" Marry, daylightdaylight might furnish the images, the crude material; but for the fine shapings, the true turning and filing (as mine author hath it), they must be content to hold their inspiration of the candle.

Two Secretaries had been sent from the Senate to bring the news of the filing of the decree.

" The filing of the decree of the Senate had acted like a charm upon our Capo of the Ten: the importance thus accorded to the Ca' Giustiniani soothed every vestige of wounded pride, while the beauty and grace of his prospective daughter-in-law had filled him with a triumph which only the frigid stateliness of his habitual demeanor enabled him to conceal, so great was the revulsion from his former state of feeling.

They have been filing past us ever since, dropping into their places, which are rather difficult to find, as the Admiral has changed all his dispositions since his arrival here.

[Chem], levigation^, abrasion, detrition, multure^; limitation; tripsis^; filing &c v..

Then this savage human beast rushed among the trains filing past swiftly, and mounted the snorting engine of which he was the engineer, the beloved engine which was one day to crush him to atoms, and then, left without a guide, to rush furiously off into space braving unknown disasters.

The lieutenants and first sergeant assist in fire control; the other sergeants place themselves in the filing line as skirmishers.

Two newspaper correspondents of the more or less continuous string that were filing from one Bulgarian leader to another to find out what Bulgaria was going to do, amiably permitted me to trail about with them, and thus to see and talk a little with some of those who are steering Bulgaria's exceedingly delicate coursemen whose grandfathers very likely wore those sheepskin coats with the wool turned in.

" It was a doleful and weary crowd of sophs that came filing back into town and sneaked to their rooms that night.

He found David explaining the filing system to Mathilde, and she, hanging on his every word, partly on account of his native charm, partly on account of her own interest in anything neat, but most because she imagined the knowledge might some day make her a more serviceable wife to Pete.

I must say, Jack took it all in good humour, and filing a bill "STOMACH v. RIBS," left it to Old Neptune to obtain restitution for injuries inflicted on his sons.

Some of the Frenchmen who were filing out had paused to watch this performance, laughing and bravo-ing at its finish.

I presented our charter for re-filing yesterday, and Hendricks passed it without a word.

"It is by carefully filing off all roughness and inequaleties, that languages, like metals, must be polished."Ib., p. 48.

That something is the filing of a long point on the wire to enable the poking of the end of it through the draw plate so that it can be caught by the nippers.

Imagine yourself filing a long, tapering point on the end of a wire only one eighteen-hundredths of an inch in diameter, in order to get it through a draw plate that will bring it down to one two-thousandths.

She seemed wrapt in ecstacy, as if visions of the past were filing by in front of her.

Always well-groomed, the care of the Kennel inmates now became the sole task of Matt, who examined them thoroughly twice a day; cutting and filing their nails when necessary, that they might not split, and currying and brushing their hair till the Big Man observed that these elaborate preparations suggested a beauty contest rather than a dog race.

Simultaneously with filing the suit she left home and entered a private hospital.

The clerk filing must see that every check on the stamp has a sign after the check to show that the particular matter indicated has been attended to.

He took my deed, wrote a memorandum of filing on the back of it, and tossed it into a basket as if it amounted to nothing, after giving me a receipt for it.

Will he soon be filing his own iron?"

A very accomplished Italian musician used frankly to say, that a symphony always put him to sleep; and as for the songs of Franz and other recent German composers, he would rather hear the filing of saws with an accompaniment of wet fingers on a window-pane.

They should be sixteen or eighteen inches long, and are ready for use without forging filing or other preparation.

After his visit Slippery became a busy man and Joe watched him oiling, filing and tempering a collection of jimmies, nippers, wedges, pliers, saws, and other such tools for which an expert mechanic could find a proper use.