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No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.
Before commencing work the loose ends or strands of a rope should be "whipped" or "seized" to prevent the rope from unravelling; and although an expert can readily tie almost any knot, make a splice, or in fact do pretty nearly anything with a loose-ended rope, yet it is a wise plan to invariably whip the end of every rope, cable, or hawser to be handled, while a marline-spike, fid, or pointed stick will also prove of great help in working rope.
She was a little, plucky, pale-faced thing whom you called instinctively by her first name at the end of half an hour a sort of little mother of loose-ended men, who can make silk purses out of sows' ears, and wouldn't know how to brag if she were tempted.
And he knew well enough that he had not "finished." He might get drunk, might be loose-ended in every way, but Gyp was hooked into his senses, and, for all that he could not get near her, into his spirit. Her very passivity was her strength, the secret of her magnetism.
Anastasia O'Hern was there, to be sure heavy-handed, warm-hearted 'Stashie, who took the new little girl to her loyal spinster heart and wept tears of joy over her safe arrival; but 'Stashie had proved, as Paul predicted from the first time he saw her, incorrigibly rattle-headed and loose-ended.
No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.
One after another rival telegraph and telephone, stock ticker, burglar-alarm, and other companies had strung their circuits without any supervision or restriction; and these wires in all conditions of sag or decay ramified and crisscrossed in every direction, often hanging broken and loose-ended for months, there being no official compulsion to remove any dead wire.
No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, rigged with a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.
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