Take an iron ring or hoop such as children use and sew to it a bag of cotton mosquito netting, half as deep as the diameter of the ring.
The ring or hoop is of quarter-inch round iron, securely fastened to a stout handle and bent to a shape as shown in the drawing.
When the hoop is on our wheat mill, a man standing six feet off and looking at the nicely turned back, cannot tell that they are running.
Lillian whipped the hoop rapidly, and Tom kept pace with her.
Right before him lay the identical hoop which he had given the lost child only Christmas Day, and which bore the inscription, "From Sandy Coggles to Lillian Franklin.
He rested the hoopagainst a convenient lamp-post and opened the bag invitingly.
One hand clasped a crumpled paper bag; the other held a rusty iron hoop and a cudgel entirely out of proportion to the size of the hoop.
And he clattered up the steps and vanished, hoop and all, through the front doorway, leaving the stranger to marvel at the precocity of western children and at the complexity of their vocabularies.
There was a pause, while Mac swung hishoop against a post.
In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.
The atmosphere was bracing; and there being a favoring northwest breeze, our awning was stretched over a hoop for a sail.
Back to Zaragoza sped the gay troubadour, and in a trice a noble embassy was on its way to the Barrois Court to claim the hand of the fascinating Princess and to exchange the heavy ring of State for the lighter jewelled hoop of espousal.
Upon her finger she wore the simple ruby ring of betrothal, now to be exchanged for the plain golden hoop of marriage.
To enable the performer to go behind the floating lady, also to pass the hoop about her, the assistant pulls away the iron bar at one end.
The metal framing of this was identical in arrangement with the ancient defence; consisting of a hoop encircling the head and two semicircular bands, crossing each other at the crown, and surmounted by a metal knob.
It closely resembles the bronze example discovered at Leckhampton (woodcut 18), consisting of a hoop from which spring two arcs of metal crossing at the crown.
Or cover thehoop with thin tissue paper, and teach her to go through it.
Any boy who has snared sparrows in snow-time, has, no doubt, done so by tying his snares upon a hoop netted across with twine or other small cord.
The frame, as I have said, is like the hoopof a boy's bird-snare.
As the hoop rolled another boy stepped forward and tried to throw a stick through it, but failed.
Nopal, coming forward, stooped low and rolled a hoop along the ground, which the boys had pounded smooth and hard for the game.
These are scientific models or instruments designed to illustrate experimentally the dynamics of a rotating body such as the spinning-top, hoop and bicycle, and also the precession of the equinox and the rotation of the earth.
The hoop of the drum is from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, and from three to ten inches deep.
You can make one like the bought sleds and face the runners with pieces of an iron hoop which will answer every purpose.
Tack the cloth to the hoop on the inner side after it has been wrapped around the hoop two or three times.
For each hoop select a piece of strong cane about 3/4 in.
The couch is then taken a way and a hoop is passed over the floating lady.
Stitch the canvas at the apex around the hoop and along the sides.
The hoop is then carried as far as it will go back toward the end B.
A light wood hoop having the same diameter as the opening is pasted to the bottom end of the gores.
Extend these across the center of the hoop and fasten each end firmly to the hoop's sides.
C with the hoop on the outside of the back horizontal rod.
For the top of the tent have the blacksmith make a hoop of 1/4-in.
The side of the hoop toward the audience is then turned and swung clear around over the feet at A and entered between the rod and board on which the lady rests.
The solid hoop is passed over the body in the following manner: Start at the end, B, Fig.
Thus to the closest observer the impression is given that the hoop has encircled the lady twice.
What did it matter if they had seen the tinsel fairy jump through her fiery hoop or the acrobats perform their wonders?
One, a poor scalp, the hair gray and thin; the hoop painted brown.
Shuddering, Mount lifted a long braid of dark-brown hair fastened to a hoop painted blue.
And Elerson, in that strange monotone, continued speaking: "The hair on this scalp is braided to show that the woman was a mother; the skin stretched on a blue hoop confirms it.
But it is given to few men to marry their daughters to champion boxers: and as Dutch Sam was not a Don Quixote, the average peddler or huckster never enjoyed the luxury of prancing gait and cock-a-hoop business cry.
Hard by the old Ruins (which she found "ruined" by a railway) Esther was almost run over by an iron hoop driven by a boy with a long swarthy face that irresistibly recalled Malka's.
The same balloon which Blanchard had used in France served him on this occasion, with the difference that the hoop which went round the middle of it, and the parasol above the car, were dispensed with.
Cords fixed upon it hung down and were attached to a hoop at the bottom, from which a gallery was suspended.
This little hoop of gold, then, had an awful power!
And taking the little gold hoop out of her pocket, she flung it with all her might into the Square Garden.
