He seems above the suspicion of theft; but whether he had just cause to think the punches were his own, it is now impossible to decide.
Robert Stephens had carried with him to Geneva in 1550, the punches of his types, made at the expense of Francis I.
And he sat by the window, murmuring over and over to himself: "Why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?
Why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?
I could ask him an easy one, about the miller's hat, or about why the tickets don't get mad when the conductor punches 'em.
It's why don't the tickets get mad when the conductor punches 'em?
The presses were manufactured in as good style as those he had relinquished; but sadly he missed the nice execution of Schoeffer in getting up the punches and type.
His old arms rained punches on the midriff of the man who held him and he knew they stung cruelly, for at every punch the man grunted and strove to clinch him tighter and smother the next blow.
Hector, man, those punches of yours would have destroyed a battalion of cripples.
The function of the keyboard section is to punch a series of holes in a moving strip of paper, which unwinds from one spool to another, passing under a series of punches in its journey.
The punches are operated by pressing the keys on the keyboard, the result of this operation being a roll of perforated paper ribbon.
If the pattern to be inlaid be very small, steel punches of the exact shape of the tools are used to punch or cut out the patterns required.
As each arm rises, small holes are pierced, by means of punches in the sheets, from the inside, to facilitate the entrance and egress of the needles.
The most useful punches are those producing a powdered or a very small check pattern.
Pyrogravure is an alternative method of producing strongly accentuated lines, and by the judicious use of punches an infinite variety of interesting background effects can be obtained.
The effect of some punches is dependent on their arrangement in combination; others can be arranged independently to form a semis--a pattern made up by the repetition of some given figure at intervals.
Punches are also employed in tooling with gold leaf, or in burnishing the impression of their surface on groundwork gilded with shell gold.
The Prudential Committee, appreciating the new demands, authorized an expenditure of five thousand dollars for punches and types in the Armenian, Greek, and Hebrew languages, and for foundries of types and stereotype plates.
These were lost in his shipwreck, but he afterwards replaced them at Constantinople, to the number of two hundred; so varied, that the punches formed for them would make not far from a thousand matrices.
Stand it he did until Tony got enough confidence for infighting, though he should never have attempted to swap punches with such a big fellow.
Late one afternoon Gus stopped pulling weights to watch Siebold box with a big soph who was a mark for quick, scientific work and whose heavy punches and swings often fell short of their aim.
At the back of the machine a roll of paper runs over rollers and above a row of thirty little punches worked by the keys.
The paper passes over a hollow bar in which there are as many holes as there were punches in the keyboard, and in precisely the same position.
The punches fly up and cut two neat little holes in the paper.
But believe me, it requires a thousand times more skill to avoid the many and quick punches of a prize-fighter who keeps his eyes open and strikes with intelligence.
He was overwhelmed, buried beneath avalanches of punches delivered from every angle and position by a past master in the art.
A checker-up compares them with the original schedules, and if incorrectly punched, punches a new card, if only insufficiently punched, punches the missing place.
Of course they can be mended by punching holes and riveting a piece in; but they require good punches and a matrix, for which a piece of hardened wood may be substituted, and some skill and patience.
Of course we carried a couple of wad punches of the proper size in case our supply should run short.
Where we falter and speculate and end by making a mess of it all, Bob just punches the bad Sultan's head and passes on to the giraffe that fell into the water.
Punches are generally made flat on their cutting edge, as shown in Fig.
There are also punches made spiral on their cutting edge, as shown in Fig.
The maker of punches and dies generally allows about three sixty-fourths or 0.
Punches and sherbets are water-ices with liquors mixed with them either before or after they are frozen.
Punches differ from sherbets only in having a little Italian meringue added to them just before serving.
Punches having other names are made in the same way, but have other liquors or mixtures of liquors.
On the other hand, there are many who think that matrices and punches are due to the ingenuity of Peter Schoeffer, to whom reference is made below.
Punches for this purpose may be had in great variety.
Lines are first drawn on the work as guides to place the punches to insure regularity.
And as the punches were jabbing at the one hot billet another was falling from the furnace, and another was being worked in the draw-press, or rolling from it rapidly across the floor to the cooling place.
One after another the full set of punches take their turn and squeeze and press their shape upon the plastic steel.
Thus, he can punch out many thousands of corks a day, the noise of the punches being a very characteristic sound in all such establishments.
From here the strips go to the stopper-makers' punches or blocking machines.
In addition to the chisels shown, a number of solid punches or drifts resembling very much that shown at E, except that the point is blunt should be provided to drive out taper pins, bolts, rivets, and other fastenings of this nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
