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Example sentences for "castors"

Lexicographically close words:
castled; castles; castling; castor; castoreum; castorum; castra; castrate; castrated; castrating
  1. In restoration work the collector should see to it that the castors used are in keeping with the furniture, for if no genuine antiques are available there are modern replicas of all the styles.

  2. The runners of the castors were chiefly of brass and generally very substantial.

  3. I tould him that my castors were hidden and that I should goe for them to-morrow.

  4. In this they were far mistaken, for we furiously gave an assault, not sparing time to make us bucklers, and made use of nothing else but of castors tyed together.

  5. George Cass, Governor Casson, Dollier de Castors Castors, skins used for bottles; sold by Indians for corn; a source of profit to the fathers Cayuga village Charles II.

  6. We came to Quebecq, where we are saluted with the thundring of the guns & batteryes of the fort, and of the 3 shipps that weare then att anchor, which had gon back to france without castors if we had not come.

  7. I had 20 castors for my share, with 2 skins full of oyle of beare and another full of oriniack and stagge's grease.

  8. We thought to gett some castors there to bring downe to the ffrench, seeing [it] att last impossible to us to make such a circuit in a twelve month's time.

  9. In the way we found the bundle of castors that the ennemy had left.

  10. Having come to the lake of the Castors, we went about the lake of the castors for some victuals, being in great want, and suffered much hunger.

  11. We brought our castors & tyed them 8 by 8, and rowled them before us.

  12. I kept him in that thought, promissing him to treat with him all my castors att his house, if he should promise me there should be non of my brother Iroquoise there, by reson we must be liberall to one another.

  13. The sacs are cut off from the castors when they are killed, and are dried to prevent the skin being affected by the weather.

  14. At certain distances castors or friction-rollers of cast iron are placed to carry the pipes, which roll upon oblong plates of cast iron laid upon the floor of the flues.

  15. The castors are then hung up and allowed to dry.

  16. Beaver castors have a market value, usually selling for seven or eight dollars a pound.

  17. Most trappers prefer to keep the castors for scent, as it is attractive to many animals.

  18. The Indians sometimes combine the two scents by making a hole in the beaver castors, and squeezing the contents of the oil castors into them.

  19. The theory of the bed presents questions much more important than those put forth by our neighbors with regard to castors and the murmurs of criminal conversation.

  20. She has placed castors on her husband's bed.

  21. Ma did not get burned, but she was pretty wet, and she told Pa she would pay five dollars royalty on that stove and take the castors off and let it remain stationary.

  22. His idea is to have a coal stove on castors with the pipe made to telescope out and in, and rubber hose for one joint, so you can pull the stove all around the room and warm any particular place.

  23. If Pa had had another pair of roller skates on his shoulders, and castors on his ears, he couldn't have slid along any better.

  24. Pa is a short, big man, and as he was rolling along on his back, he looked like a sofa with castors on being pushed across a room by a girl.

  25. At such times he worked his chair forward on its castors until he faced the door of the inner room.

  26. By the window nearest to the door stood a straw chair, whose legs were raised on castors to lift its occupant, Madame Grandet, to a height from which she could see the passers-by.

  27. She could not see the window and the chair on its castors without weeping.

  28. Susey said you told her she might have the castors and tea things, and that I was to give them to her," said Mr. Pimble, without lifting his eyes from the hearth he was contemplating.

  29. For beaver bait, get six castors off of beavers, one nutmeg, 12 cloves, 30 grains or cinnamon and mix up with a little whiskey to make in a paste or like mixed mustard.

  30. The beaver castors or bark sacks and the oil stones are found near the vent in four sacks in both male and female.

  31. Ma did not get burned, but she was pretty wet, and she told Pa she would pay the five dollars royalty on that stove and take the castors off and let it remain stationary.

  32. The Castors were ultra-clerical and ultramontane; the Bleus inherited the tradition of Gallicanism; the Rouges imported and adapted the anti-clericalism of European Liberals.

  33. The reference to the coming extinction of the Castors had relation to the then pending provincial elections as to which he made certain references to political strokes which "I am preparing.

  34. Such individuals would be chased away relentlessly, as the industrious castors chase away the lazy castor, and for the same reasons.

  35. Idleness, as we know, is a very fundamental characteristic of the criminal, and the strongly marked social reaction that we see here shows that the castors have recognised this.

  36. He had cut holes in the bottom of the cabinet, so that the castors were almost hidden from sight, and he had devised a false bottom so as not to interfere with the usefulness of the box.

  37. The old man was making castors for a little cigar cabinet which he had bought second-hand at a shop a day or two before.

  38. See--I have made castors to it, so that you can wheel it noiselessly across the table to a friend, and so be unostentatious in your hospitality.

  39. In the front room of the first floor of this house sits an old man, working in somewhat idle fashion on a few wooden castors or wheels.

  40. I'd give a thousand castors to lay hands on him right now!

  41. Take them, my brother, and because you are so faithful on the hunt I add ten castors more.

  42. For him there is a debt of one hundred castors recorded.

  43. Here I give you three hundred castors to trade in what you will.

  44. Three hundred and fifty castors is your debt, great one," he smiled, "and to them I add twenty.

  45. Dunvegan passed over a string of castors longer than the previous one.

  46. The rushing water drove these legs against the wall, and the castors ran and felt about the bricks as groping for a weak joint where they might knock a hole through.

  47. He saw two legs of turned mahogany, with brass castors at the ends that glistened in the moonlight.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "castors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.