602 examples of crank in sentences

Then, by skilfully manipulating the other crank, he can produce from it strains of such mellifluous harmony that the very telegraph-poles will throng around him, as erstwhile did the trees of the forest around ORPHEUS, and tender their services for the transmission of his melting music to all the beautiful places on Earth.

They stayed with us for a while, but at the sight of our cinema man turning the crank like a machine gun, they turned and ran wildly down the street.

But as food is taken in softly at the lips, and then brought under the teeth, as the tip of the little finger caught in a mill crank will draw in the hand, and the arm, and the whole body, so the miserable mortal who has been once caught firmly by the end of the finest fibre of his nerve, is drawn in and in, by the enormous machinery of hell, until he is as I am.

For example, the crank shaft, some 2 feet in diameter, is a splendid job, and no difficulty need be met with in working in nearly the whole of the present framing.

If triple expansion were adopted, then new engines would be wanted, but the present crank and screw shafts would answer perfectly.

It appears scarcely necessary to premise that the sewing machine of twenty years ago has almost faded away, save, perhaps, in general exterior appearance; that the bell crank arms, the heart cams, the weaver's shuttles, the spring "take ups," rectangular needle bars, and gear wheels, have developed into very different devices for performing the various functions of those several parts.

Thus, we find that in most of the swiftest sewing machines, the needle bar is actuated by a simple crank pin or eccentric, there being no loop dip or pause in its motion.

A crank pin is attached to each, and these pins are connected together by a simple link.

Because you are to turn the crank!

Thus in imagination he would drive; get out, crank, get in again, and roll away in fancy, earnestly practising by the hour in the dark and silent barn.

"I've drawed wages from the Double-Crank for quite a spell, and I always aimed to act white with the outfit.

There's no reason why the Double-Crank should be a hog and keep a good man forever.

He had not dreamed that the Old Man would be capable of such an action, even with the latest and least-valued comer; he felt the sting of it, the injustice and the ingratitude for all the years he had given the Double-Crank.

He can sure do the business, all right; he used to cook for the Double-Crank.

That the Pilgrim should be seated calmly at the Double-Crank table never once occurred to him.

A Winter at the Double-Crank.

After a year, those months of petty detail might be wiped out entirely without changing the general trend of eventsand such a time was the winter that saw "Dill and Bill," as one alliterative mind called them, in possession of the Double-Crank.

Now that he thought of it, he had not heard much about Brown since Dill bought the Double-Crank.

In the absorption of his own affairs he had not given the matter any thought, though he had wondered at first what crazy impulse caused Brown to sell the Double-Crank.

"Did yuh happen to find out, when yuh was bargaining for the Double-Crank, how much land Brown's got held out?" "No-oI can't say I did.

" "And I'll bet yuh the old skunk is going to start up a cow-outfit right under our nosesthough why the dickens the Double-Crank wasn't good enough for him gets me.

Around a bend would rattle the wagons of the Double-Crank, with a lone rider trotting before to point the way; down to the very bank of the uncaring creek they would go.

He had done the best that was in him, and even now that it was over he could not quite understand how everything, everything could go like that; how the Double-Crank and Florahow the range, even, had slipped from him.

He knew that Billy had not at any time been what one might call cordial, but that last stare of displeasure when they met in the creek at the Double-Crank, he had set down to a peevish mood.

"I wanted to ask how you came outwith the Double-Crank.

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