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Not so very long ago, when particularly handsome bricks were needed for the outside of walls and other places where they would be conspicuous, they were "re-pressed"; that is, they were made by hand or in a "soft-mud" machine, and then, after drying for a while, were put into a re-pressing machine to give them a smooth finish.
Sometimes the encounter resolved itself into a running fight, in the course of which the poor sailor, who formed the bone of contention, was pressed and re-pressed several times over between his hiding-place and one or other of the rendezvous. Rivalry between gangs engaged in ordinary pressing led to many a stirring encounter and bloody fracas.
He pressed and re-pressed the button; but no one answered. Ashton-Kirk looked at his assistant. "Are you quite sure that our man is there," asked he. Burgess chewed his straw calmly. "I'm positive of it," said he. The fat man now entered at the gate and going to the front door, tried it. But it was evidently fast, and he turned away.
Even when the pressed man had procured his substitutes and obtained his coveted discharge, his liberty was far from assured. In theory exempt from the press for a period of at least twelve months, he was in reality not only liable to be re-pressed at any moment, but to be subjected to that process as often as he chose to free himself and the gang to take him.
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