Within the market-place all was dire confusion; men hasted hither and thither, buckling on armour as they went, women wept and children wailed, while ever the bell clashed out its fierce summons.

Within the square was Roger, hoarse-voiced, with Beltane's battered war-helm on a pike whereto the foresters musteredhardy and brown-faced men, fitting on bascinet and buckling belt, yet very quiet and orderly.

One of the items of his account was thirty-seven buckling-combs, then greatly in vogue.

"But sailors have to be nimble, miss," he returned, buckling a strap unmoved.

In every place you beheld squires leading horses and destriers by the bridle, setting saddles on hackneys and taking them off, buckling the harness and making the metal work shining and bright.

" Buckling on the belt, he shoved the revolver viciously home in the holster.

You hear?" As he spoke he threw Arizona a gun and belt, and the latter imitated Sinclair in buckling it on.

Then he realizes that his boot is buckling.

Max had gotten through the University of Vermont, studying this and that, anthropology mostly, but he'd gone walkabout instead of buckling down to graduate school.

I feel in the spirit of 'buckling down to it,' and am determined to paint and study with all my might this winter.

The soldiers swarmed up from the river to resume their clothes; and here you could behold depicted by the master's godlike hands one hurrying to clasp his limbs in steel and give assistance to his comrades, another buckling on the cuirass, and many seizing this or that weapon, with cavalry in squadrons giving the attack.

In the afternoon, as the day grew cooler again, I awoke and found the captain buckling on his scimitar, which he had taken off him while he rested.

[alone, buckling his belt and holding his cap in his hand, comes in through the right-hand door, stands awhile in deep thought while he wrings his hands several times].

" Austin finished buckling his puttee before rising to his full height.

don't lose a minutesee them all buckling on revolversget at it, boys, get at it!

"To the pulling down of strong holds."2 Cor., x, 4. "Can a mere buckling on a military weapon infuse courage?"Brown's Estimate, i, 62.

"Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?"Dr. Brown cor.

He started to speak, then shut his mouth with a snap, turned on his heel, and strode across the treeless glade to where his noisy riders were saddling up, tightening girths, buckling straps, and examining the unshod feet of their horses or smoothing out the burrs from mane and tail.

The equilibrium was kept by buckling the harness over and under the horse's belly.

As a rule buckling of a tracheid begins at the bordered pits which form places of least resistance in the walls.

In hardwoods such as oak, chestnut, ash, etc., buckling occurs only in the thinnest-walled elements, such as the vessels, and not in the true fibres.

Tamarack | 3,010 | 3,480 | 1,596,000 | |-| The second case, where the fibres bend with more or less regular curves instead of buckling, is characteristic of any green or wet wood, and in dry woods where the fibres are thick-walled.

In woods in which the fibre walls show all gradations of thicknessin other words, where the transition from the thin-walled cells of the early wood to the thick-walled cells of the late wood is gradualthe two kinds of failure, namely, buckling and bending, grade into each other.

In compression tests on very dry specimens the entire piece splits suddenly into pieces before any buckling takes place (see Fig. 9.), while with wet material the block gives way gradually, due to the buckling or bending of the walls of the fibres along one or more shearing planes.

In compression tests on very dry specimens the entire piece splits suddenly into pieces before any buckling takes place (see Fig. 9.), while with wet material the block gives way gradually, due to the buckling or bending of the walls of the fibres along one or more shearing planes.