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How To Use priming In A Sentence

• Page view page image: two of the women nearly gave out and the young fellow with the gun from their frequent crys slackened his pace and being on a very fleet horse road around the women at a little distance at length Drewer overtook the women and by signs convinced them that he did not wish to hirt them they then halted and the young fellow approached still nearer, he asked him for his gun but the only part of the answer which he could understand was pahkee which he knew to be the name by which they called their enimies. watching his opportunity when the fellow was off his guard he suddonly rode along side of him seized his gun and wrest [ed] her out of his hands. the fellow finding Drewyer too strong for him and discovering that he must yeald the gun had p [r] esents of mind to open the pan and cast the priming before he let the gun escape from his hands; now finding himself devested of the gun he turned his horse about and laid whip leaving the women to follow him as well as they could. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
• Their priming mixture, primer cup and anvil are encased in a battery cup that forms its own self supported metallic pocket when inserted into the shell's primer pocket.
• In fact, the elimination of semantic priming by letter search of the prime is ambiguous with regard to lexical activation.
• Only 2% of our patients were primed with sex steroids, and priming would have increased growth hormone secretion in many of the others.
• They could either drill the bullet out, or else keep squibbing the gun with fresh priming till enough of the powder inside the touchhole dried to catch the fire. Sharpe's Waterloo
• The elite take great pains and pride in priming their bodies and minds for the grueling six-month gantlet required of a brutal, collision sport. Training season: Shape guru helps Bush, L.T. prime
• He was still priming the timing device and the slightest error could detonate the mine prematurely. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
• This unconscious and automatic phenomenon is known as priming. NPR Topics: News
• Only 2 patients complained of diplopia at the higher priming dose.
• Signaling to Davies to get under cover, he sprang into his own stand, and, crouching amid the straw, hastily drew over his black fur cap his linen havelock, and looking well to the priming of his gun, sought the whereabouts of the swift-flying birds. Adrift in the Ice-Fields