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  • Slender iron rods just two and a half inches thick and eighty feet long linked the rim, or felloe, of each wheel to a "spider" affixed to the axle.†   (source)
  • Affixed me to the gate of White Columns with a loogie gun.†   (source)
  • From the middle of the crowd, Noelle Hawthorne began moving forward, her triplets affixed, one on a hip, the other two clinging to her skirt, all looking ludicrously tiny to a man who spent no time around children.†   (source)
  • It was a metal ring affixed with a chip about the size of Wells's thumb.†   (source)
  • It's followed by a short-sleeved kimono undershirt, tied shut at the waist, and then the pads, which look like small contoured pillows with strings affixed for tying them into place.†   (source)
  • Little placards with A—D, E—I, and so on down the alphabet were affixed to each drawer.†   (source)
  • A large sign was affixed to an airplane hangar across the tarmac.†   (source)
  • There was one hitch: a small sign affixed to the chain-link fence around the field warned that no one was to use the field without permission from City Hall.†   (source)
  • Roran stopped digging then to help sharpen the innumerable branches-which were overlapped and interlocked as much as possible-and affix the nets of brambles.†   (source)
  • As it happens, economists have a curious habit of affixing numbers to complicated transactions.†   (source)
  • Svyadov climbed an aluminum ladder affixed to the side of the reactor vessel to run the detachable probe from his counter over every welded pipe joint.†   (source)
  • Next to the tree, a bronze plaque was affixed to the wall.†   (source)
  • His wife leaning against the door frame, Klara, with their two-year-old affixed to her leg, the child repeating words that daddy issued from the deeps.†   (source)
  • A shop where dried herbs hang from the eaves and a small moon-and-eye symbol—the same as on my mother's necklace—is affixed to the door.†   (source)
  • The rope was long, frayed, knotted, and affixed somehow to the underside of the bridge some forty feet above them.†   (source)
  • When he pulled the string taut and affixed the rocket to it, he was excited.†   (source)
  • For some reason, this bothered me even more than my now breasty breakfasts, seeing Don walking through the house reading the newspaper, in his leather slippers, a can of Ensure seemingly affixed to his hand, the fffftttt sound of him popping the top now signaling his presence.†   (source)
  • "It is actually a microscopic command hub affixed to the prefrontal lobe of your brain," Vosch says.†   (source)
  • Each one was painted a different pastel color and had a card affixed to it announcing the name of the room.†   (source)
  • Leading up and out from the stand were terraced levels on which swiveling orange chairs were permanently affixed.†   (source)
  • As he slipped Otis's shampoo into the bag and zipped it closed—slowly—his uncle appeared in the doorway, a meek smile affixed to his lips.†   (source)
  • All it took was his affixing his signature to a letter saying it was so.†   (source)
  • A dark shadow had affixed itself to his back and was clinging to him like a leech.†   (source)
  • Rockman reached in his left breast pocket and drew out a sheet of paper affixed with a holographic seal.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in the uniform of a Spanish army officer, a lieutenant general with three rows of ribbons affixed to his tunic.†   (source)
  • I expect that whichever of the Bradfords' servants attended his toilet had been unfamiliar with how to affix such fashionable spots, for it flapped distractingly as the young man chewed his food.†   (source)
  • In the center of the ceiling, affixed with yellowed tape, is January 1959, the first month of the revolution.†   (source)
  • All have affixed their seals.†   (source)
  • Earlier, the head shed had floated an idea for the outer security team to take one of Bin Laden's cars and affix a police light to it to make the activity around the target look like a police operation.†   (source)
  • It is, as we speak, affixing itself to the lining of your stomach so that it cannot be removed or expelled without killing you in the process.†   (source)
  • Then, leaning over toward the chairwhere I was sitting, his small, pale, ferret-like eyes still religiously affixed on the TV, he whispered, "Did you get any this summer, boy?"†   (source)
  • I will affix it on the front of the infirmary.†   (source)
  • Then he took two runners and looped them together into what the French call an etrier, and affixed one end to the carabiner.†   (source)
  • He has affixed shoulder boards bearing the three stars of a lieutenant general, but otherwise there is nothing elegant about the Union leader.†   (source)
  • There was even an attractive sticker affixed to the barrel of the duck call.†   (source)
  • The Irrakwa stevedores caught the line and affixed it to the windlass, and then chanted in their unspeakable language as they towed the ship close in.†   (source)
  • When the service was over, he stood at the door, trying desperately to learn what the Indians called their English nicknames and to affix each to the right face.†   (source)
