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If with her angles she will also renounce some hundreds of other equally harassing absurdities of attire, she may consider her position assured, and her claim to masculine toleration reasonably well grounded. A Wingless Insect. It would be profitable in the end if man would take a hint from his lack of wings, and settle down comfortably into the assurance that midair is not his appointed element.
As fast as the eye could follow sheets of flame shot up out of the sea of smoke, climbing higher and higher, in lightning flashes, until the lurid tongues licked the air a quarter of a mile above the startled wilderness. Explosion followed explosion, some of them coming in hollow, reverberating booms, others sounding as if in midair.
He was fighting to get under, as he had flung himself under the caribou he had disembowelled. Again and again Thor buried his long fangs in the other's flesh; but in fang-fighting the black was even quicker than he, and his right shoulder was being literally torn to pieces when their jaws met in midair.
So far, so good; but observe the irony of things: now that I am rid of passers by, I have to fear my cats, those assiduous prowlers, who, finding my preparations, will not fail to spoil and scatter them. In anticipation of their misdeeds, I establish workshops in midair, whither none but genuine corruption agents can come, flying on their wings.
Halfway up it Krag, suspended in midair, was dealing terrific blows at a blood-red spot with a huge hammer. The rhythmical, clanging sounds were hideous. Presently Maskull made out that these sounds were the familiar drum beats. "What are you doing, Krag?" he asked. Krag suspended his work, and turned around. "Beating on Your heart, Maskull," was his grinning response.
A brief examination showed Peggy that the radiator the intricate mesh-work of pipes in which the circulating water for cooling the cylinders is kept at a low temperature was leaking, and that almost all their supply of water had leaked out. This had caused the cylinders of the motor to overheat and had stopped the aeroplane in midair. "Bad is it?"
Garlanded with blossoms, a glorious girl keeps time with the pulsing atmospheric moods; her gesture, surely a divine one, shows her casting flowers upon the richly embroidered floor of the earth. The light filters through the thick trees; its rifts are as rigid as candles. The nymph in the brake is threatening. Another epicene creature flies by her. Love shoots his bolt in midair.
But they managed to make a good living, and last week I hear they sold out to some city dry goods man for forty thousand dollars." Abe paused with a loaded knife in midair. "Forty thousand dollars between two ain't much, Max," he said. "It's more than I've got, anyhow," Max rejoined as he rose to his feet. "You got lots of time to make money, Max," Abe concluded.
The paddles of the chase ceased to revolve, the huge walking-beam remained poised in midair, and the steamer rounding to, submitted herself to her captors.
"They have no solid ground to build on, and the water above the dam is to be sixty-five feet deep." "I should think the dam would sink into the bog," remarked Genevieve. "That was one factor in the problem," said Blake. "Solved it by putting the steel reinforcement of the concrete in the form of my bridge-truss span. The whole central section could hang in midair and not buckle or drop.