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He is a large fellow; his body measures a palm or more in width." "What shall be done?" was the question. "Catch him," said one. "Jesús! And who will catch him?" Nobody offered to dive down to the bottom of the rack. The water was very deep. "We ought to tie him to our banca and drag him along in triumph," said Sinang. "The idea of his eating the fish which we ought to have!"
Slowly she took off her rings, her hair-combs, her earrings, and her breast-pin, and placing them upon the balustrade of the azotea she looked out toward the river. A banca, loaded with rice grass, stopped at the foot of the landing on the bank of the river at the rear of the house.
In the Near East, where so many of Italy's interests are now concentrated, the Societa Commerciale d'Oriente of Constantinople, being one of the agencies of the Banca Commerciale, was also one of the canals through which this influence passed.
Moreton Frewen appeared in the Nineteenth Century of February, 1916. It was in congruity with those principles and methods that the Banca Commerciale, which had its headquarters in Milan, set itself to discharge the complex functions of a financial, industrial, commercial and political agency of German interpenetration in Italy.
Jurien de la Gravière compares the banca to a cigar-box, in which the traveller is so tightly packed that he would have little chance of saving his life if it happened to upset. We passed several villages and tiendas on the banks in which food was exposed for sale.
Drill a hole for the reception of the soft metal, say 1/2 to 3/4 inch diameter, wash the parts not to be tinned with a clay wash to prevent the adhesion of the tin, wet the part to be tinned with alcohol, and sprinkle fine sal-ammoniac upon it; heat the article until fumes arise from the ammonia, and immerse it in a kettle of Banca tin, care being taken to prevent oxidation.
Bench comes from benc, but bank has a more complicated history. From the French banc we borrowed the word to use in the old expression a "bank of oars." From the Scandinavians, who also had the word, we got bank, used for the "bank of a river." Meanwhile the Italians had also borrowed the old Germanic word which became with them banca or banco, the bench or table of a money-changer.
"From folks nosin' around. We can't have none of the crew hangin' 'longshore, ginnin' up. I'll fix the clearance myself, and see the commissioner." "But I'm to have who I want for'ard," said Peth. "That's it. You know who we want." They hailed a banca and were rowed across the river, making a landing over a tier of cascos.
And saying this, he turned his banca and rowed in the direction of a dense thicket on the beach. He seemed to observe only the millions of diamonds which his paddle lifted and which fell back into the lake, where they soon disappeared in the mystery of the blue waves. Finally, he arrived at the place toward which he had been rowing.
We touched at Bourbon; we ran along the entire coast of Sumatra, a part of Java, the isles of Sonde, and that of Banca; and at last, towards the end of May, eight months after our departure from Nantes, we arrived in the magnificent bay of Manilla. The Cultivateur anchored near the little town of Cavite.
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