During the whole of the preceding long night, the boat had been beating against the rock, which had loosened its planks and opened all the seams.

Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me!"

It was not long, however, before I discovered a crooked seam in the rock, by which I was enabled to climb to the edge of a terrace that crosses the cañon, and divides the cataract nearly in the middle.

" Steinmetz folded the letter very carefully, pressing the seam of it reflectively with his stout forefinger and thumb.

I began more seriously, laying down my seam.

Along on our right in passing up the valley was a vast natural pile of basaltic rock, perpendicular, a part of which had been overthrown, showing transverse seams in the rock.

That afternoon she began work on it, running the long seams up on the machine with whirring rapidity, acutely aware of her mother's silent, uncommenting passage back and forth through the sewing-room.

Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine; But sit on a cushion, and sew a fine seam And feed upon strawberries, sugar, and cream.

Seventeen reounds in the wrist,tew an' one's the best seam" "Now, Miss Jemimy, just as if I didn't know how to knit mittens!" "Wal, it seems you don't," said she, "though I don' deny but you may know heow ter give 'em; an' ez I alluz like

If you go too fast you sometimes have to rip out the whole seam.

The usual mode now is for one man to caulk the seams with a hammer in one hand and a caulking chisel in the other, and in some of the difficult corners of marine flue boilers it is not easy for two men to get in.

But these were random bolts: no form'd design, Nor interest made the factious crowd to join: The sober part of Israel, free from stain, Well knew the value of a peaceful reign; 70 And, looking backward with a wise affright, Saw seams of wounds dishonest to the sight: In contemplation of whose ugly scars, They cursed the memory of civil wars.

We therefore entered the bed of the river to examine it, and found two seams of coalone five feet thick and the other about six feet thickbetween beds of sandstone and shale.

During the years the old negress had registered her increasing bulk by letting out seams and putting in panels.

Singer machine 144 triple lock stitch for making extra strong seams in gloves, heavy fabrics, and leather, by Archibald Tregaskis.

The iron hand of Goetz of Berlichingen would burst the seams of a Paris kid-glove.

I have proposed to Bartley to follow a wonderful seam of coal under Colonel Clifford's park.

A square is a very good way of meeting a horseman, but there is no worse one of taking a cannon ball, as we soon learned when they began to cut red seams through us, until our ears were weary of the slosh and splash when hard iron met living flesh and blood.

I now jump to another topic; I find all this letter will be detached scraps; I can't at all contrive to hide the seams: but I don't care.

Before daylight faded he had helped Miles to get the big boat out, and carefully inspected the seams to make sure that no caulking was required.

Farewell, master!" He approached his master with slavish humility, and kissed the seam of his garment.

He succeeded in making people listen where Rabelais and Montaigne had failed; and he inspired other teachers, notably Pestalozzi and Froebel, who knit up his ragged seams of theory, and translated his dreams into possibilities.

Then from his crosslegs he gets down, To find how dark the evening is grown; And hunched-up in his door he will hear The cricket whistling crisp and clear; And so beneath the starry grey Will mutter half a seam away.

It frowned upon his home beneath in a very menacing way; he noticed slight seams and fissures that looked ominous;what would happen, if it broke off some time or other and came crashing down on the fields and roofs below?

These are in extensive use in the factories at Leicester, Nottingham, and elsewhere, while Northampton and Norwich use the same device for paring the seams in boot upper manufacture.