There are braziers and some vessels of bulbous form, mostly of bronze, and now and then Turkish collapsible lanterns of brass with pierced decorations are met with.
In Fig 51 is shown a brass lantern (open and closed) which is now the property of the Sunderland Public Libraries and Art Gallery Committee, a very interesting specimen of an eighteenth-century collapsible lantern of brass and horn.
Nevertheless, the collapsible boats are a most useful concession, and they would be still more so if the load was more suitably subdivided; as it is, the weight of the whole waggon ties us too much to the made roads.
More important, however, than this collapsible boat question is the matter of the pioneer detachments to be assigned to the Cavalry Divisions which require further equipment.
As each bed is a collapsible affair, kept together by movable bolts and stays, it is quite an easy matter to abstract a few, leaving sufficient to allow the practical jokers to carry out their scheme.
Tinned sardines, ration beef, Irish stew, slippery jellies, and musty macaroni were served on the one plate, liquid refreshments were gladly drunk out of bowls and collapsible mugs.
They keep a collapsibleboat stowed in a hatchway abaft the conning-tower.
Then, again embracing his father, he climbed down the difficult slope of the cliff to the collapsible boat, stepped into it, and pulled out to the submarine.
Between two of the rocks a small boat was drawn up on the shingle--a curious, collapsible boat made of water-tight canvas stretched on a steel frame.
Remarkable gallantry was displayed by many, and one young officer who was a fine swimmer is mentioned as swimming about and helping the struggling men to places on the rafts and collapsible boats.
It was a collapsible boat, and lived up to its name admirably and collapsed frequently.
Although some of the collapsible boats were loaded almost to sinking point, and although the heavy sea had made many of the men extremely seasick, they waited for the expected help to come with the utmost sang-froid.
Sometimes it is entirely plain, and when it is decoratively turned it varies from the early survival of the Gothic trestle to the rare cross stretcher of the late collapsible table.
Mr. Walter Langley uses a collapsible boat, which can be packed on a horse's back, and with this he has tried many lakes known to the Indians; his 22lb.
They are collapsible and made in two sections the lens support holding them firmly together when in use.
The standard is made of metal and is very rigid, a rising and falling front is supplied and the finder is of the new Premo collapsible type.
The lens board is removable and the finder is the new Premo collapsible brilliant.
This consisted of only one pole of hollow steel, and constructed in collapsible sections that made transportation an easy matter.
In order to keep up with the cavalry, light collapsible boats were substituted for the heavy pontoons of the ordinary field company.
Through the mirk loomed up the outlines of a canvas collapsible boat crowded with men.
Barely had the U-boat's collapsible rowed a hundred yards from her parent when the Capella raced up, and promptly put another hostile submarine to her credit.
Already her crew had brought the collapsible canvas boat from below, "man-handling" it through the fore hatch.
We prefer to use the collapsible tubes, as from them any amount of colour may be placed upon the palette ready for use, without the trouble of grinding from the cake or washing up from the moist pan.
Very compact sketching boxes with assorted colours in cakes, in porcelain pans, or in collapsible tubes, are provided; and the amateur can hardly do better than select one of these with any number of colours from two to twenty-four.
And, very regrettably, the collapsible boat in which the raiders had made their midnight visit was swamped when the two others--there had been four of them!
Almost exhausted, they got out the collapsible boat, blew it up, and paddled to shore.
In back of the pilot's seat was a collapsible rubber boat, that he could blow up with two tanks of gas that he carried with him.
I had never seen the boy before, but I thought of the collapsible box; and leaving a flabbergasted footman at the door, my crutch and I went after the small legs that twinkled around the corner.
If the child messenger from the Sisterhood, and the child-thief in the collapsible box were one, the dumbness was an obstacle.
The collapsible box was a strange thing to find under a bed, but I couldn't prove that Little Red Riding Hood had been in it.
It also carried a collapsible mast on which a sail could be spread for surface navigation.
It was answered from the darkness by another, shrill as the cry of a sea-gull; and in five minutes more, the four men and the collapsible boat were aboard their submarine.
Acting under further orders a collapsible boat was put over the side of the submarine.
So swift was the sinking of the enemy, however, that there was no time for them to launch and man the collapsible lifeboat that they undoubtedly carried.
The two other collapsible boats came to the Carpathia carrying full loads of passengers: in one, the forward starboard boat and one of the last to leave, was Mr. Ismay.
On the way to the Carpathia he encountered one of the collapsible boats, and took aboard all those in her, as she seemed to be sinking.
Life-rafts are said to be much inferior to lifeboats in a rough sea, and collapsible boats made of canvas and thin wood soon decay under exposure to weather and are danger-traps at a critical moment.
Of these some got on the overturned collapsible boat after the Titanic sank, and a few were picked up by the lifeboats, but these were not many in all.
Finally they saw an upturned collapsible boat and climbed on it in company with twenty other men, among them Bride the Marconi operator.
They examined the two fly rods he had brought with him and a collapsiblelanding net with great care, tapping the handles and balancing the rods.
And as the man came in sight he suddenly lifted from a step his landing net, the same collapsible one Devlin had examined with such care.
The man who sat on a collapsible campstool before his tent, smoking, was as little like the Englishman who got off the train at Myitkyina ten days before as possible.
John Willie Garden and Percy Briggs, with Eesaac Oliver Gruffydd ready to bear a hand if called upon to do so, but otherwise a little fearful of intruding, were victualling the blue-and-white collapsible boat for a cruise.
There are the boys trying to launch the collapsible boat.
The collapsible boat was unfolded in record time and dropped over the side on the ice.
In my opinion one cannot do better than carry a medium-sized Berthon collapsible in addition to one's big dinghy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collapsible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
