This was no easy task, because half of each one of the
hinges of the wings was missing, it being still fastened to the body of the Gargoyle who had used it.
And when she had put it into the hole of the rock, and turned it, a sudden sharp snap was heard; then, with a solemn creak that made the shivers run down the child's back, the face of the rock fell outward, like a door on
hinges, and revealed a small dark chamber just inside.
The
hinges yielded in their turn and fell, still holding in their grasp fragments of the wood, and the chest was open.
They had
hinges in the middle, and, when we were not looking, they nipped us with these
hinges in delicate parts of the body; and, while we were wrestling with one side of the hoop, and endeavouring to persuade it to do its duty, the other side would come behind us in a cowardly manner, and hit us over the head.
The door swung in on scraping hinges, and they entered.
As he pushed the massive obstacle aside, its great hinges shrieked out in weird protest against this unaccustomed disturbance.
certainly not," replied Nicholl; "but our scuttles are fixed on hinges; they can be let down.
The glass, raised by a powerful lever, which enabled it to overcome the pressure of the inside air on the walls of the projectile, turned rapidly on its hinges, and Satellite was thrown out.
There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the
hinges broke.
Once inside, however, the gate gave me considerable trouble, but I finally was rewarded by seeing it swing upon its huge
hinges, and soon my fierce escort was riding across the gardens of the jeddak of Zodanga.
It is a large, dingy room, with a sanded floor, and is lighted by windows that turn on
hinges and have little diamond-shaped panes of glass.
At eleven o'clock precisely, he heard the rolling of a heavy carriage under the arch, then of another, then of a third; after which the gate grated upon its
hinges to be closed.
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Hinge, the company said.
Seismic performance of the structure was determined based on maximum drift ratio and plastic
hinge damage level.
