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Example sentences for "vise"

Lexicographically close words:
viscosity; viscounts; viscounty; viscous; viscus; vised; viselike; viser; visere; vises
  1. Within the quick vise of her two hands Mrs. Meyerburg clasped her face, all quivering and racked with sobs.

  2. Mrs. Shongut clasped her cheeks in the vise of her two hands.

  3. Ariane," wrote Donneau de Vise in the Mercure, "has been extremely well attended.

  4. On entering the town, I was asked for my passport, which I produced, but as it had no Spanish vise I was placed in charge of a gendarme, who with a drawn sword marched me across the frontier back into Portugal.

  5. In the first place, a passport had to be obtained, with the vise of the ambassador of every country through which it was intended to pass.

  6. Place it in the vise and size the back with thin, hot carpenter's glue.

  7. Remove the bow from the vise and bandage it carefully from tip to tip with a gauze surgical bandage.

  8. Simply place the smaller end of the shaft in a vise and cut the end across the grain with three hack saws bound together, your cut being about an eighth of an inch wide by three-eighths deep; finish it carefully with a file.

  9. Place one stave in a bench vise and carefully clean off the bark with a draw knife.

  10. Taking two pieces of wood, one white and one red, each twelve inches long, I placed them in a bench vise and fastened a spring scale to the top of each.

  11. Now you have a sort of knee vise to hold your feather while trimming it.

  12. Brace it and put it horizontally in the vise with the string facing you.

  13. Shift the stave in the vise so that the sap wood is downward, and set it so that the average plane of the sap is level.

  14. This permits you to hold the horn in the vise while you work it.

  15. Place one in a vise and drill a conical hole in it an inch and a quarter deep and half an inch wide.

  16. To make the curves on the uprights, lay them edge to edge in the vise and start the spur of a large bit in the crack, 1-1/2" from each end.

  17. To plane to slanting lines such as these, it is very important to place the work in the vise at such a slant that the line is parallel with the top of the bench and quite close to the jaws of the vise.

  18. Now, holding it in the vise with one quarter up, with the spokeshave, pare the corners in the direction of the arrow in this quarter until the circle is reached.

  19. An easy way to make the notches in the ends of the braces is to clamp them all in the vise at once, flat surfaces together, and then saw them out with a back-saw.

  20. The way work is held in the vise often makes the difference between success and failure.

  21. Place the spool endwise in the vise and, with the back-saw, cut eight notches a little more than 1/16" wide straight towards the opposite side of the spool.

  22. To nail that one, put a thin board upright in the vise and rest the wheel on its top.

  23. To hold the stick while doing this, put a rod thru the hole, open the vise 6-1/2" and let the barrel rest endwise in the vise.

  24. Now hold the spool in the vise endwise, and make, with the back-saw, a saw cut half thru the spool on the same slant as the slanting part of the spool; then saw straight down to the end of this slanting cut.

  25. A B is to put the paddles about half-way down the end of the vise so that the back-saw can be held near the end of the vise jaws.

  26. Place the stick in the vise so that one edge is straight up, and plane the corner off to the line.

  27. To help in boring this straight, clamp a straight-edge (the ruler may do) in the vise together with the square stick.

  28. When this is done, put the house in the vise in an upright position and plane the tops of the sides slanting.

  29. If it is necessary to hold work in the vise to rip it, hold it slanting, so that the handle of the saw leads the line, as it naturally does when the work is on a saw-horse.

  30. Then, holding the spool level in the vise bore 3/16" holes half thru the spool at each of these dots.

  31. The charming little border town of Vise was the first to be destroyed by the Germans.

  32. Convey my compliments to Madame de la Barre, and say that it is advisable that she should remove her school from Vise as soon as possible.

  33. Vise is all aflame," replied the officer.

  34. Beyond the unauthenticated report that the two girls had left the school at Vise a few hours before the commencement of the German bombardment, all traces of them were lost.

  35. Yes, and on the Vise road," added his companion.

  36. To avoid these inconveniences a Parisian mechanic has designed and lately patented in England the neat form of hand vise of which we annex illustrations, Fig.

  37. E is a conical ferrule or shoulder, fixed or movable, and serving to open or close the jaws of the vise accordingly as the handle is turned right or left; this conical shoulder is protected from wear by a tempered steel washer, v.

