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Sentences ending with shaft

In the battle which he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. [10]
Three or four touched me, and one pierced my hair and remained hanging in it with the feather at the end of the shaft. [10]
For a long time the silence of the great hills was broken only by the sweet jingle of the bells on the shaft. [9]
Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
And through it streaked the golden shaft. [13]
We decided to sink a shaft. [5]
But I have seen exceedingly choice chunks from that shaft. [5]
A miner does not know where to look for such leads, but they are often stumbled upon by accident in the course of driving a tunnel or sinking a shaft. [5]
Raish and I have secured 200 out of a 400 ft. in it, which perhaps (the ledge, I mean) is a spur from the W. W.--our shaft is about 100 ft. from the W. W. shaft. [5]

Sentences containing shaft two or more times

The schemer located a worthless ledge, sunk a shaft on it, bought a wagon load of rich "Comstock" ore, dumped a portion of it into the shaft and piled the rest by its side, above ground. [5]

More example sentences with the word shaft in them

Well, one day when the shaft was down about eight foot, the rock got so hard that we had to put in a blast--the first blast'n' we'd ever done since Tom Quartz was born. [5]
A few stars were shining, but the general heavens were overcast, and the great shaft of the Matterhorn was draped in a cable pall of clouds. [5]
I wish you were in--" In his rage he snatched the ladder out of the shaft and ran. [5]
If the flats were advertised as having "all light rooms," he explained that any room with a window giving into the open air of a court or shaft was counted a light room. [8]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
Thus all the way up the diminishing shaft for fifty feet; then it begins to take the appearance of being closely wrapped, spool-fashion, with gray cord, or of having been turned in a lathe. [5]
But he went visiting with Eos, another lady of previous acquaintance, down at a place called Ortygia, and Artemis shot him dead with a shaft Apollo had given her; but she didn't marry Apollo neither. [11]
Beside this deserted village, even Calamity Pond, shallow, sedgy, with its ragged shores of stunted firs, and its melancholy shaft that marks the spot where the proprietor of the iron-works accidentally shot himself, is cheerful. [4]
We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep. [5]
The barbs coalesce towards the extremity of the shaft forming the oval disc or ocellus, which is certainly one of the most beautiful objects in the world. [1]
I made the toss, and landed the mess just on the edge of the shaft and it all came back on my head and down the back of my neck. [5]
If you wish to visit one of those mines, you may walk through a tunnel about half a mile long if you prefer it, or you may take the quicker plan of shooting like a dart down a shaft, on a small platform. [5]
The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
These rested in three-branched iron chandeliers, every portion of which, from the slender central shaft to the intricately-carved and twisted ornaments, had been carefully wrought by Aquanus with his own hand. [10]
And then the thought grew even as the light grows, tinged by prismatic colors, until at length a memory struck into my soul like a shaft of light. [9]
And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore-and-aft shaft of the driving-wheel! [5]
He therefore launched this shaft of ridicule, and got it to pass as an arrow of wisdom shot out of a popular experience in remote ages. [4]
Only now and then a tremor of the mouth, as he slowly chewed his food, or a slight raising of the eye-brows, betrayed that one shaft or another had not wholly missed its mark. [10]
They go down the shaft, stand their watch, come up again, are searched, and go to bed or to their amusements in the compound; and this routine they repeat, day in and day out. [5]
They went down the shaft, cleaned it out, drilled another hole, and put in another charge. [5]
There, leaning against the shaft of a pillar, under the shade of the blossoming shrubs, she stood gazing thoughtfully to the southward. [10]
It bounced against the shaft of a column, and then fell on the shaven head of a priestling, who seized it and tossed it back. [10]
I went to the place with the owners, and found a shaft six or eight feet deep, in the bottom of which was a badly shattered vein of dull, yellowish, unpromising rock. [5]
He disappeared in the gloom of a "side drift" just as a head appeared in the mouth of the shaft and somebody shouted "Hello! [5]
Then he fired the fuse, climbed out of the shaft, and ran fifty yards away, Fetlock following. [5]
That day at the close of his sermon the Cure spoke of it, and said at the last: "That white shaft, dear brethren, is for us a sign of remembrance and a warning to our souls. [11]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel,-- As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel,-- As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
