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Example sentences for "beaters"

Lexicographically close words:
beatas; beate; beaten; beater; beaterio; beates; beateth; beath; beati; beatific
  1. Life to him now was one aching emptiness--since that day at the Rest of the Flax-beaters Rosalie had been absent.

  2. There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her.

  3. This had always been a resort for her in the months when the flax-beaters did not use it.

  4. She had seen Charley take the path to Vadrome Mountain, and to the Rest of the Flax-beaters she betook herself, in the blind hope that, returning, he might pass that way.

  5. The weather had turned drier, the snow was crisp, and a little party of women from the Hall reached the guns before the beaters were through the wood.

  6. One and all the beaters were walking with most unaccustomed speed towards their destination.

  7. The old man moved off a few paces to some higher ground, to watch the progress of the beaters through the wood.

  8. The beaters came through the wood, and the little party of guns gossiped together while the game was collected.

  9. Stephanie bided her time, which came when the beaters at last emerged from the wood.

  10. You wouldn't put the beaters in there, Squire?

  11. He strolled down towards the gun room, stood by the fire for a moment, and then wandered out into the courtyard, where Middleton and a couple of beaters were waiting for him with the dogs.

  12. You remember how terrified the beaters were yesterday at the bare suggestion of entering it?

  13. The beaters received about a penny a-piece for the day's work; a rich guerdon for these poor wretches, whom necessity sometimes drives to feed on rats and offal.

  14. We move along in an irregular line, the dogs and beaters doing their best to put up game.

  15. Half a dozen beaters and three mongrel terriers complete the party.

  16. The next morning he collected a dozen Shans for beaters and we drove a patch of jungle above camp but without success.

  17. There were undoubtedly several sambur in the vicinity of our camp but they fed entirely during the night and spent the day in such thick cover that it was impossible to drive them out except with good beaters or dogs.

  18. There was a village of considerable size at the upper end and here we collected a motley lot of beaters with half a dozen dogs to drive the top of a mountain which towered about two thousand five hundred feet above the river.

  19. The beaters very evidently knew nothing whatever about driving nor were we able to teach them, for they seriously objected to leaving the open trails and going into the bush.

  20. If they are not wife-beaters when they commence the business of beating others, they soon will be.

  21. He will be able to get persons to beat wife-beaters, who, under the same circumstances, would be wife-beaters themselves.

  22. I think that wife-beating in great cities could be stopped by putting all the wife-beaters at work at some government employment, the value of the work, however, to go to the wives and children.

  23. The beaters soon after appeared over the brow of the hill, and relieved us for the present from further apprehension of that charge which was to seal our fate, for the monarch of the Indian jungle had changed his location.

  24. A sportsman in India was out tiger-shooting early one morning, with two professional trackers walking in front of his elephant, and the usual company of beaters behind.

  25. In a minute the beaters were up with the professionals, asking, with Asiatic irony, if they had eyes in their professional heads.

  26. He said it would be necessary to consult men from other villages as to where tigers might be found, as well as to arrange for beaters and a party of hunters, but that all would be arranged that night or in the morning.

  27. Jerry reported that all was ready, and that the beaters were already arranged for.

  28. In the center of this semicircle, not far from the thorn wall, the old chief reclined on his throne of rugs, the tom-tom beaters near him.

  29. Mvita's men were spread out in a wide circle, for the elephant herd had finally been located, and once the beaters got around them the animals would scent them and come up-wind toward the hunters.

  30. I could hear the cries of the beaters as they approached, faintly at first, then a hum, then a roar.

  31. Although the most distant beaters had not yet appeared, a huge herd of Lechwe seemed literally to block the funnel and were trotting steadily down it.

  32. He drew a diagram with his stick on the side of the ant-heap to show how the beaters were disposed.

  33. I tracked a herd of deer into a large detached piece of cover, and, sending the beaters round to the opposite side, I posted myself with the greyhounds in the slips behind a clump of trees, upon a small plain of low, soft grass.

  34. The noise of the beaters approached nearer and nearer, and presently two splendid bucks with beautiful antlers rushed from the jungle about two hundred yards from me, and scudded over the plain.

  35. If the beaters prove intractable, the birds go wrong, but the burden of the host's disappointment falls on the keeper's shoulders.

  36. It is amusing to watch the demeanour of the beaters in the policeman's presence.

  37. Thus are the little beaters and the stops admonished.

  38. Then, too, are heard the shouts of laughter which greet the appearance of a rabbit, and the air is thick with the sticks that the joyous, beery beaters fling at the scurrying form of their hereditary foe.

  39. Then very far away came a shout, and a chorus of taps and cries followed it, sounding from a couple of miles away as the beaters after sweeping a wide circle entered the thick undergrowth on the opposite side of the wood.

  40. One morning in the late spring the ambassadors of the powers came paddling up to Ochori city in twelve canoes with their headmen, their warriors, their beaters of drums and their carriers.

  41. Actually, I am selling almost as many of the dollar egg-beaters as I do of the ten-cent ones.

  42. On the great, flat plain the keeper would send out his beaters to the right and the left, walking in a straight line at about twenty-yard intervals.

  43. The pheasants were sometimes shot over dogs, but usually as the beaters drove small woods.

  44. Here and there pheasants rise long before the beaters have approached.

  45. The guns are posted, the beaters have begun to move at the far end of the wood.

  46. Come to think of it, if your annual pay is more than my beaters get, I'll have to raise their wages.

  47. You stand in a specially prepared opening in a specially grown plantation, while a specialty trained company of beaters scientifically drive towards you several hundred artificially incubated birds invigorated by a patent pheasant food.

  48. Then, to my surprise, I saw that they had employed one of the beaters to hold their horse, a man whom I recognized at once as having carried my cartridge-bag.

  49. The beaters had for some time been hallooing and shouting on either side, when, just as the Englishmen's elephant was twenty yards or so from the edge of the jungle, a huge tiger made its appearance.

  50. By this time the shouts and cries of the beaters ceased to reach their ears, and Reginald knew that they must have gone in a different direction to that which he had followed.

  51. Dismounting from the elephants which had carried them to the borders of the jungle, each gentleman, attended by a native carrying an additional gun, approached the jungle, into which the beaters fearlessly threw themselves.

  52. Proceeding to another part of the open forest, the party arrived at a spot towards which a band of beaters had driven a herd of deer.

  53. There are beaters and bags by the barn," she said, "I cut the beaters after Davey and his father had gone, thinking we might want them.

  54. Beaters of the circulator type, in which the movement of the pulp is maintained by a special contrivance, and the beater roll used only for beating.

  55. Care is necessary in the manipulation of these beaters to prevent fracture of the stone parts.

  56. Two beaters placed side by side are driven by one steam engine placed between them, the operations being so timed that one rag engine is used for breaking while the other is finishing.

  57. Beaters of the stone roll type in which the roll and bedplate are either or both composed of stone, granite, or similar non-metallic substance.


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