He had just returned from a discussion with a butcher, (from the effects of which the latter now sleeps in the valley,) when a party of his fellow-townsmen entered the store in which he was loafing, and ordered a coil of half-inch rope from New York by the morning's train.

But the twilight would be long, he told himself, and in that other, beneficent inner twilight he worked on, packing the snow, and crawling gingerly up the perilous stair a half-inch at a time.

He had a piece of rope in his hand, the heavy half-inch rope which had served to tie a horse.

You can't tell me petticoats is made out of a strip of white stuff less'n a half-inch wide.

Here, whilst some stretched the canvas, nailing its lower edges to the gunnels, others were employed in lashing together the oars and the mast, and to this bundle they secured a considerable length of new three-and-a-half-inch hemp rope, which we had brought away from the hulk along with the canvas.

He stood wrinkling his half-inch of brow.

"She is apt to want the skirt a little wider and the hem a half-inch deeper than the regular uniform.

Only planks after that, two-and-a-half-inch nails, as gentle as building dolls' houses.

I made a half-inch incision for it.

After a preliminary glance with the six-inch glass, he swung round the nose-piece to the half-inch objective and slipped in a more powerful eye-piece, and with this power he examined the blood-stains carefully, and then moved the thumb-print into the field of vision.

Now for a half-inch lens to make out the specks that seem to be letters.

Mr. Whitworth (whose mechanical powers have realized an accuracy almost fabulous), after a long course of experiments made at the Government's expence, has produced a rifle with an hexagonal box and ball, the correctness of which, at 1100 yards, has proved nearly equal to that of the Enfield at 500 yards, and possessing a penetrating power of wonderful superiority; the Enfield rifle ball scarcely penetrated 13 half-inch Elm planks.

While this was being done two others were busy placing a bronze cannon (two and one-half-inch bore) in position; another got out boxes containing small rope wound criss-cross fashion on wooden pins set upright in the bottom.

The earlier armoured cars used by the Belgians were built at the great Minerva factory in Antwerp and consisted of a circular turret, high enough so that only the head and shoulders of the man operating the machine-gun were exposed, covered with half-inch steel plates and mounted on an ordinary chassis.

A pressure of about half an inch of water is produced by a fan and used to drive air through the bars into a chimney draw of another half-inch.

If you bend a twig, the icing cracks like varnish, and a half-inch branch snaps off at the lightest tap.

Another half-inch, and the bark refused to unroll farther.

Behind her husband, Mama Joy flashed at him a look he did not try to interpretof a truth it was rather complex, with a little of several emotionsand he lifted his hat a half-inch from his forehead in deference to her sex.

TURNIPS WITH CREAM SAUCE.Wash and pare the turnips, cut them into half-inch dice, and cook in boiling water until tender.

CHICKEN BROTH.Take a well dressed, plump spring chicken, cut it into half-inch pieces, cracking well all the bones; add cold water,a quart to the pound of meat and bones,and cook the same as beef-tea.

Disjoint, break or pound the bones, and cut the meat into half-inch pieces.

SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH SAUSAGE Take one pound of cold, boiled sausage, skin and slice in half-inch pieces.

In a kettle or saucepan over the fire add a pint of good cider vinegar, a gill of tarragon vinegar, a half pint of cold water, a half pound of granulated sugar, four bay leaves, a level tablespoon of allspice, a teaspoon of peppercorns and three ounces of stick cinnamon broken in half-inch pieces.

Omniscient Jove never used a monkey-wrench, never sought the elusive spark, never blew up a four-inch tire with a half-inch pump.

As proposed to the last Congress, the central casemate was to be about 120 feet long on the top, its sides being inclined 27-1/2 degrees from the horizon, and composed of 6-3/4 inches of iron, 14 inches of locust backing, and a half-inch iron lining.