In some of the more modern pumping engines, the piston is provided with metallic packing, consisting for the most part of a single ring with a tongue piece to break the joint, and packed behind with hemp.

Quite a decent little pack, faute de mieux; and Bobby Amphlett, who hunts them, is a great pal of mine.

Luckily there was little packing to be done, for the few bits of old furniture were to be sold for what they would bring, and the keepsakes that neither Miss Hope nor her sister could bring themselves to part with were stored in several old trunks to be housed in the Watterby attic.

their gaping jaws eludes, And yet a moment lives; till round inclosed 270 By all the greedy pack, with infant screams She yields her breath, and there reluctant dies.

And yes, a pedestrian, carrying a light pack, could make much better time than a horseman with pack animals.

"Two ... two kings of diamonds...." He laughed, a long, harsh laugh, the laugh of a maniac, or of a man possessed, whilst one long thin finger pointed tremblingly to the card still held by Richard Lambert, and then to its counterpart in the midst of the scattered pack.

Censure of an over-numerous pack.

there arose constant now the hoarse and dreadful bayings of the Hounds, and made known that a mighty pack did be out.

He would turn on the fiercest pack of wolves.

See my brave pack!

"They seem to have been pretty much occupied, too," observed the captain, "for a better thumbed pack I never yet found in the forecastle of a ship.

Presently in the press I observed a queer old fellow carrying on his back a monstrous pack of umbrellas.

" "Portable power pack," said Kimball.

'We know that where thick pack may be found early in January, open water and a clear sea may be found in February, and broadly that the later the date the easier the chance of getting through.

When he came into a real wood, of trees large and many, it was about noon, and finding a comfortable place with his back to a tree he ate from the precious pack.

We escaped from the heavy floes about us into much thinner pack, then through two water holes, then back to the thinner pack consisting of thin floes of large area fairly easily broken.

You sweat as though you had a mule-pack on your back. MICHO.

So he sat back in the snow and waited, while the ravenous pack tore at the dead doe.

The prudent huntsman, therefore, will supply, With annual large recruits, his broken pack, And propagate their kind.

In order to bring out all our belongings in one trip we had extra heavy packs, and the country over which we marched was very trying.

On the floor beyond the fire lay the faithful and deep-toned pack of thirty couple of hounds; and on a table before it the spell-dissolving horn, sword, and garter.

All the operations of fancy packing are so simple, that a child may learn them in a day.

There is very little of it to be seen now, the trees have been ruthlessly cut down and mutilated, and of the wild boars, which Francis I. was so fond of hunting there is left only the ghostly quarry that Thibault of Champagne chases through the air, while the sound of his ghostly horn echoes down the autumn night as the fantom pack sweeps by to Montfrault.

A fast and well-bred pack, established more than sixty years ago, they have been admirably presided over by Mr. Albert Brassey for close on a quarter of a century.

They wished to continue their debates on Saturdays, Sir Robert's only day of rest, when he used to rush to Richmond New Park, there to amuse himself with a favourite pack of beagles.