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Sentence Examples Visitors to Wiltshire's only working windmill have been warned that it is being targeted by thieves. In short, Kirmani tries to quantify the unquantifiable, and ends up looking like Don Quixote ferociously tilting at the scientific windmill. The windmill needs weatherproofing, rebuilding and re-capping to become habitable. Most of the windmill units have started planting jatropha with drip irrigation facility. Germany has already inked such a deal, and plans to replace the lost energy capacity with offshore windmill parks. Only the sky at the top of each card is left, demarcated by the missing outlines of windmill sails, or trees, or Table Mountain. His tiny arms windmill in the air and he starts to fall, but I catch him with my prehensile tail, barely hard enough to cut into his clothes. It was once a water tank on stilts, fed by the windmill across the mud track that runs just past it. The listing of the 45 ft former windmill is intended to protect the entire fabric of the building inside and out. The first turn threw him, causing his arms to windmill, but Eric regained his balance and fell into another knock-kneed arc. A knowledgeable friend told me, that is also very interesting to pay attention to the position of the windmill vanes when they are at rest. It takes up to two years to build a windmill or small-scale hydro-electric project. No government or private firm would build a windmill in Toronto, so the people did. Once there, he tried to cool the drink by birling his arms like windmill blades. I asked the people there about the large windmill farm east of the Crowsnest Pass in Southern Alberta. There was an entire homestead, with home, barns and other outbuildings, complete with a windmill, falling to the ground, evidently worth nothing. Listening to the dialogue between the wind and the windmill produced a feeling of old fashioned romance. True, Townsend's famous leaps across stage are more of a strut after 35 years, but the old windmill chords are still there. The windmill no longer has a roof and he proposes a dome to top it off and house its telescopes. One of the most popular photographs is the one of the windmill at the Windmill Hill business park. Show More Sentences You also created a turbine powered by gluing sixteen May bugs to a tiny windmill. At every opportunity he strides straight forward and throws huge, windmill haymakers with his right hand that seldom connect. Sarah Jane spent most of the day haring across the lawn with arms waving all over the place looking like a very well dressed windmill. If electricity is a thing of the past in the future, a small generator operated by a windmill was included to power microreaders and projectors. The prairie windmill works well because there is an abundance of strong daily wind which blows across the flat prairies. As the others, they rotate with the wind, as a weathercock and as a windmill. However, P. E. I.'s main electric utility is not keen on receiving the extra windmill power. On some days, we tramped uphill to the windmill, now a romantic house for two, for panoramic views across the estate and beyond. There is also, here, the antique framework of a windmill long since superannuated. The thousand-plus acres that make up San Francisco's Golden Gate Park include a Victorian greenhouse, a Dutch windmill, a Japanese tea garden, and a bison paddock. The Dutch windmill of the 17th century was kept facing the wind by the action of an auxiliary vane that moved the entire upper part of the mill. It's similar to the design of the Darrieus Wind Turbine, often called an egg-beater windmill because of the shape of its blades. Most others use the principle of an underwater windmill whose rotors are turned by the tide. I see you are very familiar with your issue and your line of chat as a windmill salesman. It states that ISD's windmill project seems to be very interesting and that it would welcome further talks on specific issues. According to the engine manufacturer, the engine can windmill for several minutes even if the oil level is at the minimum. This scenario also takes into account a considerable increase in windmill, solar and hydroelectric energy production. An inspection of the windmill is requested by the employee reading the counter. Suddenly, she said, her right arm started to spin like a windmill and later she realized that she was totally healed. The Project Finance business line committed itself as early as 1997 with the financing of the first windmill parks. Show More Sentences The landscape was virtually empty except for an occasional horse, cluster of cattle, oil wells, and a small house with windmill and cattle drinking troughs. When deployed, the engineless craft resembles a windmill or Catherine wheel, with two segmented reflective sails collecting light particles from the sun. In the distance, sat a large village with a moving windmill and watermill. When soldiers returning from the Crusades introduced