Sentence example with the word 'pinions'

pinions

Last update: August 1, 2015


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The pinion z and the toothed wheel d are connected by an intermediate wheel and pinion Y; the numbers of teeth in the wheels and pinions are so proportioned that twenty-four revolutions of the micrometer screw produce one revolution of the drum and wheel d.   [Please select]

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"Stronger creatures than you will try to break your pinions."   [Please select]

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Do the gods ever confer the rarest of gifts upon him to whom they have given pinions.   [Please select]

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He came at last, after hours of waiting, dropping from above the tree-tops with a heavy rustling of pinions.   [Please select]

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Hundreds of demons called horsepowers fiercely turned the various wheels, pinions, and shafts.   [Please select]

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The larger pinions at the ends of the wings have been outlined, regularly by incised lines, and then filled up with color.   [Please select]

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In sculptured representations the scale device is dropped, and with it the rigid regularity in the ordering of the pinions.   [Please select]

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Like the rushing wings of a tempest, his mighty pinions beat the air and bore him swiftly onward.   [Please select]

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Now and then, in the midst of a figure, she would shoot me an arch glance, as much as to say that her pinions were strong now.   [Please select]

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Swooping downwards, and hovering overhead on grand expanded pinions, the eagle seemed to watch with keen interest the result of this meeting.   [Please select]

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