Long after the camp had gone to bed, I lay on the pine-needles above the brook, shielded from the wind by a break in the slope, and thought of the strange happenings of that day.
The Count was smiling as he put up his sword, his friends crowding around him, when Ebhardt cried out that his man could fight the second mensur,--though the wound was three needles long.
Mr. Flint was seated on a bench, his hands clasped across his stick, and as she came softly over the carpet of the needles he did not hear her until she stood beside him.
The purpose of the bow pattern was to show that compass needles at the centers of the two loops deflected in opposite directions.
It was a young porcupine, one of these prickly fellows so like a tiny bear, only with long black needles instead of fur.
Throwing himself at last on the soft pine needles on a little hill-top, he peered through the moonlight to where the Hired Man was staring helplessly about him wondering where the dead fox lay.
Glass is a specialty of Stourbridge, carpets of Kidderminster, salt of Droitwich, and needles and fishhooks of Redditch.
Needles and thread should also be at hand, to repair any little accident incurred in dancing.
It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
Sea through pine-needles is so like the blink of very blue eyes fringed by thick black lashes!
There are two needles to be formed out of one piece of wire; in the previous preparation of which the eyes are marked.
Needles are not so cheap as pins, because the material of which they are made is more expensive, and the processes cannot be executed so fully by machinery.
Needles are made in such large quantities, that it is even important to save the time of the child who lays them all one way when they are completed.
The needles are placed sideways in a heap, on a table, in front of each operator.
Those needles which had their eyes on the right hand do not stick into the finger-cover, and are pushed to the heap on the right side previous to the repetition of the process.
It is necessary to separate the needles into two parcels, in order that their points may be all in one direction.
He broke through the shadowyneedles amidst a crash of snapped-off twigs, and there was a confused floundering in the darkness below.
The deflection of the needles D and C is observed by means of a pointer or glass needle A, B, rigidly connected with the astatic system by a prolongation of the brass rod connecting the needles D and C.
An astatic needle is a combination of magnetised needles with their poles turned opposite ways.
G is the galvanometer, k a milled head from which the needles are suspended, and by turning k they can be raised or lowered, m is the head of a screw which arrests or frees the needle when in motion.
He had barely regained some measure of steadiness, though he felt as if needles were sticking into him all over, when at last there was a crashing amid the bushes on the right bank, not a hundred yards distant.
Its roof of tasselled boughs was stabbed by flashing needles of sunlight, which let in a flickering, mellow radiance, and traced a pattern on the woodland carpet.
He was a strong, well-balanced young fellow; yet here again he knew the sensation as if needles were pricking him all over, which he had felt once before in these wilds, while his heart seemed to be performing athletic sports in his body.
The soft firneedles make a beautiful aromatic bed.
I shall like that," cried the boy; "only won't the fir needles prick when we undress?
The industrious up-and-down picking of the needles accompanied the joyful conversation of the sisters.
Known the length and breadth of his beautiful white body, and the depth of his love, on the high Summer Alp, with the moon above, and the pine-needles all shiny in the light of it.
Her knitting-needles clicked and Christine talked, This child matured to woman unaware, The first time left alone.
Two rooms were prepared, with pieces of material, scissors, needles and threads, and each young man was shut up in one of them.
Then a dreadful idea came over him, and he ran to the chamber where the needles had been kept, but it was quite empty.
Well, know that neither I nor any of my family can die till I have worn out these needles in sewing.
A yellow wasp wandered over the blue-green needles till he found a pair with a drop of liquid like dew between them.
The thick needles shelter them, from the current of air, and the sky is bluer above the pines.
The driest place is under the firs, where the needles have fallen and strew the surface thickly.
Though but young trees, there was a coating of fallen needles under the firs an inch thick, and beneath it the dry earth touched warm.
Put, too, the sharp needles of the green corn; let the wind clear it of snow a little way, and show that under cold clod and colder snow the green thing pushes up, knowing that summer must come.
Then as my eye grew more accustomed to the texture of their substance, I perceived that almost all this surface had a fibrous texture, like the carpet of brown needles one finds beneath the shade of pine trees.
I had discovered among these needles a number of little round objects.
They had kicked up the damp and matted pine needles very plainly all along.
But just you give him a pair of young knittin'-needles and see him make 'em sweat!
Going to wash before breakfast at sunrise, I foundneedles of ice in a pail.
The ground was level in the spot he had chosen, without stones or roots, and matted with the fallenneedles of the pines.
To serve for mattress, fragrant pine-needles filled it.
The wind made soft rush in their tops, sending the brown needles lightly on the air.
The trees were small and close together, mingling their green needles overhead and their discarded brown ones on the ground.
These big brown and seamy-barked pines with their spreading gnarled arms and webs of green needles belonged to her, as also the tiny brook, the blue bells smiling out of the ferns, the single stalk of mescal on a rocky ledge.
The sudden scurrying of a wood-mouse over the dry spruce-needles made his knees tremble beneath him.
Meanwhile the cold deepened swiftly; the wind grew savage and shrieked over the cages and the roofs; and the snow, dry and hard like the driven needles of the Arctic night, thickened so that one could not see ten paces before his nose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: armor; cortex; harness; mail; panoply; shell; shield
