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Updated: June 4, 2025
The captain unscrewed the top of the flask and poured a mouthful of wine between the teeth of the senseless lad. In a minute it took effect. Jack sighed and opened his eyes. "Let's get him on board the yacht at once," exclaimed the captain. First, however, he passed his hand along each limb, and then felt Jack's ribs. The patient winced at the last experiment and uttered a low cry.
Shall I open it for you?" But already the massively chased top lay unscrewed in her hand. Within the cylinder a parchment roll appeared. A moment later she had spread it on her knee, taking care not to tear the ancient, crackling skin whereon faint lines of writing showed. Stern bent forward, eager and breathless.
The men did as they were ordered, but the suspicion was so great that people insisted upon the glasses of the telescopes being unscrewed, in order to be quite sure that there was no pill behind them. See the emergency and the risk. Suppose a single native regiment had sided with the rioters.
This done, he unscrewed all the light bulbs from their sockets lest, when he turned the switch, a sudden glow through the shades arouse some prowling watchman's curiosity. Then he took up the other strand of his wire, to which was attached a carbon electrode, knelt on the floor and gingerly, for so much juice suggested many possibilities to a novice touched the carbon to the safe door.
When quite dry, the cramp being unscrewed, the side block of wood will be found firmly adhering, with the superfluous glue squeezed up from between the surfaces by the pressure. The next proceeding will be to level down the projecting parts of the block in front, to the line of the throat.
Zircon bandaged Scotty's hand with supplies from the first-aid kit while the boys told them what had happened. Tony said, "Very careless, leaving a valve loose like that." Rick told him positively, "It wasn't left unscrewed, Tony. We always use a wrench on those valves because high pressure is so dangerous. And it wasn't like that yesterday. I checked the tanks when we stowed them on the boat."
At night Harry watched through the key hole, and when he saw his mother pass into the doctor's room, he at once unscrewed the covering, shot back the bolt, and screwed the cover on again. He was thus all ready for any event, and if his mother was astonished at his entrance, he could say he found the door open, and she must have forgotten to lock it. Thus prepared he went to bed and slept soundly.
He was now screwing up all that he had previously unscrewed. "Think she'll go now?" I pleaded. He screwed up several dozen things, and whistled a while. Then the oracle gave voice: "'Fraid the batteries won't do; they're awful weak!" With a bitter heart, I turned on my heel and went forth once more. Electrical supplies were not on sale at any of the stores.
He went below with a monkey-wrench, unscrewed the nut, and let the hook drop off. When the Greeks had hauled their nets into their boats and made everything shipshape, a posse of citizens took them off our hands and led them away to jail. "Ay tank Ay ban a great big fool," said Ole Ericsen.
Our guide, after looking eagerly up and down the gloomy precipitous coast in search of some familiar landmark, finally turned to me with a brighter face, and asked to see the compass. I unscrewed the cover and showed him the blue quivering needle still pointing to the north.
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