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Updated: May 18, 2025
Joined to one end of the main building the ordinary log-cabin of the settler was the half-round pilot-house of some wrecked steamer, while the other gable terminated in half of a broken whale-boat.
These lengths of conductors were twenty feet six inches long, as the half-round coppers extended three inches beyond the drag-ends of the lengths of pipe; and in one of the operations we used to take the length of tubing out of the window in order to turn it around.
The piers consist of four half-round shafts round a square. In front the capitals are round next the neck moulding and square next the moulded abacus, while at the sides they become eight-sided. The arches are of two orders and only chamfered. The bases are curious, as each part belonging to a different member of the pier begins at a different level.
With that we closed up and faced half-round, thinking they had outflanked us and the day was gone, so there was nothing more to do but make out to die hard, like the sons of Waterloo men. You would have been pleased to see the looks of what was left of the old regiment, father.
I could not make her out, but her languid indifference appeared more assumed than real. With another upward glance, she said: "My name is Marie Delhasse." "It is a well-known name," said I with a bow. "You have heard of me?" "Yes." "What?" she asked quickly, wheeling half-round and facing me. "That you are a great singer," I answered simply. "Ah, I'm not all voice! What about me?
They thowt they were big swells, and had on black coats, white shirts, stiff collars up to their ears, red and green neck-handkerchers, and bell-topper hats; so I just touched one of em on th' showder and said: 'Would you please tek your hats off to let th' lads see th' pictures? Well, the nigger just turned his head half-round, and looked at me impudent like, but he kept his hat on.
The maddened beast shot past me like a yellow streak for another ten yards; then, with a flaring bound and a snort that was between a whistle and a shriek, spun half-round in the air, and alighted rigidly on his front feet, his ears between his knees, and his neck and back describing a vertical semicircle, with the saddle and Jack on the centre of its forward curve.
What am I saying? Garth! . . . Garth! . . ." She stumbled to her feet, her white, ravaged face turned for a moment yearningly towards Far End, where it stood bathed in the mocking morning sunlight. Then she spun half-round, groping for support, and fell in a crumpled heap on the floor. When Sara came to herself again, she was lying on the bed in Elisabeth's room at the hotel.
The circular style prevails most in it, and how to make everything round or half-round seems to have been the supreme job of the designer.
The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame. It was a perfect reproduction of Holmes. So amazed was I that I threw out my hand to make sure that the man himself was standing beside me. He was quivering with silent laughter. "Well?" said he. "Good heavens!" I cried. "It is marvellous."
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