A little discreet wire pulling and Esther was once more established as school mistress of District Number Fifteen.

The four most common forms are: (1)~Simple tension,~ in which there is a direct pulling in two of the wood on the under side of the beam due to a tensile stress parallel to the grain, (See Fig.

A little discreet wire pulling and Esther was once more established as school mistress of District Number Fifteen.

The faintest pulling of the imprisoned arm aroused him.

She would trot a few yards, and then begin grazing, notwithstanding my timid expostulations and gentle pullings at her bridle.

After a desperate bout of ineffectual pulling, the dogs with one mind stopped again, and lay down in their bloody tracks.

" "Owing to certain insidious wire-pulling I'm forced to choose Miss Marian Elliott," said Uncle Charley, pinching his daughter's ear.

Hilary cared for him and sought his exchange; but owing to some invisible wire-pulling by Flora Valcour, done while with equal privacy she showed the captive much graciousness, he was still in the Parish Prison, New Orleans, in February, '62, when the book was about to be made, though recovered of wounds and prison ills and twice or thrice out on his parole, after dusk and in civilian's dress, at Callender House.

" "By a little judicious pulling, the chickory, who knows all about measuring things, elongated it to 4 feet 3 inches.

She had her reward in her hand for the mere pulling of a trigger and no incrimination for the result.

I went and found her greatly depressed, and felt sure it was all physical, and not a case for special spiritual pulling.

I was very wet, and not so fresh, after my forty miles or more of hard, steady pulling, as in the morning; I was also very sleepy, so that it was not easy to keep even one eye open to look out for passing coasters,the chief danger.

The team horses, having had a rest from hard labor, had softened, and this sudden return to strenuous pulling had made their shoulders sore.

A few moments' tough pulling brought me through, and, once outside Deer Island, nothing lay between me and Nahant.

However, an end was put to all remarks and expectation raised on tip-toe by the ringing of a small hand-bell, and immediately thereafter a violent pulling at the curtain which concealed the stage.

It was clumsy pulling.

Death is such a silly, cynical thing that a little wholesome leg-pulling by an impartial observer ought to do it good.