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Updated: May 14, 2025
Go to the shops, take them vine-leaves out o' your hair, an' git 'em to play the hose on you." "Leave him alone, Poney," said 007 severely, as he was swung on the turn-table, "or I'll " "'Didn't know the old granger was any special friend o' yours, kid. He wasn't over-civil to you last time I saw him." "I know it; but I've seen a wreck since then, and it has about scared the paint off me.
They heard a crunching, grinding sound, a loud snap, and the turn-table came to a stop with its broadest surface shutting off the path from which they had come. "Never mind," said Zeb, "we don't want to get back, anyhow." "I'm not so sure of that," returned Dorothy. "The mother dragon may come down and catch us here."
Then a great cheer went up from more than a thousand throats, for many people had come out from Paloma to watch the test. The train had gone a quarter of a mile past the western edge of the huge and once treacherous quicksand. Now the engine was on a temporary turn-table, waiting to be turned and switched back to bring the train back over the Man-killer at a swift gait. "Where's Mr.
Uncle Richard produced his card, and, before he could ask for the manager the clerk flicked a memorandum out of one pigeon-hole, a key out of another, and twirled the register on its turn-table almost into the midst of the white waistcoat. "The lady has been expecting you for hours, Mr. Underwood," said he. "Looked for you quite early in the afternoon, so the maid says. Register here, please.
But on dry land such a dock is impossible. Accordingly turntable sheds have been adopted. The shed is mounted upon a double turn-table, there being two circular tracks the one near the centre of the shed and the other towards its extremities. The shed is mounted upon a centre pivot and wheels engaged with these inner and outer tracks.
When the discharged engineer had followed him across the turn-table, he faced about and said, not too crisply, "So your sins have found you out one more time, have they, John?" Judson nodded. "What is it this time, thirty days?" Judson shook his head gloomily. "No, I'm down and out." "Lidgerwood made it final, did he? Well, you can't blame him."
The ducky led me down into a standing a space with a turn-table of unusual size, which I made my base of operations for exploring.
The terrible helplessness of the people, their ignorance, and isolation are terrible. The box from home was more than satisfactory. I have thoroughly enjoyed wearing all the pretty things. The hat sister sent was about the size of a turn-table; a strong hat pin and a slight breeze will be all I need to travel to No Man's Land.
The Yonah slipped from the turn-table, swung into the main track and started in pursuit. The throttle was open wide. Fuller and Murphy exchanged glances; the same thought had crossed their minds. If the Yanks had torn up the track ahead of them, the Yonah would be wrecked, and, traveling at such speed, a wreck meant death for them all.
At the turn-table, near the northern extremity of the fifth gallery, two big piles of rubbish had forced their way through from the fifth gallery, and from the looks of the timbers, more was about to come.
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