All three were mounted in skeleton settings, | | with spiral screws, but the color of the gold setting of the | | flat diamond was not so dark as the other two.

Gradually, although in the darkness neither their commanders nor anyone else on board realized it, the Queen Mary and the Indefatigable, dashing ahead at full speed as they were, were drawing closer together at every turn of the screws.

The German, it could be seen, was in full pursuit, but the smaller vessel forged rapidly ahead with each turn of her screws.

I tried very hard to make it go; I turned several screws and pushed all the push-buttons" Mr. Carr emitted a hollow, despairing sounda sort of musical groanand feebly plucked at space.

A gigantic fancy flashed across me:This State of New York is a great guitar; yonder, at Albany, are the legislative pegs and screws; down there in Manhattan Island is the great sounding-board; these iron wires are the strings!

A jimmy had been pushed between the frame and the door near the bolt, and the door had been pried open, the bolt being torn away from the screws in the operation.

Abraham seems also to have been sadly deficient in all the auxiliaries of family government, such as stocks, hand-cuffs, foot-chains, yokes, gags, and thumb-screws.

The inner half of the clip or brake is fixed solidly to the block, while the outer half is carried by two screws, geared together by spur-wheels, and so cut that although rotating in opposite directions, their movements are equal and similar.

One of the screws carries a light rope-wheel, by which it can be rotated, the motion being communicated to the second screw by the toothed wheels.

A light spiral spring is placed on each of the screws, in order to free the brake from the rope the moment the pressure is released.

6 All the boats are fitted with twin screws, 1.2 meters (3 feet 11¼ inches) in diameter, these being used on the downstream journey, and also for assisting in steering while passing awkward places during the journey up stream.

They are also provided with water ballast tanks, and under ordinary circumstances they have a draught of 1.3 to 1.4 meters (4 feet 3 inches to 4 feet 7 inches), this draught being necessary to give proper immersion to the screws.

And yet the human element was lacking; there was none of the pomp and panoply commonly associated with man; these men in grey were merely wheels and cogs and bolts and screws in a great machinethe word which has been used so often of the German army, yet must be repeated, because there is no otherwhose only purpose is death.

I stood at the taffrail and peered down at the welter of white water, the foam of the buffets of the whirling screws, and then at the wide wake, which in imagination went on and on in a luminous path to the place we had departed from, to the dock where we had left the debarred lover of nature.

Tom Screws was his name.

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Now and again a white-faced nurse came out for newly-filled water-bottles, and while I scalded my fingers with screws which would not fit and with boiling water poured into narrow necks, she told me about a French officer who was dying.

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This screws me up still higher.

In the country the farmhouses were stacking up their wood-piles within reach of the kitchen door, and taking down the fly-screens, (One leaves these on, as a rule, till the double windows are brought up from the cellar, and one has to hunt all over the house for missing screws.)

It had slipped my memory, nor was there anything in the rates charged to remind me, that single-screws still lingered in the gilt-edged passenger trade.

Iron engines give them motion; Iron pipe our gas delivers, Iron bridges span our rivers, Iron horses draw our loads, Iron rails compose our roads; Iron houses, iron walls, Iron cannon, iron balls, Iron lightning rods on spires, Iron telegraphic wires, Iron hammers, nails, and screws, Iron everything we use.

He'll have Hobart located by this time, no doubt, and will put the screws on him when he learns what has happened to us.

It must be fastened to it with bolts and screws, before it can propel the vessel.

A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can begin to work for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.