I am the bolder to make this particuler relation in the praise of his perfect constancy and magnanemitye of spirite, because I haue thrise passed the samestraights and haue felt the most bitter and mercyles fury thereof.
The Straights did not occupy the main farmhouse immediately but set about having certain changes made in the interior design and structure.
During the remodeling, the Straights lived in the spring house, which they called "The Cottage.
Originally built over a series of natural springs in order to have water for cooling dairy products, this stone house was converted into a small dwelling house by the Straights in 1942.
Its date of construction is not certain, but it is known to have been present when the Straightsacquired the farm in 1942.
Therefore, in 1948, a new landscape plan was worked out by Mrs. Max Farrand, a friend of the Straights and the designer of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown.
During the years the Straightslived at the farm, farming operations consisted of the raising of Hereford cattle.
Therefore, when the Straights ordered the renovation of the main house in 1942, it was suggested that the spring house be converted into a residence for the farm's caretaker.
The renovation carried out by the Straights resulted in enlargement and reframing of the windows, reconstruction of the existing door on the west side, and reconstruction of the brick chimney at the north end of the building.
I think we will meet the Marietta in the Straights of Magellan.
She was in the straights when we past her, she was laying off in one of the coves waiting for us, the man on lookout sighted us as we pased her, and told his capt and he said let her go, we will up anchor and overhall her in a short time.
Passed Smiths Straights the first part of this morning, early, and in the fog that has Just come on we are still going it.
There is some talk of a Spanish Gun Boat or a Torpedo Boat in the Straights waiting for us.
Magellan and there join the Marietta, our little Gun Boat, which will scout the straights for us in case there is a Spanish Torpedo Boat in one of the Many Coves.
Just at Dark we droped our mud hook in just 45 fathoms of water in the entrence of the Straights of Magellan.
What's manners in St. Looey may be bad jedgment in Texas; same as some commoonities plays straights in poker, while thar's regions where straights is barred.
The reason is, as the Mariners said to me, because that there meete all the waues from all places of the Straights of Gibralter, and there breake, and that in most calmes there go greatest seas, whether the winde blow or not.
The ships depart from Diu about the 15 of Ianuarie, and returne from the straights to Diu in the moneth of August.
The ships depart betwixt the 25 and first of September, and returne from the straights to Diu, the first and 15 of May.
You will proceed without loss of time to Basses Straights and observe the following directions for prosecuting discoveries in those straights on the south-west coast of this country.
Ryght Honorable Mr. Secretary Walsingham cam to my howse, where by good lok he found Mr. Awdrian Gilbert, and so talk was begonne of North-west Straights discovery.
The Straights of St. Marie are about forty miles long, bearing south-east, but varying much in their breadth.
They coasted Lake Huron on its east and northern borders, till they arrived at the island of St. Joseph, which is situated in the Straights of St. Marie.
It discharges its waters from the south-east corner, through the Straights of St. Marie.
At the north-east corner this lake has a communication with Lake Michegan, by the Straights of Michillimackinac already described.
There they crossed these Straights upon the ice about fifteen miles below the falls, and continued their route still westward.
At the upper end of these Straights stands a fort that receives its name from them, commanded by Mons.
Towards which the western coasts of America, from California to the Straights of Annian, extend nearly north-west, and lie in about forty-six degrees of the same latitude.
Lake Huron, into which you now enter from the Straights of St. Marie, is the next in magnitude to Lake Superior.
Another queer kink in the slope game of draw is that straights don't go.
I've been catching occasional pat straights and drawing to 'em all my life, and I think the straight is one of the prettiest plays in poker.
Yesterday's news confirmed, though a little different; but a couple of ships in the Straights we have lost, and the Dutch have been in Margret Road.
Then we espying a fayre sound, supposed it to goe into the Straights betweene the Queenes foreland and Iackmans sound, which proued as we imagined.
Iackmans sound being vpon the Southerland, lyeth directly almost ouer against the Countesses sound, as is reckoned scarce thirty leagues within the Straights from the Queenes Cape, which is the entrance of the Streits of the Southerland.
Sidenote: Mistaken straightswhich indeed are no straights.
And the same day we passed thorow the straightsof Galipoli, and by the Castles, and also by the Towne of Galipoli it selfe, which standeth in Europa.
The 20 of February we departed from Cades, and passed the straights of Gibraltar that night, and the 25 we came to the Ile of Mallorca, and stated there fiue daies with contrary windes.
Spanish gallies in the Straights of Gibraltar, the 24.
Spaine, named Pedro Sarmiento, gouernour of theStraights of Magelan, which said Pedro we brought into England with us, and presented him to our soueraigne Lady the Queene.
Sure yez ahl must have straights or flushes or such trash, an’ guns wudn’t kape yez out.
Or belike after your death you were thrown into Mare Mediterraneum, about Tripolis in Syria, and so you steered out of the Straights of Gibralterra, in the ocean seas, and so into the Bay of Portugal.
If two straights make with a transversal equal alternate angles they have a common perpendicular.
Any two straights inclose a plane figure, a digon.
The cross of two straights is the pole of the join of their poles.
Straights through P which make with PC an angle greater than the angle of parallelism and less than its supplement do not meet the straight AB at all not even at infinity.
Two straights perpendicular to a third straight intersect at a point half a straight from the third either way.
To give the name of straights to the sides of the first is to adopt Euclidean geometry; to give the name of straights to the sides of the latter is to adopt the non-Euclidean geometry.
The straights of these men will not be our straights, but they will have among themselves the same relations as our straights to one another.
But we do not experiment on ideal straights or circles; it can only be done on material objects.
By this tendency no doubt simplicity loses; some phenomenon was formerly represented by several straight lines, now these straights must be joined by curves more or less complicated.
The contradiction would be manifest as soon as one affirmed, for example, the existence of straights and circles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
