The stringers swayed back and forth in the wind, and her frail body, it seemed, would surely be caught up and blown into the mad maëlstrom of waters below.
All the bridge was gone save the rails, stringers and a few shaky ties.
The bridge, a long wooden trestle, was completely gone, nothing being left but twisted iron and a few broken stringers hanging in the air.
Stringers are also used, but these run horizontally.
They are sustained at each end by thick stringers on the ship's side, called shelf-pieces, upon which they rest.
They are now discontinued in many ships, the eyes being secured to the timber-heads, and frequently within the gunwale to the stringers or lower shelf-pieces above the water-way.
They took out nearly three hundred thousand there in less than three days, just scratching it out of stringers and crevices with their jack-knives.
The method of construction is very simple, consisting of two stringers of oak two inches square, across which are laid three-inch planks eight feet long, and generally of hemlock or pine.
The stringers under the trolley tracks were 8 by 16-in.
I-beams, which were hung fromstringers resting on the upper caps.
Roughly hewn stringers are laid from one post to another and to these stringers are tied the other poles that form the framework of the walls.
The rafters are tied to the ridgepole and stringers in the same manner.
A, resting on wooden stringers B, and supporting pieces C placed on the floor.
Two deep bilge pieces 10 feet long are bolted to broad stringers above the timbers, and extend fore and aft some 5 feet longer than the bilge pieces, thus distributing the strain over a large portion of the boat.
The material tested consisted of southern pinestringers having a cross-section approximately 6 by 16 in.
The stringers were chosen at random to determine the general condition of the trestle.
This kind, as also the others, is sometimes distinguished by stringers of the stone which easily melts in fire of the second order.
At those places where stringers intersect, richer ore is generally obtained from the mine; these stringers, in the case of tin mines, sometimes have in them black stones the size of a walnut.
The water of the veins and stringers and especially of vacant workings, must be drained out through the shafts and tunnels.
There remain the stringers in which gold alone is sometimes found, in the vicinity of rivers and streams, or in swamps.
There are other differences, too, in stringers and veins, which I will explain in my work De Re Metallica.
The rauchstein of the modern section is distinguished by stringers of calcite, which give it at times a brecciated appearance.
In truth, as to direction, junctions, and divisions, thestringers are not different from the veins.
The importance of the bearing of the junctions of veins and stringerson enrichment is elaborated upon, and veins of east-west strike lying upon a south slope are considered the best.
Stringers and large veins of the profunda sort, extending for considerable lengths, become crooked from two causes.
The following appears to be the reason why some veinlets or stringers and veins are profundae and others dilatatae.
Again, if several stringers descend into the earth, the miner, in order to pierce through the point of contact, should sink the shaft in the midst of these stringers, or else calculate on the most prominent one.
The stringers in the 8th stratum of stone, which fuse in the fire of the second order, were possibly calcite.
Also there must be a suitable place in the mountain which the veins andstringers can traverse.
In the other case, when the water runs against very hard rock, being unable to break through, it goes around the nearest way, and the stringers and veins are formed bent and crooked.
In the center, is another forked tree trunk much higher than the other (this we shall call the sun pole) connected with each of the stringers by a rafter.
Across their tops, except the eastern face, are laid stringers about fifteen feet long of the same material.
A fresh cowskin (formerly two buffalo hides) is provided that thongs may be cut for binding the rafters to the stringers and the objects placed on the sun pole.
The posts are erected and thestringers put in place, excepting one on the west side nearly opposite the entrance.
The construction is similar to that of the Alaskan umiaks except that the Koryak umiaks have double-chine stringers and also a double riser, or longitudinal stringer, halfway up the sides.
The curragh was built with closely spaced bent frames and longitudinal stringers to support the skin cover, whereas the umiak has very widely spaced frames and few longitudinals, giving the skin cover little support.
For this purpose two stringers or drawer rails may be used, their front edges being as far from the face of the legs as are the rails from the side and back.
This is a very common joint used in both carpentry and joinery, as where stringers cross each other in the same plane.
What massive intellects you great stringers have," he said softly, when he had finished.
So he orated and chattered till the beams and frames and floors and stringers and things had learned how to lock down and lock up on one another, and endure this new kind of strain.
It came from the frames--scores and scores of them, each one about eighteen inches distant from the next, and each riveted to the stringers in four places.
Now the stringers of the ship are long iron girders, so to speak, that run lengthways from stern to bow.
These he next strengthened by nailing stout timbers, walings, and stringers to the bottom and sides, inside; when a careful caulking and paying of the seams completed them by rendering them watertight.
A man who flipped a tender like that was not like to go very wrong even in that chaos of rails and ties and stringers and coal.
They stretched their arms straight out under their blankets like stringers and put out their palms, downward, and muttered to Hailey.
The days of the Stringers were probably drawing to a close at the "The Dragon of Wantly", and there was no knowing who might be the new landlord.
I have known them to empty in one night a keg of spikes in the storehouse in Yamhill, distributing them along the stringers of the building, with apparently no other purpose than amusement.
Then prepare two stringers of five steps, cutting them exactly the same as for the other stairs, and glue them to the inner faces of the balustrades.
After cutting out these pieces, fasten the tops of the lower stringers in the notches A and B in the platform, and nail the platform in its proper position in the corner of the hall.
First fasten the stringers in place, cutting a slot in the edge of the floors for the tops to set in, as shown in Fig.
A and B for the tops of the lowerstringers to fit in.
When this has been done, nail the bottoms of the upper stringers (E in Fig.
After this event he put all the young animals in a small, barren lot, where the scenes of the days of the Stringers were re-enacted.
The Stringers were average people, ambitious, but erring in judgment.
I tell you I used to pity even the chickens on that place, and, in conversation with other animals, there and elsewhere, I have found that the Stringers represent the majority of farmers.
Somebody, who thinks just as the Stringers did, laughs at the idea of a hog wanting a clear, cool drink.
Mr. Godfrey calls attention to the fact that stringersin railroad bridges are considered as simple beams; this is theoretically proper because the angle knees at their ends can transfer practically no flange stress.
A small splice-plate across the top flanges of the stringers would greatly increase this strength to resist reverse moments.
Major Sewell refers to shallow bridge stringers and the possibility of failure at connections by continuity or deflection.
The stringers of a bridge could readily be made continuous; in fact, the very riveting of the ends to a floor-beam gives them a large capacity to carry reverse moments.
It is also to be noted that when stringers are in the plane of a tension chord, they are milled to exact lengths, and when in the plane of a compression chord, they are given a slight clearance in order to prevent arch action.
Who ever heard of a failure because of continuous beam action in the stringers of a bridge?
The writer's instructors in structural design warned him against shallow stringers on that account, and told him that such things had happened.
These stringers were sawed out about four by six inches square.
These bars were laid flat on top, and next to the in-edge, of the stringers and were spiked fast to them.
In those gains they laid two stringers running directly over the sleepers.
For roofing the rooms, main stringers of pine or juniper were used, and over these were laid splits of juniper or long poles of cottonwood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stringers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
