33 Metaphors for speeding

Speed and silencethese are the qualities required of you to-night.

The average speed upon such work is 1,200 stitches per minute; but many lock-stitch machines are run at 1,500 and 1,800 per minute, and even at much higher rates.

Speed is a matter of temperament.

The heightened speed of the consequences was in a sense merely an unwelcome proof of their system's efficiency.

The results have varied according to the point of view from which the subject was approached, but all, directly or indirectly, sought the same goal (the obvious one, since speed is the essence of telegraphy), to find the best means of sending more messages over the wire in a given time.

Speed was his best safety now; he pushed on boldly, cheered by the thought that if seen by any of the posse he would be taken for one of their own number.

One glance at their shape tells you that speed is not their strong point.

The speed of rotation is 68 revolutions a minute.

John Speed, the historian, was a Cheshire tailor.

Speed, sir: that's the great propositionthe principles of Speed as applied to the Fine Arts" Here he glanced towards the clearing between the willows, where at this moment Tilda reappeared in a hurry, followedat a sedater paceby a young woman in a pale blue sunbonnet.

As man slowly pulls himself out of that gigantic wreck and recovers consciousness, he begins to realize that speed is not necessarily progress.

Moreover, those who have read his manly autobiography know that this speed was by no means all "ease," as witness the almost tragic composition of The Bride of Lammermoor.

The speed of descent of head will be 0.015 inch per minute.

The proper speed of the engine was 75 strokes per minute, but if allowed to go at that speed the vacuum fell to 130 of the sugar maker's gauge, or 28-1/2 inches of mercury.

The speed of the wonderful little American boat, however, was not the result of any new invention, but was due to the perfection of old methods.

Which speed is the thing I want.

If therefore the speed of the Fairy be 13 knots, the speed of the new vessel will be 22.49 knots, although the proportion of power to sectional area, which is supposed to be the measure of the resistance, is in both cases precisely the same.

Boston Frank in sheer desperation again urged the rapidly tiring horse to one last effort, but soon the best speed he could get out of the animal was a slow trot.

Hasdrubal was sprung from the same father; trained up in the same hostility to Rome; equally practised in battle against their legions; and, if the comparative speed and success with which he had crossed the Alps were a fair test, he was even a better general than his brother.

per square inch instead of 7 lbs., and the speed of the piston in feet per minute being in both rules 128 times the cube root of the length of stroke. 218. Q.Is 128 times the cube root of the stroke in feet per minute the ordinary speed of all engines? A.Locomotive engines travel at a quicker speedan innovation brought about not by any process of scientific deduction, but by the accidents and exigencies of railway transit.

The vital experience of the glad animal sensibilities made doubts impossible on the question of our speed; we heard our speed, we saw it, we felt it as a thrilling; and this speed was not the product of blind insensate agencies, that had no sympathy to give, but was incarnated in the fiery eyeballs of an animal, in his dilated nostril, spasmodic muscles, and echoing hoofs.

At 30 miles an hour the speed of the pistons will be 457.8 feet per minute, and 7018.4 lbs.

Very high speed is generally a delusion, and either results in indifferent work, or actually retards its progress.

The average speed of the Draco was, however, 8.625 knots, or 207 miles per day, the engines making on the average 57.5 revolutions per minute, while the Kovno did only 8.1 knots, or 194 miles per day, the engines making 55.5 revolutions.

Q.But perhaps under such circumstances the speed of the screw vessel will be the greater of the two? A.No; the speed of the two vessels will be the same, unless the strength of the head wind be so great as to bring the vessels nearly to a state of rest, and on that supposition the screw vessel will have the advantage.

33 Metaphors for  speeding