The best mode of securing the buoy-rope to the gun is to form a clinch or splice an eye in the end which goes over the cascabel, and take a half-hitch with the bight around the chase of the gun, and stop it with spun-yarn.
With the nib-blocks the train-tackle cannot be used to assist in securing the gun, unless a special eye-bolt is placed for this purpose.
Levermen wipe off and re-lacquer their respective levers and eccentrics, secure levers in place, and assist in securing the gun.
Charles V and Francis I, great rivals in war, vied with each other in securing the services of most eminent astrologers, and Catherine de' Medici never tired of reading horoscopes.
Of course Napoleon had some idea of what was happening in Prussia: he protested, he threatened, he actually succeeded late in 1808 in securing thedismissal of Stein.
The Russian and Saxon army invested the city of Dantzic, in hopes of securing the person of king Stanislaus.
Following the crew, it was soon found that only one man was missing, and he was the very individual whom we had left on deck, when we had all gone below on securing the ship.
We then hove up the anchor, securing the range of cable that was bent to it.
The boarding officer did not appear to be so intent in securing the vessel, as in searching every hole and corner for small articles to pocket.
With them also he acted in securing the succession of the young Henry, joining in the siege of Mountsorrel and the battle of Lincoln.
The conspiracy aimed atsecuring the help of the emperor Napoleon.
Towards the close of the year 1804 Napoleon entrusted to Fesch the difficult task of securing the presence of Pope Pius VII.
He succeeded in securing the Assembly's vote that any slave who touched French soil should become free.
He returned home in 1834 broken in health, but succeeded in securing the approval of his church for his educational plans, and also in arousing much interest in the work of foreign missions.
An agreement for the purpose of securing thepostponement of the payment of a debt.
For the mode of securing the "impartial jury," see page 63.
And these written charters themselves grew out of a practice prevalent in England of securing the rights of towns and cities by written charters wrung from the king.
Then, as Governor of the State of New York, he was instrumental in securing the passage of a law taxing franchises as real property and thus faced for the first time and in a preliminary way the many-headed problem of the trusts.
The good American democrat had, of course, another political duty besides that of securing the election of himself and his friends.
But a system which was adapted to the comprehensive task of securing the welfare of a whole people might well fail as an engine of merely local government,--even though the local government retained certain major political functions.
Tariff reform, for instance, was an early and popular agitation whose peculiarity has consisted in securing the support of one of the two national parties, but which in spite of that support has so far made little substantial progress.
He had been placed on the ticket with Harrison, who was strongly anti-slavery, in the hope of securing the votes of some disaffected Democrats, but to see him President was the last thing the Whigs desired.
Railroad companies nominate and elect their own men for the avowed purpose of securing the enactment of laws favorable to themselves.
And all of the State Constitutions are equally emphatic in their recognition of the ballot as the means of securing the people in the enjoyment of these rights.
Edmund Dwight was largely instrumental in securing the establishment of a Board of Education in Massachusetts, and he brought about the election of Horace Mann to fill the position of its secretary.
Both of these men made generous contributions to his mission, and aided him in securing the attention of wealthy contributors.
It was the most effectual way of securing the peace of the dead.
He gratified his patroness by securing the adoption of Nero by Claudius, and he was probably an accomplice in that emperor's murder.
The legend of the Thundering Legion was long the battle-ground of opposing faiths equally credulous, and equally bent on securing the credit of supernatural powers.
I determined that the committee should have something to do, and I immediately became active in securing the consideration of an act for the regulation of interstate commerce.
It is hard to understand in a man of his sober, sound sense; but I am convinced that he firmly believed President Johnson to have been a conspirator in securing the assassination of Mr. Lincoln.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "securing the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
