This is accomplished by opening a large cock which permits some of the supersalted water to be forced overboard by the pressure of the steam.

Pa turned the cock of the extinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's head, and began to squirt the medicated water all over him.

"They tried a cock at Basel in 1474for the crime of laying an egg.

" Here is a poet speaking: "The soldiers set up the red cock (i.e., fire) upon the houses, just as they like."

After dinner, M'Cruslick, Malcolm, and I, went out with guns, to try if we could find any black-cock; but we had no sport, owing to a heavy rain.

For what happened was that their Mistress, not hearing the cock crow as usual, waked them up earlier than ever, and set them to work in the middle of the night.

This is the farmer sowing the corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.

A cross head pump consists of a pump barrel, a plunger, one vertical check valve and two horizontal check valves, a globe valve and one stop cock, with more or less piping.

I have read, or tried to read your Surius, and Alban Butler, and so forthand they seemed to me bats and assesOne really pitied the poor saints and martyrs for having such blind biographerssuch dunghill cocks, who overlooked the pearl of real human love and nobleness in them, in their greediness to snatch up and parade the rotten chaff of superstition, and self-torture, and spiritual dyspepsia, which had overlaid it.

" The negroes caught Half-a-Cock and threw him into the middle of the cow-pen.

Duling had on his back a basket holding a decoy cock, together with the snares of running-nooses and all the parts of the trap.

"You come here and try to play the cock of the walk," cried the foreman.

" At once the jackals rushed to the pen, strangled everything that was there, and rescued Half-a-Cock.

Beneath his left arm he convulsively carries a struggling game-cock, with gigantic gaffs, while his right hand feebly clutches a lance, the napping of whose pennant in his face appears to give him great annoyance and suggests the services of a "Shoo-fly.

Some one digs a hole; another produces a black cock; and Rama with a knife cuts its throat over the hole, imploring the spirit's departure, at the very moment that Krishna with a final shriek plunges into the sea.

The sorcerer then took a black cock out of a basket, and cut its throat with one of the daggers, letting the blood fall into the large bowl.

I also introduced a cock of water at each end of the pump between the valve plates, to insure the presence of water at each end of the pump to force the air out.

" Hearing these words the King gave to his negroes the command to seize Half-a-Cock, and cast him into the middle of the sheep and goat-pen to be trampled upon and killed by them, so that the King might get rid of his crowing.

We there saw two game-cocks, which, so far from fighting, (though they had been selected from the most approved breed,) billed and cooed like turtle-doves.

The last act of Socrates was to sacrifice a cock to Esculapius, with a different meaning from that which was understood by the people.

But now the parts around the lower belly were almost cold; when, uncovering himself (for he had been covered over), he said, and they were his last words: "Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; pay it, therefore, and do not neglect it!"

The boiler is also tapped on or near the level of crown sheet, to receive the lower water glass cock and directly above this, for the top cock.

Be very careful never to take out the hot water check without closing the stop cock, for if you do you will get badly scalded; and never start the pump without opening this valve, for if you do, it will burst the pump.

Then shut the drain cock and open both gauge cocks and you will see the water seek its level, and you can rest assured that it is reliable.

The seekers for buried treasure, over which fairies were supposed to have influence, immolated a black cock or a black cat to propitiate them.