1 Now and then she made measurements of him with a pair of compasses .
2 For small objects he used a pair of compasses and an ivory protractor.
3 A rough rasp-file and a pair of compasses will also be found useful.
4 In a few moments Ayrault returned with pencils, a pair of compasses , and paper.
5 The simplest instrument of this kind may be well represented by a pair of compasses .
6 He demonstrated the fact with a pair of compasses .
7 On a table in front of him is a little globe and a pair of compasses .
8 He used magnificent instruments of the simple " pair of compasses " kind-circles ,quadrants ,andsextants.
9 Jukes, straddling his long legs like a pair of compasses , put on an air of superiority.
10 Get a pair of compasses for that, Jack.
11 Their legs are forever carrying on like a pair of compasses which someone is absentmindedly twiddling.
12 What pair of compasses , whose circumference encircles both heaven and earth, has fixed such just dimensions?
13 The boy was there, sitting upon the office stool hard at work with a pair of compasses .
14 He took a pair of compasses and measured the extent of existence that the morning had cost him.
15 Likewise, distance measured with a pair of compasses is not precisely the same as when measured by the leg.
16 He had a gold watch-chain with a little ornament on it representing a pair of compasses and a square.
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