They had a tiny block-house next to the cliff and four small guns on the barricade, all double-charged with canister and grape.

Yet, prompted by the "Dunciad," it is the fashion of literature to regard Theobald with compassion, as a block-head and empiric.

Printing and book selling became a profitable business, and with the application of block print to textiles (probably first used in Sung time) another new field of commercial activity was opened.

But before I proceed to modern times, I am bound to note that the Chinese, who seem to have been many centuries in advance of Europe in most of the industral arts, are supposed to have practised block-printing, just as they do now, more than a thousand years ago.

One was a curious block pattern, the blocks of irregular shapes, but all fitting into each other, and all to be of the gayest colors.

Therefore, even if block-ships were sunk in the most favourable position the operation of making a passage by cutting away the upper works of the block-ships was not a difficult matter, and the Germans are a painstaking people.

There is reason to suppose that playing-cards, from wooden blocks, were produced at Venice long before the block-books, even as early as 1250; but there is no positive evidence that they were printed; and some insist that they were produced either by friction or stencil-plates.

If this arrangement be used in cases where the link is used as an expansion device, there will be, of course, some block slip while running in the intermediate gears.

The whole complete block-universe through-and-through, therefore, or no universe at all!

He had a heap of block-letters before him, and, as we came up, he pointed, without saying a word, to the arrangements he had made with them on the table.

Block diagrams and other graphic methods used in geology and geography.

The energy of block-building is developed into sculpture, architecture, and civil engineering.

False notions about "insane" block care.

British block grants and central-local finance.

RejoicingsThe feast at the block-houseGrumps and Crusoe come out strongThe closing scene.

They put us up on the auction block jest like we was a hoss.

I have made researches and find that the rest of the house was tenanted at that time by a working block-maker, with his wife and four children; a widow and her son just returned from sea with an injured spine; a young couple without children.

This was in 1848, and about this time a plain, homely, broad-hearted "Lancashire chap," named Thomas Haworth, a block printer by trade, and living in the neighbourhood of Accrington, who had taken to preaching in his spare time, was "invited" to supply the Vauxhall-road pulpit.

Wilbur says it will never go, because they only got block stands, and an agent ain't got no show without at least one kind of a litho.

The captain of the Dazzler buckled on his pistol-belt, and placed a rifle and a stout double-block tackle in the boat.

It consists of four pieces, the whole being made of block tin.

First wood, then brick, then brownstone or marblethese are the successive forms of block life, before anything like stability is reached.

Certain arts must have their own pace; but, in our arduous catering for novelties for the MIRROR, we often have occasion to wish that block-machinery could be applied to engraving on wood.

Why did Froebel constantly plead for "unity" even for the tiny child, and tell us to link together his baby finger-games or his first weak efforts at building with his blocks chairs, tables, beds, walls and ladders?

No more block-making for photographs and illustrations; these were optically processed directly to printing plates.