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The gong in the engine-rooms again signaled "full speed" and the live, escaping steam was turned through the triple-expansion engines, and the "Majestic" gathered her full strength for a powerful effort, a record-breaking passage to Queenstown. The life on board the transatlantic ferry is decidedly English, and Mrs. Harris closely studied the courtesies and requirements.
Though we credit ourselves not without some protest from England with the invention of the steamboat, the adaptation of the screw to the propulsion of vessels, and the invention of triple-expansion engines, yet it was England that seized upon these inventions and with them won, and long held, the commercial mastery of the seas.
The cowboy silently wondered how long he could keep from making "a complete, triple-expansion, darned fool of himself!" "I'm glad you want me to go," he said, renewing the conversation as they started around the house, "because I wanted to and, well, anyhow it's my job " "What do you mean 'your job'?" Carblyn June asked quickly. Skinny was stricken silent. He realized he was on dangerous ground.
He could afford to be philosophical: it wasn't HIS vertical inverted triple-expansion direct-acting propeller. "Smile and be more careful ze next time," he went on. "The marquise's reputation is international for what is charitably called her eccentricity." "In America they put people in jail for that kind of eccentricity!" exclaimed Florence.
"Hawkins' Steel Dynamite-Proof Shutters?" Hawkins ignored the remark and busied himself lighting a cigar. "Hawkins' Triple-Expansion Spring-Gun?" I hazarded once more. "Oh, drop it! Drop it!" cried Hawkins. "Positively, Griggs, your efforts at humor disgust one. In some ways, you are as bad as a woman. Go back and sit with the Executive Committee." "What's the connection?"
These are the hopeless people. The Pharisees and there are hosts of their great-great-grandchildren in all our congregations 'the Pharisees ... frustrated the counsel of God. III. Lastly, this thwarting brings self-inflicted harm. A little skiff of a boat comes athwart the bows of a six thousand ton steamer, with triple-expansion engines, that can make twenty knots an hour.
"We'll have to tell the owners, though what will they say?" Maclean closed one eye. "The new Saigon has triple-expansion engines, sir. If I know anything of Mr. Keppel, he'll be better pleased with a ship in the hand than a cause of action against the Russian Government." "But our own men?" "Why, sir, we have 7,000 rubles to share among them. They'll be made for life."
The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings, and fore-and-aft bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship, even where backed by solid, resisting ice; and filling the engine- and boiler-rooms with scalding steam, which brought a quick, though tortured death, to each of the hundred men on duty in the engineer's department.
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