When they got within ten rods of the German trench they were so anxious to reach the Boche that they forgot to shoot and lifted up their big bayonets, while they shouted, 'For God and France!
The other day, in Kentucky, a negro jockey came in at the tail end of a race, ten rodsbehind his rival.
The projecting hooked rods seem as if they are connected by a spring in each case.
In order to move the lock-chamber up and down and to sustain it constantly in a horizontal position, nuts have been fixed to strong crossbeams, through which powerful screw-rods work.
It is interesting to note that the hollow space in the screw rods is heated by steam during winter, thus preventing the formation of ice in the machinery.
He says that, in an experiment at Woolwich, 'the twigs twisted themselves off below her fingers which were considerably indented by so forcibly holding the rodsbetween them.
It is habitually used by the miners in the Mendips, as Mr. Woodward found ten years ago; and forked hazel divining rods from the Mendips are a recognised part of ethnological collections.
It is true that in all countries rods or wands, the Latin virga, have a magical power.
I therefore sprang down on to the tongue of the coach to get them, but just then the horses had reached a slough about two rodswide and as many feet deep, with a sharp bank on either side.
Sometimes a thousand or more congregate in the town, and their holes are a few rods apart.
I guess she'll be pretty steady here though--isn't any current or those sea-rods would be waving.
On the east the mainland half embraces the island, approaching at the nearest point within a few rods of the bold cliffs that fall sheer into the sea.
The freshly–fallen dew could not be purer or more clear than the water that welled from Lysekilde, under the rock a few rods away.
In a little bay under the slope of the Lyshorn, and a few rods from the wharf, giving a touch of surprising grace to the scene, were two stately swans.
The crank-shaft and the connecting-rods are enclosed in a hermetically sealed box filled with oil, so that the movement of the parts themselves ensures the liberal lubrication of the piston.
The slightest play in the bearings of the engine-shaft as well as in the bearings of connecting-rods increases the sound that engines naturally produce.
And gradually, but surely, the rods decreased between quarry and pack.
They were off at last, with Marylyn watching them from a window, and Dallas walking alongside for a few rods to say good-by and to pat Shadrach's bony, white flanks encouragingly.
But when he was yet some rods off, a flock of ground-sparrows rose before him with startled twitters.
When she was some rods farther on, her father called to her again.
But the stockade left a few rods to the rear, he changed his course, and made toward the river.
A few rods away was another as furious, one whose eyes were as red as the interpreter's.
For a fewrods all the boys kept pretty well together.
He went to the house of the woman, and gave her four or five iron rods in succession, with which she tapped a piece of iron held by her in the other hand while in bed.
Several witnesses, called for the defence, said they had been cured of complaints in the legs and arms by the defendant's magic rods when nobody else could cure them.
At the ends of the rodswere the names of planets, such as Jupiter and Mercury.
The defence was that therods and piece of metal were a rude method of using electricity, by which means the defendant had effected many cures; but no explanation was given as to the meaning of the names of the planets.
And the roof-poles of the wigwam Were as glittering rods of silver, And the roof of bark upon them As the shining shards of beetles.
The women among the Alani gathered straightrods or wands, and used them in their superstition.
Divination by means of rods prevailed among the Magi, Chaldæans, and Scythians, whence it passed to the Sclavonians, and thence to the Germans.
Another tree furnishing such rods was the willow, and another was the apple; one carefully avoided was the elder.
Certain trees were famed for their magical virtues, because they were supposed to be the home of some spirit, and rods cut from them were said to have wonderful powers.
He does not look either good or kind, and carries a number of birch-rods under his arm.
Around these rods is a sheath of black colouring matter, so that each eye is cut off from its neighbour.
The people of the olden time had great faith in the powers of magic rods and wands.
Attach the other ends of the rods to the outer faces of the rear wheels by means of short flat-headed nails.
The nails pass thru the eyes of the rods and are driven into the wheels 1/4" from the outer rims.
