84 adjectives to describe leads

"All Monday night, as I lay tossing upon a bed of pain, when fever was coursing through my veins, and every pulse went plunging like a steam engine from the gorged heart to every extremity, and my brain was like molten lead, I heard that terrible bark!

The balance sheet looked better than it was, but Jordan had given him a useful lead.

In some locomotives, from inattention to this adjustment, and from a contracted area of tube section, which involved a strong blast, about half the power of the engine has been lost; but in more recent engines, by using enlarged ports and by giving sufficient lead, this loss has been greatly diminished.

From some upper rear window he may look out on an extension roof of solid lead, that has survived, sound and good, after the storms of several generations, and beyond may look into an ancient burial ground, or down upon the grass-plots and ample walks around a church (perchance the Temple Church), and again may see below him the tomb of Oliver Goldsmith.

They're all brasses; alloys of copper and zinc, with a little lead and tin in some.

Yes, sirif this is a blind lead, we're up against it for fair.

To allay alarm in the minds of those who fear they might swallow pellets of solder, I may add that Pereira cites Proust for the assurance that an alloy of tin and lead is less easily oxidized than pure lead.

As he raised its cover a small electric bulb illuminated the interior, focussing on the paper-covered face of a mechanical writing device, upon which a pencil with a broad flat lead operated by a metal arm was tracing characters resembling the hieroglyphics of the Chinese.

To what reflections the sight of this vast edifice leads!

Pereira says that metallic lead is probably inert, and that nearly a quarter of a pound has been administered to a dog without any obvious effects.

I'd just sold a silver-lead prospect and was proclaimin' my prosperity with soundin' brass and ticklin' symbols.

Perhaps they'll show themselves upon some stage Or elsewhere as his fancy leads.

Four beauteous streams of liquid silver lead Across the plain; the shining sea they feed; The King reclines upon his couch at rest, With dreams of happiness alone is blest.

"Hasty and headlong different paths they tread, As blind impulse and wild distraction lead.

As he raised its cover a small electric bulb illuminated the interior, focussing on the paper-covered face of a mechanical writing device, upon which a pencil with a broad flat lead operated by a metal arm was tracing characters resembling the hieroglyphics of the Chinese.

The sun had been trying to break through the clouds, and a few rays had crept out, and glanced on the angry gray of the water, so that it shone here and there like scratches in dull lead.

Roy's craft gained a slight lead on the Golden Butterfly and two of the Kelly flyers were soon passed by both the boy and his sister.

The last part of the morning watch was spent in a long recently frozen lead or pool, and the ship went well ahead again.

On recording the circumstance he remarks: Thus does a gracious Father lead on his children step by step, baptizing them first into one state and then into another, in order to qualify them to drop a word in season for the comfort of others.

He sprang in and brought off a fine left-handed lead.

Exercise, a state of good health, stimulating dietsin fact, anything tending to an increased circulation of healthy bloodall lead to increased production of horn.

Captain Colden did not forget to be grateful to Willet for his insistence that the soldiers should always lie low, as the hostile lead, instead of striking, now merely sent a harmless shower upon them.

" While Morse was in Bristol, his friend C. R. Leslie thus writes to him in lead pencil from London, on November 29, 1814: MOST POTENT, GRAVE AND REVEREND DOCTOR,I take up my pencil to make ten thousand apologies for addressing you in humble black lead.

Ignorance and idleness lead to vice and crime; and a Technical Training School would do more to remedy the Social Evil and raise the standard of morals than all other influences combined.

Mark had to trace innumerable leads from the panel through the walls of the craft back to the wings, tail, and especially the propulsion compartment.

84 adjectives to describe  leads