Supporting frame

Usage examples of truss.

Hook a rolling-tackle on the opposite side of the yard, bowse it well taut, and the trusses also, if they be of rope.

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

He eyed the long package Merlin carried which was the safely trussed sword, but had better manners than to ask any questions as Merlin settled on a travelling stool with it across his knees close under his hand.

Tanalasta quickly chased from her thoughts all memory of the vision itself, instead picturing Merula the Marvelous trussed naked on a spit and roasting over a slow fire.

It might have seemed that the cavaliere was going to entertain all the Ancients of the Republic, to judge by the capons and turkeys, the strings of ortolans, the quails, the partridges, roasting, basting or getting trussed.

Station was about the same size as Penumbra but without a dome, a long, low, barnlike structure with an open scaffolding roof trussed by metal bars.

Breaking through, they found the Screamer trussed, face to the sky, in an open cart.

Afra and Flk were trussing bird and scurrier beast for the spit while Damia and Trp were doing multiple tasks with the rest of the meal.

A dead tree stood in the middle distance with a female back pressed against it, arms trussed overhead around the trunk, legs staked back and spread conveniently.

One stood before the trussed figure, hips thrusting in sexual congress.

Cluthe soon saw the utter worthlessness of all the trusses then in existence.

Saw the great need for something better than ordinary trusses or appliances, something better than operation.

And there are now so many people wearing Cluthe Automatic Massaging Trusses, or who have worn them until cured, that simply by one man recommending the Cluthe Truss to another the prejudice against the word truss is bound to be overcome in time.

Some of these trusses would hold your rupture just about as well if you left them hanging in the closet instead of wearing them.

The previous chapter shows how most ruptures grow constantly worse when trusses like these are worn.