28 Verbs to Use for the Word sliver

For days after he had run a sliver in his paw she nursed his foot.

He was laughing and chewing a sliver of toothpick.

" Nam-Bok paused to pick away a sliver of salmon lodged between his teeth, and the men and women, with idle hands and heads craned forward, waited.

He tickled the sliver of the donkey's ear, whereat Jag Ear wiggled the sliver in blissful unconsciousness that he had lost any of the ornamental equipment of his tribe.

But the mother, a level-headed woman, experienced in emergencies, called out from her bed, "Wait a minute; bring me the child and a candle;" and a minute later she had discovered a little sliver which pricked him when he set his foot down, and extricated it between thumb and finger.

She drew a sliver of meat from her plate and tossed it over her shoulder.

The sliver is seen emerging from the above rollers and entering the sliver can.

All finisher cards are fed by slivers which have been made as explained in connection with the breaker card, but there are two distinct methods of feeding the slivers, or rather of arranging the slivers at the feed side.

" It will be evident that, since the sliver is delivered into the can at the rate of about 50 yards per minute, this constant flow will soon provide a sufficient length of sliver to fill a sliver can, although the latter may hold approximately 20 lbs.

He gave the sliver of ear an affectionate corkscrew twist before he and Firio, taking all their ammunition, crawled along the bottom of the arroyo and up the ridge where they settled down comfortably behind a ledge commanding the water-hole at easy range.

It sprinkled the crest of the barrier with gleaming slivers of glass, which might give zest to words spoken across it, but would be most sharp to the touch.

"Now, if we leave the sliver alone, the foot will get it out its own way, but it will take a long time.

All finisher cards are fed by slivers which have been made as explained in connection with the breaker card, but there are two distinct methods of feeding the slivers, or rather of arranging the slivers at the feed side.

All this waste from various sources, e.g. thread waste, rove waste, card waste, ropes, dust-shaker waste, etc., is ultimately utilized to produce sliver for heavy sacking weft.

" You will doubtless recall Mr. Shaw's comedy, and the characteristic "realistic" fun he has with his Romans and Christian martyrs, and the lion who, remembering the mild-mannered Androcles, who had once pulled a sliver from his foot, danced out of the arena with him instead of eating him.

Each in turn averted his eyes and removed from the box a small sliver of ivory.

Before I had gone far I heard a murmur of voices, and then saw a sliver of light from the jamb of a door.

I've a great mind to shave off a sliver and send it to Lincoln.

"I'm sure Mr. Joe could stand just a weeny sliver more.

The sheet of pins and their fallers are thus continuously moving towards the drawing rollers and supporting the slivers at the same time.

He tickled the sliver of the donkey's ear, whereat Jag Ear wiggled the sliver in blissful unconsciousness that he had lost any of the ornamental equipment of his tribe.

The very fact of uniting 10 or 12 slivers at the feed of the finisher card mixes 10 or 12 distinct lengths into another new length, and, in addition, separates in some measure the fibres of each individual sliver.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

None of your eastern imitations, but a ninety-mile wind that whets slivers of ice off the frozen drifts all the way down from the North Pole.

He regarded the broken places in the plaster and prodded the slivers of wood and glass with the toe of his shoe with much complacency.

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  sliver