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Then there's Captain Burr, in the skipper's cabin, two Samoan half-caste girls in the deck-house there's going to be trouble over those women, old Bruce says, and I don't doubt it and the whole lot will have their meals in the beastly dog-kennel you call a saloon, and I call a sweat-box." "Thank you, Mr. Otway.
"They're bologny sausages. I ain't had nothin' to eat sence last night and I'm hungry." "Well, it's dark out here," explained Anderson, suddenly shuffling into the jail. "I guess I'll put them fellers through the sweat box." "The what?" demanded George Ray. "The sweat-box b-o-x, box. Cain't you hear?" "I thought you used a cell." "Thunderation, no!
Hurled from the office bestowed by his fellow-citizens, so far as he could he protected their interests, at the hazard of the horrors of Fort Pulaski and the sweat-box the favorite instruments of torture of this infamous defendant of an irresponsible Congress, and now for personal safety, exiled from home and country, finds protection under a foreign flag.
During the ten days that I spent in Saigon I stayed at the Hôtel Continental. I shall remember it as the place where they charged a dollar and a half for a highball and fifty cents for a lemonade. It was insufferably hot. I can sympathize now with the recalcitrant convict who is punished by being sent to the sweat-box.
"Well, sir, I was the first salesman the old man struck to make a contract with for the next year. I, had been doing first rate, making a good salary and everything of that kind, and when the old man called me into the sweat-box, he said to me: "'Well, I suppose we haven't very much to talk over. What you have done has been satisfactory to us, and I hope we've been satisfactory to you.
McCloskey would have introduced the new superintendent when the train paused for the signal from the despatcher's window, but Gridley did not wait for the formalities. "Come aboard, Mr. Lidgerwood," he called, genially. "It's too bad we have to give you a sweat-box welcome.
Moon Face had left him for a few days' visit to a camp of her relatives and there had taken the small-pox and died, despite the fact that she had been treated by the wisest medicine men and immersed in the sweat-box, the Indian cure for all ills.
Back to pulleys again and the crowded sweat-box of the copy room and twenty-five dollars a week with the raise gone glimmering now And Nancy is lost. Oliver sits looking at the layouts for United Steel Frame Pulleys for half-an-hour without really doing anything but sharpen and resharpen a pencil. Mrs.
It seems to be a form of torture especially designed fra me, though at times I must confess, it seems rough, and I canna see why, but we'll cut that off with this: life has been Hell's hottest sweat-box fra me these fifteen years." Jimmy groaned aloud. Dannie's keen gray eyes seemed boring into the soul of the man before him, as he went on. "Now how about ye? Ye got the girl ye wanted.
"We've got him chasin' his feet," said Tryon, one of the rule-breaking engineers, making his report to the roundhouse contingent at the close of the "sweat-box" interview. "It's just as I've been tellin' you mugs all along, he hain't got sand enough to fire anybody." Likewise Jack Benson, though from a friendlier point of view.
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