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Miss Penfold asked quietly. "No, ma'am." "Well, then, look now," she said sharply. "What's the use of having a weapon if you don't see that it's in order?" "It's all right, ma'am," the butler said, examining the priming. "Well, then, come along and don't make a noise." They went downstairs noiselessly, and paused when they reached the hall. The sounds came from the drawing-room.
There are one or two obvious reasons for a boiler's priming; that is to say, throwing water as well as steam into the engine, but this sometimes happens when no cause can be assigned, and Fuller saw that Dick did not expect an answer to his question.
They had offered to make the Hawaiian boy a great chief among them if he would steal more ammunition for the Indians, wet all the priming of the white men's arms, and join the conspiracy to let the savages get possession of fort and ship. In the history of American pathfinding, no explorer was ever in greater danger. Less than a score of whites against two thousand armed warriors!
The woodman threw off his coat, and taking up his rifle, substituted a new for the old flint, and furnishing the pan with fresh priming, before our hero could well understand the proposed and novel arrangement so as to interpose in its arrest, he advanced to the spot where Rivers stood, apparently awaiting the youth's decision, and, slapping him upon the shoulder, thus addressed him:
"The boiler was priming and I was afraid of the cylinders." "Just so. You pumped up the water pretty high?" "No; it was at the usual working level," said Dick, who paused and resumed thoughtfully: "I can't account for the thing. Why does a boiler prime?"
Parker that there were no batteries on shore, took out one of his pistols to look at the priming. He was steering at the time, and by some woeful mishap the pistol went off. "'Never mind, lads, said Mr. Parker; 'I'll lay you alongside in another minute or two. And with that we gave a cheer and bent to the oars.
This magazine he filled with sixty hundredweight of the finest priming powder of his own compounding, and covered it with as heavy a weight of large slabs and millstones as the vessels could carry. Over these he further added a roof of similar stones, which ran up to a point and projected six feet above the ship's side.
An old gunner's mate of the mess Priming, the man with the hare-lip, who, true to his tribe, was charged to the muzzle with bile, and, moreover, rammed home on top of it a wad of sailor superstition this gunner's mate indulged in some gloomy and savage remarks strangely tinged with genuine feeling and grief at the announcement of the sick-ness of Shenly, coming as it did not long after the almost fatal accident befalling poor Baldy, captain of the mizzen-top, another mess-mate of ours, and the dreadful fate of the amputated fore-top-man whom we buried in Rio, also our mess-mate.
'Yes, Garge, my faithful friend sarve me in the back with two fut o carvin-knife, while I was chattin with Garge's pals. "At that Fat George snatches the musket and pulls. "I heard the click of the hammer, but there was never so much as a flash in a pan. "'Thank you, thank you, Fatty, my friend, says the French feller. 'But you know you'd make better shooting, if I hadn't wetted your priming.
When Mr Gladstone was bent upon a great effort, he generally prepared himself for it by taking the yolk of an egg beaten up in a glass of sherry, Mr Bright's priming was said to be a glass of a particular old port, and there was a malicious whisper to the effect that Mr Lowe, whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer made ready to enter the oratorical arena by taking a glass of iced water at the bar, being moved to his choice of a stimulant by considerations of economy.
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