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Updated: May 28, 2025
He belongs back in the days of romance, when men like him went playing from castle to court the last one of his kind." Frances watched him with new interest as he drew up to the big gate, which was arranged with weights and levers so that a horseman could open and close it without leaving the saddle. The troubadour rode a mustang the color of a dry chili pepper, but with none of its spirit.
The long cylinder sank with him, and when it had steadied to a balance between his weight and its buoyancy he found that it bore him, shoulders out; and the position he had taken within reach of the levers behind him lifted the blunt nose higher than the stern, but not out of water. This was practicable.
His nerves carried messages more quickly than theirs; his mental processes, culminating in acts of will, were quicker than theirs; his muscles themselves, by some immediacy of chemistry, obeyed the messages of his will quicker than theirs. He was so made, his muscles were high-power explosives. The levers of his body snapped into play like the jaws of steel traps.
"Maybe we won't," spoke Tom, who was always a little diffident about a new piece of machinery. "Well, if it doesn't do it the first time, it will the second, or the fifty-second," declared Ned Newton. "Tom Swift doesn't give up until he succeeds." "Stop it! You'll make me blush!" cried the Black Hawk's owner as he tried the different gages and levers to see that they were all right.
And when at last they were heading down the broad river to the old pleasant music of the clanging levers, the edge of their joy was blunted by the thought of the warrior's lowering looks. "I'm sorry," said Mr. Hume, for the third time. "I believe he has had something on his mind for days past," said Venning; "and yesterday I saw him arguing with the headmen." "Yet he never opposed our going.
There was a moment's silence, which was broken by Septimus's mild voice: "I think, by means of levers running down to the line and worked by the trains as they passed, I could invent a machine for throwing little boxes of samples from the board into the railway carriage windows." Emmy burst out laughing. "Come and show me how you would do it."
When Droop had completed his lecture, Phoebe found that she understood the uses of three of the levers. The rest was a mystery to her. "This is the starting-lever," she said. "This steers, and this reverses. Is that it?" "That's correct," said Droop, "an' if " She cut him short by whisking out of the room. "What drives the thing?" she asked, as he meekly followed her.
Great beads of perspiration stood out on the forehead of Officer Binns as he stood over the array of levers and gave directions, first to ship ballast in one tank, and then in another, shifting the added weight evenly so as not to disturb the equilibrium of the Dewey and cause her to go hurtling to the bottom, top heavy in either bow or stern.
It answered to the slightest touch of the wheel or levers and rode the humps on the field with a motion that told Bill, experienced as he was in that part of the sport, that it was made of the finest possible materials. His admiration finally burst into speech. "What a beauty this is!" he roared over the blast of the throbbing engine.
Let's get away from here before they kill us all!" "Those levers in the center of the board," directed Harry, "govern the spark and fuel. Someone get the wheel. Steer due northwest for a while until we get straightened out!" Frank whirled the spokes of the wheel rapidly and brought the Fortuna up to her course, while Harry quickly operated the switches that gave new impetus to the engines.
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