Then Pedders shaves off his whiskers, puts on his Sunday suit, braces his shoulders back, walks down to the bank, and chucks this bunch of securities at 'em triumphant.
Next he reaches for the sugar bowl and chucks that.
All but Bobby chucks away their cigarettes and beats it back to the ballroom.
And I chucks the sign into a waste basket and hangs my cap on a hook.
And as there ain't anybody in sight to register my fond farewells with, I gathers up my suitcase and laundry bag, chucks the latchkey on the stand in the front hall, and beats it.
As soon as I'm dressed I slips downstairs, takes that Turkish pistol, and chucks it into the middle of the pond.
The minute I appears, though, they chucks their cigars and jumps up, heels together, right hand to the hat-brim.
He started the three little Chucks ahead of him, and he nipped their heels to make them run faster.
In a flash the three little Chucks and Polly Chuck had disappeared inside the house, while Johnny Chuck looked up angrily.
Dear me, dear me, Johnny Chuck certainly did have his hands full, teaching those three little Chucks to mind!
Sammy looked down at the three little Chucks sitting on the doorstep, trying to sit up the way Johnny Chuck sat, and they looked so funny that Sammy forgot himself and laughed right out loud.
Johnny Chuck was the teacher and his three baby Chucks were the pupils.
One morning, when Johnny Chuck had led the three little Chucks farther from home than usual, Farmer Brown's boy took it into his head to visit the old orchard.
It was funny, very funny indeed to see the three little Chucks scamper for the old stone wall and crawl out of sight.
Then he thought of all the fun he had had watching those three little Chucks learn their lessons, and suddenly the thought of anything happening to them made Sammy Jay feel uncomfortable.
He told them about Farmer Brown's boy and about Bowser the Hound and a great many other things that little Chucksshould learn about.
He was laughing at the memory of how funny those three little baby Chuckshad looked sitting up on Johnny Chuck's doorstep and trying to do whatever Johnny Chuck did.
The very first lesson that the three little Chucks had to learn was obedience.
I wonder now if that jay warned those chucks purposely," said he, as he scratched his head thoughtfully.
The three little Chucks shivered when they smelled of Reddy's track, and the hair along their backs stood up in a way that was very funny to see.
To be sure, there were plenty of chucks that never went to all that trouble.
There would be time enough for that after the snow was gone and the chucks came crawling out of their underground houses to enjoy the warm sunshine.
He only hoped that the old chucks had heard the noise and had run away in time.
And soon he saw all five of the little chucksscramble through the doorway.
And just as soon as they hear it, all the other chucks run away.
Both shaping machines and small planing machines, however, are provided with special chucks and work-holding appliances that are not used in lathe work, and these will be treated of presently.
Chucks are devices for holding work to the live spindle, and may be divided into classes as follows: 1st.
The term scroll chuck is applied to universal chucks in which the jaws are operated throughout their full range by means of a scroll thread such as was shown in Fig.
The inner spindle B has a bearing in A at the back end to steady it, and a bearing at end e, and is provided with the hand wheel H, by which it may be rotated to attach the chucks which screw into its mouth at e.
This chucks the bar and leaves the proper length projecting from the chuck.
C, C will be parallel with the axis A A of the holes in the chucks or jaws.
The live spindle is hollow, so that if the work is to be made from a piece of rod and held in any of the forms of chucks to be hereafter described, it may be passed through the spindle, which saves cutting the rod into short lengths.
On large planing machines chucks are rarely used, on account of the work being too large to be held in a chuck.
When do the young wood-chucks first come out of the burrow?
Mr Chucks slapped his fist against the funnel, so as to make it ring again.
Well," said he, "that Mr Chucks appeared to be a very good boatswain in his way, if he could only have kept his rattan a little quiet.
Chapter XIV The first lieutenant has more patients--Mr Chucks the Boatswain, lets me into the secret of his gentility.
It was my afternoon watch, and perceiving Mr Chucks on the forecastle, I went forward to him, and asked him what he thought of it.
Mr Chucks has pride, and that's always commendable, even in a boatswain.
There was a general laugh when Mr Chucks pulled on the captain's jacket, and sank down in the stern-sheets of the cutter, with great complacency of countenance.
The day after we parted company with the fleet, Mr Chucks finished his story.
