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The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Aesop

I'm disappointed, ... I feel like Northern Kentucky is once again getting the shaft.

Adam Koenig

She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Jerry Reed

This is like being in a really big, long mine shaft. It's really just carved right into the earth.

Michael Unzueta

They had just built the [air] shaft and they were removing the supports and everything. There was a door that they had to cut open, and they believe that's where the explosion occurred.

John Oliver

The Earth with its solar heat input, heat rejection, and wheels of atmospheric and oceanic circulation, is a heat engine without [a] shaft. Its maximized mechanical power cannot be delivered, but is instead destined to dissipate through air and water friction and other forms of heat loss. It produces maximum power, which it then dissipates at a maximum rate.

Adrian Bejan

If Florida gets a deal, then all the other states get the shaft.

Richard Charter

Everything has gone well and they're beginning to fill cement up the shaft of the well.

Greg Flores

If you open the door between floors, there can be a fair gap between the shaft of the elevator and the frame of the elevator car.

Michael Mccann

I prefer a dart that's long and has a thick shaft. That's just the way I like it.

Michelle Samarel

She was outstanding. Even the shaft of her stick was outstanding.

Dick Bartholdi

It will probably be closed a minimum of two weeks. It appears a mine shaft is coming in on it and the rain coming this weekend won't help. We decided to post it for safety.

Greg Moody

The kiwi dollar tends to go up an escalator and down the lift shaft.

Tony Alexander

Greenland is the canary in a mine shaft alerting us. In the U.S., global warming is a tomorrow issue. ... For us working here, it hits you like a ton of bricks when you see it.

Robert Corell

For example, the shift control sensors detect acceleration and prepare for the coming up shift by actuating the next gear in the sequence on the parallel gear shaft, but leaving the clutch open until the driver manually shifts. The same process occurs in reverse as speeds decrease and the transmission prepares for a downshift.

Michl Koch

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark.

Monty Python

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Sir Walter Scott

Thanks for saving me from the drive Shaft!

Isaac Hayes

Essentially, we've completed the things we agreed that we would. Also, we're looking into the installation of a pump in the basement or the elevator shaft. The continued rains, if we get some, could be a problem and we recognize that. This wouldn't be a permanent one for the building, but it would be sufficient enough to keep the water out.

Dennis Molock

The stud shaft was moving up and down and pumping the plaque into the tongue.

Ellis Neiburger