The movable blade must be so arranged as to combine perfect ease of movement up and down in seeking for the stone, with a powerful, slow, and gradual approximation in crushing it.
Though this operation was supposed to lessen the risk of pelvic infiltration it is not found to do so, and it adds the additional inconvenience of almost inevitable rectal fistula, through which the urine escapes.
There are certain plants, the leaves of which seem to be pierced with a multitude of small holes.
When the bottom of a vessel, or any piece of wood which is constantly under water, is inhabited by these worms, it is full of small holes; but no damage appears till the outer parts are cut away.
Take a tin vessel of about six inches in height, and three in diameter, having a mouth of only a quarter of an inch wide, and in the bottom of the vessel make a number of small holes, of a size sufficient to admit a common sewing needle.
A shelf full of small holes, for supporting crystals of sulphate of copper, to keep up the strength of the solution.
Cards are formed of a sheet or fillet of leather pierced with a multitude of small holes, in which are implanted small staples of wire with bent projecting ends called teeth.
The coal tar in the top of the zinc cup should be removed by tapping around the edge with a hammer, and a large number of small holes should be made in the walls of the cup with a sharp instrument.
I cut the can in two near the center and punched small holes in the bottom.
The lanyard to which the filling is woven is next put in, by boring pairs of small holes in the toe and heel sections, and lacing a narrow rawhide thong through the obliquely drilled holes.
Close to the bottom and in the rim of the can cover, make a number of small holes with a prickpunch, or other sharp-pointed tool.
There are several conditions necessary to enable the drilling of small holes to be carried out successfully:--the first of these is that the "drill" should be driven at a high speed.
Small holes may be drilled in glass by means of a rod of hard steel which has been broken off, thus giving a more or less irregular and crystalline end.
The method of drilling with a hard steel rod is not highly satisfactory for anything but small holes.
The artificial standard set up by buyers and brokers necessitates this thin crepe being of even texture and fairly free from small holes ("looseness").
Why this matter of small holes in thin crepe should weigh so heavily with buyers is a matter which the writers are not in a position to explain.
There is no necessity to give it a superfine finish, and the presence of small holes is quite permissible, as they disappear on subsequent re-rolling.
The steam-pipe is a circle of 5/16-inch copper tube, having one end closed, and a number of small holes bored in the upper side to collect the steam from many points at once.
Mark out and drill the tube holes in the bottom, and then the flue hole, for which a series of small holes must be made close together inside the circumference and united with a fret saw.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small holes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
