Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.
But herein perishes a melancholy example; being regarded by the three other Buffers with a stony stare, and attracting no further attention from any mortal.
In the bogie stock the coupler-buffers are fitted to the bogie, and not to the car frame, on account of the severe curves.
I designed some cast-steel coupler-buffers of this type lately for the Royal Engineers’ 30 in.
But when Nature came to the buffers of the spinal column (intervertebral disks) and the washers of the joints (semilunar fibrocartilages of the knee, etc.
In order to minimize as much as possible the blow due to the car striking the buffers at the end of the track, the car had been made as light as possible.
At the front end of the frame there are two cylindrical airbuffers to receive the buffing pistons and thus stop the car after the aerodrome has been released.
For buffers you may take two brass, flat-headed screws, and attach them to the beam half an inch from either end, allowing half an inch projection.
The buffers for this model must be properly made, with springs to take the pressure in case you should run into anything.
The spring should be made of thick steel wire; the buffers can then be screwed in as just mentioned.
The spring should be made of thick steel wire; the buffers can then be screwed on as just mentioned.
The buffers for this model must be made properly with springs to take the pressure, should you let it run into anything.
They had, then, nothing to do but raise the metallic buffers fixed in the base, and replace them by the guns, which fitted closely in their places.
These bolts were pushed outside, and the buffers covered with India-rubber stopped up the holes which let them through.
In nearly all such troubles Regnier and Samson had to act as buffers between the two contending parties; but, as Augustine Brohan explained once, the two were utterly different in their mode of casting oil upon the troubled waters.
A few seconds afterwards it moved slowly under the magnificent arch of Clatterby station, and itsbuffers met those of the train it was destined to draw as if with a gentle touch of friendly greeting.
Looking at some of these unfortunates, with crushed-in planks, twistedbuffers and general dismemberment, it seemed a wonder that they had been able to perform their last journey, or crawl to the hospital.
In despair the driver reversed his engine; fire flew from the wheels, and the engine was brought to a stand, but not until the buffers were within three feet of the nurse's shoulder.
The moment the buffers of the Lightning touched those of the other engine's tender he applied the brakes and brought both engines to a stand.
The train was composed of an engine, tender and forty carriages, the total length over buffers being 1464 ft.
The buffers are pieces of round rod, to which cardboard discs are gummed.
The glass travelling from side to side is rubbed by the buffers in a lateral direction, and has also a longitudinal motion, so that every portion of it is rubbed equally.
Several strong pieces of wood d, d within the case keep the buffers and their attached arms in the proper direction, and also afford rigidity to the torpedo case.
Each cell is provided with two soft rubber bufferswhich are V shaped, and are placed over the ridges in the bottom of the jars, thereby minimizing the effect of shocks on the plates and separators which rest on the buffers.
In types KXD, LXRE, and XE be sure to first replace the two soft rubber buffers in the bottom of the jar, one over each ridge.
The last bars chiming in when the buffers joined the chorus with a "jolt, jolt, jolt.
To prevent noise, buffers are applied as in the double cylinder machine.
This press is made in the same substantial manner as the double cylinder press described above, with buffers similarly arranged to prevent noise.
They heard the rapid rumble of wheels, and a thud as the carrier reached the buffers at the end of its run.
Here was the incipient idea of couplers and buffers improvised by practical men, and for a third of a century it remained almost unimproved upon, except by the introduction of a spring upon which coupler and buffer played.
All they had to do, therefore, was to take up the metallic buffers fixed in the base, and to put these cannons in their place, where they fitted exactly.
These buffers were still in existence; they had only to be fitted on and the movable disc put in its place.
The disc was soon fixed on its steel buffers like a table on its legs.
These bolts were pushed outside, and buffers covered with india-rubber stopped up the holes which let them through.
They had, then, nothing to do but to raise the metallic buffers fixed in the base, and replace them by the guns, which fitted closely in their places.
There were few old-time trainmen, indeed, who could show a complete set of full length digits, the buffers of the old-fashioned couplings being responsible for the lost and shortened members.
And a crushed hand or arm meant subsequent amputation, for the force of the collision between the buffers crushed the bones beyond repair.
And he must raise the link, insert it, and remove his hand in a fraction of a second if the car was moving at a fair rate of speed, otherwise his fingers or hand would be caught between the buffers and crushed.
Come All You Buffers Gay" In the Roxburghe Collection (ii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
