We brushed our way along with our cutlasses, as we sat on our saddles, enjoying the cool shade; till my companion's mule found herself jammed tight in scrub, and unable to forge either ahead or astern.

Perhaps the rain had swollen the logs, and they had jammed too tightly to let the bar slide in the groove.

When the motion stopped, she found herself jammed in on all sides, with her head downward, much bruised; and in extreme pain.

His high hat was jammed firmly over his brows and the telescope was gripped tightly under his right arm.

Intende nervos fortis, inanibus Risurus olim nisibus emuli; Intende jam nervos, habebis Participes opera Camoenas.

More central to the picture than was at all advantageous to it sat our friend Raw Material, with his head jammed recklessly into the capstan, abandoning himself to his misery.

Quite unconcernedly she would jam down the lever of the taximeter the wily Italian cabby had pulled only halfway so that the meter might register double.

I had no money, I wanted impudence, I could not scramble, temporise, dissemble: non pranderet olus, &c. vis dicam, ad palpandum et adulandum penitus insulsus, recudi non possum, jam senior ut sim talis, et fingi nolo, utcunque male cedat in rem meam et obscurus inde delitescam. 2037.

If the safety valve of a boiler be accidentally jammed, or if the plates or stays be much worn by corrosion, while a high pressure of steam is nevertheless maintained, the boiler necessarily bursts; and if, from an insufficiency of water in the boiler, or from any other cause, the flues become highly heated, they may be forced down by the pressure of the steam, and a partial explosion may be the result.

" CHAPTER XII A TEA CLUB TEA Patty rebelled at being overruled in this manner, but Marian had some Fairfield firmness of her own, and taking her cousin's arm led her to the library and plumped her down upon the couch in a reclining position, while she vigorously jammed pillows under her head.

I could see nothing, although the uproar evidenced a large number of men jammed together in that blackness beneath.