Only through them can communication be maintained when, under the barrier fire, wires from the front lines are cut.
If a fellow is keyed up to what you might call intensive living, the way you get it here in Zenith--all the hustle and mental activity that's going on with a bunch of live-wires like the Boosters and here in the Z.
In one of the skyscrapers the wires of the Associated Press were closing down.
He theorized that in some way Bemis had connected the current from the wires that looped up from the road boxes into the tower.
Influence and the wires had possibly called half a dozen interlocking lines into service.
The wires are again removed; nothing strange is seen in the vessel.
These wires are attached to an electric machine, and a flash of electricity is made to pass between the inner points of the vessel.
The seamen now worked quickly in rigging aerial wires in place.
There are three of these shoals, and hereafter I want two mine-sweepers to spend their time dragging their wires over each shoal.
If those wires should touch a hidden mine it would be quickly known to the seamen who operated the mine-detecting device, and the mine would be hauled up and taken aboard the mine-sweeping craft, provided it did not explode in the meantime.
To different wiresof this implement were attached small but powerful contact bombs.
The contact bombs dangling from the sweep wires had struck against the submarine's hull and exploded, letting in the water at several points.
So into the station he goes and wires Ben up the line to come there at once on account of something serious.
After Ed's inquiries the agent kindly wires up to Ben that his cousin from Arizona is waiting for him.
Galvanic wires or chains are perceptible to our bodily senses, but the traversing force is imperceptible.
Nerve-fibres and telegraphic wires are equally striking examples to illustrate the doctrine that the same causes may, under different conditions, produce different results.
The nerve-fibres have been often compared with telegraphicwires traversing a country, and the comparison is well fitted to illustrate this striking and important peculiarity of their mode of action.
The engine, which was of the extraordinarily powerful Pforzheim type, that supreme triumph of German invention, was worked by wires from this forepart, which was indeed the only really habitable part of the ship.
Presently they cleared and dropped a tangle of bent steel rods and wires from the frame, and a big chunk of silk bladder.
All the wiresand cables of the countryside converged upon it like guests to entertainment.
Then they set to work, and for a week they toiled to put up a mast of steel, and hang from it a gridiron of copper wires two hundred feet by twelve.
The gun's crew jumped to their stations, riflemen lay down on the bridge deck, and a petty officer with an axe started to chop away the wires that were holding the boat.
His hands fidgeted now on the taut hoisting wires before him, and every nerve in his body cried for a glance at the enemy just to check his mental estimate.
When ready, the tanks were blown, and the boat rose with a rush, breaking surface in a festoon of net and wires close under the trawler's stern.
Then I went out into the hills and uncovered and cut the secret wires which connected your bedroom with the wires that go to the dynamite deposits under all our vast factories, mills, workshops, magazines, etc.
They brought no armor of offense but their swords; as a rule, they carried the sword ready in the hand, and put it forward and found the wires with it.
It's not only cheaper, but it's more effectual than the other way, for if wires break or get tangled, no harm is done.
The wires have no ground-connection outside of the cave.
Their angry messages to each other vibrated along the wires of their prison-house, rending the Dragon with intestinal war.
The wires in America scorn the railway apron-strings in which they are led about in this country.
All unconscious of a watcher, Jack was cautiously engaged in disconnecting the wires switched on to an alarm in the doctor's room above, when Cyril, unable to contain his feelings any longer, stepped forward.
An impression like a fine bundle of telegraph wires ran down the centre of it.
In preparing these tags, it is important to remember that both wires must pass through the hole in the metal tag, otherwise, the slight movement due to winds will cause the metal to wear through.
After disentangling the wires that had whipped round the king posts, I got into the pilot's seat and taxied away down wind.
This second charge I affixed to the wires and insulators of the fallen post, so as to render repair more difficult.
The second charge had exploded, and the telegraph wires whipped back and festooned themselves round our machine.
Already a score of thriving colonies have scattered from the capital, all yet bound to it with monorail cables, with electric wires and with the ether-borne magic of the wireless.
Then he dropped the wires over the side of the building to connect with one of the dynamos in the sub-basement.
The next day Brill sent up the things Jessie had purchased, but the girls could not begin the actual stringing of the copper wires until the morning following.
They laid out the work for the next morning, but did nothing practical toward erecting the wires and attendant parts that day.
Her radio set was moved back to her room and she restrung thewires and connected up the receiver without help from anybody.
Why, the boys must have already strung their wires and got a radio set established," said Amy.
We will attach the end of the aerial wires with the rope to the roof of the old tower.
However, the fact that such wires may draw lightning cannot be gainsaid.
On arrival there, we found the place full of rumours, from which we gathered that some fresh disaster had occurred: and that messages were pouring down the wires from Mount Prospect camp.
With this paper to back them, Stone's council granted the right to the Consolidated Company to erect poles, stringwires and supply current.
The new city council, at their meeting last night, granted the Consolidated a franchise to put up poles and wires in this district for lighting.
What they like is when the east wind blows, when you can look across the river and count the wires in the canary bird's cage on the other side.
The wires in the differential field having occasioned manifold disturbances were subsequently done away with.
When General Hooker's movements were so developed as to make sure of his purpose, repeated calls came to me over the wires to pull away from Suffolk and return to General Lee with all speed.
He inquired if he should cut the wires and crossings of small streams, but was ordered to leave them undisturbed, as the enemy would not be so likely to trouble us when he found we were disposed to be accommodating.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: connections; deal; game; intrigue; lobbying; ploy; scheme; strings