As the rider that rests with the spur on his heel, As the guardsman that sleeps in his corselet of steel, As the archer that stands with his shaft on the string, He stoops from his toil to the garland we bring. [6]
And when a tardy justice shall arise and compel the people of this land to raise a shaft in memory of Clark and those who followed him, let not the loyalty of the French be forgotten, though it be not understood. [9]
The shaft horse swung steadily beneath the bow over its head, with no thought of slackening pace and ready to put on speed when required. [2]
The shaft horse swayed from side to side, moving his ears as if asking: "Isn't it time to begin now? [2]
Euphrasia Cotton was standing in the shaft of sunlight at the other window, staring at the little garden. [9]
I travelled homeward somewhat lifted out of myself by this visit to him; with some feeling of spaciousness derived from Washington itself, with its dignified Presidential Mansion among the trees, its granite shaft drawing the eye upward, with its winged Capitol serene upon the hill. [9]
Think of the shaft on Bunker Hill standing in the sunshine on the morning of January 1st in the year 5872! [6]
It is a shaft of stone filigree-work, frightfully open, so that the guide puts his arms behind you to keep you from falling. [6]
Yet, had the shaft of Eros really struck him, how was it possible that the longing to win Ledscha back stirred so strongly within him that he finally reached a resolution concerning her? [10]
I saw and said that yesterday, and now I know it for certain--every poison shaft that your malice has aimed at me was forged in the Museum. [10]
The one he rode into was a clear, sharp shaft in yellow stone a thousand feet deep, with wonderful wind-worn caves low down and high above buttressed and turreted ramparts. [13]
What the decalogue really says is, "Thou shaft not steal," but I am trying to use more polite language. [5]
The Princess Elizabeth's quick eye saw by the serene blankness of the target's front that the shaft was overshot; so she tranquilly delivered a return volley of sounding Greek on Tom's behalf, and then straightway changed the talk to other matters. [5]
These ornaments placed parallel to the shaft, manifestly correspond in position with the ball-and-socket ocelli. [1]
We never touched our tunnel or our shaft again. [5]
But the chief ornament is a space parallel to the dark-blue shaft, which in outline forms a perfect second feather lying within the true feather. [1]
The basal spot, or that nearest the shaft, in the five lower rows (excluding the lowest one) is a little larger than the other spots of the same row, and a little more elongated in a transverse direction. [1]
Our shaft was only twelve feet deep. [5]
True, not ten of these mines were yielding rock worth hauling to a mill, but everybody said, "Wait till the shaft gets down where the ledge comes in solid, and then you will see! [5]
In this home of the cliff-dwellers there were peace and quiet and solitude, and another thing, wondrous as the golden morning shaft of sunlight, that he dared not ponder over long enough to understand. [13]
In the middle of one of the principal business streets of Virginia, a man "located" a mining claim and began a shaft on it. [5]
In the stomach of one of the oxen they had found a flint arrow-head, and, on showing it to Caracalla, he laughed, and observed to the high-priest Timotheus: "A shaft from Eros's quiver! [10]
A level shaft of light shot through the forest. [9]
The feathered end of his shaft titillates harmlessly enough, but too often the arrowhead is crusted with a poison worse than the Indian gets by mingling the wolf's gall with the rattlesnake's venom. [6]
How many Sundays of her life had she sat watching a shaft of sunlight strike across the stone pillars of its gothic arches! [9]
Three arrows aimed, not at the king but at Mena himself, were sticking in the charioteer's shield, and by chance he saw written on the shaft of one of them the words "Death to Mena. [10]
To her the marble Capitol shining on its hill was a sacred temple, and the great shaft that struck upward through the sunlight, though yet unfinished, a fitting memorial to him who had led the barefoot soldiers of the colonies through ridicule to victory. [9]
The most charmed life must be pierced by the shaft of doom sooner or later; but he was little more than a youth yet, he had only just begun! [11]
And so had it occurred to him alone, of all the camp, that there was a blind lead down in the shaft, and that even the Wide West people themselves did not suspect it. [5]
I will go into the shaft with you and prove to your entire satisfaction that it is a blind lead. [5]
He would tumble into the shaft and die, and then come to the surface and go back after his own remains. [5]
Every body was into it--every body was pick'n' 'n' blast'n' instead of shovelin' dirt on the hill side--every body was put'n' down a shaft instead of scrapin' the surface. [5]
