The construction of rafts sufficient for conveying over their artillery and heavy baggage, would be attended with great danger as well as loss of time.
Not a moment was lost in conveying these opportune supplies into the fort.
Both my Lord and I shall acknowledge our thankfulness unto you, if you be pleased to use the best and speediest course you may, for conveying them to my Lady.
The document derives considerable interest from its conveying to us the sentiments of the Marquis of Worcester, in his reflections on the King’s conduct affecting himself and his son.
The long disuse of such methods of secretly conveying information, has reduced the cleverest of these systems of Cryptographia in public estimation.
Put genuine salesmanship into all your letters consciously; instead of conveying ideas unwittingly, without realizing what the reader is likely to think of you and the things you write.
Let us make a brief analysis now of words, tones, and acts--the three means of suggestive expression which are the natural equipment of every man for conveying his ideas to the minds of others.
On conveying this information to the citizens, all I believe were satisfied to stay at home, and remain quiet for the present.
You further assert as a fact, 'that in this, as in the Cayuse war, these priests have been detected in the very act of conveying large quantities of powder in the direction of the camp of the enemy.
The windows open upon a garden without the palace walls, conveying perfumed breezes from its fragrant shrubs and orange trees to the epicurean bathers within.
Esteban had obtained information, that, on a certain day, a convoy, conveying treasure and ammunition for the use of the French division employed at the siege of Gerona, would be sent from Figueras.
This is entirely owing to the want of means of conveying the timber to a market; for not even to Gibraltar--in which direction the country is level--is there a road capable of bearing the draught of heavy weights.
The fluids not only contain the materials from which every part of the body is formed, but they are the medium for conveying the waste, decayed particles of matter from the system.
It is penetrated by the oesophagus on its way to the stomach, by the aorta conveying blood toward the lower extremity, and by the ascending vena cava, or vein, on its way to the heart.
A small vessel or tube of animal bodies for conveying chyle from the intestine to the thoracic duct.
Many a prayer is couched in language which can be interpreted only as conveying a petition to them immediately for their assistance, temporal and spiritual.
An extract from Eusebius, unnoticed in the text of this work, has recently been cited as conveying his testimony in favour of the invocation of saints.
The Pasha takes ten duty, and I have only ten for profit and the expenses, of conveying the slaves from Ghat to Tripoli, feeding them as well here as there.
It was long ago compared to the nimbus often placed by painters around the heads of the Virgin Mary and other saints of old; and as conveying a rough general idea the comparison may still stand.
This method of conveying the heavy stones to their places in the Pyramids was simple and effective, with no engineering difficulties that could not be readily overcome.
The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book.
To inherit this wealth he had but one child—the daughter whom we have introduced to the reader, and whom he was now conveying from school to preside over a household that had too long wanted a mistress.
A channel at the eaves of a roof forconveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
A bier or handbarrow for conveyingthe dead to the grave.
A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding andconveying liquors.
Their allies, the redoubtable Iroquois, had upon several occasions way-laid and plundered the Huron tribes, who were conveying their cargoes to Quebec and Montreal, and had delivered these into the hands of the English.
In the same merry month of May the Prince Rupert set sail from Gravesend, conveying a new cargo, a new crew, and a newly appointed overseer of trade, to the Company's distant dominions.
And for this purpose the mission of Timokrates would be a valuable aid, byconveying assurances of Persian coöperation and support against Sparta.
Here she was found by the Portuguese, who stripped and abandoned her, conveying the survivors of her crew as prisoners to the Moluccas, where they were treated with considerable harshness.
In September a move was made to occupy the new site, the ship Anna Watson (Captain Stewart) conveying the Government officers from the Bay of Islands to the Waitemata, where they arrived on the 15th.
To the tired watcher then, for whom the notes were mere tonesconveying no idea, the soft melancholy cadence, dulled by distance, was like the half-stifled echo of her own last stifled sigh.
Suddenly an aria flitted through her mind, one of those songs which had palpitated through her childhood, without conveying any meaning to her, but which, for that very reason, had been the more purely consecrated.
When his plate was quite dry he spitted them on his fork one at a time, and on conveying each bit to his mouth cast suspicious glances to right and left as if somebody were standing nearby to snatch it away.
The chief of Raasay had joined the Highland army, but had saved his estate by conveying it to his son, young Macleod.
On the way we met some men road-making, and found them using a cart for conveying material for the purpose from a quarry on the road-side--the first cart that I had seen in use in Iceland.
On nearing Reykjavik we met a number of pack-trains conveying goods of all descriptions to the farms.
His thoughtful eyes, his pure white forehead, and clustering ringlets of chestnut hair, had a wealth of appeal hidden beneath, conveying more subtle beauty than the production of the countless volumes of mystic ages.
Dear Brother Guy,-- Your fond letter of the 20th was received in due time, conveying the most delightful news that ever was written.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conveying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
