At the slow speed we were traveling the drone of our motors was hardly audible to us, and I felt sure that it could not be heard on the ground.
We hung suspended in the air with no motors working.
The insect was evidently amused at Jim and was determined to find out the limits of his intelligence, for he pointed out various controls and motors of the ship and made elaborate sketches which Jim seemed to comprehend fairly well.
He turned both stern motors to full power, and we shot up like a rocket toward the hole in the protective layer through which the invaders had entered.
Static was them, and sparks from running motors and blown fuses.
There was a humming and roaring of motors that filled the air.
It may be said that many animals are able to develop the full dynamic energy of the carbon they consume, whereas the best of our motors do not develop more than 10 per cent.
Regarding the motors now being employed, I think that there is still room for a great deal of improvement in the direction of greater lightness, higher efficiency and reliability.
I have been able to ascertain from what I have myself seen, I cannot learn that there are any motors in practical use which do not weigh, including their storage batteries, at least 300 lbs.
The motors depôted too much and Meares has been brought on far farther than his orders were originally bringing him.
The motorshad had to be shifted, and a lot of gear placed higher up the beach, but the water had never reached near the hut, so all was well.
They were to wait for us in latitude 80° 30´, man-hauling certain loads on if themotors broke down.
To-night the motors were to be taken on to the floe.
If themotors are successful, we shall have no difficulty in getting to the Glacier, and if they fail, we shall still get there with any ordinary degree of good fortune.
All went well this first day on the Barrier, and encouraging messages left on empty petrol drums told us that the motors were going well when they passed.
He said, however, that he had no confidence whatever in the motors after the way their rollers had become messed up unloading the ship.
Day had certainly done his best about themotors and they had helped us over a bad bit of initial surface.
The actual distribution of weights between dogs, motors and ponies, and between the different ponies, was largely left in his hands.
In the big gale coming South when the ship nearly sank, and when we lost one of the cherished motors through the sea-ice, his was one of the few cheerful faces I saw.
All he could hear was the thuttering roar of the Zeppelin's motors and the clash of their own engine.
Of course, if the boilers were blown up, the electric generating motors would stop as well as the steam engines.
Although the cabin arrangements on the Zeppelin made the place where Tom Cameron was confined almost soundproof, the jar and rumble of the ship's powerful motors were audible.
The thundering of the motors of the great airship, as well as the clatter of their own engine, made speech between the two Americans quite impossible.
But her motors had stopped entirely, and that meant that the wind was driving her as it pleased.
With the cessation of the motors his ear became tuned to other sounds--the shrieking of the wind through the stays and the thumping of its blasts upon the elephant-like envelope.
But she grasped her father's arm and drew him out among the entangled motors and vociferating policemen.
Once, in September, this routine was broken in upon by the unannounced descent of a flock of motors bearing the Princess Estradina and a chosen band from one watering-place to another.
There he paused a full minute, his hands in his pockets, staring out at the perpetual interweaving ofmotors in the luminous setting of the square.
There was a noise of motors backing and advancing in the court, and she heard the first voices on the stairs.
The front deck extended to the prow, the powerful motors and other machinery being mostly under it, near the middle of the craft, just in front of the cabin door.
A boat which looked like a launch, fitted withmotors and well filled with tanks and crates, shot out of a little bay and followed the steamer.
While the deck was kept closed over the machinery on ordinary occasions, it was so arranged that a square of the deck lifted like a patch above the motors whenever special attention was being given to them.
The last familiar figure they saw as they got under way, the motorsticking merrily under the hatch on the deck floor, was that of Captain Joe, standing on the pier and waving a white handkerchief from a pudgy hand.
Under this deck, forward of the motors and apparatus for supplying electricity, were storage spaces for provisions and gasoline.
Jule started the motorsagain and the distance between the two craft increased.
Clay set the motors going at full speed and headed for the other side of the river.
When, after some haggling and unnecessary delay, the motors were started again, Clay looked very sober.
While members of the mob sprang for nearby boats, Frank set the motorsgoing and picked up the boys halfway to the dock.
The great puffing sound of primeval monsters which had blended into one rather harmonious note ceased, as if by signal, and the innumerable motors stopped.
There were innumerable dull, rumbling sounds, made by the cannon and motors of all kinds passing along the roads, and at times also he heard the heavy tramp of scores of thousands marching in a direction that did not lead to Paris.
The line of motors turned into the place and they too disappeared behind the château, following the hussars.
The French aeroplanes were around them now, their motors drumming steadily and the aviators shouting congratulations to Lannes and Caumartin, whom they knew well.
Back of the cannon is a great huddle of motors and of large automobile trucks, loaded, I should say, with ammunition.
He also saw sitting erect in one of the motors the man for whom he had felt at first sight an invincible repulsion.
Motors were blown to pieces and cannon dismounted.
