At last George yielded to Abner's remonstrances, and left off shearing and anointing.
Now it was sheep-shearing time and McLaughlan was short of hands; he came into the mine to see whether out of so many thousands he could not find four or five who would shear instead of digging.
A black fiend stood over him, and had already raised the horrible crooked knife; already he seemed to feel it shearing through nerve and artery.
This stratification is often visible on the emerging glacier, though it is to be distinguished from the foliation planes caused by shearing movement in the body of the glacier ice.
Wefers jerked back his protruding arm, with extreme quickness; barely avoiding a deep slash from the collie's shearing eye-teeth.
The Sheep Shearingof 1821, indeed, was an exception.
Holkham Sheep Shearing commenced on this date, a fortnight later than usual owing to the Peace celebrations in Norwich and the county.
Shearing by machine instead of by hand will tend to modify the aspects of the work, and allow more men to learn the art.
There is nothing in shearing that any man could not master in a few days, although the work may be laborious when long continued.
Many overlanders took advantage of the port by shearing or lambing their sheep wherever a chance offered, and after obtaining supplies for the road, were prepared to extend their search for new country still further away.
Instances are common of men shearing over two hundred sheep per day for days running.
The sheep-shearing feast, though orderly and decent, was yet hearty and cheerful.
Shepherd happened to say to Farmer White one day, that there was nothing that he disliked more than the manner in which sheep-shearing and harvest-home were kept by some in his parish.
My Kafirs are already hard at workshearing the sheep.
Perhaps George would like you to take him down there after dinner to watch the Kafirs at their shearing for a while.
Sheep-shearing days are always great days on the farm, when half a hundred Kafirs from the kraals are all working at once.
A much more exciting amusement was seeing the branding of the cattle, which took place after the shearing was over.
Four men had been hired to do the shearing at Canterbury, and then to come over to Mount Pleasant.
Laurette avoided allusion to the fact that this had been long ago discounted and the advance used up, and creditors appeased only with fictitious promises of payment after the shearing already disposed of.
Shearing was soon to begin, and all hands were busily occupied on the station.
And now shearing would soon begin, and she was as undecided as ever about that stroll in the garden with Mr. Timothy Haydon.
Together down Fell they, as young calves by the massy axe Of brawny flesher felled, that, shearing through The sinews of the neck, lops life away.
A Danaan marked, And leapt on that maimed man with sweep of sword Shearing his neck through.
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
And as he was at the shearing house in the way, 10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye?
Early in November shearing began, which, on an estancia, is the big business of the year.
The afternoon before shearing was to begin a gang of fifteen shearers arrived on horseback.
The month of December, however, was half through before the shearing was completed, and the shearers, having received the money due to them, finally took their departure.
Shearing could only go on during fine weather; after rain the sheep had to get quite dry again before they could be shorn.
No sooner was shearing over than we had to see about marking the calves.
One of the men, owner of the sheep, I presume, met us and said he would show me where to go so I could see everything that was being done, which proved to be directly back of a man who was shearing sheep.
The thermal coefficient of expansion of steel and concrete is nearly the same, otherwise changes of temperature would cause shearingstress at the junction of the two materials.
For compression members the shearing area of rivets in butt-joints was made half the useful section of plate in compression.
The shears on vertical sections to the left and right of the load are R1 and -R2, and the distribution of shearing force is given by two rectangles.
The shearing area of rivets in tension members was made 1½ times the useful section of plate in tension.
If the load travels the reverse way, the shearing force at the head of the train is given by the ordinates of the dotted parabola.
For shearingstresses the working stress may have 0.
If A is the area of the plate web in a vertical section, the intensity of shearing stress is fx = S/A and the intensity on horizontal sections is the same.
Bridges would then be designed for these selected loads, and the process would be safer in dealing with flooring girders and shearing forces than the assumption of a uniform load.
This was agreed to under protest, though considered inequitable by the proprietors of North Yalla-doora and other representative sheds as the lesser evil, compared with that of a delayed shearing and perhaps ruined wool clip.
Did you say you were a delegate before the shearing began?
They agree, on the other hand, to pay for all supplies consumed by them, at certain prices fixed before the shearing agreement is signed.
Suddenly appearing in the shed at shearing time, he terrorised the assembled men, fired on, wounded and threatened the life of the manager.
Shorn sheep have to be returned to their paddocks, fresh mobs brought in, and the morrow's shearing housed in the shed to escape the night's dew or a chance shower.
The introduction of shearing machines has helped to increase the shearer's daily tally.
There will be from ten to forty men on the shearing board, according to the size of the flock; and in most of the large sheds men write beforehand to bespeak a stand.
Mixed farming became the general rule on the further side of the Main Range, so that, if wheat and maize failed, the farmers had their flocks and herds and their shearing cheques as a standby until the next harvest was garnered.
It was no unusual occurrence for one wool clip to be detained on a remote station until the next year's shearing had commenced.
The Old Squire took scrupulous care of his flock during washing and shearing week.
It was never in the lad's heart to tell his uncle how near he had come unwittingly to shearing off the head of his own nephew.
It shows that if they were to depress their fire they would be shearing limbs off of us instead of boughs off the trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
