Puckering his eyes, he watched now the land, and now the river, silent, furtive, and keenly perplexed, his head on a swivel, as though he steered by some nightmare chart, or expected some instant and transforming sight.

He turned back to the swivel-chair at his desk, seated himself, and twisted about on Peter as he entered.

He arose from his swivel-chair briskly and floated Peter out before him.

They also furnished a large schooner, with ten carriage and sixteen swivel guns, in which they put fifty men under the command of Captain Tyrrell.

This was a strong built ten-oared boat, bearing three swivel guns, kept for exploring the river passages, visiting the islands, and for preventing the incursions of enemies, and repelling the predatory attempts of runaway slaves who sometimes lurked round and infested the coast.

"As to the cow-pen it speaks of, it is a square Fort, with four carriage guns and four swivel guns, and had a garrison in it of forty-seven soldiers of the regular troops, and seven negroes, who were all made prisoners of war.

It was extremely ludicrous, when he was fed in the day time, to see the animal standing, perched up perpendicularly on his two thin legs with his bare tail, and turning his large headround as a ball, and with very large, yellow, owl-like eyesin every direction, looking like a dark lantern on a pedestal with a circular swivel.

In the previous year her armament had been supplied from the flagship, and of course had to be returned, so now she was established with "6 swivel guns, 12 Musquets, and powder and shot" of her own, and her crew was augmented to twenty, including a midshipman and a carpenter's mate, paid as on board a sixth rate.

The armament consisted of two carriage guns on the weakest or east side, and six swivel guns, two on each of the other sides.

Mr. Grimm dropped into the swivel chair at the desk.

"You call on that kid" Suddenly Leverage lay back in his swivel chair and gave vent to a peal of raucous laughter.

Each of the hooked rods in Fig. 2 is connected to the framework through a swivel joint, so that the whole gyrostatic framework may be rotated about the axis of the hooked rods in order to annul the moment of momentum of the framework about this axis due to rotation of the fly-wheels in the gyrostat.]

We must not forget that the distance of the burner from the work is a vital point of the cost question; and, for all except large spaces, requiring general illumination, a common cheap burner on a swivel joint has yet to meet with a competitor.

Any lights suspended, and, in fact, all workshop lights, must have a ball-joint or universal swivel at the point where they branch from the main, as they are liable to be knocked in all directions, and must, therefore, be free to move to prevent accidents.

When the light is not wanted, by simply pushing it away it turns itself down; the swivel being, in fact, a combined swivel and tap.

When the light is not wanted, by simply pushing it away it turns itself down; the swivel being, in fact, a combined swivel and tap.

You will see on one of the lights I have here, a new swivel joint, which has been patented only within the last few days.

The peculiarity of this swivel is that the body is made of two hemispheres revolving on each other in a ground joint.

It will be made also with a universal movement; and its special advantage, either for gas, water, or steam, is that there is no obstruction whatever to a free passagein fact, the way through the swivel body is larger than the way through the pipes with which it is connected.

It can easily be made to stand any pressure, and if damaged by grit or dirt it can be reground with ease as often as necessary without deterioration, whereas an ordinary swivel, if damaged by grit, has to be thrown away as useless.

Mr. Tutt was reclining as usual in his swivel chair, his feet crossed upon the top of his ancient mahogany desk.

" The senior partner of Tutt & Tutt wheeled his swivel chair to the window and crossing his congress boots upon the sill gazed contemplatively down upon the shipping.

Then he threw himself down in his swivel chair with a bang.

"Morally, isn't it my duty to pay over the money, no matter who she is?" Tutt, who had tilted backward in his swivel chair, brought both his feet to the floor with a bang.

On these defenses 376 pieces of cannon of different caliber were planted, besides 35 mortars, 4 howitzers, and 3 swivel guns.