Numberless creepers and climbers used these shafts as supports on their way upward, their flexible stems being turned around them and hanging in great cable-like loops from the distant branches.
Thus the carved ornaments from which the vaulting shafts spring at Lincoln are corbels.
Apollo temple, several vertical shafts in the limestone stratum were found, and underneath it in horizontal passages were bodies surrounded with vases.
The low sun was shining redly through a golden haze, was sending long burning shafts across the glade where Charles was pacing.
It had rained all yesterday; it had been raining all the morning to-day, but it was fair now; nay, the sun was sending out long burnished shafts from the broken gray and blue of the sky.
A slender moon had climbed unnoticed into the southern sky amid the shafts of paling fire which stretched out across the whole heaven from the burning fiery furnace in the west.
This strange causeway is columnar from end to end; but the columns, from their great altitude and deficient breadth, seem mere rodded shafts in the Gothic style; they rather resemble bundles of rods than well-proportioned pillars.
Wherever the spray lashes, the pale red hue of the stone prevails, and the angles of the polygonal shafts are rounded; while higher up all is sharp-edged, and the unweathered surface is covered by a gray coat of lichens.
A few shafts of Voltairean irony would have shriveled the inflation of his genius and made it stronger by making it saner.
That he was more than willing to make his ribald drollery the fool's mask from behind which he might aim safely his shafts of ridicule at what he despised and hated is, indeed, probable.
In the earlier part of the century at all events, there is never an architectural base to the panel as well as a canopy, but both subject and the shafts of the canopy end off below with a straight line at one of the frame-bars.
They are a kind of litter without wheels, furnished with two longshafts projecting before and behind and supported by these on two mules.
These shafts are to be found in almost all great glaciers; they are very numerous in the Unteraar Glacier, numbers of them however being empty.
On the Mer de Glace they are always to be found in the region of Trelaporte, one of the shafts there being, par excellence, called the Grand Moulin.
I have in some cases counted the forsaken shafts of six old moulins in advance of an active one.
These shafts are always found in the same locality; the portion of the Mer de Glace to which I have referred is never without them.
Agassiz, however, observed the motion of some of these shafts upon the glacier of the Aar; and when on the spot in 1857, I was anxious to decide the point by accurate measurements with the theodolite.
Winston pointed to the two great shafts that reached up from the base of the dam, crowned with grooved wheels.
He placed the shafts of the little vehicle on the lowest stair, and stepped out sheer upon the walk.
The three coolies caught up the shafts for starting.
The people in the streets appeared contented and happy enough, trudging along on wooden clogs, or trotting with noiseless, straw-sandalled feet between the shafts of vehicles.
Drive a tack into the front of the wagon-box and tie a cord to it, or, if you have a small toy horse to hitch to the wagon, fasten a pair of shafts to the under side of the box as is shown upon the two-wheel cart.
Point the ends of the shafts and glue them into the holes in the hub, then connect this spool to spool D with a piece of a lead-pencil 2 inches long (Fig.
The shafts are fastened in a spool hub which has five holes bored in it (E, Fig.
Even the bells on the shafts could no longer rouse them, and they stumbled every instant.
Two others were attached to the shafts to keep them on a level with the body of the machine, thus transformed into a raft.
At the same time great improvements are now foreshadowed in regard to the modes of working mines by shafts and drives.
A vehicle of this pattern is not to be classed with a two-wheeled buggy, because it will maintain its equilibrium without being held in position by shafts or other similar means.
His copybooks for the shafts were prepared as follows: the shaft to be executed by the child was delimited by two points, connected by a very light line.
In the margin of the pages appear two shafts to be executed by the teacher.
He has the printed capitals drawn as combinations of shafts and curves: B, D, etc.
In very old birds these waxen appendages are also to be found at the extremities of the tail-feathers, being no more than the shafts of the feathers, condensed with the web.
On the sixth day the feather shafts with the tips of the encased feathers sticking out of them are quite formed, although two days earlier they were hardly more than indicated.
Young mottled with white, grey, and light brown; shafts of the quills white; in other respects like the last, but the bill is longer and stouter.
Cupid once more hath changed his shafts with Death, And kills, instead of giving life.
At length, in the darkened air, about fifty yards away, the shafts of the marble temple rose like phantoms before me, seen through the trunks of the old trees.
Many wagons and buckboards stood about with their teams' harness thrown carelessly upon the shafts and doubletrees.
Say," said Curly, from whose panoplied breast all shafts of wit fell blunted.
The mighty shafts and pilasters of the Gothic edifice rose like the stems of giant trees in a primeval forest from a dusky undergrowth, spreading out and uniting their stony branches far above in the upper gloom.
I tied to it this morning, that it might sustain the shafts frequently bounding from it.
Against him the waving-haired Achæans were directing their bows, and taking aim, were going to hurl with shafts and with stones.
And he sent a destructive arrow against the Greeks; and the forces were now dying one upon another, and the shafts of the god went on all sides through the wide army of the Greeks.
But as he moved, the shafts rattled forthwith[9] upon the shoulders of him enraged; but he went along like unto the night.
A greyhound lay asleep under a tilt-cart upon the shafts of which sundry gay garments were hanging to dry.
He hadn’t gone far before he saw a cart full of the very best china, delicate stuff all coloured and gilded, and between the shafts stood a fine horse with silver-plated harness.
I can see it all while I’s talking to you—the carts with their shafts propped up and the smook a-going up from the fires afore the tents, and the ponies and donkeys grazing under the trees yonder.
The detached shafts are clearly an imitation of the earlier bishop's work.
There are sixteen shafts in each pier corresponding with the eight subordinate mouldings in each pair of arches, and the diagonal position of each cluster adds much to its graceful appearance.
The corbels that support the vaulting shafts are equally elaborately carved.
It is noticeable that the shafts differ from those in other parts of the building.
The shafts are of Purbeck marble, and the windows, arranged as in the nave, contain the last importation of glass from abroad, save that in the transeptal windows, used in the cathedral.
In the retro-choir there are earlier examples of this kind of pier, showing how the builders experimented with the grouping of the shafts before they attained the perfect proportions of the pillars in the nave and choir.
He formed his pillars of horizontal sections of Purbeck marble from nine to fifteen inches thick: five boutelles on each side presenting "the appearance of twenty-five shafts bound in one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shafts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
