" Monk elevated his eyebrows above recognition of the impertinence, and offered Lanyard a bow of formidable courtesy.

" "But"obliquely Lanyard struck again at the heart of the mystery which he found so baffling"you seem so well satisfied with the bona fides of your informant?" There was a sound of stertorous breathing as the intelligence behind the mutter grappled with this utterance.

Then"the mutter was broken with hopeful anxiety"then you've decided you'll stand in with me, Mr. Lanyard?"

Immediately Lanyard turned to the binnacle.

So when the second mate arrived upon the bridge, Lanyard was waiting for him; and in consequence of a second act of deplorable violence, Mr. Collison returned to the deck backwards and lay quite still while Lanyard returned to the wheel.

Lanyard had no means to measure how long that dumb suspense lasted which was imposed by the stunned faculties of all on board.

As if he had only needed that vision of action to animate him, Lanyard threw Phinuit off, so that he staggered across the slanting floor toward the door.

When he brought himself up by catching hold of its frame, he was under the threat of his own pistol in Lanyard's hands.

What did I tell you when you insisted on coming here to see Monsieur Lanyard?

Under his directions, we cut the lanyards of the topmast rigging, and after that sawed through the topmast just above the cap.

The dun leader and the black racer had lanyards about their necks.

In a panic, a sand-storm, a fusillade from Bedouins, a mirage, and a race for water, if Abdullah and Ali could grasp these lanyards, the caravan was saved, since the other camels followed the dun leader and the black racer as sheep follow the bell-wether.

The Germans always showed heat when they found a big service clasp-knife hung about a captured Englishman's neck on a lanyard, calling it a barbarous weapon because of the length of the blade and long sharp brad-awl which folded into a slot at the back of the handle; but an equally grim bit of cutlery in a Bavarian's bootleg seemed to them an entirely proper tool for a soldier to be carrying.

The steel weather-rigging carried away at the lanyards, and mast, jib, mainsail, blocks, stays, sea-anchor, French Peteeverythingwent over the side.

'Frisco Kid slashed the lanyards.

It was, in fact, impossible to stand there to work long enough to clear, or cut, all the lanyards.

" With haste born of desperation the crew worked to get ready for action, and when all was ready, each man in his place, guns loaded, firing lanyards in hand, gun-trainers at the wheels, all was stillno command to fire was given.

" "Turn me adrift!" deliberately repeated Fid, "that would be cutting all your weather lanyards at one blow, master Harry.

Extended to the utmost powers of endurance, by the vast weight it upheld, the lanyard struck by Earing no sooner parted, than each of its fellows snapped in succession, leaving the mast dependant on itself alone for the support of all its ponderous and complicated hamper.

At this critical instant while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted with a crack that even reached the ears of Wilder.

Each cord, lanyard, or stay snapped, when it received the strain of its new position, as though it had been made of thread, leaving the naked and despoiled hull of the "Caroline" to drive onward before the tempest, as if nothing had occurred to impede its progress.

Her lower rigging is harpened-in, like the waist of Nell Dale after she has had a fresh pull upon her stay-lanyards, and there isn't a block, among them all, that seems bigger in its place than do the eyes of the girl in her own good-looking countenance.

As a matter of course, while the cable was paid out, the portion to which the lanyard or rope part of the shank-painter was fastened dropped into the water, while the felucca rode by the chain.

You dip into it for a moment, choose a suitable quotation and scribble it down with a blunt pencil on your blotting-pad; then you wind the lanyard of the listening-box round your neck and start talking to the germ-collector in that quiet self-assured voice which you believe spells business success.

Young heads have young eyes, and sleep is next to food, after a heavy drag at gun-tackles and lanyards.