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Example sentences for "emery"

  • A treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux, and published in 1592.

  • A quantity of emery was now strewn over the plates, and the lathe set in motion.

  • The action produced wag a friction or rubbing of the emery over the surface of the plates.

  • But then, if emery were only a penny a pound, Madam Liberality had not a farthing to buy a quarter of a pound with.

  • It would be a novelty even to Darling, especially if hers were made by glueing a tiny bag of emery into the mouth of a "boiled fowl cowry.

  • When grinding the flank of the tool it should be held on the tool-rest of the emery wheel or grindstone, as shown by the view to the right.

  • The coarseness of emery cloth is indicated by letters and numbers corresponding to the grain number of loose emery.

  • The method commonly employed for finishing in the lathe is by the use of a file and emery cloth.

  • The emery wheel B is moved to a position for grinding by adjusting the carriage and cross-slide, and it is traversed across the conical surface of the center by handle C.

  • If a tool is pressed hard against an emery or other abrasive wheel, even though the latter has a copious supply of water, the temper will sometimes be drawn.

  • After the tailstock center is withdrawn, the emery wheel is adjusted for grinding.

  • Two Methods of Aligning Centers for Cylindrical Turning] If a polish is desired, this can be obtained by holding a piece of emery cloth tightly around the work as it revolves.

  • Emery and I got back to Salt Lake about the first of August.

  • Here comes Decoeur of the French Navy," said Lieutenant Commander Emery suddenly.

  • Emery was back quickly, but just outside the house he was accidentally separated from the two ensigns.

  • They were shortly approached by Lieutenant Commander Emery of the "Katahdin.

  • If you cannot get emery get some fine dry sand, or you can even pound up some cinders out of the fire, and fill your little bag very tight with the powder you make, and draw up the thread and stitch it very close.

  • Draw the thread up a little, as in Figure 23, and now take your emery powder and fill up tight with that.

  • Two Huguenots, William and Emery de Caen, had taken the place of the old company of St. Malo and Rouen, but were afterward compelled to share their monopoly with them.

  • The investigation showed that abundant cause existed for depriving the company of its monopoly, and in consequence the grant was transferred, on similar terms, to William and Emery de Caën.

  • Caën, Emery de, represents France in the restoration of Quebec, 129.

  • The fact that Emery Walker is not only alive, but full of vitality, indicates why most of the other firms are millionaires.

  • Clark, who have printed this book, and Emery Walker, who has illustrated it.

  • The emery of Naxos, which is a state monopoly, is excellent in quality and very abundant.

  • Nothing could have been better than Mr. Emery Walker's lecture on Letterpress Printing and Illustration, delivered last night at the Arts and Crafts.

  • The essay on "Printing," which in the 1888 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Catalogue was written by Mr. Emery Walker alone, is here recast and issued under the names of William Morris and Emery Walker.

  • Jason passed "Pack" and Emery Radlaw on a day of late March, and a mocking and purposely audible aside almost brought him to an adequate reply.

  • Clower and Emery Radlaw and the rest, with the balance of neither property nor position, lawless and inflamed with drink, were a difficult opposition.

  • The flesh side is finished by fluffing it on the emery or carborundum wheel (Fig.

  • In a suggestive note on the origin of European and North American Ants, Professor Emery states (p.

  • Professor Emery mentions that Northern Europe possesses one peculiar genus of Ant, viz.

  • The plates are trued up, after they are mounted, by holding a piece of emery wheel to the edges while they are turning.

  • Use of Kerosene in Polishing Metals [364] Anyone who has polished a flat iron or steel surface with emery cloth knows how soon the cloth gums and fills up.

  • The saw teeth are ground off on an emery wheel or grindstone to a smooth edge parallel with the back edge.

  • Rubbing the edges of the nail set over a piece of emery paper will serve to dull them, if they are too sharp.

  • After drilling, remove the valve, take off the burr with a piece of emery paper and replace ready for work.

  • A little rubbing on the point with emery will take off the sharpness always found on a new tool.

  • When dry, turn the emery from the 5 jars into 5 separate bottles, and label.

  • File these edges, rounding and smoothing with emery paper.

  • The cast iron shoes are filed and finished with emery paper, making the angle on the cutting edge 45 deg.

  • The emery surface of the cloth was placed outward and trimmed to the same diameter as the wheel.

  • A nutpick with a V-shaped point will do if the sharpness is smoothed off by means of a piece of emery paper, so that it will indent without cutting the leather.

  • After the sawing, smooth the edges of the metal with a small file and emery paper.

  • Thus Mr. Fowler has paid out the money and Mr. Emery has received it.

  • Mr. Fowler endorses it in full to Mr. Emery of Rochester and sends the draft to the latter.

  • Fowler of Salt Lake City owes one hundred dollars to a man living in an Eastern city, let us say Charles Emery of Rochester, N.

  • When Mr. Emery cashes the draft at his Rochester bank, the latter sends it to its New York correspondent, and at the same time charges the correspondent one hundred dollars.

  • Mr. Emery takes the draft to his own bank in Rochester, endorses it in blank, and receives the one hundred dollars.

  • After hardening grind carefully on a wet emery wheel, and be sure that the wheel is sharp with a plentiful supply of water.

  • In grinding all tools should be ground as lightly as possible on a soft wet sandstone or on a wet emery wheel, and care should be taken not to create any surface cracks, which are invariably the result of grinding too forcibly.

  • Then have the tool rough ground on a dry emery wheel.

  • Grind for use on a sand wheel or grindstone in preference to an emery or an artificial abrasive wheel.

  • You can now grind the tool dry on a sharp emery wheel.

  • This may be prepared with sweet oil and emery powder, or Tripoli, to be renewed as occasion requires, or with a preparation of lard and crocus powder.

  • Emery paste sold at the tool-shop will answer for all ordinary work.

  • But Mr. Knight told the officers, "You have brought me a wrong man; this is not Emery Rice; this man is no slave of mine.

  • That he was not Emery Rice, but Adam Gibson; that he was a freeman, having been manumitted by the will of his late master.

  • Mrs. Emery was the sister of Mr. Duncalf.

  • When he was sixteen his mother, by operations on a yard and a half of Brussels point lace, put Mrs. Emery under an obligation.


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