Suddenly he put out a hand and switched off the light, a gesture quite involuntary, simple reaction to the muffled thump of a chair overturned on the floor above.

An old cow that switches her tail at flies and puts her foot in the bucket when you milk her, I absolutely loathe.

The Design of switching circuits for automatic control.

Those who had so ingeniously enticed me to that gloomy house of death had connected up the overhead electric light main with that innocent-looking chair, and from some unseen point had been able to switch on a current of sufficient voltage to kill fifty men.

Do you remember the account that somebody gives in a ragged but terse kind of verse, of the 'gentleman in black,' who, as he walked about, 'Backward and forward he switched his long rail, As a gentleman switches his cane?'

As already stated, the habit of thought most favorable for the persistence of a single group of ideas is attained by the practice of switching the attention back to the desired subject.

I was tired after my long tour, and the days at sea rested me, with good talk when I craved it, and time to sleep, and no need to give thought to trains, or to think, when I went to bed, that in the night they'd rouse me from my sleep by switching my car and giving me a bump.

" "The boys ought to be in to-day," Skinny said, abruptly switching the subject; "they figured on getting the Battle Ridge cattle gathered and in the big pasture by to-night, didn't they?"

Then he switched his angry blue eyes to the blacksmith's smiling countenance.

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Then he put the Bible aside, yawned wearily, and switched out the lamp.

" Bull switched the talk to a more comfortable topic.

THE FIRST BRITISH BATTERY IN ITALY PART III THE ITALIAN SUMMER OFFENSIVE, 1917 CHAPTER XIV THE OFFENSIVE OPENS CHAPTER XV WE SWITCH OUR GUNS NORTHWARD CHAPTER XVI THE FALL OF MONTE

Then, switching his boot with his riding whip, he muttered to himself, as he swung his light frame on his heel, with an indolent, indifferent air, "If the fellow swallows that, he is as stupid as his own goose!"

Both in peace and war, Germany desired and endeavoured to switch off Britain's influence in Europe.

Gradually, I switched my interest towards current affairs and hard news.

All too soon, he switched off the laser and turned the room lights back on.

At this Lester, who had been brooding upon the floor, raised his eyes and then switched one leg over the other.

" The ascent was easily made, for, as Tom had said, they were favored with an unusually level stretch of ground beyond, over which the plane rolled decently until the pilot switched his lever and they started to soar.

He switched his line of attack suddenly: "What made you think I was coming here to discuss Roland Warren's death?"

By aid of black arts learned during those seven years sojourning with the heathen Chinee he could switch malaria (or a plausible imitation of it) on or off at will and fool the M.O.'s every time.

Of course if you switch methods intelligently and of purpose, that is quite another matter.

"'If you don't mind,' he says, 'I think I'll switch my order and take that whisky instead.

Macalister's thoughts had been so full of his plans for the destruction of the officer that the advent of the bomb merely switched these plans in a new direction.

In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercuryperchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimateI would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.