It takes but a moment's study of the sheared tree to see the faults of the method.
Occasionally one sees in the State orchards in which the top is shearedto a level plane.
Conan's sword sheared through his skull as through a ripe melon.
As the first rushed in, lifting his sword, Conan met him with a sweeping stroke that severed mail-links like cloth, and sheared the Nemedian's arm and shoulder clean from his body.
The broad blade split that wedge-shaped head and sheared deep into the thick neck.
As the knife-like stem sheared past, close astern, the green eye disappeared; the red glared menacingly down from the huge bulk looming overhead.
It sheared the crests off the racing billows and flung them over the boat in showers of spray.
Great cry and little wool, quoth the devil, when he sheared his hogs.
Great cry and little wool,” said the fool, when he sheared a pig.
No fragment was large enough to be navigable or dangerous and each was sharply cut, as though sheared from its neighbor by some gigantic curved blade.
Even the smallest loose grains of sand had beensheared in two along a mathematically exact hemispherical surface by the inconceivable force of the disintegrating copper bar.
The thrust had gone deep; it had sheared through the specious arguments he had been weaving.
From the nearer, elm-shaded streets came the muffled clack of trade and the discordant treble of a huckster, somewhere a trolley-bell was buzzing angrily, and the impudent scream of a blue jay sheared across the monotone.
After raising, the pieces aresheared (for better class work) in order to produce greater regularity in the length of the nap.
Ben put them on Griffin’s Island to pasture, and when he sheared his sheep, sheared them for her.
When the time comes to burn and lay waste our improvements, if any man undertakes to shield his, he will be sheared down; for 'judgment will be laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet.
As soon as a man had sheared his sheep, he ran to the clerk, fleece in hand, threw down the fleece, and received his five-cent piece.
Three thousand sheep had been sheared the day before, and they would shear twenty-five hundred on this day.
After the floods it had sprung up to pine forests, and these in their turn had beensheared away by man.
It was a land that had been sheared by the axe, torn by the winds, and blasted by fire.
Black on Sheared Muskrat The skins are killed with soda, soured, and washed, then chrome mordanted for 6 hours.
It is used natural, but recently the plucked, sheared and dyed skins have found a very extensive use as Hudson seal, an imitation of real seal.
The third of the mad flurry of swordcuts, only partially deflected by the sword which Fermius could only then get into play, sheared down and a red, a green, and a white plume floated toward the ground.
All these plants may be shearedor cut back to induce stockiness.
Thereafter they should be sheared into the desired form in spring or fall.
If one wants to have the shrubs sheared into some particular shape, the shearing may be done at almost any time of the year; in fact, it is better to do it two or three times each year in order to keep the trees trim and neat.
The beauty of an Evergreen lies in its natural form; therefore, it should not be sheared into unusual shapes, but a gentle trimming back, as suggested, will tend to prevent the Norway spruce and others from growing open and ragged.
Carpet-beds are really curiosities, and they have no more legitimate place in the general pictorial landscape design area than painted stones or sheared evergreens.
Through this, strips of cloth are hooked, which form loops, and this surface may be sheared or not, as the maker desires.
The wool of which it is made is sheared from the flocks of sheep in the vicinity.
The close-grazing lead hadsheared the plume in two, and gone on its stinging way straight through the bonnet.
It must have sheared his fair hair as it tore through and dashed the bonnet from his head.
John was very angry, but Mr Ramsay was firm, and refused to fulfil his part of the contract unless hesheared the sheep properly.
He did not shear so many sheep as the contract shearers, but he sheared well, leaving none of the bottom wool, and his employer was perfectly satisfied.
On the one hand, I was deeply touched, for thou hadst sheared off those fair tresses of thine with the shears of detachment from this world and of self-sacrifice in the path of the Kingdom of God.
The grand shakedown was accomplished; he had milked his milk; he had sheared his sheep and skinned them, and nailed their hides up to dry.
We mean by this, that the Angora goat raising industry is yet in its infancy, and that much of the mohair produced is sheared from goats which have been bred from the common hair variety.
I believe it is sheared the first thing, and then it has to be brushed and sheared again.
I should think it would be all worn out if it is run so long against those sharp teasels, besides having the nap sheared off several times.
This cylinder is let down so close to the steel plate that there isn't room for the cloth to pass between it and the cylinder without having the face or nap sheared off by the sharp knives of the cylinder that is going round like lightning.
McCaslin was a low heavy set man and he rented out hacks and horses in Atlanta and pa drove, greased the harness and curried and sheared the horses.
We had herds of sheep, we sheared them and wove yarn for socks.
Soon a priest came by who had a fold; He sheared his sheep of silver and gold.
Many a bewildered seaman has caught its rays and sheared the prow of his ship further out to sea to avoid the dangerous shoals.
