What is "repairing"

Usage examples of "repairing".

The throb of machinery, digging, building, repairing, heard through the surrounding rock, maintained its faster pace.

The guide machines must be busy, he thought, with something else, repairing damage or whatever.

Gibraltar and Minorca, were not ascertained by the treaty of Seville: and that the stipulations in that treaty for repairing the losses of the British merchants were insufficient and precarious.

The majority, far from stigmatizing this transaction, resolved, that the treaty did contain all necessary stipulations for maintaining and securing the honour, dignity, rights, and possessions of the crown: that all due care was taken therein for the support of the trade of the king dom, and for repairing the losses sustained by the British merchants.

In the beginning of April, the king repairing to the house of peers, passed some acts that were ready for the royal assent.

The Irish house of commons being at that time deeply engaged in a minute inquiry into the conduct of a gentleman, a servant of the crown, and a member of their own house, accused of having misapplied a large sum of money, with which he had been intrusted for rebuilding or repairing the barracks, were now unwilling to embroil themselves farther with the government, until this affair should be discussed.

London bridge, carrying on the works for fortifying and securing the harbour of Milford, and repairing the parish church of St.

In the month of April, the temporary wooden bridge over the Thames, built for the conveniency of carriages and passengers, while the workmen should be employed in widening and repairing London bridge, was maliciously set on fire in the night, and continued burning till noon next day, when the ruins of it fell into the river.

The sum of two hundred thousand pounds was voted towards the building and repairing ships of war for the ensuing year.

In the summer of the present year, Houseman being employed, among other labourers, in repairing the public highway, they, in digging for gravel by the road side, discovered the skeleton of a human creature, which the majority supposed to be the bones of Daniel Clarke.

The general, having taken possession of the fort, found it so well situated for commanding the lake Ontario and the Mohawk river, that he resolved to maintain it with a garrison, and employed some days in repairing the fortifications.

This trick was carried on for a length of time, but no progress was made in repairing the street.

But, however inexplicable were the means to which the Emperor resorted to procure resources, it is but just to acknowledge that they were the consequence of his system of government, and that he evinced inconceivable activity in repairing his losses so as to place himself in a situation to resist his enemies, and restore the triumph of the French standard.

I, however, lost no time in repairing to a city where I was sure of finding a great many friends.

ARRIVED IN LEYTE at 1000 the next day, and after fueling and provisioning, the crew went to work repairing the wear and tear of the month of intensive operations in the China Sea.