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Thus, in the case of both poles and yokes, when the straps are not fastened at the middle, but at one side, the farther the strap moves from the middle, the shorter it makes one side, and the longer the other. So, if both ends are carried round in circles, using as a centre the point to which the strap has been brought, the longer end will describe a larger, and the shorter end a smaller circle.
"Hold out for a few hours longer, and I trust I shall obtain relief for you," said Loraine. "Get Muskey to stay, and he will assist in defending you should any enemies appear." To prevent the dog from following him, Loraine fastened a strap round its neck, and put the end into Hector's hand. The dog, making no resistance, lay down by his side.
The fire shone against her girdle and the stones in the leather strap glowed back blood-red.
Look here, young man, the workshop from Robinson down" Robinson was the foreman "is poking its nose too far into my business. If this goes on, one of these days Robinson will get his dismissal and you the strap." "It wasn't Robinson sent me, sir. It was the mistress." "Eh!" William Wright came to a halt on the pavement and his jaw dropped. "Her uncle, Mr.
And he was serious because he could not answer. Taking the leading strap, when Joqard was brought, the hamari scrupled not to give the brute a hearty cuff, whereat the fishermen shook the sails of the pavilion with laughter; then, standing Joqard up, he placed one of the huge paws on his arm, and, with the mincing step of a lady's page, they disappeared.
"That is the reason I suggest traveling by sled instead of dragging them behind us," said Mark, unruffled. "I've got an idea." Jack stopped then. When Mark said he had an idea his chum knew it was probably worth listening to, for Mark possessed an inventive mind. "We will have to strap the robes and blankets on our shoulders if we abandon the sleds," Mark Sampson said, quietly.
The sunburned child, with her jug hanging by a strap from the saddle horn, had a swift, rapturous vision of alluring, mossy banks, canopied by rustling leaves, before she was called back to the stern hills of her native Kansas and the sterner necessity of forcing a hundred head of maddened cattle to keep within the confines of an illy defined road.
Fortunately my hunting-cap was secured with a chin strap, and still more fortunately I had grasped the horse's neck; otherwise I must have been dragged out of the saddle by the hooked thorns. All the men were cut and bruised, some having fallen upon their heads among the rocks, and others had hurt their legs in falling in their endeavors to escape.
On the ground by his side was a big bundle tied with a thick leather strap. Well, as soon as the bear saw Mary Louise, he took off his cap and said, "I wish I had a pony, Either brown or gray, So I could ride whate'er betide For many miles away." "Why, what's the matter?" asked little Mary Louise. "I have a splinter in my foot," answered the bear.
Clinging fast with one hand, the man bent and unbuckled the woman's strap. Next instant he had lifted her, a dead weight, into his arms and then over his shoulders. His own machine was still scooting downward, its speed even greater than that of the broken flier. When the man saw it swinging past and below him, he instantly clambered, burden and all, to the edge of the cockpit.
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