197 Verbs to Use for the Word shaft

When Robin was a youth of eighteen, stout of sinew and bold of heart, the Sheriff of Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offered a prize of a butt of ale to whosoever should shoot the best shaft in Nottinghamshire.

In a central part of the Garden is an archery-ground, where laughing maidens practise at the butts, generally missing their ostensible mark, but, by the mere grace of their action, sending an unseen shaft into some young man's heart.

Their extraordinary richness may be inferred from the fact that many claims were profitably worked in them by sinking shafts to a depth of 200 feet or more, and hoisting the dirt by a windlass.

"So will I come and watch thee diehangman, and loose a shaft or two on mine own account!"

On receiving the wound the King uttered not a word; but breaking off the shaft of the weapon where it projected from his body, fell upon the wound by which he accelerated his death.

How if I give thee charge over the bowmen of Belsaye?" "Why first, sweet, tall brother, first will I teach them to draw a bow, pluck a string, and speed a shaft as never townsman drew, plucked or spedin fine, I will teach them to shoot: and, thereafter, devoutly pray the good Saint Giles (that is my patron saint) to send us Black Ivo and his dogs to shoot at!"

O, 'twould augment the dolour of my death, To know myself the most unhappy bow, Through which pale death should aim his shafts at you. VIS.

Old Juggroo with a grim smile, walked coolly away, discharging a Parthian shaft, by telling him that these berries were very good for making the hair grow, and hoped he would soon have a good moustache.

The line M represents the connecting rod, to which motion is imparted by the beams, through the medium of the cross tail extending between the beams, and which by means of the crank turns the paddle shaft S. The eccentric which works the slide valve is placed upon the paddle shaft.

He knew that Alec Naylor did not believe a word of what he was saying or suggesting; but yet Alec could not pass his guard, nor wing a shaft between the joints of his harness.

Now while he yet sat thus, dazed by the shock of blows and breathing deep of the sweet, cool air, he beheld one rise up from where the battle-wrack lay thickest, an awful figure that limped towards him, holding aloft the broken shaft of an axe.

and I do draw the enemy's shafts, for there is no man that heareth my contumacious dictums

~There is a Proper Way for Doing Everything~ In hewing an axe-shaft, how must you act?

It was three days before he recovered his senses, and looking aside toward the door he saw a brilliant shaft of sunlight falling into the room.

In modern times, comedy reached its culminating point when society was both the most corrupt and the most intellectual,as in France, when Molière pointed his envenomed shafts against popular vices.

Then he thrust his shaft into his quiver, rattling, and unstrung his bow without another word.

But the cook never left the bright shaft of light which fell through the doorway behind and above him, and consequently he could not see into the thick darkness where Sinclair crouched only a few yards away; and the cowpuncher remained moveless.

The carriage was descending the shaft.

The building was without a doorway, although it had several small windows and a series of ventilating shafts under the house.

Pipe for receiving screw shaft.

It seemed to head the shafts to carry them deeper.

When want assails his solitary shed, When dire distraction's horrent eye-ball glares, Seen 'midst the myriad of tumultuous cares, That shower their shafts on his devoted head.

These intellectual aristocrats hurled the keen shafts of their wit at those dramatists, who, without a university education, were arrogant enough to think that they could write plays.

The shredding dawn in beauty spread Its shafts of splendour, golden-red, High over the eastern heaven, and broke Through flaking clouds in silvern smoke That burst aflame, and fold o'er fold, Let loose their oozing floods of gold, Splashed over the foamless deep that lay Tremulous and clear.

I am with theesince I found no chance to run other-where, for that divers rogues constrained me to abidenotably yon knave with the scar, whose mailed fist I had perforce to kiss, brother, in whose dog's carcase I will yet feather me a shaft, sweet St. Giles aiding mewhich is my patron saint, you'll mind.

197 Verbs to Use for the Word  shaft