With round-nose pliers make the connecting rods from No.
Attach the rods to the wings by staples so the joints will work freely without too much play.
The secret of how to roll out a sheet and split it into nail-rods was stolen from the one shop that knew how, at Milton, Mass.
Two balls hang on two rods on each side of an upright shaft, to which the rods are hinged.
It is wonderful with what elaborateness this simple fact is advertised--this piscine murder will out--and from my distant perch I distinguish the circling undulations when they are half a dozen rods in diameter.
When I had mapped the pond by the scale of ten rods to an inch, and put down the soundings, more than a hundred in all, I observed this remarkable coincidence.
As near as he could remember, it stood twelve or fifteen rods from the shore, where the water was thirty or forty feet deep.
There is a canal two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and wider still at the east end.
About fifteen years ago you could see the top of a pitch pine, of the kind called yellow pine hereabouts, though it is not a distinct species, projecting above the surface in deep water, many rods from the shore.
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundredrods south of where I dwell.
He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.
Nay, I was frequently notified of the passage of a traveller along the highway sixty rods off by the scent of his pipe.
The ice was melted for three or four rods from the shore, and there was a smooth and warm sheet of water, with a muddy bottom, such as the ducks love, within, and he thought it likely that some would be along pretty soon.
Not so many rods away from the cabin he found the remnants of a calf upon which some wild beast had feasted the day previous.
The flowered cretonne curtains hung straight from their rods unstirred by any movement of air.
A moment later the figure was near enough to be distinguished as Ethan Vere, bearing several long fishing-rods over his shoulder.
Thus speaking, they cast theirrods upon the ground, when they became serpents also, after a few moments had transpired.
The hounds at that moment could not have been five rods behind me.
We observed them, on looking up at the carriage--one several rods in advance of the other.
The weaving-house we were erecting stood in the orchard a few rods from the residence of Chapin, or the "great house," as it was called.
My cabin was within a few rods of the bayou bank, and necessity being indeed the mother of invention, I resolved upon a mode of obtaining the requisite amount of food, without the trouble of resorting nightly to the woods.
Pointing towards Northup, standing a fewrods distant, he demanded--"Do you know that man?
He says that, in an experiment at Woolwich, 'the twigs twisted themselves off below her fingers, which were considerably indented by so forcibly holding the rods between them.
It is true that in all countries rods or wands, the Latin virga, have a magical power.
Three figures on horseback had just emerged from the forest, but a hundred rods above them, and rode slowly down the bank.
A dozen rods from the camp, they came upon the guide and the Indians standing around a large bull caribou whose head boasted a magnificent pair of antlers.
No, Tom," answered Astro, "the control for the rods are inside the tube control box.
Well, couldn't we drive boron rods into the mass and slow down the reaction?
A comparatively small supply of steam from the boiler into the steam-vessel brought it up to the boiler pressure, sending the pole and pump-rods upwards with a spring.
The unsupported pump-rods fell downwards, setting in upward motion the column of water in the plunger-pole pumps.
The old side rods made of wood are still here, and so was the engine until about twelve years ago.
The first admission of the high-pressure steam under the pole was equal to a force of 8 or 9 tons, causing it and its attached pump-rods to take a rapid upward spring.
The engine was fixed directly over the pump-rods in the shaft, using neither main beam nor air-pump.
There was a cross-head on the top of the pole, and side rods to a cross-head under the pole-case.
We were living about eighty rods above the present iron bridge.
Their fuel gave out, and as her boarding house was but fifteen rods away, the teacher decided to take the children home with her.
He said the headstone had been knocked down by a mower and dragged several rods away, and that he had replaced it upon the grave; that the inscription on the stone was as distinct as though freshly cut.
If the good services of the god are required on the farm a small shrine is erected there for it and a great big hamper and a bundle of rods placed in front of it.
If you do this I shall treat you well; but if you fail, this bundle of rods is reserved for your punishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: breeder; furnace; lattice; pile; reactor; rod