  • Each name had been affixed on small cards by the orderly Yetta and attached to the respective doors, and with motive no more suspect than my usual rapacious curiosity I had late the night before, tiptoed about the floors and copied the names down.†   (source)
  • Sipping my coffee, I read over the block-printed message several times; AFFIXED TO THE MAINMAST OF THE WRECK, ABOUT A FOOT BENEATH THE MUD That was all.†   (source)
  • He was going to redo the room numbers, all the Hommes and Dames signs, and he was going to affix descriptive plates on almost every door downstairs.†   (source)
  • He shall affix the corporate seal to and sign his signature and shall perform such other duties as usually pertain to his office or as are properly required of him by the board of directors.†   (source)
  • In the dark, Stendahl affixed the chains to the half-drunken man.†   (source)
  • affix blame where it belongs
  • grammatical morphemes affix to the stem
  • Venia affixes my mockingjay pin over my heart.†   (source)
  • He leaned forward, seeming to struggle with something affixed beneath his wheelchair.†   (source)
  • She motioned to a hand mirror affixed to the display on a chain.†   (source)
  • They never found the revolver affixed beneath his chair.†   (source)
  • Numbly he put his hand to the metal mezuzah affixed to the right side of the doorway.†   (source)
  • Affixed to the bottom of the mattress were two small packs.†   (source)
  • Bourne — the silencer affixed to his gun — strode up to the killer and stood over him.†   (source)
  • The tank that heated the water was affixed to the wall.†   (source)
  • I shall have the papers drawn up, and His Grace will sign them and affix them with the royal seal.†   (source)
  • An economist can affix a value even to a particular body part.†   (source)
  • The simplest solution was to affix weights to the frame to counterbalance the buoyancy.†   (source)
  • They constructed a fiberglass frame and affixed four wheels to it.†   (source)
  • Slowly, heart beating faster now, he reached down and grasped the ring, which was affixed to the base of the cube.†   (source)
  • It stretched eighty-one feet skyward to the pyramidal apex onto which was affixed a hollow iron cross.†   (source)
  • A large sign had been affixed to the Gryffindor noticeboard; so large it covered everything else on it — the lists of secondhand spellbooks for sale, the regular reminders of school rules from Argus Filch, the Quidditch team training timetable, the offers to barter certain Chocolate Frog Cards for others, the Weasleys' latest advertisement for testers, the dates of the Hogsmeade weekends and the lost and found notices.†   (source)
  • When we told them that we were leaving, Irena had gone and pulled the mezuzah off the front of her door and given it to me, telling me to keep it with me, to affix on the doorframe of wherever we ended up.†   (source)
  • Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive "set pieces," fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus.†   (source)
  • In attempts to revive him on the day before his death, doctors immersed him in a bath of broth while ice water was poured over his head, and then affixed seven leeches to his nose.†   (source)
  • Now, a hard disk recorder could be affixed behind a lamp, for example, with its foil microphone molded into the contour of the base and dyed to match.†   (source)
  • The block was surrounded by an enormous memorial of flowers, piling out into the street, with photos and letters affixed to the walls.†   (source)
  • Even with its siren now affixed and blaring, Olivetti's Alpha Romeo seemed to go unnoticed as it rocketed across the bridge into the heart of old Rome.†   (source)
  • Each end of the cylinder was affixed with an end cap, also marble, making it impossible to see inside.†   (source)
  • Six doughnut-sized disks of marble had been stacked and affixed to one another within a delicate brass framework.†   (source)
  • Yezzan's name was incised into the metal in Valyrian glyphs, and a pair of tiny bells were affixed below the ears, so the wearer's every step produced a merry little tinkling sound.†   (source)
  • When they shot out of the cloud, millions of tiny droplets clung to Saphira's body, and she sparkled as if diamonds had been affixed to her already dazzling scales.†   (source)
  • Magnus had woken up in this room, a circle of red-geared Dark Shadowhunters standing around him, affixing his chains to the floor.†   (source)
  • 'It's the five-hour excursion,' explained Jason accurately, reading the Chinese characters printed on the identification tag affixed to the man's lapel.†   (source)
  • Even more curious, she has affixed a crucifix to the wall beside the door, and small sprigs of leaves mark the windows.†   (source)
  • "What a baby," I said to Lissa, who was now down by the mailbox, pretending to be engrossed with reading the new letters starr/davis that had recently been affixed to it.†   (source)
  • The waldo took the depth-gauge dial a diver had magnetically affixed to the Sea Cliff's bow prior to setting out from the Austin's dock bay.†   (source)
  • When they remained affixed, he snarled and opened his jaws and painted the area in front of him with a torrent of fire.†   (source)
