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Example sentences for "saws"

Lexicographically close words:
sawmill; sawmills; sawn; sawpit; sawr; sawst; sawt; sawyers; saxa; saxifrage
  1. The teeth of the saws are already there, but have nothing of their imminent rigidity.

  2. Once within reach of the enchantress, the grappling-hooks are thrown, the fangs strike, the double saws close together and hold the victim in a vice.

  3. For a single saw the guides just described would suffice; but for two or more saws the outside guides must be supplemented by others between the saw blades.

  4. The arrangement we have been describing is well carried out, and there can be no doubt that it will do good service, and enable thin saws to be efficiently used with a heavy feed.

  5. All kinds of Saws will cut Smooth and True by filing them with our New Machine, price $2.

  6. The ice-saws were at once installed in the interior of the vessel, in such a manner as to facilitate immediate use of them.

  7. Get on with your work, and set up your saws quicker than that.

  8. There were also gigantic saws and powerful instruments, such as levers, leaden maces, handsaws, enormous axes, etc.

  9. They worked at the blasting, as they could not saw, for the saws stuck immediately in the ice.

  10. The working of the saws was very difficult in the floes, which measured from six to seven feet in thickness.

  11. During a part of the night and the following day the working of the saws and the hauling were actively kept up; the Forward gained about two miles further north.

  12. Busy saws clamored from the islands and great rafts of planks and lath and shingles were made up and floated down into the Mississippi and on to southern markets.

  13. There was the river, filled as of old with logs, and the clamor of the saws still rose from the sawdust islands.

  14. The sound of horses and mules calling for their feed, the clatter of hammers and the rasping of saws gave evidence of eager builders, of alert adventurers, and I was hotly impatient to get forward.

  15. Are superior to all others, Extra Thin Saws a specialty.

  16. Tis not enough though she be fair of hue, For her to use this vulgar compliment: But pretty toys and jests, and saws and smiles, As far beyond what beauty can attempt.

  17. At a bench in one corner he kept his paraphernalia for stuffing birds, in another his saws and planes and chisels, his brace and bits and other woodworking equipment.

  18. All woodworking saws must be set, and special tools called "saw sets" are sold for the purpose of bending out the teeth.

  19. Gang saws are straight and move up and down rapidly.

  20. All woodworking saws belong to one of these two classes, and the cutting angles of the teeth are shown in Fig.

  21. XVIII TOOLS: SAWS The boys now took up the systematic study of tools, as Ralph suggested that they had spent time enough on toys and curiosities.

  22. This quarter was fitted for two saws by making two blocks as shown in the drawing.

  23. The slabs or edgings are passed through other saws and cut to the width and length of a lath, all the waste possible being made into lath or other by-products.

  24. Band saws are continuous bands of steel, often 48 feet long, and as wide as 8 inches, which pass over two large wheels like a belt.

  25. Three distinct classes of saws are used--circular, band, and gang saws, and different mills in the same neighborhood use different methods.

  26. The rip and cross cut saws were fitted into the saw kerfs cut in these two blocks, placed securely in the cover, and were held in place by a small piece of leather strap taken from a school book strap and nailed to inside of cover.

  27. The din of the saws rose and fell, and the music for once struck bitterly into his soul.

  28. Dawson silently followed Odd to the door, and in five minutes the saws were still.

  29. A change of tone in the song of the saws might mean so much.

  30. We set the last saws in her this mornin' an' she's steaming hard.

  31. A deadly quiet fell as suddenly as the turmoil had arisen, and his quick ears told him that the saws were still, and all work had ceased in the mill.

  32. Even now I seem to hear the saws and axes at work.

  33. The first three sets of rollers were hopelessly wrecked, and the saws were twisted and their settings broken and contorted out of all recognition.

  34. You'll have to take out the gang saws and replace them for log trimming.

  35. He was looking out across the sea of stacked timber at the great sheds beyond, where the saws were shrieking out their incessant song.

  36. We're short of logs--well, this'll serve as an excuse for saws being idle.

  37. It had been lit when the mill first started its operations years ago, and had been burning steadily ever since; and so it would go on burning as long as the saws inside continued to rip the logs.

  38. The peal died out and all became still again, except for the shriek of the saws beyond the partition walls.

  39. At the mills a large extension of the milling floors and an added number of saws were needed.

  40. The steady shriek of the saws filled the air.

  41. Let the saws continue their song, let the droning machinery but keep its dead level of tone, and failure in any other form, however disastrous, could not hurt in such degree as the sudden silencing of his lumberman's world.

  42. These big saws won't stand for tricks if he happens to git around with a 'jag' on.

  43. I thought doctors always had a lot of tools," I said; "knives and saws and choppers for operations.

  44. He will sell you a set of amateur's tools that will be made of old sheet-iron with basswood handles, and the saws will double up like a piece of stovepipe.

  45. He yearns for the flesh-pots and the new scroll saws of other papers.

  46. Now, you know, Boss, Stamford saws is one of best agencies Barlow has.

  47. I finds him easy enough, an' saws it off on him in Spanish how the game stacks up.

  48. The talk gets general, an' the lies them people evolves an' saws off on each other would stampede stock.

  49. The equipment--saws that are easily taken down and set up--is not costly, and does not require much capital.

  50. When one canton of the forest has been exhausted, the saws are taken down and removed.

  51. From the peep of day till dusk shrouded the woods, Benton's donkey puffed and groaned, axes thudded, the thin, twanging whine of the saws rose.

  52. Up in the near woods the whine of the saws and the sounds of chopping kept measured beat.

  53. The cotton is afterward stripped from the saws themselves by means of a quickly revolving brush which turns in the opposite direction to the saws.

  54. As the cotton is fed to the machine, the saws seize it and strip the cotton from the seeds, which fall through grids placed below the saws.

  55. Chain saws are quite unnecessary, it being in most cases easy to apply an ordinary one to the bone, if it is properly everted.

  56. The men paused, with their saws at different slopes in the wood, and looked round.

  57. We don't despise a man who hammers stone or saws boards; why should we despise a barber?

  58. That pairs of millstones, necessary iron works for grist mills, and saws and other necessary articles for saw-mills, be granted them.

  59. The sound of axes, hammers and saws was heard on every hand.

  60. A score of men with saws and axes cut away the flooring adjoining the doors on the first and second stories.

  61. These were sawing and planing works, and the sound of many wheels, and the hoarse rasping sound of saws innumerable, came out through the open windows of the building as they entered the yard.

  62. They lie soaking in the water until drawn up to the keen saws of the sawmill that cut and slice the wood like cheese.

  63. The bark and outside is carved off as you would cut the crust off bread, and then sharp, circular saws cut boards and planks till the log is used up, and the log-carriage lifts another to its place.


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