But a sympathetic foreman told us what was needed: two planks of special springy wood were fastened together by cross pieces at each end, and besides making excellent slides, these made most exciting springboards.

Pearl thinks our party is all right tooshe says they'll grant the voteif they get inand she was at the big meeting where the women asked them to make it a plank in their platform.

"You and the others would take more interest in the subject," said the Boy a little hotly, "if we hadn't let you fellows use nearly all the boat-planks for your bunks, and now we haven't got any for our own.

This he covered with grease, so as to make it difficult to get a foothold, and planks with barbed hooks were placed ready to catch those who were rash enough to seek their aid.

Toil, small as pigmies in the gulf profound; Some, dim between the lofty cliffs descried, 165 O'erwalk the slender plank from side to side; These, by the pale-blue rocks that ceaseless ring, In airy baskets hanging, work and sing.

As soon as the covering parties were over, light bridges to carry infantry in file were constructed by lashing the rafts together and placing planks on them.

Uncle John could not run so swiftly as the lawyer, but he broke through a gap in the hedge and arrived at a point just beneath the plank at the same time that Silas Watson did.

Very cautiously he completed his work on the matchboarding, handing down each plank to Neddy when he had detached it.

We called at some other houses, where the features of life were so much the same that it is not necessary to say more than that the inhabitants were all workless, or nearly so, and all living upon the charitable provision which is the only thin plank between so many people and death, just now.

But when the work of bridging began, and sounds of hammering and the dragging of planks into position could be clearly heard, suddenly all along the further bank the Austrian machine guns began to spit fire, and red rockets went up calling for the Artillery barrage.

it was Walkyn, who, beholding Beltane in his mail, uttered a hoarse shout of welcome, and stooping, thrust a plank across the gulf.

I knew my friend was chuckling as soon as we got into his family pew at the way in which he had lured me step by step, till we walked the last plank over the ditch, so I was not sorry to return good for evil and lend him my note.

She was so far from doubtful that she was but too appalled at it and at the officious mass in which it loomed, and this instinct of dread, before their walk was over, before she had guided him round to one of the smaller gates, there to slip off again by herself, was positively to find on the bosom of her flood a plank by the aid of which she kept in a manner and for the time afloat.

On his way from the town-gate to the water-port, he noticed some deal planks near the beach.

Only planks after that, two-and-a-half-inch nails, as gentle as building dolls' houses.

He had heard nothing; no more than a single step, a single foot-pressure on the planks within the door.

An hour's hard digging, the fixing of planks beneath the wheels, and a towing cable from another lorry sometimes got the machine on to the pressed-down track again and enabled it to move ahead for a few miles, but many were the supply vehicles that had to wait for a couple of sunny days to dry a path for them.

He then called for a light, and stepped forth from the enclosure of planks behind which he worked.

From what were left of the precious planks out of the bottom of the best boat they had made the doortwo by four, and opening directly in front of that masterpiece, the rock fireplace.

She did not at first appear to be derelict; both her sails were set and hanging slack in the afternoon calm, and there was the figure of a man sitting on the fore planking beside the shipped sweeps.

If you don't go at them like bull-dogs, you'll walk the plank before sunset every man of you.

When a dead Mussulman is carried on his plank towards the cemetery, the devout Turk runs from his house as the procession passes his door, for a short distance relieves one of the bearers of the body, and then gives up his place to another, who hastens to perform the same charitable and holy office.

As it fell, it tore up the bitts, broke in the hatch way, and burst through both our sides, starting the planks under her wale, melting several cutlasses & pistols, and firing off several small arms, the bullets of which stuck in her beam.

She leaned over the railing and watched the gang-plank until the very moment of sailing, hoping that he might appear.

Heave, and rip the planks off the lugger's bottomheave, men, heave!