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I rushed back to my cabin, laid the spirit-level on the floor, and the little bubble stopped right in the middle of the tube. The danger was over. Another week passed; and there was no longer any room to doubt that I was moving, and in the right direction. At the pole, there was never a breath of wind; but now it blew quite strong.
He put up his gig at Yoddrell's, and in walking with his assistant and measuring-chain to the scene of his work, he encountered the party of the company's agents, who were adjusting their spirit-level. After a little chat he left them, observing that by-and-by they would reach him again where he was going to measure.
It can't be helped. Regards!" He drank, and shook his wet hair again. Four days of hard riding had left no trace on his iron features. Wet to the bone, his eyes flashed with fire. He held the glassful of whiskey in a hand as steady as a spirit-level and tossed it down a throat as cool as dew. "I want to say another thing, Lance: I had no more intention than a child of hurting Ed Banks.
She uses no spirit-level, no plumb line, no square, no saw, and yet she makes a creditable house, fairly square and plumb, warm and cosy in winter, and cool and comfortable in summer. The mud of the winter's watercourses is used as mortar, and the pieces of disintegrated sandstone, that abound on the mesa tops, form the building material. Men Who Weave and Knit.
We should not have been human if we had not advanced with a Hamlet-Horatio air: "Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?" We found our four friends in a space of the churchyard from which the tombstones had been temporarily removed, engaged, not with mattock and death's head, but with spirit-level and measuring-cord.
Goggles, and tell him, `Pa's kind regards, and hopes his leg's better; and will he lend him his spirit-level? And don't you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold me the light; and when the girl comes back, she must go out again for a bit of picture-cord; and Tom! where's Tom? Tom, you come here; I shall want you to hand me up the picture."
By the by, how have I managed to come so far without a passport?" "This did it," said my engineer, tapping the tin box, which a waiter had restored to me in a wonderful state of polish. "I put a plan or two in it, with some tracing muslin, and allowed a spirit-level to stick out. You were asleep. I know all the officials on this route. I had only to tap the box and nod. You passed as my assistant.
A pointer is attached to the center of the beam, and as the beam oscillates this pointer moves in front of a scale near the base of the post. At the base of the post, usually in the rear, is a spirit-level.
Whereafter, of myself in particular, he inquired as he raised the spirit-level: "What is the matter with YOU, pray?" "I am feeling frightened," I muttered in response. "Feeling frightened of WHAT, indeed?" "Of being drowned." "Pooh! Just you hold your tongue." Yet the next moment he glanced at me, and added in a gentler, quieter tone: "None but a fool gets drowned.
These little canals are three in number, one for each of the dimensions length, breadth, and thickness, so that whichever way the head or body is moved, backward and forward, up and down, or from side to side, the fluid with which they are filled will change its level in one of them, just as the "bead" does in the carpenter's spirit-level that you can find in any tool shop.
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