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Ledges of red rock, which seemed as if fires had scorched them for ages, stood edgewise in the troubled earth, their seamed faces toward the sky. It was as if nature had put down that job temporarily, to hurry off and finish the river, or the hills beyond the river, and never had found time to come back.
"Oh, come now, lean on that old thing! Why she couldn't support a postage stamp standing edgewise, as the man says in the play. Do you suppose I don't know how you have to look out for her and do everything? She's not a bit of use." "Yes; but you and I have got to be polite to her, Philly. We mustn't forget that." "Oh, I'll be polite enough, if she will just leave us alone," retorted Phil.
Not long after this the other guest accosted him unexpectedly in the street "For Heaven's sake, don't ask me to dine with that Smith again why, I could not get a word in edgewise." Now, if only for selfish reasons a man might realize that he needs to absorb as well as give out, and so could make himself listen in order to be sure that his neighbor did not get ahead of him.
"I want to hear that man sass you over the phone, if he can get in a word edgewise, and you on the other end of the line." Davy laughed with the others. "Well, the parade starts promptly at eleven, the doors to the Big Show open at one, let's git goin'," said the little man, simulating a circus announcer. Adine went to the house for her hat.
But you will not disturb; we have studied often enough together for you to know how I study." "I know! Not a word in edgewise." Nevertheless he came to the arm-chair he had occupied last night and sat down. "Did you know the master gave me leave to take as many of his books as I wanted? He says a literary sailor is a novelty." "All his books are in boxes in the trunk room on the second floor."
The usual mode of construction, when bricks are used, is to lay them crosswise and flat for the bottom and top, and to set them edgewise for the sides. Tiles for the bottom and covering are an improvement upon bricks: being thinner, the heat passes through them more readily, while they still retain the heat sufficiently to equalize the temperature.
She got out the words as he bade her, but when 't came to the stroke, what with her natural fright, and what with the sunlight on the silver, she brought down the heavy blade edgewise on the boy's pate, laying wide quite a gash above his left eyebrow, so that the blood trickled down his cheek.
It was a subject calculated to excite volubility, and Henry could not get in a word edgewise. But he received some kind glances that made his heart beat. The young lady sat there and gabbled; for she felt sure that no topic imported by a male creature could compete in interest with "the ball." So, at last, Henry rose in despair.
Zoséphine looked up to his face from the little foot that edgewise was writing nothings in the dust. "No," continued her companion: "I walked with him two evenings ago in this avenue, and right where we stand now, without his ever knowing it then or now he as good as told me. Yes, Josephine, he dares to love your beautiful and accomplished daughter!
If any light and flat or nearly flat article be projected or thrown edgewise in a slightly inclined position, the same will rise on the air till the force exerted is expended, when the article so thrown or projected will descend; and it will readily be conceived that, if the article so projected or thrown possessed in itself a continuous power or force equal to that used in throwing or projecting it, the article would continue to ascend so long as the forward part of the surface was upwards in respect to the hinder part, and that such article, when the power was stopped, or when the inclination was reversed, would descend by gravity aided by the force of the power contained in the article, if the power be continued, thus imitating the flight of a bird.
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