52 collocations for harnessed

This was on account of Arthur, who, if he wanted to go out late, sometimes harnessed a horse himself.

On the other side of the table Mr. Medbourne was involved in a calculation of dollars and cents, with which was strangely intermingled a project for supplying the East Indies with ice, by harnessing a team of whales to the polar icebergs.

He bustled away to harness the dogs.

It is necessary to present the case to you just as it stood at this period of my greatest struggle.) 1.That Arthur, swayed by cupidity and moved to rage by the scene at the dinner-table, had, by some unknown means of a more or less violent character, prevailed upon Adelaide to accompany him to The Whispering Pines, in the small cutter, to which, in the absence of every servant about the place, he himself had harnessed the grey mare.

Hastily they harnessed the ponies and took down the tent, and packed the carts, and in a remarkably brief space of time the party rode off with the utmost speed.

In harnessing up a mule that will kick or strike with the forefeet, get a rope, or, as we term it in the army, a lariat.

She came with the proposition that I should harness Ninette and go with her out to the battlefield, where, she said, they were sadly in need of help.

Human atoms power harnessed prolongs life.

Tell Hucks to harness Joe to the buggy, Patsy, and I'll go at once.

An' with that he went an' gethered up his books, deliberate, an'fetched his hat, an' picked up a nest o' little chimbly-swallows he had dislodged in comin' down (all this here it happened thess las' June), an' he went out an' harnessed up his goat-wagon, an' got in.

In this way Morse became perfectly familiar with the latest discoveries in electrical science, so that when, a few years later, his grand conception of a simple and practicable means of harnessing this mystic agent to the uses of mankind took form in his brain, it found a field already prepared to receive it.

"What we all want as a family is to keep well and strong and good, in body and mind and soul; to conquer our weaknesses, to train our gifts, to harness our powers to some wished-for end, and then pull, with all our might.

The Second Edition (1657) has various cuts amongst which is a frontispiece, that occurs again at page 29 of the little volume, depicting Gonsales being drawn up to the lunar world in a machine, not unlike a primitive parachute, to which are harnessed his 'gansas ... 25 in number, a covey that carried him along lustily.' p. 399

Did you ever? Here are harnessed up quite clever Two Giraffes!

" "But," says the teacher, "suppose I was to harness up yo' two goats with Tom Deems's two, there'd be fo' goats, I reckon, whether you wanted 'em there or not.

Timothy is off to-day; I will harness the grays to the stanhope, as we can't wait to send to the stable, and we will drive over the back way by the Ridge and be home again by dinner time.

[Footnote D: According to an old legend, Fridolin (a favorite saint with the Catholic population of the Black Forest) harnessed two young heifers to a mighty fir-tree, and hauled it into the Rhine near Säckingen, thereby damming the river and forcing it to take a new course, on the other side of the town.]

Thank your stars that I am not a reckless woman ready to take you at your word, and thank your stars, too, that I am not a free woman who would be foolish enough and selfish enough to harness a young husband to a mature wife.

King Edward, and afterwards Sir Edward Grey in continuing the late King's policy, succeeded in harnessing the revanche idée and the spirit of Russian aggression to the chariot of British Imperialism.

As he was putting them on, I said, 'Don't forget to harness up Jenny.'

Some method must be worked out of harnessing our idle forest lands and putting them to work growing timber.

Yet, had it not, even she could not have harnessed Leviathan or loosed the bands of Orionto say nothing of counteracting the effect of spring.

Though now I am harnessed light as any foot-page.

They could never have harnessed the lightning to their wheels.

Admetus went away feeling very sad; for who had ever heard of harnessing a lion and a wild boar together in a chariot?

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