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Sentence Examples The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight. Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off. He also developed the innovative davy lamp for use in coal mines. I wonder whether Mr John Davy can speak Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, on top of his other skills? Davy separated the flame from the gas, and his lamp later became widely used, and known as the Davy lamp. And, of course, it's laughter all the way with comedy kings, Nicky Cummins and Davy Sutton up to their usual high jinks. Thus was born the Davy lamp, in which the flame is surrounded by wire gauze to dissipate heat and prevent ignition of flammable gases. Several decades later the Englishman Davy attempted to obtain the metal hidden in alums. Davy went on to apply his method for preparing sodium to the extraction of potassium, calcium, and other active metals. And soon I will be resting in a cold and watery grave In Davy Jones's locker. One researcher with perhaps the greatest reason to hope for success in producing silicon was the English chemist and physicist Humphry Davy. Davy Graham is a contemporary of McTell's who was the original guitar hero of the emerging early 60s British folk underground. Tony is talking, while Davy is trying to block the noise out with his pillow. Davy mentioned that someone had recently caught a black-mouthed dogfish, a very rare fish. In 1956 my parents bought me a Davy Crockett costume complete with powder horn and coonskin cap. News of the announcement was greeted warmly by Waterford City Councillor Davy Walsh, the committee chairman. The Davy lamp was fuelled by oil or naptha, and the wick was contained in a metal gauze cylinder. The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium. On the political stump, the example of the buckskinned Whig congressman and Tennessee rifleman Davy Crockett was widely imitated. Davy was a very popular man locally and he is survived by his wife Patsy and four children. Show More Sentences He claims he's a direct descendant of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, and if you saw him shoot, you might believe him. The great English chemist and physicist Sir Humphry Davy first prepared a sample of pure sodium metal by electrolyzing molten sodium chloride. She's as strong and likable a female character as Davy is a male hero, making this a perfect bookend to book one. It was not until 1807, however, that Sir Humphrey Davy identified boron as a chemical element. Nearly two decades later, Davy showed that strontia was a compound of a metal and oxygen, a metal to which the name strontium was then given. And you'd have thought they'd at least shed a tear or two when their old man vanishes into Davy Jones's locker. One newspaper headlined their lead story with the recession claims of Davy Stockbrokers. The free element sodium was first produced in 1807 by the English chemist Humphry Davy by electrolysis of molten sodium hydroxide. Davy Russell and Cregg House pull off a big surprise over the Grand National fences to win the chase. A chain could be hung across the river between Davy Tower to the now-gone Hyngbrig Tower to protect the city from waterborne invasion. In 1583, the Stratford officials contributed to a performance given at Whitsuntide by local amateurs and organized by one Davy Jones. In 1802, Davy showed that artificial light was produced by passing electrical current through a platinum wire. This case, which was well watched by the hospital obstetric clerk, and his consociate, Mr. Davy, was a very interesting one. Davy was the first person to experience intoxication after inhaling a gas or vapour. Davy baited up the skate rigs with whole mackerel, and we dropped them over the side. Davy was, in attire and appearance, so much like a fisherman that you might suppose he had just arrived from the coast. Davy is remembered for his safety lamp, but in his lifetime his fame was wider. A dinosaur-era Davy Jones's locker of large, predatory sea reptiles has been discovered by fossil hunters on an Arctic island. Impressed, Davy offered the lad the position of laboratory assistant, a remarkable achievement for a self-educated boy. Davy had developed a technique by which unusually stable compounds could be decomposed into their constituent elements. Show More Sentences The pair went neck-and-neck down the home straight but Truckers Tavern, ridden by Davy Russell, showed greater staying power to win by two-and-a-half lengths. After other attempts to release oxygen failed, Davy concluded that dephlogisticated muriatic acid gas was actually an element rather that a