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Example sentences for "gudgeon"

Lexicographically close words:
gudely; gudeman; gudes; gudesire; gudewife; gudgeons; gudis; gudlo; guerdon; guere
  1. I found Mrs. Gudgeon downstairs, for she had brought the thing she called a bed there, because, she said, if she was upstairs the children banging the doors maddened her.

  2. To-day I found six of the Gudgeon children sitting on three-legged stools, huddled round a miserable fire, the door locked to prevent their running out into the snow.

  3. In its markings the gudgeon has a striking appearance.

  4. The gudgeon is an every-day sort of fish, proper enough in a general collection, but where room is scarce it may very well be spared.

  5. This plate has a hole one and a half inches in diameter in the center through which the stirrup gudgeon passes as it enters the top of the mast.

  6. The base is the same but the mast turns on a gudgeon stepped into an iron socket mortised into the center timber.

  7. There is an iron pull rod, or long hook, attached to each end of the center bar by means of a bolt that screws into the center of the end of the wooden center shaft, thus forming a gudgeon pin so the shaft can revolve.

  8. But the gudgeon and the troutling were terrified at the notion of bigger fishes, and made straight for the weeds.

  9. We may possibly get rid of the water below, but the crosshead bearings are working loose, and I'd like to know who's going to give me a new gudgeon pin?

  10. However, there's an end of it, gudgeon pin and all.

  11. If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach.

  12. If a gudgeon meet a roach, He dare not venture to approach.

  13. Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach.

  14. That Gudgeon must have been a sort of Van Amberg," thought Jimmieboy.

  15. The Gudgeon is the fish That goes to all the shows, He swims up to the Teredos And tweaks him by the nose.

  16. Tom Thumb warmed me up eventually; its gudgeon had been taken, and I had something in secure custody.

  17. These rarely took a minnow, but a gudgeon on the paternoster, and on the upper hook thereof, frequently proved fatal to a two-pounder.

  18. The upper gudgeon plays in a piece of wood nailed to the wagon box, and near this gudgeon on the shaft a screw is cut.

  19. He pointed to where a gudgeon had leaped several times out of the water to escape a couple of fierce pike, one of which seized it and bore it off.

  20. But we said this hollow gudgeon had a second use: it is to bring steam into the revolving vessel A B, from any proper boiler beyond K, when that part of the process requires it.

  21. The great man received the money, not as a gudgeon doth a bait, but as a pike receives a poor gudgeon into his maw.

  22. Nothing is so certain to take; the gudgeon will tempt the pike there when an ordinary roach may be displayed before him without the slightest effect.

  23. In the brook the jack do not seem to care much about them; but in the lake above there are no gudgeon, and there a gudgeon is a fatal bait.

  24. But the truth is not to be found in eating gudgeon and that I proclaim aloud!

  25. You eat a gudgeon a day, and you think you bribe God with gudgeon.

  26. Do not long for a mullet,[709] when you have only a gudgeon in your purse.

  27. Nor doubt thy throat of mullets to amerce, While scarce a gudgeon lingers in thy purse.

  28. The Soho people have sent here Chacewater eduction-pipe instead of Wheal Union; and the gudgeon pipe has not arrived with the nozzles.

  29. He was also busy inventing a new method of an equalising beam, by causing the gudgeon to change its place; and another by means of a roller acting upon a curve in the nature of the working gear.

  30. With all her impudence, and I may say insolence, Mrs. Gudgeon was a great favourite with the police, who were the constant butts of her chaff.

  31. Then come luminous remarks upon his theory of absolute and relative humour, which I shall deal with in relation to that type of absolute humour, his own Mrs. Gudgeon in 'Aylwin.

  32. But there is in all that Mrs. Gudgeon says or does a profundity of humour so much deeper than the humour of Mrs. Gamp, that it wins her a separate niche in our gallery of humourous women.

  33. I think Mrs. Gudgeon is a cockney Anacharsis in petticoats.

  34. Until Mrs. Gudgeon appeared I thought that Dickens had made it as impossible for another writer to paint humourous pictures of low-class London women as Swinburne has made it impossible for another poet to write in anapaests.

  35. To find the proper size of a cast iron gudgeon adapted to sustain any given weight:--multiply the weight in lbs.

  36. How is the strength of a cast iron gudgeon computed?

  37. Supposing the gudgeon to be square, then, to ascertain the thickness, multiply the weight resting on the gudgeon by the distance between the trunnions, and divide the product by 333.


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