The layers of heads are often beaten with a heavy sledge hammer in hand batching, but for machine batching a bale opener is used, and this operation constitutes the preliminary opening.

I went one morning into St. Martin's,once "in-the-fields," now at the busy center of the city,and found there only a pew-opener, preparing for the service, and an organist, practising music.

[Footnote 4: "Pit-u-dal-ti," openers of the gates.]

The Dwarf paid no attention to that, but gave her another eye-opener with the pin.

She gripped a sardine tin opener in one gnarled hand, and in the other she held a tin of Herakleophorbia, which she had resolved to open or die.

His foot had caught in the torn matting and he had pitched head foremost down the stairs, still holding the case-opener.

These included a can-opener, which now did duty on the smoked tins.

Two distinct courses are followed in the preparation of the jute fibre after it leaves the bale opener, and before it is carded by the breaker card.

But I am apt to imagine, that, were the imperfections of language, as the instrument of knowledge, more thoroughly weighed, a great many of the controversies that make such a noise in the world, would of themselves cease; and the way to knowledge, and perhaps peace too, lie a great deal opener than it does. 22.