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Example sentences for "turners"

  • Anyway, the honor of the Turners was safe!

  • Anyhow, about one o'clock I got to thinking, and the more I thought the more I got into the notion that something had to be done if the honor of the Turners was to be--be upheld.

  • But Laurie voted that for the present the Turners had done sufficient in the athletic line, that the honor of the family demanded no further sacrifices on the altar of duty.

  • Remember that the honor of the Turners is at stake!

  • Monty says they have pie at the Turners three times a day, and it's a paradise for hungry small visitors who can digest anything.

  • Some dexterous turners were able, with practice and carefulness, to execute very clever pieces of work by this simple means.

  • She was taken away, and was a long time getting up her strength; and in the meantime the Turners insisted that the chains should be thoroughly seen to, which were not all in a perfect state.

  • Turning lathe, a lathe used by turners to shape their work.

  • Defn: A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

  • The turners of the rope do not make a complete circle with it, but swing it from side to side in a pendulum motion.

  • Two Large Ropes In this series two ropes are turned at one time, and this requires considerable skill on the part of the turners and a great deal on the part of the jumpers.

  • Large Single Rope and Small Individual Rope While two turners keep the large rope turning, a player turning and skipping his own small rope goes through the following feats:-- 1.

  • To make a very brilliant polish on steel, it is necessary to use emery and oil, plenty of oil and not much emery, but this makes such a nasty mess on the lathe, that few good turners will do it.

  • There are not a few turners who spoil work simply from heedlessness.

  • It is only the most skilful turners that can make wooden dishes.

  • Flanking the chest is the top of a highboy, which once belonged to Miss Ingersoll and may have been bought of the Turners with the house.

  • The Turners called this room "the hall," a term the early settlers brought with them from England.

  • An old plan of the house shows a wing built on to the lean-to in the rear, which was probably roofed by another gable; so the house in the time of the first two John Turners probably had eight gables.

  • The Turners went to New York soon after, and I was alone.

  • She carried nineteen people, of whom five were the Turners and their guests.

  • It had belonged to the Turners for generations; but as Aunt Catharine and Auntie Alice were the last of the family, after them it would come to Captain Dene.

  • Why, I heard Postie telling Perry the other day that the Miss Turners were both old maids when he was a kid; and people can't be old maids and parents as well!

  • The Turners are more cunning in artifice, but they lack Claude’s simplicity and sincerity.

  • A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

  • Its shell is hazel-brown in color, very hard and close in texture, and much used by turners in forming ornamental articles, such as knobs for umbrella handles.

  • The Turners had an old ruined mill on their grounds, and we children used to hang our bathing-suits in there and use it to dress in when we went swimming in the creek.

  • Wood turners sometimes have their lathes so made that the headstock can be turned end for end on the lathe shears, so that the face plate may project beyond the bed, enabling it to turn work of large diameter.

  • Several of the party much aflicted with turners of different Kinds, Som of which is verry troublesom and dificuelt to cure.

  • The seuerall kinds of poplars of our turners haue great vse for bolles, treies, troughs, dishes, &c.

  • The Nortons and Turners do not come till the 25th, do they?

  • The Turners were at Trouville, Susie had arranged a little plot.

  • During this time there were constructed a drainage canal three miles long and the course of the Ramapo straightened from Turners to Arden.

  • He conducted a general store at Turners for a number of years, and was the pioneer merchant in Tuxedo village.

  • The Turners were always besieging her for a two or three days' visit, and the Turner young men hovered round her.

  • The Turners were very fond of her and the Uphams wanted her once a week.

  • She went to the Turners one afternoon and staid to tea, and the big boys hovered about her like bees.

  • The table-turners were laughed at, and many, if not all of them, deserved ridicule.

  • The doctor did not allege that table-turners are 'biologised' as he calls it, and under a glamour.

  • Carpenter decides that table-turners push unconsciously, as they assuredly do, but they cannot push when not in contact with the object.

  • But they are neglected except by the lac-turners of Dera Ismail Khan, who use them for the studs and ornaments with which they adorn their ware.

  • Possibly some camel bones are picked by English turners and button-makers out of the Indian bones now imported.

  • Thus a single smith may be able to forge, in one day, work enough to keep four or five turners employed during the next.


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