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The whole cellular substance of the stem is bound together by some cementing materials which hold it in a compact mass, probably a salt of calcium and pectinic acid. The art of preparing flax is a process of getting rid of the worthless wood fibres and preserving the valuable, longer, tougher, and more valuable fibres, which are then made into linen.
One need not attempt to guess of what Wayland was thinking. He had forgotten his companion's presence till the old man spoke. "A suppose, Wayland, you are only one of an army of kiddie boys on the job out here?" Wayland absently roused himself. "Land Service and Reclamation men have tougher jobs and less glory.
"Well, I should hope not," said Wilfrid. "An engagement might be broken." "Not by me." "It might, is all that I say. A romantic sentiment is tougher. Now, I have been straightforward with you: will you be with me? I shall not hurt the man, or wound his feelings." He paused; but it was to find that no admission of the truth, save what oozed out in absence of speech, was to be expected.
It was metal, "elastic metal," as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity almost like steel. Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportions, and in the heating, made it either as pliable as kid, tougher than ox-hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint.
You've asked a straight question, and I've tried to give you a straight answer." The man chewed the butt of his cigar for a few seconds. Then he removed it from his mouth and blew a smoke-ring. "I don't believe," he said, reflectively, "that either of you three had any tougher time than I had when I was a boy. No school after fourteen. No college. Just work, work, work, and then some more work.
"Now, Laddie, we are ready for the final dash," said Welborn, as he rose from the table. "The farther we go, the tougher it gets. And we are on the last leg." "Landy and I had better go along," said Gillis. "Ye might get stuck, and we will be needed to help unload." "You men come back here for dinner," called Mrs. Gillis from the doorway. "You will be too busy to stop and cook."
Stand you at the stair-head," says he to Glascock, "and listen; and if you hear anyone coming, step into Mr. Beauclerc's room with his boots, do you see, for I'm going to rob him." I thought I'd a fainted, and Glascock, that was a tougher lad than me, was staggered; but Mr. Archer had a way of taking you by surprise, and getting you into a business before you knew where you were going.
"Thanks, Cupples, but if the Claflin chap is any tougher than you are I guess Saunders is welcome to his job whenever he wants it back." "Well, say," chuckled the other, "we had a good time, didn't we?" "Great!" assented Clint. And, he reflected as he went on, now that it was all over so they had!
Having given some little idea of the manner in which I experimented, and the conclusions arrived at as to the proper time when timber should be cut, I now propose to give what are, in my opinion, the reasons why timber cut in early summer is much better, being lighter, tougher and more durable than if cut at any other time.
Human beings human children especially seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched; a pupil whose sensations are duller than those of his instructor, while his nerves are tougher and his bodily strength perhaps greater, has an immense advantage over that instructor, and he will generally use it relentlessly, because the very young, very healthy, very thoughtless, know neither how to sympathize nor how to spare.
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