These considerations alone finally dispose of any merits which the plan for a national sky-scraper may seem superficially to possess.
I have been often asked why the Government, foreseeing the inevitable increase of Departments, had not the elementary imagination to build a colossal sky-scraper to accommodate them all.
On the top floor of a sky-scraper is usually a luncheon-club; here the various Ministers would meet daily, and could only with difficulty escape the exchange of ideas.
But in spite of the time lost the cut was deepening and the side walls stood up so that everyscraper that emptied into the sluice-boxes was from the pay-streak.
While Bruce, by running back and forth between the donkey-engine and the top sluice-box where the scraper dumped, managed to do the work of two men ten hours a day.
This is the way to do it," and he put his scraper against the side of the vessel and slowly and laboriously removed a single barnacle.
Then he laid thescraper on the plank beside him and drew out his pipe which he leisurely filled with tobacco and lighted.
The scraper of the Esquimaux and the Andaman islanders is but an enlarged and improved edition of the Miocene scraper, and in the latter case the stones seem to have been split by the same agency, viz.
They went to the foot wall and with a scraper brought out some of the muggy mass caused by the pouring of water into the "down-hole" to make the sittings capable of removal.
That person had cupped his hand and was holding it beneath the drill hole, while into it he was pulling the muck with the scraper and staring at it.
The scraper is more efficacious than the burnisher in the case of small places that have been deeply bitten.
If the touch discloses the presence of the least bit of tooth, and if the tool does not glide along with the greatest ease, the grinding must be continued, as otherwise the scraper will scratch the copper.
In this passage, where you see deep holes, scraper and charcoal will be insufficient; the planer must, therefore, hammer them out before he goes at the other parts.
Use of the Scraper for removing the Bur thrown up by the Dry Point.
If the scraper is sufficiently sharp, it leaves no trace whatever on the lowered surface of the copper.
Having sharpened the scraper with a little oil, during which operation you must hold it down flat on the stone, pass it over your finger-nail.
Use of the Scraper for removing the Bur thrown up by the Dry Point 33 50.
Sometimes the hissing is produced by a similar rasp and scraper placed on the inner surface of the little pincers which project in front of the body, between the two great pincers.
In other cases the rasp and scraper are found, the rasp on the top of the base of the little pincer, the scraper on the under surface of the overhanging shield of the body.
The movement of the rasp on the scraperproduces the hissing sound.
The strands of the loose ends of the cords are now completely untwisted by inserting the cord in the groove of the scraper and repeatedly rubbing it up or down with the back of a knife.
In scraping, the blade is held in both hands, scraping away from the worker, the scraper sloping forwards.
You can't have a sky-scraper blaze made to order, you know.
A fire in a sky-scraper ought to be fought from above.
It may be that some day, in fighting a sky-scraper blaze from the clouds at night, I'll have need of more illumination than comes from the flames themselves.
My idea isn't to have every sky-scraper equipped with an airship extinguisher.
In the last two the technical handling is so free that it would almost seem as if the scraper had been used with the same facility as chalk on paper.
They ain't no better scraper than the bottom of an old iron candlestick; no, sir!
The true sky-scraper is beautiful--and this is the reluctant admission of a man who dislikes humanity-festering cities.
A thing must be true, or it is not beautiful, any more than a painted wanton is beautiful, any more than a sky-scraper is beautiful that is intrinsically and structurally light and that has a false massiveness of pillars plastered on outside.
The true sky-scraper is beautiful, and it is beautiful in so far as it is true.
In these machines a scraper takes the place of the dipper.
In some cases the scoop or scraper is merely attached to a cable leading from the hoisting engine to an anchorage and back to the engine.
The bone implements appear to be derived from an impoverished late Aurignacian stage; the same is true of the flint implements, for we observe a return of the keeled scraper (grattoir carene).
The keeled scraper or planing tool--grattoir carene--characteristic of the Aurignacian culture.
We also observe the racloir and the scraper finished to a point which is the precursor of the graving tool of the Upper Palaeolithic.
The sky-scraper presents a new view of architecture.
But, let it be said at once, the sky-scraper would be intolerable in our grey and murky land.
Then, the man turned sharply, and hurled the scraper straight at Clavering.
From the splotches on them after he brushed back his ruffled hair he also had a suspicion that his head was cut, and the tingling where the scraper had struck him suggested a very visible weal.
One, as it happened, jammed inside it, so that he could get no more in, and he laid hold of an iron scraper to free it with.
Somewhat improved appliances are used in railroad building now, but though it had limitations the scraper did excellent work in its day.
Harry and I stood each beside our teams, which were harnessed to a great iron scoop or scraper designed to tear out a heavy load of soil at each traverse.
Even in the dizzy heights of such a sky-scraper there could not possibly be room for all those people to sleep in the hotel, or even to dine in it.
The very word sky-scraper is an admirable example of an American lie.
Then go after the inner side with scraper until any lumps of fat, muscle and the inner skin are well scratched up.
When the head has been thoroughly cleaned, remove the remaining flesh from the body with the skin scraper or scalpel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scraper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broom; cap; cleaning; device; hat; hatchet; jackknife; machinery; pick; tool; tractor
