I paused not--I uttered not a word--but levelling the pistol at his head, pulled the trigger.
Unhappily much precious time had already been lost; the forts and redoubts thrown up by the Spaniards still remained, and at present the defenders of the city had too much to do within the walls to attempt levelling them.
This had also been left ill-protected, and our admiral promptly attacking it, took possession, and levelling it in many places, brought the flotilla over its ruins.
The "equality" of Harrington, however, was not fashioned to any vulgar notions of a levelling democracy.
These were the crying grievances which united in a solid phalanx both thinkers and practical men, and thereby gave an immense impetus to the levelling doctrines of Rousseau.
The whole tendency had been towards levellingall inequalities.
I suppose if I made such a levelling confession as this in public, people would think I was looking towards being the labor-reform candidate for President.
Dear me, no; onlylevelling everything smack, and trampling us under foot, as the reporters made it out.
This furious battery was commenced against the bastion of the holy cross, and was carried on for a considerable way along the defences of that front of the town, levelling every thing with the ground.
Eight days were spent in levelling the works which Raju had thrown up, after which the damage done to the fort was repaired, and it was furnished with a garrison of 600 men, plentifully supplied with arms and ammunition.
The levelling process in question must of course involve a certain amount of waste; but its effect on production as a whole is under most circumstances inappreciable.
The levellingtendency of Machinery--The subordination of individual capacity in work.
Machinery of manufacture as well as of transport has a levelling tendency which makes directly for expansion of the area of competition.
The object of the levelling in the lower processes of life would be that higher individual differences might have opportunity to assert themselves.
The total want of water and fodder hindered us from proceeding to the Don, as we had intended, and my husband was obliged to suspend his levelling operations.
I then moved the instrument to another rock within 10 or 12 feet of the edge of the fall, where it was placed, by means of a levelling instrument, exactly at the same height as in the first instance.
The winds and the waters, together with the wearing power effected by frost, are the forces struggling at this great levelling task.
The preliminary levelling of a court can be accomplished with a rake and a straight-edged board, but after the clay has become packed and hard it will be necessary to use considerable force in scraping off the inequalities.
To level a court properly we shall need the services of some one expert with a levelling instrument of some kind.
If, on the contrary, there is much grading or levelling to be done, a dirt court will be much cheaper and better in the end, as constant playing on turf soon wears bare spots.
I will take the leader; the rest of you fire into the brown," cried Lethbridge, levelling his rifle.
It was obtained with others, on levelling a large sepulchral barrow in the neighbourhood of Elphinstone Tower, East-Lothian.
On levelling a large tumulus a few years since, at Dalpatrick, Lanarkshire, a cist was discovered inclosing an urn.
In 1832, some labourers levelling a sandy field at Dubbs, in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, came upon a paved area five feet under the surface, measuring six yards long and two broad.
Another group, disposed nearly similarly to this, was brought to light on the levelling of a long barrow of unusually large dimensions, in the parish of Strathblane, Dumbartonshire.
They were found in the year 1817 by a party of men employed in levelling a piece of ground on a farm at Banchory, Aberdeenshire.
In 1839 a tenant engaged in levelling and improving a field on the estate of Craigengelt, near Stirling, opened a large circular cairn, which bore the popular name of "The Ghost's Knowe.
The levelling of the foundations for laying the courses of an upright-wall breakwater is costly and tedious, even in chalk; and the expense and delay are considerably enhanced where the bottom is hard rock.
In Chiba, as in other prefectures, one is impressed by the way in which the exertions of many generations have resulted in the levelling of wide areas and even the complete removal of small hills.
Lads did the work of levelling the ground and digging the well.
Nature is a leveller, which is a comfort to us who are born in levelling times.
The governors sent from England wrote back words of honest surprise and terror at the "levelling principles" of the men about them.
The result will be the same if it is necessary to remove a shaving or two when planing or levelling up the face of the frame.
For inside work the joint would be glued and screwed together, the screw heads being countersunk so as not to come in contact with the cutting iron of the plane when levelling off the work.
Then he suddenly accosted them, levelling the revolver, commanding them to stand, and directing the young gentleman who was driving to jump to the ground.
A chain-gang was at that time employed, under armed warders, inlevelling the line of road which leads towards Waverley.
Before this was carried a testudo sixty feet long, for levelling the ground, made also of very strong timber, and covered over with every thing that was capable of protecting it against the fire and stones thrown by the enemy.
Pompey's men insultingly and boldly pursued and chased us, levelling the hurdles that were thrown up in the front of our works, in order to pass over the trench.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