I had therefore no time to urge Mr Chucks to change his resolution, and not wishing to force a dying man, I shook his hand and left him.
The best wood for chucks is hard maple, and it should be selected for its even grain and absence of checks and cracks.
The larger of those illustrated measure about 9½ inches in diameter, and they are made of cast iron, while the smaller chucks shown in this view are of machine steel.
Chucks B and E are turned from the solid, care being taken to have the grain of the wood lengthwise.
Some of the larger wooden chucks used measure approximately 5 feet in diameter.
Various Forms of Spinning Chucks made from Hard Maple] A number of bronze sectional split chucks are shown in Fig.
All of these chucks were made for hard service, and they have been used in spinning thousands of shells.
General Remarks on Metal Spinning Chucks For common plain shapes, a patternmaker’s faceplate, with a tapered center screw, is sufficient for holding the wood chuck.
Another group of sectional chucks is shown in Fig.
Sectional Chucks made from Wood] A lignum vitæ chuck is shown at A in Fig.
The centering pins at the outer end of chucks D and E and the binding caps may also be seen.
Cottonseed oil is very good for this purpose, but care should be taken not to soak the chuckstoo long.
An Example of “Air Spinning” and theChucks used] Various Types of Metal-spinning Chucks and their Construction A miscellaneous collection of spinning chucks is shown in Fig.
He's yust dat mad he chucks stones into de water an' savages de reeds for anoder five minutes on end.
In this way five chucks were trapped in the south field during the week.
It is remarkable how many wood-chucks will not only get a living, but wax fat on an old farm where the farmer himself has difficulty in making year's ends meet.
Oh, Doad would let the wood-chucks eat up everything we plant!
But if they had to plough and work and plant and sow and hoe in the hot sun all day, to raise a crop, they'd sing a different tune when the plaguey wood-chucks came around and ate it up!
Addison estimated that at one time there were seventy wood-chucks on the Old Squire's homestead, all prosperous and laying by something, metaphorically speaking, for a rainy day.
I remember that Theodora had something to say several times about our cruelty to the poor creatures; but we justified it on account of the damage which the wood-chucks were alleged to do to the grain, grass and beans.
A dollar and twenty cents would probably have made good the entire loss; and I suspect that one-half of the damage from trampling on the clover was done by us boys, in pursuit of the chucks, rather than by the chucks themselves.
It's one of those wood-chucks that Ad has shot in the face and eyes, as they peep out of their holes when he 'whistles' to them!
For some years whenever the wood-chucks ate anything that grew on the land, particularly if it were anything which I had sown or planted, I attacked them with guns, traps and dogs and killed them when I could.
There's one of the wood-chucks that you pretend to shoot so cutely.
Twenty or thirty wood-chucks now live on the premises with me, unmolested, for the most part.
Two duplicate sets of tools are clamped to each side of the turret and these operate simultaneously on the two pieces held in the chucks or on faceplates.
As far as possible, chucks should be used for holding cylindrical parts, owing to their convenience.
Chucks which have either an independent or universal movement for the jaws are known as a "combination" type and usually have three jaws.
Chucks which are built into the table (as illustrated in Fig.
There are three classes of chucks ordinarily used on the lathe, known as the independent, universal and combination types.
Sometimes chucks are used having special jaws for holding castings of irregular shape, or special work-holding fixtures which are bolted to the faceplate.
Yes, that's him, and I'll give him Dicksee if he chucks stones at my Polly's hens.
If I give her anything, she chucksit at me, because it aren't good enough.
Then I jumps off my white mule, takes the swab by the heels, an' chucks him over the warehouse into a cactus bush.
You comes and fetches me to help, and I has to chuck my cap away; then you chucks my best knife down after it; and now you chucks that there in my teeth.
The colt ain't any more'n felt the curb when he bolts into the fence 'n' chucks Snowball off.
All of a sudden the bird makes a stagger, goes to his knees 'n' chucks the boy over his head.
Chucks up the good post I git 'im in Kilmore, without with your leave or by your leave.
The all-important point in the use of waxchucks is to get a perfect center.
All I have got to say is that they had more confidence in the truth of their chucks than I have in mine.
Injins,' says I, and chucks a lot of wet sand and gravel over the fire, which was fortunately a small one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