compound with oxygen. And remaining small shareholders are being offered the opportunity to subscribe for shares in the company again, at a discount of 20 per cent to the Davy valuation. Davy himself has said he was not spared land seizure and has given up 140,000 acres to the government. The time has come for Jack Sparrow to be rescued from Davy Jones's Locker. The picture was taken when Harry was 20, and dating zimbabwean Chelsy Davy. Presenter Everard Davy will host the breakfast programme from the studio in the school and some of the pupils will broadcast live during the programme. Davy won his baseball game today and he was bouncing off the walls. Her 1985 anthology series offered dramatizations from the lives of fictional American folk heroes including Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, and Paul Bunyan. Davy Conway can contribute a lot more from play while Michael John Tierney often looks too complacent on the ball while bubbling with self-confidence. If Prince Harry is back on again with Chelsy Davy, he's not letting it cramp his style. Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed. His support of women caused Davy to be subjected to considerable gossip and innuendo, and to be criticized as unmanly. Davy was a pioneer in the field of electrolysis using the voltaic pile to split common compounds and thus prepare many new elements. Davy isolated sodium in the same year by passing an electric current through molten sodium hydroxide. Davy managed to successfully repeat these experiments almost immediately and expanded Berzelius' method to strontites and magnesia. Davy showed that the acid of Scheele's substance, called at the time oxymuriatic acid, contained no oxygen. Accompanied by his wife, they set off on 26 May 1818 to stay in Flanders where Davy was invited to by the coal miners. Davy was the outstanding scientist but some fellows did not approve of his popularising work at the Royal Institution. In his early years Davy was optimistic about reconciling the reformers and the Banksians. Show More Sentences Of a sanguine, somewhat irritable temperament, Davy displayed characteristic enthusiasm and energy in all his pursuits. Davy spent the winter in Rome, hunting in the Campagna on his fiftieth birthday. Sir Humphry Davy invented the carbon arc lamp in 1802 upon discovering that electricity could produce a light arc with carbon electrodes. A voracious giant squid sucking a pirate ship down to Davy Jones' locker. Alberta Ferretti said Davy plans on wearing two of her dresses. We are the only firm left in Britain who are approved manufacturers of the glass for the Davy safety lamp. Potato Head, perhaps a Davy Crockett hat or a cap gun like the one advertised on The Roy Rogers Show. I did attend the dinner at Sardis Lake Lodge where my professor, Davy Robinson, talked a bit about his collection and about Olynthus. Thomas Crawley delivered a fine cross into the danger area and Davy McDaid popped up at the back post to score. It was used primarily in the North-east, and is now thought to be superior to the Davy Lamp used in mines in the rest of the country? It was flown in on a Royal Navy helicopter and lowered to the ground by a marine commando carrying it in a Davy lamp attached to his waist. The flame left Orkney shortly before 12pm heading for Shetland, kept alight in a Davy lamp. A SCOTS firm have adapted the famous miners' Davy lamp to keep the Olympic torch burning. The Davy lamp is a wick lamp made of metal, with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. Davy lamps sit on a shelf in the front room, surrounded by row after row of books. In November 1804 Davy became a Fellow of the Royal Society, over which he would later preside. Later, it was used by chemists such as Glauber, Priestley, and Davy in their scientific research. It caused much loss of life in coal mines before the invention of the Geordie lamp and Davy lamp. For example, the iron gauze on a Davy lamp only needed to lose one wire to become unsafe. In the Davy system a gauze surrounds the flame and extends for a distance above forming a cage. Show More Sentences All except the very earliest Davy lamps have a double layer at the top of the cage. Sir Humphry Davy was asked to consider the problems of a safety lamp following the Felling explosion. Davy however performed his experiments with samples of firedamp collected from pits. In 1810, chlorine was given its current name by Humphry Davy, who insisted that chlorine was in fact an element. Davy seriously injured himself in a laboratory accident with nitrogen trichloride. In 1812, Davy was knighted and gave up his lecturing position at the Royal Institution. Davy