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Updated: June 3, 2025
All I ask of you is to talk business " I moved aside, and backward a little way, disgusted with the ratty soul of the man, and stood looking at the soldiers who were digging out bombproof burrows all along the trench and shoring up the holes with heavy, green planks.
I showed him my figures for the ditch, and he made a memorandum of them; then he said if we would let him have the exclusive use of the sand pit for one year, taking out as much sand as he needed, and also let him have the heavy timbers from the old mill, as he needed them for some shoring he had to do, he would be willing to tear down the old mill, dig our ditch, build us a new dam and a new road, using his caterpillar steam shovel for the work."
Two of these passages led by oblique routes to those old works, the shoring of which had been reported unsafe. This amphitheatre was now a busy scene, empty trucks being pushed off, full trucks being pushed on, all the men carrying lighted lanterns, that wavered and glinted like "wills of the wisp."
"Keep a sharp lookout on him, my men, your lives are not safe whilst he's in the mine." Burnley leaned insolently against a truck and gave the men nothing to observe; the next minute in bustled the honest miner at whose instance Hope had come down the mine, and begged him to come and visit the shoring at once. Hope asked if there were any other men there; the miner replied in the negative.
"The rock's all faulty here this and that way. I'm shoring up the end to keep the roof from falling down on us, and next I'm going to turn sharp at right angles and try to find the end of the vein where it broke off." "You are too near the fort in any case," said the maharajah. "No use driving under the fort." "What do you propose I should do?" Dick answered a trifle testily. "Dig elsewhere."
This was the man who was finally to kick aside the last wedge shoring up the tottering walls of the Russian autocracy. Protopopoff, who had for the first time entered politics in 1908, being a cloth manufacturer of Simbirsk, was in that year elected a deputy to the Duma by the moderate Octobrists, a conservative body which usually sided with the Government.
Thousands of details about drainage, ventilation, shoring, architectural practice, lighting, subsoils, specifications, iron and steel construction, under-pinning, the properties of building materials, strains, thrusts, water-supply; thousands of details about his designs the designs in his 'testimonies of study, the design for his Thesis, and the designs produced during the examination itself all these peopled his brain; but they were in order; they were under control; they were his slaves.
He had gone forward about a hundred and fifty feet when he found the opening leading upward. Then of a sudden he gave a cry of wonder and delight. Just ahead of him were a number of heavy timbers, such as are used for shoring in mines. And among the timbers lay a pick and a crowbar and the remains of a smashed lantern.
"They'll mebbe want a little shoring up, before Say, I wish " "I don't care to go up now, really," protested the girl. "It it's the location I like and " She glanced about the desolate place with a shiver. The air of the long-closed rooms was chilly, despite the warmth of the June day outside. "I'll tell you what," said the deacon briskly.
He and Hutchins had spent much of their time, while we were away, in patching her bottom, puddling it with clay, and shoring it, and it was chiefly to please them that we again attempted to make use of her. We had long been fully convinced that the steel plates were thoroughly unsuitable. On the morning of the 21st the uncomfortable "Asthmatic" grounded on a sandbank and filled.
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