A shaft was sunk, passing through four feet of rich, black soil, and below this through upward of ten feet of gravel, reddish clay, and rounded quartz.
At the bottom of a shaft two hundred and ten feet deep a human skeleton was found, with an altar for worship and other evidences of ancient labor by the aborigines.
It is suspended from short sticks, which are held in horizontal layers around the shaft in the basket, and the action is such during the operation as to cause the yarn to stand out in radial lines.
The cutters or dies, mounted on a cross head working in a vertical guide frame, are operated from the main shaft by eccentrics and vertical connecting rods, as shown.
When the heaviest part of the engine is so far from the vertical shaft as to overhang the casing on one side, there is apt to be an objectionable tremor.
In order that the basket might be replaced by another after draining, the shaft has been made telescopic, but at the expense of stability and rigidity.
Mounted also on the main shaft is one of a pair of reversed cone drums.
In all machines in which the shaft oscillates, if the center of oscillation does not lie in the central plane of the belt, the tension of the latter is not uniform.
This apparatus consists of a pair of governor balls pivoted near the center of the arms and attached to the main shaft of the intermediate gear by means of a collar fixed on it.
The main shaft is bored out sufficiently deep to admit a steel rod, against which bear the three ends of the governor arms.
To remedy this, it is suggested to put these heavy parts as near the shaft as possible.
The other man I knew not, but he bore a headless spear shaft in his hand, and Edred's shield had a great gash across it.
Howbeit, their swords were drawn, and so I think we were not wrong in what we did, though the Colchester men smote hard, and my spear shaft was badly sprung over a helm.
But they would not; they misappropriated the sacred shaft to some common use, and immediately the great Bird flew away never to return.
And the brave Citli laid shaft to string nevermore, for the arrow of the sun pierced his forehead.
The sinking of the shaft was both difficult and dangerous.
In it was a paragraph giving an account of how a prospector named William Bogis had been blown to pieces in a shaft somewhere in Northern Bechuanaland.
After sinking sixty feet, and nearly losing our lives in trying to save the shaft from buckling, the water drove us out and the work had to be abandoned.
We struck water at about six feet, and then had to make frames from green timber cut in the vicinity and sink them, backed by slabs, as we took the shaft down.
Taking the lantern from under his coat, that he might see to run through the cave, he sprang forward, toward what he believed was the shaft down which he had come on the tree-trunk ladder.
Clearly then, this could not be the shaft down which he had come.
That chute only comes out on the ledge, where the main shaft begins.
But the rope slipped from his fingers, and his journey down the curiousshaft was unstayed.
But his wonder at this ceased when, having gone down a little way, he noticed that the walls of the shaft were pierced, in the direction of the lake, with small openings, through which light came.
The shaft gave a sharp upward turn and Fenn was shot up and out, just as are packages that are sent down those iron chutes from the sidewalk into store basements.
Show us the way to the shaft where the ladder is, Fenn!
There must be an opening at the bottom of this shaft that leads right out on the lake shore.
They seemed strangely smooth, and he wondered how he could slide over them and not feel bumps from rough stones which must surely be jutting out here and there from the sides of the shaft down which he had tumbled.
The slowness with which lava cools may be inferred that ten years later, workmen endeavoring to sink a shaft through the bed were forced to abandon the work when near the bottom, by reason of the heat.
He smiled on each shaftas it flew from the string, Though feathered by fate, and the lightning its wing.
A mighty bird, she seems, whose wing is rent By the red shaft from heaven's fierce quiver sent.
A fatal shaft he drew; It took its passage through your eyes, And to my heart it flew.
At the back of the pedestal there should be a representation of an altar, consisting of a shaft two and one half feet wide by three feet in height, with a capital on the top one foot wide by three and one half feet long.
St. Hubert's shaft to a stripling reed, He dies no death to-day!
The shaft lays at an angle of about forty-five degrees.
In the shaft on which this wheel runs, four cogs are cut on the fore part which plays in another wheel of forty cogs which shows the miles and quarters to ten miles.
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.
Rory was on the left side of the pole, and had not even a shaft to protect him.
The gigshaft ran right into the chest, making him stagger back with a cry that I shall never forget.
