"Grooving" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Robins was probably the first to give sound reasons, the fact that rifling was helpful had been known a long time. A 1542 barrel at Woolwich has six fine spiral grooves in the bore. Straight grooving had been applied to small arms as early as 1480, and during the 1500's straight grooving of musket bores was extensively practiced. Probably, rifling evolved from the early observation of the feathers on an arrow—and ...
— Artillery Through the Ages - A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America • Albert Manucy
... that part of it which Mamie meant when she said "the whole town") already offered testimony to her truthfulness. Two gentlemen, aged nine and eleven, and clad in white "sailor suits," were at that moment grooving their cheeks between the round pickets of the gate. They had come from the house across the street, evidently stimulated by the conversation at their own recent dinner-table (they wore a few deposits such as are left by chocolate-cake), and the motive ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington
... folding his arms, faced his difficult position. For one hour he sat motionless, his face grooving gradually paler, his brow darker, his ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... he replied. "I will, of course, and I know you will believe me. After your brother left you, you leaned your head against the pillar, and then, as if the grooving hurt your face, you put your hand between; and then—I must apologize for my apparent impoliteness, but I promised to tell the truth;" and he smiled a little—"then you seemed to fall fast asleep. A mosquito lit on your ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... rifle the grooving is of the utmost importance; for velocity without accuracy is useless. To determine the best kind of groove has been, accordingly, the object of the most laborious investigations. The ball requires an initial rotary motion sufficient to keep it "spinning" ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various |
