Crossword clues for henrys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Henry \Hen"ry\, n.; pl. Henrys. [From Joseph Henry, an American physicist.] The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one amp[`e]re a second.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of henry English)
Usage examples of "henrys".
The Henrys had lived here as long as the Braggs, for the original Henry had come as slave and manservant to Lieutenant Peyton.
At the same time the agent had grumbled at the Braggs, who had allowed the Henrys to buy water-front property in the first place, thereby lowering values along the entire river, or so he said.
Colonel Forrest, the military attache, a fat Army Air officer from Idaho who had been in Germany for two years, introduced the Henrys to foreign attaches and Nazi leaders, including Goebbels and Ribbentrop, who looked just like their newsreel pictures, but oddly diminished.
Conqueror Henrys, seemed to be making an extraordinary if misapplied effort.
Now the Henrys owned a four-acre enclave at the east boundary of the Bragg groves.
And his grandfather had allowed the Henrys to tap the main pipe, so the Henrys had a perpetual flow of free water, although it was hard with dissolved minerals and Randy hated to taste it out of the sprinkler heads in grove and garden, even on a hot summer day.
Every family on River Road, except the Henrys, obtained its water in the same way, each with its own pump and well.
Sam Hazzard found that the Henrys were extraordinarily convenient neighbors.
By then, the Bragg home was linked to the houses of Admiral Hazzard, Florence Wechek, and the Henrys not only by an arterial system of pipes fed by nature's pressure, but by other common needs.
Randy was conscious that the Henrys supplied more than their own share of food for the benefit of all.
Because of the Henrys, they could all look forward, one day, to a breakfast of corn bread, cane syrup, and bacon.
Randy's community was far more fortunate with the bearing groves, fish loyally taking bait, the industrious Henrys and their barnyard, and some small game-squirrels, rabbits, and an occasional possum.
He wrote again to set his father straight, but this letter arrived in Washington after the Henrys had left for Germany.
The Henrys received one cheerless letter from Madeline, written when she arrived in Newport for the summer.
The Henrys dined before the reception at the apartment of Commander Grohke, a small dark walk-up flat on the fourth floor of an old house with bay windows.