then published his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, part 1, volume 1, though other parts of this title were never completed. Davy wrote a paper for the Royal Society on the element, which is now called iodine. After the Battle of Waterloo, Davy wrote to Lord Liverpool urging that the French be treated with severity. After his return to England in 1815, Davy began experimenting with lamps that could be used safely in coal mines. The success of the early trials prompted Davy to travel to Naples to conduct further research on the Herculaneum papyri. And Davy does not say that the euchloric acid was mixed with oxygen, nor that the salt remaining was six times or three times oxygenated. Some degree of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir Humphry Davy and independently by George Stephenson. Davy declined to take out a patent on his lamp design effectively giving it to the nation and of course the world's coal miners. In 1813, when Davy damaged his eyesight in an accident with nitrogen trichloride, he decided to employ Faraday as an assistant. In his excitement, Faraday published results without acknowledging his work with either Wollaston or Davy. At the same time, the eminent scientist and Cornishman Humphry Davy was also looking at the problem. The Stephenson lamp was used almost exclusively in North East England, whereas the Davy lamp was used everywhere else. Invented by Humphry Davy around 1805, the carbon arc was the first practical electric light. Prince Harry is taking girlfriend Chelsy Davy on a make-or-break African holiday in a bid to heal their troubled relationship. Show More Sentences Club chairman Ken Davy brought in a new head coach, Nathan Brown, and a new set of new players for the 2009 season. After a poor dip in form Ken Davy decided it was time for change and terminated the contracts of coach Nathan Brown and captain Kevin Brown. Lord Beckett gains power over Davy Jones and, with the help of the Flying Dutchman, he is now executing his plans to extinguish piracy forever. They settled on introducing Davy Jones, the Flying Dutchman and the Kraken, a mythology mentioned twice in the first film. Among the most famous Scottish American soldier frontiersmen were Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, founding father of Texas. They then settled in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England in 1818 where Murchison made the acquaintance of Sir Humphry Davy. Davy urged Murchison to turn his energy to science, after hearing that he wasted his time riding to hounds and shooting. He learnt his cricket with the Humphry Davy Grammar School and Penzance Cricket Club. Today he is possibly best known as the inventor of the Miner's Safety Lamp, or Davy lamp. There is a statue of Davy at the top of Market Jew Street, near the house in which he was born. Robert Dunkin, a Penzance sadler and maker of scientific instruments taught Davy the basis of practical science. In the Davy lamp a standard oil lamp is surrounded by fine wire gauze, the top being closed by a double layer of gauze. Some pits continued to use candles for illumination, relying on the Davy to warn men when to extinguish them. The glass was surrounded by gauze so that in the event of a glass breakage the Geordie became a Davy. The lamp becomes unsafe in a current of from 8 to 12 feet per second, about twice that of the Davy. Clanny abandoned his pumps and candles and developed a safety lamp which combined features of both the Davy and Geordie. The Clanny gives more light than the Davy and can be carried more easily in a draught. Like a Clanny, and the Davy before it, it acts as an indicator of firedamp, burning more brightly in its presence. He also invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of incandescent light bulb. In the apothecary's dispensary, Davy became a chemist, and conducted his earliest chemical experiments in a garret in Tonkin's house. Show More Sentences As a poet, over one hundred and sixty manuscript poems were written by Davy, the majority of which are found in his personal notebooks. As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy repeated many of the ingenious experiments he learned from his friend and mentor, Robert Dunkin. Davy was acquainted with the Wedgwood family, who spent a winter at Penzance. In 1802, Humphry Davy had what was then, the most powerful electrical battery in the world at the Royal Institution. The critic Maurice Hindle was the first to reveal that Davy and Anna had written poems for each other. In December 1799 Davy visited London for the first time and extended his circle of friends. Davy also included both poetic and