Far below were sounds, a rasp of metal against metal, a low murmur of muted voices.
The voice transmitted through that grill was metallic, but its rasp held overtones of Kelgarries' voice.
Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets, 386.
When left untouched by the farrier's rasp it serves the purpose, by acting as a natural varnish, of protecting the horn of the wall from the effects of undue heat or moisture.
This we know now is not an important matter, and it is sufficient to say that the first preliminary is a thinning down of the horn of the quarter with the raspover the position occupied by the cartilage.
The average man of resource will deem a smith's rasp and one or two strong drawing-knives amply sufficient, and on no account should they be omitted from the list of those ready to hand.
On the day previous to the operation the horn of the wall immediately over the cartilage must be so thinned with a rasp as to yield readily to pressure of the thumb in any position.
Here it is sometimes wise to thin the wall with the rasp immediately below the point of greatest swelling of the coronet.
Directly this appears it is a wise plan to thin the wall down with the rasp immediately below the swelling.
The method of Gross consists in thinning down with a rasp about 1-1/2 inches of the horn of the wall immediately below the coronet, the thinned portion extending from heel to heel.
This is accomplished by removing with the rasp and the knife those portions indicated by the dotted lines in Fig.
Guildhall collection, which is of the rasp variety.
The application of the raspatory to smooth the bone after the use of the file shows that it must have been more of the nature of a rasp than a file which was used for bones.
Scribonius Largus speaks of a wood file or rasp used in reducing a hart's horn to powder (Comp.
The answer was a thrust that ripped my coat in turn, and then followed the rasp of our blades.
The rasp of his match made a short, indignant sound in the quiet room.
The rasp of file on steel sounded loud in his tent like an alarm.
The children heard their shovels rasp on the cloth where the yellow hops lie drying above the fires, and all the oast-house filled with the sweet, sleepy smell as they were turned.
She could hear the long hairs rasp on his shimmery shoulder-plates.
They shook hands, and the children could hear the hard palms rasp together.
Larkwell's breathing became a harsh rasp in the interphones.
It was Gotch's voice, a rasp coming over a great distance.
The latter, also, combines at the same time the properties of a saw and of a rasp or file.
And then, with a quarrelsome rasp in his tone: "Are you getting ready to switch again?
When they were alone again, the momentary trepidation had given place to a renewed hardness that lent a biting rasp to his voice.
Here we have no Inquisition, no Bastile, no Rasp House, to dread.
As soon as a diagnosis is made the shoes must be removed, the toe shortened with the hoof pincers and rasp and the subject is put in a well bedded box-stall.
The wall must be thinned with a rasp until it is readily flexible by compressing with the thumbs.
Again she heard the rasp of his metallic voice with its brisk derision.
Rasp the same amount of fat bacon and mix with the truffles and stuff the turkey with it.
Rasp the lemons a little and nick them at one end; lay them in a dish with very dry salt, let them be near the fire, and covered.
With it the carnivorous rasp away their food; and by bending it double and using it as a gimlet bandits like Nassa, the oyster pest, drill through other shells and devour the occupant.
The female's wing covers do not have the thickrasp veins at their bases.
The rasp was a drum, having rows of straight saws placed half an inch apart round its periphery, parallel to the axis, with teeth projecting about 1/8 of an inch.
The pulp from the rasp fell into a flat trough placed beneath, whence it was shovelled into small bags.
The great art in cutting a rasp is to place every new tooth as much as possible opposite to a vacancy.
A moderate stream of water should be made to play into the hopper upon the potatos, to prevent the surface of the rasp from getting foul with fibrous matter.
The roots are washed, and reduced to a pulp by means of a raspor grater.
In trials made with St. Etienne's rasp and starch machinery, in Paris, which was driven by two horses, nearly 18 cwt.
The last rasp of a jay's scold jangled out from the trees.
No astral eyes laugh from these skies, No nightingales sing in the night; A dungeoned curse that villains wrought Rasp each eternal vault and shoal.
Night-hawks rasp sins of women, men, Who sold their honour, soul and name.
From year to year infernal nights Rasp shoals a thousand furlongs wide; In ev'ry zone, each distant lee, Holds ghastly sights of burning sand.
And Boulders that the Djinnee cast As Vengeance swirl'd the heated dust, Now rock as devils rasp a son, And vampyres dance round and round.
The merry song of the hammer and the sweet rasp of the saw greeted my delighted ear as I entered the castle.
The afternoon hung so quiet that I heard the rasp of his finger nail against his sprouting beard.
She lives in a Castle in Spain"; sighed the calm, silky voice, with the odd break or rasp in it I knew so well.
The scream was stilled, but now we heard a commotion inside--the rasp of opening cabin doors; questions from frightened passengers; the scurry of feet.
His voice had the heavy, throaty rasp characteristic of the Martian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rasp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
