades of grass between his teeth as a mark of abject humility.
With two blades of grass between their teeth, they fell down prone on seeing Him from afar.
Neither, I hope,' said the captain, with his sleepy smile, his yellow eyes resting on the innocent grass blades before him.
The drum G is mounted on a shaft H which is centrally within the shell, and it has two oppositely-projecting rigid blades I.
In directing a jet against the blades of a turbine it is impossible to make it strike squarely against the surface.
Improved machinery is enabling man to make many bladesgrow where one grew before.
A great deal of ingenuity has been exercised to arrange this abutment so that theblades may pass and provide a steam space for a new supply of steam.
The drum has a pair of radially-movable blades H H', which may move independently of each other, but usually they are connected together, thus dispensing with the use of any springs to keep their ends in contact with the shell.
D ejects the stream of steam against the concavedblades E.
First, the arrangement of the blades with reference to the inflowing water; and, second, the discharge port, or ability of the water to free itself from the wheel casing.
The Bible says: Blessed is he who maketh two blades of grass grow where one grew before.
When steam enters either of the supply ports B, the drum is rotated, and when the blades reach the revolving gates, the latter are turned by the blades, or, they may be actuated by mechanism connected up with the driving shaft.
It is always made of blades of long, slender grasses woven together in a most wonderful manner and lined with plant fiber and feathers.
It is composed of coarse grass closely interwoven with fine blades and fibers, making a compact structure.
Disregard, amid this pageantry of la vita nuova, the outrageous satire of brown skeleton "fingers" that point stiffly up through the shining blades of grass.
But at every bite, sir, the thin blades grow smaller and smaller!
The silken blades of the maize wave in triumph over fallen trees, its golden tassels giving promise of a rich return.
Finally, there are "mulching" mowers with blades that chop green grass clippings into tiny pieces and drops them below the mower where they are unnoticeable.
Like a coarse power planer in a wood shop, the other type of machine uses sharpenedblades that slice thin chips from whatever is pushed into its maw.
Spading forks with four wide-flat blades don't work well for turning heaps, but en extremis I'd prefer one to a shovel.
Feeding large hard branches too fast can tear up chipper blades and even break the ball-bearing housings holding the spindle.
The blades of the propellor are damaged beyond use.
As the stern lifts I can see the blades of the propeller all right, but the rudder seems to be missing.
You have under you the best eyes and the keenest blades along the border for I attended to it!
God knows what thy plan may be; but I know that from now on there will be no peace for either of us until we have helped rip it with our blades from the very belly of rebellion.
Count then the hours until three thousand blades join Jaimihr and help him grease the dungeon hinges with thy fat!
The two blades locked, and bent like springs as they wrenched at them.
In young shoots all the leaf-blades are usually found folded at the terminal portions.
In this grass very often, purple streaks or bands occur across the leaf blades and the sheath and the spikelets become purple on one side as is met with in P.
In all grasses numerous threads are found running longitudinally within the stem and some of these pass into the leaves, at the nodes, and run as nerves in the blades of the leaves.
Sometimes on the blades of this grass purple bands are present and the internodes and the spikes also become purplish.
The leaf-blades in Panicum colonum and in some species of Andropogon are rounded or obtuse at the apex.
The leaf-blades in the upper portions of the branches are smaller.
In grasses the leaf-blades usually grow more in length than in any other direction and there is no limit to the length they may attain.
The blades of the lower leaves are narrow at the base and broader at about the middle but those of the upper are equally broad at the base, as well as at the middle.
As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair In leprosy; their dry blades pricked the mud Which underneath looked kneaded up with blood.
The Eagle was lifted high, blades were upheaved threateningly again.
In one hand he bore a broken leash of red bronze, and in the other two hunting spears with blades of flashing findruiney and the hafts were long, slender, and shining.
His hair was fastened behind with a clasp and an apple of red gold, and that apple lay below the blades of his ample shoulders.
Touch it not; let it stand Ragged, forlorn, still looking at the land; The dry blue chaos of mountains in the distance, The slender blades of grass it shelters are Its own dark thoughts of what is near and far.
In the open moonlight ahead little people were all agog; bright dewdrops were shivering down like rain, where flying feet alighted--shot from bent grass-blades like arrows from a drawn bow.
Outside, the garden was gathering itself together in the dusk, and the peahens were stepping daintily about the lawns, picking here and there between the blades of grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
