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"We must get some one to help us open the shed roof to let the ship rise out. We can't do it alone." "Guess it's a extraunordinary contract," agreed the negro. "Then you go out and see if any one is in sight. Try to hire them for the work, but don't tell them about the ship. They can work up on the roof. I will see to the gas machine while you are away. Hurry now!" The colored man went out.
The first few hundred feet were up and down as before, but by the time three hundred feet had been covered, the machine was under much better control. The course for the next four or five hundred feet had but little undulation. However, when out about eight hundred feet the machine began pitching again, and, in one of its starts downward, struck the ground.
"But do you think you can do it?" "Sure. You're my meat." "All right, then, my friend. Look me up after the strike is settled, and I'll give you a chance at me." "Remember," Billy added, "I got you staked out." Blanchard nodded, smiled genially to both of them, raised his hat to Saxon, and stepped into the machine. From now on, to Saxon, life seemed bereft of its last reason and rhyme.
The Mandalay gharry, a "dog kennel on wheels," is a frightfully ramshackle thing; doesn't the very name suggest a rickety, rattling sort of a machine? They are of hard wood, loosely built, with wooden seats, iron tyres, loose wooden blinds, and springs of iron I doubt if there are any! and it is hauled by a tiny Burmese pony, licked by a native of India. ... 25th.
Nobody, not even Joe Kivelson, wanted to begin with any massed frontal attack on Hunters' Hall. "We'll have to bombard the place," he was saying. "We try to rush it and we'll lose half our gang before we get in. One man with good cover and a machine gun's good for a couple of hundred in the open." "Bish may be inside," I mentioned.
Only a woman can operate a typewriting machine, because she has served apprenticeship to the sewing machine. She can earn as much as one hundred dollars a month, and professes to regard this form of bread-winning as her natural destiny. But, oh! how she hates it in her heart of hearts!
The most grotesque machine I ever saw that DID something, I felt to be in its own kind beautiful; as God called many fierce and grotesque things good when He made the world good for their good end. But your machine does nothing more than raise the metaphysical doubt and question, whether it can with propriety be called a perpetual motion or not?"
"I was in England in August, 1914, when the war broke out," Thompson said. "I had been interested for some time in flying; had learned to fly a machine myself, and had watched most of the big international flying meets.
'Well, if that's the only way of running the machine the Catholic way I mean, her words came out a little hurried and breathless 'I don't see how we exist. 'You? America? She nodded. 'Do you exist? in any sense that matters? He laughed as he spoke; but his tone provoked her. She threw up her head a little, suddenly grave. 'Of course we know that you dislike us.
The great machines for printing bank-notes are inside the bank, and each note has a different number. Let us follow one throughout its life. It is printed on special paper made for the bank, and not sold to anyone else, and it is printed in the Bank's own machine. It goes in at one end of the machine, just a blank bit of paper, and comes out at the other worth five pounds.
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