Now Hopedale lies behind a rampart of islands twenty miles deep; while the portion of the Arctic current which splits off at the head of Newfoundland, and pushes down through the strait, pressesclose past Caribou Island.
Out of the eternal ice of the North the current presses down along the coast, chilling land and air wherever it touches.
He presses me to try a somewhat shallow and level run where sea trout love to lie, and offers me his rod (mine being left behind) for the purpose.
To-day we have a great variety of printing presses which embody both science and art in skillful fashion.
The roof of the inner cylinder presses down heavily upon the gas, pushing it into the large main pipes, which run from the gasometer through the principal streets.
The presses which Benjamin Franklin used were made with wooden framework of the simplest possible construction.
Some of the surplus steam in the locomotive pumps air into tanks in the cars, which air presses upon a piston, that moves a rod against the brakes.
The conviction that she is deadpresses its cold weight upon him none the less heavily.
In the night it presses on our imagination--the forms it takes are false, fitful, exaggerated; in broad day it sickens our sense with the dreary persistence of definite measurable reality.
Any time you was pleased to appoint to-morrow morning, I was to show you the presses and things they belong to.
He so presses the empty bottle upon Mr. Guppy that that gentleman, with a nod to his friend, accepts the trust and hurries out and hurries in again with the bottle filled.
It is the anxious thought, mainly about the "to-morrow," which presses upon the heart as a sore and constant burden.
It is no longer the sense of physical need, but the deeper sense of guilt, that now presses upon his soul.
The Patriot newspaper was printed there, and the compositors and press-men not only of that office, but of nearly all the newspaper offices in the city, were busily occupied in removing the type and presses downstairs.
She pressesit to her lips, and impetuously breaks for the shore!
The cheese-presses are kept and the churning is done in the big offices by the wayside; but the milking is carried on in a very Long Room, found, from considerable experience, to be peculiarly adapted to this profitable line of trade.
JEAN withdraws her arm from his and quite suddenly presses a shade nearer the platform.
JEAN (presses her handkerchief to her lips, and then, taking it away, answers steadily).
The Jangam presses down the earth over the grave and then stands on it and refuses to come off until he is paid a sum of money varying with the means of the man, the minimum payment being Rs.
But a powerful outburst of patriotic feeling was hindered by the political condition of the country; in Cologne and Bavaria, French printing-presses were at work, and German pens wrote against their own countrymen.
Printing and paper, which the small printing presses had deteriorated already before the war, continue poor even in our century.
Company K presses forward to the ground Company I has just left, the fours sweep around into line, the sabers and revolvers come out spontaneously, the men cheer and the Company flings itself forward.
There were a number of tobacco presses in the rooms we occupied in Richmond, and to each of these was a quantity of sheets of tin, evidently used to put between the layers of tobacco.
It is often used to take an opponent unawares or when he presses unduly hard on your blade.
Wizard Lewis presses the thin hand--"see that they make my grave by her side at the garden's foot!
Since nothing peculiar presses upon him in the way of opposition, the General falls ill.
As they give way, running from one tree to another, their hunting-shirt foe presses forward--as deadly a skirmish line as ever commander threw out!
With the Motive of Fate he faces his destiny; and then, while the Freia Motive rises like a vision of loveliness, he sinks over Bruennhilde, and with closed eyes presses his lips to hers.
Irresistibly drawn toward her, he approaches and kneels by her side; and she, whispering to him in tender accents, leans over him and presses a long kiss upon his lips.
In the time of king Edward the sixth, the presses were employed in favour of the reformed religion, and small tracts were dispersed over the nation, to reconcile them to new forms of worship.
There was not then that opportunity of printing in private; for the number of printers was small, and the presses were easily overlooked by the clergy, who spared no labour or vigilance for the suppression of heresy.
No hollow building can be equally strong with a solid mass, of which every upper part presses perpendicularly upon the lower.
Sidenote: Nothing in this Act to grant any exclusive Right longer than such Books are printed at the presses of the Universities.
What was the cause--the question presses on us through every page of Dino or of Dante--what was the cause of that ruin which waited in Florence as in every Italian city on so short a burst of freedom?
And so over the espalier, whose fruit-hedge has hitherto divided our darling from his Eden, every reader now presses after him!
Boats piled with coal-black grapes block the landing-place, for the Padri are gathering their vintage from the Lido, and their presses run with new wine.
A youth has twisted both hands in his hair, and presses them against his ears to drown the screams and groans and roaring thunder.
The starting switches of draw presses are protected by big red tags which have to be removed before the switch can be turned--this prevents the machine being started thoughtlessly.
Those who believe that the people are so easily led that they would permit printing presses to run off money like milk tickets do not understand them.
Scott A treatise on the methods of applying power to printing presses and allied machinery with particular reference to electric drive.
She stretches her dry, yellow hand forward and with a kind of concentrated intentness presses her bent, bony finger a long time on the white bell-button lying on the little round table at her head.
The presses in the cloisters were still utilised for books in daily reference.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
