These ideas were meant to disconnect 'the cat' in thought from the site it sat upon.

Don't disconnect your engine with a leaky throttle.

But now, on the new system of travelling, iron tubes and boilers have disconnected man's heart from the ministers of his locomotion.

First he disconnected the air-hose between the car and the engine, tying the ends up with a stout cord so that the connection would not seem to be broken.

"You will at once remove to a hangar the biplane of Monsieur Power," I told him, "and disconnect the ignition.

I told them distinctly to disconnect the instrument so that it rang only in my bedroom.

Given an hour's notice, these busy men who wore those steel vises clamped upon their ears could disconnect the lines, pull down and reel in the wires, pack the batteries and the exchanges, and have the entire outfit loaded upon automobiles for speedy transmission elsewhere.

"No one attends to our telephone calls and, when they do, they keep transferring our calls from one person to another and they finally disconnect the phone," was another general complaint.

This at the same time disconnects his receiving set.

Before I caught the hang of them durn disconnected bob-sleds I saw where the 'skee' come in.

A light touch upon it was sufficient to disconnect a heavy stone from a barrel perched overhead and nicely balanced.

After three journeys across the station and street, I saw the fire blaze well, and the manometer move; when the lever of the safety-valve, whose load I lightened by half an atmosphere, lifted, I jumped down, and tried to disconnect the long string of carriages from the engine: but failed, the coupling being an automatic arrangement new to me; nor did I care.

"Disconnect the telephones.

In the other casethat of the "Commercen"he sought to disconnect the war in which Great Britain was engaged on the continent of Europe from that which she was carrying on with the United States, and to affirm the right of her Swedish ally to transport supplies to the British army in the Peninsula without infringing the duties of neutrality towards the United States.

A certain writer on engineering makes use of the following, and gives me credit: "Sometimes you may come to an obstacle in the road, over which your engine refuses to go, you may perhaps get over it in this way, throw the clutch-lever so as to disconnect the road wheels, let the engine get up to full speed and then throw the clutch level back so as to connect the road wheels."