THE WRECK III A FUEL PROBLEM IV MONTGOMERY'S OFFER V MONTGOMERY USES HIS POWER VI LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST VII BARBARA'S REFUSAL VIII CARTWRIGHT GETS TO WORK IX LISTER MAKES

None of the lasers struck a vital point in any freighter's fuel system, but the potent cannons, each set on highest power, ripped into the unmanned ships and tore them open to the vacuum.

A hand air-pump or one automatically operated by the engine maintains sufficient air pressure in the fuel-tank to keep a constant flow.

[products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel) 388; wax, paraffin; residue, tar. inflammability, combustibility.

Finally, the whole operation would be complicated by the question of fuel supply, especially to the destroyers and other small craft with a limited radius of action, since we could not depend upon Russian sources of supply.

Thus she noted where, evidently long ago, there had been another fire kindled against the wall of rock; some one else had camped here, perhaps during summer-time, and this explained the fuel wood so conveniently placed.

"I've got my eye on some companiesdomestic natural gas, fiber optics, fuel cell technology.

KEY: 1, percentage of nutrients; 2, fuel value of 1 pound in calories.

They carried 12 mines, but no torpedo tubes, and as they had a fuel endurance of only 800 miles at 5-½ knots, they could operate only in southern waters.

the king returns; To do this deed my heart like fuel burns.

In these matters, the vital organs are as honest and as faithful as the boiler, that gives forth steam in the exact ratio of the heat which the burning fuel evolves and the fitness of the water that is supplied to it; and neither can be persuaded to do otherwise.

Gloria worked at her fuel-gathering, working in the snow until her hands and feet were nearly frozen.

Nor, till the fuel perish, can decay, By nature form'd on things combustible to prey.

These were but a few of the passages between Rameau and the fuel-porter, but they illustrate the state of feeling between them.

A fatigability, that goes with a low blood pressure, lowered body temperature and a disturbed ability to utilize sugar for fuel purposes, is another of his chief complaints.

Wide o'er the field, high blazing to the sky, Let numerous fires the absent sun supply, The flaming piles with plenteous fuel raise, Till the bright morn her purple beam displays; Lest, in the silence and the shades of night, Greece on her sable ships attempt her flight.

The panting engine slowed almost to a snail's pace, having only a scant fuel ration with which to negotiate curve and grade combined.

The fuel receptacle proved to be almost full, so after filling the lubricant cups and attending to the batteries, they started up the enginea powerful, three cylindered, twelve-horse affair capable of driving the twenty-two foot Flying Fish through the water at twelve miles an hour or better.

The saving of coal is urged, but the authorities do not seek to secure for the poor the comfort of the true method of fuel saving.

The fuel shortage still an anxiety.

Round the top of the furnace is a tier of radial outlet holes for the fuel smoke to escape through; and round the bottom is a corresponding tier of inlet air-holes, through which the fuel is continually rabbled with poles by hand.

Only the Wolf was left, the dominant Beastthat darker, hidden side of himself from which no man can wholly escape and which civilization has only smothered, as fresh fuel smothers a flame.

. XII "In that aguish clime I should catch my death, Being but a raw new comer" Quoth he, "We have plenty of fuel stout; And the fires, which I kindle, never go out By winter, nor yet by summer.

On entering the lower room of the house, the visitors saw that there was not a scrap of furniture; the woman, fever-stricken, sat on an orange-box before a low fire; and to prevent the fire from going quite out, she was pulling her seat to pieces for fuel bit by bit.

In 1903 the municipal ownership of gas and oil wells is permitted in Kansas, and of coal or fuel yards in Maine.