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I have something here which will keep you comfortable;" and he proceeded to place the left arm in a sling, which he adjusted with great care, passing a band from it around his body so as to prevent the member from swinging, or otherwise getting out of position. "Is it necessary that I should take to my berth, Dr. Linscott?" asked the patient.

There was an evil glare in the eyes of the speaker. Vane continued to advance threateningly. "Stand back, I say, or you'll get a taste o' this." He displayed a huge knife, the same with which he had threatened Bordine on a former occasion. "Scoundrel!" "It won't do no good to sling words. Rans, I ain't afeard of em."

"Well, Millons, what news?" inquired the captain, as he stepped on deck. "Bad news, sir, I fear" replied the first mate. "I found, on coming aboard, that no one knew anything about Sling, so I went ashore at once and 'urried up to the hospital, w'ere, sure enough, I found 'im lyin' with his 'ead bandaged, and lookin' as if 'e were about gone.

One was empty; the Count of Luzau-Rischenheim lay on the other, fully dressed, his right arm supported in a sling of black silk. Rupert paused on the threshold, smiling at his cousin; the girl passed on to a high press or cupboard, and, opening it, took out plates, glasses, and the other furniture of the table. Rischenheim sprang up and ran across the room. "What news?" he cried eagerly.

Our ordinary costume consists of flannel shirt and moleskin breeches, boots, socks, leggings, belt, and hat. In chilly and wet weather we sling a potato-sack, or some ancient apology for a coat, round our shoulders. When we visit the township, or our married neighbours, we clean ourselves as much as possible, and put on the best coat we can find in the shanty.

The first day and night I'm a little disposed to shirk the job every year it's the same a little disposed, for example, to sling my pack from my back, and sit down, and go through its contents, and make sure I've got all my equipment." "There's no chance of anyone overtaking you?" "Two men mustn't start from the same office on the same route within six hours of each other.

Mendez, his arm in a sling, passed from group to group, profanely busy, snapping out orders. "They are going to break in the door with that log!" muttered Westcott between his clenched teeth. "That white-head down there is boiling with rage, and whoever the poor devil, or devils, may be, they'll have to fight." "Yes, but who are they?" and Brennan sat up.

"Isabel has a badly bruised hand no bones broken but it was an ugly smash. She will have to carry it in a sling for a few days." "Her hand," Archie murmured, so quaveringly that Mrs. Perry looked at him curiously.

The Pacific is indeed big; but whether he found a place for a display of his talents in it or not, the fact remains he had flown into space like a witch on a broomstick. The little chap with his arm in a sling started to run after the carriage, bleating, "Captain! I say, Captain! I sa-a-ay!" but after a few steps stopped short, hung his head, and walked back slowly.

And we came downward in the last unto the Country of Silence, which did lie an hundred miles deep in the world, and did be an hundred miles every way of Silence unto the Dead. And they that were with me, gat me from the Lift, and did mean to carry me in the sling unto The Last Road. But I stood upon my feet, and made that I should walk, and I held out my hand for the Diskos, which one did carry.