  • The protesting chorus grew from all sections of the desperate crowd as the soldiers held firm, their bayonets unsheathed and affixed to their rifles.†   (source)
  • Her left earlobe was encased in silver hoops that draped a twisted chain around and under her pointed chin to her other ear where it was affixed with a single thumb-size stud.†   (source)
  • You must have, for surely if you had sight you would have seen the red bandana I affixed to my bedroom window, and understood it to be an urgent correspondence.†   (source)
  • Let's say that he is forced, for the sake of argument, to affix a relative value, and he decides that 1 newborn is worth 100 fetuses.†   (source)
  • Bolts and cables were affixed to the rock here and there, but for the most part the trail was an unadorned narrow path with rock projections that knocked against his iron rods and pushed him toward the abyss.†   (source)
  • Fredi watched Lorenzo hack it in half, affix it to the pump, and turn the system on for twenty seconds.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo found a narrower piece of PVC, capped the ends so that air was trapped inside, and affixed that to the robot.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo tried affixing the balloon in a variety of ways, but each time the balloon fell over like a drunkard who'd lost his balance.†   (source)
  • Zeke had survived many purges of personnel and many tumultuous years in the Bluffton school system by affixing his fate to the more luminous and permanent star of Bennington.†   (source)
  • It was as if she were affixing a gloomy and unpleasant afterthought to a letter which had been all the more factitiously cheerful because of the necessity of the grim postscript itself.†   (source)
  • The clipped items and slips were turned over to the paster who affixed the clippings to the slips.†   (source)
  • He tilted the bottle slightly toward him, not lifting it from the table, and affixed his lips to the straws.†   (source)
  • [Note 1, below] The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (HYENA, HANGMAN, CANNIBAL, PETTY BOURGEOIS, THESE GENTRY, LACKEY, FLUNKEY, MAD DOG, WHITE GUARD, etc.) consists largely of words and phrases translated from Russian, German or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the '-ize' formation.†   (source)
  • On Saturday afternoon, Simpson, in his Australian disguise, claims it, he affixes a new label and address and redespatches it somewhere else, again "to be left till called for".†   (source)
  • With a hand trembling from excitement she affixed her name.†   (source)
  • Carved globes of wood were affixed under the jutting stories.†   (source)
  • Jim's, not to be outdone, would affix bows and rosettes everywhere.†   (source)
  • During the interval before the issuing of the certificate Sue, in her housekeeping errands, sometimes walked past the office, and furtively glancing in saw affixed to the wall the notice of the purposed clinch to their union.†   (source)
  • They persuaded him that mustard plasters were excellent for colds—solicitously they gathered about him, affixed an enormous plaster to his back, and afterward fondly removed it.†   (source)
  • She had always been a looker-on at life, and her mind resembled one of those little mirrors which her Dutch ancestors were accustomed to affix to their upper windows, so that from the depths of an impenetrable domesticity they might see what was happening in the street.†   (source)
  • The obsequious Commons obeyed his (the King's) directions; and the King, having affixed the Royal assent to the Bill by commissioners, issued orders for the execution of Norfolk on the morning of January 29 (the next day).†   (source)
  • She obeyed like one in a dream, and when she could affix no more he himself tucked a bud or two into her hat, and heaped her basket with others in the prodigality of his bounty.†   (source)
  • A large red seal was duly affixed.†   (source)
  • He had looked out all the pictures to which an asterisk was affixed in those formidable pages of fine print in his Badeker; his attention had been strained and his eyes dazzled, and he had sat down with an aesthetic headache.†   (source)
  • When given, he viewed me to learn the result; it was not striking: I am sure I did not blush; perhaps I might have turned a little pale, for I felt as if this kiss were a seal affixed to my fetters.†   (source)
  • Human or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing—though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm—the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • —You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.†   (source)
  • The door was then thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his signature, and went out.†   (source)
  • The pen and all its relations being awkward tools in Henchard's hands he had affixed the seals without an impression, it never occurring to him that the efficacy of such a fastening depended on this.†   (source)
  • He went from one end of the train to the other, and affixed to the door of each car a notice written in manuscript.†   (source)
