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Usage examples of retrim.

The big Avenger slanted down, the wind noise increasing in pitch and volume, and Phillips with his left hand, not looking, retrimmed it for the power glide and occasionally pulled the throttle back slightly to keep the manifold pressure from building up.

She and Miss Chubb patronize the Mexican school with cast-off dresses, old bonnets retrimmed, flannel petticoats, some old novels and books of poetry--of which the Padre makes an auto-da-fe--and their own patronizing presence on fete days.

So I threw over the rudder and retrimmed the sails, determined to put as many nautical miles as was possible between me and such an aggregation, and I was doing just that when, abruptly, the wind died to almost nothing and, with a hoarse, bellowing chorus of triumph, the rowers came onward, increasing their already-fast beat.

So Grafton was turning as he changed configuration-slowing, retrimming and trying to maintain a precise altitude, all at the same time.

His quill needed retrimming, and he had managed to ink his fingers, and by scrubbing bewilderedly in his spiky, straw-coloured fringe of hair had left smudges on both his eyebrow and his crown.