religious commentary in his lectures, emphasizing that God's design was revealed by chemical investigations. Davy is excited to hear from his friend Max that the Easter Bunny will be coming, bringing presents and pretty eggs. Full of enthusiasm and flamboyancy, his fluent jumping had Davy Russell scrubbing away at Dedigout five out. It was not a practical success and Clanny subsequently changed the basis of operation of later lamps in the light of the Davy and Stephenson lamps. All 1,000-plus names have now been engraved into a brick wall surrounding a 10ft high monument that has been crowned with a replica of the famous miners' Davy Lamp. The story follows demobbed squaddies Ally and Davy as they return to Edinburgh's civvy street after a tour of duty that left a colleague severely injured. Curious about the composition of seemingly indecomposable compounds, such as alkalis and earths, Davy struck these elements with strong electromagnetic currents. He was also introduced to the study of chemistry by Humphry Davy. Davy is supposed to have even claimed Faraday as his greatest discovery. Davy experimented with brass gauze, determining the maximum size of the gaps and the optimum wire thickness to prevent a flame passing through the gauze. Davy was only 41, and reformers were fearful of another long presidency. They did after all preserve the copper as Davy said they would. During the first half of 1808, Davy conducted a series of further electrolysis experiments on alkaline earths including lime, magnesia, strontites and barytes. Perhaps coming from the fact one would be seen as foolish going down a mine with a Scotch Divvy when there are safer lamps available, like the Geordie, or the Davy. Show More Sentences Davy wrote to Davies Gilbert on 8 March 1801 about the offers made by Banks and Thompson, a possible move to London and the promise of funding for his work in galvanism. These criticisms, however, led Davy to refine and improve his experimental techniques, spending his later time at the institution increasingly in experimentation. The arrangement agreed between Dr Beddoes and Davy was generous, and enabled Davy to give up all claims on his paternal property in favour of his mother. With it, Davy created the first incandescent light by passing electric current through a thin strip of platinum, chosen because the metal had an extremely high melting point. At the age of six, Davy was sent to the grammar school at Penzance. The result was a claimed 20 fold improvement in lighting over the Davy. Penzance was the birthplace of the chemist Sir Humphry Davy. Liam O'Flynn is one of the most popular of modern performers along with Paddy Keenan, John McSherry, Davy Spillane, Jerry O'Sullivan, Mick O'Brien and many more. In 1634 the Dean of Westminster allowed an expedition, equipped with Mosaical rods and led by the King's clock-master, Davy Ramesey, to search for treasure in the Abbey. Davy went to his grave believing that Stephenson had stolen his idea. Faraday's earliest chemical work was as an assistant to Humphry Davy. Very soon Davy entrusted Faraday with the preparation of nitrogen trichloride samples, and they both were injured in an explosion of this very sensitive substance. Others include Humphry Davy, educated in Truro and the inventor of the miner's safety lamp, and Samuel Foote, an actor and playwright from Boscawen Street. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones. On 2 October 1798, Davy joined the Pneumatic Institution at Bristol. Davy conceived of using an iron gauze to enclose a lamp's flame, and so prevent the methane burning inside the lamp from passing out to the general atmosphere. I know you can buy Davy lamps at car boot sales and so on for pounds 30 to pounds 60 but, as this one is so special, I'm wondering if it has some extra value? Families will have the chance to handle museum items including replica and real miners' lamps from throughout the ages with demonstrations on how Davy lamps work. Examples from Classical Literature You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy. On the drive-in, Adine stopped the car while Davy invoiced his available cash at sixty-five dollars. Davy was the inventor of this device and his safety lamp introduced about a hundred years ago has been a boon to the coal-miner. Davy answered him not, but with a growl ordered the barman to refill his glass. A typhoon had caught them in its grip and threatened to send them all to Davy Jones. He said all of their boats were gone to Davy Jones' locker, and they could not. In one of these volumes is found an account of a lecture-experiment by Davy which certainly is a description of the electric arc. Gray