Word: torning
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...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...
...death roll increased hourly, but no details of the loss of life were ascertainable, all telegraph and telephone lines, having been torn down by the deluge. Property damage, it was reported, ran into many millions of dollars...
...still standing, was built in 1765-67. Its uses since then have been many and varied. During the Revolution, for a short period when the students were transferred to Concord. Harvard Hall served as head-quarters for the American Army. Half a ton of lead was torn from the roof at the time to be moulded into bullets. George Washington was received there...
...gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders reach the end of the backward slide, their spindles have finished the task of combing all loose fibres off the branches and out of opened bolls. The branches are released. The fibres are brushed off the spindles by "doffers." Cylinders and spindles move...
...weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey's, "Coin" Harvey and the Princess Kaiulani...