Hundreds and hundreds of children, many in callipers or wheelchairs, happy children finding a chance they would never have had.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Front Line] Reference

His head had been steadied straight up in a most unnatural position, with a kind of callipers or steel braces, and he must have been told to "look up and smile" for a full minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference

The price of a pair of callipers need not exceed 1s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

· Vernier callipers, plug limit gauges, try squares.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Objectives and Subject Matters of the Practical Vocational Training in the Techniques of Making Pinned Joints] Reference

Her lips clamped shut, her nose and chin approaching like the points of an engineer's callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

The process is complete when the glass is perfectly round and of the required diameter as tested by callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

I feared a lengthy session with callipers and straight edge and ruler, dissecting and analysing some ancient construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

Any simple form of vernier gauge (such as Brown and Sharpe's vernier callipers) will serve to allow of a sufficiently accurate measurement of the edge thickness of the lens.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

Brembo monobloc radial callipers with 4 æ 34-mm opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference

Colour coded callipers with Spyker script are available as an option.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference

Andy Serkis inhabits his roles, whether in a CGI suit or leg callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"When I am wearing callipers, as I am today, it allows me to walk more easily.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Front: Ventilated Carbon Ceramic discs 398 mm diameter with six piston callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

Red brake callipers with a Jaguar 'R' logo sit inside 20-inch Kasuga alloy wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

Front: Dual 308mm discs with Nissin radial-mount four-pot opposed-piston callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motoring] Reference

Then he raised his head and laid the magnifying glass and the callipers on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

The Vernier callipers (or the laser-based measuring equipment) measure displacements.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

In comminuted fractures, extension applied by strips of plaster or by means of ice-tong callipers or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

When the lizard was small enough the Doctor held it with the callipers and then laid it on the ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

Brakes: 6-piston callipers, 380 mm discs at the front and 6 piston callipers, 355 mm discs at the rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Advice | News | Reviews] Reference

Wherever it encountered a stone, this was raised between its callipers and pitched out beyond the ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

Whenever it encountered a stone, this was raised between its callipers and pitched out beyond the ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

The front wheels get 4-piston racing callipers and special disc-brakes - with drilled discs at the rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

'I don't believe in braces and callipers and things like that, they would have left him walking like a robot.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Brakes are massive 400mm carbon-ceramic rotors on the fore axle (actuated by six-pot callipers) and 360mm at the rear.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The front discs are 390mm in diameter and 34mm thick, gripped by six-piston aluminium callipers; the rear discs measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automotive Headlines] Reference

In less than a dozen paces from its entrance the chine opened into a wider space, again closing like a pair of callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lone Ranche] Reference

Stopping power looks to be well sorted too, with 6-pot callipers all round on 380mm discs up front and 355mm on the rears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Advice | News | Reviews] Reference

First, then, the little creature going backwards, and working with its callipers, traced a circle on the surface of the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

The custom 20-inch wheels shod in performance rubber all but hide the red brake callipers which feature CNC-milled GXP logos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Advice | News Blog] Reference

Finally, a set of 17-inch wheels identical to those fitted to the Golf GTI are fitted along with a set of red brake callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

The braking system which uses dual-cast technology, is further enhanced by the hand-polished callipers both at the front and rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog] Reference

The Very Young Man put the sparrow on the handkerchief beside the ring and the Doctor immediately picked it up with the callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

The best form seems to be one made like a carpenter's callipers, with long but removable handles, and a very powerful fixing-screw.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

Also, the vehicle is equipped with the powerful brakes with 6-pot callipers all round on 380mm discs up front and 355mm on the rears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Auto Motto] Reference

"About a hundred miles I make it," said the skipper, measuring the space on his chart with his fingers, for lack of a pair of callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story] Reference

It proved to be the rare and curious Charaxes kadenii, remarkable for having on each hind wing two curved tails like a pair of callipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

Upgraded Nissin monobloc brake callipers and lighter wheels reduce unsprung weight and the latest Pirelli SuperCorsa SP tyres are fitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motoring] Reference