131 examples of cogging in sentences

The performers get ready for their several acts in bunches or families, all in one spot, and they act serious and jaw each other, and each bunch acts as though their act was all there was to the show, and if it was cut out for any reason, the show would have to lay up for the season, when in fact each one is only a cog in the great wheel, and if one cog should slip, the wheel would turn just the same.

The performers get ready for their several acts in bunches or families, all in one spot, and they act serious and jaw each other, and each bunch acts as though their act was all there was to the show, and if it was cut out for any reason, the show would have to lay up for the season, when in fact each one is only a cog in the great wheel, and if one cog should slip, the wheel would turn just the same.

"Ah!" said the doctor, as the three rose up, "you juz kip dad cog-an'-bull fo' yo' negs summon.

is regarded as the maximum safe gradient for an Abt rack railway, since the cog-wheel is liable to climb out of the rack on any steeper grade, it will be seen that the strain upon the credulity of the hearer of this story is almost as great as that upon the car must have been.

There were the petty tradesmen who in former years had prospered through George Henry's patronage, whose large bills had been paid with unquestioning promptness until came the slip of his cog in the money-distributing machine.

Nay, I know that; but we miller's children love the cog a little, and the fair speaking. ROB.

But then he is again a seller; and so there it is,wheel within wheel, cog upon cog.

But then he is again a seller; and so there it is,wheel within wheel, cog upon cog.

Why, Robin Goodfellow is this same cogging, pettifogging, crackropes, calf-skin companion.

Marry then, there was a certain cracking, cogging, pettifogging, butter-milk slave, sir, one Churms, sir, that is the very quintessence of all the knaves in the bunch: and if the best man of all his kin had been but so good as a yeoman's son, he should have been a marked knave by letters patents.

In pride, deceit, prating, lying, cogging, coyness, spite, hate, sir. PHA.

Thus by naturalising himself some would think him a very dangerous fellow to the State; but he is not greatly to be feared, for this dejection of his is only like a rogue that goes on his knees and elbows in the mire to further his cogging.

For commonly they that, like Sisyphus, roll this restless stone of ambition, are in a perpetual agony, still perplexed, semper taciti, tritesque recedunt (Lucretius), doubtful, timorous, suspicious, loath to offend in word or deed, still cogging and colloguing, embracing, capping, cringing, applauding, flattering, fleering, visiting, waiting at men's doors, with all affability, counterfeit honesty and humility.

In the center of the track, between the heavy steel rails, are two cog rails, of great strength.

The driving wheels operate on the cog rails in the center of the track.

The engine and the cars have each independent cog brakes of almost unlimited power.

Now, applying the illustration to drama, I should say that the playwright is perfectly justified in letting chance play its probable and even inevitable part in the affairs of his characters; but that, the moment we suspect him of cogging the dice, we feel that he is taking an unfair advantage of us, and our imagination either cries, "I won't play!"

Each worked together like a clock of nine cog-wheels.

He was a cog in the greatest machine the world has ever seen.

" CHAPTER VI THE DIGNITY (?) OF TOIL By such imperceptible degrees that she was scarce aware of it, Stella took her place as a cog in her brother's logging machine, a unit in the human mechanism which he operated skilfully and relentlessly at top speed to achieve his desired endone million feet of timber in boomsticks by September the first.

You know a good many very different things are called teeththose on a rake, for example, or a comb, or a cog-wheel.

It is one of those self-binding safety razors which is all covered with cog-wheels and steam-gauges and levers and valves.

Nay, nay, I do beseech you leave your cogging, what they are, they are, they serve me without Spectacles I thank 'em.

Only two or three springs, a cog here, a ratchet here, a band at this point, and a lever up there (Mr. Minford touched portions of the machine rapidly), and then look out for a noise!" "A noise!" repeated Bog, with juvenile earnestness.

"Go ahead," said Marcus; and Tiffles, inserting his walking stick in a wide gap between two cog wheels, forced the strange machine apart.

131 examples of  cogging  in sentences