23 collocations for glues

It was, however, when the train dashed out from among the hills to the northwest of the sheet of water behind the capitol that the Caribees glued their eyes to the panes in awe not unmingled with delight.

"The priest rose to take the crucifix; then she stretched forward her neck as one who is athirst, and gluing her lips to the body of the Man-God, she pressed upon it with all her expiring strength the fullest kiss of love that she had ever given.

I cannot even retire to my room without people coming to glue their ears to the walls.

In imitation of whom the devil belike (nam superstitio irrepsit verae religionis imitatrix, superstition is still religion's ape, as in all other things, so in this) doth so combine and glue together his superstitious followers in love and affection, that they will live and die together: and what an innate hatred hath he still inspired to any other superstition opposite?

In some locomotives a frame carrying a number of fire bars is made so that it may be dropped suddenly by loosening a catch; but it is found that any such mechanism can rarely be long kept in working order, as the molten clinker by running down between the frame and the boiler will generally glue the frame into its place.

Pitt's "Love and fear glued many friends to him; And now he's fallen, those tough co-mixtures melt.

I did errands, split kindling, dug "tracks," (i. e., paths in the snow,) and glued broken furniture.

I noticed that she glued her big-and-liquids on him and kept 'em there.

When he sauntered I sauntered; when he ran I ran; when he glued his nose to the window of an eating house I halted under a doorway close by; when he went to sleep on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens I watched over him as a mother over a babe.

This delicate operation was accomplished by gluing the panel on which it was painted, flat on a smooth table, and planing the wood gradually away till the coat of hardened paint alone remained.

Another method is to glue paper on the ends.

" They complied, and the little figure went on with its work of gumming or gluing together pieces of cardboard and thin wood, cut into various shapes.

Upon the revolving horizontal disk is glued a commercial sandpaper, known as garnet paper, which is commonly employed in factories in finishing wood.

"Ye may be a better preacher than the auld meenister," exclaimed the elder, "but if ye had half the knowledge o' the world, an' o' yer ain flock in particular, ye'd ha' done what he did an' glued the saxpenses to the plate.

Period.] Boule subsequently learned to economise labour by adopting a similar process to that used by the marqueterie cutter; and by glueing together two sheets of brass, or white metal, and two of shell, and placing over them his design, he was then able to pierce the four layers by one cut of the handsaw; this gave four exact copies of the design.

At the top of each correspondence card which served as an invitation, she glued half an almond shell upon which a face was marked in ink.

Moreover, it would be found in the latter case that the bow would be much harder to bend than where the pieces were not glued togetherin other words, the stiffness of the bow would be materially increased.

So as I lay on the ground with my ear glued close against the wall, who should march round the church but John Trenchard, Esquire, not treading delicately like King Agag, or spying, but just come on a voyage of discovery for himself.

The rain came, and glued the little bird's wings together.

That substance which is called erithacen, and is used to glue the cells together, is different from both honey and propolis: it is supposed to have a quality of attraction for bees and is accordingly mixed with bee balm and smeared on the branch or other place on which it is desired to have a swarm light.

Moreover, it would be found in the latter case that the bow would be much harder to bend than where the pieces were not glued togetherin other words, the stiffness of the bow would be materially increased.

An amalgam of lime, or binding stuff of some sort, had glued the clay of the ravines together, and set it stiff and fast like dried plaster.

" He bent lower and lower, almost gluing his face to that of the dying man, trying to plant his absolution like a blow.

23 collocations for  glues