True was the spear-cast and the javelin thrower fell, but over his body sprang Ben Ezra.
A good thrower was he, and some who had stealthily crept on too nearly were smitten as they sprang forward.
They grew into such "good sports" that when one day an invading cow, aggrieved at being hit in the flank by a flying ball, turned and knocked the goal thrower flat on the ground, the interruption lasted only a few minutes.
The prostrate goal-thrower recovered her breath, got over her fright, and, while admiring friends chased the cow to a safe distance, the game went on to the finish.
Are the spear-thrower and the bull-roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
Now James was "quite some" thrower as they say in the state of Jersey.
This division of work, brought about by the exigencies of the trade, is very much to be regretted, for the old thrower was really an artist, who could impress his feeling on the work which was entrusted to him from beginning to end.
The thrower prepares the pieces of a thicker bulk than is required, and it is the turner's business to bring them to a proper thickness, by removing the excess of material and giving to the exterior a smooth and highly finished surface.
A good thrower requires a great deal of practice, as he is expected to throw several hundred pieces a day, although the art is far from being what it was in the olden times.
She had never pictured Abdullah the Spear-thrower as a shop-keeper, and waxing fat withal.
But their next encounter with the Spear-thrower was destined to take place under strange conditions.
At the same time it was averred that even as a bomb-thrower the ship of the air would prove an uncertain quantity, and that the results achieved would be quite contrary to expectations.
In the upward travel the bomb-thrower decided to have a parting shot.
The bomb-thrower reads the altitude of his airship as indicated by his barometer or other recording instrument, and by means of a table at his command ascertains in a moment the time which will elapse before the bomb strikes the ground.
The bomb-thrower grabbed a tool and climbing into the rigging below hacked away at the bomb-throwing tube until the whole equipment was cut adrift and fell clear of the vessel.
Flossie was not quite so good a thrower of sticks, stones, or pine cones as was her brother.
It fell in a bank of snow some distance away, for Freddie was a good thrower for a little boy.
The spear-thrower is then cast away, and the toothache goes with it, in the shape of a black stone called karriitch.
To cure toothache some of the Australian blacks apply a heated spear-thrower to the cheek.
The cartridge type was considered to be more satisfactory, since the spark-ignited flame thrower was not dependable in rainy weather.
Two hours were required for Company A, 763d Tank Battalion, and two flame-thrower tanks to reduce this resistance.
The M2-2 flame thrower was an excellent incendiary weapon against bamboo thickets and shacks.
The small arms of the 1st Platoon had no effect and it became necessary to bring forward a flame thrower to burn the enemy out.
After a further advance of 200 yards, when a flame thrower aimed at a pillbox failed to ignite, he threw a bundle of lighted papers in front of the pillbox.
The operator of the flame thrower then fired through the blaze and the charge was ignited.
The flame thrower was considered "a very important factor in overcoming the enemy's inherent 'will to resist.
He fired again back of him, shooting wildly as he ran, then saw Loah as she came from her hiding place with the flame-thrower ready in her hand.
And take the flame-thrower in case you are followed--" He stopped; Loah was laughing.
But they were sealed, and he dared not cut one open with another flame-thrower for fear of what might come forth.
Her own flame-thrower spat a little jet of green; it was the only light.
The red mole-man was unarmed; each yellow one had a flame-thrower that was now so familiar a sight to Dean.
She walked swiftly, the flame-thrower in her hands, toward the dark cleft in the rocks, through which she disappeared.
His own flame-thrower he had turned to a tiny point of light; now it roared forth in fury as he swung it forward.
I remember being asked by our Brigadier-General Clifford to explain some part of a derelict West Spring Thrower in the cutting at Hill 60 (I had never even seen one before) and being saved by the timely intervention of Sergt.
So I carried a number of these bombs up to the trenches, and they were duly fired from the West spring-thrower or from the trench-catapult.
The West Spring Thrower had not arrived, but I saw a trench catapult in action; and some dummy Stokes bombs were fired off for us to see.
He then drew from his pocket a signed and attested copy of the confession of the knife thrower and handed it to the general.
I won't stand for that knifethrower making a slave of him.
But the knife thrower had but lately arrived in the country.
As the champion knife thrower in the universe I claim--" What he claimed his audience had to guess, for at this instant another person took a part in the act.
The thrower sees the target but must throw over an obstacle.
Take aim--left hand and arm extended up and straight toward the target, right hand and arm behind the throwerin the same plane as the left.
The thrower moulds the vessel out of the moist clay from the potter's wheel into the required shape, and hands it on to be dealt with by the stouker, who adds the handle.
Josiah at eleven proved a clever thrower of the black and mottled ware then in vogue, such as baking-dishes, pitchers, and milk-cans.
With hand weapons and a thermit-thrower they fought their way to a place where the big vehicles are kept.
There was feverish activity ahead, where it stopped, and a golden thermit-thrower came into sight upon a dull-colored truck.
And on April Fool's day British Tommies across a certain meadow of death in Flanders expelled from a mine-thrower something which looked murderously like a bomb.
He was an all-around ball player of the first class, a hard hitter and a fine thrower and fielder, and had it not been for his bad habits he might have still been playing ball to-day.
He was a left-handed throwerand made awkward work getting a ball to the bases.
He was far above the average as a player, however, and excelled both as a thrower and a batsman.
He was not as swift a thrower as either Williamson, Burns or Pfeffer, all of whom sent the ball across the field with the speed of a bullet and with the accuracy of first-class marksmen.
Carpenter (now Captain) conned Vindictive from her open bridge till her stern was laid in, when he took up his position in the flame-thrower hut on the port side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
