Other cables extended along the sides, which were interwoven with limbs of trees, forming a kind of wicker balustrade.
They consisted of strong cables of the cabuya, or of twisted rawhide stretched from one bank to the other, something after the style of the suspension-bridges of our times.
Without enumerating the telegraph systems that now exist, it may suffice to say that the British Isles are connected by submarine cables with nearly every quarter of the globe, and that their number is still increasing.
In case of accident to the cables each Company maintains a repairing-ship ready to go to sea at shortest notice.
Steering to right or left is effected by the rudder, which is operated by a foot-bar through cables or levers.
From the cables is suspended a network of steel wires, which is invisible to the hostile air-craft, and in which they may become entangled and so brought down.
Such cables are now much used in carrying materials over a comparatively short space, as in quarries, excavations for canals, docks, &c.
When in the air it is made to ascend or descend by moving the elevators, which are operated by a vertical stick in front of the pilot through control cables or levers.
Because, bumping and bouncing behind its abdomen as it moved, fastened to its body with cables of coarse and discolored silk, the hunting-spider dragged a burden which was its own ferocity many times multiplied.
It was slung from between the opposite cliff-walls by cables two hundred feet long.
Its radiating cablesreached down to anchorages on stone.
The cables were brought up, but it needed a very short examination only to show Stephen that they were old and worn from end to end.
I have two good anchors, señor lieutenant, but the cables are rather old.
Four of them cut their cables and ran ashore, where they were under the protection of a large body of troops on the beach.
On this all the boats slipped their cables and made chase, though there appeared a great probability that in the darkness the pirates would effect their escape.
Round went the men with the capstan bars, but the cables were soon stretched to their utmost, and there they stood pressing with might and main, but not an inch did the frigate move.
Some spare hempen cables were got up from below, and made fast to them; when hove overboard they checked her way.
At the request of that paper I then undertook to send themcables about the siege.
Ascending again, the path strikes up the hill, through a thick forest of Sal (Vateria robusta) and other trees, spanned with cables of scandent Bauhinia stems.
In weighing, however, one of the cables broke, and the anchor remained behind.
The two largest ships were carried out of the harbour, where their mainmasts were cut away, while the cables of the smaller vessels were chopped through, so that they might drift wherever the tide might carry them.
The banks are here very precipitous, and the river deep and rapid, and the erection of piers in the stream being an impossibility, the structure is suspended from cables passing over towers of solid masonry.
The invention by which one wire can be used to convey the return current of two cables very much larger in sectional area is only one instance in point.
Along the ground at each side of the row are stretched two thinner wires or cables which hold the long tent securely in position.
Besides this there must also be the conducting cables for the conveyance of the electric current.
Similarly a certain relation between the positions of guiding wheels and those of the connections with cables may be held to furnish evidence of liability to contribute towards the maintenance of motor-tracks.
Many such tracks will be equipped with electric cables as well as guiding-rails, so that cars with electric motors will be available for running on them, and the power will be supplied from a publicly-maintained station.
Thus the Asiatic and Canadian route may be expected shortly to enter into competition with the Atlantic cables in telegraphic business to the United States; while Australia will be reached via Singapore and Java.
The cables which radiate from the central electric power-house in all directions can be very readily devoted to the furnishing of power to new mines as soon as it is found that the older ones have been proved unprofitable.
By that time night had fallen, so, with the wind blowing strong off-shore and an ebb-tide running, they cut the cables and stood out to sea.
There were many cablesthey wished to start on their way by wireless; cables to friends, to newspapers, to the government.
The President," he explained to Marshall, "cables me this morning to come back and take my coat off.
Cables Length; the only Place for King's Ships to Anchor is above this Point, before the S.
Side is a sunken Rock at a quarter of a Mile from the Island; the Passage between this Island and the Main, which is near two Cables Length wide, is very safe for small Vessels, wherein you may Anchor in 6 Fathom, a fine sandy Bottom.
Side are some sunken Rocks, about two Cables length from the Shore laying off two sandy Coves; some of these Rocks appear at Low-water.
Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables I went back to the coast, and taking off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leather jacket about half an hour before high water.
Letting go the cord, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving more than two hundred shots in my face and hands.
I then came back to my house and gave orders for a great quantity of the strongest cables and bars of iron.
Then I took up again the knotted end of the cables to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy's largest men-of-war after me.
But, while toiling through the mountain labyrinth, tidings were brought him that a party of the enemy had demolished the small portion of the bridge already made, by cutting the cables on the opposite bank.
These osiers were woven into cables of the thickness of a man's body.
Just then the Emperor Frederick was dying at San Remo, andcables were coming through via Sydney.
The Eastern Telegraph Company, by concessions, have telegraph lines across Egypt from Alexandria via Cairo to Suez, and from Port Said to Suez, connecting their cables to Europe and the East.
Egypt is also connected bycables and land-lines with the outside world.
The principal cablesare from Alexandria to Malta, Gibraltar and England; from Alexandria to Crete and Brindisi; from Suez to Aden, Bombay, China and Australia.
We both were born on that day and during a period of twenty years we exchanged telegrams, letters or cables of loving friendship.
Finally when Musgrove's ire had been aroused he expressed himself so emphatically in his cables that Williamson came to me and asked that I remain an additional ten weeks, appearing in "Zenda.
Then each lot edged in toward one another so as to reach the beach four cables apart.
April 8--President Wilson cables greetings to King Albert on his birthday.
April 2--The Government is informed by the British Government, through Ambassador Page, that no trade messages can be sent over British cables if they refer to transactions in which the enemies of Britain are interested.
Normally the wing tips are held horizontal by stiff springs introduced in the cables outside of the device.
Cables run from these to an automatic device working with power from the engine, which automatically operates the tips with the tilting of the machine.
The real motor-propelled flying machine, generally has both front and rear rudders manipulated by wire cables at the will of the operator.
These boats were of as large dimensions as the floating-light could stow, after making the necessary allowance for ranging her cables on deck.
The storm still continuing with unabated force, the cables parted or broke, and the vessel drifted on the island of Flotta.
The first cablesof the floating-light were of patent cordage, made of the very best materials, and most beautifully laid by machinery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
