But it was only the staves that had been burned, the colors having been thus far concealed.
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me?
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without.
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
For a flame broke forth of its own accord, from under the staves of the ensigns, and was with difficulty extinguished.
And of the rest there fell above three hundred, killed by clubs and staves only, none by an iron weapon.
Those wretched barrel-staves had no more consideration than to descend crushingly upon my unprotected skull, and to remove portions of my ears in so doing.
The gang repeatedly returned to the charge upon the people, with staves and clubs, but the people stood as firm as rocks, upon whom they never made the slightest impression, the people all the while acting solely on the defensive.
As we passed in the front of the House of Correction, in Cold Bath Fields, I observed great numbers of constables and police officers assembled, armed with their staves of office, &c.
Through the falling rain he looked at the view before him, at the overgrown yard, at the manure heaps near the stable, at the grim rows ofstaves in the peanut field, at the sombre and deserted landscape.
Beyond the barnyard he saw the long rows of pine staves that had supported the shocks of peanuts, and from the direction of the field he caught sight of his father, driven homeward by the threatening rain.
And who has got the rest, since two ships' cargoes of new bow-staves are arrived at Ayr, and thou with difficulty hast only procured me two old ones?
The staves were musical with the clattering feet of the pack-horses and pack-donkeys, and the voices of the fishermen urging them up mingled with the voices of the fishermen's wives and their many children.
These runners carry stout staves with which to warn off mendicants, and with a view to making it uncomfortable for any irrepressible Persian rowdy who should offer any insults.
We took up our staves and very slowly walked down the river, before it was quite dark, looking for open country on the left.
Flat-footedly we slithered over them one after the other, our staves held horizontally.
More appropriate adornments of the place, dedicated as well to martial reminiscences as religious worship, are the long ranges of dusty and tattered banners that hang from their staves all round the ceiling of the chapel.
We break into the courtyard, and one of us with his sword staves in a cask of wine--signal for infinite uproar.
They saw him roll one cask after another to the doorway, and out into the street in the gray light of morning, and break through the staves with a heavy axe.
Illustration] Fasten the staves together by threading the rope through the hole from the out side of the first stave, then across the inside of the stave down through the other hole (see illustration).
Knock off the remaining hoops and the staves will appear as shown at bottom of illustration.
When threading the staveslet the rope be loose enough to leave a space of an inch or so between each stave when the barrel is spread out in the form of a hammock.
The timber resembles in its grain the English oak, and is the only wood in the colony well adapted for making felloes of wheels, yokes for oxen, and staves for casks.
The wood becomes dark with age, and is used for coopers' staves and various purposes.
After which time the Devil grew yet worse by roaring, and terrifying them by casting of stones, by striking them with staves on their beds in the night time.
It shot staves through the wall at him, but did no hurt.
It rattled on the chests and bedsides with a staff, and made a great noise; and thus it continued by throwing stones, striking with staves and rattling in the house, till the 2d of April.
A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
Finally he was pronounced dead, and a few minutes later Detective Richardson climbed on a pile of staves and cut the rope.
Some bundles of staves were taken from the adjoining lumber yard for kindling.
These cross-pieces can be made of the staves of a barrel.
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The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
