The net is raised or lowered by pressing down a lever very similar in structure and appearance to thelevers which are seen in a signalman's cabin.
The notable fact regarding Macmillan's cycle is, that he had adapted cranks andlevers to the old dandy or hobby-horse.
Another twist of the levers and the plane jumped forward, for the first time feeling no resistance of the storm.
Water could be admitted into any one, or all, by suitable levers worked in the engine-room.
The gasolene motor did not "pick up," though both the gasolene and spark levers were thrown over.
The hydroplanes, which were attached to the airship near the points where the starting wheels were made fast, could be lowered into place by means of levers in the cabin.
And so skillfully had Mr. Vardon manipulated the planes and levers that the landing was hardly felt.
He stood off, surveying with pride not unmixed with fear its bright enamel, its leather linings, the complicated system of dials and bright leverswhich filled him with apprehension.
Then, with a grinding of gear levers that made him groan, she was off toward home, leaving Graham staring after her.
He bent over the control levers of the ship, but they refused to obey his touch.
He made his way against the pressure of the movement to the controllevers and strove to check the speed.
Clee's impressions were blurred and dull, but he noticed that they were in a small room brilliant with amber light, on one wall of which there was a circular area which contained a dozen or more instruments and levers and wheels.
Great banks of levers stood around it; tables of control apparatus; rows of dials, illumined by tiny lights like staring eyes.
As his eyes rested on them, one of the levers moved, seemingly of itself, and the ramp came sliding into the ship and the thick door slowly swung closed.
He swung around and inspected the levers and crude wheels of wood that led to a handle up in the niche, shoulder-high to whoever might stand on the platform there.
Larry and I bent anxiously over her, but thelevers meant nothing to us.
There's a spell on it; you couldn't lift it up, not with leversor anything.
One strong heave with the levers and the raft slid off the last roller, rose to the surface, the water slipping off the deck each side, and floated.
If we now inquire into the motion of Horses, we shall find the bones are the levers of the body, and the tendons and muscles (which are one and the same thing) are the powers of acting applied to these levers.
As soon as the hand of this dial points to fifty-six hours, the train of levers which wind up the watch disconnects automatically, so as to prevent overwinding the spring, and it reconnects again as soon as the watch has run down eight hours.
This expansion was caused by the daily rise of temperature, and by means of a train of levers it wound up the clock.
The levers are held in place by means of springs which press a beveled edge steel plate--attached to the levers near the handles--against a serrated plate of steel, attached vertically between the handles.
As the head of one of the levers will rise higher than the roof, a hole must be cut for it, which may after trial be covered over.
Observing the alternate ascent and descent of the beam above his head, he bethought him of applying the movement to the alternate raising and lowering of the levers which governed the cocks.
As he remembered it, Matt had begun to play with the levers before the launch was very near the larger craft.
His callow mind was engaged with the wheels and levers of the Sprite's machinery, and he might be said to be enjoying himself, in his artless, heathen way.
To bring this about the levers are concentrated in a cabin or gallery, and placed side by side in a frame, their lower ends connecting with the switch-points and signals by means of rods and wires.
These are called locking bars; for, being moved to the right or left by the action of the levers they hold these levers in certain designated positions, nor do they permit them to occupy any other.
There would in this case be of necessity two switch levers and four signal levers, which would admit of sixty-four possible combinations.
Originally the locking bar was worked through the direct action of certain locks, as they were called, between which the levers when moved played to and fro.
Telaba worked the levers of the signaling mechanism, and a brilliant purple star visible to all his henchmen shot up over the back of his beast.
But the driver twisted levers with a quick jerk, and the luckless riflemen found themselves facing four streams of steel.
They were pulling upon levers on their vehicles, checking their headlong flight.
Levers are pulled, doors opened with a bang, and the three prisoners are marched to the office.
The levers are pulled, and we are locked in for the night.
This nightmare is but an intensified replica of the world beyond, the larger prison locked with the levers of Greed, guarded by the spawn of Hunger.
But one morning the levers are pulled, the cells unlocked, and the men fed, while I remain under key.
He also devised means, by levers and hydraulic presses, for relieving the rollers and roller beds from pressure, in the event of their requiring renewal.
We commenced on that portion from necessity, and found that by no contrivance of purchases and levers could our ten men get up or out more than four or five bundles per tide.
Near his left hand, fixed to the framework just at one side of his seat, are levers which govern the speed of the engine, also the petrol supply; while close to them is the switch by which the ignition can be switched on or off.
Each loom was worked by a young woman, and she had three levers to keep in action--one with the hand and the others with the feet.
Mona had again started the loom, and was rattling at the leverswith more than ordinary energy.
These levers are moved either by the quantity of gas in the holder or by the pressure of the gas, depending on the type of machine.
With a separate gas holder, such as used with low pressure systems, the leversare operated by the rise and fall of the bell of the holder or gasometer, alternately starting and stopping the motor as the bell falls and rises again.
A machine in which movable types are caused to yield impressions on paper to form letters by means of key levers operated by hand, has been one of slow growth from its conception to its present practical and successful form.
In place of the common hoe drill of a form used in the early part of the century, the hoes being forced into the soil by the use of levers and weights, what are known as "shoe drills" have largely succeeded.
Thus some very high wheels, with a small wheel in front, or one behind, wheels with levers in addition to the crank, etc.
The first American improvement was invented by George Clymer, of Philadelphia, in 1817, the power being an improved lever consisting of three simple levers of the second order.
Tom had very little idea regarding the exact use of either the levers or the instruments.
He seized it, and with repeated blows smashed the clock-faces and more delicate instruments, as well as beating the levers into a twisted wreck.
Through it he saw the shadow of a man with a row of instruments before him as well as several levers under his hand.
The pilot had dropped one of the levers and was holding his left wrist tightly.
Levermen wipe off and re-lacquer their respective levers and eccentrics, secure levers in place, and assist in securing the gun.
When out, the Carriage-Levers are let down promptly and unshipped.
The Fore Carriage-Levers require the efforts of two men at each, as the weight of the gun has most bearing there; each of the other levers is readily worked by one man.
For with a trained crew, and all precaution in handling the levers and In-Tackles, there is a liability to the gun getting away, in which case it moves out with great violence, and may do serious damage.
In order to ship the Levers expeditiously on the proper square, both are to be marked with a cold chisel.
Some difference of opinion may arise in regard to the shipping of these levers before the gun is run out, and they are required for pointing.
It had been arranged that two small levers pressed by a child would respectively have the effect of opening the gates that barred the new channel to the Mataura and of closing the gates that admitted the lake waters to the Molyneux.
As the levers were pressed a signal was to run down the two rivers, in response to which guns stationed at frequent intervals were to thunder out a salute.
Coiled or bent springs return these levers or valves to place when the pin which moves them has passed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
