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He was labouring painfully to carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks, but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to pass endways; and the exertion and this inconvenience combined led him to utter the dissatisfied sounds which disturbed the composure of my horse.
The meal over, they washed up the dishes, and then huddled down in the tent once more. "This is the only drawback to camp life," said Snap, with a sigh. "A storm knocks everything endways. But there is no help for it, and a fellow must take the bitter with the sweet." The storm continued all day, and the only thing the lads did was to fish.
And some mon gets knocked nigh endways when they bring his best tyke home i' th' mornin', dead, wi' the sheep's wool yet stickin' in his mouth." The postman whistled again. "It's what owd Wrottesley'd tell on to a tick. And he'd say, if ye mind, Master, as hoo the dog'd niver kill his master's sheep kind o' conscience-like." "Ay, I've heard that," said the Master.
"I mentioned it to Van Zyl, because it struck me I had about knocked their Royal British moral endways. "'No, says he, rocking as usual on his pony. 'My Captain Mankeltow he is sick. That is all. "'So's your Captain Mankeltow's guns, I said. 'But I'm going to make 'em a heap sicker before he gets well. "'No, says Van Zyl. 'He has had the enteric a little.
Twice we shot past the latter, and had time to notice how a battered log of driftwood tilted endways and went down, but as on the second revolution we swept toward a jutting fang of quartz I made a fierce effort, because here the stream had piled a few yards of shingle against the foot of the rock. The craft yielded to the impulse and drove lurching among the backwash.
She nodded proudly. "The national convention of reform clubs, in Chicago. Aren't you surprised?" Mr. Mix swallowed, and made himself smile, but it was a hazardous undertaking. "Surprised? I I'm I'm knocked endways!"
"This war has knocked things endways for me I'm afraid," he said. "You needn't say anything to John or the boys yet, but if everything keeps rolling down hill as fast as it's been going there will be no college for any one next year. So perhaps you were just as wise to stay home. I didn't know just how good you were to let Ellen come till she told me all about it.
If the tubes are long, their expansion when the boiler is being blown off will be apt to start them at the ends, unless very securely fixed; and it is difficult to prevent brass tubes of large diameter and proportionate length from being started at the ends, even when secured by ferules; but the brass tubes commonly employed are so small as to be susceptible of sufficient compression endways by the adhesion due to the ferules to compensate for the expansion, whereby they are prevented from starting at the ends.
We heard only three days ago as we were going further up the country. It knocked our plans endways, and here we are chasing ourselves to get out." "War!" said the man again. "Who's fightin'? Uncle Sam after them Mexicans?" "No. Mexicans, hell!" exclaimed Duff. "Germany and Britain." "Britain!" The slouching shoulders lost their droop. "Britain!" he said, straightening himself up.
Any day now," he proceeded, warming as he spoke, "there may be the dickens of a dust-up between these Johnnies, and then we've got 'em where the hair's short. See what I mean, you chaps? It's like this. Any moment they may start scrapping and chaw each other up, and then we'll simply sail in and knock what's left endways." A shout of applause went up from the assembled scouts.
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