To be keyed up to a battle-pitch, and then to have the battle deferred, is a trial of flesh and spirit.
There was conversation, but voices were keyed lower.
Narrower supplementary pilasters supported a molded and keyed arch, forming the frame within which the window is set.
These support two complete entablatures forming the lintels of the rectangular windows and being carried around into the embrasure of the central window, the keyed arch of which springs from the entablatures.
Each lintel appears to consist of seven gauged or keyed pieces each, but is in reality a single stone, the effect being secured by deep scorings.
Keyed lintels and window sills of marble accentuate the fenestration, and the façade is further enriched by a handsome cornice and marble belt at the second-floor level.
Both have the familiar six-panel doors with corresponding paneled jambs and arch soffit, attractively simple fanlights and much fine-scale hand carving in the pedimental cornice and architrave casing of the keyed arch.
A simple, hand-tooled ovolo ornaments the jambs and architrave casings of the keyed arch.
It is singular that the Virginal, which was the most popular of all the keyed instruments, is nowhere directly named in Shakespeare.
It was common for the Organ or other keyed instrument to join with the viols in these pieces, and thus fill out the chords of the 'consort,' as it was called.
Some converters are provided with a small induction motor for starting mounted on an iron bracket cast in the converter frame, and whose shaft is keyed to that of the converter.
The Curtis turbine is divided into two or more stages, and each stage has one, two or more sets of revolving blades bolted upon the peripheries of wheels keyed to the shaft.
He struck the yellow-keyed piano a vicious blow, producing a tinny and complaining sound.
The battery immediately was signaled to cease action, to the surprise of all the men, who werekeyed up for battle.
The whole nation was keyed up to a nervous tension of anxiety to know what would be the next event recorded on land or sea.
My nerves were keyed to a breaking pitch and I turned upon him stormily.
The next best method of driving the magneto is by means of a gear keyed to the armature shaft.
The brush in this brush holder is pressed against a distributor ring of insulating material molded in position in the web of a gear wheel keyed to the thrust plate, which gear serves also for starting the engine by hand.
The crank-shaft extension is tapered for the French standard propeller hub, which is keyed and locked to the shaft.
Had I but known it, I had been keyed to this moment ever since hearing Delia Beaseley's account of my mother's death--keyed too long and at too high a pitch.
Motion is transmitted to them by other pulleys, N, keyed upon a shaft placed at the lower part, which receives its motion from the engine of the establishment through the intermedium of the pulley, O.
The driving pulley of the machine is keyed upon a horizontal shaft which is provided with two endless screws that actuate two gear-wheels, and these latter set in motion the four moulding wheels by means of beveled pinions.
The slots are made of iron bars 1½ inches wide, with ends rounded and turned up, and inserted in holes drilled through capstone and keyed above.
The agitator consists of cast-iron arms keyed to a vertical shaft, with fixed arms or dash-plates secured to the sides of the cylinder.
The shaft has a mitre wheel keyed on the top, which works into a corresponding wheel on the horizontal shafting running along the top of the converters.
A train then backed up with eight wagons of ballast, and on top of them four lengths of rail ready keyedto sleepers.
The wheels, of cast steel, are not fixed upon the axles, but each pair is keyed upon a cast iron sleeve, through which the axle passes.
They are keyed high, and if a shock like this comes, it's death or an unbalancing.
They burned me, yet to turn them loose, to tell her truthfully, and she keyed so to the sensitiveness and unthinking romance--I thought of the pool and Ophelia.
At breakfast Sunday morning we still stood in line, expectant, keyed to a fiddle's string, eager.
I keyed a second word, slipped below the misty surface into a dreamworld of vague phantasmagoric figures milling in their limbo of sub-conceptualization.
I keyed the chart file, flashed pages from the standard index on the reference screen, checking radar coverages, beacon ranges, monitor stations, controller fields.
Their old hand-made colours are all keyed in middle tints; they did not lack decision or strength, but they were never loud or vehement.
But the fault-finding is largely the effect of our being accustomed to high-keyed portraiture.
But, as in tuning an organ, all the notes must be keyed to the standard pitch, else harmony were impossible, so in prayer.
All things in heaven and earth shall be reconciled when this one jarring string is keyed right and set in tune by the hand of love and mercy.
Myles keyed himself up to the effort, and then blurted out, "Thou art attainted with shame.
Myles, in his high-keyed nervousness, could not forbear a short hysterical laugh at his friend's warmth of enthusiasm.
Barbie was purty thin an' a little under color; but her grit was still keyed up to full tone.
We waskeyed up to a high pitch by this time, an' was beginnin' to get thin and ringey about the eyes.
The room had been keyed up to her portrait, and had then been toned down with certain heavy pieces of ebony, a cabinet of black lacquer, the dark books which lined the wall to the ceiling.
If you keep him keyed to von high pitch alway, some day bif!
To find himself a guest here, when he had come keyed up for something strenuous!
And so on; all jumbled but keyed with tremendous interest to the listeners and to Laura herself.
In measuring for the length of the shelves it should not be overlooked that the top and bottom shelves are to carry the tenons to be keyed through the end pieces.
When in use it is held together by keyed shelves at the top and bottom.
This table, as the illustration shows, is designed to be of simple style, without a drawer or side shelves, and with the bottom shelf keyed into the base rail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keyed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
