There is a castle at the entrance cut out of the main land, and surrounded by the sea, having thirty-two pieces of ordnance, and there were fifty in the town.
The flame was sometimes elicited by the friction of two pieces of oak, as appears from the following description.
As some scholars have perceived, it is highly probable that at the periodic festivals in former times fire was universally obtained by the friction of two pieces of wood.
Then the high priest made the new fire by the friction of two pieces of wood, and placed it on the altar under the green arbour.
The regular method of producing the need-fire was by the friction of two pieces of wood; it might not be struck by flint and steel.
Often the material is simply described as two pieces of dry wood.
Finally, sufficient force arrived to give our people the best of it, and the enemy was driven in confusion to the river, losing about 1,500 prisoners, one or two pieces of artillery and many small arms.
In some radial-cylinder motors of the Gnome and Le Rhone type the crank-shafts are built up of two pieces, held together by taper fastenings or bolts.
Large dies, or the sizes over 1/2 inch, are usually made in two pieces in order that the halves may be closed up or brought nearer together.
In this magneto the rotating member consists of two pieces of magnetic material separated by a non-magnetic center piece.
This is the process which joins the ends of two pieces of metal as described in the foregoing part of this chapter.
If the ends of two pieces of carbon through which a current of electricity is flowing while they are in contact are separated from each other quite slowly, a brilliant arc of flame is formed between them which consists mainly of carbon vapor.
This is made between the ends oftwo pieces of equal size and similar form by scarfing them as described and then laying one on top of the other while they are hammered together.
In an electric circuit the ends of two pieces of metal brought together form the point of greatest resistance in the electric circuit, and the abutting ends instantly begin to heat.
The guns were placed in the intervals between the brigades, two pieces were in the road-way on our right, and a rocket-brigade in the centre.
This cup looks as if it was only in two pieces; but, as in the Common Whin, it is really made up of five sepals, and you can often see five little teeth at the mouth which show where each sepal begins.
This covering usually opens in two pieces, and these pieces remain below the flower until it is withered.
When in bud these flowers are all enclosed in a brown sheath, which bursts open in two pieces as soon as the flowers are ready to expand.
I ordered my two pieces of artillery to move upon the left of the road until they reached a point within four hundred yards of the enemy's artillery and then to silence their guns.
The Sixth Kentucky and Ninth Tennessee had all been gotten across at Burkesville by this time, and portions of the other regiments were also across, as well as two pieces of artillery.
We followed him with two companies and two piecesof artillery, skirmished with and shelled him.
The forces thus in position, according to the Mexican account, amounted to three thousand three hundred and seventy men with fifty-two pieces of ordnance of various calibre.
The wire when prepared for printing, is merely fastened at the ends by two pieces of wood, and stretched over a cast-iron block, on which it is fixed by means of screws passing through the wood into the iron.
The sheath, which is of Manóbo production, consists of two pieces of thin light wood a little broader than the bolo.
It is made out of two pieces of bamboo,[3] dried over the fire into the desired shape, and is held together by two slender strips of rattan running around and stitched to the edges of the headpiece proper.
The sheath consists of two pieces of wood of an elongated rectangular shape, spreading out at the extremity.
Various improvements in the organization of devices were made for holding the two pieces of carbon, which in time assumed the form of two pencils in alignment, as in Fig.
At K this spring is clamped and insulated from the iron work by two pieces of hard rubber.
The swords, or foils, were made of two pieces of soft iron wire.
The ocean was represented by two pieces corresponding to the ground piece in the sawyers, and the wavy outline was not made until everything had been cut out and the combination was ready for assembling.
The axeman's body and right leg are in one piece, the left leg being in two pieces.
Two pieces a, one of b and c were fastened together by means of two uprights d, forming one complete side of the machine.
I likewise find very many weights of granite, also a number of hand-mills of lava, which consist of two pieces about a foot in length, oval on one side and flat on the other, between which the corn was crushed.
Two pieces of this kind, with crosses on the under side, were found in the terramares of Castione and Campeggine,[103] and are now in the Museum of Parma.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "two pieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
