When this method is adopted, it is desirable to fix a simple hight-adjusting and locking mechanism to the governing-valve spindle.
Was it down or still stubbornly up, locking the sleepers into confinement?
It was as though those eyes had set locking cords to will him back to release the sleepers.
Meanwhile the old man had been locking the postern, and was now leaning against it with all his bodily strength, and was gasping and grunting to get the great key out of the rusty lock.
Whereupon, carefully locking and bolting the door, he went downstairs with Michele, in order to converse with Nicolo in the street before the house.
As soon as it was dark, Signer Pasquale, after locking and bolting the door of his house, carried the little monster of an eunuch home as usual.
And when the cracked bell ceased to tremble on its curved ribbon of steel nothing stirred near Mrs Verloc, as if her attitude had the locking power of a spell.
After locking up the house and putting out the gas he took them upstairs with him—a dreadful escort for a man going to bed.
Sybil took the diamonds from her hands and put them away, with far more care than she had displayed in bringing them forth; then she followed her friend from the room, closing and carefully locking the door behind her.
He looked carefully about him, then closing and locking the door, he approached the sleeper.
She thought he would have struck her, but he restrained himself and left the room without a word, locking the door behind him; and for a moment Nancy’s heart sank.
It was the first time I ever went in my strong room, to do anything, without locking the door behind me.
But he got in, and of course, after that, it was easy for him to get out, after locking me in.
As Bob was locking the strong room, and preparing to put the key back in its hiding place, he heard something that gave him a start.
When the inspection proves that these conditions have been properly provided for, it is necessary to slightly open the bankings so that there will be just a trifle of slide of each stone, on each tooth, after the locking takes place.
The locking of the escapement was examined and found to be satisfactory, so the balance was again removed and tested for poise which was also found satisfactory.
This eliminates any slide of the stone on the tooth beyond the actual locking and in this condition it is required that the roller jewel pass through the fork slot and out of the fork horn entirely on both sides with perfect freedom.
Stopping by Escapement Locking When Hands are Set Backward, or When Watch Receives a Jar.
Stopping by Escapement Lockingwhen Hands are set Backward or When Watch Receives a Jar.
Her aunt also sometimes went home with him, leaving the keys of the house with Melissa, butlocking the gate and taking the key of that with her.
She was gone as she spoke, lockingthe door again, and Mollie got up with a heavy sigh.
He bowed low and left the room, locking the door carefully.
Then at four o'clock the kind of nervousness that Mrs. Samstag had learned to fear began to roll over her in waves, locking her throat and curling her toes and fingers and her tongue up dry against the roof of her mouth.
Crewe again examined the articles in silence before taking them to his secrétaire and locking them up in one of the pigeon-holes.
Rolfe had noticed with surprise when he was locking up the house that the French windows of the morning room were locked from the outside by a small key as well as being bolted from the inside.
Raise both hands, grasped in the manner of shaking hands, or bylocking the two forefingers firmly while the hands are held up.
In five meenetes there'll be nae Marrow Kirk" said John Bairdieson, and flung himself against the door; but the moderator had taken the precaution of locking it and placing the key on his desk.
Her arms fell instantly again about his neck, locking themselves behind.
He wrapped everything he found worth taking in the napkin which was to have served him at dinner, and blowing out the candle, he fled, locking the door on the outside, and throwing the key into a ditch.
Yes, but she must be quick for he was locking up for the night, and there was but a minute or so to spare.
No noise and no horseplay or I'll do something that you won't forget in a hurry," and with this admonition he walked out of the room, closing and locking the door after him.
And then, after a few more words, he stormed out of the room, banging the door behind him and locking it.
But for the mysterious locking of the workshop door, it would have suggested to him nothing more alarming than the arrival of some unexpected visitors.
After first locking my door, I broke the seal, and read the lines which follow.
I don't mean that I don't ordinarily sleep perfectly soundly and naturally, but the routine of locking up for the night sets, as it were, a timepiece in my head.
I heard the locking of his door, but after that, though I listened, nothing.
Then she slipped out, locking the door softly; and, carrying the key concealed in the hollow of her hand, she threw it amidst the shrubs at No 1.
Here, all take their appropriate places at the tables, and afterlocking their hands on their breasts, they drop on their knees, close their eyes, and remain in this position about two minutes.
Stewart Describing the tools and materials used in locking up forms for the press, including some modern utilities for special purposes.
Henry Things the apprentice should know about locking up small forms, and about general work on the stone.
Then he opened the door and led me by the sleeve into the utter darkness within, closing and locking the door after him.
Then I dropped a silver bon-bon dish and a bunch of hothouse grapes into the emptied box, locking it and handing the key back to Beatrice Van Tuyl.
After lingering for a moment or two, the governor left his prisoner in the abode assigned to him, and returned to his own dwelling, without locking the door of the apartment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
