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They assisted her into her cot, after which they arranged their own, each girl preparing for bed behind a curtain that had been strung across the cabin, thus making part of the kitchen a dressing room. In the daytime the curtain was drawn back. Harriet was the last to retire.
I sat quietly puffing at my cigar and thinking of nothing in particular for, as far as my plans went, I had done with thought, and all my energies were strung up to action when I was startled by a loud and increasing clamor, as of the shouting of a large crowd coming onward like an overflowing tide.
Sunday was the day of days which the tyrant preferred for meting out this punishment. In the first place it was a day of rest, and so a prisoner's time and labour were not lost. Even if he were strung up to the post all day he could be turned out to work on the Monday morning as usual.
I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was strung high, and guessed that his triumph needed an audience. "You may say so well!" he said. "It iss heafy; and it iss heafy with the world-desire, the great substance than can do efferything. Where iss Percy?" "He's gone aboard." "We must embark. The time is joost right.
Well, what has the Spider done to keep the gossamer stretched, to steady it and to make it retain its greatest capacity? Exactly what our static treatises would advise her to do: she has ballasted her structure, she has done her best to lower its centre of gravity. From the convex surface of the pocket hang long chaplets of grains of sand strung together with slender silken cords.
"That's Jack right enough," said Rogers; "and we'll have to leg it or he'll slip us. Jove! he's captured a wheel with a vengeance. Hear it hum." The quartette strung down the hill full pelt, but when they got to the bottom the cyclist was a good hundred yards ahead. His pursuers came to a dead stop. "May as well go home now," said Grim, in great disgust.
It is practically impossible to purchase these beads, since they are heirlooms. The third string is usually of dog teeth. They are strung alternately with black seeds or with sections of dog rib.
The train by which I had proposed to follow her had left Waterbank. The next train that arrived was for London. I took my place in it still without any plan in my head. At Charing Cross a friend met me. He said, "You're looking miserably ill. Come and have a drink." I went with him. The liquor was what I really wanted; it strung me up, and cleared my head. He went his way, and I went mine.
The open desert is the best of Egypt, and this thread of blue canal strung with lakes through its sand is very pretty and interesting all the way. We come to a swing bridge.
Four or five of these make an Inch, and every one is to be drill'd through, and made as smooth as Glass, and so strung, as Beads are, and a Cubit of the Indian Measure contains as much in Length, as will reach from the Elbow to the End of the little Finger.
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