13 Verbs to Use for the Word vane

He was in a state of mind that resembled the vanes of his own towers, which changed their direction with every fresh current of air, but he was by far, too honorable to think seriously of violating a faith that he had once fairly plighted.

To clear the anemometer vane it is necessary to go to the other end of the hut and climb a ladder.

" With much curiosity I turned its pages,pages illustrated with pictures of the make-at-home things of the title,glancing at directions for constructing a weather-vane, a tent, a sled, and a multitude of smaller articles.

" "Then I beg to assist thee to thy heart's desire as soon as thou hast found what its desire is; and I insist thou dost examine the weather-vane of thy mind and discern its bent.

The original knights, to distinguish them from these latter, are often called equites equo publico, sometimes also ficus vanes or trossuli Vide Smith, Dict.

At this, my boy hung down his head, 45 He blushed with shame, nor made reply; [10] And three times to the child I said, "Why, Edward, tell me why?" His head he raisedthere was in sight, It caught his eye, he saw it plain 50 Upon the house-top, glittering bright, A broad and gilded vane.

Mr. Henson's scheme of flight is founded upon the principle of an inclined plane, started from an eminence by an extrinsic force, applied and continued by the revolution of impinging vanes, in form and number resembling the sails of a windmill.

Day has manufactured a current vane, a simple arrangement: up to the present he has used this near the Cape.

It was not alone in Germany that a responsive Press played the weather vane to Government wishes; but in Germany the machinery ran smoothest.

Now and then a rush of wind rattled over the graves, roared through the leafless trees, bent the complaining bushes, and caught itself in the little eddy at the corner of the church, only to escape again over the roofs, turning the old weather vane with a sharp scream of the rusty iron.

And they stayed at home, and watched their vanes and longed for an east windan east wind whose wings would shake out healing, whose breath would lay the destroying fever low; but the east wind refused to seek their shores, and chose rather to keep up its wild salt play far out on the bosom of its mid-sea billows.

I believe, the two revolving vanes without any twist or obliquity on them at all, would propel a vessel if set well forward in the dead wood or beneath the bottom, merely by the ascent of the water up the inclined plane of the vessel's run; and, at all events, a screw so placed would, in my judgment, aid materially in propelling the vessel when her progress was resisted by head winds.

So shines at eve the sun-illumin'd fane, Lifts its bright cross, and waves its golden vane; From every breeze the polish'd axle turns, 160 And high in air the dancing meteor burns.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  vane