Machine-guns, such as the Maxim and Hotchkiss, weigh 60 lbs.
Let the cobbler stick to his last" is a maxim which carries an ever-increasing force.
In the first place, the plates made a rattling noise which has been compared to the reports of a Maxim gun; secondly, though the contrivance acted fairly well on level ground, it failed when uneven surfaces were encountered.
Yesterday it was the discoveries of Pasteur and the Maxim gun; to-day it is the Finsen rays and the Rexer automatic rifle.
There is here only an application of the generally accepted maxim that when we see identical results we are warranted in assuming identical causes.
It is an idle maxim which teaches that truth always conquers, if by that is implied that it does so at once.
Our men, in charging it, would be exposed to a rifle and Maxim fire for at least 800 yards.
It is a favorite political maxim of Englishmen, that taxation and representation should go hand in hand; and that none shall be taxed without their own consent.
Desipere in loco" is not only a very agreeablemaxim to the author, but a very wise and prudent one.
Experience teaches that the public will accept, without question, almost anymaxim or problem, provided it be formulated in such a manner as to convey some specific meaning that does not demand reflection or complex examination.
These, too, belonged to it, on the maxim of Roman or Pagan law, that partus sequitur ventrem, or the offspring follows the parent.
Or if the insurgents had commanded respect instead of mere pity, we should have paid heed to their struggle sooner; for it is almost an American maxim that a people cannot govern itself till it can win its own independence.
With the gunners went two Maxim fighting machines, which as a precautionary measure were placed ready for action in the bow of the vessel.
They retained their small arms and had only one Maxim gun.
Is he willing that the maxim of his act should be universal, and apply to experiments upon his own child, when it lies at the point of death?
Suppose we apply this maxim of Kant to the use of human beings for research purposes.
It was an old and fixed maxim likewise of the Roman government not to suffer any unlicensed assemblies of the people.
For (and it is a maximwhich your reading and conversation must have often suggested to you) it is a far greater disgrace losing the name one has once acquired than never to have attained it.
Smokeless powder and Maxim silencers are no ways common out in these woods.
The Indians and cowmen do not know that there are such things in existence as smokeless powder and Maxim silencers.
They were Savage rifles, of the latest make, equipped with Maxim silencers.
The command rang out sharply in the crisp, clear air, and almost instantly the clatter of the Maxim awoke the echoes.
And all the while, without cessation, without a moment's pause, the rifles of the defenders flashed forth revengefully, and the Maxim scattered its volleys into the masses of the enemy.
It looked as though this was to be the case, for not a gun flashed, and not one of the defenders could be seen, save a group of five or six, who stood immovable upon the mound where the Maxim was placed.
The presented self, we have said, attenuates to a mere maxim or tacit presumption in favor of a certain type of logical procedure in dealing with the situation.
And I am not sure," he continued, turning his back on Evan and looking out of the prow of the ship into the darkness, "I am not sure that I agree with your little maxim about justice.
Yet on they went staggerin', cooryin' doun When the stutter and cluck o' a Maxim crept roun'.
Then all the 'Uns that was underground, Comes up with a rush and on with a bound, And I swings that giddy old Maxim round And belts 'em solid and square.
He witnessed the ominous decline of every traditional maxim and national reverence in favor of imported superstitions and degenerate barbarities.
Mr. Hiram Maxim has declared that a flying machine in South Africa would have been worth four times its weight in gold.
Langley with his marvellous Aerodrome, and that of Hiram Maxim and of Otto Lilienthal, were given especial consideration.
The maxim that all men were, or ought to be, 'equal' asserts correctly that there must not be arbitrary differences.
The scene was a very amusing one, for, acting out the maxim that "time is money," comparatively few of the passengers came down to the wharf more than five minutes before the hour of sailing.
A famous sheep raiser in New York, when asked to give a maxim for success in the business, answered, "Buy when your neighbors sell, and sell when your neighbors buy.
The maxim "Each for all and all for each" is thoroughly grounded in the constitution of man; his needs and abilities enforce society and insist upon community of interests.
While the old maxim says, "A penny saved is worth two gained," every one recognizes the penny as absolutely worthless except in view of some utility to be gained in spending it.
If wealth were distributed by omniscient wisdom and power according to the maxim of Louis Blanc, the higher welfare would still be as far away as ever, unless the same omniscience should control all actions.
Next to the Maxim gun, it's the most deadly object in existence.
Begin early is the great maximfor everything in education.
Doctor Franklin's maxim was a wise one, 'Nothing is cheap that we do not want.
The most perfect sample I ever met was an old woman, who was apparently the poorest and most forlorn of the human species--so true is the maxim which all profess to believe, and which none act upon invariably, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maxim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
