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The weight of this Voisin biplane was about 1,450 lbs., and its maximum speed was some 38 to 40 miles per hour, the total supporting surface being about 535 square feet. It differed from the Wright design in the possession of a tail-piece, a characteristic which marked all the French school of early design as in opposition to the American.
"Falconnet!" said he, by way of tail-piece to the oath; and I nodded. "'Twas that there same hoss-captain, sure enough, ez I reckon," drawled Yeates. "Maybe one o' you two can tell what-all he mought be a-driving at." Jennifer shook his head, and I, too, was silent.
Whether it was the uncertain response to Janet's tone merely, or to truth too loud to be heard, save as a thrill, of some chord in his own spirit, having its one end indeed twisted around an earthly peg, but the other looped to a tail-piece far in the unknown I cannot tell; it may have been that the name now and then recurring brought to his mind the last words of poor Sambo; anyhow, when Janet looked up, she saw the tears rolling down the child's face.
Messala having passed, the Corinthian was the only contestant on the Athenian's right, and to that side the latter tried to turn his broken four; and then; as ill-fortune would have it, the wheel of the Byzantine, who was next on the left, struck the tail-piece of his chariot, knocking his feet from under him.
The blank-verse tail-piece is finer still in execution; it is, with the still finer companion-coda of Sohrab and Rustum, the author's masterpiece in the kind, and it is, like that, an early and consummate example of Mr Arnold's favourite device of finishing without a finish, of "playing out the audience," so to speak, with something healing and reconciling, description, simile, what not, to relieve the strain of his generally sad philosophy and his often melancholy themes.
She had never in her life eaten anything but the tail-piece; the tail was fatter." So the abbess signed to them to give her the tail-end; after which, she asked to see her cell, and, on being shown it, cried out again "Fie on them! was that a cell for a lady of her degree? Why, it was a pig-sty.
The work ends, as a connected series, with the Last Judgment, where Christ, who conquered Death, appears seated on the bow of promise, with his feet resting on a celestial sphere, attended by angels, and showing to a throng of those who have risen from the grave the wounds by which he redeemed them from its power. To this is added an ornamental tail-piece called Death's Arms.
Next a hurried inspection showed him that there was enough of the catgut twisted round the peg to make up for the part that was broken off. In a moment he had fastened it to the tail-piece, tightened and tuned it.
And I fashion the nut over which the tail-piece gut has to stretch, and cut the bed into which it is glued. Then I very carefully wash the violin all over with a clean sponge wrung out of warm water, giving it plenty of time to dry before I finally clean every part thoroughly with No. 0 glass-paper and the violin is finished in the white.
The Christmas Box cuts are all fun and frolic the tail-piece of the preface, a bricklayer on a ladder, "spilling" a hod of bricks the Lord of Misrule, with his polichinel army the Boar's Head a little squat Cook and a steaming Plum-Pudding the Bee and Honeysuckle Major Brown with a Munchausen face the Bear Pit, Monkeys' Houses, and Horned Owl, in the Zoological Gardens and the Parliament of Animals, with the Elephant as Chancellor, the Tortoise for "the table," and Monkeys for Counsel the groups of Toy Soldiers and the head pieces of the Cobbler and his Wife all excellent.
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