"These floaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort.

But these floaters do make me tired!"

He jabbed the bottle across the bar at Donnegan and spun a glass noisily at him, and the "floater" observed the angry bartender with a frightened side glance, and then poured his drink gingerly.

By the way, your balls are floaters, I hope?" "Only six of 'em," I said.

Thought it was a floater.

Oh, very well," I added indifferently, feeling in my pocket for a non-floater.

But, as the logs are constantly being driven into corners or lodging against piers, floaters are employed to keep the logs in the current.

Men often fall into the streams; they are forced to sleep on the cold ground in uninhabited parts of the country; they frequently fall from the rolling logs into the whirling currents and are tossed against sharp rocks; and the marvel is not that the death-rate among floaters is so high, but that any of them survive the perilous occupation.

And in opening my report of the complex case of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, my Cousin Angela, my Aunt Dahlia, my Uncle Thomas, young Tuppy Glossop and the cook, Anatole, with the above spot of dialogue, I see that I have made the second of these two floaters.

No doubt, if you looked at it from a certain angle, Bertram might be considered to have made something of a floater.

" The floater foamy-necked, to a fowl most like.

The youth selected fourteen warriors and on a "foamy-necked floater, most like to a bird," he sailed to Hrothgar.

On the other hand, this poetry uses many direct and forcible metaphors, such as "wave-ropes" for ice, the "whale-road" or "swan-road" for the sea, the "foamy-necked floater" for a ship, the "war-adder" for an arrow, the "bone-house" for the body.

[Fr.]; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) 546; juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie [Fr.]; net, trap &c 545. Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant^; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener [U.S.], repeater

We'll just shut off the searchlight, and take our chances for a while with the old floaters on the river.

"Even if we came swat up against one of those floaters, that's no reason we'd be snagged and sunk.

Not a shark, or a stingaree, to scare the timid swimmer or floater; not a minnow, or a frog, a tadpole, or a pollywognothing that lives, moves, swims, crawls or wiggles.

Floaters had cleaned the pot until it shone.

There ain't no time to investigate floaters over-particular in the wilderness.

In a flash he realized that he had been making enemies in the district as well as friends, and it struck him that these were the criminal element in the political gang, hangers-on, floaters, the saloon contingent, who were maddened by his attempt to lead the people away from the rotten bosses.

"If she won'tI'll help you carry her!" "And meanwhile," said Neil, "Arbor Croche's men" "Will be as dead as herring floaters if they show up!"