Which preposition to use with strokes
He gave very handsome dinners, liked his guests to be punctual, was very punctual himself, always arrived on the stroke of eight when he dined with us.
No. 26 is written in one continuous stroke with a noticeably good management of the curves.
Baglivi refines on the doctrine of effluvia, by ascribing his cures of the bite of the tarantula to the peculiar undulation any instrument or tune makes by its strokes in the air; which, vibrating upon the external parts of the patient, is communicated to the whole nervous system, and produces that happy alteration in the solids and fluids which so effectually contributes to the cure.
At the Lane, where it was played with Mrs. Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife and billed 'not acted 20 years', Yates took Scaramouch; Palmer, Charmante; King, Cinthio; Winstone, Baliardo; Miss Murgatroyd, Bellemante; and the inimitable Mrs. Green, Mopsophil.
"This is a brilliant stroke on my part, I must say," Jack cried, facing Kate ruefully.
Till we can summon Michel, with his chisel, to add the finishing strokes to the grave, silent face of the naked figure reclining below the tomb, or to supply the lacking left hand to the colossal form of female beauty sitting upon the opposite sepulchre, we must continue to burst in ignorance.
For the colonel, as Jack's next of kin, would take over all his mining interests and free them at a stroke from the silent partnership which apparently existed with Lord Nick and Lester.
" They were in the boat now, and Jack was sending it forward by lusty lunges against every protruding object he could get a stroke at; when these failed he managed to scull after a fashion.
What is the power of an engine of 42 inches diameter, 3-1/2 feet stroke, and making 85 strokes per minute?
above your breasts Glitters no flash of wreathen amulet Forged against sword-stroke by the chanted rhythm Of charms accurst; but in each steadfast heart Blazes the light of cloudless purity, That like a splendid jewel glorifies With restless fire the gold that spheres it round, And marks you children of our God, whose lives He guards with the awful jealousy of love.
Last Strokes of Humour.
I would sum up all your Beloved Plays, and all the Things in them that are past with such Silence by; because written by Men: such Masculine Strokes in me, must not be allow'd.
These preliminaries observed, the captain meditated a bold stroke against the wilderness, by draining the pond, and coming at once into the possession of a noble farm, cleared of trees and stumps, as it might be by a coup de main.
5. I have written all night *** TO MISS HOWE MY DEAREST CREATURE, How you have shocked, confounded, surprised, astonished me, by your dreadful communication!My heart is too weak to bear up against such a stroke as this!When all hope was with me!
Each thought more of the next stroke than of the present party.
Stroke after stroke, never ceasing!The flame was high, cracklingjust before him.
'Now meet the stroke like a man!'
A.Divide the length of stroke through which the steam expands, by the length of stroke performed with full pressure, which last call 1; the hyperbolic logarithm of the quotient is the increase of efficiency due to expansion.
The guard should be large, else the disc may stretch in the central hole until it comes over it; but the guard should not permit too much lift of the valve, else a good deal of the water and air will return into the pump at the return stroke before the valve shuts.
But will immigration continue now that the Jew of the Pale has been turned at a stroke into the free citizen of a democratic country?
My bundle was dropped in after meconceive to yourself the heir of all the de Lavals travelling with a single bundle for his baggage!and two seamen pushed her off, pulling with long slow strokes towards the low-lying shore.
One long, lurid pencil-stroke along a sky of slate was all that was left of daylight.
He was on his mettle, and fighting for liberty, to gain which he felt that he must effectually beat his enemy; and thanks to Little John's lessons he thrashed him so well that at the end of five minutes the young swine-herd received a final stroke across the knuckles which made him shriek, drop his staff, and turn to run down a long straight avenue in the forest where the ground was open.
She rapidly separated the Minnows from the other fish, and set them to learning their first strokes under the direction of one of the other councilors.
But he was not hurt, and succeeded in returning the attack by a stroke above the visor, which carried off the bunch of plumes from his adversary's helmet.