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Updated: May 12, 2025
They form the outer skin of the ship, and are fastened to the ribs, keel, stem-post, and stern-post by means of innumerable pins of wood or iron, called tree-nails. The spaces between the planks are caulked that is, stuffed with oakum; which substance is simply the untwisted tow of old and tarry ropes.
"I wonder whether it is smiling because I am doing wrong," thought Pandora, "I have a good mind to leave the box alone and run away." But just at that moment, as if by accident, she gave the knot a little shake, and the gold cord untwisted itself as if by magic, and there was the box without any fastening.
The condemned portion was cut in junks and tested, until the faulty junk was discovered. This was untwisted until the core was laid bare, and when about a foot of it had been so treated, the cause of evil was discovered, drawing from the onlookers an exclamation of horror rather than surprise, as they stood aghast, for treachery seemed to have been at work! "An enemy in the ship!" murmured one.
The rod is a bamboo, weighing seven ounces, which has to be spliced with a winding of silk thread every time it is used. This is a tedious process; but, by fastening the joints in this way, a uniform spring is secured in the rod. No one devoted to high art would think of using a socket joint. My line was forty yards of untwisted silk upon a multiplying reel.
I am a rascal and in my dotage; I am an unhappy wretch grown old; a tent-cord untwisted, a pierced cuirass, a boot without a sole, a spur without a rowel; but do me the pleasure to add one thing." "What is that, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan?" "Simply say: 'Mazarin was a pitiful wretch." "Perhaps he is dead."
In that frame of mind I bathed, changed my clothes, and made my way a little before the appointed time to the Cafe Francais. I found out my table, sent for some more flowers, and ordered the wine. Then I descended to the hall just in time to meet my guest. She wore nothing over her evening dress save a lace scarf, which she untwisted as we ascended the stairs.
Mostly explosive bullets. Good-by." He untwisted the wires from the shattered phone units and thrust them in his pocket. Evelyn was picking up stray small objects from the ground. "I've found some cartridges, Tommy," she said constrainedly, "and a pistol I think will work." "Then listen for visitors," commanded Tommy, "while I look for more."
'Tis a full inch, continued my grandfather, pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger and thumb; and repeating his assertion 'tis a full inch longer, madam, than my father's You must mean your uncle's, replied my great-grandmother. My great-grandfather was convinced. He untwisted the paper, and signed the article.
The first gate I struggled with she called Armstrong in a manner dryly descriptive; for the second she managed a humorous leer to illumine the term; for the third, secured with a garland of barbed wire that must be painfully untwisted, she employed a still broader humour. Even a child would then have known that calling this criminal device the Armstrong gate was a joke of uncommon richness.
I bent a link by main force and untwisted the chain that had hampered me about the ankles, and sprang to my feet, with the chain in my hand. Another goad, flung javelin-wise, whistled by me, and I made a rush towards the darkness out of which it had come.
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