The houses had sharp, sloping roofs, made of huge clapboards, and these great wooden slabs were kept in place by long poles, bound with withes to the rafters.
I peeled the shirt off, and Grim rigged it on a frame of basket-work, with a clumsy pitch-forked arrangement of withes at the bottom.
The idea was not obvious until he twisted the withes about his waist; then, when he bent down, the shirt stood up erect above him.
The withes with which it was lashed together untwisted gaily.
The feckless one roused sufficiently to make a grummet of withes to put round the steer's nose, and Tom Sawyer made a head-stall out of string, and bent on a check-rope to the grummet.
These worldly distinctions are but the inventions of men to suit a purpose, and there are times when they are more easily torn away than the withes of the Philistines on the hands of Samson.
The three bore the body to the bank of the river, where, binding it with withes to several large limbs of trees, they thrust it into the stream, and left it to find its way to the ocean.
But Samson broke the withes awry, As when a keen fire toucheth tow; So thou didst not the secret know.
And Samson spake to thee again; "With seven green withes I may be bound, So shall I be as other men.
Whereat the lords the green withes found-- The same about his limbs were bound.
It was fastened together with twisted withesof some flexible wood.
It was the twisted network of the withes and twigs which gave the climbing plants inside the pit sufficient toughness to support his weight.
Now slip a thimble through the eye of one of the long strain insulators, thread a length of stranded steel wire 1/4 inch in diameter through it and fasten the ends of it to the eyes in the withes on the ends of the spreaders.
It'll help us with both the fishing and the hunting, and with plenty of willow withes we ought to hold enough timbers together.
Nothing to intercept the sight in the thicket but the bare trunks and branches, with the withes entwining them.
The south or inner opening of the tunnel is reduced to two-thirds, of the width elsewhere by a framing composed of bundles of sticks bound together with withesand heavily coated with mud mortar.
These withes may be seen in places where the mud plaster has fallen away.
With some of the Eastern tribes a log was split in half and hollowed out sufficiently large to contain the corpse; it was then lashed together with withes and permitted to remain where it was originally placed.
Sometimes a tree has been split and the two halves hollowed out to receive the body, when it was either closed with withes or confined to the ground with crossed stakes; and sometimes a hollow tree is used by closing the ends.
It is graywacke, and is creased for the purpose of securing the handle by a string or by green withes Place of General Fraser's Death.
Deep in the forest he was stripped naked, and with green withes was bound fast to a sapling.
He cut the withes with two sweeps of his sharp hunting knife, opened the door, bent his head, stepped in and then closed the door behind him, in order that no Iroquois might see what had happened.
Henry and Sol had taken the severed thongs with them, and there was nothing to show how the prisoner had disappeared, except that the withes fastening the door had been cut.
Withes of wood were used in lieu of ropes and chains.
In the same manner, withes for the eight divisions of the diameter, fastened obliquely at the intersections on the entire longitudinal and peripheral surface, make spiral channels which naturally look just like those of a snail shell.
Other withes are fastened on the line of the first, and on these still others, all smeared with liquid pitch, and built up until the total diameter is equal to one eighth of the length.
The tomahawk fell, however, the withes were parted, and up flew the saplings, with a violence that threatened to tear the arms of the victim out of their sockets.
An arm of the captive was bound tightly at the wrist to the top of each tree, so that his limbs were to act as the only tie between the saplings, as soon as the withes should be cut.
The corporal was removed accordingly, and placed between the two bended trees, which were kept together by withes around their tops.
The withes or "binders" were twisted strongly around when the number was full.
At the bottom of this strong frame were laid straight sticks and twisted withes which extended up the sides.
On poles, attached by cedar withes to the rafters, were hung several hundred salmon, absorbing smoke, carbonic acid gas from the lungs of the human beings beneath, and steam from the cooking that was going on.
The pins had been sharpened to a flat point and driven firmly into sockets made by striking the ax deeply into the log, and instead of ropes, cedar withes were used for lashing.
Accordingly, he trusted to thewithes and ligaments with which he had bound his captives, and pursued his way directly towards the centre of the lodges.
On his left, thewithes which bound her to a pine, performed that office for Alice which her trembling limbs refused, and alone kept her fragile form from sinking.
The tomahawk grazed her shoulder, and cutting thewithes which bound her to the tree, left the maiden at liberty to fly.
With withes of willow that he told the Beaver to cut for him, he bound the logs fast together until they were all as one.
By and by the raft began to groan, and the willow withes squeaked and cried out as though ghost-people were crying in the night.
Once in a while we have been getting soft and pliable withes that make work easy and pleasant, but most of them have been very brittle and difficult to handle.
Finally we are compelled to stop altogether, while the withes are taken and soaked in hot water, instead of the cold water in which they have been lying over night.
They are thinking about repairing an old vat where the withes can be properly heated and softened by steam.
My fault seems to be to pull the withes too tight, making the sides somewhat concave; while Murphy has just the opposite fault--he makes his sides too convex.
Fishermen in the Isle of Wight send all the way to the Midlands to get the little scarlet withes required for making lobster-pots.
The kind of willow grown varies from the slender, tough withes used in making small baskets and eel-traps, to the large, fast-growing rods suited for making crates for heavy goods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
