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But he seemed happy through it all, for the brown-eyed girl brought back to his mind the slip of a fishermaid who had died when Tessibel was born. True, there was more copper in the girl's hair and eyes than there had been in the mother's more of the bright burnishing like that of a polished old-fashioned kettle hanging over the spigot in a tidy housewife's kitchen.
The fraction of a convolution which was found to be most advantageous was .281 in the case of the large screw, and .450 in the case of the small screw. Q Were screws of four blades found to be more efficient than screws with two? A They were found to have less slip, but not to be more efficient, the increased slip in those of two blades being balanced by the increased friction in those of four.
But the three were as patient as they, and while a full hour passed after the slip of the stone before the slightest sound came from the slope, they did not relax their vigilance a particle. Then all three heard a slight rustle among the bushes and they peered cautiously over.
"Tell you what," said the Corporal, after he had communicated from his own pipe the friendly flame to his comrade's; "tell you what talk nonsense; the commander-in-chief's no Martinet if we're all right in action, he'll wink at a slip word or two. Come, no humbug hold jaw.
Personally, I am inclined to think that he managed to slip away to America very early in the course of events, before we began to search for him, and, of course, I am having a careful watch kept there as well as here. But no trace has appeared as yet nothing at all trustworthy. Meanwhile, I continue to hope and to work, but I grow a little discouraged.
But Parma still quite in the dark as to French politics was haunted by the vision of seventy thousand foot and six thousand horses ready to be let slip upon him at any, moment, out of a pacified and harmonious France; while he had nothing but a few starving and crippled regiments to withstand such an invasion.
It was pure conjecture on my part, and I dared say nothing beyond begging Ralph not to leave the jewels in the library which, however, he did. I went straight off to my room when the others went to smoke, but I did not go to bed. The more I thought it over the more certain I felt that Carr would not let slip such an opportunity, the more convinced that an attempt would be made that very night.
His eyes were on the slip of paper in his father's hand. "Dad, what is it? Where are we going?" "Read it aloud," Hartson Brant suggested. He handed Rick the slip. Rick scanned it quickly. It was a telegram that his father had taken over the phone. Rick's pulse quickened. Dr.
If I try to slip, my trousers vill remain behind, and and I can't hold on much longer!" "Let go then, and drop," said Dominick, stepping close to the tree. "Oh no, don't!" cried Pauline, with a little shriek; "if you do you'll you'll " "Bust! Yes, I know I shall," shouted Otto, in despair. "No fear," cried Dominick, holding out his arms, "let go, I'll cat "
I was fearful, therefore, that this might be an obstacle to my being taken as a boy-sailor; for I had really made up my mind to offer myself as such on board the Inca. With regard to "John," my apprehensions were very great. On the first impulse, I thought of no other plan than to give him the slip, and leave him to go home without me.
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