Farmers often put bitting harness on a colt the first thing they do to him, buckling up the bitting as tight as they can draw it, to make him carry his head high, and then turn him out in a field to run a half-day at a time.
There were no magnificent proclamations, no big vaunts of victory at the buckling on of armour, but the quiet strength of steadfast wills, and the stern resolve to strike when stricken, and try to last the longest.
Jack, highly delighted, jumped up, and buckling on his sword accompanied his brother officer on board the flagship.
This conversation took place while the vice-consul was putting on his uniform coat, and, with the aid of his wife, buckling his sword-belt round the wide circuit of his waist.
So saying Roger arose, donned his shirt of mail and, buckling his sword about him, strode incontinent away.
Sigurd's eyes wandered wistfully beyond the cook-fires and the storehouses to the last hut in the line, before which a dozen men were buckling on cloaks and arming themselves, in a bustle of joyful anticipation.
The next day, as they began buckling up their various outer garments preparatory to departure, he suddenly struck into the conversation with a reference to the festivities at Brattahlid.
Not a moment did they lose in buckling on their swords and rushing to the stables.
I know Michael Cardigan," observed the Weasel, quietly coming up, buckling on his pack.
Somewhat mortified by Sir William's roar of laughter, I trotted on in silence, returning my pistol to its holster, and buckling the flap.
Gay and godless," replied the Weasel, buckling the straps on his pack more tightly and shifting the weight with a grunt.
Such a man will have his tunic neatly pleated, rejecting the chance folds of the easy-fitting houppelande, the folds of which were determined by the buckling of the belt.
Soldiers were seen standing along the decks; some in full equipments, clutching the bright barrels of their muskets, while others were buckling on their white belts, or cramming their cartouche-boxes.
Very well," cried I, leaping from my bed, and hastily buckling on my accoutrements.
This is all very fine," says the Master, "but we should do better to be buckling our valise.
Illustration: (END VIEW)] The reduction of the strain on the compression rods completely eliminates all possibility of buckling or binding, while the positive locking device does away completely with all danger of bad spills from falling logs.
He finished buckling on his harness, girded his sword, and hung his shield about his neck.
Once, as he was buckling on his casque, he thought he heard Igraine stirring.
I too am a proud man in my trouble," he said, "buckling up unutterable things from the baseness of the world, jealous of my inward miseries.
Certain writers on the subject advise buckling the coupling-reins first of all.
At one moment Hythe saw the slightly buckling deck and the fore conning-tower, the upper platform, except for the fracture caused by the collision, being all in one piece.
Isn't there a chance of the 'Aphrodite' buckling her plates in a heavy sea with that dead-weight split into three separate sections?
This may be remedied by buckling a valise or shawl strap around the horn, near the center.
When bucklingup the straps be sure to leave them loose enough for the foot to work freely, Fig.
Buckling is caused by the unequal expansion of the plates which is due to the sulphate lodging on the plates, thus preventing action taking place at that point; and by excessive charging.
As the bending progresses, the workman should take care to continually move the bender away from himself, to prevent the buckling of the conduit.
It tends to cause shedding of the active material, buckling of plates, loss of capacity, increase of resistance and consequent reduction of efficiency, and increase of temperature with flow of current.
Occasional buckling may occur with too rapid charge and discharge.
Buckling is due always to over discharge on either the whole, or some portion of the plate.
Then for hours, at every plunge of the ship, the deafening boom of buckling plates continued until the watch was crazed by the sound.
Never did he object to buckling up his suitcase for any country whatever, China or the Congo, no matter how far off it was.
With his powerful hands he sent me buckling to the ground, while his companion did the same to Conseil.
To preventbuckling of the column, the chain was enclosed in a conduit (fig.
The buckling of the aluminium envelope resulted in ballonet after ballonet collapsing under the pressure of water.
The aluminium envelope, not built to withstand abnormal stress, began buckling amidships.
In compression tests on very dry specimens the entire piece splits suddenly into pieces before any buckling takes place (see Fig.
As a rule buckling of a tracheid begins at the bordered pits which form places of least resistance in the walls.
The pressure continued during the following day, beams and deck planks occasionally buckling to the strain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buckling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
