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Here is a blotting pad, a small pair of shears, a box of clips and a letter scale upon the floor where the sliding body dragged them. The top of the desk is of polished wood; it is perfectly smooth; there are no crevices or anything of the sort to catch hold of anything. When the body slipped from it, it must have swept everything with it, cleanly.
Moreover, the clips upon them would render the paying out over the cliff edge exceedingly awkward; still, since it seemed that the choice lay between risking his life and ruining his professional prospects, he chose the former, and set about making his preparations for what he could not help regarding as a distinctly hazardous experiment.
It is provided with clips so that you can cut in and cut out as many turns of wire as you wish and so tune the sending circuits to send out whatever wave length you desire. It is shown at d, and costs about $5.00. The High Tension Condenser. High tension condensers, that is, condensers which will stand up under high potentials, or electric pressures, can be bought in units or sections.
And if One, vigilant for the dues of His vicegerent, should ask us whose is the image and superscription? We reply, The Sun's. The London air shortens and clips those beams, and yet leaves daylight the finest thing we know. Beauty of artificial lights is in our streets at night, but their chief beauty is when, just before night, they adorn the day.
I passed through all the fiery ordeal of trial, sentence, reception cell, undaunted, but when I made my first toilet in the penitentiary, I must admit, I was "knocked out." Then I felt keenly the sting of disgrace. The prisoner is next introduced to a convict barber, who shaves him and "clips" his hair.
Close Up, finding it did not go off when he expected, began to slacken pace and gallop in an undecided way. It sounds easy enough to gallop up to an animal which you can beat for pace, but anyone who has ever tried to lay a whip on the back of a bullock knows it is not so easy as it looks to get more than one or two clips home.
"You're from here?" "Where else would I be from?" "Couldn't you be from somewhere else?" Nawin chuckled more warmly than a snicker but what came out was still a fusion of both. "Poor people don't change to better locations. They remain trapped where they are. What is Bangkok like?" "You've never seen it?" "No except clips from television news." "You don't like it there?" "It has its moments.
"How are the English?" some one asked. "Do they know how to shoot?" A weary sort of hoot chorused out from the dust-covered men. "Gut genug!" they said. The house was strewn with rusty cartridge clips and smashed brick.
Besides the usual sporran and soul-blade everyone carried, the Sanctioners wore their collars of office, gleaming gold bands snug at their throats. And their blasters, normally worn on belt clips, were all pointed in her direction. Pitting around the muzzles showed Corina, as if she had needed the confirmation, that the weapons had all seen use. She made her body relax.
"A scythe or a handsaw! eh, then what to do, Barny?" "Why, to pare my nails, to be sure," replied Barny, with a loud laugh; "but stay come back here I'll make shift to do wid a pair of scissors this bout. "'The parent finds his sons, The tutherer whips them; The nailer makes his nails, The fiddler clips them."
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