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Updated: June 9, 2025
The beaux are expected to look grave as judges or the council ring itself, but the movement allows of a good deal of jamming and squeezing; so much so, indeed, that the fair ones are not unfrequently taken off their feet and borne around for short distances by the force of the pressure.
As Raoul suspected, his cable had been grappled; and, seizing the rope, he tightened it to a severe strain, securing the in-board part. Then he passed down to the cable himself, directing his companions to hand him the rope-end of the shank-painter, which he fastened to the cable by a jamming hitch. This took half a minute; in half a minute more he was on the felucca's forecastle again.
But when Jack threw the switches to start the engines, nothing happened at all. "Look at that!" he cried, staring at the motionless dials. "They're jamming our electrical system somehow. I can't get any turn-over." "Try it again," Tiger said. "We've got to get out of here. If they break in, we're done for." "They can't break through the screen," Dal said. "Not as long as it lasts.
In fact, I can't get a message out at all. These people are jamming our radios." "But why?" Dal said. "I don't know, but take a look outside there." Through the viewscreen it seemed as though the whole field around the ship had filled up with the crowd.
Jostling through the street and jamming the courtyard of the War Office was a crowd of a thousand persons mothers, children, whole families begging for relief or permission to leave the city limits; German subjects trying to get passes, officials and employees of the civil administration taking orders from the military authorities.
Jack was being drawn toward the horrible beak and the sight nearly unnerved Dick. Fortunately he had aimed and pressed the trigger before he saw this ghastly sight. He fired three or four shots in quick succession and then heard the sound of a plunge in the water. Jamming his torch into the clutch of one of the tholepins, he seized the rifle and shot a quick glance ahead of him.
"'How's that, fellers? says Ag to me and White. We said we was agreeable. "'All right, in you come! says Aggy. 'There ain't no hog about our firm but as for you, says he, walking on his tip-toes up to the driver, 'as for you, you cock-eyed whelp, around you go! Around you go! he hollers, jamming the end of Moral Suasion into the driver's trap. 'Oh, and WON'T you go 'round, though! says he.
"That she has nothing left for anything else? Of course she hasn't. To whom do you say it? High-strung? Don't I spend my life, for them, jamming down the pedal? I see moreover how it has told on you." Strether took this more lightly. "Oh I jam down the pedal too!" "Well," she lucidly returned, "we must from this moment bear on it together with all our might." And she forged ahead.
Heavy feet pounded on the platform of the blockhouse. While Tom was savagely jamming in powder and ball, the wicket gate of the fort opened, a man came out and ran to a house a biscuit's throw away, and ran back again before he was shot at, slamming the gate after him. Tom swore. "We've got but the ten rounds," he said, dropping his rifle to his knee. "I reckon 'tis no use to waste it."
The people replied that they had seen nothing of the kind, and the horsemen pressed on, jamming their spurs into their poor beasts' steaming flanks. "If you see him, catch and hang him," they shouted, as they scoured away; "he is a Prussian spy!" "A Prussian!" the villagers echoed, with a stupid stare "a Prussian in France!" One of the riders looked over his shoulder for a moment.
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