In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway.

The machine has to gain headway on one speed before it can take the next.

Now she gathered full headway, yet edged little by little to windward again.

The boat won't even have a chance to lose headway before over plumps the big mudhook, and we'll just take a rest out in the river until repairs can be made again by Engineer McClintock and his assistants.

If each of Abraham's pupils under such a catechism did not become a very Aristides in justice, then an illustrious example, patriarchal dignity, and practical lessons, can make but slow headway against human perverseness!

Both stopped headway.

This gave the boat a rapid headway, and then Forester gave the order to trail, when the boys simultaneously lifted the oars out of the row-locks and let them drift in the water alongside of the boat.

The black race ain't never had nuthinsome few gets a little headway once in a while.

Though the novice could no longer throw the log, he was so accustomed to estimating the headway of a ship that he could take a close account of her speed.

"It's mighty slow business," old Swygert reported; "I don't know whether I'm makin' any headway or not.

One or two of my speeches in the hall of the Cooper Institute, on various occasionsas you may perhaps remembergave me a good headway with the party, and were the chief cause of my nomination for the State office which I still hold.

The Speedwell gradually slackened her headway, and the Champion, which could sail much faster than she before a light breeze, gained rapidly, and soon came alongside.

The movement was so sudden that, before Harold could check his headway, the two boats fouled.

It becomes exceedingly difficult for the taxpayer to understand just what his money goes for, or how far the city expenses might reasonably be reduced; and it becomes correspondingly easy for municipal corruption to start and acquire a considerable headway before it can be detected and checked.