A landing platform shall be arranged in such manner that no material can fall into the shaft while the bucket is being emptied, and in no case shall the shaft be sunk to a depth of more than thirty feet without such structures.
No person shall be lowered into or hoisted out of a mine, with powder, explosives, tools or material on any cage, in the same shaft, and no person shall be lowered or hoisted in a vertical shaft in a mine car.
When such appliances in any shaft are rendered unavailable from any cause, the same shall be restored without delay.
The sides of all shafts shall be properly secured for safety, and no loose rock or material shall be allowed to remain on any timber in the shaft after each blast.
Where explosive gas is encountered, the person in charge shall see that the shaft or slope is examined before each shift of men enter to work, and before the men descend after each blast.
The owner, lessee or agent of a mine worked by shaft, shall provide and keep free from obstruction, a traveling or passage way from one side of the shaft bottom to the other.
A standard clutch and gear-shift lever is employed to connect the engine either with the generator or with the propeller shaft of the truck.
The curvature of the shaft is approximately alike on both sides.
The shaft flares terminally in some ribs, and the distal end is convex.
The shaft is longer and narrower than would be anticipated in a primitive amphibian limb (cf.
Although the unfinished surface of the head extends down the anterior margin about a third the length of the humerus, the shaft has been broken and so twisted that the distal part is not in the same plane as the proximal.
I would that with a shaft this moment sped 70 Into my bosom, thou would'st here conclude My mournful life!
I foresaw from the first that Bob would fall head over heels in love with this beautiful, sorrow-laden girl, and it was soon obvious that the long-delayed shaft had planted its point in the innermost depths of his being.
The fuse was spitting fire like forty fiends; the narrow shaft was choked with smoke.
At Gassy's word, I was then hauled up from the shaft by Jim.
To be allowed to fire a dynamite shot on my first day in the shaft I felt and knew to be an honour.
Yet glory slants her shaft of rays Far through the undisturbed abyss; There must be other, nobler worlds for them Who nobly yield their lives in this.
Later, and it streamed in fight When tempest mingled with the fray, And over the spear-point of the shaft I saw the ambiguous lightning play.
The pulley was fixed on the shaft which carried the hour hand.
An hour hand was carried by a shaft of the great wheel, and a dial plate divided into hours.
At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine.
In 1799, Boyce, of England, had a vertical shaft with six rotating scythes beneath the frame of the implement.
They are also often provided with a spring connection, which, in the rotation of the shaft in either direction, will operate to relieve the strain upon the shaft, or shafts, and its driving motor.
A wheel of great weight was hung upon a shaft which was connected to the piston, and which weight absorbed the force suddenly developed by the explosion, and so moderated the speed.
The water rushing through the wheel turns it and its shaft many hundred revolutions a minute.
Sinking shafts through quicksands by artificially freezing the sand, so as to form a firm frozen wall immediately around the area where the shaft is to be sunk, is a recent new idea.
The principle of the lathe was applied to those machines in which the shaft carrying the cutting or boring tool was held either in a vertical or in a horizontal position.
He did not seem embarrassed by the meeting, but threw us his remarks like favours, and strode magisterially by us towards the shaft and tunnel.
Close by, another shaftled edgeways up into the superincumbent shoulder of the hill.
Once, I suppose, it ran splashing down the whole length of the cañon, but now its head waters had been tapped by the shaft at Silverado, and for a great part of its course it wandered sunless among the joints of the mountain.
The 14th century font has a massive octagonal bowl, with large trefoils in each face, and grotesquely carved heads at the angles; the shaft being plain octagonal.
In the churchyard is the lower part of the shaft of a cross, standing on an octagonal base.
The shaft is square and modern, with columns at the angles.
The font has a large octagonal bowl, with heads at the angles, and elaborate trefoil devices on the faces; the shaft is plain, octagonal, the pediment a stone cross.
The bowl is joined to the shaft by angelic figures round the lower part of it.
The font is of stone, octagonal, having four different kinds of crosses on the alternate faces, a circular shaft ending in octagon, and on octagonal pediment.
The font has a plain octagonal large bowl of Barnack stone, its upper rim being modern, the shaft plain quadrilateral, with plain square columns at the angles; base and pediment octagonal.
