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Example sentences for "gouges"

Lexicographically close words:
gouernour; gouernours; gouffre; gouge; gouged; gouging; goulash; goun; goura; gourd
  1. On either side just below the handle, where the Runic letters shivered as though they were alive, were two deep gouges in the dull, deadly steel.

  2. Sir Richard turned the sword again that the children might see the two great chiselled gouges on either side of the blade.

  3. The best-formed gouges discovered in England, have, so far as I am aware, been found in the Fen country, where it is probable that canoes would be in constant use.

  4. Considering the great numbers of gouges or hollow chisels of flint which have been found in Denmark and Sweden, their extreme rarity in Britain is remarkable.

  5. A considerable number of gouges of this bastard kind have been found in Ireland, and I have figured one from Lough Neagh.

  6. The whole of the foliage is cut in cavo relievo, or cavities, with gouges and chisels, both straight and bent, and the lines upon them with bent V tools.

  7. The work is chiefly executed with bent gouges and grainers, flat and hollow, with two or three bent chisels and stamps, and it often happens that a good piece of incised carving can be executed with very few tools.

  8. These are gouges scooped or bent in a curve like a knuckle.

  9. Both chisels and gouges are made straight, or bent or curved in the shank.

  10. When the leaf is correct in form, proceed with flat gouges to remove the tool marks, holding the tool very firmly, and inclining it to an angle of about 45 deg.

  11. Incise the principal lines with a V tool, or, according to its size, small gouges may be used.

  12. This is, of course, chiefly done with bent gouges and chisels.

  13. Also that this double grinding gives a sharper cutting-edge; but gouges require very little edging inside.

  14. The wool or hair is imitated in the very small gouges or V tools, and sometimes scraped with a rasp, comb, or other tool.

  15. He who has modelled anything in clay or wax has, in a way, carved it in a soft material, while true carving is only modelling with gouges and chisels.

  16. In using chisels and gouges never strike with a hammer, but always with a wooden mallet; the hammer splits the handles.

  17. First two for the chisels you have already; next three for the chisels or gouges you may have; the last for the screwdriver.

  18. The chisels and gouges are all socketed (No.

  19. There is a considerable number of chisels and gouges (=Fig.

  20. But shortly afterwards, when the Constable of France, Arthur of Brittany, had dismissed Louvet, Regnault sold his appointment to Martin Gouges for a pension of two thousand five hundred livres tournois.

  21. Besides these there were some gouges made of elk’s horns, and a variety of similar relics; all of exceeding rudeness, and of no great antiquity.

  22. There were several hand-axes and gouges of stone, and some articles made from the horns of the deer or elk, which resemble the handles of large knives; but no traces of iron or other metals were discoverable.

  23. Inside bevel gouges need to be ground on a carborundum or other revolving stone having a round edge.

  24. Double gouges are not easily used in the same way, as the joinings cannot be concealed; they may be used for making first outlines, which must be finished with single curves.

  25. The gouges are chosen according to the design, so that the tools placed thereon cover the outlined design exactly, and the tool numbers are noted on the designs so that they may be quickly and surely picked up when required for use.

  26. The gouges and the spoke-shave will be found the most useful of these implements.

  27. The chisels and gouges equally merit a special mention.

  28. The gouges are hollowed out on one of their faces, so as to act as the tool the name of which has been applied to them.

  29. Gouges for carving are nicely adapted to the profiles they are to cut; while the exigencies of the power-lathe require its tools to be designed of particular strength and rigidity.

  30. Gouges and fillets need not always be of the same thickness of line, and two or three sets of different gauges may be kept.

  31. The overs and unders of the lines are then marked, and gouges selected to fit.

  32. Tools with small surfaces, such as gouges and dots, must not be worked too heavily, or the surface of the leather may be cut.

  33. Gouges must be "sighted" from the inside of the curve, and struck evenly, or the points may cut into the leather.

  34. Gouge lines are easier to work, and look better, if a small space is left where the gouges end.

  35. This is made up of a repeat of the spray built up of three tools and four gouges shown at fig.

  36. While there are perhaps no true gouges in the collection, there are some examples of a form between a celt and a gouge, illustrated in figure 65, of serpentine, from Caldwell county, North Carolina.

  37. What Mary Wollstonecraft did for England, Olympe de Gouges did for France in 1789; at that time she dedicated to the Queen her little book, The Declaration of the Rights of Women (La declaration des droits des femmes).

  38. The intelligent people of the lower classes are represented by Olympe de Gouges and Theroigne de Mericourt.

  39. In cutting out these grooves, I use a saw for certain bones, and gouges and stone-mason's chisels for others, according to circumstances.

  40. The more common "outside" gouges are not rubbed on the inside, except the merest touch of the slip to remove any wire edge or burr.

  41. Gouges can be rubbed at right angles with the stone, rolling the tool with the left hand, or by the use of a slip they can be rubbed as described below.

  42. Gouges are of various degrees of curvature, Fig.

  43. If the gouges do not entirely adapt themselves to the contours of your lines, do not trouble, but leave that bit to be done afterward with a sweep of the tool, either a flat gouge, or the corner-chisel used like a knife.

  44. Carve the sides of the leaves where necessary with flat gouges on the inside curves, and with chisels and corner-chisels on the outside ones.

  45. The tools used by carvers consist for the most part of chisels and gouges of different shapes and sizes.

  46. These can readily be made by using straight chisels in combination with such gouges as we possess, or by sweeping the curves along their sides with a chisel used knife fashion.

  47. As the treatment of all gouges is more or less like what has been described, practise will enable the student to adapt it to the shape of the tool which requires his attention.

  48. The deep gouges are especially useful: having two different sweeps on each tool, they adapt themselves to hollows which change in section as they advance.

  49. Thus, chisels and gouges are to be had ranging from 1/16th of an inch to 1 inch wide, with curves or "sweeps" in each size graduated between a semicircle to a curve almost flat.

  50. When you have been all round the design in this way with such gouges as may be needed for the slow and quick curves, get the wood out nearly down to the ground, leaving a little for finishing.

  51. The gouges of wheels and feet were at the roadside.

  52. Also, the explosives had dug big gouges in the earth.


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