On the stone floor a shutter of iron covers the well that possesses miraculous properties, these having been imparted to it by the saint.
Bright sunshine was pouring into the room through the little porthole in the iron shutter as he came to himself.
The windows were all shuttered from top to bottom, each shutter having a little ventilator in it.
She lifted theshutter on the top of the cab and asked if the other cab was at any distance.
Not a shutter was open; not a twine of smoke came forth.
I heard footsteps approaching, and closed the shutter hastily.
I closed the shutter I had partially opened, and sank down behind the barrel.
But so that you mayn't be eating your heart, I'll open wide the outer shutter of the window against the wall; you can see it from the back by leaning over the hedge.
Suddenly a noise was heard against the wall; the shutter had been thrown back; the hook was still swinging.
Figure to the right shows front view of the shutter resting on a pivot and worked by string, T.
The photo-sensitive cell was made the fourth arm of a Wheatstone bridge, the resistance of the cell being exactly balanced when the shutter of the sensitive cell was closed.
The shutter is tilted up by a pull on the thread T, thus cutting off light from the growing region; release of the thread cuts off light from the tip.
On opening the shutter a deflection of the index of a sensitive galvanometer was produced, and the deflection increased with increasing intensity of diffuse skylight.
The rubber bulb at the end of the tube leading to the camera shutter is located in the lower end of the cylinder J.
The drop for the closed circuit must be so constructed that its latch holds the shutter in a vertical position when there is a current in the drop winding, but allows it to fall as soon as the drop circuit is opened.
The cylinder C, which acts as a shutter and intermittent movement, revolves directly behind and in the path of the light passing through the lens.
The shutteris operated with a key very similar to a telegraph key.
When ready to expose, open the shutter wide, turn the crank that is hooked into the wing nut, and slowly wind up the film while the train is running.
Diagram Showing the Location of the Tripods to Direct the Light through the Shutter (Fig.
When the rod E is released by the latch K, it moves downward in the cylinder J, due to the action of the spring F, and compresses the bulb L, causing the shutter of the camera to be operated.
While this simple cylinder shutter is not claimed to be infringing on existing patents, yet, as it has no commercial value, there would be no objection on this score.
Just as soon as the sprockets disengage the film, the shutter exposes the next section of film, and so on as rapidly as the cylinder is turned, but the average should be about 16 pictures per second.
It is well to have a guide below the roller shutter to keep the film from encircling the roller as it turns.
Details of Camera] The rotary cylinder shutter is the heart of the machine and should be made well and strictly according to the dimensions.
Day by day we approached nearer and nearer until finally the bird allowed us to set the kodak within two feet of the nest, and the click of the shutter did not disturb her, although she seemed to quiver as if in great fear.
With these noticeable words, which plainly testified the strength of her emotion, the maiden turned and hastened on her way, leaving Kai Lung gazing from the shutter in a very complicated state of disquietude.
Here, moreover, is a shutter through which the vista doubtless lengthens.
Almost before Li-loe had disappeared he was at the shutter in the wall, had forced it open and was looking out.
On the evening of the third day the maiden stood beneath the shutter with a more definite look, and Kai Lung understood that a further period of unworthy trial was now at hand.
From an open shutter the face of the woman Che looked down in mocking triumph.
Yet there is one who unhesitatingly prefers the latter; For from an open shutter here he can look forth, And perchance catch a glimpse of one who may pass by.
Presently a movement in the trees without betrayed a presence, and the story-teller was on the point of disclosing himself at the shutter when the approaching one displayed an unfamiliar outline.
As C rises, the other end of the rod is depressed, and the rod B depresses rod O, which is attached to the spindle operating a sort of shutter in the steam-pipe.
The operator is seen pulling the handle which opens the shutter of the hopper above the feed-tube, and switching on the 4 h.
The positive film is placed in a lantern, and the intermittent movement is repeated; but now the source of illumination is behind the film, and light passes outwards through the shutter to the screen.
Strange noises in the chimney showed that owls had built there; and as the shutter fell a hideous nest of earwigs was disturbed, and ran hither and thither over the floor.
When he made for the window, dense cobwebs brushed against his face, and half the shutter on which he laid his hand came away at his touch and lay in fragments at his feet.
Melrose dragged the heavy iron shutter which closed it open, and then, panting, looked round at his companion.
Muybridge's great difficulty had been to invent a shutter which would act rapidly enough.
The bang--bang--bang of a storm-tortured shutter way off in the ell somewhere.
And----" From an excessively delicate readjustment of a loose shutter on a rambling brown bungalow young Kennilworth looked up with a certain flicker of exasperation.
At this sight she laughed such a terrible laugh at the chink in the shutter that the Captain's blood curdled, and he said: 'I hope nothing has disagreed with me!
Suddenly once more a whisking of the ashes; a cold shiver ran through her, and she turned to see a hand fumbling at the batten shutter close by.
He gazed apprehensively upon the little batten shutter of the window of the room where Nehemiah Yerby slept, expecting to see it slowly swing open and disclose him there.
To open the latch and unhinge the shutter and then, by turning it sideways, pull it back into the passageway and place it noiselessly on the floor, was a comparatively simple matter.
Meanwhile Jack, who was in the lead, found on closer investigation that the slatted shutter obscuring the air port was on hinges and caught with a rusted latch.
We can lift thatshutter out," he added, "and swing upward to the roof tree.
The slanting rays of the sun were shut off abruptly as by a shutter and they rolled between stretches of shade that were mistily fragrant and cool.
Mrs. Lister crossed the room and looked out between the slats of the bowed shutter across the shimmering campus.
Thomasina bowed one shutter a little more closely and closed the door and then sat down in the chair which Dr.
There the Frau Bakermistress often had to open for me a little shutter in a shutterand hand out, on a piece of newspaper, large segments of the Kuchen, bidding it God-speed with a parting jerk of the perforated tin sugar-box.
With a few long strides Mr. Trelawny went to the west side of the cave and tore back the shutter which obscured the window.
Close to each of them was a hanging shutterwhich could be easily swung across by means of a dangling rope.
The window-shutter flung to, with a bang, and my vision was gone.
We both heard the shutter above our heads suddenly thrown open, but darkness hid anyone who might have been listening.
Each photograph is shown for a fraction of a second, and is replaced, during the time that the shutter is closed, by one showing a slightly later phase of the motion.
A distinct tap on the shutterconfirmed the impression of the mistress of the pavilion.
Surely I heard a blow struck, lightly, on the shutter of that window?
Faith went to the shutter window and flung it open, and looked to see whether or no the missing gentleman had returned to the shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shutter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
