He plies her hard; and much rain wears the marble.
He plies the Duke at morning and at night, And doth impeach the freedom of the state, If they deny him justice.
Another plies him with lupuline, camphor, and digitaline.
Meanwhile, the villain who betrayed her still maintains his standing in society, and plies his arts to win another victim.
They therefore strutted in imitation of the great machine, emitting large puffs from their little warm mouths, and making the sound which a groom makes when he plies the curry-comb.
Then she repeated these two couplets, "Let days their folds andplies deploy, * And shun the house that deals annoy!
Almost always an odd number of plies are used to secure balanced construction.
The outside plies are called faces, or face and back.
So I withdrew to my possum-rug, speculating on the mysterious effect of a ray of lunar light on grey matter protected by various plies of apparently well-arranged natural armour.
I proceeded through the plantation of Amparo, and reached the spot at which passengers embark in the canoe that plies between the island and the main land.
An universal silence reigns In rugged bark or peel, Except that very trunk which rings Beneath the biting steel-- Meanwhile the Woodman plies his axe With unrelenting zeal!
There's the omnibus cads as plies in Cheapside, and keeps calling out Bank and City; Let his Worship, the Mayor, decide if our call of Sweep is not just as pretty.
A mine's beneath a moor: Acres of moor roof fathoms of mine Which diamonds dot where you please to dig; Yet who plies spade for the bright and big?
From the Gibbet Hill it is nearly a mile on to the inhabited part of Hindhead, whose nearest station is Haslemere, three miles off, in the valley below, to and from which now plies an omnibus.
Nor less the critic owns thy genial aid, While supperless he plies the piddling trade.
This seeks a mountain's top, that gains a skiff, And plies his oars where late he plough'd the plains.
In all the three cases, there was none either in the many-plies or in the reed.
In the other two cavities, (the many-plies and the reed,) there was absolutely none.
Neither the many-plies nor the reed contained a single grain.
It appears equally certain that, in the first swallowing, this kind of food only enters into the first two cavities, and never passes into the many-plies or the reed.
He found the greatest part of this mash in the paunch and in the honeycomb; but he likewise found a certain portion in the many-plies and in the reed.
Ah, little dreams the quiet dame Who plies with' rock and spindle The patient flax, how great a flame Yon little spark shall kindle!
Mean time at home The good wife singing plies the various loom.
He sometimes plies at the Opera; and upon Nicolini's first Appearance, was said to have demolished three Benches in the Fury of his Applause.
Very delightful indeed is a voyage in the little steamer which plies between Deganwy, Conway, and Trefriw; but it is at Conway Marsh that the river is at its noblest.
At Sarr, a few miles from Fordwich, the ferry which now pliesat Grove Ferry was formerly the means of communication with the Isle of Thanet.
The busy hand of trade no longerplies Within her streets.
The inviteuse oftenplies also another trade--that of a semi-prostitute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
