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Updated: June 13, 2025
"That is an idea, Jack," replied Dick Sand, laughing. "When there is a calm we shall make Hercules blow on the sails." "At your service, Mister Dick!" replied the brave black, inflating his cheeks like a gigantic Boreas. "Now, my friends," continued the novice, we are to begin by binding a spare sail to the yard, because our top-sail was carried away in the hurricane.
I know that it has been objected that the system would be liable to be abused by the Legislature, by whom alone it could be abused, in the party conflicts of the day; that such abuse would manifest itself in a change of the law which would authorize an excessive issue of paper for the purpose of inflating prices and winning popular favor.
Their style is an artificial web, a kind of literary mosaic, every thing in fact that is foreign to their soul, and is made with the pen as any other mechanical work is with the fingers. They possess in the highest degree the secret of developing, commenting, inflating an idea, and, if I may use the expression, of working a sentiment into a ferment.
It was a thin wooden edifice, and it supported him for perhaps a tenth of a second. Then he staggered with it into the limelight, tripped over a Bulgarian officer who was inflating himself for a deep note, and finally fell in a complicated heap as exactly in the centre of the stage as if he had been a star of years' standing. It went well; there was no question of that.
Warming with the theme, and inflating themselves with their own eulogies, these magnanimous heroes of the trencher would start up, advance a short distance beyond the light of the fire, and apostrophize most vehemently their Blackfeet enemies, as though they had been within hearing.
So saying, he wiped his mouth, took up his instrument, and began slowly inflating it. Then, all at once, from drones and chanter there rushed forth such a flood of melody as seemed to sweep me away upon its tide.
"Chemicals already in the retort," he explained. When the balloon was sufficiently inflated, he quickly tied it at the mouth, then began inflating another. "The gas is very buoyant," he explained. "Hold that," he said as he passed the string to the engineer. "There's enough," he said quietly when the third had been filled.
Hurriedly securing some dry clothes from the rubber sacks, which contained our sleeping-bags as well, we made a quick change, and slid into the beds, inflating the air mattresses with our lungs after we were inside. Then we lay down contentedly to rest. We awoke the next morning full of anticipation. Something new lay ahead of us, a promise of variety.
'Of course I wouldn't be connected, nor you either, with anything that was bogus. 'Certainly not. I wouldn't think for a moment of inflating it if I were not positive the property would stand it.
He was aware, too, that, if anything could extricate the house of A. Goodyear and Sons from embarrassment, it was their possession of superior methods of manufacturing and their sale of articles improved by their own ingenuity. Upon examining his life-preserver, an improvement in the inflating apparatus occurred to him.
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