569 examples of warps in sentences

Aw'll tell yo what ruins me; it's these lung warps.

One called 'Surat Warps,' and said to be the production of a Rossendale rhymester, (T. N., of Bacup,) appeared in Notes and Queries of June 3, 1865, (third series, vol.

What pity could befall a heart, To think about these hard-sized warps!' Another song, called 'The Surat Weyver,' was written by William Billington of Blackburn.

But the spell of love which warps us was upon him, and he swerved from the straight line, though bent upon his conquest.

The next day I got for the little girl at a "kindergarten supply" establishment a box of the paper woofs and warps, so well-known to kindergarten pupils.

They see no reason to fear that the Constitution, which has shown such pliant tenacity under the warps and twistings of a forty-years' proslavery pressure, should be in danger of breaking, if bent backward again gently to its original rectitude of fibre.

Then their crews, dragging large stiff warps, forced their way among the mangrove roots and made the ropes fast where they could.

Puffs of steam blew about, the cable rose from the water with a jar, and the warps ran slowly across the winch-drums, foul with greasy scum.

The Astara is casting off her warps.

From such stealthy influences the man of rigid convictions is often in more danger than the man of no convictions at all, for rigid convictions rather often indicate inexperience and imperfect observation; experience, thereforeespecially emotional experiencesometimes warps them into strange and hideous shapes.

" "Get out the warps and ice-anchors there!" cried the captain.

Warps and hawsers were also got out and fixed to the seaward masses, ready to heave on them at a moment's notice; the ship was lightened as much as possible by lifting her stores upon the ice; and the whole crewcaptain, mates, and allworked and heaved like horses, until the perspiration streamed from their faces, while Mizzle kept supplying them with a constant deluge of hot coffee.

Round went the capstan, the windlass clanked, and the ship forged slowly ahead, as the warps and hawsers became rigid.

Many a time have I seen a ship's crew strain and heave on warps and cables for hours together, and only gain a yard by all their efforts; but many a time, also, have I seen a single yard of headway save a ship from destruction.

Before the tide was quite full, and while they were waiting until the command to heave on the warps should be given, Captain Guy assembled the crew for morning prayers in the cabin.

It is most mischievous when it assumes a philosophic gravity and warps the criticism of a distinguished scholar.

If the weather had not been so extremely unfavorable to us, perhaps the frigate might have been got afloat the next day, for it had been resolved to carry out very long warps, but the violence of the wind, and the sea, baffled these arrangements which nothing but a calm could favor.

The intervals also deflect us from the original paths of direction, and all the old identities at last give out, for the fatally continuous infiltration of otherness warps things out of every original rut.

But Bill in the intervals of slumber had visited the furnaces, and kept up a good head of steam; and in the chill of dawn he and the mate cast off warps and (with the pilot) worked the steamer out through the ship lock, practically unaided.

DRESSING MACHINE FOR PREPARING TWO WARPS SIMULTANEOUSLY 32, SIX DISTINCT KINDS OF TYPICAL JUTE FABRICS 33.

Precisely the same kind of link is made by the hand wrappers when the warps indicated in Fig.

This view, which illustrates a machine made by Messrs. Charles Parker, Sons & Co., Dundee, has been introduced to show that if the warps under preparation contain a comparatively few threads, or if the banks are made larger than usual, two warps may be dressed at the same time.

In both fabrics, however, ground or foundation warps are required.

Marks of jute (see jute marks) Maund Measuring and marking machine machine for cloth the warp Methods of preparing warps Multiple-colour printing machines.

The whole frame bends and shrinks, and warps like a fragment of leather thrown into a furnacethe flame has reached her vitalsat last, by God's mercy, she is dead.

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