blondin

Example Sentences

• "While it is possible with using a blondin to set up the two concrete mixing plants with concretes of different compositions, being placed simultaneously in two distinct zones of the same lift, it is necessary in the case of the conveyor to concrete the two zones successively, which makes it necessary to have vertical shuttering which would not be required in the case of concreting by the aid of the blondin."
• "His Irish labourers were accommodated on the north bank of the bridge when blondins were used to carry men and materials across the river."
• "The fish was brought up by a blondin, a cable crane that operated by hauling up and lowering down a hanging crane pulley when it was run back and forth up and down the suspended cable. […] Again the salmon was brought up from below by blondin."
• "My invention has cost me some money, some anxiety, and condemned my little ones to all the miseries of poverty and banishment in the bush, whereas if I had been a successful cricketer, a good bowler, or a rifle shooter without pluck, a Blondin, or an acrobat, I and mine would have escaped these ills."
• "A step or two upwards, then one to the right, and my exploring hand was able to touch a small, sloping, scree-covered ledge. This was covered by a film of ice, which I cleared as well as I could with one hand while supporting myself with the other. Having at last decided that a step was justifiable, I balanced up with the delicacy, but scarcely the grace, of a Blondin and a moment later was on the ledge."
• "A daily newspaper is a great lake in which intellectual elephants can swim and lambs can paddle. Accordingly, the columnist is a Blondin, treading a tightrope over Victoria Falls between obscurity and triviality, condescension and ostentation, and often falling into the foaming minestrone."