Sometimes there would be a distant rushing sound, a snow-slide thousands of feet above their heads on the mountain.

A snow-slide caught him and he left his horse buried, struggling out himself from the cold smother like a maimed insect to lie for hours by the road till breath and life came back to him.

This object could only be attained by inventing a board to slide in and hide the greater number from their view, and so far we succeeded in gaining their undivided attention to the balls we thought necessary to move out.

To assist the understanding and exercise the judgment, slide a figure in the frame, and say, Figure 8.

Let there then be two five-feet rods, a black foot and a white foot alternately, the bottom foot marked in inches, and let there be a horizontal piece to slide up and down to make various heights.

Direct acting screw engine by Messrs. John Bourne &, Co., cylinder; discs; guides; screw shaft brasses; air pump; slide valve; balance piston; connecting rod; piston rods; cross head; air pump arm; feed pump; crank pin; screw shaft; thrust plummer block; link motion; screw propeller.

Equilibrium slide valve, grid-iron valve.

Joe ate a sandwich and watched huge ferries slide through the night, brilliant against the black water.

For in snow-shoe walking the feet must be lifted straight up and then carried forward before they are planted, and any attempt to slide them forward makes a woeful tangle; to try to lift the ski off the ground, however, is to invite ridiculous distress, and the whole art of scooting on the ski is in the long, sliding motion.

The farmer poured the sour milk down the slide, where it ran into the trough, and the little pigs began to eat.

But in this and other points he had found it better to let things slide rather than throw the whole place out of gear for a trifle.

For example, I once heard Silas Foster, in a very gruff voice, threatening to rivet three horse-shoes round Priscilla's neck, and chain her to a post, because she, with some other young people, had clambered upon a load of hay, and caused it to slide off the cart.

We passed to-day a singular formation which we named "The Devil's Slide," From the top of the mountain to the valley, a distance of about 800 feet, the trap rock projected from 75 to 125 feet, the intermediate layers of friable rock having been washed out.

Of simple instruments, for looking at one slide at a time, Smith and Beck's is the most perfect we have seen, but the most expensive.

Now let me tell you right here that a valve (I mean the ordinary slide valve, such as is used on traction and portable engines), is one of the simplest parts of an engine, and you are not to lose any sleep about it, so be patient until I am ready to introduce you to this part of your work.

They saw him slide far to one side.

Often, as I saw you run out in the snow to slide or skate, I have wished (don't hate me for it) that you might fall and break your leg or your arm, that you might know a little of what I suffered.

"A slide of rock has fallen over the mouth of the tunnel," he said, forcing himself to speak as if it meant little or nothing.

" "A slide of rock," she repeated after him dumbly.

The slide has covered the wires.

Perhaps a, rock from the slide had cut a wire, and they had found the wirehad repaired it!

In the afternoon they saw mountain sheep feeding on a slide half a mile away, and for ten breathless minutes Joanne watched them through the telescope.

The tracks lead to a big slide of rock that opens a break in the west range.

The dory she'd nose up ter butt it, And then git discouraged an' slide; No noise but the thole-pins a-squeakin', Or, maybe, the swash of a wave, No feller ter cheer yer by speakin' 'Twas lonesomer, lots, than the grave.

It was a sort of half rolling, half pitching,very unlike the even, smooth slide of the early part of the afternoon.