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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Would you like to be free, my boy?" There was a sudden flush on the old man's cheek, and then he answered, meekly: "Thanky', Mas'r Hugh. It comed a'most too late. Years ago, when Sam was young and peart, de berry smell of freedom make de sap bump through de veins like trip-hammer. Den, world all before, now world all behind. Nothing but t'other side of Jordan before.
A hoarse cry from outside the cabin had caused his scalp to tighten and his heart to start pounding like a trip-hammer. With his seaman's knife drawn ready for action the badly-scared sailor rushed out on to the deck prepared to sell his existence dearly. To his amazement the deck was empty of all life, however. Suddenly the hoarse cry sounded again, and this time he located its source correctly.
The wireless you erected on Earthquake Island was as much as I could comprehend." "Well, a trip-hammer isn't as complicated as that," spoke Tom, with a laugh, as he noticed that the two men were far enough away so they could not hear him. "What I was going to say was, that one of those men works in our shops.
One mind now directed all the movements of the many armies of the Union, making all the forces at the control of the nation into one mighty trip-hammer, for the crushing of Slavery's conspiracy against Liberty. General Grant recognized in Carleton his old friend whom he first met in Cairo, and whom he had invited to take a nail-keg for a seat.
But Marie was so upset that she realized only that her heart was beating like a trip-hammer, and her form shaking like an aspen leaf, while being led before those august personages.
It was wonderful to see how, like one who uses a trip-hammer, he drew the iron under the rapidly-plied axe, until the round spike was a narrow, thin blade about six inches in length. Then shifting the angle of the iron a little, he directed Regnar how to beat down one side to an edge, and lastly how to curve the flat of the blade a little at the point, or rather end.
Thus, though a sharpshooter pleases to operate a trip-hammer for the forging of great guns, and an expert machinist desires to march with the flag, the Nation is being served only when the sharpshooter marches and the machinist remains at his levers. The whole Nation must be a team, in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted.
“Fire!” exclaimed I, while my heart took to beating like a trip-hammer, “what fire?” “Why, the fire to cook us, to be sure; what else would the cannibals be kicking up such a row about, if it were not for that?” “Oh, Toby! have done with your jokes; this is no time for them: something is about to happen, I feel confident.” “Jokes, indeed!” exclaimed Toby, indignantly. “Did you ever hear me joke?
For many a long day, and I am sorry to say for many a longer night, that trip-hammer hammered and banged. On the next day after the night-work began, one of my neighbors came to me to know what they did that for. I told him they were anxious to get through. "Get through what?" said he. "The earth?
I had had a good deal of correspondence with him in the meantime, urging him to prompt action, but he always had some good reason for delay. At last it was early in the summer he came with his derricks, a steam-engine, a trip-hammer, and a lot of men. They took off the roof of my house, removed the engine, and set to work.
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