It did far more, it shattered at one stroke the brittle casing of self-command with which centuries of civilization had sought to veneer the Slav.

Now hundreds of thousands of pounds are employed each year for sheathing and casings on motor-cars.

I had also a fragment of shrapnel casing from a 32 cm.

In a dum-dum bullet the casing at the tip is cut or removed, with the result that, on striking, the casing spreads out and forms a rough, irregular missile, which does terrific damage.

She was weak and she leaned against the casing for her support, but her face was tender and calm, and she was regnant over her own mind.

Finding it, she stopped; the snowshoe slipped from beneath her arm; one numb hand groped for the log door-casing in support; the other fumbled for the revolver.

They lowered Silas Blackburn's grimly shaped casing into the sorrel pit.

This plan appears to be an expedient one when the boiler is short of heating surface, and more than a usual quantity of heat ascends the chimney; but in well proportioned boilers a water casing round the chimney is superfluous.

In some cases the feed water is introduced into a casing around the chimney, from whence it descends into the boiler.

Broken legs were put up in plaster casings with metal interruptions, so that the painful limb might be at rest, and yet the wound be free for daily dressings.

In horizontal types of distiller an engine and pump are mounted on a cast iron casing as a bed, and in this casing is placed a number of tubes through which the steam passes to be condensed, the whole being simply a surface condenser with engine and pump above.

she almost screamed, bounding to that lady's side, "as I live, here's a picture of Theo and George Douglas taken together," and she held up a handsome casing before the astonished old lady, who, donning her golden spectacles in a twinkling, saw for herself that what Maggie said was true.

At the end of a few minutes he had succeeded in removing enough of the outer planking to show that the entire filling of the casing between the stanchions was composed of small boxes.