wind technology to Europe in the eleventh century, the windmill helped usher in the Industrial Revolution. Fittingly the book ends with York's only surviving windmill, Holgate Mill. Why is that not to be taken into account, yet building a windmill is? But on the Exhibition Place grounds, the first windmill stands tall. In contrast, a short distance away from Scott's hut was a modern demountable base with a humming windmill harnessing the vast wind power of the region. The second grave in the children's burial plot has been fenced off into a shrine and personalised with a pot cherub, dried flowers and child's handheld windmill. I try and windmill my arms, but they are caught in something. Almost immediately the engine cut, but continued to windmill. The engine shut down, and the propeller continued to windmill. While the previous windmill designs are for larger structures that could service entire towns, the fan-type windmill is made specifically for individuals. Now Selby District Council will try to resolve the deadlock over the 45 ft former windmill, a four-storey building which no longer has a roof, sails or machinery. Many ideas, like one from the guy who wanted to use an electric fan to blow against a windmill and generate power, are well intentioned but downright silly. They are, across the board, quixotic characters hacking at the windmill of language. The system detects a source of free energy, the vane on the back of the windmill orients the windmill because of the transient wind, and then work is extracted. In practice, however, windmill design is not very complicated and the biggest problem is the tradeoff between cost and reliability. There was once a windmill and a baker's shop in the middle of Rabbitland. Three rabbits, Rodney, Rudolph and Rosie lived in the windmill. This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine. Show More Sentences Advances were made in irrigation and farming, using new technology such as the windmill. The original horse pump at Thames Head was replaced by a windmill, but Clowes discovered that he could not stop the summit pound from leaking. A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable. Put here, in evidence of some old tumbled roof, a few roof beams and tiles sticking edgeways from the ground, and the low faded ochre stump of the windmill peeping over the top of the hill, and there you have Pozières. One fan even had a windmill hat after English golfer Ian Poulter had likened the pin placement on the 18th to a crazy golf hole. Label which is characterized by its shape as a windmill. Building a copy of an 18th century windmill may not seem to be at the cutting-edge of job creation or enterprise, but the commune of Dosches in the Champagne region of France is proving otherwise. A significant element of rural agricultural life, this windmill represents one of the means by which the region of Beauce has retained its reputation for cereal production since the Middle ages. Instead of using diesel-powered water pumps, they are taking advantage of eight solar and windmill energy generating irrigation projects that have been established in four districts with TICAD support. Apart from constructing and operating windmill farms, solar farms and biomass plants, Electrawinds also investigates and develops new renewable energy possibilities and applications. The windmill lay between the core battlefield and Richard's camp on Ambion Hill and the rout of Norfolk's vanguard was in this direction. A redundant windmill was converted after 1831 into Garrison Tower as a lookout tower for HM Coastguard. Bembridge Windmill, the only remaining windmill on the Isle of Wight, is located to the west of the village. Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field? The propeller continued to windmill up until the point of impact. He had the gall to slap a windmill on his propaganda. From the other side of the small valley you'll see an ancient farm mentioned in documents going back to 1090 and at the top of the hill, in a small wood, the ruins of a tower that was the castle windmill in days of yore. David Cameron, its new leader, made several speeches on the topic, paid a now-iconic visit to a melting glacier in Norway and stuck a windmill on his roof. But greenery presents Mr Cameron with a dilemma. Our first tulip field raised a cheer, as did each windmill. Condemned as relapsed by the Archbishop of Sens and his suffragans, they were herded into carts and publicly burned to death between Vincennes forest and the Paris windmill, outside the Saint-Antoine gate. Show More Sentences This is parodied famously in Cervantes' Don Quixote, when the title character attacks a windmill, believing it to be a giant. Dexia Crediop, still very active in corp orate and p roject finance, realized some transactions, notably in the high sp eed train infrastructure and in a windmill p roject. Don Quixote was able to walk up to the windmill that threw him off his horse, and see and touch that it was only a windmill and not an evil