4800 examples of the edges in sentences

"Now, then," she said, quietly, "when I lift you up, grab the edges of the plank.

In scrutinizing the edges of the paper, I observed them to be more chafed than seemed necessary.

Pour in sufficient water to half fill the dish, and border it with paste (see Pastry); brush it over with a little water, and put on the cover; slightly press down the edges with the thumb, and trim off close to the dish.

Butter a pie-dish, and line the edges with puff-paste; put in the pudding, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour.

Out at the end of the trail two Indian children, a girl and a boy, stole along with noiseless steps, scanning the wide wastes for a cloud of mistthe frozen breath that hovers over a herd of caribouor peering keenly into the edges of the woods for vague white shapes moving like shadows among the trees.

"By blowing into the other end of the tube the edges of the rubber bands will be set in vibration, and by touching the vibrating membrane at different points so as to check its movements it may be shown that the pitch of the note emitted depends upon the length and breadth of the vibrating portion of the vocal bands."Dr.

LXXII.Caesar, on learning these proceedings from the deserters and captives, adopted the following system of fortification; he dug a trench twenty feet deep, with perpendicular sides, in such a manner that the base of this trench should extend so far as the edges were apart at the top.

During the process it coagulated at the edges; and the coagulated mass was again dissolved, by stirring it into the boiling fluid mass.

Geissler was poorly dressed, his hair and beard turned greyer, and his eyes redder at the edges than before.

A.The wheels are of the feathering kind, 9 feet 8 inches in diameter, measuring to the edges of the floats; and there are 10 floats upon each wheel, measuring 4 feet 6 inches long each, and 18-1/2 inches broad.

She had seen his face for the last time, and when they had covered him, they laid the coffin in another of lead which they had brought, and she stood quite still, watching the gleaming melted stuff that ran along the edges of the grey lead, like quicksilver, under the hot tool of copper.

And then Sonny they say he kep' still a minute, an' then he says, says he, "Oh, maybe he couldn't see over the edges, teacher, 'cause ef he was tall enough his head might reach up into the flo' o' heaven."

" "You will greatly oblige me by communicating to me your opinion, approximatively, of the course held by the primary rocks south of Lake Superior, as far as you are acquainted with it, or with the edges of the secondary rocks, which have a junction line with, or near them.

"They varied from six inches to several feet in diameter, the soil around the edges was dry and hard, and as fast as water was dipped out, a new supply rose to the surface."

Only 'round the edges where the dough didn't cover was there any scars.

But when the Romans after exhausting their long-distance ammunition charged down upon them, the edges of the force were slaughtered, one blow sufficing for their death, since the majority were unarmed, and the center was crushed together, as all by reason of the encompassing fear fell toward it.

He grabbed dazed Arthur's hand, and pressed hard with his powerful thumb and forefinger upon the edges of the wound.

Ignition is effected electrically by a series of sparks playing between two platinum points in the slide valve, and this permits of regulating the instant of ignition through the edges of the orifices.

The next morning she was cleaning out the grate and found the pieces of paper, only partially burned around the edges.

The key-holes are made in several ways, those shown in the illustrations being of a dovetail shape; circular, square, or indeed holes of any other shape formed in the edges of the slab and in an oblique direction are also employed.

The bridges are fine, and the broad, crowded quays, all along the edges of the river, have a beautiful effect.

Actually, the little red tongue itself seemed to fold itself upward, at the edges, like a tender leaf.

For an axe makes ugly work at the best of times, and still worse on the edges of such a pagan fight as we three had just fought.

Unless this precaution is observed, the thin smears and tiny bits about the edges of the dish, which become sour or moldy much sooner than the larger mass, are apt to spoil the whole.

Wash down the edges of the pan with the finger first dipped in cold water, as the sugar boils up.

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