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On our coming to an anchor again after our second driving off to sea, we laboured indefatigably in getting in our water; and having by the 20th of October completed it to fifty tuns, which we supposed would be sufficient for our passage to Macao, we on the next day sent one of each mess on shore to gather as large a quantity of oranges lemons, cocoa-nuts, and other fruits of the island as they possibly could, for the use of themselves and messmates when at sea.
So back to the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, and there met the two Sir Williams and Col. Treswell and Mr.
Thrym received his veiled bride with due courtesy, but was greatly surprised at seeing her eat for her supper eight salmons and a full grown ox, besides other delicacies, washing the whole down with three tuns of mead. Loki, however, assured him that she had not tasted anything for eight long nights, so great was her desire to see her lover, the renowned ruler of Jotunheim.
I couldn't help it. Don't be cross!" But Dick was implacable. "You know you've no business out at this hour," he said. "I warned you last time when you went to The Three Tuns " He paused abruptly. "Have you been to The Three Tuns to-night?" "No!" said Robin eagerly. Dick's hand pressed upon him. "Is that the truth?" Robin became incoherent again. "I only came to meet you.
It occurred to them that what they needed to navigate a river of this character was something of the nature of large baskets or tuns, in which they might float enclosed to their waists, while keeping themselves from contact with the rocks by the aid of poles. They had no models for such floating contrivances, and were obliged to invent them.
The cultivation of the vine was introduced at Astrakhan in 1613, and a German traveller named Strauss, who visited the city in 1675, found that it had been attended with great success; so much so, that, without counting what was sold in the way of general trade, the province supplied to the Tsar alone every year two hundred tuns of wine, and fifty tuns of grape brandy.
Sulkowski done next day; part of the capture is 'fifteen small guns. Wobersnow goes, next, for Posen; arrives, 28th FEBRUARY; destroys Russian Magazine, ransoms Jews. Shoots out other detachments on the Magazine Enterprise; detaches Platen along the Warta, where are picked up various items, among others 'eighty tuns of brandy, but himself proceeds no farther than Posen.
I thought to myself on waking this morning I took a room at the 'Three Tuns' 'Why, there are Charles and Maggie whom I haven't seen for an age. I'd have sent you a telegram but the truth is, my dear, that I didn't want to spend a penny more than I must. Things haven't been going so well with me of late. It's a long story. I want your father's advice.
"Who sent you here?" he demanded furiously, one day, of the youngest apprentice, who had come for the second time that week to fetch him out of the "King's Oak." "Please you, I wasn't sent here at all," the boy stammered. "I tried the 'Turk's Head' first and then the 'Three Tuns." "And what should make you suppose I was at either?
Fresh water, made by boiling the salt water of the Caspian and condensing the steam, was carried in vats or tuns over the road to the working parties. At a later date water was conveyed in pipes from the mountains to fill cisterns at the stations, whence it was carried in canals or underground conduits along the line, every well and spring on the route being utilized.
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