Instead of the swifts or reels, a creel is here mounted for receiving the bobbins from the former machine, two or three being placed in one line over each other, according as the threads are to be doubled or trebled.
This protects the slender reels or swifts from the knees of the operatives.
These swifts have a strong wooden shaft b, with an iron axis passing longitudinally through it, round which they revolve, in brass bearings fixed near to the middle of the legs B.
If we poor human beings were possessed of the motive power of swifts we should think nothing of flying to England on ten days' casual leave.
Hundreds of these swifts nest in the Landour bazar, and there is scarcely a dak bungalow or a deserted building in the whole of Kumaun which does not afford nesting sites for at least a dozen pairs of swifts.
The swifts will be considered in their proper place.
This may be possible a few years hence, thanks to the aeroplane; but even then the swifts will have the advantage as regards cheapness of transit.
But this did not keep the Swifts and Humming Birds from enjoying themselves.
Pigmy means little, and these Swifts are smaller than the ones who built in Aunt Dorothy's chimney.
No," said several Swifts in chorus, "only the penguins and cormorants have toes like ours, and they are birds we seldom meet.
Just then Coquette cried out: "The Swifts are coming!
It was not long before several Swifts and Humming Birds had joined him.
Aunt Dorothy knew a man who went to some islands in the Pacific ocean, where the Pigmy Swifts live.
She was a great bird lover, and it made her happy to find that she could number the Swifts among her particular bird friends when they came the next summer to live in her yard.
Papa Swift thanked him for the pleasure he had given by his stories of his last summer's home, and it was finally agreed that the Swifts and Humming Birds should start together for the north in the spring.
Schufeldt, has come to the conclusion that swifts are only greatly modified Passeres, and that the humming-birds should form an order by themselves.
At the same time, the chimney swifts sweep by me like black arrows, on wings apparently as stiff as if made of tin or sheet-iron, now beating the air, now sailing.
For the same reason certain of the swallows and the swifts select our barns and chimneys.
The work Swifts do in clearing the air of insects must be enormous, these forming all their food.
Starlings always build in this in April or early in May, and after they have left Swifts build in the same hole.
And now on dark wings a troop of swifts sail swarming down the field--labourers in man's service one and all.
A flock of swifts are careering down the glen, like a troop of noisy revellers; their wild chorus sounding shrill and clear in the deepening hush of night.
Dragonflies appeared in mid-air, martins left their nests among the beams, parrakeets crossed over from their roosts, and swifts met them coming from their sleeping quarters in hollow trees.
Palm swifts swooped about, while noisy kingbirds gleaned as industriously but with shorter flights.
Woodpeckers and chimney swifts hang themselves up by their claws, using their stiff tail for a brace, as if it were a third leg.
At night, after the swifts were abed, he took a dark lantern and went in.
I want to show the Jandel people--to say nothing of the bigger firms--that the Swifts are to be reckoned with when it comes to electric invention.
And now that we Swifts are going to try to do something for him, we are likely to be spied upon too.
Tom went on to sketch briefly the situation of the Hendrickton & Pas Alos Railroad as brought to the attention of the Swifts by the railroad's president.
Prospering as the Swifts had during the last few years, neither Tom nor his father had thought their plain old house too poor or humble for a continued residence.
Even the midges, which to his frenzy would swarm round my father's head like swifts round a steeple, left me entirely unmolested.
And the fading skies dyed bright the frowning front of the house, about which the new-come swifts shrieked in their play over my wilderness.
The captain and others of theSwifts came running up to Abner and wrung his hand.
Starlings, southward bound, swept the air in wheeling cohorts, and swifts darted wildly round the chimneys of Wolfpits.
Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia.
In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
He didn't know they were white throated swiftsnor did he care.
These are genuine signs of the coming summer, for swallows and swifts feed only on the minute gnats and other ephemera that develop under conditions of warm temperature.
On certain warm April days the barn and the bank swallows appear, and the chimney swifts are seen scurrying to and fro above the trees and house tops.
Audubon tells of a certain plane tree in Kentucky where he counted over nine thousand of these swifts clinging to the hollow trunk.
What a twittering there is in the chimney that the swifts appropriate after the winter fires have died out!
Thrifty New England housekeepers claim that bedbugs, commonly found on bats, infest the bodies of swifts also, which is one reason why wire netting is stretched across the chimney tops before the birds arrive from the South.
We have reasons for saying that Weightman was not at the wrestling on the Swifts that year.
Dickinson came upon the Swifts in excellent trim, looking every inch a man as he stripped for the contest.
It is very probable there never met on the Swiftsas good a field of wrestlers.
The numbers assembled on the Swiftswere estimated at twenty thousand.
The nesting season of theswifts and butcher-birds is nearly over.
The swifts (Cypselus indicus) also are busy with their nests.
The swifts are not the only birds engaged in rearing up young in our verandahs.
Overhead, swifts and swallows dash joyously to and fro, feasting on the minute flying things that are found in the air even on the coolest days.
With a new intense interest I watched the swifts careering through the air, and listened to their shrill screams.
Swallows hawking after flies in a village street, where people are walking about, is a familiar sight, Swifts are just as confident.
A party of chimneyswifts were shooting hither and thither over the trees, a single wood thrush was chanting not far away, and in another direction a tanager was rehearsing his chip-cherr with characteristic assiduity.
A company of chimney-swifts were flying criss-cross over the summit, and one of the men said that he presumed they lived there.
We could not spare the swifts from our villages, and it would be too bad to lose them out of the Northern forests.
We may assume, however, that these old-school and new-school swifts do not carry their disagreement so far as actually to refuse to hold fellowship with one another.
Swifts and swallows are similar in adaptive characters, but not in those which show relationship.
Owls resemble birds of prey in bill and claw and mode of life, yet they are related to insect-eating swifts and goat-suckers and not to eagles and hawks.
Not until swifts are a month old do the lazy little fellows climb out of their deep, dark cavern into the boundless sky, which is their true home.
When the baby swifts are old enough to climb out of the lattice, they still cling near it for about a fortnight waiting for their wings to grow strong, before they try to leave the chimney.
Old-fashioned swifts still nest in hollow trees or caves, but chimneys are so much more abundant and convenient, that up-to-date birds prefer them.
Some people say they have no feet, but they have, only they are very small and the swiftsuse them merely for clinging to walls of hollow trees at night.
And before white men light their fires, when the days begin to grow cold, the swifts have assembled in great flocks on the Gulf of Mexico, whence they go to spend the winter in Central and South America.
Around this tree a small flock of swifts gyrated in wide, noisy circles every evening.
I have often watched them and the swifts together, at the close of a summer day, and have been hardly able to decide which of the two showed the greater mastery over the element in which both moved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
