Already Tom was pulling the lever that would point the nose of their aerial craft upward toward the stars, and take them to a much loftier elevation.

She fired again and again, taking no time for aim, as fast as she could work the lever and pull the trigger; she was trembling so that it was all that she could do to hold the gun at all.

That bar moves a lever, and the lever moves the wheels.

The proper way to proceed with this kind of an engine is to bring the reverse lever to a position to run the engine forward, then proceed to set your valve the same as on a plain engine.

The motorman manipulated the lever more deliberately now and they gathered headway slowly.

In explanation, the manager threw over an imaginary lever with vigor sufficient to shake the factory, "Men put their whole strength on, women are more gentle and patient.

He climbed back over me, grasped the helm and jerked a lever.

Barney said this, as he buckled on his harness and touched the starting lever.

"C-r-r-m-p-h!" coughed the field pieces as the gunners drew the levers home.

See anything yet, Chum Andy?" "N-no, can't say that I do," came the reply, as the other eagerly bent his gaze on the tree tops that they were beginning to approach closer, for Frank had turned the lever of the deflecting rudder in order to start the monoplane earthward.

The instant he lost control of the motor, he seized the warping levers, and began manipulating them.

Several unsuccessful attempts had been made to break up the Triple Entente, the only barrier to the Germanization, i.e., Prussianization, of Europe, and in the tragedy of Serajewo the Central Powers (or, at least, the dominating factor of the two) believed they had found a lever with which to break down the opposition by diplomacy.

They form for right a sort of [Greek: os moi pou sto]a fulcrum for supporting its lever.

She slipped it over to the first speed; the car was already leaping down the hill at a tremendous pace; yet those yelling voices were behind, and her pushing fingers carried the lever through second to the third speed without pausing.

Suddenly he drops the lever and grasps the sledge.

The bones of the body thus arranged give firmness, strength, and protection to the soft tissues and vital organs, and also form levers for the muscles to act upon.

With lips straight and white Dave grasped two levers at once.

We cannot get on while everywhere fools and vulgarians hold the levers that can kill, imprison, silence and starve men.

"By this asterisk, which has been written by mistake, the inexpert operator having pressed down the figure lever instead of the one for capitals.

"Nothing but a kind o' white smoke, now," said Bog. Uncle Ith, who had just rung the last stroke of a round, relinquished the lever, and looked over the shoulder of his nephew.

The political situation offers many points on which to rest our lever.

He has meetings for boys and girls only, where he plays tricks, grimaces, tells stories and gets his little hearers laughing, and thus having found an entrance into their hearts, he suddenly reverses the lever, and has them crying.

He set it carefully inside the little model and slipped a lever.

I took the break-lever, lowering him as quickly as I durst, till I heard the bucket touch water at the bottom, and then stood by and listened.

"The airman swung lightly into his seat; a final word or two with his commanding officer and he flung over the levers and gave a sharp turn to the starting handle.