An effective engine silencer is at last well on the way.
Best of all, I've got an absolute silencer on the exhaust; I've run the engine at top speed on the ground and found I could not hear it a hundred yards away.
Fitted with the new silencer which Dick had discovered and applied to the old Mohawk with such signal success, the engine was practically noiseless.
It is impossible to sight with a gun equipped with a silencer, you know, since the silencer covers the sighter on the barrel.
She was carrying the gun, unscrewing the silencer as we walked.
Remember, that gun and silencer are still missing!
So you kept the silenceras a curiosity, Judge Marshall?
Peter's verdict, after he got through with us, was that only Sprague could have done it--using the gun and silencer which Nita herself had stolen from Hugo.
It is my habit to keep the pistol and the silencer in a drawer in a little corner cupboard--" "Locked, up?
Then thrusting his hand into the heat reservoir, he groped until he had found what he had known must be there--Judge Marshall's automatic, with the Maxim silencer screwed upon the end of its short nose.
She stole poor Hugo's gun and thesilencer and committed suicide!
The revolver with Maxim silencer attached he discovered, after a long search, some distance away in the deck-gutter.
Slowly and more slowly the silencer moved inward until the blunt end of it was registered precisely upon a point where Peter's head would lie if he were sleeping in a normal attitude.
If those particles on, the files aren't exactly of the same color and texture as the material of which the silencer case is made, I'll never build another machine.
He managed, through bribery, to gain access to the hangar where the new silent machine was kept, and, unable to get the silencer apart, tried to file it.
And it must have been done lately, for I carefully inspected the silencer when I put it on, and it was in perfect order.
Tom had put the silenceron a larger machine than the one he and Jackson had used.
But if some one got in and had a look at the inside of your silencer he could see how it is constructed, couldn't he?
Of course there's a possibility that the same peculiar metal you used in your silencer case may have been used in some other machine shop, and these files may have come from there, and have been employed in perfectly regular work.
As Tom Swift said, his new silencer had literally blown up, a large piece having been torn from the gas chamber.
It would seem, Tom, that these were the files used to cut a crease in the case of your silencer to weaken it so it would burst.
Pull the starting lever, Rad, and when it's been running a little I'll throw on the silencer and you can see the difference.
But now Tom was working on a complete new one, made after his revised model, and in which the silencer was an integral part, instead of being built on.
Making sure that, as far as they could tell, no one had visited the craft since they had left it, Tom and Jackson compared the file marks on what was left of the broken silencer case with the files they had found in the hut.
Previous to this he and his colleagues had made a minute examination of the machinery, and had been shown the interior construction of the silencer by means of one built so that a sectional view could be had.
This is exactly the same metal as that of which your silencer case is made.
The guard upstairs would simply be overpowered, or taken out with a silencer if the situation got out of hand.
He nodded to his lieutenant, who began screwing a dark silencer onto the barrel of his automatic.
Now Jack was dropping steadily, his silencer in full play--it was time for Perk to get busy and through the use of his marine night glasses keep his pilot posted regarding what lay below them.
I kinder guess now we got one thing they ain't, which is a silencer on our engine that'll keep it muzzled, even if it does knock off a bit o' our speed when we happen to use it.
Dawson's eyes saw the revolver with the silencer fitted to the barrel.
However, the German held his boiling rage under control, and did no more than take a bead with his silencer fitted revolver on a point squarely between Dawson's eyes.
It was on a very long night-journey on their motor, when the silencer had broken down by bursting, at the bottom of an exceptionally steep hill, and there was an unnerving noise.
And it was the fearful noise subsequent to the bursting of the silencerthat the boys had expected him to remember.
A coupla times I was gonna give you a sign, 'cause I thought between us, we could land on him, but he had that silencer right in his mitt.
I got a silencer on this gun in my pocket and it won't make any noise if either one of you try to beat it.
