What know I Of the will of the bow that speedsme on high?
Thy foliage is fadeless, no chilling winds blow, No frost has embraced thee, no mantle of snow; Then hail to each sunbeam whose swift airy flight Speeds on for thy valleys each hill-top and height!
To find these speeds we load the brake to different weights, and plot the resulting speeds and horse powers as abscissae and ordinates producing the curve, BB.
The speeds are plotted as abscissae, and the electrical work absorbed in watts divided by 746 as ordinates; then with a series-wound motor we obtain the curve, EE.
These speeds were not, however, secured without accidents, for there was scarcely a newspaper of the period that did not contain one or more paragraphs headed "Another dreadful coach accident.
Whenever you put passenger-trains on a line, all the other trains must be run at high speeds to keep out of their way.
Yet, taking all circumstances into account, the wonder is that traveling by railway at high speeds should have been rendered comparatively so safe.
He speeds along at a desperate pace, dashing the waves into spray around him and drawing the boats after him.
At last our albatross rises high above the coast and speeds swiftly southwards to the small island of Auckland.
He yells with all the power of his lungs and takes no heed of holes and lumps as he speeds along towards life, safety, and home.
It is a change to cross a quiet lake after being hurried on a rapid stream like the Danube, and now it is another change to paddle from the lake into a wide river like the Rhine, which speeds fast and steady among lively scenes.
Then he quivers and shakes with satisfaction, and quickly speeds to another perch, flitting by you with wonderful swiftness, as if a sapphire had been flung athwart the sunbeam, flashing beauteous colours in its flight.
Pure mineral oils of relatively low viscosity are used for high speeds and low pressures, mixed oils of greater viscosity for low speeds and high pressures.
In selecting oils for low speeds and great pressures, viscosity must be the first consideration, and next to that "oiliness.
Owing to these arrangements no tendency to derailment has shown itself, even with speedsof from sixteen to twenty-two feet per second upon curves of thirteen feet radius.
When the circuit of the dynamo is closed, all the horses start at once and take on relative speedsthat are so much the greater in proportion as the circle upon which they are placed has a greater radius.
In your breast the light must burn Fed of you, like corn in quern Ever plumping while the wheel Speeds the mill and drains the meal.
But law is law for ever, And like a mighty lever It thrusts him tow'rd endeavour, And speeds him on his course.
The brute in humanity dwindles And lessens as time speeds along, And the spark of Divinity kindles And blazes up brightly and strong.
From body to body your spirit speeds on; It seeks a new form when the old one is gone; And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought On the loom of the mind, with the fibre of thought.
Nay, I lust not after empire so That for mine own hand I should haply care To take this deed upon it: but the blow, Thou sayest, that speeds my father forth of life, Speeds too my mother forth of living woe That till he dies may die not.
The bright wood along which it speeds is like the season's millinery.
High speed generators may be used, thus reducing the first cost, and the multiplicity of speeds and flexibility of the system resulting from the use of a friction clutch.
How are the diameters and speeds of gear wheels figured?
As he swiftly speeds on the air becomes denser and denser with what he fears must be the beginning of a sea-fog, perhaps drifting inland along the course of the river.
Swiftly he speeds away, and few thoughts he has now for the changing panorama of country, cloud, and colour.
Up, up, up, and still up, unfalteringly speeds the Pilot and his mount.
I am a product of those two factors, and at the speeds at which Aeroplanes fly to-day, and at the altitudes and consequent density of air they at present experience, I increase at about the Square of the Speed.
One of the most interesting and valuable features in the development of naval construction in recent years is the great advance which has been made in the speeds of our war ships.
It is very improbable that suchspeeds will ever be exceeded.
The vessels whose trials are inserted in the table have not been selected as showing the highest speeds for the several classes.
The speeds attained indicate a high efficiency with the twin screws.
The screws for E and F are interesting, because, with practically the same speeds and slips, there is a considerable difference in the revolutions.
On light draught trials, speeds have been attained from half a knot to a knot higher than those here recorded.
This railway speedsinto the midland counties, but especially to Birmingham, 350 tons of fish consigned to the country dealers, and to the nobility and gentry.
When still slower speeds were desired, upon the one-turn-one-picture principle, the motor was cut in and cut out intermittently so that the exposure could be varied from once in 20 seconds to once in an hour or more.
The ram, the index-finger, the scale and the clock are all recorded upon the film, so that it is possible to tell the varying speeds at which the ram moves throughout its travel.
Phases of natural movement, capable of being recorded at speeds ranging between eighty and two hundred per second, are the most promising spheres of moving-picture activity at the present moment.
The control of the speed was essential to his work, so he elaborated a simple and ingenious change-speed gear mechanism, which enabled him to drive the camera at four different speeds without touching the motor.
In reply it is only necessary to point out that such photographing speeds are indispensable in studying the motions of the smaller members of the animal kingdom.
And yet perchance when life's last spark Death speeds unto eternal night, The tomb-bred soul, within the dark, Shall see the light.
Romances wild, and poesy Of hasheech and of wine, vain speeds Beneath Bohemia's brilliant sky On unrestrained and maddened steeds!
Sometimes a breastplate glitters bright, A morion speeds its flashes wroth, A rondelle from a hand of might Drops heavily upon the cloth.
At from two to five thousand feet the air may be moving at speeds of from twenty to forty miles an hour,--great masses of winds, like the trade stream, which are uniform over vast areas.
Even the speeds vary to such an extent that when it is tried to differentiate them, in comparison with form, shape, and construction, the experimenter finds himself wrapt in doubt and perplexity.
The limits of speeds are fairly stated as being within thirty and eighty- five miles per hour.
It should be borne in mind that for high speeds the blades must be narrow.
Unquestionably, for slow speeds the concaved wing is desirable, as will be explained, but for high speeds, surface formation has no value.
The subject might be illustrated by assuming that we have a line running from A to Z, which indicates the range of speeds in aeroplanes.
The head resistance of the bird formation is reduced to a minimum, and at such high speeds the angle of incidence of the wings is very small, requiring but little aid to maintain it in horizontal flight.
The highway is excellent all the way, some thirty-two miles, and the car speedsonward like a bird.
The winds blow coldly and we draw our furs closely about us as the car speeds onward over roads not made for such usage.
But how do we get the orbital speeds to help us, Major?
The escape time, combining orbital speeds of Tara and Junior, are completed, and we have six hours and fifty-five minutes before blast-off!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
