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Example sentences for "long pole"

  • Fritz handed me a long pole; I tried the depth with that.

  • Caspar appeared, properly accoutred, with a long pole in one hand and a thong similar to Don Ricardo's in the other, he as well as his comrade being stark naked all to their waistcloths.

  • Chelmsford had the honor of retaining his head, which was affixed to a long pole in the market-place.

  • The cresset was a large lanthorn fixed at the end of a long pole, and carried upon a man's shoulder.

  • The "cresset light" was a large lanthorn placed upon a long pole, and carried upon men's shoulders.

  • The fishing spear I have already described as being a long pole with an elk-horn point.

  • A long pole, projecting sometimes as much as a hundred feet over the stream, is run out from the bank.

  • Four could paddle while one steered, and the sixth stood on the prow with a long pole punting, or on the look-out for dangerous obstacles.

  • Boys were trained to whirl round from the end of a long pole a rectangular, flat piece of wood attached to a long fibre or a string.

  • Why could not such a pair of pincers or forceps have been attached to a long pole, such as a fishing rod, and the letter in this way pushed through the window and released by pulling on a cord attached to one of the forceps' handles?

  • I had supposed they came from some mechanical device, fastened to the end of a long pole, but as a matter of fact, they were made by the monkey's teeth.

  • But I do believe that the two letters we found there were introduced from without, in some mysterious way, at the end of a long pole, or rod.

  • A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.

  • Defn: A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs.

  • Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs.

  • Emett and I, using a long pole in lieu of a horse, had carried Tom up from the Canyon to where we had captured the lioness.

  • Here, punch Moze out," said Jim handing up a long pole.

  • Shore, now comes the hell of it," said Jim appearing with a long pole.

  • Two of them were driven into the ground and joined at their top, and about twelve feet beyond them, other two were driven in, and connected by a long pole.

  • The recluse sat down, evidently much exhausted by his previous exertions; and while we towed the raft along, he kept it off the bank with a long pole.

  • The machilla is a long pole, with the ends of a piece of canvas made fast, over which a cover is stretched.

  • Here, either a calabash on a long pole is used in drawing water, or a fence is planted.

  • Attached to a long pole it is carried out of the village, followed by a troop of young people of both sexes, who alternately frolic, lament, and sing songs.

  • Decked with bright-coloured ribbons and cloths, and fastened to the top of a long pole, the effigy was then borne with singing and clamour to the nearest height, where it was stript of its gay attire and thrown or rolled down the slope.

  • This figure is stuck on a long pole, carried across the boundary of the village with loud cries of joy, and fastened to the top of a tree in the wood.

  • The native with a long pole, or rather stick, usually commences with a quiet nervous sort of poke, which awakes the bear out of his midday slumbers and causes him to rush at the stick with a furious growl.

  • Here the keeper started for a long pole with a sharp spike in the end of it, and returning with it in his hand, announced, "I will now make the great African lion foam and rage, and gnash his teeth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chopped nuts; held fast; long accustomed; long afterward; long ages; long beard; long chase; long continuance; long cruise; long discourse; long have; long inscription; long life; long nose; long period; long slant; long stick; long talk; long ways; long year; longer existed; longer have; longer know; longer stay; longer thought; molten rock