The 3.15 train shall be met if you do not wire to the contrary.

As knowledge grows the child begins to distinguish between what may and what may not happen, though there will always be individual differences, and the more poetic souls are apt to suffer when the outrush of their imagination is checked by a barbed wire of fact.

" He got out his pen-knife, loosened two or three of the staples which held the wire in place, drew it out, scraped back the insulation, and twisted the ends tightly together.

Bearing this in mind, the apparent inconsistency between the regal rigmarole and the Imperial improvisation (these epithets are a tribute to the Republic) which I have received by our special wire from Europe were addressed by the monarchs to their respective armies before the grand "wiring in" which is to follow.

"Look here, we'd better interview the station-master, and have your case wired for to the next stop.

"Can't we connect our supply wire with your new plant, so as to use your power?" he asked.

One of my objects was to get a view of the Austrian trenches and barbed wire on the Tamburo, in order to observe from closer quarters than was possible from any of our O.P.'s the effects of our recent bombardments, and to verify or disprove a report that certain new defensive works were being constructed by the enemy at night.

At this Mr. Tebrick ran out of his house distracted and set open the gates of his garden, but with iron bars and wire at the top so the huntsmen could not follow.

Instructions had already been wired through from London that the Sheppey police were to put themselves entirely at his disposal; and having commandeered a car, the three of them, together with our friend the sergeant, set off to the bungalow.

Here were ranged a large number of instruments on the principle of the voice-writer, but conveying the sound to a vast distance along electric wires into one which reverses the voice-recording process, and repeats the vocal sound itself.

In November experiments were made for the longitude of Edinburgh, which failed totally from the bad state of the telegraph wire between Deptford and the Admiralty.

He put the cork in tightly, and then twisted some wires over the top.

I've set out some young trees in the orchard, and unless I get chicken wire around them, my sheep will be barking them for me.

The banner was hung from the cross wire by means of several loops of rope, and it was in some of these loops that the cat had stuck its claws, and so hung on.

There was a wire across the road.

'I'll wire before eight o'clock to-morrow,' answered Montesma, 'You have decided wisely.

Hung between the rods, being suspended by piano wires as in a spider-web, was the motor, basket, and propeller-shaft.

To control the upward or downward pointing of the new air-ship, shifting ballast was used which ran along a wire under the keel from one end to the other; the cords controlling this ran to the basket also.

We then move three on the third wire, and place three from the fourth wire underneath them saying, twice three are six.

Now if I could only find out what it is!that would be something new in science,a discovery worth knowing,to be able to hear or feel the purport of a telegraphic message, simply by touching the wire along which it runs!

between the two end windows of the stately parlor there stood a harp, the late sunshine gleaming in a soft radiance from its gilded frame and slender wires like the glory of a by-gone day.

'I think you had better telephone for the doctor, and explain everything to him over the wire without speaking to Lord Creedmore just yet.' 'Yes, sir.' 'How long will it take the doctor to get here?' 'Perhaps an hour, sir, if he's at home.

"Stretch a strand or two of wire above the top and let the vine run along it.

There was a throb of passionate joy in the ranks when this eulogium reached the men, for the words were hardly spoken when they were known in every company by that mysterious telegraphy which makes the human body a conductor swift as an electric wire among large masses of men.

I knew the men who handle finance and work the wires behind the scenes, but I wanted to know the others who do the strenuous things and keep the country going.