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When I can move that I shall be able to get out." Beppo undertook whatever the Cockatrice told him it was so grand to have a Cockatrice of his own. But it was a hard life, stoking up fires day and night, and bringing the Cockatrice the fodder necessary to replenish his drowsy being.
Pierre, it appeared, had not cooked with any art, he had merely seen to it that there was enough stoking material three times a day. From the moment of that meal on, anything that Marjorie wanted of those men, to the half of their weekly wages, was hers for the asking. She liked it very much. Everybody likes to be admired and appreciated.
"Didn't you come over as a stoker?" "Ye-e-es," said Franck, "I was engaged as a stoker." "But you didn't do any stoking?" "No, I didn't have the muscle for it." "But what did you do on the ship?" asked Lobkowitz. "I? I sailed on the ocean." "Of course. But you were engaged to work. You must have done something to earn money." "I played sixty-six with the first mate."
The extraordinary amount of work demanded extraordinary stoking, and his stomach was unaccustomed to great quantities of bacon and of the coarse, highly poisonous brown beans. As a result, his stomach went back on him, and for several days the pain and irritation of it and of starvation nearly broke him down.
The Kent, stoking all her woodwork to increase steam, attained at 5 o'clock a position 12,000 yards from the Nürnberg, when the latter opened fire. At this late hour a long range action was out of the question. As the Nürnberg slowed down with two of her boilers burst, the Kent closed to 3000 yards and at 7.30 finished off her smaller opponent.
This evening, Mr. told me that I was to get a 33 1/3% raise at the end of next week, so my stay with you has already begun to pay dividends." Freedom-from-Stammering PAYS in dollars and cents. On a cold business basis, it is one of the best investments to be made. One man who attended here a few years ago was a fireman in a large factory, stoking boilers all day long.
An English barque some years ago lay becalmed within a mile from the Stromboli shore. The captain and officers knew the biscuit manufacturer well. The chief officer whose watch it was walked the quarter deck in deep meditation. A sailor who was at the wheel suddenly became aware of two figures close to the crater. One was stoking and the other was vehemently urging him to greater effort.
About eleven Ken, who had done another spell of stoking, went forward again to where his father kept his ceaseless watch. 'Getting near the Narrows, aren't we? he asked in a low voice. 'We are, Ken. If my reckoning is right Nagara Point is almost on our port bow. 'There's a light of some sort just ahead, sir, said Morgan from the wheel. 'I see it too, said Ken quickly.
She liked the man's plain, hard-featured face, ploughed with deep lines of thought and effort, and only redeemed from ugliness by his remarkable eyes. "Stoking up!" he remarked grimly, sipping his soup with a keen appreciation of its quality. "Punkahs and hell-fire again in no time. One hardly has time to cool down before the winter slips away.
"With Hobson on the bridge, two men at the wheel, two in the engine-room, two stoking, and one forward ready to cut away the anchor, the doomed ship entered the narrow water-way and passed the outer line of mines in safety. Then the Spaniards discovered her, and from the way they let loose they must have thought the whole American fleet was trying to force the passage.
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