Tines"; from the Saxon; the teeth or spikes in the rowel of a spur.
By little ease, is meant a prison not large enough either to lie down or stand upright in, with spikes in the walls; places of torment well known in former times of persecution for conscience sake.
Then the fruits exhibit their promise to the eye; the kohil fills the ear with melody; the air is impregnated with aroma, and the crimson poppy contrasts with the spikes of golden grain to form a wreath for the beneficent Gouri.
Beside us was the Aiguille de Charmoz, piercing with its spikes of granite the clear air.
Driving the iron claws of our boots into the scars made by the axe, and the spikes of our batons into the slope above our feet, we ascended steadily until the summit was attained, and the top of the mountain rose clearly above us.
Our way lay up the steep and splintered rocks, among which we sought out the spikes which were closely enough wedged to bear our weight.
We found the ladder necessary in crossing some of the chasms, the iron spikes at its end being firmly driven into the ice at one side, while the other end rested on the opposite side of the fissure.
Stepping into one of the niches, we discovered that the floor of it was thickly studded with sharp iron spikes which we found, on clearing away the dust, to be about two inches in height.
The thick scrub, having been previously burnt, presented spikes like bayonets, which reduced our hurried ride to a walking pace, our horses winding a course through it as the skeleton trees permitted.
Another method of retaining the concrete is to reinforce it from the outside by driving rows of spikes along the inner surface of either side of the cavity and lacing a stout wire across the face of the cavity.
This plant, with its tall spikes of waxen and fragrant white flowers, is well known in the middle latitudes, but usually requires more heat and a longer season than are commonly present in the most northern states.
The other ends of the spikes are free, and allow the string to be caught between them, thus preventing the balls from unwinding as they hang upon the frame.
But the men were all on deck, and pretty soon he heard the dropping of hand-spikes and the dash of ropes above him as if the crew were getting ready to train a gun upon the town.
There was a sound of dropping hand-spikes and cutlasses, and in an instant there was silence on the deck.
You see, the spikes that held them were planted in rotten wood, for the ties are very old.
The track was old, the ties were rotten, and the spikes gave way.
Throughout the Middle Ages, among ourselves down to the end of last century, heads of traitors and criminals were thus stuck up on spikes over city gates, and town halls, and castles.
The floral representations are far-away remembrances of the bunch of corn and hay offered to Woden’s horse, but the balls on the spikes recall the human skulls set up to his honour.
A neat and free-flowering shrub, with spikes of white flowers in August; it is very hardy and useful, as few shrubs are in flower at that time.
Christmas, in advance of either of its parents, when its pale-purple spikesare very welcome, and are quite distinct from the rosy-red flowers of E.
An attractive shrub, withspikes of reddish pea-like flowers in July and August.
A good shrub for a sheltered bank; it has spikes of bright-yellow flowers in July.
About the end of June it commences to flower, produces its flower-spikes in the leaf-axils, and continues to do so until the middle of September.
An evergreen of sturdy growth, and about 3 feet high, with terminal spikes of pure white hawthorn-like flowers.
A neat little bush, about a yard high, with dense spikes of white flowers.
First he hired a man to cripple our machinery; another of his men filled our logs with spikes for us to saw into.
Somebody's playing hob with my machinery and driving spikes into my logs for me to rip off sawteeth on.
He was standing with his arms folded, over against the wall, looking at the spikes on the top, with a sentimental expression, as if they were the interlacing boughs of trees that had shaded him in his youth.
In the pond were small fishes of a different form from any we had seen, having a large forked tail, only two or three spikes in the dorsal fin, and a large jet-black eye within a broad silvery ring.
In partial shade, colonies of the tufted yellow-green leaves send up from the center gradually lengthening spikes of bloom that may finally attain over a foot in length.
Gray) sends up spikes of little flowers like a yellow sweet alyssum as early as April, and continues in bloom through June.
Ten varieties of the lower hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and others) commonly resort to the fragrant spikes of bloom.
Its beautiful spikes of butter-colored cornucopias, apparently holding the yolk of a diminutive Spanish egg, emit a cheesy odor, suggesting a close dairy.
Its pink spikes are shorter and less slender than those of the preceding taller, but similar species, and its leaves, which are nearly seated on the stem, have dark triangular or lunar marks near the center in the majority of cases.
Grace of habit and the bright beauty of its long blue spikes of ragged flowers above rich, glossy leaves give a charm to this vigorous wader.
Go and tell the other party to fall back to the gate," Hector said; "but first give me two spikes and the hammer.
If we'd known we'd ha' saved all those six-inch spikeswe put in it.
For sartain, my son; but I nailed 'em together, for there's one of my spikes still sticking in.
A few followers watching their creaghts or herds, farther up the valley, found his bleeding trunk flung out upon the highway; the head was transported over seas, to rot upon the spikes of London Tower.
While they pretended to be examining the guns, they quietly inserted the points of the spikesinto the touch–holes.
The soldiers shouted as they saw the spikes being driven in, but the strikers had gone some thirty or forty yards before they had sufficiently recovered from their surprise to think of pursuit.
Two might be quite enough if it were not that the gunners probably lie down close to their pieces, and if they woke up before we had driven both spikes in and made a rush, we might fail in our object.
He hid the hammers and spikes in his bed, and then, retiring to an unfrequented corner of the Residency, he soon manufactured a rope–ladder, cutting some boughs to form the rungs.
The fabric held, the spikes were well set, the Polly did not pause, and, therefore, the master of the Olenia was yanked off his own deck and went along.
Spikes your excellent father left sticking out of his martingale," he said, a sort of boyish resentment in his tones.
All the evening Mayo's collar had been buttoned closely about his neck to keep out the fog-damp, and when he was picked up by the spikes the collar gripped tightly about his throat and against his larynx.
Captain Mayo ducked low to dodge a guy, and the spikes hooked themselves neatly into the back of his reefer coat.
The amateur riggers who had tinkered with the Polly's gear in makeshift fashion had not troubled to smooth off spikes with which they had repaired the martingale's lower end.
Also an assortment of nails of various sizes, from large spikes down to small tacks, not forgetting some large and small brass-headed nails.
These were some five feet high, and along the top and in the face next to the breach sharp-pointed spikes and nails had been driven, rendering it difficult in the extreme for anyone to climb over.
Our hero at once rushed to the nearest gun, slipped one of his improvised spikesinto the vent, and then drove it home with his axe head.
About the estate there ran a great bronze fence, ten feet high, with sharp, inhospitable spikes pointing outwards.
She, too, glanced upward and toward the house, the upper storey alone of which, from where they stood, was visible above the spikes of a green palisade.
You can tell by the four spikes an' the weathercock; like-wise by the tombstones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spikes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
