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Example sentences for "collet"

Lexicographically close words:
collegian; collegians; collegiate; collegiates; coller; collets; collibus; collide; collided; colliding
  1. Here too is the site of the ancient church of the Récollet Fathers, within the precincts of which lie buried the remains of Rev.

  2. The Récollet Church was also a sacred and last resting place for the illustrious dead.

  3. I have written off to your father and mine, giving them a full account of the whole affair, and saying what a brute Collet had been on the whole voyage.

  4. That is one of the nuisances, Collet never letting us go ashore together.

  5. Collet brought Williams with him, and they were a nice pair.

  6. I can't think how the owners ever appointed Collet to the command; he is not one of their own officers.

  7. There were, to be true, several white men among them, such as Tavenor Ross, John Ward and George Collet; but these counted no more than ordinary warriors and Collet was killed before the fighting was half over.

  8. I said nothing and after a few minutes he went on: "Took by Injuns when a little boy, just like Tavenor Ross and George Collet was took.

  9. Collet Dobson Collet, History of the Taxes on Knowledge, London, 1899, vol.

  10. The Récollet brother Duplessis discovered the plot, and, while the French at Quebec remained closely shut up in their fort, contrived to disconcert it.

  11. In the case of the educated middle class, as Miss Collet pointed out in 1892, the surplus of women over men is considerably above the average, and consequently the prospect of marriage is less in this than in the working class.

  12. In another narrative, we have seen how the Jesuits, supplanting the Récollet friars, their predecessors, had adopted as their own the rugged task of Christianizing New France.

  13. Meanwhile Collet had free range over the college.

  14. Three gensdarmes conducted Collet from prison to the préfeture, and till the guests were ready to see him he was thrust into an ante-room, and two gensdarmes were posted at the door.

  15. Collet was born at Belley, in the department of Aine, of worthy and pious parents.

  16. This proposition was cordially accepted, a committee was appointed, and Collet was named costumier; he was to purchase a complete theatrical wardrobe.

  17. The Cardinal at once insisted on Collet taking up his abode with him, and he even presented him to the Pope, who gave the rascal his apostolic benediction.

  18. From Rochebeaucourt Collet went to Le Mans, where he figured as a well-to-do bourgeois, devoted to charitable actions; a man of irreproachable life.

  19. Collet slipped out of the house and concealed himself next door.

  20. In the meantime accurate descriptions of Collet had been sent throughout France to the police, and this commissary had received them.

  21. Collet saw the risk he ran, and evaded it shrewdly.

  22. He accordingly strongly urged Collet to remove to a place where he was not in such danger.

  23. No sooner was Collet left than he took post-horses and departed for Strasburg.

  24. Then Collet was invested with a charge to perform some ecclesiastical commissions in Lombardy.

  25. In this instance the hairspring developed to the left from the collet similar to the illustration shown in Fig.

  26. This alteration has the same effect as that of letting out the spring at the collet or of moving the stud forward on the over coil, with the advantage of eliminating any change in the mean time.

  27. This refers to the relative positions of the collet and stud pinning points which is defined with explanatory cuts and formula in Chapter VIII.

  28. When the collet is turned to replace the spring in beat, the stud will be in its original location on the line "B.

  29. How to Find the Correct Collet Pinning Point for Any Watch.

  30. The inner black line shows the most practical form for use in instances where there is unusual space between the collet and the inner coil.

  31. The location of the heavy point, however, may be shifted by changing the point of attachment at collet as described in No.

  32. These forms may be used as a basis for truing the spring in any instance in which it has been bent or mishandled around the collet after its original truing.

  33. Presume the existence of a vertical line through the center of hairspring and collet as shown at "A B" Fig.

  34. Also by changing pinning points or breaking out one-fourth to one-half of the coil around collet and adding weight to the balances to correct the mean time the difference in the variation was almost negligible.

  35. A very simple method of locating the proper point of attachment of the spring to collet is to face the train side of the movement and hold the balance stationary with a small twig, and with the pallet fork just midway between the two bankings.

  36. Letting out the spring can be accomplished by unpinning and repinning the spring at collet with less of the coil entered in the pinhole.

  37. Experts always true springs after they have been staked to the balance and a light weight calipers tapered on one end to a smaller diameter than the collet is used for spinning the balance, making observations, and corrections.

  38. It was more than the Brutus was worth, but I disliked to appear niggardly in the matter, Donald.

  39. Oh, but she's not coming back," Daney assured him, with all the confidence of one free from the slightest doubt on the subject.

  40. In all probability, the paper which is of the highest popular interest is the account of the birds by Robert Collet and Dr.

  41. The priest himself felt obliged to receive her company, for three Récollet friars, in the gray robe of St. Francis, appeared on the deck.

  42. La Salle had the three Récollet friars with him.

  43. The diameter of the impulse collet is usually one-half that of the escape wheel.

  44. We do not think it advisable to try to use a split chuck, although we have seen workmen drive the shell A A''' out of the collet D and then turn up the pivots y z in said wire chuck.

  45. The collet is a brass bush on which the wheel is set to afford better support to the escape wheel than could be obtained by the thinned wheel if driven directly on the pinion arbor.

  46. The impulse roller is composed of a cylindrical steel collet B, the impulse pallet d (some call it the impulse stone), the safety recess b b.

  47. The seat of the balance on the collet D should be undercut so that there is only an edge to rivet down on the balance.

  48. The elephant shook off the tiger, and Lieutenant Collet having fired two balls at him, he fell; but, again recovering himself, he made a spring at the lieutenant.

  49. Illustration: Lieutenant Collet and the Tiger] An Intrepid Hunter.

  50. My Justice is a man of some sixty-odd years perhaps, but he carries a strong, large, rugged body, as yet unbent by age.

  51. I cannot possibly tell you how happy I am here in the solitude of this hill-girt Westphalian plain, where I have been quartered for a week among people and cattle.

  52. For the most part only the estate has a name--the name of the owner sinks in that of the property; hence the earth-born, tough and enduring character of the people here.

  53. On the contrary, it was frequently necessary for them to repeat several times before a barely sufficient understanding came about between them.

  54. Perhaps the fact has something to do with it that my heart can once more swing out its pendulum undisturbed, without having wise people tinkering and twisting at the clock-works.

  55. Perruque blonde Et collet noir," the Frenchman repeated, with a half-offended voice, finishing his stanza.

  56. Collet is said to have been a pupil of Hogarth, and there is a large amount of Hogarthian character in all his designs.

  57. Collet has here introduced to us a lady who, encountering a sudden and violent wind, has lost all her upper coverings, and wig, cap, and hat are caught by her footman behind.

  58. Collet drew several pictures founded upon scenes in this play, one of which is given in our cut No.

  59. Sagard, the Récollet missionary, says the company treated Hébert so badly because it wished to discourage colonization.

  60. Collet the maid, who had just come in with her mistress, bearing the Yule candle, was sent to get the charred remnant of last year's log.

  61. Collet says Mother Izan is a witch," said Eleanor, abandoning the subject of snakes.

  62. He had just set it down near the mount when Collet came to call the children to their own dinner.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.