Sole, shark, and dogfish skins, dried and mounted on handles, make very efficient rasps and files for woodwork.
Toward morning all the assistants are struggling hard to overcome somnolence, while the shaman sings and rasps as conscientiously and enthusiastically as ever.
Then he rests the end of the notched stick against the man's head and rasps three long strokes from end to end, throwing out his hand far into the air after each stroke.
It is worthy of observation, that a pair of these rasps is between the second and third pair of true legs.
Assortment of Files andRasps needed in a farm shop.
There is a vast deal of ugly music in "Salome,"--music that offends the ear andrasps the nerves like fiddlestrings played on by a coarse file.
It is their filth and blood which fructifies the music, which rasps the nerves even as the plays revolt the moral stomach.
It is a good rule that files and rasps are to be used on wood only as a last resort, when no cutting tool will serve.
Both files and rasps can be cleaned with a file-card, Fig.
The only skins they prepared were those of sharks and some other fish, which they used as rasps for smoothing woodwork.
The Periwinkle rasps the seaweed with his tongue, and so scrapes off his dinner.
Chalk, sandstone, or oak, it is all the same to the Piddock, which rasps them away with its file.
In the carrion- beetles (Necrophorus) two parallel rasps (r, Fig.
In Blethisa the transverse ridges on the furrowed border of the abdominal segment do not, as far as I could judge, come into play in scraping the rasps on the elytra.
In Heterocerus, which belongs to another family, the rasps are placed on the sides of the first abdominal segment, and are scraped by ridges on the femora.
In Blethisa the transverse ridges on the furrowed border of the abdominal segment do not come into play, as far as I could judge, in scraping the rasps on the elytra.
In the carrion-beetles (Necrophorus) two parallel rasps (r, fig.
There are several fine old snuff rasps in the Victoria and Albert Museum, one large rasp measuring 15 in.
When snuff-making became an established trade, and the need for snuff rasps to be carried was not so great, the decoration of snuff boxes became more ornate.
The teeth of rasps are cut with a punch, which is represented in two views, Fig.
This form of shoe rasp is the one in general use at this time, having almost entirely superseded the flat and swaged rasps formerly in use.
Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their brokensnouted gaffer rasps out with raucous humour.
For rough finishing you may use rasps and large rifflers, for finer work small files.
But if when presenting his qualifications the applicant rasps the ears of his hearer for a long time with high-pitched head tones, the listener intuitively becomes prejudiced.
When a man has a bad cold in his head that blocks the nasal passages, his voice rasps the ears of a hearer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rasps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
