His Webb equipment was twisted and cut; he was plastered in mud and filth from head to foot, while his steel helmet bore the splayed marks of the impact of two pistol-bullets fired at close range.
The prisoner's armour was certainly proof against fragments of bombs, even at close range, as the splayed marks upon the steel testified.
The most popular of these is that with splayed or spreading ends, often split into three divisions, called the cross paty, which appears in the arms of St. Edward (see figs.
They were, it is believed, filled with oiled linen and the sides of the aperture were splayed towards the interior.
Well, one day the resident engineer was talking to another swell about how a splayed nozzle to a pipe caused an increased discharge.
His arms and breast were thick with hair; the hair on his face grew almost up to the eyes; the fingers of his splayed hands were blunt and broad; and his hair was like a nest for things of the jungle undergrowth.
But to use the crossbow in the defence of buildings it was necessary to construct special loopholes for shooting, splayed downwards externally, so that it was possible to aim from them.
The crossbowmen not only required splayed loopholes, but also niches, large enough to accommodate at least three men, so that a continuous discharge of darts (quarrells) might be kept up.
The girl looked down at the woman for a long, sad moment, then glanced back, her tresses splayed in the morning wind.
He held the flaming bundle above his head a moment longer, while he intoned a verse in praise of Ogun, and then flung it against the thatched wall behind him, where it splayed against a post and disintegrated.
A series of narrow vertical slits in the walls, splayed out into embrasures inside, served the purpose of windows, and also as oillets or arbalesteria, for the discharge of arrows and bolts.
The Keep or Donjon is splayed outwards at the base, a device often adopted for projecting missiles among the assailants when dropped from above, and also for greater strength.
At the same moment, or his eyes deceived him, a shadow that was not Morty O'Beirne's fell for one second on the splayed wall inside the window.
In the splayed angles supporting the dome are doors leading to four apartments--two used as hot rooms of different temperatures, and the others as a washing-room and a shampooer's waiting room.
There could be no mistake about those big splayed footprints, and in about two minutes Snarleyow was getting a first-class hammering, with his head tied inside the three-legged pot for a lesson.
The lower arcade of the south end is continued along the west wall, and above this rise two widely-splayed windows.
The Norman windows of the choir aisle have three external orders, with a label ornament in the outer order; the single shafts have cushion caps; the windows are largely splayed internally.
On the south side are indications of a similar opening, but at the present time the wall is so broken out that no well defined jamb can be traced, and it is impossible to determine whether the splayed opening was used or not.
The ground plan of the church shows that the openings were splayed in the thickness of the walls, at an angle of about 45°.
Windows generally narrow andsplayed internally only; sometimes double and divided by a shaft.
The glass is generally near the outside face of the wall, and the sides of the opening aresplayed towards the inside.
Still holding her eyes with his own, Glavour stepped forward until his huge splayed foot rested on the weapon.
He measured a good eight feet from the soles of his huge splayed feet to the crown of his enormous head, crested with stiff black hair which even the best efforts of Tonsome, the court barber, failed to make lie in order.
Also, there was a little splayed hole in the ground, as if a walking-stick had been poked in there, close beside him, which had not been there before.
The tie beams, the deeplysplayed windows, the interior shafts, all prove that we are engaged with a writer of Early English date.
The basal disk is even narrower and is not splayed out round the edges.
Skeleton fairly compact, with well-developed radiating fibres; the transverse fibres splayed out at either end so that they sometimes resemble a pair of fans joined together by the handles (fig.
The radiating fibres are usually more distinct and stouter than the transverse ones, which are often represented by single spicules but are sometimes splayed out at the ends so as to assume in outline the form of an hour-glass (fig.
Soon I am shuffling afield of the fallen chimney, one hand on my lumbar, crouched over like a chimp, knees splayed in an effort to shift stress away from my grooved calves.
The other windows in the lower story are very narrow, mere ceilets, or loops such as were used for archery, but are widely splayed within.
On the side nearest the rock is a splayed opening ending outwardly in a crosslet large enough for three or four men to use at the same time.
It contained one narrow deeply-splayed Romanesque window, and a piscina where the priest washed his hands.
They are widely splayed inwards, and separated by a group of vaulting shafts.
It was built by Bishop Flambard and finished as early as 1112; but the north wall of the nave, containing two small Norman windows, widely splayed inwards, and a walled-up doorway is all that remains of this early church.
He hesitated, looking up at the prism of light that splayed out through the first floor window, and set a silver fire to the falling rain.
The lamp had been lit and splayed weak fans of yellow light on to the gravel, and the flower-beds of the grass plot.
Their jambs are splayed at an angle that would allow about 12 ins.
The squint is partially splayed on both sides, rather more on the right side than the left, extends 18 inches into the interior of the church, and commanded apparently a view of the high altar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deltoid; divergent; flaring; open; outstretched; splay; sprawling; spread; widespread