and Sir Humphrey Davy watched the eagles in their eyries, and the former tells how he saw them robbed of their young. Nobody ever knew the best part of the story but Moppet, Davy, and gulliver. Why, Mas'r Davy, you was but the heighth of the littlest of these, when I first see you! Davy fumbled in the keyster and brought out a small saddle with a fair leather bridle, to match. And, as the rifle fell, so did lion-hearted Davy Crockett, to rise no more. Sir Humphry Davy observed that the fumes which escaped from Vesuvian lava deposited common salt. In addition Davy anticipated the isolation of silicon, aluminium, and zirconium. Look at Ivory Nelson, look at Davy Crockett, look at Paul Jones, look at Clive, an' Kitchener, an' Fremont, an' Kit Carson, an' all of 'em. Find the 317th page, Davy, and begin at the top of the right-hand column. A growl, like an oath half smothered by smoke, came from Davy. At that word Davy looked like a man newly awakened from a trance. Put to rest in Davy Jones's locker this many a day, as likely as not. She's almost ready to send to Davy Jones's locker a Yankee ship or two. Show More Sentences Davy Jones declared that he would keep the Maine boy to his promise. Hy'se 'a been so long, old Davy, afore 'a come to see poor bardie? Did they know that Paddy had been drowned, gone to Davy Jones's locker at the bottom of the sea? Davy, arriving home at nine o'clock from the boulter place, explained why. Then poor Davy betook himself to a secluded retreat behind the woodpile to think over the way of transgressors. He thought perhaps the butty would let him go down with his Davy lamp. If you won't, my name is Alexander Smollett, I've flown my sovereign's colours, and I'll see you all to Davy Jones. At this inconvenient moment Davy remembered that when he had torn his new school pants the week before, Mrs. The Davy lamp was hung up before him, and the big corve was by his side. Davy was not prepared for such a concrete example of the freedom of speech. The metals were first prepared by Davy in 1808 by electrolysis. At the wedding breakfast in the barn at Ballavolly Davy made a speech. During this recital, Adine was seated facing Davy on the footstool. Paul Magill has written The Magills of the Meetinghouse, which charts the extraordinary lives and times of brothers Davy and Jim Magill. Davy, for the first time in his life probably, could not eat, but blubbered shamelessly over his porridge. Legendary frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie both died in the 12-day battle. But its most precious contents were two half-crowns folded together in a bit of paper, on which was written, in my mother's hand, 'For Davy. That was going on while Davy and me snoozed away like a pair of sillies. Strontium obtained from carbonate of strontia by Sir Humphry Davy. Davy Russell gave Naiad a tremendous ride to land the Coral Cup at the Festival last season and he clearly acts round the track. Show More Sentences The flat-roofed henhouse and a pile of straw beneath gave Davy another inspiration. Nevertheless, when Davy was garbed in his gray flannel nighty, he did not seem in a hurry to begin. Lew slipped a rubber band around the money and handed it to Davy. But Davy had brought out his matchbox, and was striking a light. Neither Davy nor tup will know that Im slipping in half a minute of doze. Master Davy,' said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shaking hand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way. The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black, is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers. Davy and Dora, the Green Gables twins, whisked the babies off to the garden. Just 18 months ago Wagstaffe had paid tribute to his pop star friend Davy Jones of the Monkees when the singer died. At fifteen Davy was placed for further education at a school in Truro. Then, turning affectionately to me, with her cheek against mine, 'Am I a naughty mama to you, Davy? Davy produced an arc light with a battery of four thousand cells. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization. Yes, Davy, and I hope you'll be always very nice and good to her. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones. And it was only the preceding afternoon that she had interfered to influence Marilla against allowing Davy to go fishing with the Timothy Cottons. Davy came and buried his head in Anne's lap, but he did not kneel down. In the final instalment of the trilogy, Jack Sparrow is trapped in Davy Jones's Locker, and in his absence the East India Trading Company is taking over the seas. Find more words! 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