He bids farewell to the audience that he has never seen before, and will never see again, invokes a fervent blessing on them, and presently the motors are rushing away into the wet night, bearing with them this burning fire of a man.
At length the motors dash up through the mud and wet, and out of the first of them he appears, a tall, cloaked figure.
Half an hour later he was settling the ship down, under cover of darkness, on the vast grounds behind the Ingersoll estate, cutting the motors to effect a quiet landing.
A preliminary explosion or two from the motors announced to all that the aviator intended leaving the place.
For a few moments the boys rode in absolute silence with only the whine of the motors breaking the stillness.
Accordingly Jack increased the speed of the motors and brought the Eagle to the course suggested.
Oliver strolled out to the gate and stood looking down the road, but the procession of motors had long since come to an end, so that the highway stretched, white and empty, to the far end of the valley.
Lines of motors were rolling down the road from early morning onward, filled with flannel-coated or befrilled holiday makers or laden with farmers and farmers' wives and farmers' children.
You will also perceive that my motors are on the principle of the paddle-wheel and the screw-propeller combined.
But my instruments have demonstrated that our motors are now absolutely of no use.
Let the motors be started again, Graham, at full pressure.
The Sirius was now heading rapidly away from Earth; under Graham's superintendence, the motors were hourly increasing their speed.
Faster and faster we sped; the motors at last working to their utmost limits, the dial registering our speed at precisely fifteen hundred miles per hour.
Already we heard the signal being given; the Sirius was toppling over, but instead of falling, the motors sped round and we rose upwards towards the clouds, triumphant over our enemies.
We have lost but little time, for the moment we knew you were safe the motors were started again at full pressure.
In the summer, when the windows were open, he could hear the hoot of the motors as they tore along it.
There were other days when he watched there, days when only motors whizzed by, or a few carriages and an occasional cart rumbled along.
Stuart insisted on retaining the battalion’s older M-4A2 Shermans because he believed the twin General Motors diesel engines were safer in combat.
It is quite possible, of course, to use two rubber motors of an equal number of strands (equality should be first tested by weighing).
No attempt should on any account be made to use electric motors for model aeroplanes.
To Test Different Motors or Different Powers of the Same Kind of Motor.
The subject of model propellers andmotors has been somewhat fully dealt with, as but little has been published (in book form, at any rate) on these all-important departments.
For scale models not intended for actual flight, of course, electric motors have their uses.
For rubber motors a very great deal so far as length of life depends on the accuracy and skill with which the strands are cut.
Test them on the same machine, and do not use different motors or different powers on different machines.
Prior to 1893 Mr. Hargraves (of cellular kite fame) studied the question of compressed-air motors for model flying machines.
The most obvious solution of the problem is to use two equal propellers (as in the Wright biplane) of equal and opposite pitch, driven by two rubber motors of equal strength.
The night and the absence of thickly crawling motors and swarming crowds gave it dignity.
He makes any amount of money by dressing that portion of young America which sellsmotors and vacuum cleaners and gramaphone records and hangs about stage doors smoking cheap cigarettes.
Pneumatic motors are widely used in operating cranes and air hoists.
A more attractive system of control is to have the turbines drive electric generators and then use the electric power to drive the propellers through motors mounted on the propeller shafts.
Nearly twice as much gas was required in the early noncompression-type motors as is required to-day in the compression motors of the same power.
The motors and generators for these stations came from the Westinghouse plant in Pittsburgh, and Westinghouse also supplied the turbo-generators which inaugurated, in 1895, the delivery of power from Niagara Falls.
The first motors to use Edison station current were designed by Frank J.
Meanwhile, however, as he worked on his motorsand dynamos, he was anticipated by others in some of his inventions.
These small motors possessed several advantages over the big steam engine.
It is unsafe," he explained, "to take these motors any further.
Army transports rattled over the cobbled square; one of the gray motors with its muffler cut out, snorted past; and then the eye began to take in its surroundings.
Below in the alley panted one of the gray-green army motors waiting to bring us to the station.
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We could adjust the helmets and start the motors all within a few seconds.
We had dimmed the lights to conserve our power, and to enable the Erentz motors to run at full capacity.
The lights came on again; the Erentz motors accelerated to normal.
The Erentz motors would overheat; some might go bad from the strain.
One of the literally burning questions of the moment has been how to dispose of the little lanterns one's obliged to carry after dark now that so many people have given their motors to the country and stump it or bus it everywhere.
Speaking of those who've given all their motors to the State and those who haven't, a new social danger has bobbed up for the latter--the chauffeuse.
They had a glimpse however, of a vast upheaval, as the new amphibian was cast up skyward in fragments, even the weighty motors being hurled aloft, to speedily come back to earth with dreadful force.
Motors going Rouen-ward seemed to be past as quickly as motorsthat bore down on us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
