Expansion joints are joints which permit the parts they connect to expand and contract without straining them.
It is obvious, then, that the proportions of the pulleys being determined the actual diameters must be large enough to transmit the required amount of power without unduly straining the belt.
Now for heavy sawing it is necessary that wide saws be used, in order to get sufficient driving power without over-straining the saw.
The upper wheel is adjusted forstraining the saw, and for leading the saw true, by the following construction.
Its walls would be consecrated with sweat and straining muscles.
But they were aware of events, of the common enemy, of the straining effort of war, and they were proud of their nephew in the King's uniform.
He closed his eyes, and a strainingexpression twisted his features.
They could see her eyes roll back, her face change color, could discern the straining of her throat.
Every man was shouting at his neighbor to the lung-straining limit of his ability.
Away they paddled to leeward, straining every nerve to get away from pursuers, whom they supposed to be murderously bent on killing them to a man.
As for the two boys, they remained near the opening through which the man had passed, straining their ears to catch the slightest sound without.
For some moments he lay still, his heart thumping against his ribs, straining his ears to catch the slightest sound.
No pirate straining every inch of canvas to escape well-merited capture, no smuggler fleeing for some sheltered cove, with the revenue cutter close astern, ever experienced a keener excitement than did we.
I took her hand in mine, and bid her be composed, for a succession of shudders convulsed her frame, and she would keep straining her gaze towards the glass.
Upon this they fling themselves with almost frantic fury, straining every nerve, and raining blows on it till the word "Halt!
In the case of the Daedala the story of Hera's quarrel with Zeus and her sullen retirement may perhaps without straining be interpreted as a mythical expression for a bad season and the failure of the crops.
She lay there, her heart, at first, throbbing, her eyes straining the darkness.
Martin's hand in his own he would pass off into his world of strange dreams and desperate prayer and hours of waiting, listening, straining for a voice .
For several minutes the straining antagonists swayed about the ring.
My straining ears could detect not the slightest sound from the fountain, which was within plain view behind me.
There in the chilly gloom, straining her ears to catch the lightest footfall of approaching peril, but hearing only the hushed thunder of the surf, stood a lonely ewe over the lamb to which she had given birth in the night.
Already had five ships sailed away with their sorrowful freight, disappearing around the towering front of Blomidon, from the straining eyes of friends and kinsfolk left behind.
He stopped, lowered his burden to the road, and stood straining ears and eyes in the direction of the sound.
He peered through the dark, with straining eyes grown preternaturally keen.
The straining lasted for a little time, and then at last came what was certain; there was a sudden yielding, a great final gasp, the big body relaxed and straightened out and the fight was over.
My grief is profound and my only comfort is the thought that her many lovers, East and West, arestraining every nerve to promote those very ideals for which she suffered and toiled all the days of her eventful and sacred life.
God be thanked, the believers in that country are confirmed and blessed, and have arisen to serve the Cause, and are straining every nerve to spread the heavenly Teachings far and wide.
He thought of the great ships, and the men commanding them, as greyhounds straining in the leash.
She thought of Farrell's altered aspect, of the signs of a great task laid upon him, straining even his broad back.
In dreadful expectation of the deafening crash, and the rending pang, and the burning bite of the greenish flame, the haggard eyes were straining upwards, when the terror went out of them, and their lids flickered down.
Margot gasped out the words in amazed discomfiture, sending her eyes after a dwindling shape beating down the sky to the southward, and straining her ears to catch the last of the tractor's whirring song.
And the boy shrieked again and again, straining at the belt that bound him to his terrible companion, conscious of nothing but overmastering fear-- "Quit yourself like a man!
He let the parchment fall from his hand, and gazed at it as it lay upon the floor with a wild and straining eye.
On quitting Northferry, the baronet sunk back in his carriage, and gazed forth from the windows with a straining eye, full of horror and dismay, for nearly a quarter of an hour.
Every time the door opened, he turned round with a start, and looked with straining eyes behind him.
Sir William gazed at the boy with straining eyes, but without reply; and the sweet young voice added, "Oh go, go!
Under the racking agony of every straining tendon and the heady pressure of the wind, a sense of mundane unreality began to settle upon the flier.
A few hundred feet above the trees within the wall, a box-kite was straining at its rope in the rising gale.
In Fownes's street Dilly Dedalus, straining her sight upward from Chardenal's first French primer, saw sunshades spanned and wheelspokes spinning in the glare.
By deaf Pat in the doorway straining ear Bloom passed.
On the second morning after the storm, the lookout fixed his straining eyes on a far-distant, shadowy line that had not been a part of the boundless horizon the day before.
With straining eyes the observers below watched the group of figures outlined against the sky.
Outside, the whistling wind, the swish of the darkened waters, the rattle of davits and the creak of the straining timbers.
The faithful beast was straining at her halter in a vain effort to get at her friend.
It is the strainingof young America at the fetters of tradition.
Alice had heard the cry of warning and would have called him back, but she was forsaken by the power of speech, and watched, with pale face and straining eyes, the boat beating smartly across the surges.
His horse was straining to the utmost, and he felt that it could do no more; he therefore prepared himself for a desperate fight should his pursuers overtake him.
The voices of the speakers now fell, and Cuthbert was straining his ear to listen, when he heard footsteps approaching the tent, and he glided away into the darkness.
While the Tzar's seemingly blind rage was striking down some of his most capable voevodas, his adversary was straining every nerve to ensure success in the coming struggle.
Harvey swung out of his bunk to hear better; and amid the straining of the timbers and the wash of the waters the tune crooned and moaned on, like lee surf in a blind fog, till it ended with a wail.
A sentry halted abruptly, straining his eyes into the gloom.
Then from the jungle came a low guttural, and the ape-man became suddenly a silent, rigid statue, with ears and nostrils straining to span the black void where his eyesight could not reach.
The two listened, straining to hear, but the cry died away without being repeated.
An hour passed, and then another, with no indication that the fog was thinning out, and with no sound coming to straining ears except the lap of the water along the rocks at their feet.
He listened, holding his breath, straining to hear.
