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Updated: May 17, 2025
The gangs had spread themselves along the embankments, regardless of the cold rain of the dawn, and there they waited for the flood. Only Peroo kept his men together behind the swell of the guard-tower, where the stone-boats lay tied fore and aft with hawsers, wire-rope, and chains.
In regard to the mode of application of the power in traction, the shorter-distance lines may serve their objects well enough by adopting the endless wire-rope system at present used on many mining properties. But it is found in practice that for heavy freight this endless cable traction does not suit over distances of more than about two miles.
Thus we floated in space as souls drift through raw time. Night added herself to the fog, and I laid hold on my limbs jealously, lest they, too, should melt in the general dissolution. "Where's that prevaricatin' fishmonger?" said Pyecroft, turning a lantern on a scant yard of the gleaming wire-rope that pointed like a stick to my left. "He's doin' some fancy steerin' on his own. No wonder Mr.
This done, I started the engine, and brought up the cage from the bottom, the 300 yards of wire-rope winding with a quaint deliberateness round the drum, reminding me of a camel's nonchalant leisurely obedience.
Bid her be still for the night. I cannot pray, but I have been serving in the Kumpani's boats, and when men did not obey my orders I " A flourish of the wire-rope colt rounded the sentence, and the priest, breaking free from his disciple, fled to the village. "Fat pig!" said Peroo. "After all that we have done for him! When the flood is down I will see to it that we get a new guru.
O sons of unthinkable begetting children of unspeakable shame are we here for the look of the thing?" It was two feet of wire-rope frayed at the ends, and it did wonders as Peroo leaped from gunnel to gunnel, shouting the language of the sea. Findlayson was more troubled for the stoneboats than anything else.
After that I shall deal with you. Mark me! I have you: I am swifter on foot, and I am stronger. Come quietly. Barto smiled in grim contempt. 'Keep your foot fast on that stone, you're a prisoner, he replied, and seeing Ammiani coming, 'Net him, my sling-stone! my serpent! he signalled to his wife, who threw herself right round Ammiani in a tortuous twist hard as wire-rope.
Hitherto the wire-rope tramway has been usually adopted merely as presenting the lesser of two evils. If the nature of the hills to be traversed be so precipitous that ruinous cuttings and bridges would be needed for the construction of an ordinary railway or tramway line, the idea of conveyance by wire suggests itself as being, at least, a temporary mode of getting over the difficulty.
I heard the dinghy splash overboard ere I could cry "Murder!" Heard the rasp of a boat-hook along the wire-rope, and then, as it had been in my ear, Pyecroft's enormous and jubilant bellow astern: "Why, he's here! Right atop of us! The blighter 'as pouched half the tow, like a shark!" A long pause filled with soft Devonian bleatings. Then Pyecroft, solo arpeggie: "Rum? Rum? Rum? Is that all?
Bid her be still for the night. I cannot pray, but I have been serving in the Kumpani's boats, and when men did not obey my orders I " A flourish of the wire-rope colt rounded the sentence, and the priest, breaking free from his disciple, fled to the village. "Fat pig!" said Peroo. "After all that we have done for him! When the flood is down I will see to it that we get a new guru.
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