And Captain Smith had no intention of giving either cannon or grindstones to Powhatan, so the shrewd old savage and the quick-witted Captain were well matched in diplomacy.
Our hoes and our grindstones passed from us long ago, when the ploughman and the miller took our place; but for a time we kept fast possession of the kneading-trough and the brewing-vat.
Grindstones are manufactured in abundance for home use and exportation.
Great quantities ofGrindstones are made in this county, and furnish a valuable article for exportation.
It is used for grindstones of all sizes, including those the dentist uses on your teeth.
But if diamonds were cheap they would be good for nothing except grindstones and drills.
Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
Defn: The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
Grindstones should be kept under cover; the best stone will be injured by leaving it in the hot sun.
The greater number of these ornaments are fashioned upon grindstones which turn in a horizontal direction, and are kept continually wet; others are turned at the lathe, or shaped by files.
In the needle factories, the pointing-shops are in general very large, and contain several grindstones running on the same long horizontal shaft, placed near the floor of the apartment, and driven by water or steam power.
The manner in which the grindstones are turned, is obvious from inspection of fig.
S, beyond the wall of the building, or bent at right angles, as at T, to receive the conduits of the other grindstones of the factory.
It represented two grindstones set apparently to grind each other, a large one below, a small one above.
The strike was over, the grinders poured into the works, and the grindstones revolved.
Six heavy grindstones he tapped, and approved, three he even praised and called "good music.
When the men saw he did not care a button whether his grindstones revolved or not, they soon brought the defaulters to book.
A stands south, and passes the saw northward between the two grindstones to B.
In the dim light of a single lamp, it all looked like a gigantic polypus with its limbs extended lazily, and its fingers holding semi-circular claws: for of the grindstones less than half is visible.
They make grindstones (chakki), combs for straightening the threads on the loom, and frames for stretching the threads.
The stone-cutting Vaddars are the principal criminals, and by going about under the pretence of mending grindstones they obtain much useful information as to the houses to be looted or parties of travellers to be attacked.
The chisel with which they chip the grindstones furnishes, as stated by Mr. D.
The Takari's avocation of chiselling grindstones gives him excellent opportunities for examining the interior economy of houses, and the position of boxes and cupboards, and for gauging the wealth of the inmates.
As we walked down between the grindstones it was plain enough to see-- every wheel-band had been cut.
For there in the warm sunshine the water of the dam was dancing and sparkling, the great wheel went round, and inside the works the grindstoneswere whizzing and the steel being ground was screeching.
So I followed my uncles into the spacious ground-floor of the works, all wet and dripping with the water from the grindstones which had just been left by the men, and were still whizzing round waiting to be used.
There was only the lower workshop with its grindstones to look through, and lit up as it was by the evening sun there did not seem to be anything very terrible there.
New grindstones and polishing-wheels, new forges with tilt-hammers, and anvils.
They all come under the same name, and there were scores in our works connecting the shaft wheels of the main shaft turned by the water-power with the grindstones of the lower floor and the lathes and polishers of the upper.
Then why don't they smash up the grindstones they use now?
He don't drink there, though, nor the tavern-keeper don't buy no grindstoneslike he does.
He turned the barn, before which one bundle of grindstones still lay, the one, apparently, that had floored Ben.
Their waggon loads were covered with buffalo robes and tarpaulins, which, however, did not effectually conceal the grindstones beneath.
I was after the confidence of some innocent youngsters, who could give me pointers on grindstones and their relation to the family income.
Three bundles of apparent grindstones were laboriously conveyed from the waggon to the punt, after which the waggon went back and the punt went forward, both becoming lost to sight in the foliage of road and river.
He has no bones broken in that strong frame of his, but thegrindstones have bruised him abdominally.
As I know you both, and our friends of the hotel are not listening, I may say that I am so interested in this problem as to have made up my mind to go into grindstones myself.
The average speed of grindstones in workshops may be given as follows:-- Circumferential speed of stone.
The general characteristics of grindstones are as follow:-- For rapid grinding a coarse and an open grit is the most effective.
The fast running grindstones used for heavy and coarse grinding are trued by a process known as hacking.
All grindstones are softer when water-soaked than when dry, and will cut more freely, because the water washes away the particles of metal ground from the work, and prevents them from glazing the stone.
You should know how to sharpen it on a grindstone, learn this now, while you are in civilisation, where grindstones can be found and there are men to show you.
We could not carry grindstones about with us, but we carried a small fine file, with which we were able to touch up the edge; and that is what many an old backwoodsman does for his axe, he carries a small file with him.
Of stone objects there were two round grindstones or polishers (No.
For razors, the grindstones are small, so as to produce the hollow surface which favours fineness of edge.
After the knives, the grindstones come into play, to work up and smooth all the accessible surfaces; and next swift-whirling wheels encircled with list, which give the polish.
I didn't know the price of grindstones in Placerville, but supposed they might be cheap, as there were plenty there.
Do you know the price of grindstones in Placerville?
This will lead to an orgy of grindstone smuggling, making it necessary for hitherto respectable people to become law-breakers by concealing grindstones about their clothing and in the trays of their trunks.
It means that, next year, when you are returning from Europe, you will have to pay a duty on those Dutch grindstones that you always bring back to the cousins, a duty which will make the importation of more than three prohibitive.
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