  • The clerk presented the sentence to the provost, who affixed his seal to it, and departed to pursue his round of the audience hall, in a frame of mind which seemed destined to fill all the jails in Paris that day.†   (source)
  • Two small glass chandeliers were suspended at equal distances between the stove and outer doors, one of which opened at each end of the hall, and gilt lustres were affixed to the frame work of the numerous side-doors that led from the apartment.†   (source)
  • 'He took a label from a bottle of belaitee-pani [soda-water], and, affixing it to a bridge, collected taxes for a month from those who passed, saying that it was the Sirkar's order.†   (source)
  • That this record should have all due authority, it shall bear the imperial seal, which the vendor is bound to have affixed to it.†   (source)
  • The cardinal approached the table, and without sitting down, wrote a few lines upon a parchment of which two-thirds were already filled, and affixed his seal.†   (source)
  • The whole deception practised by both Duncan and Hawkeye was, of course, laid naked, and no room was found, even for the most superstitious of the tribe, any longer to affix a doubt on the character of the occurrences.†   (source)
  • Rochester, — Hotel, London," on each: I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed.†   (source)
  • —You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.†   (source)
  • It was considered, moreover, an ugly and ominous circumstance, that Colonel Pyncheon's picture—in obedience, it was said, to a provision of his will—remained affixed to the wall of the room in which he died.†   (source)
  • That there should be no mistake about her knowing where to find him he had ordered a notice board to be affixed to the garden gate at Alderworth, signifying in white letters whither he had removed.†   (source)
  • Rochester, — Hotel, London," on each: I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed.†   (source)
  • And if I say exile (and this may possibly be the penalty which you will affix), I must indeed be blinded by the love of life, if I am so irrational as to expect that when you, who are my own citizens, cannot endure my discourses and words, and have found them so grievous and odious that you will have no more of them, others are likely to endure me.†   (source)
  • Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's drawings were affixed to the walls of their sitting room.†   (source)
  • To some old ones, that are still in use in England, we have affixed new significations.†   (source)
  • / Vogue Affixes in Present-Day Word-Coinage, by Louise Pound, /Dialect Notes/, vol. v, pt. i, 1918.†   (source)
  • / Vogue Affixes in Present-Day Word-Coinage, by Louise Pound, /Dialect Notes/, vol. v, pt. i, 1918.†   (source)
  • A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks (lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.†   (source)
  • …by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects), the premises to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses, fumed oak sectional bookcase containing the Encyclopaedia Britannica and New Century Dictionary,…†   (source)
  • Of late the old affix /-ize/, once fecund of such monsters as /to funeralize/, has come into favor again, and I note, among its other products, /to belgiumize/, /to vacationize/, /to picturize/ and /to scenarioize/.†   (source)
  • Others are made by torturing nouns with harsh affixes, as /to burglarize/ and /to itemize/, or by groping for the root, as /to resurrect/.†   (source)
  • [69] Others are made up of common roots and grotesque affixes: /swelldoodle/, /splendiferous/ and /peacharino/.†   (source)
  • Others bear such prefixes as /West/, /North/ and /South/, or various distinguishing affixes, /e. g./, /Bostonia/, /Pittsburgh Landing/, /Yorktown/ and /Hartford City/.†   (source)
  • The same greater hospitality is shown by the readiness with which various un-English prefixes and affixes come into fashion, for example, /super-/ and /-itis/.†   (source)
  • [26] After the passage of the first War Revenue Act cigar-boxes began to bear this inscription: "The contents of this box have been /taxed paid/ as cigars of Class B as indicated by the Internal Revenue stamp affixed."†   (source)
  • A technical sense has been affixed to the term "appellate," which, in our law parlance, is commonly used in reference to appeals in the course of the civil law.†   (source)
  • There is not, indeed, a greater error than that which universally prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the character of lewdness to these times.†   (source)
  • "As soon as they declare war, they take care to have a great many schedules, that are sealed with their common seal, affixed in the most conspicuous places of their enemies' country.†   (source)
  • But he told me he could save me that trouble, and so caused me to enter my name with a public notary, as likewise my affidavit, with a procuration affixed to it; and this he ordered me to send in a letter to one of his acquaintance, a merchant in Brazil; and, indeed, nothing could be more faithfully and honourably observed; for, in seven months time, I had a very faithful account of all my effects, what sums of money were raised, what expended, and what remained for myself!†   (source)
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