Other rovings ensued; until at last, entering on board a Nantucket ship, he hunted the leviathan off the Western Islands and on the coast of Africa, for sixteen months; returning at length to Nantucket with a brimming hold.
Not by constitution disposed to gloom, there was a mysteriousness in those impulses which led him at this time to rovings like these.
The rovings are then ready to be wound on spools and to be twisted to make them strong.
The rovings pass over rollers which draw out and twist and wind the yarn on the spools below.
These rovings end, Their thirst is slacked in larger dearth: The yearning infinite recoils, For terrible is earth.
From his farm in the Berkshire Hills, he looked back regretfully upon his rovings over the Pacific, and by a pathetic fallacy, convinced himself that in them “the long supplication of my youth was answered.
The itinerary of Melville’s rovings in the Pacific after he left Tahiti cannot be stated with any detailed precision.
He contrived a frame in one part of which he placed eight rovings in a row, and in another part a row of eight spindles.
Lewis Paul introduced revolving cylinders for carding the raw cotton into rovingspreparatory to spinning, in partial imitation perhaps of Arkwright's principle of spinning the rovings by the rotatory motion of rollers.
The roller pair C, which receives the fine rovings from bobbins placed on skewers or upright pins in the creel behind, is so mounted as to be fixed at any desired distance from the front rollers F.
These rovingsare united into one, so as to increase the uniformity of the slivers.
It is a remarkable circumstance, that the wicks for the best candles are still cotton rovings imported from Turkey, notwithstanding the vast extension and perfection of cotton-spinning in this country.
The rovings from the coarse bobbin and fly frame are placed in their bobbins in a frame called the creel, behind and above the roller beam, two bobbins being allowed for one fluted portion of the rollers.
It receives the rovings from the intermediate frame, combines two of them into one, twists them a little more, and winds them upon the spindle tubes.
Coming out of the rollers, they are fed to the spindles on the carriage which backs away from the creel and recedes somewhat faster than the rovings are unwound.
Two rovings are here twisted together by the machines.
The Cruise of the Dainty, Rovings in the Pacific, By William H G Kingston.
In tracing the adventures of Tonty and the rovings of Hennepin, we have lost sight of La Salle, the pivot of the enterprise.
If Hennepin had had an eye for scenery, he would have found in these his vagabond rovings wherewith to console himself in some measure for his frequent fasts.
It receives the rovings from the intermediate frame, draws two into one, twists them and winds them upon tubes.
As the rollers (C) feed the partially attenuated rovings the carriage recedes from the rollers a little faster than the rovings are delivered, thus completing the attenuation.
When he awoke he lay there lolling and blinking, following the blue rovings of the titmice and listening to the foolish squabbles of the sparrows and the shrewish scoldings of the wrens.
For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame.
The rovings extended from these bobbins to a reciprocating "clasp" held in the left hand of the workman, and thence extended to the spindles at the end of the frame.
The workman drew out the rovings by moving the clasp back and forth, and at the same time turned the crank with his right hand to rotate the spindles.
Thus, in my rovings and mistakings, my Lord Jesus bestowed mercy on me, who am less than the least of all saints.
Thus, suppose that two rovings are introduced together between the first pair of rollers, and that the second pair of rollers moves with twice the velocity of the first.
Two or more rovings are generally united in this operation.
The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand.
These rovings are next passed on to the spindles standing at the back of the frame and secured to them.
These rovings are guided to and drawn through three pairs of drawing rollers (see Fig.
In order to increase the uniformity of the roving or strand of cotton, the ends from two of the slubbing rovings are conducted together through the rollers of the machine.
As the attenuated rovings leave the roller at the front, each one is conducted down to a spindle revolving at a high rate of speed; so quickly indeed, that there is no other body used in spinning which approaches it for speed.
A second bar in front of the one over which the rovings pass, acts as a brake and prevents, when in its proper position, any more roving being delivered, thus securing all between the spindles and the said bar.
The preparation of the rovings for the mule about this time occupied the attention of Crompton, and he invented a Carding Engine which, however, did not attain very much success.
In Hargreaves' machine therovings were placed on the travelling carriage, and the twisting spindles in the fixed frame behind, a position which has never been acceptable since that time for cotton-spinning mules.
It is a truism well understood by those in the trade, that the finer the rovings are the better the raw cotton must be, and the more drawing-out they will stand in any one machine.
Then, after long rovings ashore or afloat, these diners came back with a new light shed upon them--that of the moon outside the house, of the supper candles inside.
You know that I have never seen it, nor even heard of the Captain Middleton who went on his rovings from Springhaven.
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