A bit of bobbin here--a hat feather there," I continued, growing malicious.
It was in this position that Betsy Bobbin spied Polychrome as she came along the stony path, followed by Hank, the Princess and Shaggy.
But I wonder where Betsy Bobbin and Hank can be, and if any harm has befallen them.
Pang and the executioners also went away, in another direction, but when they came back Betsy Bobbin was not with them, nor was Hank.
As for Betsy Bobbin and her mule, he believed Kaliko had placed them in the Slimy Cave, while Ann and her officers he thought safely imprisoned in the pit.
It also tells of Betsy Bobbin and how, after many adventures, she finally reached the marvelous Land of Oz.
Betsy Bobbin was running across the deck and the shock sent her flying through the air until she fell with a splash into the dark blue water.
After them came Betsy Bobbin and Hank, Polychrome and Shaggy, and last of all the Rose Princess with Files.
Betsy Bobbin had tired her feet by walking, so she was now riding upon the back of the stout little mule, facing backward and talking to Shaggy and Polychrome, who were just behind.
While he was thus defying the Nome King and his high officials, Betsy Bobbin rode calmly into the royal cavern, seated upon the back of Hank the mule.
Fasten one end of the thread from the bobbin to the projecting head wire, and carefully wind the entire bird.
The bobbin is placed on one pole of the magnet, so that the wire is as it were steeped in the magnetic space round the pole.
The coil of wire on the bobbin is of course connected by its two ends into the circuit of a telegraph line.
But what Mrs. Bobbinsaid was singing a baby to sleep when you come to compare it with what was said later and what was done later.
But in come Mrs. Bobbin with three more, and put the Culturers jest one ahead.
Why, when it comes to takin' the broom and chasin' her husband around the house Mrs. Bobbin wouldn't even tackle the job at all.
Strubber pretended to look at Bobbin careful, and then he laughed out loud.
No sooner had that challenge got around than Mrs. Bobbin rushed into the office with an answer to it and her picture.
For a minute folks jest looked at one another, and then Mrs. Strubber and Mrs. Bobbin jumped to their feet and began talking at once.
Folks tells me," says he, "that you really eat the stuff Mrs. Bobbin cooks.
All frames, bobbin tubes, bobbin ends, and the like, must be most carefully slit, otherwise they will overheat.
The weft thread is wound upon a bobbinmade out of a slender piece of rattan which has two slits at each end, through which the weft thread passes.
The bobbin is driven through by the hand from side to side and between the upper and the lower warp threads.
During the rotation of the hook each loop was passed around a diskbobbin provided with the second thread and serving the part of the shuttle in other machines.
The locking of the needle thread with the bobbin thread was accomplished, not by driving a shuttle through the loop of the needle thread, but by passing that loop under the bobbin.
To avoid litigation which the reciprocating bobbin might have caused, Wilson contrived his third outstanding invention--the stationary bobbin.
The shuttle and its bobbin for giving off the thread in Howe's machine are very defective .
The rotary hook extended or opened more widely the loop of the needle thread, while a reciprocating bobbin carried its thread through the extended loop.
If the bobbin is not properly threaded, it will not have the proper tension, and the machine cannot sew as it should.
The machine moves the shuttle backward and forward, and as this happens, the needle is timed to drop down, leaving a loop of thread in such a position that the bobbin passes thru it.
The bobbin thread will break if it is not properly threaded thru the bobbin case.
There are two styles of bobbins used on lock-stitch sewing machines--the shuttle bobbin (Fig.
This is put into the bobbin with the twist in the direction indicated in the book of directions for the machine being used, and the thread is drawn thru the slits and holes in the bobbin which govern the tension of the lower thread (see Fig.
It will also break if thebobbin tension is too tight (No.
In most of the experiments the measurements were made by suddenly withdrawing the bobbin from its place between the pole pieces.
It is shown in the paper that the greatest possible force which the isthmus method can apply at a point in the axis of the bobbin is F = 11.
The sample to be inserted between the magnet poles was prepared in the form of a bobbin resembling an ordinary cotton reel, with a short narrow neck (constituting the "isthmus") and conical ends.
The value of the residual induction which persisted when the bobbin was drawn out was added to that of the induction measured, and thus the total induction in the iron was determined.
He nevertheless went on inventing, and next produced a machine for weaving flowered silks, with a contrivance for giving a dressing to the thread, so as to render that of each bobbin or skein of an equal thickness.
A bobbin is a sort of little wooden spool with a handle to it; there are several varieties of them but we have confined ourselves to a representation of the kind considered best for beginners.
