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To release the brakes, the piston and slide valves are again moved into the position shown, by the driver turning air from the main reservoir into the brake pipe. The air in the brake cylinder escapes, and at the same time the reservoir is recharged. They are exactly alike in all respects, and an air tight joint is made between them by means of the rubber washers.
In all other modes of health culture there is a great deal of time consumed in certain exercises that are certain to be given up in time. What the busy world requires is a mode to gain and maintain the health that requires neither time nor thought one that is really automatic. We arise in the morning with our brain recharged by sleep, and we go at once about our business.
He observed mournfully that the vigour which had always recharged itself, no matter how recklessly he had drawn upon it, was beginning to protest. Fifty-two. Well, his troubles were over for the night. So he believed. Arriving home, dirty and spent, he had to find Kitty asleep on the divan! "Kitty," he said, breaking the tableau, "what are you doing here?" "You've been hurt!
Then the trunk descended, to be recharged and disappear again, and Peter, as the trunk was withdrawn, seized the supply-vessel and drew it right away. "Don't believe there's half a pint left," he grumbled. "What about Mister Archie?
He had dropped flat after firing and recharged his gun as he lay. He was sure they must have come armed, and feared a volley as soon as his own discharge indicated his whereabouts. As a matter of fact, they had come divided as to the truth of the report that there was a man on L'Etat even then as to him being the man they sought.
The third merely lifted his head, looked at Tom for a moment as if with indignant surprise, and then went on tearing at the carcass as hard as ever. With a feeling of thankfulness that this particular king of the forest had treated him so contemptuously, Tom slunk behind a tree and recharged his gun, after which he advanced cautiously and sent a ball crashing through the lion's shoulder.
At all events he had recharged his piece of ordnance to the very muzzle with a miscellaneous compound of sand, stones, and sticks anything, in short, that would go down its capacious throat, and, pushing wildly past Groot Willem, took the lead. It was perhaps well for these strangely-assorted hunters that the lion had made up his mind to quit the jungle.
With all the haste we could, one of our guns was got ready and fired at them, on which they seemed to hesitate a little; But they recharged their ordnance, and again fired at us very briskly. In the mean time we got three guns ready which we fired at them, when they were so near that we could have shot an arrow on board.
A few people, no doubt, heard the shot; listened, perchance, for a moment or two, and then, turning in their warm beds, continued their repose. The guard turned out, but as all seemed quiet in the churchyard-prison when they peered through the iron bars, they turned in again, and the sentinel recharged his musket. Close beside one of the sodden graves lay the yet warm body of a dead man.
Paul and his brother led the way out into one corner of the big field, so as to bring what slight breeze might spring up into the head of the airplane, explaining that machines without a pilot would keep a better keel under such conditions. John then carefully attached the bicycle-pump and recharged the air-tank, following which he took out his watch to time the flight. Mr.
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