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Meanings of plumb-line in inglés
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Usage of plumb-line in inglés
1
And she balanced her little head with the perpendicularity of a plumb-line.
2
In the game way the stem and stern were measured with a plumb-line.
3
He will also find that a plumb-line comes in very useful.
4
Instead of the plumb-line they use a spirit-level or a basin of quicksilver.
5
He accordingly chalked a plumb-line, and went and sounded the well.
6
Now the zenith is simply the point from which the plumb-line seems to drop.
7
The leaves of them alders hung straight as a plumb-line.
8
He had heard the sailor on the river-steamer calling out the mark on the plumb-line.
9
They are her instruments of precision; they represent the builder's compasses, square, level and plumb-line.
10
Then reverse the triangle, end for end, exactly, and mark the new line the plumb-line makes.
11
Experiment, frequently repeated, shows a slight deviation to the East, of the plumb-line that marks the vertical.
12
His plumb-line touches them and they squirm.
13
These, of course, he shall take down; he will learn some day to use the plumb-line and measure.
14
She dropped a plumb-line into the young man, sounding him by what she knew of him and judged.
15
I was a mature man of twenty-eight at the time, mustached, and stood six feet to a plumb-line.
16
In front of the candle a plumb-line was suspended, and remained immovable over its center during the whole operation.
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