Sentences with phrase «wooden poles with»

In addition to inventing bifocals, a device to reach for items using a long wooden pole with a grasping claw at the end and an odometer, Franklin invented: A. electricity B. lightning rod C. electronic calculator

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There was a wooden pole perhaps thirty feet high with a dancing platform at the top.

Former President Rawlings earlier in his address charged the citizenry to be responsible enough to protect wooden electric poles by employing a community effort to weed the shrubbery around such poles so they are not affected by bushfires with the attendant effect of collapsing the poles and disrupting power distribution.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.

They wore high boots of soft, brown leather, and were armed with jeweled dirks in their belts; in the left hand some carried sharp pikes on six - foot wooden poles.

At each end of the pit they set up a short wall of cinder blocks with a heavy wooden plank on top, looking like the head and baseboards of a giant bed, where the long wooden poles onto which the baby lambs had been lashed would rest.

Super Pole Rider is played with two players, armed with long wooden poles.

Blue Tree Grey has a 5ft wooden stand, I designed it and my dad made it, he's an old school master carpenter, I painted the stand indigo blue, made 6 long grey droopy branches for it, tied a grey velvet egg baby to its central pole with a blue ribbon, because oh dear what can the matter be, Johnny's so long at the fair, he promised to buy me a bunch of blue ribbons to tie up my bonny brown hair, and there's 6 midnight blue velveteen «heads» tied to its branches, I see them as mourners, watchers, protectors, and they're my version of my all time favorite sculpture: Nature Study (Velvet Eyes) by Louise Bourgeois.

A massive structure of wooden poles festooned with colorful ribbons by the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow is the first work one encounters when visiting the 2013 Carnegie International, the quadrennial (or thereabouts) show at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art that stands as the oldest global contemporary art exhibition in the United States.

From the late 1960s into the 1980s, Grossman carved heads from the hard wood of discarded telephone poles, overlaid them with leather, and then adorned them with zippers, lacquered wooden noses, spikes, and straps.

«In the darkened gallery space a round wooden platform with textile walls and an iron pole is spinning around its own axis, reminiscent of both, a merry - go - round, a cinema theatre and a mobile war tent... the merry - go - round is spinning so fast that the spectator's gaze can not fully grasp what's inside the tent;» (PR Klosterfelde gallery).

Cardboard or old bed sheets, paint, paint brushes, scissors, pencils, large ruler or T - square, sketchbook, recycled plastic containers with lids, string, masking tape, bamboo sticks or 1/4 - inch wooden dowels, 1 x 2 inch board or pole, string.

Featured are a series of tall wooden poles covered in woven cord emblazoned with various geometric shapes, words and symbols called Cetros, resembling scepters or staffs.

With reference to the close - up photo you cite: notice the day - glow red poles attached to the leading edge of the wooden stairs: those are plow guides, used to show snowplow operators where low - lying objects may be concealed under snow.

When large, heavy cranes and high - up pieces of scaffolding, complete with wooden plans and metal poles, come crashing down, they can cause serious injuries — and fatalities.

This was a symbol of the way he criticised, assembling his arguments like a huge wooden pole, heaving the thing up on his shoulder, running and then letting it fly until it thudded into the ground with a mighty impact.