Sheathings

Upon the beach I found the fragments of a wreck, consisting of part of a mast, a tiller wheel, and some copper sheathings, the last sad records of the fate of some unfortunate vessel on this wild and breaker-beaten shore. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They apply the protective measures of connection to neutral or protective earthing with fault current return through metallic conductors (water pipes, cable sheathings). ❋ Frank Ponemunski (1991)

Electrically conductive connection between electrically inactive parts, such as water, gas and heater pipes, steel structures, metallic cable sheathings, foundation earth leads and protective conductors. ❋ Frank Ponemunski (1991)

"A" (When all metallic parts, such as water pipes, gas mains, central heating, metallic sheathings of cables and other metal constructions, are connected with one another and with the ground in a conductive way.) 5. ❋ Gerhard Klix (1991)

In the churches there are numerous specimens of all the varieties, forming the columns and sheathings of altars, memorial chapels, and monuments; the incrustations of alabaster on the walls of the Borghese chapel, in ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

It was much used for mouldings, sheathings, and pedestals, and also for floors. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Specimens of brocatello may be found in several churches and palaces, forming mouldings, sheathings, and pedestals. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

The panels cracked, the carvings flew in splinters, the hinges at each shock danced upon their hooks, the planks were displaced, the wood smashed to atoms ground between the sheathings of iron. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Rainbow, at the upper end of the lake, poked her granite head through its vapory sheathings. ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)

One huge case, half wrecked, showed the gleam of Florentine brasses; another, crated and roped, revealed faded Genoese brocades; slender broken legs and edges of carved flaps protruded from battered sheathings. ❋ Various (1915)

The gleaming curves of her neck and shoulders rose out of their filmy sheathings of lace. ❋ Unknown (1908)

It was: -- How vain are all the boasted sheathings of the armour of self-righteousness; and how safe and glorious is that "white linen" covering of the righteousness of Jesus! ❋ Unknown (1856)

I never saw a case in which the sheathings of the internal jugular vein and carotid artery were so completely involved. ❋ Unknown (1847)

This material may become the new gold standard in the progression of wall sheathings because of its innovation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the night-blooming cercus -- that uncanny white witch of a creature, with its petals moulded in wax or ivory, its golden-brown leaf-sheathings, and its unequalled emerald (is it a tint, or is it but ❋ Various (N/A)