Followed by Rolfe, he went back to the tree by the library window, where he posted Rolfe with the end of the tape in his hand.

" It was not until the next day that the red tape of the establishment was so far cut as to warrant the surgeon in charge in making a personal inspection of the two invalids.

She set apart some little waists, she sewed on some tapes with slow-moving needle, and gradually she fell into a reverie in the warm deep peacefulness of the room, in the midst of the glowing heat outside.

" The portrule, referred to above, was a device for sending automatically messages which were recorded permanently on the tape at the other end of the line.

Consideration, therefore, should be given to these facts, and great care also taken that all sieves, jelly-bags, and tapes for collared articles, be well scalded and kept dry, or they will impart an unpleasant flavour when next used.

He got a tape from Katherine and measured the dimensions of the room, the private hall, and the corridor.

He got out of bed and paused before a makeshift easel where a drawing, taped to a board, showed a woman sitting on a park bench.

There was such a beautiful absence of red tape about the new institution that it only needed a word in the right ear to set things going; and then, with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, Joe Collins was taken up and safely landed in the Home

After it had alighted and the measurers had laid their tapes on the course, the announcer megaphoned, amid a perfect tornado of roars and cheers: "The last flight, ladies and gentlemenand apparently the winning oneaccomplished the remarkable distance of four hundred and fifty feetfour hundred and fifty feet.

Even men who had fought all through the war had forgotten some of its red tape by that time, and Jeremy not being in uniform they treated him like a fellow human being.

They may compress two years of a child's history on one side of a ruled half-sheet of foolscap paper, if they cause each successive line to stand for a successive month, beginning from the birth of the child; and if they economise space by laying, not the 0-inch division of the tape against the edge of the pages, but, say, the 10-inch division.

There was Flint and Gyngell, with fellows tumbling over head and heels, playing such trickseating fire, and drawing yards of tape out of their mouths.

Would you really have him buy an axe and chop cord-wood, or work as a carpenter, or sell tape behind the counter? Are there not enough to do all that work as fast as it needs to be done?

The treatment in this case consists in simply winding a piece of very narrow tape round the growth, and then leaving it untouched.

Aleck stood six foot high as he stood, but if you ran the tape along his curves he was about six-foot-four.

However much the Germans hampered the Commission with red tape and worse than red tape through the activities of German residents in Belgium, Germany did not want the Commission to withdraw.

Attractive women crowded around guys who wore hammer hooks and Stanley tapes like jewelry on their belts, totems of a better way.