The "tripod of life" a French physiologist called these three organs.
It is all clear enough which leg of the tripod is going to break down here.
One camera had been upset and the tripod was broken.
The broken tripod was repaired sufficiently to be usable again, and then the boys began to prepare for their next experience.
The windlass turns like a long spool on a single pin and the standard is a tripod with removable legs.
In a circle at the foot of the tripod stood ten agile Japanese women.
A tripod of poles was erected above the pile and from it hung a pulley.
Kettle mounted on a tripod ready to be placed on the fire.
In the court on the first pilaster at the right as you enter a tripod is painted, too large for mere decoration, and explicable only as a symbol of the god.
In one house the place of an iron tripod was taken by three pointed ends of amphorae set upright on the hearth.
Then the governor told him how the tripod had been found, and how the oracle had said that it must be given to the wisest of the wise.
But it held a beautiful golden tripod that was worth more than a thousand fishes.
So the governor called two of his trusted officers and told them to carry the tripod to Priene and offer it to Bias.
So, with his own hands he carried the golden tripod to the little house where Thales lived.
So they carried the tripod to the governor, and each told his story.
Leave the tripodin my care until we get an answer.
Hence we may trace in the bronze cauldron and the tripod evidences of native civilisation, though doubtless of a late period, and not improbably, in many cases, coeval with the era of Roman invasion.
As he spoke he folded the tripod legs of his camera, and laid it on top of a big rock, that seemed firmly enough imbedded in the soil not to slip from its place.
For there, lying in a mass of red sand, was Joe himself, and beside him was the camera, the tripod legs sticking out at grotesque angles.
On the summit of this tripod was raised the machine of state.
Your own regular camera and tripod will be all you will need, for I will buy the colour plates upon which the pictures are to be taken.
In some cases, it is hung by a chain and in others it is supported by a tripod or wooden scaffolding.
Darwin may be credited, the Cumaean Sybil never sat on the portending tripod without first swallowing a few drops of juice of the cherry-laurel.
At his feet was a tripod with glowing coals on which occasionally incense and Cilician crocus were sprinkled, and on each side of his head blazed torches of pinewood dipped in pitch.
He extinguished the funeral torches, and threw the ashes from the tripod into the sea.
Inside stood a strange instrument, resembling a large camera, which had once stood upright on a steeltripod riveted to the floor.
It was found that the cupid fitted exactly into the space where the tripod stood.
When the son had grown to manhood he quarrelled with his father, and he, to mark his extreme anger, caused the cupid to be cut out of the canvas, giving instructions for it to be destroyed, and a tripod painted in its place.
A small tripod stood at a little distance, from the incense in which the smoke slowly rose.
In the centre of the room was a small altar, on which stood a tripod of bronze.
The kettle was filled and hung on a tripod over the fire.
I do not mean that I give any credence to the story of Alcmena and her tablet: nor do I believe that there was a tripod with characters as antient as Amphitryon.
The man had jumped upon thetripod of the drill in ordering the work, and loomed large and competent.
From underneath its tripod protruded the booted leg of a man.
This end of the board was placed on a table, while the other end was upheld by a spring balance, fastened to a strong tripod stand, as will be seen in Fig.
Each Pythoness ascended her sacred tripod and hysterically denounced the other as an usurper, and false prophetess.
First she set the tripod and its bowl in an open space which I was glad to note was at some distance from the fire, since if either of us fell into that who would there be to take us off before cremation ensued?
It was not to be gratified, however, for at that moment she stood up again facing the tripod and me, and began to sing in a rich and thrilling voice.
Between us, in front of the fire stood the tripod and the bowl of black stone at the bottom of which lay a pinch of white ashes, the remains of the Taduki.
The animal, a big gray, was standing with his four legs wide apart, like the tripodof a camera.
In the centre of the clearing a tripod had been constructed out of three great pieces of green bamboo.
The tripod which held the cooking-vessel over the wood flame, among the former inhabitants of Britain, has not been entirely effaced.
The tripod seems to be substantially identical with what was known in Nidderdale as the kail-pot.
The most primitive pots for setting over the fire on the tripod were probably of bronze.
