"Hardly," returned von Ludwig; "but I have discovered that there is a high-powered motor boat aboard.

" He hastened along the deck to where the high-powered motor boat lay covered with a tarpaulin.

King Albert of Belgium was constantly in the field during the early engagements of the war, moving from point to point inside the Belgian lines by means of a high-powered automobile, in which he was slightly wounded by the explosion of a shell.

By way of answer came the soft drone of a high-powered motor; then the car itself rolled into view, a stately limousine coming from the direction of the avenue de Friedland.

Two minutes later the cloud of dust trailed a rakish, trim-lined, high-powered, purring Clagstone "Six" to a stop in front of the Occidental Hotel and Old Heck and Skinny Rawlins climbed glumly and stiffly from the front seat, after the thirty-minute, twenty-mile run from the Quarter Circle KT.

Moving-picture machine operators were seeking advantageous locations for their outfits; pedestrians dodged, indiscriminately, high-powered automobiles and plunging bronchos; the old and the new were slapped together in an incongruous jumble in the streets of Eagle Butte.

She heard the soft buzz of a high-powered car, and presently two lights appeared at the further end.

Bruce provided himself with a high-power magazine rifle.

There was no puff of smoke, for the new high-powered, smokeless powder was used.

I had an edge on the fellow on account of the high-powered voice he owned, so when he suggested that I had been dreaming, I climbed to my feet so that I could make my words more impressive when I started to tell him my opinion of his bluff.

I had a desire to memorize the chant, and even after we had got out of range of the high-powered voice of the singer I found myself murmuring over and over again the words: "That's the way to heaven out Of Black Fernando's hell.

The storm that came screeching after us from way across the Coral Sea was one of those high-powered freak disturbances that juggle with lumps of water like a vaudeville performer juggling with cheap crockery.

"Only, don't let her know that the rewards of your shame run to high-powered cars and high-class apartments.

A mighty small thing; 'twouldn't have been visible except in a high-powered microscope, and only then if you looked hard for it.

That does not sound like a great distance for high-powered motor cars, but we did a good deal of stopping, you see, here and there and everywhere.

Mostly he makes me sore, but when I think about him straight, I wonder how he manages to keep on being as decent as he ishe's really a good enough sort!with all the high-powered petticoats in New York burning incense.

Boldly climbing the ladder and flashing their torch about they quickly located a high-powered wireless outfit.

We know what these things are to-day: the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the fire-trap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.

No living flesh can withstand the terrible, rending shock of a high-powered sporting rifle at close range.

When the great high-powered car from Shale Court stopped at the gate of the blacksmith's cottage on the following morning Mrs. Rickett, who was feeding her young chicks in the yard outside the forge, was thrown into a state of wild agitation.

The telegraph, the telephone, the "wireless," the phonograph, the electric letter writersuch are the modern "conveniences" of romance; and, should an elopement be on foot, what are the fastest post-chaise or the fleetest horses compared with a high-powered automobile?

Between Villers-Cotterets and Soissons the road was strewn with high-power automobiles and motor-trucks that the Germans had been forced to destroy.

He was staring at the road aheadas the driver of a high-powered motor through April mud must do, of courseyet his sister thought she detected a curious compression of the lips not due wholly to the strain of driving under difficulties.

This statement of course won't apply to the fancy cows which are high-power milk machines, and need to be packed in cotton, and kept in satin-lined stalls; but to such cows as farmers have, and always will have, it does apply.

While he looked there came to his ears a roaring, as of some high-powered car traveling under full pressure of gas.