  38. B is the ring or ferrule of the handle; and C are the jaws of the vise worked by the adjusting screw, D, and the springs, r r.

  39. This latter is laid across the lug and the vise screwed up, making a crimp across the lug which firmly grips down upon the bared cable strands that have been inserted into the lug.

  40. In such places, a quick and lasting job can be made with a band vise and a short piece of round iron.

  41. Burning on Straps Place the strap to be burned in a vise and split the end through the center and then bend the two halves over to form a foot, as shown in Fig.

  42. There was a grip like a vise on his shoulders.

  43. A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa.

  44. Forge and vise work are taught in them, though it is not the object of the college so much to teach the details of any one trade as to qualify students by general knowledge to undertake any of them afterward.

  45. In the vise work in iron, the chief requirements are these: 1, given a block of cast iron 4 in.

  46. To do this, pull out the vise automatic stop lever 4 with your finger until the inside end bears firmly against the vise automatic stop rod 1, which, in turn, comes in contact with the vise automatic stop mold disk dog 3 (Fig.

  47. If vise automatic is not set properly, as described under Fig.

  48. This should never be done, but this part of the jaw should be loosened by taking out the three screws that hold it in place and gently work the vise and line loose.

  49. If the vise automatic is set this way it will stop mold disk nearly 1-16 inch away from matrices, leaving the first elevator free to lift up and a matrix to be taken out.

  50. This will prevent the rod from being bent or broken when vise is let way down.

  51. This takes up the pot pressure, so that when the vise is let down the metal pot will retain the same position as when casting a line.

  52. When a squirt occurs from the first cause, many operators open the vise and force down the jaw until the line breaks away from the mold disk.

  53. Bend the three-inch nail as shown in Figure 2, using pliers, vise and hammer.

  54. The foreman usually endeavors to lighten his burdens by delegating his duties to the various assistant foremen or gang bosses in charge of lathes, planers, milling machines, vise work, etc.

  55. Time study for all work done by hand throughout the works, including that done in setting the work in machines, and all bench, vise work and transportation, etc.

  56. She may have concluded that I was some harmless, roaming idiot who could not answer a plain question; but it was the best I could do, and I walked on to Vise with the fine feeling of having played the role of comforter.

  57. At Vise I was heartened by two dogs who jumped wildly and joyously around me.

  58. On the other side of Vise nothing had availed to stay the wrath of the Germans.

  59. By the time it began dawning upon me that we had been told to vacate the car Marie had fixed me with her eyes and gripped me like a vise with her hand so that I knew that I was to stay put.

  60. Below Vise an entirely new vista opened to me.

  61. Evidently the Belgians from Vise to Liege had not roused the ire of the invaders as furiously as had the natives on the other side of Vise.

  62. Vise begged La Reynie not to authorise the representation of the piece under the same title as the journal; La Reynie acquiesced, and Boursault, putting a good face on the matter, called his piece La Comedie sans titre.

  63. And in fact Vise and Corneille did observe them--these three famous unities of time, place, and action.

  64. We have mentioned that Donneau de Vise was one of the pioneers of the modern literary life, and La Devineresse will be a fresh proof of the assertion.

  65. The fortune-teller who is the chief character in the piece was none other than La Voisin, whose name Corneille and Vise slightly disguised in calling their sorceress Madame Jobin.

  66. Moreover, Vise was in high favour at Court.

  67. Let us note first that Vise was the father of a literary custom which is in these days highly popular, collaboration.

  68. Donneau de Vise was not only a journalist; he was a dramatic author, and as a dramatic author he was, as he was in journalism, very modern.

  69. Johnny had lifted it to his vise and had clamped it there.

  70. When Tommy had gone for the night, with trembling fingers Johnny selected a second defective casting and set it in the vise as the other had been.

  71. He was caught fast in the vise of our hopes.

  72. The sharp vise of another's will which had nipped him so tightly a moment ago was easing, slowly disappearing as water might trickle away.

  73. The man who was holding the spear had moved behind him, and Ross's wrist, held in a vise grip at the small of his back, kept him prisoner as he was pushed on into the meadow.

  74. The vise held a piece of metal, and this the lad was industriously filing.

  75. Oh," said Tom, and then he noticed that the lad had rigged up a small, portable iron vise on the rail near which he was working.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.