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Mike squatted on the raft smoking his pipe, but he said nothing. He was thinking over the words the children had spoken. "Mike, guess we'll take a spin over the ice," said Paul. "Mike no like him pouf! full of holes of air!" said Mike, making a sound to show the children the danger of air-holes. "We know an air-hole when we see it and I can't see any of them around here," replied Paul.
"There!" she said, and patted him on the cheek, to show that the task had been successfully accomplished. "Better come along for a little spin," he said, readjusting the tie with man-like ingenuousness. "Do you good, Lou." "Very well," she said. "Can you wait a few minutes?" "Long as you like," said he graciously. "Ask Maud if she wants to come, too."
His ventilator had quieted down once he got into the darkness, but now it started whining slightly again because he was sweating profusely. Finally he figured out the thrust needed to stop the spin. Now all he had to do was compute how much fuel it would take. He had figures on the amount of thrust given by the kind of rocket fuel in the tubes. He also knew how much fuel each tube contained.
"The green gig will do for her; you'll spin along quicker with that, and won't be late upon the road. Her boxes can be called for by one of the wagons." Winterborne, knowing nothing of the timber-merchant's restitutory aims, quietly thought all this to be a kindly chance.
"And they don't set any high value on their lives, either," chimed in Buck. "Whoever's runnin' the show over there, he'll spend his men's blood like water for the chance o' catchin' us and puttin' us to death as slowly as he can make the time spin out." "Slowly? Killing us slowly, Buck?" said Jack. "What do you mean?" "Torture," replied Buck, and the one dreadful word was answer enough. Crack!
A fellow launched his top into the ring, and the rest waited till it began to go to sleep that is, to settle in one place, and straighten up and spin silently, as if standing still. Then any fellow had a right to peg at it with his top, and if he hit it, he won it; and if he split it, as sometimes happened, the fellow that owned it had to give him a top.
Dependent upon no one but himself, the cyclist has his means of exercise always at hand. No preparation is necessary to take a spin of ten miles or so on the road, during a summer evening or before breakfast. Bicycling brings into active use the muscles of the legs as well as those of the trunk and arms.
Hope dies very hard, and Ross having been pushed into corners long before his work at the project, had had considerable training in verbal fencing with hostile authority. He would volunteer nothing.... Let it be pulled from him reluctant word by word! He would spin it out as long as he could and hope that time might fight for him. "You are an agent...."
To escape his terrible flailings, I seized hold of my harpoon-pole sticking in him, and for a moment clung to that like a sucking fish. Now, Bunger boy, spin your part of the yarn." The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his gentlemanly rank on board.
"Then at that rate you can unseat him for bribery." "At that rate or higher," he replied drily. "To unseat another is even more expensive than to seat oneself." "Why, it seems all a question of money," said Miss Amber Roan, naively. Lady Chelmer was glad when the season came to an end and the dancing mice had no longer to spin dizzyingly in their gilded cage.
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