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Expecting every moment to come upon this ambuscade, the boy proceeded, pistol in hand, with the utmost care, crouching under the luxuriant tropical foliage, tunnelling his way, as one might say, along the dark alleys of vegetation, roofed in by the broad leaves overhead. Through cross-alleys he caught glimpses now and then of the broad river, of which he was desirous to keep within touch.
After some time I went down too. I couldn't find them, but I found an extraordinary system of tunnelling a regular catacomb. You get in and out of it all over the town, through trappons, mostly in old houses, I think. I didn't discover where half the tunnels ended. But obviously Wilbraham and his friends know all about it. And that's what they've done with the delegates.
"It's under fifteen feet of snow, but when it comes to tunnelling, look after it, see that it isn't injured, and call me as soon as you find it." Mrs. Sumter looked quickly at her lord. She well knew the reason of his instructions. "Did you show that scrap of lining?" she asked, a moment later, as they stood alone before the parlor fire. "They have it," was the answer.
Now pimple-faced Charlie was his own Major, who habitually did write returns in triplicate; wherefore, after a few remarks of a casual nature in which he elicited the fact that Jesson was a mining engineer and had suddenly been ordered while waiting at the base to join the 940th Tunnelling Company, he took him in tow and showed him round the mine galleries.
The failure for the time being apparently of the more noble and aggressive kinds of goodness against the forces of evil is a matter of technique. Our failure is not due to our failure to know what evil really is, but due to our wasteful way of tunnelling through it. Our religious inventors have failed to use the most scientific method.
She caught only the low, pretty uncertainty in his utterance, the unfailing little break that she loved in his tone. He was saying, "Yes some of it thirty feet. Morris Blood is tunnelling on the Pilot branch this morning; it's bad up there, but the main line is clear from end to end. Surely, you never looked so sweet in your life. Gertrude, Gertrude, you're a beautiful girl. Do you know that?
But already, without a word, brown Feliu has stripped for the struggle; another second, and he is shooting through the surf, head and hands tunnelling the foam hills.... One two three lines passed! four! that is where they first begin to crumble white from the summit, five! that he can ride fearlessly! ... Then swiftly, easily, he advances, with a long, powerful breast-stroke, keeping his bearded head well up to watch for drift, seeming to slide with a swing from swell to swell, ascending, sinking, alternately presenting breast or shoulder to the wave; always diminishing more and more to the eyes of Mateo and Miguel, till he becomes a moving speck, occasionally hard to follow through the confusion of heaping waters ... You are not afraid of the sharks, Feliu! no: they are afraid of you; right and left they slunk away from your coming that morning you swam for life in West-Indian waters, with your knife in your teeth, while the balls of the Cuban coast-guard were purring all around you.
With positive certainty the engineer can remove a portion of a cliff or rock without breaking it into many parts, and can displace masses to convenient distances, under all the varying demands which arise in the process of mining, tunnelling, or cutting into the earth.
It may even be a mine to destroy a mine which is known to be tunnelling into our own trenches, but in any case the explosion is usually a signal for attack from one side or the other, and therefore requires all the usual elaborate arrangements of reinforcements and supports and so on.
The question of the consumption of Candles, Tallow dip, Pounds Twenty-four, stolen from our yard by the 940th Tunnelling Company has come back again with remarks from the Chief Ordnance Officer at the Base but it will wait until you come back from the trenches." "I'm glad of that," remarked the Captain, rising.
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