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