616 examples of fraying in sentences

To Sixth Avenue drift men who, for the first time in a Miss-spending life, are feeling the prick of a fraying collar.

"I have examined the ironwork of the window, sir," he said, "and have found under the magnifying-glass traces of the fraying of a rope as though caused by friction against the iron staple.

For it became a matter of immense importance to know, not only the depth of the sea over the whole line along which the cable was to be laid, but the exact nature of the bottom, so as to guard against chances of cutting or fraying the strands of that costly rope.

They could only reach it feebly with the hatchet, fraying it, but there was no chance for a free swing to sever the tough wood.

And when Joe looked up and saw the rusted wire and noted the fraying strands, several thoughts shot through his mind at once.

He felt the rock edge taking hold of the ropes, fraying the strands to weakness, and then eating into them.

Upon Saint Crispin's day Fought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England to carry; O, when shall Englishmen With such acts fill a pen, Or England breed again Such a King Harry!

All the time Merlin had stood and watched the fray, but when he saw the deadly peril in which Arthur lay, he called out, "Knight, hold your hand!

He bore himself manfully in the fray, but would not have succeeded had not Sir Launcelot appeared in disguise and taken the battle upon himself.

10 To part the fray, the Graces fly, Who make 'em soon agree; Nay, had the Furies selves been nigh, They still were three to three. 11 Bacchus appeased, raised Cupid up, And gave him back his bow; But kept some darts to stir the cup Where sack and sugar flow.

I was defending myself with whatever energy I possess, against overwhelming odds, when suddenly, as if Mars himself had listened to my invocation, and descended to the fray, Dan rushed from his tent to show fair play, and in an instant my cowardly assailants fled, as if scattered by a whirlwind.

It would be like a boxer filling his arms with empty boxing-gloves and then rushinghis face protruding over the armfulinto the fray.

Lacon, the nightingale should scarce be challenged by the jay, Nor swan by hoopoe: but, poor boy, thou aye wert for a fray.

The pair I sing, that Ægis-armèd Zeus Gave unto Leda; Castor and the dread Of bruisers Polydeuces, whensoe'er His harnessed hands were lifted for the fray.

But if ye lust for war, if strife must break Forth among kin, and bloodshed quench our feud, Bold Polydeuces then shall hold his hands And his cousin Idas from the abhorrèd fray: While I and Castor, the two younger-born, Try war's arbitrament; so spare our sires Sorrow exceeding.

The contest, however, would have been brief had not a party of young students come up the lane, and seeing from Harry's attire that he was a gentleman, and likely to be of Cavalier opinions, they at once, without inquiring the cause of the fray, threw themselves into it, shouting "Gown!

The shouts of the young men, however, brought up others to their assistance, and a general melee took place, townsmen and gownsmen throwing themselves into the fray without any inquiry as to the circumstances from which it arose.

The townspeople were armed with bludgeons, and in some cases with hangers, and the fray was becoming a serious one, when it was abruptly terminated by the arrival of a troop of horse, which happened to be coming into the town to join the royal forces.

Harry was much blamed by the college men when he said that he had been drawn into the fray by protecting a Puritan.

I am getting on for sixteen, and could surely bear myself as a man in the fray.

" Still, although eager and anxious for the fray, I did not see how I was to participate in it.

The acts of that unbalanced creature were fraying his nerves.

The rocks are fraying one another down to desert sand, and mankind becomes a new Sahara.

he burst out, his hard-held patience momentarily fraying.

Through the night, Between the show, and many-headed mass Of the spectators, and each several nook 435 Filled with its fray or brawl, how eagerly And with what flashes, as it were, the mind Turned this waythat way!

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