traversers

The Attorney-General for Ireland, turning his sword into a ploughshare, might conduct the prosecution; and Mr. Cobden and the other traversers might adopt any ground of defence they chose, or prove or disprove anything they pleased, without being embarrassed by the least anxiety or doubt in reference to the verdict.

Miscellaneous Papers 2007

Three cheers for the traversers, and Repale for ever!

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Such, and such like, were the exclamations which greeted the traversers, and their cortŠge, as they drew up to the front or the Four Courts.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

It was on the eleventh morning of the proceedings, on the day on which the defence of the traversers was to be commenced, that two young men, who had been standing for a couple of hours in front of the doors of the Court, were still waiting there, with what patience was left to them, after having been pressed and jostled for so long a time.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

Engines, driving gear, track sprockets and grousers, even secondary moving parts like the turret traversers, were all in need of attention, choked by the dust and dangerously overstressed on the endless bad going.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Only tigerflies could kill traversers - in their own insidious, invincible way.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

Two traversers she recognized at some distance, travelling fast, looking mummified.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

Long after intelligence had died from its peak of dominance, the traversers linked the green globe and the white indissolubly - with that antique symbol of neglect, a spider's web.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

If the banyan ruled the forest, was the forest, then the traversers ruled the Tips.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

The traversers had formed the typical landscape of the Tips.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962