With that he began to pace the court, and his silver spurs jangled musically, and the great gun-sheaths softly brushed against his leather chaps.
For answer he unbuckled the heavy cartridge-belt, and laid it with the heavy, swing gun-sheaths in her lap.
Venters glanced at the drooping horse, there were no gun-sheaths on the saddle.
There, beside his horse, stood Lassiter, his dark apparel and the great black gun-sheaths contrasting singularly with his gentle smile.
The rider dropped his sombrero and made a rapid movement, singular in that it left him somewhat crouched, arms bent and stiff, with the big black gun-sheaths swung round to the fore.
Suddenly he pulled his sombrero down over his bandaged head and, swinging his gun-sheaths round in front, he stepped into the alcove.
But I greatly fear that in its rapid growth it has become largely attached to the blood-vessels and the sheathsof nerves, and you know how difficult this will make the operation, and that the risk will be largely increased.
He agrees with me as to the character of the tumor, but thinks it larger than an orange, deeply cast among the great blood-vessels, and probably so attached to their sheaths as to make its extirpation not only difficult, but dangerous.
Its leaves and leaf sheathsare much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise.
And the earth hath he prepared for living creatures: therein are various fruits, and palm-trees bearing sheaths of flowers; and grain having chaff, and leaves.
It is not time or space or any substance at all, nor is it a god or any other being, whatever is quite free from all these and unconfined in the heart or any of the sheaths inside the body.
This world was at first a rudimentary granule (in the Divine mind), and was afterwards encrusted by a dozen of elementalsheaths as its pellicles, skin and bark.
Sheaths and other armors can assist in protecting these insulating materials from mechanical injury, and often are used for that purpose.
The same natural law which enables primary and secondary batteries to be useful provides a hazard which menaces telephone-cable sheaths and other conductors.
In the middle of the thigh the peroneal and tibial nerves are enclosed in separate connective tissue sheaths, although the two sheaths are fused together; the point of fusion is marked by the anterior groove.
IV and flexor perforans et perforatus digiti III, but forms separate thin sheathsaround these two tendons at the level of the tibial cartilage.
If the two sheaths are slit open, the two nerves can be removed and can be seen to be entirely separate.
It resembles a true bulb in having these sheaths or broad scales; but in the corm or solid bulb, this solid part or stem makes up the principal bulk.
Corm of a Crocus, the investing sheaths or dead leaf-bases stripped off.
Some of these sheaths are transparent, so that the gray color can be seen underneath, but most of them have a layer of white material, which makes them look white instead of gray.
As the leaves fell from the horse-chestnut boughs the varnished sheaths of the buds for next year appeared; so there were green buds on the willows, black tips to the ash saplings, green buds on the sycamores.
They waited asleep in their sheaths till Orion strode the southern sky and Arcturus rose in the East.
It is now impossible to determine whether the sheaths had been formed by casting, or were beaten into shape from a plain sheet of copper.
Since that period, however, three sword-sheaths of that metal have been discovered in the crannog of Lisnacroghera, county Antrim.
It is said to use only the long jungle grass called lalang for making its nest, which latter is called buah rabun, and is used by the Malays for polishing sheaths and scabbards.
The blades resembled that of a long, keen poniard of Damascus steel; the handles of ebony, covered with flowered gold, and sheaths richly ornamented with the same metal; they are used in the execution of criminals.
A faint green glimmer from the emerald iris-sheaths dusked the small white thighs.
As the child danced, a human mote in that vast area of sun-splashed woodland, the light flooded in upon her scanty and ragged dress of brown homespun, from which her arms and legs emerged as the white chestnut-buds from their sheaths of amber.
There must have been more than a thousand horn sheaths in it.
Outside the fence Indians passed to and fro, some of them on foot, others on horseback, and their bright-colored blankets, beaded belts and knife sheaths gave life and color to the picture.
Thou dost permeate the fivesheaths (Annamaya and others) in man and become those sheaths, as it were, by this permeation.
Thus with the axe of wisdom, sharpened by whole-minded devotion acquired by the worship of the Guru, do thou calmly and steadily cut asunder the sheaths of Jiva and on attaining Paramatma, do thou let go of the instrument itself.
As the reed is made up of sheaths over-lapping each other, so the sons of this Manu were constituted of overlapping principles.
Imagine there are seven sheaths immersed in it -- the seven Dvipas.
From an artistic point of view the sheaths of knives are the most carefully wrought over, and ornamented to a greater extent than any other article of Ainu manufacture.
The sheaths and handles of their swords and daggers were generally of gold, sometimes, perhaps, studded with gems.
There was nothing artistic in the sheaths or hilts of swords, though spear-shafts were sometimes adorned with the representation of an apple or a pomegranate.
Regional tendons and their sheaths were also present among this inflammation and scarring, and it would be fair to assume that the animal's agility was impaired to some extent.
A large circular area was thatched with plantain leaves, growing on their trunks, which were stuck in the ground; and round the enclosure was a border neatly cut from the white leaf-sheaths of the same tree.
When they have been left in water, they exhibit colourless tubular sheaths surrounding and extending beyond them.
The component filaments are very slender, wavy, and the sheaths often have a brownish tinge.
In injuries involving the sheaths of the tendons and the synovial membrane, the pain is severe and the accompanying inflammation may take on a serious form.
They are usually due to the sheaths surrounding the tendons becoming distended with synovia.
The leaves were bursting from their sheaths with such rapidity that the trees seemed actually to greet you as you passed along.
The hardened fore-wings of Beetles, serving as sheaths for the membranous hind-wings, which constitute the true organs of flight.
Beetles, an order of Insects, having a biting mouth and the first pair of wings more or less horny, forming sheaths for the second pair, and usually meeting in a straight line down the middle of the back.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheaths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
