Joan put 'em into me just now from the roof by a couple of gestures--enough to fill a dozen Primerswith words.
Nevertheless, he blessed them all, and the Creed Primers in a long series with red covers and black lettering flashed across his memory.
The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.
Instinct the Primers called it, but Wimble, recalling the Aquarian lecture, caught at another phrase--subconscious unity.
The block-book is but an abridgment of the old grammar: as it was usually printed in the form of a thin quarto, it could, with propriety, be classified among primers rather than with books.
Some of the tablets are the grammars and primers of the language; some are records of agreements to sell property or slaves; some are filled with astronomical or astrological predictions.
The object of these primers is to convey information in such a manner as to make it both intelligible and interesting to very young pupils, and so to discipline their minds as to incline them to more systematic after-studies.
Little is known respecting the Primers of this reign, and yet several editions were published.
The primers and first readers, when examined, will give ample proof of this statement.
In spite of the utmost effort of skilled primary teachers to make attractive books for primary children, our primers and first readers show unmistakable signs of their formal and mechanical character.
As they passed between the buoys, the cases of the torpedoes were heard by many on board knocking against the copper of the bottom, and many of the primers snapped audibly, but no torpedo exploded.
At another time "some gun-primers were wanted and I was sent after them.
This brought me completely to my senses, and I ran below and carried the primers on deck.
But sulphur when oxidized changes to an acid extremely corrosive to metal parts, and oxidized primers are liable not to function perfectly.
The primers in the ammunition manufactured at the Frankford Arsenal had given ordinarily satisfactory results in 12 years of peace-time use.
The primers used by the various private manufacturers of ammunition functioned satisfactorily.
It is not now impossible to find primers being used entirely devoid of lead, but the burden of proof remains favorable to the excellence of lead.
The diversity of religious primers which had grown up by 1565 led Henry VIII to cause to be issued a unified and official Primer, containing the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo, and the Ten Commandments.
Primers should be kept preferably in the ammunition-chests, and fixed ammunition in the shot-room.
Two insulated wires entering theprimers are joined by a platinum wire.
Why should all fixed ammunition and primers be stored separately from magazines containing powder?
Name the different kinds of primers used in the battery.
We stop, for example, where they are making primers to go in the head of your loaded shell, in order that it may not miss fire when the bunch of quail whirrs suddenly into the air from the sheltering grasses.
Primers were tried in different forms called “detonators,” but the familiar little copper cap was the most popular.
But you were only concerned about primersfor the children of the petty nobility, who are Polish.
A month ago I sent him two thousand primers for our impoverished shabby gentility, of whom no one thinks and who involuntarily or rather in spite of their will, are there losing their Polish spirit.
But "the black man," including Aunt Dinah, would have been much more impressed by primers in words of six.
Probably this was the original source of many blocks which afterwards were issued in all sorts of volumes, so frequently that their charm is somewhat tarnished by memories of badly printed cliches in children's primers and the like.
He gives no dates, and the primers are of 1856 and are written by Mr. Ridley, who cites them.
These primers at manufacture are filled with, basically, an explosive.
The primersare all done by hand, except for shotgun primers at Western.
An examination of these two cartridges, the primers of these two cartridges, reveals no marks that could be associated with the firing pin in Commission Exhibit 143, or any other weapon.
But there was no indication that any of the primers in these four cartridges had been struck by a firing pin.
There has been a rising wave of production of primers and first reading books during the past five years.
This brought me completely to my senses, and I ran below again and carried the primers on deck.
Soon after this some gun-primers were wanted, and I was sent after them.
He had been poring overprimers for three days, stuffing the most heterogeneous facts.
When he awoke in the morning and found the sun shining on his dusty primers and examination papers, he would think that he ought to go back to his old task; but he never did.
A lock and lanyard, should navy primers be used in firing; but if friction primers are used, then a lanyard with a hook in its end will be required, only.
The tubes of all the primers are carefully gauged before issuing them for service; but such as, from any cause, become so much enlarged as not to go easily into the vent, should be rejected without attempting to force them down.
The belts of Boarders to be furnished with a frog for a pistol, with its cartridges and percussion-caps; those of 1st and 2d Captains of guns with a box containing fifty primers fitted to slip on the waist-belt.
It is not necessary to pierce the cartridge when percussion-primers are used; their fire being always sufficient to pass through it.
Primers are to be kept in tin boxes containing fifty each, the lids of which are luted with shellac to exclude moisture until wanted for immediate use.
Though the primers seldom fail to penetrate the flannel stuff of the cartridge, it is well to pierce the latter with the wire, so as not to omit any means that may insure the instant discharge of the gun.
It is intended for use in case the lock should be out of order, or the other primers fail from any unforeseen cause.
Friction-primers are packed in tin boxes in the same manner as percussion-primers.
When primers have been returned from cruising ships, or have remained in store for one or more years, they must be tested by firing five per cent.
Filled boxes of primers are kept in close laboratory cases, for which stowage must be provided in the general store-room of the ship, or other safe place.
In case either lock or primer should entirely fail, recourse will be had to the friction-primers or to the spur-tubes.
On opening a new box, empty it carefully, and if any appreciable quantity of loose priming is found, the primers should not be used for ammunition intended for fine shooting.
If, by mistake, rifle-cartridge primers are used, there are likely to be many misfires.
In handling or in transportation the priming composition is sometimes loosened, dropping out of some of the primers and leaving them considerably weaker than the rest.
The quality of the primers affects the results to a much greater degree than most persons imagine, especially in reduced or gallery charges.
After the shells have been cleaned and dried the new primers may be placed in position.
It is well to examine the shells, also, and note if the primers have been struck in the center.
The primers for pistol and revolver cartridges are made more sensitive than for rifle cartridges.
The primers are made of copper and brass and are adapted for either black or smokeless powders.
Hargrove grabbed a slush bucket and proceeded to pour water into the limber chest with the smashed top, where fuses were fizzling and friction primers crackling in the tray above the loaded cartridges thereon.
The other officers all on their horses in their proper positions in each battery, all drivers mounted and cannoneers at post, with guns loaded and primers stuck in the gun vents, lanjords in the hands of No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
