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The only objection to it is its displacement of the pump from the bed. But a little ingenuity will enable the pump to be driven off the fly wheel end of the crank shaft, or, if the shaft is cut off pretty flush with the pulley, off a pin in the face of the pulley. B is a brass tube fitting A closely, and resting at the bottom on a 1/4-inch piece of similar tubing pinned to A.
Shortly after breakfast she came down to the porch where Aggie and I were knitting. "I've hurt my arm, Lizzie," she said. "I wish you'd come out and crank the car." "You'd better stay at home with an arm like that," I replied stiffly. "Very well, I'll crank it myself." "Where are you going?" "To the drug store for arnica." Bettina was not there, so I turned on Tish sharply.
And finally, he walked from Boston in a linen suit, because he would avoid using a horse, for his argument was that the value of time spent in providing food, lodging and care of animals, was not returned to the owners for the outlay. Lane came from England, and was not a "Yankee crank," as some might possibly think.
Closely examining this apparatus, our hero saw that by an ingenious contrivance, a person standing on the platform could, by turning a crank, raise or lower himself at will.
By this time I was very clear that Wake was not the fellow to give me my instructions. He wasn't playing a game. He was a perfectly honest crank, but not a fanatic, for he wasn't sure of himself. He had somehow lost his self-respect and was trying to argue himself back into it.
"Sleep tight, beautiful! Good night!" "Good night, beautifulest!" She stood poised forward on the topmost step, watching him between backward waves of the hand crank, throw his clutch, and steer off. Then she turned inward, a sigh trembling between her lips. "Oh, Mamma Hat, I " But Mrs. Goldstone's chair was empty.
Those run by a treadle are preferable to those run by a hand crank, because they leave the child's hands free to guide the work. Drawing, painting, cutting and pasting are excellent occupations for children.
You wouldn't believe me when I begged you to exert yourself for your grandfather, and now you see even that plain little thing could get on with him just because she dared take him by storm. She has about everything in her disfavor. The child of a common working woman, with no beauty, and a little crank of a Christian Scientist into the bargain, and yet now see!
John's, every successive supply had been lost, and now what we had bought with so much trouble yesterday, the sellers compelled us to sacrifice to-day. But our first care was to ballast the sloop, for without it she was so crank as to be unseaworthy.
Do you think we could find that mountain of gold and precious stones you were telling me about?" "I never entertained any idea so absurd. I merely mentioned poor old Zamorra's crank as an instance of how credulous people could be." "Well, perhaps the idea is not quite so absurd as you suppose.
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