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Example sentences for "printing press"

  • One happy result of the duty laid upon the clerks of issuing bills of mortality in the City of London was that they were allowed to set up a printing press in the Hall of their company.

  • It was no easy task in the early Stuart times to obtain leave to have a printing press, and severe were the restrictions laid down, and the penalties for any violation of any of them.

  • The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

  • To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.

  • A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

  • Fly board (Printing Press), the board on which printed sheets are deposited by the fly.

  • I have decided; it shall be a printing press, and I shall get orders enough to pay for new curtains.

  • Well, if a die stamp or a printing press, I believe the mystery of Old Swallowtail's 'business' is readily explained.

  • And why do these men operate a printing press in a secret cavern, unless they are printing counterfeit money?

  • I imagine they are running a printing press," he replied.

  • So he bought a printing press and, to avoid the prying eyes of his neighbors, established it here.

  • Shusha was their choice for the establishment of their Mission; schools were opened and a printing press set up.

  • I was given to understand that it had once housed the seminary and printing press; a little bakery still occupies the junction with the buildings on the south.

  • They were further authorised to establish a printing press, to found elementary schools, and to organise a seminary in which the higher learning should be dispensed.

  • He came the proud possessor of a printing press, with which to conquer the sloth of the faint-hearted among the laymen and edify the crass ignorance of the priests.

  • By these same tokens it was not a printing press, but a toy; not the real thing, but an imitation, and Bobby was outgrowing imitations.

  • My printing press isn't a real one," broke out Bobby.

  • I received a letter from the brethren who went up to the land of Zion, stating that they had arrived at Independence, Missouri, in good health and spirits, with a printing press and a store of goods.

  • Although not in any sense of a “punning” nature, the employment of a printing press as a Mark may conveniently be here referred to.

  • To work out an idea for a mechanical device if the latter is a fairly simple one, as a printing press, see Fig.

  • He could not undertake regular printing at Navarino before obtaining a printing press in 1833; then, in partnership with another young New Yorker named John V.

  • Joseph Charless, with a background of printing experience in his native Ireland, in Pennsylvania, and in Kentucky, became the first man to establish a printing press west of the Mississippi River.

  • A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

  • Sir Llewelyn says: "The excitement throughout the nation exceeded anything of the kind ever known, and The Times actually sent down a printing press to Norwich to report daily the incidents of the magisterial and coroner's inquiries.

  • Yet why does your fancy take its flight toward a printing press?


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