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Updated: September 21, 2025
But the quick distress of the words was checked by the gentle restraint of Lucas's hand. "I know! I know! But we've all got to die sooner or later, and one doesn't want to tear a larger hole than one need. That's all right, Bertie boy. We'll shunt the subject. Only, if you want to please me, get that nice little girl to marry you soon. Now what was it you wanted to say? Something about Nap?"
"There won't be much time to spare... Tie up your mate," he roars to the tramp. "My mate's all right. It's my engineer. He's gone crazy." "Shunt the lift out of him with a spanner. Hurry!" "But I can make St. John's if you'll stand by." "You'll make the deep, wet Atlantic in twenty minutes. You're less than fifty-eight hundred now. Get your papers."
And then when I found her there, wasn't it natural I should put some store by her friendship? I suppose you didn't know what I thought of you, Wenna, because I kept chaffing you and Mabyn? I have told you something of it now; and now I want you to say whether you have a right to shunt me off like this, without a word of explanation." She sat still, silent and nervous.
Very powerful arc lights, equivalent to hundreds of thousands of candles, can be seen for 100 or 150 miles. When, however, the arc grows too wide, and the current therefore becomes too weak, the shunt solenoid M' gains a purchase over the main solenoid M, and, pulling the iron core towards it, feeds the positive carbon to the arc.
In the "shunt-wound" machine the field magnets are excited by diverting a small portion of the main current from the armature through them, by means of a "shunt" or loop circuit. Thus in figure 42 where C is the commutator and b b' the brushes, M is a shunt circuit through the magnets, and E is the external or working circuit of the machine.
But on the other hand the express, signalled by the incessant tinkling of the electric bells, was now fast approaching, and they had to close the door and in all haste shunt the train to the siding where it would remain for three days, until in fact it was required to convey its load of sick and healthy passengers back to Paris.
"Do you think there's any chance of them pushing in the line and rushing this house?" he asked. The telephonist didn't know. "Well," said the man and lay down again. "It's none o' my dashed business if they do anyway. I only hope we're tipped the wink in time to shunt out o' here; I've no particular fancy for sitting in a cellar with the Boche cock-shying their bombs down the steps at me."
"You needn't get your shirt out, old chap," was the answer, quite good-humouredly. "Look here, now we are alone together so just between ourselves. Do you notice how all of these up-country going fellows shunt him Wheeler, for instance? and Garway, who is at your hotel, never speaks to him. And Garway, you'll admit, is as good a fellow as ever lived." "Yes, I'll own up to that. What then?"
Catching up the suitcase himself, he swung away through the crowd and up the broad stairway, to the Bureau of Information. Two minutes later he was copying an address from the city business directory. "Got his office O.K.," he informed his friend. "Over on Dearborn Street. Next thing's to see if he's in town. Shunt your collar- buttoner, and come on. We can walk over inside ten minutes."
"Ditto here," echoed Jud. "I never was born for inaction; like to be doing something all the time." "So do I," Paul observed, quietly; "but when I find myself blocked in one direction I just turn in another, and take up some other work. In that way I manage not only to keep busy, but to shunt off trouble as well. Try it some time, Jud, and I give you my word you'll feel better."
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