Plunged in thought, she traced a semicircle in the dust with the ferruleof her sunshade.
She stood there thinking, a tall lithe figure in white girdled with violet, refined, exquisite, dainty from the gilt ferrule of her sunshade to the tip of her tiny white kid shoe.
The silver nob and ferrule were removed; but without bringing to light anything in the nature of a communication.
Or if too small, a ferrule may be placed upon it, thus increasing the capacity of the tool.
Then he set the reeking ferrule in his stirrup boot, slung the shaft from the braided arm loop, and drew his revolver--the new weapon lately issued, with its curious fixed ammunition and its cap imbedded.
In each ferruleis placed a ~vent screen~, composed of reticulate material, such as cheese cloth.
Two prongs O and V, which are a part of the knife blade K, pass through the square holes in the ends of the ferrule R, and are riveted to the anchor plate T.
Almost as he did so the ferrule of an ordinary bamboo cane came at his eyes, so that he had actually to parry it with the naked weapon in his hands.
And he made sudden lunges with his stick at the trunk of a neighbouring tree so that the ferrule made fierce prints and punctures in the bark.
The Pope paused, scraped the gravel with the ferrule of his stick, and said: "Father, I am in the position of the confessor who has guilty knowledge of a conspiracy against the life of his enemy.
But at length the Pope, scraping the gravel at his feet with the ferrule of his walking-stick, began to speak on his own initiative.
A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work.
She made patterns on a bare piece of ground with theferrule of her umbrella, as she listened.
This was the moment for the ferrule of an umbrella, or the point of an elegant shoe.
She was beginning her tricks again with the ferrule of her umbrella.
The best arrow heads for our purpose are like the ferrule of an umbrella top; they receive the end of the shaft into them and keep it from splitting.
One of the best arrows I ever shot with was twenty-eight inches long, five sixteenths of an inch thick, had a ferrule head and very small feathers.
Then he unscrewed the ferrule and withdrew the tampion and unscrewed the handle of his stick, and was busy in the darkness for a while with the weapon he carried.
The seeming stick was not wood or leaded wood, but iron It was not solid, but hollow like a gas pipe, and at the end intended to touch the ground, the mouth of the tube was protected by a brass ferrule to which a small tampion was affixed.
What is more annoying than to find, after you have travelled some miles to get to your hunting ground, that you have left your screw ferrule at home, or that the soldering of your metal Y is just giving way?
Such a frame is easily made by bending a piece of stout wire to the required shape, and then soldering it to a ferrule to receive a long stick.
It was a rather long, slender-looking ferrule of steel.
Stepping to the edge of the porch, the submarine boy pointed the ferrule end at the ground, then pressed upon the spring.
But what interested young Benson most was that he had found that the ferrule was hollow.
The bottom end of the trousers is inserted between the jaws C and the small ferrule pushed [Illustration: Cut from Sheet Metal] down to clamp them on the cloth.
The two binding-posts are insulated from the frame the same as the ferrule S.
At the other end of the spear-shaft, close to where it entered the socket, was a ferrule of the same style of art as the sword-sheaths (Nos.
The impressions showed that the ferrule of this one was evenly convex; therefore it had no crook.
The ferrule of a knobbed stick wears evenly all round; that of a crooked stick wears on one side--the side opposite the crook.
The improvement in locomotive tubes consisted in driving a copper ferrule or thimble on the outside of the end of the tube, and soldering it in place, instead of driving a ferrule into the tube, as had previously been the practice.
The Junior Watch-keeper paused at the corner of the street and smote the pavement with the ferrule of his stick.
At his side Torps shifted his feet, and the ferrule of his scabbard clinked on the aisle.
The ferruleof Flora Desimone's parasol bit deeply into the clover-turf.
The object of this invention is to prevent splitting of the handle, to secure both the ferrule and leather pad firmly in place, and to furnish a durable and serviceable awl handle.
An improved ferrule for awl handles has been patented by Mr. Jules Steinmeyer, of St. Louis, Mo.
So he chose one Achille whose ferrule was bright and who carried the number 154.
Sometimes the moon would find its way through the brick and marble cañon, or the bright ferrule of another gondola flashed and disappeared into the gloom.
A police barge nosed round an ell; by the time Pompeo was off again, the ferrule of the pursuing gondola scraped past Pompeo's blade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferrule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
