Old timer

Usage examples of dial.

Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.

Abubekar was gazing at the same dial as Bahadur, their expressions identical masks of disbelief.

I stroked it with my ring finger, were each overlaid by the inventories of a benevolent technologythe moulded binnacle of the instrument dials, the jutting carapace of the steering column shroud, the extravagant pistol grip of the handbrake.

On it, bolted into place, was a combination lock panel, with three different rows of spin dials that could be set to different combinations.

Fortunately, Brye had not bothered to twist the dial to lock the combination.

Osterzeile and Westerzeile, and with its four dials beneath the green, bulbiform roof, provided the whole neighborhood, from Max-Halbe-Platz to the Catholic and clockless St.

His mouse was quiet I stood with my back to the Sistine color print, gazing either at the empty, slightly wobbling turntable, or out the mansard window, over the raw-red roof tiles, at Christ Church, one dial on the front, another on the east side of the bulbiform tower.

Walton selected a private room, lunched lightly on baked chlorella steak and filtered rum, and dialed a twelve-minute nap.

Farder Coram, watching from across the table, noted the places where the needle stopped, and watched the little girl holding her hair back from her face and biting her lower lip just a little, her eyes following the needle at first but then, when its path was settled, looking elsewhere on the dial.

He had one tentacle on the handle, one on the knob of the dial, and another near the dial, its sensitive fingerlets touching the rim where the numbers were engraved.

His weathered face framed by bulbous orange ear defenders that only partially blocked out the din of the jet engines, Ripley Forte squinted through the icy spray at the inertial-navigation dial on the control panel.

I clicked the dial past an endless array of gadgets like Veg-O-Matics and Ginzo knives and tummy-slimmers.

Little Infinity shot across the landscape, and Guz dialed in a destination.

This movement of the plate thus obtained, Harding could easily fasten to it a needle arranged on a dial, bearing the letters of the alphabet, and in this way communicate from one station to the other.

Talking with Grossman on the telephone, he had watched Hawes as he stepped swiftly to the wall and twisted the dial on the instrument.