A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back.
Defn: A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.
If it is not, they, as pleading for him, will have overshot the mark of prudence.
The right he followed was too often the antithesis of ordinary morality: in his desire to cast away the false and grasp the true, he overshot the mark of prudence.
You defended Atlanta on a line so close to town that every cannon-shot and many musket-shots from our line of investment, that overshot their mark, went into the habitations of women and children.
All were simultaneous, and had to pass a good abatis and line of torpedoes, which actually killed more of the assailants than the heavy guns of the fort, which generally overshot the mark.
As the enemy's artillery overshot the mark we remained outside their fire.
I had already thrown four grenades, but all of them had overshot the mark.
You see our guns were posted at a point between eight and nine kilometers away and at the start we overshot a trifle.
By that which they saw, they thought they had overshot Rio de Palmas that night, which is sixty leagues from the river Panuco, which is in Nueva Espana.
Two of the brigantines, which sailed that night with all their sails, by break of day had overshot the river of Panuco without seeing it.
Eric found himself fondly stringing together anecdotes of Jack until he had overshot the limits of a single sheet; it seemed but a moment before he was leaning out of bed to reach a third.
The carriage had overshot Berkeley Street; but, as Eric leaned towards the open window, Barbara caught him suddenly by the wrist and shoulder until she had turned him to face her.
Fauchelevent and entering the ear of Marius overshot the possible.
They overshot Saint-Merry and found themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis.
From similar observations made in other years he concludes that these were portions of hosts which had overshotthe mark, and failing to find land had turned back.
The false move seemed to put it out, for after hesitating at the next and right turning, it actually overshot the mark.
How to Make a Water Wheel [374] Considerable power can be developed with an overshot water wheel erected as in Fig.
The wheel can be [Illustration: Overshot and Undershot Wheels] about 24 in.
The Turks were so dispirited by the defeat, by which they had lost the grand vizier, that the emperor might have made peace upon very advantageous terms; but his pride and ambition overshot his success.
Certain individuals, whose zeal for James overshot their discretion, formed a design to seize the person of king William, and convey him to France, or put him to death in case of resistance.
Occasionally indeed he overshot his mark, as notably in the fifth, which, being finished just before his concert in 1809, he found too difficult for his fingers, whereupon he was obliged to fall back on the third.
In the year 1752, Mr. Champion, of Bristol, applied the atmospheric engine to raise water, by which a number of overshot wheels were driven.
The engines usually raised the water from sixteen to twenty feet high, from whence it was conveyed to an overshot wheel, to which it gave motion.
Lady Arabella had had her reason for naming the list before her son; but she overshot her mark.
But he had overshot the mark, and did not know what answer to give when he was thus called upon to make a downright proposal.
Overshot and high breast wheels work badly in backwater, and hence if the tail-water level varies, it is better to reduce the diameter of the wheel so that its greatest immersion in flood is not more than 1 ft.
It was run by water brought from McKusick creek, the motive power being an overshot wheel forty-five feet in diameter.
The first wheel used was a flutter wheel, which, not proving satisfactory, was replaced by an overshot with buckets.
The motive power is an overshot wheel, propelled by water from two large springs.
Overshot yourself, Wheeler; overshot yourself, by all that's awkward.
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