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Main Bearings The bearing proper consists of a brass tube B with proper oil grooves. It has a dowel arm L which fits into a corresponding recess in the bearing cover and which prevents the bearing from turning. On this tube are three concentric tubes, C D E, each fitting over the other with some clearance so that the shaft is free to move slightly in any direction.
"Here they come!" she said, and out where Camp Street emerges, a glint of steel, a gleam of brass, a swarming of the people that way, and again a shimmer of brass and steel, affirmed her word that the long, plumed, bristling column had got back to the arms of its darling Canal Street. "Yes," cried many, "they're turning this way!" "Well? Well?" insisted the old lady amid the rising din.
The pointer also is cut out of sheet metal, and is attached to the tail by means of the screws already mentioned. It must, of course, be arranged to lie in a line bisecting the angle formed by the two parts of the tail. The rod should preferably be of brass, which does not corrode like iron.
Round the cloister walk are discreet brown doors, and by the side of each door a brass plate tells you the name and titles of the Canon who lives behind it. It is on the principle of Dean's Yard at Westminster; only here there are more Canons and more cats.
She wouldn't have her four thousand back. Simply wouldn't! She was a terror, but I'll say that for her. Well, I kept it. Four thousand pounds is a lot of brass. That's how I started business in Turnhill, if you want to know!" He spoke defiantly. "You may depend I never let on in the Five Towns about my beautiful marriage.... That's the tale. You've got to remember I was twenty-two!"
He drew the dagger out of his hair and cut the man loose. "Jagut Singh!" he exclaimed. The trooper stood up and saluted. "Who brought thee here?" "Women, sahib, in a carriage!" "When?" "Even now!" "Where is that Afridi?" "Dead, sahib!" "How?" "She brought us water in a brass vessel, saying it was by thy orders, sahib. She cut us loose and gave him water first.
Thou, God of this great vast, rebuke those surges which wash both heaven and hell; and thou that hast upon the winds command, bind then, in brass, having called them from the deep. The shock threw the men off their feet as they raised an appealing cry to Heaven, which was mocked by the howling of the wind and the roar of the waters.
I soon met a young man who relieved me of my burden by trading me his brass watch for the wheel and giving me $2 to boot. I had previously got myself elected principal of the little county school, which, if I could pass the State examination, would pay me a little salary, which would be a great help to me while I worked up the Industrial and Normal School which I had come to build.
These foreigners have the brass for you! The Nabob's irritation had impressed me all the same, and as I saw his valet going downstairs four steps at a time, I caught him on the wing and whispered in his ear: "What the deuce is the matter with your governor, Monsieur Noël?"
George was made comfortable in one of the bunks, additional fuel brought in for the night, and then Will, Tommy and Sandy set out to bring the supplies and tents from the camp. "Suppose Antoine, or some one else, should bring the Little Brass God to this cabin," George began. "I wish we knew whether it was Antoine who sat before the fire last night," Thede puzzled.
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