Wicks was also active in locating the depot of the Santa Fe Railroad, carrying through at private expense the opening of Second Street from Main almost to the river.
Wicks for sixteen thousand dollars; and his friends told him that so successful a sale proved the Meyer luck.
Hope he'll remember what Wicks Merritt said, b'gee!
This is from Wicks Merritt, a second class cadet up here, who's home on furlough this summer.
It was beastly bad luck that Bobby Wicks had died: it always made him want to kick his best friend for at least an hour afterwards when he read that story.
The Colonel raged at the thought of his lamps' smoking, and tongued a few anathemas inside of his shut teeth, but turned down two or three wicks that burned higher than the rest.
They are like lamps with half theirwicks picked down, and will continue to burn when other lamps have used up all their oil.
He cut wicksfor the candles, poured the melted tallow into the candle molds, and sold soap to his father's customers.
He’d been lying there for centuries, guarded by someone, the lamps filled and the wicks new.
The thought of how I was to make wicks bothered me.
You may guess I tried the experiment that night; I made six bigwicks and put them in one of the cakes of blubber and lighted them, and found that they burned famously and gave out a lot of heat.
I might use the blubber as candles, sticking wicks into it.
A good deal of heat was obtained by making large wicks of canvass, and placing them in vessels that contained oil; though it was very far from sufficing to keep life in the men during the hardest of the weather.
One of the rows of wicks was dipped in the melted tallow, taken out and suspended over a vessel to drip.
That was repeated many times before the wicks held enough tallow to be used for candles.
An improved method was to run the wicks through tin molds, the required size and shape, and fasten them at one end with a knot; then pour in the melted tallow, and set the molds aside for the tallow to harden.
Mr. Wicks suddenly leaned forward and fetched his index finger almost up against the young man's nose.
If you have fat enough you may have half a dozen or more sets of wicks and can keep on dipping in rotation, thus allowing each plenty of time to cool before its turn comes round again.
As the wicks were lighted, one by one, the assembly seemed to dilate.
The wicks were made of moss and trimmed by a piece of asbestos, stone, or wood; near at hand a large bundle of moss was hanging for a future supply.
This was continued until all thewicks were dipped.
We held a short stick between our knees and threw one of these wicks around it, twisting it deftly, letting it hang down.
When we had filled the stick, we would lay it down and fill another until we had wicks for about ten dozen dips.
She would dip one stick full of wicks up and down in the boiler a number of times, then place it across the slats to cool.
Benjamin was never half so zealous in cutting candle-wicks as he was in perpetrating this censurable act.
Almost any simpleton could cut wicks and fill candle-moulds.
A little fellow, ten or twelve years of age, cutting the wicks of candles, and filling the moulds, does not promise to become a great statesman and philosopher.
It was only toward the end of the night, when the wicks might become incrusted or the reflectors dimmed, that especial care was needed.
The wicks were then fresh, and it was not likely that any accident could happen.
It is well to take, if not to make, a proper needle for putting the wicks into the moulds.
The cooking of the Esquimaux is wholly effected by stone lamps, with wicks made of moss, which are so carefully arranged that the flame gives little or no smoke.
Wicks are usually made of high-grade cotton fiber loosely spun into coarse threads and these are woven into a loose plait.
The wicks are now made chiefly of cotton yarn, braided or plaited by machinery and chemically treated to aid in complete combustion when the candle is burned.
Until the middle of the eighteenth century the oil-lamps were shallow vessels filled with animal or vegetable oil and from these reservoirs short wicks projected.
The simplest forms had a single wick, but in others manywicks dipped into the same receptacle.
According to British records, oil-lamps with flat wicks were first used in the Liverpool lighthouses in 1763.
The road to Paris was barred--and Sophy Wicks was somewhere in France.
Mother's candle-rods are small willow shoots, and because of not having kitchen furniture in plenty, she hangs the half-dipped wicks across that famous wooden tub which we brought with us in the Mayflower.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wicks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
