602 examples of cranking 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.
He gave her some theoretical knowledge of cranking up, because she seemed to enjoy it as a child enjoys exploiting the possibilities of a new toy.
The cranking of the drawbar allows for the deflection of the buffer springs.
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.
A crank pin is attached to each, and these pins are connected together by a simple link.
Because you are to turn the crank!
Cranking the machine to run it from the workshop, the "dog" on the safety-clutch failed to hold.
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.
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.
When you think it conquered and well-broken to harness, submissive and resigned to your will, behold it is as obstinate as a mule,balks, kicks, snorts, puffs, blows, or, what is worse, refuses to kick, snort, puff, and blow, but stands in stubborn silence, an obdurate beast which no amount of coaxing, cajoling, cranking will start.
"No," he answered, "I was cranking my Ford car and my hand slipped off and the thing got away and went straight up in the air.
" Ole bent to the cranking, then complained that the switch must be off.