Sledges used to drive spikes for rails had a curved head that came down to a " beak " that was only about 1 inch across.

Sledges may be pulled by dogs or other smaller animals, although confusingly a sledge pulled by a dog in British English is often referred to as a dog-sled.

Phelps penalty, should he be arrested, was to be " drawne upon Sledges with Ropes about theire necks :"

) The Scottish composer Hugh S. Roberton ( 1874 – 1947 ) published " Hear the Tolling of the Bells " ( 1909 ), " The Sledge Bells " ( 1909 ), and " Hear the Sledges with the Bells " ( 1919 ) based on Poe's poem.

* Wackernagel, Rudolf H., Wittelsbach State and Ceremonial Carriages: Coaches, Sledges and Sedan Chairs in the Marstallmuseum Schloss Nymphenburg, Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2002.

Sledges are used for the movement of goods.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

The thing can be made to look like the cluttered attic of a large and vigorous family -- a motley jumble of discarded objects, some outworn and some that were never useful, some once whole and bright but now chipped and tarnished, some odd pieces whose history no one remembers, here and there a gem, everything fascinating because it suggests some part of the human condition -- the whole adding up to nothing more than a glimpse into the disorderly history of the makers and users.

You may think we didn't need Nancy and Jean, but you always get what you can when you can, and we had no guarantee that a fingerprint record on them couldn't be useful before we were through with this case.

His commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was styled, by way of pre-eminence, " the commentator " ( ὁ ἐξηγητής ).

By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

This play, The Persians, is the only extant classical Greek tragedy concerned with recent history ( very few of that kind were ever written ) and it is a useful source of information about that period.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

Some general purpose Bulletin Board Systems had special levels of access that were given to those who paid extra money, uploaded useful files or knew the SysOp personally.

A committee of baseball writers were to convene after the season to determine the " most important and useful player to the club and to the league ".

Bede's work as a hagiographer, and his detailed attention to dating, were both useful preparations for the task of writing the Historia Ecclesiastica.

The next few years, continuing this story in a fairy-tale manner, were hard and poverty stricken, but cramful of useful experience.

Relays and vacuum tubes ( thermionic valves ) were commonly used as switching elements ; a useful computer requires thousands or tens of thousands of switching devices.

They were frequently used for anti-personnel, though the Cyborg Commando proved to be useful in most situations.

This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.

Used to great effect in anti-aircraft projectiles, proximity fuses were fielded in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operations ; they were particularly useful against V-1 flying bombs and kamikaze planes.

It is also noted that CVBGs were designed for Cold War scenarios, and are less useful in establishing control of areas close to shore.

This meant to look at these concepts from the standpoint of the paradigm of critical psychology, thereby integrating their useful insights into critical psychology while at the same time identifying and criticizing their limiting implications while ( which in the case of S – R psychology were the rhetorical elimination of the subject and intentional action, and in the case of cognitive psychology which did take into account subjective motives and intentional actions, methodological individualism ).

In the early modern age, Victorian schools were reformed to teach commercially useful topics, such as modern languages and mathematics, rather than classical subjects, such as Latin and Greek.

The most common, though also most harmless case was various irritating skin rashes, which were called älvablåst ( elven blow ) and could be cured by a forceful counter-blow ( a handy pair of bellows was most useful for this purpose ).

They also contained tables of values showing how to implement such filters as RLC ladders-very useful when amplifying elements were expensive compared to passive components.

This developed the progressive education notion that students were to be engaged and taught so that their knowledge may be directed to society for a socially useful need.

His broad knowledge of many fields of physics was useful in solving problems that were of an interdisciplinary nature.

Although many of the descriptions in this book were written in an exaggerated manner or were plainly inventive fiction or 3rd-source misinterpretation, his notes are widely accepted as a useful guide to the cultural aspects and lifestyle of 17th-century Ottoman Empire.

Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

In the jungle, birds were mute, while insects preserved only the monotony of living.

Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.