For experiments with the silencer the officer who invented the apparatus had come purposely from headquarters, together with some expert mechanics for whom we had sent in a request.
The tube of the silencerwhich is fastened onto the motor, although the exhaust remains at present completely open, is red and incandescent.
Several changes were made in the silencer because it became over-heated too rapidly.
General Badoglio was greatly interested in our undertaking and had given orders that the "Voisin" be dispatched as soon as possible to the front, and that it be equipped with a silencer reported marvelous.
A lieutenant from the general staff who is a specialist in the use of the silencer, was explaining to Gelmetti how to set the silencer in action.
The dear old "Voisin" had again taken flight and we could only distinguish it by the rumbling of the silencer which was red-hot and resembled a red lamp wandering in the sky.
The officers who were present at the experiments told me that when the motor was turning slowly and the silencer was working the plane made only a slight noise which was scarcely audible even to those standing directly beneath.
The automatic and pump shotguns when used in hunting are a disgrace to Wyoming, as they are to other states, and should be suppressed; and the silencer for use in hunting is in the black list.
It is said that in Wyoming the Maxim silencer is now being used.
Only that day he had worked with Mr. Cassar, the engineer, who had been making a silencer for the motor.
A minute later the splutter of an exhaust told them the silencer had been taken off.
Jay, who came in soon after you, was surprised to see that the silencer was not on the pistol.
If Parrish had had this silencer for some time, you may be sure that other people know about it.
He glanced across at the window and then at Bruce, "I suppose this discovery about the silencer is responsible for the deputation waiting in the courtyard," he said drily.
There is no possible or plausible reason why Parrish should have fired first one shot with the silencer and then one without.
You said, I think, that a rifle fired with thesilencer attachment makes no more noise than the sound of a loud sneeze!
For, one of the persons intimately connected with this case purchased not long ago a silencer for a thirty-two-calibre revolver, and I presume that that person carried the gun and the silencer at the time of the murder of Kerr Parker.
It should lead from the engine to the silencer or exhaust box (if one is found to be necessary) as directly as possible, i.
The silencer can be inside or outside the engine-room, whichever is most convenient; but both it and the exhaust piping should be kept from all direct contact with wood-work, and at the same time in a readily accessible position.
With an automatic forty-five silencer drawn along at his right side, and a pistol in holster for close quarters, Carver drew a "bead" on the dog and awaited further developments.
Then slipped over to so and so and covered him with a silencer automatic.
The next thing he knew he was looking into the muzzle of a revolver, with silencer attachment.
So, withsilencer in readiness, he puckered his lips and gave a low whistle.
It had a Maxim silencer on it, so that it didn't make any noise.
He then took his pistol from his hip-pocket, examined it to make sure that the silencer was properly adjusted, and then thrust it into the right side-pocket of his coat, ready for instant use in desperate emergency.
With smokeless powder in the cartridges, and the silencer on, I can make a shot from my coat-pocket, and you wouldn't even know it had been done.
I got the gun, and the Maxim-silencer thing, off a fence in Boston," he explained.
Then, presently, Cassidy entered the office, and made report of his investigations concerning the pistol with the silencer attachment.
He opened a drawer of the desk, and took out Garson's pistol, to which the silencerwas still attached.
He says that his house was robbed about eight weeks ago, and among other things the silencer was stolen.
In the following year, Hiram Maxim invented his silencer for fire arms, by means of which the noise resulting from firing a gun is greatly lessened.
My Rush Silencer is the only one on the market that allows that sort of gumshoe work.
That was where she must 'ave scraped her silencer a bit.
I caught sight of her visage when I stopped the car (which I did as soon as we were beyond danger of pursuit) to fasten up the silencer again; and it was all I could do not to laugh.
I finished my tirade and my work on the silencer at the same time, and it was then that my triumph came.
I knew that a union which held the exhaust pipe in place on the silencer had been working loose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "silencer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cushion; damp; damper; gag; muffle; muffler; mute; muzzle; silencer
