There were some eight or nine crystal doors (or windows) in the front, and in the centre one somewhat larger than the others, which, as we came immediately in front of it, opened, not turning on hinges, but, like every other door I had seen, dividing and sliding rapidly into the walls to the right and left.

Often he wondered why Mrs. Harrington did not grease the hinges.

But the Negro race is viable; it adapts itself readily to circumstances; and being thus adaptable, there is always the temptation to "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.

Those who have ever entered an extensive prison, will require no description to revive the feeling of pain which it excited, by barred windows, creaking hinges, grating bolts, and all those other signs, which are alike the means and evidence of incarceration.

On the 2d of June, he passed the straits, and, through the ignorance of the pilot, the ship got upon the shoals of St Peter, in consequence of which accident the rudder was thrown off the hinges, and the ship admitted water in three several places; insomuch that it was with great difficulty they could save the vessel from sinking, and get her into Cadiz.

Not going to pull out those hinges.

There it must lie; there was none to work the cunning hinges or direct the miracle of locomotionthere it must lie till it was found.

He found brass strap hinges and a hasp and a lock that were well-matched.

This trouble will be avoided by having the hinges about 1-1/2 to 2 inches from the heels.

a, The screw, with a fine-cut thread; b, nut which travels along it; c, a hollow thimble into which the screw passes at one end, the other being cut out V-shaped to catch into a slot (d) on the shoe; e, e, the grip[A] for the bars, the length and direction of which depend upon the shape of the foot; f, f, the counter-sunk rivets forming the hinge (f'); g, the counter-sunk rivet of the expanding piece.]

22, names them the hinges of our health, no hope of recovery without them.

But he opened out the hinges, Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges, Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure

At length the friar stopped before a mighty door, thick-banded with iron bars and with massy bolts, and while Beltane held the torch, he fitted key to lock and thereafter the great door swung on screaming hinge and showed a dungeon beyonda place foul and noisome, where divers pale-faced wretches lay or crouched, blinking in the torch's glare.

There they stood, each leaning against the wall on its own side of the gateway, the hinges beginning to rust, by time and exposure.

If thou open not the gate and let me in, I will strike the door, the posts I will shatter, I will strike the hinges, burst open the doors, I will raise up the dead devourers of the living, Over the living the dead shall triumph.

A door was taken off its hinges, and they were soon upon their way.

"But the question as to which house he visited first hinges on the scarab.

Those who imagine that he had any intention to impair the reverence due to religion, or to weaken the hinges of moral action, give him credit for far more design and prospective purpose than he possessed.

The gate, jealously padlocked, is swiftly hoisted off its hinges, and away they go with hearty thanks.

And see the third house on the left, with that gleam 20 Of red burnished copperthe hinge of the door

The door was carried off its hinges, and Brutus leapt beside him.

It is well to remember that in this connection a child's limitations are not final, but only mark stages: for example, in his early attempts to use thick cardboard he cannot discover the neat hinge that is made by the process known as a "half-cut"; he tries in vain to bend the cardboard, so as to secure the same result.

The difficulty was in handling them with the accuracy required to enter the hinges, of which there were three pairs.

I've known eleven rubbers running to follow the hinges.

And, as of old resounding, grate The heavy hinges of the gate, And, clattering loud, with iron clank, Down goes the sounding bridge of plank, As if it were in haste to greet The pressure of a traveler's feet!