716 examples of switches in sentences

"One of the first and most important requests I have to make," said Whittam presently, "is that none of you touch the switches, except by direction.

" The woman: "I wish I had a bunch of switches to strike you with!

I didn't know what running the gauntlet was, but after pa had told me he should disown me from that moment, I said I was willing to run any gauntlet, so they all cut switches and formed in two lines, and let me run down between them.

She said clubs were for big dogs and switches for little dogs, if one had to use them.

You will not even engage typists or install a telephone in your office without weighing up fairly carefully the number of typists or the number of switches that it is worth your while to have.

He is cursed all over the four ancient highways of England; none but the blind men that sell switches in the road are beholding to him.

These three took turns up there in the tower, locking and unlocking switches and signals until one might expect them to faint for dizziness and confusion.

Within the last year the largest railroad station in the world, in the yards of which there is an immense amount of traffic, and from whose signal towers are worked switches and signals innumerable, has been opened.

" They mounted the steps to the station platform in good time to meet the three-car special as it came clattering in over the switches, and presently found themselves in the thick of the crowd of debarking ralliers.

For the moment while the train was hammering in over the switches they stood facing each other fiercely, all masks flung aside, each after his kind; the younger man flushed and battle-mad; the elder white, haggard, tremulous.

One minute later the east-bound train was threading its way out among the switches of the lower yard, and Kent had burst into the telegraph office to wire the volcanic news to his chief.

For negligence, they are usually whipped by the overseers with lance-wood switches, till they be bloody, and several of the switches broken, being first tied up by their hands in the mill houses.

For negligence, they are usually whipped by the overseers with lance-wood switches, till they be bloody, and several of the switches broken, being first tied up by their hands in the mill houses.

He used to follow me to see if I obeyed his orders, and one day when I had been persuaded by some boys of our neighborhood to go and bathe in the forbidden hours, he found me in the pond, led me home, and, cutting two tough peartree switches about the thickness, at the butt, of his forefinger, he took me down into the cellar, and making me strip off my jacket, broke them up to the stumps over my back, protected only by a cotton shirt.

For the space of a dozen switches Charles strove frantically with wild kicks, which wounded only the air, but all in silence; gripped only the more tightly, he at length uttered a yell of pain, followed by curses hot and swift.

The filaments of the carnivorous trees are garlands of lamps; the eyes of the hunting animals, electric globes; the insignificant bacteria, light-producing little glands all of which open or close with phosphorescent switches according to the necessity of the moment,sometimes in order to persecute and devour, and at others in order to keep themselves hidden in the shadows.

Article IV.2.4: Switches and relays.

Article IV.2.4: Switches and relays.

The 'phone receivers and the crystal detector will have to be purchased as well as some of the accessories, such as the copper wire, pulleys, battery, switches, binding posts, the buzzer tester and so forth.

Suddenly all the warriors arranged themselves into two long lines, facing each otherand, brandishing their tomahawks, switches, and clubs, called upon Tom to run the gauntlet!

If you consider me in little, I am with your worships reverence Sir, a Rascal: one that upon the next anger of your Brother, must raise a sconce by the high way, and sell switches; my wife is learning now Sir, to weave inkle.

There is the chance of human carelessness causing fire, explosions, and wrecks on misplaced switches.

The oars bent lithe as willow-switches, a moment they skimmed on the caps, a moment were hid in the snow of the spray.

There is no fireplace, and I am perplexed by that until I find a thermometer beside six switches on the wall.

All sorts of electrical railways, freight and work cars, tracks, switches, signals, carriages, ortomobiles, motor vehicles, naval architecture, models, boats, steamships, men-of-war, battleships of the line.

716 examples of  switches  in sentences