Dirrul ran to the control panel and twisted dials frantically, pulling every lever he could find.
Pleased with the comparison the pilot chuckled over his dials as he turned on the power.
The Chief turned a little to face the panel behind his desk, feeling over the dials while he kept Dirrul framed in his gunsight.
The tabbies and the lap-dogs of the neighbourhood could venture abroad with less danger of being pressed for service at St. Bernard's, and the porters had to go to Seven Dials for their purchases.
Had he been attacked and robbed, and then killed by some of the bad characters in Seven Dials close by?
These dialsare little electrical devices, showing exactly how many revolutions the screws are making.
On each side of the room is another long black gauge, and the dials point to certain figures, generally between ninety and ninety-five.
His slim, sensitive fingers played for an instant among the knobs and dials that studded the door, guided, it seemed by the sense of touch alone--and the door swung open.
Jimmie Dale dropped to his knees; and, while his left hand passed swiftly, tentatively over dials and handle, he rubbed the fingers of his right hand rapidly to and fro over the carpet.
Except for his slow turning of the dials Drayle was motionless before the machine.
Attached to it were various gauges, withdials showing red and black numbers.
About it was a complicated arrangement of dials and gauges.
With a deliberate calmness that in no way matched the inner tumult brought on by the experiment, he turned the dials of the machine he and Danzig had worked out together.
Danzig twisted two dialsat the same time with minute exactness.
Danzig clicked on the switch before his own machine and turned one of the many dials mounted on the panel in front of him.
Set the dials of the inverse dimensional tubes at point seven six eleven, and switch the power to the Roentgen tube.
Levers and dialswere all about it, and above it was the base of the glass tube that Dick had seen above.
He turned about and walked--so far as Smith could sense in the usual manner of earth's humans--back to the dials again.
In fact, the complicated gearwork and dials of de Dondi's clock constitute a series of equatoria, mechanized in just the same way as the calendrical device described by Biruni.
Where were the Seven Dials of that day, and the men who gave it its bad name?
Seven Dials is no more like the slum of old than is the Five Points to-day.
A growing air pressure was around me; the tiny Erentz dials within my helmet had been immovable, but now they were showing outside pressure.
When the needle on one of the dials was moved to a letter, the other by magnetic attraction was supposed to turn to the same letter.
According to the story as told, friends at a distance might be able to communicate with each other by having two dials around which the letters of the alphabet were arranged with a magnetic needle swinging free as the indicator.
A parliamentary report of 1848 describes Seven Dials as in a degraded state.
It seems strange to us to say that many of the earlier clocks were strikers, only, and had no dials or hands, just as if you turned the face of your clock to the wall and depended on the striking for the time.
The reason that these noon-mark dials are better than ordinary commercial dials is that they are larger, and still further, noon is the only time that any dial is accurate to sun time.
Both these dialswere in use about the beginning of our era and were covered by the great eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.
Japanese Dials Set for Long and Short Days] In Fig.
Dials and hands constitute an important branch of the subject.
The hours are 9 to 4 and the dialsrotate to make them read backwards.
The two openings may be seen in the dials of Figs.
Modern sundials differ only in being more accurately made and a few "curiosity" dials added.
Just why we should make the worst dials and hands for public clocks in the United States is more than I can find out, for there is no possible excuse, since the "spade and pointer" hands have been known for generations.
The upper one of the three dialsindicates seconds, and the lever which crosses its center carries the large wheel on the left.
The Philadelphia City Hall clock has dials of this kind as shown on right side of Fig.
Modern Sundial Set Up in Garden] A whole issue of Popular Mechanics could be filled on the subject of dials and even then only give a general outline.
That is, while all the dials previously described have equal hours for any given day, or night, this dial has a last long hour in each case, divided into three instead of the usual half-hours.
In Scotland, and to some extent in England, these sun-dials still are found; in fine old gardens the most richly carved dials are standing; but in America they have become so rare that many people have never seen one.
Equally beautiful and intricate were the dials of Charles II, the most marvellous being the vast pyramid dial bearing 271 different dial faces.
Reference is frequent enough to these dials of Box to show that they were not uncommon in fine old English gardens.
These three American sun-dials afford an interesting proof of the universal presence of sun-dials in Virginian homes of wealth, and they also show the kind of dial-face which was generally used.
A very good rule is to err on the side of simplicity in sun-dials for ordinary gardens.
The Italians excelled in dial-making; among their interesting forms were the cross-shaped dials evidently a reliquary.
In Scotland the making of sun-dials has never died out.
In Pennsylvania and Virginia sun-dials have lingered in use in front of court-houses, on churches, and in a few old garden dials.
On the walls of country houses and churches vertical sun-dials were displayed; every English town held them by scores.
In many of the formal gardens planned by our skilled architects, sun-dials are now springing afresh like mushroom growth of a single night, and some are objects of the greatest beauty and interest.
Old thirty-hour clocks in plain oak cases with painted dials may still be bought for four or five pounds apiece, whilst reliable eight-day clocks of fair make will fetch anything from five to ten pounds.
The late ones, probably made by provincial clock-makers, have square dials with arched tops.
As I lay in bed I studied the walls of the room and noticed, what I had not seen before, three dials sunk in the opposite wall close to the ceiling.
Scratching the ant figure five upon the floor with a small pebble which I found in a corner--for I could not reach the dials to point to their figures--I held up five fingers.
Now, there is no English word composed of consonants alone, and the only vowel appearing anywhere on the dials is Y.
Before the handle of the door might be turned, it was needful to place the hands of three several dials in their proper places.
The altimeter dials spun backwards to zero and a soft vibration was the only indication they had landed.
He swept a glance over the continuous recording dials at the foot of Brion's bed.
The dials are exceedingly curious, and there are some really astonishing calculations, as, for instance, a table showing the 'number of souls that have appeared before the Tribunal of God.
I was out early the next morning, looking at the extraordinary astronomicaldials of the parish church, covering much of the surface of the outer walls.
He fumbled with the radio dials before him, swinging them this way and that: then clamped on the headset.
He ticked the key a moment, then twisted more dials and leaned back as a full and fruity voice, with a strong English accent, filled the room.
In a direction with the radii of these dials there are four superposed levers, each of which is actuated by one of the electros.
When a shock coming from the north, for example, produces a contact, the corresponding electro is affected, and its lever falls and marks upon each of the dials a point in its north zone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