When the bobbin is fixed in its place, you take the thread in the left hand and wind it round it, turning the wheel with the right hand from right to left in the direction indicated by the arrow.
Pillow lace derives its name from the cushion or pillow on which all bobbin lace is made, which distinguishes it from point lace, so-called because it consists of «points» or stitches made with a needle and thread.
To begin with the simplest operation, making a plait, hang 2 pairs of bobbins to a pin, take 2 bobbins in each hand and lay the rightbobbin of each pair over its left fellow and draw up the threads slightly.
After each movement of the machine, the bobbin that makes the woof must be passed between the crossed threads; the edges are made like those of any other kind of lace.
After cutting off the thread, you make a loop close to the top of the bobbin to prevent it from unwinding too easily.
They thought, and so did I, that the men were putting in act the plot of which Billy Bobbin had told us, though it seemed to me strange that they should have gone without the ringleaders, who were still on board the vessel.
He was in a mighty taking, I warrant you, and swore that he would hang the mutineers at the yard-arm, at the same time handing me a sixpence to give to Billy Bobbin for his fidelity.
Some lay in a kind of sullen stupor about the deck; others cast the dice and wrangled with oaths and much foul talk; and when they tired even of this, they took a cruel delight in tormenting poor Billy Bobbin in many ingenious ways.
The captain looked sternly on William Bobbin for the space of a minute or two, but I do not remember that he said anything more to him at that time.
It was on the day after this that Billy Bobbin came to me with a tale that disturbed me mightily.
If the bobbin is well taken up each sing lasts for about five minutes, and the raiser of the tune prides himself on the number of "turnings" or slight variations he can give it.
Of these characters only Robin and Bobbin (the names are sometimes run together) and Richard, reappear in other nursery pieces.
The principal town engaged in the eighteenth century was Newport Pagnel, which was cited as being most noted for making Bobbin lace.
The terms "Bobbin lace" and "Bone lace" are derived from these and are synonymous with "Pillow lace.
Nearly everybobbin was ended with a bunch of coloured beads strung on wire, and a collection of these bobbins, with their "gingles," often yields up a pretty and quaint necklace.
These are the connections between the various parts of a lace design, both in Needle-point and Bobbin lace.
On the left was the Spyker Schloss, with the spire of Bobbin church behind it.
The Bobbin parsonage is a delightful little house of the kind that I dream of for my declining years, with latticed windows and a vine.
Posterity in the shape of the parishioners of Bobbin have been direct gainers by Wrangel's sins.
This wheel has its rim covered with rough leather so that it can turn the wheel or disc FW and so cause the bobbin B to revolve.
When the wheel is driving at its extreme position on the outer rim the bobbin is running at its slowest, because the driving wheel has a longer distance to traverse in order to effect one bobbin revolution.
There is next the gradual rising of the guide on the spiral rod caused by the turning of the bobbin B, the high part of the bobbin B having friction with the ribbed wheel W causing it to rise gradually on the spiral.
It is a very serious matter indeed to the hosiery manufacturer if even slight obstacles occur on the bobbin for these at once injure the fabric quality.
The driving wheel DW with its rough leather rim works on the disc FW and causes it to rotate, but the speed of rotation must vary according as the upper or the lower part of the bobbin is being filled.
In front of the bobbin is a finger operated by the worker which has the effect of raising the friction disc FW away from the driving wheel DW, thus bringing the bobbin to a standstill.
The thread T passes from its bobbin through the eye of the thread-carrier TC and the needle is pushed into its position in the cam-box by the spring marked S shown at the extremity of the needle beds.
The bobbin is marked B, and is of the type invariably employed in the underwear trade, this being placed on a spindle where it is kept in position by a groove which fits the shape of the metal part on which it rests.
When the yarn is passing on to the bare part of the bobbin as it does at the upper sweep of the traverse, one revolution coils a very much smaller length of thread than it does at its lowest position when the bobbin is full.
In this factory he also obtained for me a position as bobbin boy, and my first work was done there at one dollar and twenty cents per week.
I had to run a small steam-engine and to fire the boiler in the cellar of the bobbin factory.
What do you care, anyhow," Betsy Bobbinasked the Tin Woodman, "so long as Nimmie Amee is satisfied?
There, as the bobbinframe rose and fell, the thread was perfectly delivered to the reel and coiled off layer by layer upon it.
Upon the spindle revolved the flier--a fork of steel with guide eye at one leg of the fork--and through the guide eye came the twisted yarn to wind on the bobbin below.
Then you'll get ballooning, when the thread flies round above the flier, and that means too little strain on the jamb and the bobbin has got to be tempered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobbin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
