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We've got to blow up the bridge as she crosses." The men were hurrying now toward the bridge which they had mined. Not a moment was to be lost, for already they could see us coming over the crest of the hill. In a few seconds they reached the hidden plunger firing-box which had been arranged to explode the charge under the bridge.
Send about a fourth by express and the others right away by freight." "Yes, but how did you start him, Sam?" "Oh, I'm just going to get to that now. I was something of a kid when I started out west. I've always been a plunger, you know. Of course I've cut out fingering chips for a long time now, but there was no stake too high for me in those days.
Pete is what I would call a plunger with the lid on. He never bets more than two dollars on a race and even then he keeps wishing he had it back. Pete had me nailed to the corner of Broadway and 42d Street for about ten minutes when fortunately Bunch Jefferson rolled up in his new kerosene cart and I needed no second invitation to hop aboard and give Pete the happy day-day! "Whither away, Bunch?"
Nor that track fortunes are only made by bookies or exceptionally wealthy or brainy owners; that a plunger comes out on top once in a million times. That the track, to live, must bleed "suckers" by the thousand, and that he, Colonel Desha, was one of the bled. He was on the wrong side of the table.
A gambler, a plunger, an adventurer, he wins when a careful, honest business man would fail to a certainty." Aline was amazed. "You misjudge him. I am sure you do. But if you think this of him why " "Why do I marry him? I have asked myself that a hundred times, my dear. I wish I knew. I have told you what I see in him to-day; but tomorrow why, to-morrow I shall see him an altogether different man.
This lever operated the lead-casting machine at the back. A plunger was shoved down into a pot of melted lead, kept molten by means of a gas flame. A small quantity of lead was forced up against the line of matrixes, which automatically moved in a position to receive it.
"See, I shall win it all; in one grand coup I shall win it all. I shall win five years' pay in one moment." He swept all of the money forward on the red and threw himself over the table to see the wheel. "Wait, confound you!" whispered the Plunger, excitedly. "If you will risk it, risk it with some reason. You can't play all that money; they won't take it.
"The tide will turn soon," said the broker, confidently, "or something will happen." He had scarcely settled himself back again in the stern-sheets, before the bow of the plunger, obeying some mysterious impulse, veered slowly around and a dark object loomed up before him.
"Set my brothers upon her!" said Ben-Abid. The plunger of the wells sprang upon Halima, opened her scarlet bodice roughly, plunged his claw into her swelling bosom, and withdrew it empty. "Kiss her close, my brothers!" whispered Ben-Abid. A long murmur, like the growl of the tide upon a shingly beach, arose once more from the crowd.
Morning showed the damage of one port window smashed, two panes gone from the engine-room skylight, and the air-pump in one of the boats alongside with a plunger neatly cut into two pieces. But there was a spare air-pump in store, and after dawn came, work went on as usual. The dhows came no nearer, neither did they go much further away.
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