The longest and largest staples are used with soft woods, as cedar or chestnut.
The size and length of the staples depend on whether the posts are hard or soft wood.
The trap is set and the wire door kept open by a wire trigger-rod held in place by two staples in the top of the box.
Grape staples are of three lengths, about an inch, inch and a quarter, and an inch and a half respectively.
The wire is secured to the intermediate posts by staples driven in firmly so that the wire will not pull through readily of its own weight, but still loosely enough to allow of the tightening of the wires.
For others who desire to engage largely in the cultivation of the staples named, and who wish to purchase larger tracts of land for that purpose, we will give information as to terms, etc.
Attach to wood base with staplesat each end of the wire.
When he found a weak or rotting post, he pulled the staples that held the strands of wire to it and and then set the trestle alongside the post.
Pete," said his father, briefly, "go get your hammer andstaples and mend this fence up as good as you found it.
I speak of the estimates being furnished for an entire year ahead, but in reality they cover that much time only in case of the great staples for which the demand can be calculated on as steady.
As regards the great staples of life, of which an abundance can always be secured, scarcity is eliminated as a factor.
In national staples; a basis of agreement as to what staples shall be accepted, and in what proportions, for settlement of accounts, being a preliminary to trade relations.
The prices of the staples grow less year by year, but rarely, if ever, rise.
The production of those staples which form the principal bases of commerce has increased in a quadruple ratio.
The great staples of human necessity and human luxury are produced here in the greatest abundance, and the great majority of these nowhere else.
These shrewd traders not only drew a ring round Hirado, but also sent vessels on their own account to Cochin China, Siam, Tonkin, Cambodia and other places, where they obtained many of the staples in which the English and the Dutch dealt.
The chief staplesof the early trade were tea and silk.
Lacquer, vegetable wax and tobacco are also important staples of production.
For many reasons it is desirable that the number of the staples of cultivation and export of our colonies should be increased.
The province of Bantam has always furnished, and still continues to produce, the most pepper; but the culture of this creeper is fast giving place in Java to staples affording higher profits and requiring less care.
This included the staples and also the stretching of three strands of barbed wire above the woven wire; two at six-inch intervals on the outside, and one inside, level with the top of the post.
Just as he reached the goal of his ambition, however, the staples securing the rod pulled out and the boy was left swaying back and forth in mid-air, while the crowd upon the top of the capitol and on the ground below looked on in horror.
Upon making the attempt, it was found impossible to move the United States flag, some one having either nailed or driven it with staples to the staff.
Staples sat on the ice in a dazed manner, and passed his hand across his brow.
It was also rather curious that Mr. Brown had a dozen schemes in his mind for getting acquainted with Staples when he met him, and yet that the first advance should be made by Staples himself.
One afternoon, Brown walked into the bar of the hotel, where he found Staples standing.
Both coat and vest were padded in this way--the vest being filled with Bank of England notes, so the chances were that Staples had meditated a tour in Europe.
Staples must be found quietly and negotiated with.
He had played the part of private detective well in Toronto, after the very best French style, and had searched the room of Staples in his absence, but he knew the money was not there nor in his valise.
He met Staples one evening in the smoking-room of the hotel.
He thought at first that Staples was shamming, but a closer examination of him showed that the fall on the ice had knocked him senseless.
It was lucky for Brown that Staples was looking at the words he had written, and not at himself, or he would have noticed Brown's involuntary start of surprise, and flush of pleasure.
When Staples was almost at the land he shouted through the clear night air: "Don't spend the money recklessly when you get it, Walker.
There was a smile of satisfaction on the face of Staplesas he wrote the check.
Athlete as young Brown was, the suddenness of the attack, and the fact that Staples clutched both hands round his neck and had his knee on his breast, left him as powerless as an infant.
A pamphlet is said to be stabbed when the signatures are held together by wire staples driven in vertically near the back and clinched on the other side.
Pamphlets held together by wire staples driven through and clinched near the back edge, are said to be wired.
A machine process which either sews or staples pamphlets of one signature.
Mr. Staplesbelieves he has found traces of her, and that's why he is now away from home.
There were stocks for their feet, and there were staples in the floor for the ankles and wrists, placed in such a position as to keep the victim stretched out and lying on his face.
The staples of the island must be cultivated after 1840 as now, because if not, the negroes could not obtain the comforts or luxuries, of which they are undoubtedly very desirous, from cultivation of their grounds.
Nobody ventured to find fault with it except two or three sour old busybodies, who, as Elder Staples well says, 'would have cursed her whom Christ had forgiven, and spurned the weeping Magdalen from the feet of her Lord.
Elder Staples and Deacon Warner were her fast friends.
Staples once that I did n't see but that the Doctor could beat him at preaching.
Our nearest route home lay across the pastures and over Blueberry Hill, just at the foot of which we encountered Elder Staples and Skipper Evans, who had been driving their cows to pasture, and were now leisurely strolling back to the village.
The two great food staples chosen sufficiently indicate general conditions as regards communications from centre to centre.
The disappearance of American merchant ships from the high seas corresponded to the void occasioned by the blockade of American staples of commerce.
Jack Hobson held the staplesin position while Tom Evert, lying on his side, drove them into the wall of solid coal with a dozen blows from his heavy hammer.
Now, men, drive those staples into the wall, make the boat fast to them, and pitch in.
Eight staplesare used at each miter, four above and four below the joint.
The corners are simply mitered together and attached to each other by means of the wire staplesthat are commonly used for fastening together pages of manuscript, and which are called "novelty staples.
These staples are equal in quality, and can be landed at our principal commercial centres at a much less cost than is paid for shipments from that island.
With a rich soil and plenty of cheap labor, she ought to be able to export many staples which would command our markets, especially as regards coffee, cotton, and wool.
The cultivation of rice one of the great staples of the Carolinas, is an instance to illustrate this point.
The great staples of Virginia have but a limited market, which is easily glutted.
They have in fact sunk more in price, and have a more threatening prospect, than the more southern staples of cotton and rice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: effects; goods; inventory; line; merchandise; provision; staple; stock; ware
