I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar. From LearnThat.org. [Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960).]
If the turning vane is not used, some of the air will get around the turn, but backpressure will be created, and the flow rate of the air will be reduced. From Wordnik.com. [It is very hot lakeside] Reference
There are times, as a veteran, that I feel that I faught in vane. From Wordnik.com. [Our money that does'nt say"United States of America"?] Reference
The vane, which is a gilded copper figure of St. Michael, is seventeen feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim] Reference
Glad you made the point about the UK being responsible for just 2% of emissions, any efforts we do make will be in vane. From Wordnik.com. [Questioning Climate Concensus] Reference
All our work on fighting for social justice and fighting poverty will have been in vane if we don’t stop climate change. From Wordnik.com. [2009 December 1 | Serendipity] Reference
Carmen: I totally agree with "vane" all my pics & private messages have gone, I thought something was. From Wordnik.com. [Ypulse] Reference
Mexicans dont reclaim that in vane. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”] Reference
A similar construction; one of them had a kind of vane at the mast head, which appeared to be made of the same materials as their sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)] Reference
HERE are some birds having a ride on the weather-vane. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference
Thei war oft refresched with new men, but all was in vane. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Erle in vane hoipe that the Quene Dowager should marye him. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Praying for the dead is vane, and to the dead is idolatrie. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
Sanctes and for the dead is idolatrie and a vane superstitioun, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
But will Close measure up to her character's complex, weather-vane temperament?. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Arts Preview: Stage] Reference
Here and there is a sailor that's as full of such silly notions as a weather vane. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly At Play] Reference
And he was looking at the DuPree's weather vane when he watered the lawn last night. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
But a vane, glistening like gold in the firelight, steadfastly pointed to the southeast. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
A weather-vane in the form of a tin trotting horse flaunted itself on the topmost point. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
It received the name of Ghirlandina from its vane being ornamented with a bronze garland. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
That tongue of yours must wag like the tail of a d-d-dog; turn like a weather-vane; hiss like. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
Under the weather-vane, on the farm-house roof, the pigeons trimmed their feathers, and cooed. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
These vane promisses lifted up in pryde the harte of the unhappye King: and so begynnis the warr. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
In Fig. 53 is given a feeder mounted on a base with a vane so the adjustment takes place automatically. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Houses Boys Can Build] Reference
Laura smiled at the idea of comparing staid, dependable Hugh with anything so uncertain as a weather-vane. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
If you pass a weather vane on your way home, see if you can read the letters on it and find out what they mean. From Wordnik.com. [Where We Live A Home Geography] Reference
The charge explodes, on striking, by means of a percussion fuse, and steadiness of flight is secured by means of a vane. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
To the ceiling of the observing room there is affixed a wind-rose, R, on which the arrow reproduces all the motions of the vane. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference
"The wind's coming from the south," he added as he looked at the weather vane on the barn and saw that it was pointed to the south. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South] Reference
She dared not feel sure of anything -- she who had swung round the whole compass of feeling like a weather-vane before a thunder-storm. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The jackdaws have fled to the pommel of the steeple and to the weather-vane and look down from there, ruffling their feathers with fear. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Behind this arose the shingled tower of Hohen-Cremmen, whose weather vane glistened in the sunshine, having only recently been regilded. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
But, on coming into the sunny westward exposure, he stopped, and with two fingers raised like a weather-vane, stood gazing down the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
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