giant. Located on top of a small hill, Dumfries Museum is centred on the 18th century windmill which stands above the town. So what happens is when the diesel? the windmill goes kicking out 3 megawatts but the community needs 5 megawatts of power, then, the diesel has to kick in. The new visitor centre was built as a model of environmental sustainability featuring a windmill generator and solar panels for electricity and heat. The printer of this magazine compensates for CO2 production through an investment in the Kafeate windmill project, comprising six windmill farms operated in New Caledonia, Melanesia. Despite strong wind, the rotational speed of a windmill is very low. Realizing that he would be unable to take Fort Wellington, where they were resolutely waiting for him, von Schoultz withdrew with his men to a large stone windmill near the St. Lawrence one kilometre to the east of the fort. The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan. Windmills were refined with the creation of the tower mill, allowing the upper part of the windmill to be spun around to face the direction from which the wind was blowing. The base of Smeaton's windmill and St Luke's Church have stood the test of time, while Mundill and Watson's garage, and the tramlines on the road, are long-gone. Report of an unidentified flying object flying in the sky over a windmill. In contrast, the heavy agricultural windmills produced by the Danes just kept turning, and by 2000 the top three windmill manufacturers in the world were Danish. The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. Major technological advances included the invention of the windmill, the first mechanical clocks, the manufacture of distilled spirits, and the use of the astrolabe. Alternative controls are available such as ultrasonic devices but vibration from a children's plastic windmill pushed into mole runs may be just as effective. Was it Albert Tenhoven, a militant environmentalist who considered windmills destructive to his beloved Eifel landscape and who had earlier vandalized a windmill? With a windmill producing less current in a month than a power station does in a minute, it is like trying to replace supertankers with rowing boats. Examples from Classical Literature Near the brickfield there is that immense windmill, for of course every town must have one. When the coastguardsman is going out to the wreck, it isn't necessary to wave your arms about like a windmill. She came skipping into the windmill shop leading the young man by the hand. On the mantel stood a big tobacco jar of delftware with the familiar windmill pattern. Made some desperate conquests for his lady-love, and was defeated by a windmill. One is surely reminded of the immortal Don, when 'a todo el galope de Rocinante', he charged the windmill. The third was at a windmill, and that Colonel mackintosh was appointed to command. Not far from his grandmother's residence there was a windmill which operated on a new plan. When they were a safe distance from the windmill shop the captain cautioned his daughter. A miry lane led us up from quartes with its church and bickering windmill. He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill. There was a dead silence, and Sir Walter's usually steady brain seemed to go round like a windmill. We do the knock-knees and the windmill, and we do the breakaway Charleston, which is almost swing dancing. From the windmill the ground sloped westward, down to the barns and granaries and pig-yards. You are like Don Quixote, who fancied every windmill a giant. They are making a windmill to saw lumber and we also have a gristmill. The tower we see there was that of the windmill which ground the silex. But you can make flour IN a windmill, 'cause I've seen it done. The proprietor of the windmill shop slowly turned and faced him. There would be the windmill, and the smithy, and the public house. Show More Sentences John dropped the concentrated abruptness of his manner, and explained that Bennett was a man who lived in an old windmill six miles out of Cambridge. At the moment when the gorgeous mountain walls went round the poet's head like a purple windmill a thing happened which was superficially even more startling. As he glanced at me, his face dimpled with a seizure of irrelevant merriment, and he shot up the windmill tower with a lightness that struck me as disdainful. Near it tilted a shattered windmill frame, that had no wheel. Why, to encounter such a whimsical fellow as myself in this unimaginative age was like meeting a fairy prince, or coming unexpectedly upon Don Quixote attacking the windmill. Our white frame house, with a storey and half-storey above the basement, stood at the east end of what I might call the farmyard, with the windmill close by the kitchen door. While the horses drew in the water, and nosed each other, and then drank again, Antonia sat down on the windmill step and rested her head on her hand. Find more words! 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