These huts were inhabited by human beings, who, with chains on their feet, were driven every morning into the shaft of a mine and there compelled to hew grains of gold out of the stony rock. [10]
Descending a long incline in this tunnel, we traversed a drift or so, and then went down a deep shaft from whence we proceeded into the fifth gallery of the Ophir. [5]
Thus the wing-feathers in one of the above-mentioned night-jars are bare along the shaft, and terminate in a disc; or are, as they are sometimes called, spoon or racket-shaped. [1]
How different the idea of such a structure from that of the unbroken, unjointed prismatic shaft, one perfect whole, as complete in itself, as fitly shaped and consolidated to defy the elements, as the towering palm or the tapering pine! [6]
The "Flyaway" specimen I sent you, (taken by myself from DeKay's shaft, 300 feet from where we are going to sink) cannot be called "choice," exactly--say something above medium, to be on the safe side. [5]
I told him I had an uncle who fell down a shaft and broke himself in two, as much as a year before that. [5]
It ill became him to be self-righteous, for his life had not been impeccable-- "The shaft of slander shot Missed only the right blot! [11]
The tunnel would have to be seventy feet long, and would then strike the ledge at the same dept that a shaft twelve feet deep would have reached! [5]
In the inner hall there was only dim twilight; while the hypostyle was quite dark, but for a singularly contrived shaft of light which produced a most mysterious effect. [10]
Of course, the great thing was an accident in a mine, and there were two "star" parts; that of the man who fell down the mimic shaft, and that of the daring hero who was lowered into the depths to bring him up. [5]
At last he got to comin' down in the shaft, hisself, to try to cipher it out. [5]
All night had Francois and his men worked, and the first rays of the morning sun fell on the tall shivered shaft set firmly in its place. [11]
The single jet fountain in the basin was springing its highest,--a quivering pillar of water to match the stone shaft of Egypt which stands close by. [4]
This talk had followed the news brought by Krool to the Baas, that the sub-manager of the great mine, whose chimneys could be seen from the hill behind the house, had thrown himself down the shaft and been smashed to a pulp. [11]
Man is an embryo; see at twenty years His bones, the columns that uphold his frame Not yet cemented, shaft and capital, Mere fragments of the temple incomplete. [6]
When he went down the shaft, he found that the blind lead held its independent way through the Wide West vein, cutting it diagonally, and that it was enclosed in its own well-defined casing-rocks and clay. [5]
Sometimes men fall down a shaft, there, a thousand feet deep. [5]
We commenced put'n' down a shaft, 'n' Tom Quartz he begin to wonder what in the Dickens it was all about. [5]
Well, all four cylinders have an explosion one right after another, and that keeps the shaft going. [9]
Presently the figure crossed the yard; the door, flying open, released a shaft of light that shot across the white ground, revealed a face beneath a hood to him who stood within. [9]
An' by an' bye when he did get to goin' down in the shaft agin, you'd 'a been astonished at his sagacity. [5]
But by an' by Tom Quartz begin to git sort of reconciled a little, though he never could altogether understand that eternal sinkin' of a shaft an' never pannin' out any thing. [5]
Honora stood motionless, but her smile for him was like the first quivering shaft of day. [9]
The sun shone brightly in the large room; a shaft of light, showing dancing dust, fell on Geta. [10]
Half-way to her bench she stopped, just where a wide shaft of light fell slanting from a window, and slowly lifted her face. [5]
In the space before the parish church it stands--a broken shaft, with an unwound wreath straying down its sides; a monument of fine proportions, a white figure of beaten valour and erring ardour of youth and beautiful bad ambition. [11]
It may have been the granddaughter of the kindly old matron of the year 1833 who showed us round, and possibly, if I had sunk a shaft of inquiry, I might have struck a well of sentiment. [6]
A wight such as I am, who shoots through life like a wild hawk, cannot pause nor think until a shaft has broken his wings. [10]
With his long arm he pointed across the river to the southeast, and as if by a miracle a shaft of sunlight fell on the white houses of Alexandria. [9]
With screams squeals, and waving of whips that caused even the shaft horses to gallop--the other sleighs followed. [2]
Between the rocks and the sand- bank shot up a tall, lonely shaft of granite with an evil history. [11]
He gave me a hundred feet of the stock and I sold it for a fine suit of clothes because I was afraid somebody would fall down the shaft and sue for damages. [5]

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