On his return thence his health is discovered to be very bad; strong drastics are applied; he is gradually cooked up; and when convalescent, he puts on his Sunday clothes, and struts before the public.
Vanity may be discovered as readily in singularity, however simple, as in the naked savage who struts about as proud as a peacock, with no covering but a gold-laced cocked hat on his head and a brass-mounted sword at his side.
For several miles the road through the woods had been run in artfully contrived gradients, carried on struts over too precipitous ravines, and quarried through cuttings to avoid undesirable steepnesses.
This has since been considerably simplified, though the broad lines have been retained, by doing away with the struts and supports at the rear.
The girders forming the leading edge of each plane have sockets formed in the upright struts of the M into which the ribs fit (see Fig.
The horizontal struts in their cross-bracing are made of four 4 x 3-inch angles, latticed to form an I-shaped cross-section.
The bunkers are constructed with double, transverse, plate girder frames at each line of columns, combined with struts and ties, which balance the outward thrust of the coal against the sides.
For shaft linings steel rings of H or channel section supported by intermediate struts are also used, and cross-bearers or buntons of steel joists and rail guides are now generally substituted for wood.
Chick climbed to the struts over a rocking, tossing wing of the tethered Dragonfly, secured signals from the fuselage, and as he saw them set and ignited Scott hurried off to get his own lighter ship out of the danger area.
She struts as much as it is possible for a Lady of two Foot high, and would ruin me in Silks, were not the Quantity that goes to a large Pin-Cushion sufficient to make her a Gown and Petticoat.
But, indeed, there is hardly a Play one can go to, but the Hero or fine Gentleman of it struts off upon the same account, and leaves us to consider what good Office he has put us to, or to employ our selves as we please.
A little Prentice Girl of mine has been for some time applied to by an Irish Fellow, who dresses very fine, and struts in a laced Coat, and is the Admiration of Seamstresses who are under Age in Town.
When CELIA struts in man's attire, She shews too much to raise desire; But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.
I am not considering the deliberately scheming nor the consciously self-sacrificing girl who struts her day on the stage and in fiction marries to save the farm or her father or any one else.
He had been supervising and, at the same time, assisting in the building of an additional section of laths and struts and he was annoyed with himself for the small injury which interfered with his work.
In two days a framework of struts and laths took form outside the construction shed.
The diagonal struts in the top panel should be fitted and in place before the rails and stiles are finally secured; the vertical twigs in the lower panel should be similarly fitted and nailed before the rails are secured to the stiles.
The trellis work is then added, and finally the struts and dentils are fixed around the seat.
The seat having been fitted, the struts under the seat rails are next cut and fixed in position.
Finally, struts are fixed to the seat rails and legs and covered with short twigs, with their lower ends running in a regular curve.
The struts also are tenoned and pinned to the middle posts and sills, as shown in Fig.
The short struts on the front posts are more for effect than for any real support.
Four stout crooked pieces are used as struts to support the table (drawn to 1 in.
Short struts may also be fixed between the posts and cross rail, as in Fig.
Finally, fit the struts between the seat rails and the lower part of the posts.
The timbers carrying the roadway received support from struts radiating from the feet of the queen posts, which were connected with the apex of the king truss by iron ties.
The system of arrangement of these struts will be best understood by a reference to the woodcut given below (fig.
Timber struts were then fixed within it, until the obstacle was passed, when it was strengthened by a strong wrought-iron hoop, and forced down to the rock.
In order to avoid any future casualty, storm gates, or framed struts reaching down to low water level, were placed immediately behind the entrance gates, so as to support them against heavy seas.
The press abutted against the row of piles nearest to the ship, which were connected by wooden struts to the piles behind them.
The truss consists of a four-sided frame placed within a five-sided frame, the angles of each polygon being connected by bolts and struts with the middle of the sides of the other polygon.
The road rests on a platform of timber planking, carried on three longitudinal beams, which are supported at nearly equal distances by timber struts radiating from points on the piers about 12 feet below the level of the carriage road.
With an anxious eye on his air-speed indicator he gave it a little more throttle, then felt the struts compress as the wheels hit.
Eyes riveted on the horizon, he felt for the switch that pulled up the landing gear and felt the plane spurt ahead as the drag of wheels and struts was removed.
The struts couldn't break under any but the most extraordinary circumstances.
A misshapen mass of splintered wood and bent struts and braces was about all that the Scouts could make out.
They were in a leather bag tied to one of the struts near my seat.
Before him struts a guard of honor, selected from the yeomanry of his own neighborhood, and stout young rustics in their Sunday clothes; next appear six figures who demand our more minute attention.
Judging his distance Dick leapt, falling into the sea between the submarine and the hulk, and fortunately missing any of the struts that supported the horizontal girders.
Carefully making his way along one of the struts that held the anti-mine-girder to the side of the submarine, Dick swung himself upon the nearest fender.
It was found that one of the fore-and-aft girders had been shattered for a length of nearly fifteen feet, and some of the connecting braces and struts had been twisted and buckled.
It's one of the right outermost struts between the supporting planes.
He felt new vibrations, and knew that the strain of warping the wings at the tips had caused more than one of the struts to collapse.
Often during the whole day he gobbles and struts about, making love to the hens, and at this time he eats almost nothing, being kept alive largely by drawing on his reservoir of fat.
He spreads his tail feathers, puffs himself up, and struts about like a turkey.
Then he struts about for a time just as you have seen a turkey gobbler do.
May we be spared the consequences of a German "humbleness" which fairly struts and swaggers, and which finds further expression in the words of another Doctor of Divinity when he declares: "Verily the Bible is our book.
There were loops along the sides in which short wooden braces or struts kept the boat from collapsing.
He also made some poles or struts to form bars to close the stone from within, and, with much perseverance, cut slots in the rock and in the stone to receive them.
When completed, and the struts put in their places, the stone was firmly fixed and could not be moved from the outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "struts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
