High mindedness is like the high bending of a string of an instrument, which easily breaks in two pieces.
Beethoven had neither the modern keyed brass instruments to support the wood-wind against the doubled and trebled strings, nor did he dare to venture beyond the then supposed range of the wood, brass, and string instruments.
How those violin passages on the fourth string in the "Tannhäuser" overture worried the instrumentalists!
That stringof them over the harbor looks like a necklace.
Our latch-string will always be out for you," promised Anne.
The latch-string of the little house was always out for the race of Joseph.
If I could hit on jest the right words and string 'em together proper on paper I could make a great book.
While in this capacity he dressed in a peculiar fashion, wearing breeches with eight strings at each knee, and was hence nicknamed Sixteen-string Jack.
Dennis, the hangman at the Lord George Gordon riots, had also been sentenced to death for complicity, but obtained forgiveness on condition that he should string up his former associates.
Conceive an ordinary light string to be fixed at one end and shaken by the hand at the other; waves will pass over the string from the shaken to the fixed end.
It is prevented from touching that contact normally by a string between itself and a rigid support.
The string is cut at its middle and the knotted ends as thus cut are imbedded in the sealing wax which contains the coil.
All currents below a certain critical amount may flow through the heating coil indefinitely, the heat being radiated rapidly enough to keep the wax from softening and the string from parting.
Principle of Sneak-Current Arrester] A small current through the little coil will warm the wax enough to allow the string to part.
When the flower is in full bloom, a small string tag should be tied to the flower stem (string tags can be got from a local merchant).
By using a string or tape-line, find its diameter and how big it is around.
Pupils rub hands together; rub a button on a cloth; saw a string across the edge of a board or across the hand; bore a hole through a hardwood plank, then feel the auger-bit.
In the case of a heavy glass bottle, file the cut as before, wrap the bottle with string dipped in alcohol, light it, and after it has burned, plunge the bottle vertically into cold water.
This work will include the levelling of the plots with hoes and rakes, and the trimming of the edges to the exact size of the plots, as determined by a string drawn taut about the four corner pickets.
By using a string or tape-line, they may find out how big it is around and the length of the diameter.
The first bow-and-string bridge was erected in the island of St. Helena over a deep ravine.
Image] Bow-and-string Roofs and Bridges I may mention one or two of my father's mechanical efforts, or rather his inventions in applied science.
Paper messengers were sent up to it along the string which held it to the ground.
They expect us to install all our poles, string our wires, set up our transformers in their streets and then perhaps at the end of a hundred years find ourselves compelled to sell out at a beggarly valuation.
You realize it at theatre time when the great stringof motors come sweeping to the doors of the Palaver, to carry the twelve hundred guests to twelve hundred seats in the theatres at four dollars a seat.
It was curious to see a string of these houses, all with the little ladders, and all just alike.
When we found a little toy garden at the back, our rooms a string of tiny one-story houses facing it, with roses blooming at every doorway, we were delighted.
Next, draw this double loop back through the hole; the string will be in position, and the block is now passed along through a single loop and onto the string containing the other one.
String the 1-1/2-inch blocks, one on each cord, then tie the ends of cord in the two end holes of the rectangular strip.
Double the stringto a loop and draw this loop through the center hole of the rectangular strip.
Both peas and beans may be soaked and given to the small children to string for chains, thus teaching number and spacing.
String the pieces of cord through a ring, taking care that the ends are of the same length.
Small brass rings may be used at the top instead of loops, and the drawing string may be run through them.
Slip the loops from the pencil andstring them to a cord, alternating the colors.
When the foundation is covered, clip the end where it finishes up, press it into place in the groove, drop a little glue over the point at which it is pressed in, and bind the ring with a string to hold the end in position.
Sometimes, for days together, he would hum to himself a few notes that pleased him by their sweet cadence, and he would string together some simple words to them, and sing them to himself with gentle content.
And Paul smiled like a tired child, and lay back in his chair; and as he did so a string of the lute that lay beside him broke with a sweet sharp sound.
Some one either bought and liberated several air balloons, or the string holding them was surreptitiously cut; but however it happened, the balls escaped and suddenly the crowd sent up a triumphant yell.
The church is more impressive on Good Friday, when over this altar is built a Calvary with the crucifix on the summit and life-size mourners at its foot; while a choir and string orchestra make superbly mournful music.
You try to brush through them, and are caught up instantly by a string or wire belonging to some other plant.
May I ask if your string of invectives is exhausted, or is there any further abuse which you feel inclined to heap upon me?
At the top of St. James's Street he pulled the check-string and jumped out.
There were other of his helpers too, a dozen of them up to their eyes in work, and a long string of applicants patiently waiting their turn.
A string of pearls around her throat gleamed softly in the firelight.
You have heard a string of incoherent but sufficiently damaging accusations made against me to-day by a young lady whose very existence, I may say, was a surprise to me.
He seems to touch every string with fresh and uninked fingers; and the secret of his power lies, I suspect, in the fact that his words: "Life being more than all else to me.
On this string he would harp by the hour; it was a lofty subject on which he had pondered much in his solitary life, and he was glad of an opportunity of ventilating his grievance and expounding his views.
Thirdly, there is a piece of tape, once part of the string of the apron which the Prince wore as part of his female attire.
Virupaksha and Mahodara, two of Ravana's ministers utter a string of moral and political sentences.
Then sighing, she took up this string of costly pearls and placed it on my neck.
Now she is gay in summer greenery and many a string of flower signals flutters from mast head and signal yard.
So, too, the tyrant flycatcher loves to build his larger nest, often interwoven with waste string till it looks as if he had tied it on.
And did he not talk a long string of learning about Greek and cosmogony, and the world?
The spell was broken and the string of his tongue loosed, so that he cried aloud for mercy.
Take a large Norfolk-turnip, cut off the green of the leaves, leave the stalks 9 inches long, tie these round with a string three inches from the top, and put the turnip on the middle of the top of the box.
In Pollock's list of publicanda I perceive a pair of my ancient aspirations: Wreck Ashore and Sixteen-String Jack; and I cherish the belief that when these shall see once more the light of day, B.
The pioneers had big hearts, and to their credit it can be said the latch-string was rarely pulled in when a stranger sought a meal or a night's lodging.
The latch was lifted from without by means of a leather string attached to it and passed through a hole a few inches above, and when the inmates of the house retired for the night, or did not wish to be molested, the string was pulled inside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "string" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
