900 examples of tapered in sentences

He mutely noted the small maneuver and gave her credit; but for the pleasure of seeing the white of her fingers and the way they tapered to a pink transparency at the tips, he forgot the poor figure he must make with his soiled, ragged shirt, his unshaven face, his gaunt cheeks.

Pray sit down," said the lady, with a sweet and grateful smile, as she took from the tapered fingers of the foreigner the little bouquet, which she had been at the pains to gather.

It was perfectly straight, and tapered very slightly, and some were seen that were even larger.

The blast pipe should not be regularly tapered, but should be large in the body and gathered in at the mouth.

To expand the segments, a round tapered piece of steel, like a drift, is forced into a central hole, round which the segments are arranged.

If from malformation in this part the framing works to an inconvenient extent, the best expedient appears to be the introduction of a number of steel tapered bolts, the holes having been previously bored out; and if the flanges be thick enough, square keys may also be introduced, half into one flange and half into the other, so as to receive the strain.

The quiet end of the day is almost as good for clear thinking as the early morning, especially if the day has not been overstrenuous and the activities have been gradually tapered off.

Show me the man who catches fish; ten to one his rod is well balanced and strong, his line heavy, though tapered, and his gut well selected and stained.

Our tapered gut cast has been wetted, and a tiny-eyed fly is at the end.

At the latter date the panic making papers had tapered down their complainings to a very faint whisper, and withal expressing more hope than fears.

3 shows the part, B, of an internally tapered or coned form, and C of an externally coned form, wound on an iron wire bundle, I.

3 is more like the action of tapered or conically wound solenoids and taper cores.

Of course, it is unnecessary that both be tapered.

"It was large at the bottom and tapered at the top.

The driving key extends the whole length of the boss, and the tapered shaft fits throughout its length.

The tide was out, the sea gates were dry, only a few pools flashed silver amid the ooze; and the masts of the tall vessels,tall vessels aground in that strange canal or rather dyke which runs parallel with and within a few yards of the sea for so many miles,tapered and leaned out over the sea banks, and the points of the top masts could be counted.

Upon a long, low, flat-bottomed hull, which tapered to a sharp point at bow and stern, was raised a light wooden superstructure with a flat roof, upon which the passengers could sit.

Despotism was not tapered off by means of the distant and elevation of a throne; and privilege did not veil itself behind the majesty of a large body.

The tail tapered away like a rat's, and the flesh was by no means good to eat, tasting very strong; this was the only instance in which we found wallaby at all unpalatable.

Quietly, while the silence grew deeper and the interest stronger, he produced from this an object such as I had never seen beforean implement or weapon about three feet in length, its shaft made of some tough but evidently elastic wood, furnished at one end with a strong iron ferrule, and at the other with a steel head, one extremity of which was shaped like a carpenter's adze, while the other tapered off to a fine point.

Janet looked with pride at his clear flushed face, so handsomely featured; his jewelled hands and fine round legs that tapered to slender ankles.

Its charred end curled down and twisted away from her and her heart sank; but the tall figure of Palmyre for a moment came between, the wick was snuffed, the flame tapered up again, and for a long time burned, a bright, tremulous cone.

The disposition of the cops in the winding operation is vertical, but while in some machines the tapered nose of the cop is in the high position and the spinning bobbin from which the yarn is being drawn is in the low position, in other machines these conditions are opposite.

Thus, in the cop winding frame made by Messrs. Douglas Fraser & Sons, Ltd., Arbroath, and illustrated in Fig. 25, the spinning bobbins are below the cops, the tapered noses of the latter are upwards in their cones or shapers, and the yarn guides are near the top of the machine.

26 is the above-mentioned opposite type, and the one most generally adopted, with the spinning bobbins as shown near the top of the frame, the yarn guides in the low position, and the point or tapered nose of the cop pointing downwards.

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